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Stevanato Group S.p.A.

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Medical - Instruments & Supplies · Healthcare
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
Mixed
Cash Flow
Good
Stability
Exceptional
Valuation
Good
Dividends
Weak

Winston Score History

The full picture

Stevanato Group is an Italian company that makes the glass containers and delivery systems used to hold and inject drugs. Its main products include glass vials, syringes, and cartridges that pharmaceutical and biotech companies fill with medicines — including vaccines and injectable biologics. The company is one of the largest suppliers of primary drug packaging in the world.

Stevanato earns revenue by selling these containers and drug delivery devices to drugmakers, and it also provides engineering equipment that helps customers build their own packaging lines. It operates globally, with manufacturing in Europe, North America, and Asia, and generates roughly $900 million in annual revenue. Its moat comes from the strict regulatory requirements in drug packaging, which make it hard for customers to switch suppliers once a container is approved for a specific drug. The key growth driver is rising demand for injectable biologics and GLP-1 drugs like semaglutide, though a slowdown in biotech spending or customer inventory destocking could pressure near-term results.

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+7.8% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Slow revenue growth

EPS Growth

-27.3% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Earnings declining

Insider Activity

0.0%ownership

Flat

Insider ownership roughly steady over the past year

Cash Runway

~8 months

$85M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↑ Burn rate improving

Short runway — potential dilution ahead through share issuance

Cash watch

Stevanato Group S.p.A. 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
28.7%
Modest — 28.7% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
12.9%
Healthy — 12.9% operating margin
Return on the money invested
ROCE
9.9%
Below par — 9.9% 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
+6.7%
Slow sales growth (+6.7% YoY)
Profit growth
EPS YoY
-4.0%
Earnings shrinking (-4.0% YoY)

Slight earnings drop. Typical near a cyclical low.

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
184%
Turns 184% of profit into real cash
Spare cash per sale
FCF Margin
-2.1%
Burning cash (-2.1%)

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
0.28
Conservative — low debt load (0.28)
Covers its interest
Interest Cover
20.69x
Comfortably covers interest (20.7x)

Interest coverage above 8. Profits cover interest many times over.

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Valuation

Price vs profit
P/E Ratio (TTM)
40.3x
no trend
Pricey — P/E 40.3

P/E over 35. The market is pricing in heavy, sustained growth.

Cheaper or dearer next year
P/E vs Forward
+18.5
GROWING
Earnings expected to grow meaningfully — cheaper on forward P/E (40.3 → 21.8)

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Dividends

Dividend
Dividend Yield
0.32%
no trend
Small dividend — 0.32% yield

Modest yield. The bulk of any return needs to come from price appreciation.

Dividend record
Dividend Growth
N/A
no trend
Data not available

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