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

This company holds roughly $7,719 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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Sovereign Lithium

SLCO
Agricultural Inputs · Basic Materials
Price
$0.00
+0.00 (+0.00%)
Market Cap
$4,704
Winston Score
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No score yet — Winston is napping.
We couldn’t gather enough financial data to score this stock reliably.

Share count falling — buybacks

87.0% over 4y

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

Diluted shares outstanding: 346.7M (2009) → 45.1M (2013)

Winston Score History

The full picture

Sovereign Lithium, Inc. is a small, early-stage mining and mineral exploration company focused on finding and developing lithium deposits. Lithium is a key ingredient in rechargeable batteries used in electric vehicles and electronics. The company is in the exploration phase, meaning it is searching for lithium resources rather than actively producing or selling anything yet.

The company currently generates no meaningful revenue, which explains its 0% margins and deeply negative returns on capital. Its losses come from the costs of running exploration operations and keeping the business going without a producing asset. The biggest risk Sovereign Lithium faces is the challenge all junior mining companies share: turning an exploration project into an actual producing mine requires enormous capital, regulatory approvals, and time, with no guarantee of success. Until it secures a viable deposit and funding to develop it, the company remains highly speculative.

Growth Profile

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

Revenue Growth

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue data limited

EPS Growth

<−1,000% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Earnings declining

R&D Spend

$0/ year

Research and development spending

Insider Activity

51.0%ownership

Flat

Insider ownership roughly steady over the past year

Cash Runway

~0 months

$7,719 cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

→ Burn rate stable

Short runway — potential dilution ahead through share issuance

Cash watch

Sovereign Lithium has less than a year of cash at its current burn rate. Growth investors should watch for potential share dilution from future fundraising — that directly reduces your ownership.

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
N/A
Data not available
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
N/A
Data not available
Return on the money invested
ROCE
-8439.2%
Weak — -8439.2% 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
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
N/A
Data not available

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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
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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