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Sparc Technologies Limited

SPN.AX
16
Chemicals - Specialty · Basic Materials
Price
A$0.20
+0.00 (+0.00%)
Market Cap
A$24.5M
Exchange
Australian Securities Exchange
Winston Score
16
Winston is worried
Weak fundamentals across most pillars.
Data as of Aug 23, 2026 · filings through Dec 31, 2025
How the score breaks down
Quality
Weak
Growth
Mixed
Cash Flow
Weak
Stability
Good
Valuation
Data not available

Share count rising — dilution

+75.1% over 4y

The company has issued more shares over this period, which dilutes each existing shareholder’s stake.

Diluted shares outstanding: 56.2M (2021) → 98.5M (2025)

Winston Score History

The full picture

Sparc Technologies is a small Australian company working on advanced materials and clean technology. Its main focus is on graphene — a super-thin, strong material made from carbon — which it is developing for use in products like water filtration systems and potentially other industrial applications. The company is based in Australia and operates in the specialty chemicals and materials space.

Sparc makes very little revenue right now and is still in the early research and development stage, which explains its deeply negative operating margin. It earns small amounts through licensing or development agreements rather than large-scale product sales. The high gross margin reflects minimal direct costs on limited revenues, but the company is spending heavily relative to what it brings in. The key risk is that Sparc must successfully commercialize its graphene technology and scale up production before it runs out of funding — a challenge common to early-stage materials companies that have not yet proven their products work at commercial scale.

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

-99.8% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue declining

EPS Growth

-57.0% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Earnings declining

R&D Spend

A$315,847/ year

Declining (-46% vs prior year)

14.7% of revenue

4.9x the sector average (3%)

R&D spend declining — could signal cost-cutting or efficiency

Insider Activity

1.4%ownership

Relatively low insider ownership

Cash Runway

~12 months

A$2M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

→ Burn rate stable

Adequate runway but may need to raise capital within 2 years

Revenue declining

Sparc Technologies Limited'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
-4882.8%
Thin — -4882.8% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
-95040.8%
Losing money on operations — -95040.8%
Return on the money invested
ROCE
-73.6%
Weak — -73.6% 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
-6.9%
Shrinking sales (-6.9% 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
-214.5%
Burning cash (-214.5%)

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
0.16
Conservative — low debt load (0.16)
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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