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Deep Value: cash covers about 99% of the stock price

This company holds roughly $23M in cash and investments — about 99% 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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The Parkmead Group

PMG.L
60
Oil & Gas Exploration & Production · Energy
Exchange
London Stock Exchange
Winston Score
60
Winston is curious
A decent business — some strong pillars, some weaker.
Data as of Aug 23, 2026 · filings through Dec 31, 2025
How the score breaks down
Quality
Strong
Growth
Good
Cash Flow
Weak
Stability
Exceptional
Valuation
Good

Winston Score History

The full picture

The Parkmead Group plc is a small, independent oil and gas company based in the United Kingdom. It explores for and produces oil and natural gas, primarily in the North Sea and the Netherlands. The company also has interests in gas processing and energy transition projects, selling its production to energy traders and industrial buyers.

Parkmead earns revenue by selling the oil and gas it produces from its licensed fields, and it also generates income from gas processing operations. It operates mainly across the UK Continental Shelf and Dutch offshore areas, making it a regionally focused European upstream producer. The company is very small, with a market cap near zero, which means it carries significant financial risk — a single dry well or a prolonged drop in energy prices could have an outsized impact on its results. The key growth driver is successfully developing its existing North Sea discoveries, though securing funding and navigating the UK's evolving energy regulations remain meaningful challenges.

Score breakdown

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Quality

Profit per sale
Gross Margin
-21.1%
Thin — -21.1% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
3481.5%
Excellent — 3481.5% operating margin
Return on the money invested
ROCE
190.4%
Exceptional — 190.4% return on capital

ROIC above 25%. Every dollar invested in the business earns more than 25 cents back per year.

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Growth

Sales growth
Sales YoY
-21.1%
Shrinking sales (-21.1% YoY)
Profit growth
EPS YoY
+153.8%
Earnings growing fast (+153.8% YoY)

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

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
-14%
Weak — only -14% of profit becomes cash
Spare cash per sale
FCF Margin
-34.6%
Burning cash (-34.6%)

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
0.02
Conservative — low debt load (0.02)
Covers its interest
Interest Cover
215.24x
Comfortably covers interest (215.2x)

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

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Valuation

Price vs profit
P/E Ratio (TTM)
3.0x
no trend
Attractive valuation — P/E 3.0

P/E under 10. The price tag is small relative to last year's profit.

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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