Deep Value: cash covers more than 100% of the stock price

This company holds roughly $152,000 in cash and investments — more than 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.

Trans-Lux Corporation

TNLX

Hardware, Equipment & Parts · Technology

Price

$0.01

-0.00 (-0.00%)

Market Cap

$134,963

Winston Score

–

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Share count rising — dilution

+18.1% over 4y

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

Diluted shares outstanding: 11.4M (2019) → 13.5M (2023)

Winston Score History

The full picture

Trans-Lux Corporation makes large electronic display screens and scoreboards. Their products show information like scores, news, stock prices, and advertisements in public spaces. Customers include sports arenas, financial institutions, retailers, and transit systems across North America.

The company earns money by selling display hardware and providing related services like installation and maintenance. Trans-Lux is a small company with a market cap near zero, meaning it is very tiny compared to most publicly traded businesses. It faces stiff competition from much larger display manufacturers, and its negative operating margin shows it is currently spending more than it earns. The key risk is whether the company can grow revenue fast enough to cover its costs, especially as digital display technology becomes cheaper and more competitors enter the market.

Growth Profile

For growth stock investors

When traditional metrics don't capture the full picture, these are the signals growth stock investors use instead.

Revenue Growth

-35.7% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue declining

EPS Growth

-11.2% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Earnings declining

R&D Spend

$0/ year

0.0% of revenue

Below sector average (15%)

Research and development spending

Insider Activity

54.8%ownership

→ Flat

Insider ownership roughly steady over the past year

Cash Runway

~9 months

$276,000 cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

→ Burn rate stable

Short runway — potential dilution ahead through share issuance

Cash watch

Trans-Lux Corporation 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

9.4%

Thin — 9.4% gross margin

Profit after running costs

Operating Margin

-26.5%

Losing money on operations — -26.5%

Return on the money invested

ROCE

N/A

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Growth

Sales growth

Sales YoY

-26.2%

Shrinking sales (-26.2% YoY)

Profit growth

EPS YoY

N/A

Data not available

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

N/A

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Data not available

Spare cash per sale

FCF Margin

0.2%

Thin free cash flow (0.2%)

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

N/A

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Data not available

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

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.

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