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Nuran Wireless

NUR.CN
22
Communication Equipment · Technology
Price
C$3.46
+0.01 (+0.29%)
Market Cap
C$109.8M
Exchange
Canadian Securities Exchange
Winston Score
22
Winston is worried
Weak fundamentals across most pillars.
Data as of Aug 23, 2026 · filings through Mar 31, 2026
How the score breaks down
Quality
Mixed
Growth
Weak
Cash Flow
Weak
Stability
Weak
Valuation
Data not available

Share count falling — buybacks

90.5% over 6y

The company has reduced its share count over this period, returning value to shareholders through buybacks.

Diluted shares outstanding: 6.2M (2019) → 591K (2025)

Winston Score History

The full picture

Nuran Wireless Inc. is a Canadian technology company that builds and sells small cellular network equipment, mainly products called Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) and small cells. These devices help bring mobile phone coverage to areas that large cell towers cannot easily reach, like rural regions and developing markets. The company focuses on selling to mobile network operators — the carriers that run phone networks — primarily in Africa and other emerging markets.

Nuran makes money by selling its hardware equipment and related services to telecom carriers. It operates mainly outside North America, targeting underserved regions where basic mobile coverage is still being built out. The company is very small, with a market cap around $200 million, and its financials show it is not yet profitable, with a deeply negative operating margin. The biggest risk is that Nuran burns through cash faster than it can grow revenue, which is a common challenge for small hardware companies competing in frontier markets against larger, better-funded rivals.

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

-60.6% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue declining

EPS Growth

+98.0% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

R&D Spend

C$1M/ year

Rising (+35% vs prior year)

25.6% of revenue

1.7x the sector average (15%)

Investing heavily in future products and technology

Insider Activity

8.4%ownership

Insiders own a meaningful stake in the company

Cash Runway

~2 months

C$2M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

→ Burn rate stable

Short runway — potential dilution ahead through share issuance

Heavy R&D investment

Nuran Wireless is putting 26% of revenue into R&D and that number is rising. That's 1.7x 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
72.4%
Premium pricing power — 72.4% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
-183.8%
Losing money on operations — -183.8%
Return on the money invested
ROCE
-40.9%
Weak — -40.9% 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
N/A
Data not available
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
-259.8%
Burning cash (-259.8%)

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
4.04
Heavy debt load (4.04)
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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