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True North Copper Limited

TNC.AX
8
Copper · Basic Materials
Price
A$0.38
-0.01 (-1.30%)
Market Cap
A$59.0M
Exchange
Australian Securities Exchange
Winston Score
8
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
Weak
Growth
Weak
Cash Flow
Weak
Stability
Good
Valuation
Data not available

Share count rising — dilution

+22149.3% over 4y

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

Diluted shares outstanding: 308K (2021) → 68.5M (2025)

Winston Score History

The full picture

True North Copper Limited is a small Australian mining company focused on finding and developing copper deposits. It explores for copper ore in Queensland, Australia, and its main projects include the Millungera Basin and other tenements in the region. The company is in the exploration and early development stage, meaning it is not yet producing copper at commercial scale.

True North Copper makes little to no revenue right now, which explains its deeply negative profit margins. It spends money on drilling, geological surveys, and keeping its licenses active, funding these activities by raising money from investors through share issuances. The company operates entirely in Australia and is considered a junior miner, a category known for high risk and high uncertainty. The key risk is that exploration-stage companies frequently fail to find enough copper to build a profitable mine, and they depend on continued access to capital markets to survive until they do.

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

-100.0% YoY

Revenue declining

EPS Growth

+98.8% YoY

Strong earnings growth

R&D Spend

A$0/ year

0.0% of revenue

Below sector average (3%)

Research and development spending

Insider Activity

59.0%ownership

Declining

Insider ownership declining — could be dilution or selling

Cash Runway

~3 years

A$28M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

A$28M cash & investments at current burn rate

Revenue declining

True North Copper Limited's revenue is actually shrinking. In a growth stock, that removes the core investment thesis. The low Winston Score here may be warranted — unless there's a turnaround story.

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
-2122.4%
Thin — -2122.4% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
-4039.5%
Losing money on operations — -4039.5%
Return on the money invested
ROCE
-36.3%
Weak — -36.3% 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
-72.1%
Shrinking sales (-72.1% 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
-2939.4%
Burning cash (-2939.4%)

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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