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

This company holds roughly $21M 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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Power Metal Resources

POW.L
36
Industrial Materials · Basic Materials
Exchange
London Stock Exchange
Winston Score
36
Winston is serious
Below-average fundamentals — multiple weak pillars.
Data as of Aug 23, 2026 · filings through Dec 31, 2025
How the score breaks down
Quality
Mixed
Growth
Weak
Cash Flow
Weak
Stability
Good
Valuation
Good

Winston Score History

The full picture

Power Metal Resources is a small British mining exploration company. It searches for valuable minerals in the ground — mainly gold, uranium, and battery metals like nickel and cobalt. The company does not yet run producing mines; instead, it acquires exploration licenses and drills test holes to find out if deposits are worth developing. Its main "customers" are future buyers of those mineral rights or eventual offtake partners in the mining industry.

The company makes money primarily by selling stakes in exploration projects or spinning them out into separate listed vehicles, rather than from steady product sales. It operates across multiple countries, including Botswana, Tanzania, Canada, and Australia, spreading its bets across many early-stage projects. At its current size — essentially a micro-cap with no meaningful revenue — the biggest risk is that exploration spending continues to outpace any cash coming in, which explains the deeply negative operating margin. The key growth driver is successfully proving up a significant mineral discovery that attracts a larger mining company as a buyer or partner.

Growth Profile

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

Revenue Growth

-94.1% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue declining

EPS Growth

-164.7% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Earnings declining

Insider Activity

10.8%ownership

Declining

Insider ownership declining — could be dilution or selling

Cash Runway

~7 years

£22M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

→ Burn rate stable

£22M cash & investments at current burn rate

Revenue declining

Power Metal Resources'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.

Score breakdown

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Quality

Profit per sale
Gross Margin
122.6%
Premium pricing power — 122.6% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
-5196.8%
Losing money on operations — -5196.8%
Return on the money invested
ROCE
-13.0%
Weak — -13.0% 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
-88.2%
Shrinking sales (-88.2% YoY)
Profit growth
EPS YoY
-234.3%
Earnings shrinking (-234.3% YoY)

Earnings per share down more than 10%. Either a bad year, or a real decline.

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
-2667.7%
Burning cash (-2667.7%)

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
0.02
Conservative — low debt load (0.02)
Covers its interest
Interest Cover
N/A
Data not available

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Valuation

Price vs profit
P/E Ratio (TTM)
9.4x
no trend
Attractive valuation — P/E 9.4

P/E under 10. The price tag is small relative to last year's profit.

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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