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

This company holds roughly $8M 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.

Saker Aviation Services

SKAS

Airlines, Airports & Air Services · Industrials

Price

$6.49

-0.49 (-7.02%)

Market Cap

$6.6M

Winston Score

Winston is worried

Weak fundamentals across most pillars.

Data as of Aug 23, 2026 · filings through Jun 30, 2026

How the score breaks down

Quality

Weak

Growth

Weak

Cash Flow

Weak

Stability

Data not available

Valuation

Data not available

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Share count falling — buybacks

−2.8% over 4y

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

Diluted shares outstanding: 1.0M (2021) → 998K (2025)

Winston Score History

The full picture

Saker Aviation Services is a small company that runs airport concession services in the United States. Its main business is operating a terminal lounge and related services at Niagara Falls International Airport, where it serves travelers passing through the facility. The company operates in the air services industry, providing ground-level hospitality and passenger amenities rather than flying planes itself.

Saker earns revenue through concession fees and service charges at the airport locations it manages. It is a very small company with a market cap that rounds to essentially zero, and it has no clear competitive moat beyond its existing contract at Niagara Falls. The company's financials show deeply negative margins, meaning it currently spends far more than it earns, which makes its ability to survive dependent on either securing new contracts, cutting costs significantly, or raising additional capital — all of which carry meaningful uncertainty for the business going forward.

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue data limited

EPS Growth

+92.2% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

R&D Spend

$0/ year

0.0% of revenue

Below sector average (4%)

Research and development spending

Insider Activity

55.0%ownership

→ Flat

Insider ownership roughly steady over the past year

Cash Runway

~8 years

$8M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↓ Burn rate worsening

$8M cash & investments at current burn rate

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

-79.2%

Thin — -79.2% gross margin

Profit after running costs

Operating Margin

-657.4%

Losing money on operations — -657.4%

Return on the money invested

ROCE

-10.7%

Weak — -10.7% 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

-99.5%

Shrinking sales (-99.5% YoY)

Profit growth

EPS YoY

-269.1%

Earnings shrinking (-269.1% YoY)

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

How steady the profit is

EPS Consistency

2/8 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

-1744086.6%

Burning cash (-1744086.6%)

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

N/A

Data not available

Covers its interest

Interest Cover

N/A

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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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