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Historic Discoveries

SVXA
Chemicals - Specialty · Basic Materials
Price
$0.00
+0.00 (+0.00%)
Market Cap
$3,661
Winston Score
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We couldn’t gather enough financial data to score this stock reliably.

Share count rising — dilution

+788712.3% over 2y

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

Diluted shares outstanding: 4K (2005) → 30.1M (2007)

Winston Score History

The full picture

Historic Discoveries, Inc. (SVXA) is a small specialty chemicals company. It focuses on developing and commercializing chemical compounds, though its specific product lines and end markets are not widely documented in public sources. The company operates in the basic materials sector, which typically serves industrial, agricultural, or manufacturing customers.

The company generates revenue through product sales, though its financial profile raises questions — a deeply negative return on invested capital of -44.5% suggests the business is consuming more capital than it earns, despite a reported operating margin above 30%. It appears to be a very small, early-stage or micro-cap operation with limited geographic and operational scale. The central risk for investors is whether the company can translate any proprietary chemical technology or discoveries into sustainable, cash-generating revenue before its capital runs out.

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

-100.0% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue declining

EPS Growth

+50.0% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Strong earnings growth

R&D Spend

$0/ year

0.0% of revenue

Below sector average (3%)

Research and development spending

Insider Activity

0.5%ownership

Flat

Insider ownership roughly steady over the past year

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$62,737 cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

Company generates more cash than it spends — no dilution risk from fundraising

Revenue declining

Historic Discoveries's revenue is actually shrinking. In a growth stock, that removes the core investment thesis. The low Winston Score here may be warranted — unless there's a turnaround story.

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
N/A
Data not available
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
N/A
Data not available
Return on the money invested
ROCE
0.0%
Weak — 0.0% return on capital

ROIC between 0% and 5%. They earn a few cents back per dollar invested in the business.

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Growth

Sales growth
Sales YoY
+767.7%
Fast-growing sales (+767.7% YoY)
Profit growth
EPS YoY
N/A
Data not available
How steady the profit is
EPS Consistency
6/8 quarters
Earnings grew in most of the last 8 quarters

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Cash Flow

Profit that turns into cash
Cash Conversion
N/A
Data not available
Spare cash per sale
FCF Margin
-202.2%
Burning cash (-202.2%)

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
7.50x
Adequate interest coverage (7.5x)

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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