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Deep Value: cash covers more than 100% of the stock price

This company holds roughly $2M in cash and investments — more than its entire stock-market value, based on its latest quarterly filing. You're paying very little for the actual business. Sometimes that's a genuine bargain or a takeover target, sometimes it's cheap for a reason. Not a buy signal on its own — always ask why it's this cheap.

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Focus Universal

FCUV
37
Hardware, Equipment & Parts · Technology
Exchange
NASDAQ Global Market
Winston Score
37
Winston is serious
Below-average fundamentals — multiple weak pillars.
Data as of Aug 23, 2026 · filings through Jun 30, 2026
How the score breaks down
Quality
Mixed
Growth
Good
Cash Flow
Weak
Stability
Good
Valuation
Data not available

Winston Score History

The full picture

Focus Universal Inc. is a small technology company that develops hardware and software tools for the Internet of Things (IoT) — a term for everyday devices connected to the internet. Its main product is a universal smart device platform designed to let different machines and sensors communicate with each other more easily. The company targets industrial and commercial customers who want to connect and monitor equipment remotely.

Focus Universal makes money by selling hardware devices and licensing its technology to other businesses. It operates primarily in the United States and is a very small company, with a market cap near zero and deeply negative profit margins, meaning it spends far more than it earns. The company faces significant financial risk, as its operating losses are extreme relative to its revenue, and it will likely need to raise additional capital to continue operating — making its long-term survival uncertain without meaningful revenue growth.

Growth Profile

When traditional metrics don't capture the full picture, these are the signals growth stock investors use instead.

Revenue Growth

>+1,000% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue accelerating

EPS Growth

+66.4% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

Insider Activity

55.3%ownership

Insiders own a meaningful stake in the company

Cash Runway

~1 months

$2M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↓ Burn rate worsening

Short runway — potential dilution ahead through share issuance

Revenue accelerating

Focus Universal grew revenue 1811% year-over-year and the growth rate is speeding up. That's the kind of momentum growth investors look for — the question is whether margins can follow.

The Winston Score above measures business quality today. Growth stocks often score lower because they invest in the future rather than maximising current profits. These metrics show what matters most for evaluating that future.

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Quality

Profit per sale
Gross Margin
97.4%
Premium pricing power — 97.4% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
-229.5%
Losing money on operations — -229.5%
Return on the money invested
ROCE
-58.9%
Weak — -58.9% return on capital

Negative ROIC means the business is losing money on every dollar invested in it.

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Growth

Sales growth
Sales YoY
+73.8%
Fast-growing sales (+73.8% YoY)
Profit growth
EPS YoY
N/A
Data not available
How steady the profit is
EPS Consistency
5/8 quarters
Mixed — about half the quarters showed growth

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Cash Flow

Profit that turns into cash
Cash Conversion
N/A
Data not available
Spare cash per sale
FCF Margin
-1483.0%
Burning cash (-1483.0%)

Free cash flow is negative. They are burning cash, not generating it.

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Stability

What it owes vs what it owns
Debt / Equity
0.01
Conservative — low debt load (0.01)
Covers its interest
Interest Cover
N/A
Data not available

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Valuation

Price vs profit
P/E Ratio (TTM)
N/M
no trend
Negative earnings — P/E not meaningful
Cheaper or dearer next year
P/E vs Forward
N/A
not available
Data not available

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.
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