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Temple & Webster Group

TPW.AX
45
Specialty Retail · Consumer Cyclical
Exchange
Australian Securities Exchange
Winston Score
45
Winston is serious
Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.
Data as of Aug 23, 2026 · filings through Dec 31, 2025
How the score breaks down
Quality
Weak
Growth
Good
Cash Flow
Strong
Stability
Exceptional
Valuation
Weak

Winston Score History

The full picture

Temple & Webster is an Australian online retailer that sells furniture, homewares, and home décor products. It operates entirely through its website and app, targeting everyday Australian consumers who want to shop for home furnishings without visiting a physical store. It is one of the largest pure-play online furniture and homewares retailers in Australia.

The company makes money by selling products directly to customers, earning a margin on each sale. It also uses a dropship model, where suppliers ship items directly to buyers, which keeps warehouse costs low and allows Temple & Webster to offer a very wide product range without holding all the stock itself. It operates almost exclusively in Australia, generating around $500–600 million in annual revenue. Its main competitive advantage is its established brand, large product catalogue, and data-driven personalisation tools. The key growth driver is the ongoing shift of furniture shopping from physical stores to online, though the main risk is that consumer spending on discretionary home goods tends to fall sharply during economic downturns.

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+17.6% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Steady revenue growth

EPS Growth

+199.0% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

Insider Activity

27.3%ownership

Declining

Insider ownership declining — could be dilution or selling

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

A$144M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↑ Burn rate improving

Company generates more cash than it spends — no dilution risk from fundraising

Growth + cash flow

Temple & Webster Group is a rare growth stock that's already generating positive cash flow while growing at 18%. The Winston Score doesn't fully credit this transition from "burner" to "earner."

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
22.6%
Thin — 22.6% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
2.0%
Thin — 2.0% operating margin
Return on the money invested
ROCE
11.7%
Below par — 11.7% 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
+18.9%
Fast-growing sales (+18.9% YoY)
Profit growth
EPS YoY
+29.4%
Earnings growing fast (+29.4% YoY)

Earnings growing 25%+ a year. The compounder zone.

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
522%
Turns 522% of profit into real cash
Spare cash per sale
FCF Margin
6.0%
Thin free cash flow (6.0%)

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
0.26
Conservative — low debt load (0.26)
Covers its interest
Interest Cover
13.82x
Comfortably covers interest (13.8x)

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

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Valuation

Price vs profit
P/E Ratio (TTM)
126.3x
no trend
Expensive — P/E 126.3

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

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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