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Torque Metals Limited

TOR.AX
19
Gold · Basic Materials
Price
A$0.23
+0.01 (+4.65%)
Market Cap
A$140.6M
Exchange
Australian Securities Exchange
Winston Score
19
Winston is worried
Weak fundamentals across most pillars.
Based on the IPO prospectus (annual filing). This score will refine automatically once the company reports its first quarters.
Data as of Aug 23, 2026 · filings through Dec 31, 2025
How the score breaks down
Quality
Mixed
Growth
Weak
Cash Flow
Weak
Stability
Good
Valuation
Data not available

Share count rising — dilution

+255.4% over 4y

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

Diluted shares outstanding: 70.3M (2021) → 249.9M (2025)

Winston Score History

The full picture

Torque Metals Limited is a small Australian mining exploration company focused on finding and developing gold deposits. It operates in Western Australia, one of the world's most productive gold mining regions. The company's main asset is the Paris Gold Project, located near Kalgoorlie, a well-known gold mining hub.

Torque Metals does not yet produce or sell gold, so it currently earns no revenue. Instead, it raises money from investors by issuing shares and uses that cash to fund drilling programs and exploration work. The company is in an early stage, which means it carries significant risk — there is no guarantee that its gold deposits will ever be large enough or rich enough to mine profitably. The key growth driver is converting exploration results into a defined mineral resource, but until that happens, the company depends entirely on continued investor funding to survive.

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

-10.3% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue declining

EPS Growth

-15.2% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Earnings declining

R&D Spend

A$0/ year

0.0% of revenue

Below sector average (3%)

Research and development spending

Insider Activity

64.1%ownership

Flat

Insider ownership roughly steady over the past year

Cash Runway

~10 months

A$4M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

→ Burn rate stable

Short runway — potential dilution ahead through share issuance

Cash watch

Torque Metals Limited 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
100.0%
Premium pricing power — 100.0% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
-3433.8%
Losing money on operations — -3433.8%
Return on the money invested
ROCE
-11.5%
Weak — -11.5% 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
-2.5%
Shrinking sales (-2.5% YoY)
Profit growth
EPS YoY
N/A
Data not available
How steady the profit is
EPS Consistency
N/A
Data not available

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Cash Flow

Profit that turns into cash
Cash Conversion
N/A
Data not available
Spare cash per sale
FCF Margin
-1252.0%
Burning cash (-1252.0%)

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
0.00
Conservative — low debt load (0.00)
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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