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Deep Value: cash covers about 99% of the stock price

This company holds roughly $84M in cash and investments — about 99% of 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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Novonix Limited

NVX
18
Electrical Equipment & Parts · Industrials
Also trades as: NVX.AX
Price
$0.41
+0.01 (+2.79%)
Market Cap
$85.1M
Exchange
NASDAQ
Winston Score
18
Winston is worried
Weak fundamentals across most pillars.
Data as of Aug 23, 2026 · filings through Dec 31, 2025
How the score breaks down
Quality
Weak
Growth
Weak
Cash Flow
Weak
Stability
Mixed
Valuation
Data not available

Share count rising — dilution

+46.8% over 3y

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

Diluted shares outstanding: 116.1M (2022) → 170.4M (2025)

Winston Score History

The full picture

Novonix Limited is an Australian company that makes materials used inside rechargeable batteries, specifically for electric vehicles and energy storage systems. Its main product is synthetic graphite, which is a key ingredient in the anodes (the negative side) of lithium-ion batteries. The company sells to battery manufacturers and is trying to build a large-scale production facility in the United States.

Novonix earns revenue by selling synthetic graphite and battery testing equipment, though it is still in an early stage and spends far more money than it brings in — as shown by its deeply negative margins. It operates primarily in the US and Australia, and its US manufacturing ambitions are partly supported by government incentives tied to domestic battery supply chain goals. The main risk is that the company is burning through cash while trying to scale up production, and it faces intense competition from much larger, established graphite producers, mostly based in China.

Growth Profile

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

Revenue Growth

-9.6% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue declining

EPS Growth

-18.9% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Earnings declining

R&D Spend

$6M/ year

Rising (+17% vs prior year)

101.0% of revenue

25.2x the sector average (4%)

Investing heavily in future products and technology

Insider Activity

17.1%ownership

Flat

Insider ownership roughly steady over the past year

Cash Runway

~5 months

$84M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↓ Burn rate worsening

Short runway — potential dilution ahead through share issuance

Heavy R&D investment

Novonix Limited is putting 101% of revenue into R&D and that number is rising. That's 25.2x the sector average.

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
-344.6%
Thin — -344.6% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
-920.6%
Losing money on operations — -920.6%
Return on the money invested
ROCE
-20.1%
Weak — -20.1% 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
-3.8%
Shrinking sales (-3.8% YoY)
Profit growth
EPS YoY
N/A
Data not available
How steady the profit is
EPS Consistency
4/8 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
-1823.8%
Burning cash (-1823.8%)

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
0.66
Moderate — manageable debt (0.66)
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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