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Deep Value: cash covers more than 100% of the stock price

This company holds roughly $262M in cash and investments — more than 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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Oriola Oyj

0NES.L
26
Medical - Distribution · Healthcare
Exchange
London Stock Exchange
Winston Score
26
Winston is worried
Below-average fundamentals — multiple weak pillars.
Data as of Aug 23, 2026 · filings through Jun 30, 2026
How the score breaks down
Quality
Weak
Growth
Mixed
Cash Flow
Weak
Stability
Mixed
Valuation
Data not available
Dividends
Mixed

Winston Score History

The full picture

Oriola Oyj is a Finnish healthcare company that delivers medicines and health products to pharmacies, hospitals, and healthcare providers. It acts as a middleman — buying drugs from pharmaceutical manufacturers and distributing them to the places where patients actually get their medicine. The company operates mainly in Finland and Sweden, two of the Nordic countries in northern Europe.

Oriola makes money by taking a small margin on each product it moves through its distribution network. With a gross margin of just 3.4%, the business runs on thin profits and high volumes, which is typical for pharmaceutical distributors. Its main competitive advantage is its established logistics infrastructure and long-term contracts with pharmacy chains in the Nordics. The key risk is that regulatory changes to pharmacy pricing or drug reimbursement rules in Finland or Sweden could quickly squeeze already-thin margins, making profitability difficult to sustain.

Growth Profile

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

Revenue Growth

-89.8% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue declining

EPS Growth

+77.1% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

Insider Activity

38.3%ownership

Flat

Insider ownership roughly steady over the past year

Cash Runway

~4 years

£297M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↓ Burn rate worsening

£297M cash & investments at current burn rate

Revenue declining

Oriola Oyj'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
0.8%
Thin — 0.8% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
1.2%
Thin — 1.2% operating margin
Return on the money invested
ROCE
5.8%
Weak — 5.8% return on capital

ROIC between 5% and 15%. They earn 5 to 15 cents back per year on every dollar invested.

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Growth

Sales growth
Sales YoY
-41.5%
Shrinking sales (-41.5% YoY)
Profit growth
EPS YoY
N/A
Data not available
How steady the profit is
EPS Consistency
5/8 quarters
Mixed — about half the quarters showed growth

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Cash Flow

Profit that turns into cash
Cash Conversion
N/A
Data not available
Spare cash per sale
FCF Margin
-0.5%
Burning cash (-0.5%)

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
0.80
Moderate — manageable debt (0.80)
Covers its interest
Interest Cover
1.30x
Dangerous — barely covers interest (1.3x)

Interest coverage between 1 and 3. Profits cover interest, but with little room to spare.

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Valuation

Price vs profit
P/E Ratio (TTM)
N/M
no trend
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

Dividend
Dividend Yield
3.34%
no trend
Moderate income — 3.34% yield

Standard yield zone for stable dividend payers. A meaningful piece of total return.

Dividend record
Dividend Growth
-8.0%
no trend
Dividend cut (-8.0% YoY) — warning sign

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