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ITM Power

ITM.L
20
Industrial - Machinery · Industrials
Price
107.50 GBp
+0.80 (+0.75%)
Market Cap
£742.0M
Exchange
London Stock Exchange
Winston Score
20
Winston is worried
Weak fundamentals across most pillars.
Data as of Aug 23, 2026 · filings through Oct 31, 2025
How the score breaks down
Quality
Weak
Growth
Mixed
Cash Flow
Weak
Stability
Data not available
Valuation
Data not available

Share count rising — dilution

+21.7% over 4y

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

Diluted shares outstanding: 507.3M (2021) → 617.3M (2025)

Winston Score History

The full picture

ITM Power is a British company that builds electrolyzers — machines that use electricity to split water into hydrogen gas and oxygen. That hydrogen can then be used as a clean fuel or industrial feedstock by customers in energy, chemicals, and heavy industry. The company is based in Sheffield, England, and operates one of the largest electrolyzer manufacturing facilities in Europe.

ITM Power earns revenue by selling electrolyzer systems and related engineering services, though it currently spends far more than it brings in — its deeply negative margins reflect a business still in an early, capital-intensive growth phase. It operates primarily in the UK and Europe, where government policy is pushing industries to replace fossil fuels with green hydrogen. The key growth driver is whether demand for green hydrogen projects scales up fast enough to let ITM reach profitable production volumes; the main risk is that high costs, project delays, and competition from larger industrial players could exhaust its cash before that happens.

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+16.0% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Steady revenue growth

EPS Growth

+51.1% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

R&D Spend

£0/ year

Declining (-100% vs prior year)

0.0% of revenue

Below sector average (4%)

R&D spend declining — could signal cost-cutting or efficiency

Insider Activity

29.9%ownership

Flat

Insider ownership roughly steady over the past year

Cash Runway

~8 years

£198M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↑ Burn rate improving

£198M cash & investments at current burn rate

Growth context

ITM Power is growing revenue at 16% year-over-year. The Winston Score measures business quality today — these growth metrics show what could matter tomorrow.

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
-59.0%
Thin — -59.0% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
-99.8%
Losing money on operations — -99.8%
Return on the money invested
ROCE
-19.9%
Weak — -19.9% 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
+23.2%
Fast-growing sales (+23.2% YoY)
Profit growth
EPS YoY
N/A
Data not available
How steady the profit is
EPS Consistency
3/8 quarters
Earnings rarely grow — volatile business

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Cash Flow

Profit that turns into cash
Cash Conversion
N/A
Data not available
Spare cash per sale
FCF Margin
0.7%
Thin free cash flow (0.7%)

FCF margin between 0% and 10%. Some cash from sales, but not a lot.

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Stability

What it owes vs what it owns
Debt / Equity
N/A
Data not available
Covers its interest
Interest Cover
N/A
Data not available

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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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