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Deep Value: cash covers about 91% of the stock price

This company holds roughly $1.9B in cash and investments — about 91% of 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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Österreichische Post AG

O3P.DE
42
Integrated Freight & Logistics · Industrials
Price
€31.50
-0.05 (-0.16%)
Market Cap
€2.13B
Exchange
Frankfurt Stock Exchange
Winston Score
42
Winston is serious
Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.
Data as of Aug 23, 2026 · filings through Jun 30, 2026
How the score breaks down
Quality
Mixed
Growth
Weak
Cash Flow
Strong
Stability
Mixed
Valuation
Strong
Dividends
Good

Winston Score History

The full picture

Österreichische Post AG is Austria's national postal service. It delivers letters, packages, and parcels to homes and businesses across Austria, and also operates a retail banking business through its majority stake in bank99. The company handles millions of deliveries each year and is the dominant postal operator in Austria, a position it holds partly because of its legal status as the country's universal service provider.

The company earns money from parcel and letter delivery fees, logistics contracts, and banking services through bank99. It operates mainly in Austria, with some logistics presence in neighboring countries like Germany and Turkey. Its core moat is its nationwide delivery network, which is expensive and difficult for competitors to replicate. The main risk the business faces is the long-term decline in traditional letter volumes, which forces the company to rely more heavily on parcel growth driven by e-commerce to offset that structural pressure.

Share count broadly stable

0.0% over 4y

The share count has stayed roughly flat over this period — little dilution or buyback activity.

Diluted shares outstanding: 67.6M (2021) → 67.6M (2025)

Score breakdown

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Quality

Profit per sale
Gross Margin
14.0%
Thin — 14.0% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
4.8%
Thin — 4.8% operating margin
Return on the money invested
ROCE
14.4%
Good — 14.4% 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
-0.2%
Shrinking sales (-0.2% YoY)
Profit growth
EPS YoY
-32.8%
Earnings shrinking (-32.8% 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
389%
Turns 389% of profit into real cash
Spare cash per sale
FCF Margin
6.6%
Modest free cash flow (6.6%)

FCF margin between 0% and 10%. Some cash from sales, but not a lot.

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Stability

What it owes vs what it owns
Debt / Equity
1.14
Elevated debt (1.14)
Covers its interest
Interest Cover
2.96x
Tight — interest eats into profit (3.0x)

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)
24.4x
Growth-priced — P/E 24.4

P/E above the market average. People are paying up for expected growth.

Cheaper or dearer next year
P/E vs Forward
+8.7
GROWING
Earnings expected to grow meaningfully — cheaper on forward P/E (24.4 → 15.7)

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Dividends

Dividend
Dividend Yield
5.94%
Healthy income — 5.94% yield

Generous yield. Worth checking whether the payout is sustainable.

Dividend record
Dividend Growth
-6.1%
Dividend cut (-6.1% YoY) — warning sign

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