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TX Group AG

0QO9.L
43
Publishing · Communication Services
Exchange
London Stock Exchange
Winston Score
43
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
Weak
Cash Flow
Exceptional
Stability
Good
Valuation
Good
Dividends
Mixed

Winston Score History

The full picture

TX Group AG is a Swiss media company that owns newspapers, digital platforms, and marketplaces. Its best-known brands include the newspaper Tages-Anzeiger and the classified advertising platforms Ricardo and Homegate. It serves everyday readers, advertisers, and businesses across Switzerland looking to buy, sell, or rent things online.

The company makes money through a mix of digital advertising, subscription fees for its news products, and transaction fees on its online marketplaces. It operates almost entirely in Switzerland, making it a domestically focused business with strong brand recognition in the German-speaking Swiss market. With a gross margin of 25% but an operating margin of just 1.4% and a very low return on invested capital, the company is under pressure to cut costs and shift readers from print to digital fast enough to offset the long-term decline in traditional newspaper advertising.

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Quality

Profit per sale
Gross Margin
28.1%
Modest — 28.1% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
4.0%
Thin — 4.0% operating margin
Return on the money invested
ROCE
0.5%
Weak — 0.5% return on capital

ROIC between 0% and 5%. They earn a few cents back per dollar invested in the business.

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Growth

Sales growth
Sales YoY
-7.3%
Shrinking sales (-7.3% YoY)
Profit growth
EPS YoY
N/A
Data not available
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
2216%
Turns 2216% of profit into real cash
Spare cash per sale
FCF Margin
20.8%
Converts sales into free cash efficiently (20.8%)

Free cash flow margin above 20%. Out of every $100 in sales, more than $20 is real cash they keep.

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Stability

What it owes vs what it owns
Debt / Equity
0.03
Conservative — low debt load (0.03)
Covers its interest
Interest Cover
1.48x
Dangerous — barely covers interest (1.5x)

Interest coverage between 1 and 3. Profits cover interest, but with little room to spare.

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Valuation

Price vs profit
P/E Ratio (TTM)
169.0x
no trend
Expensive — P/E 169.0

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

Cheaper or dearer next year
P/E vs Forward
+112.2
GROWING
Earnings expected to grow meaningfully — cheaper on forward P/E (169.0 → 56.7)

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Dividends

Dividend
Dividend Yield
2.72%
no trend
Moderate income — 2.72% yield

Standard yield zone for stable dividend payers. A meaningful piece of total return.

Dividend record
Dividend Growth
-2.0%
no trend
Dividend cut (-2.0% YoY) — warning sign

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