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Gunnison Copper

GCU.TO
40
Copper · Basic Materials
Price
C$0.46
+0.01 (+3.37%)
Market Cap
C$232.5M
Exchange
Toronto Stock Exchange
Winston Score
40
Winston is serious
Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.
Data as of Aug 23, 2026 · filings through Jun 30, 2026
How the score breaks down
Quality
Good
Growth
Mixed
Cash Flow
Weak
Stability
Weak
Valuation
Data not available

Share count rising — dilution

+29.0% over 4y

The company has issued more shares over this period, which dilutes each existing shareholder’s stake.

Diluted shares outstanding: 269.6M (2021) → 347.8M (2025)

Winston Score History

The full picture

Gunnison Copper Corp is a mining company focused on developing a copper deposit in Gunnison County, Arizona, USA. Copper is a metal used in electrical wiring, electric vehicles, and construction. The company's main asset is the Gunnison Copper Project, which uses a method called in-situ recovery (ISR) to extract copper from underground without traditional open-pit mining.

The company does not yet produce copper at commercial scale, so it currently has no meaningful revenue. It raises money by issuing shares and relies on outside funding to advance its project toward production. The negative margins reflect a pre-revenue exploration and development stage company spending on engineering, permitting, and operations. The key growth driver is successfully reaching commercial production, but the main risks are securing enough financing, navigating environmental permitting, and copper price volatility — all of which are common and serious challenges for early-stage mining companies.

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue data limited

EPS Growth

+385.0% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

R&D Spend

$0/ year

0.0% of revenue

Below sector average (3%)

Research and development spending

Insider Activity

29.2%ownership

Flat

Insider ownership roughly steady over the past year

Cash Runway

~6 months

$45M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↓ Burn rate worsening

Short runway — potential dilution ahead through share issuance

Cash watch

Gunnison Copper has less than a year of cash at its current burn rate. Growth investors should watch for potential share dilution from future fundraising — that directly reduces your ownership.

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
63.3%
Premium pricing power — 63.3% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
42.5%
Excellent — 42.5% operating margin
Return on the money invested
ROCE
N/A
Data not available

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Growth

Sales growth
Sales YoY
>+1,000%
Fast-growing sales (>+1,000% YoY)
Profit growth
EPS YoY
-294.3%
Earnings shrinking (-294.3% YoY)

Earnings per share down more than 10%. Either a bad year, or a real decline.

How steady the profit is
EPS Consistency
2/4 quarters
Earnings inconsistent quarter-to-quarter

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Cash Flow

Profit that turns into cash
Cash Conversion
N/A
Data not available
Spare cash per sale
FCF Margin
-207.7%
Burning cash (-207.7%)

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
N/A
Data not available
Covers its interest
Interest Cover
3.30x
Tight — interest eats into profit (3.3x)

Interest coverage between 3 and 8. Profits cover interest several times over.

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Valuation

Price vs profit
P/E Ratio (TTM)
N/M
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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