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Umami Sustainable Seafood

UMAM
64
Industrial - Distribution · Industrials
Price
$0.00
+0.00 (+0.00%)
Market Cap
$5,056
Winston Score
64
Winston is curious
A decent business — some strong pillars, some weaker.
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, 2012
How the score breaks down
Quality
Exceptional
Growth
Good
Cash Flow
Mixed
Stability
Good
Valuation
Good

Share count rising — dilution

+688.1% over 4y

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

Diluted shares outstanding: 8.0M (2008) → 63.0M (2012)

Winston Score History

The full picture

Umami Sustainable Seafood Inc. is a small seafood company focused on raising and selling fish in ways that are better for the environment than traditional fishing. The company produces seafood products — likely including premium fish species — and sells to customers such as restaurants, retailers, and food distributors. It operates in the growing sustainable aquaculture space, where farmed seafood is positioned as an alternative to wild-caught fish facing supply pressures.

The company earns revenue by selling seafood products directly to buyers, with a relatively high gross margin suggesting some pricing power or a focus on premium product lines. Umami appears to operate at a small scale, with a market cap near zero, meaning it is a very early-stage or micro-cap business. The main growth driver is rising consumer and institutional demand for sustainably sourced seafood, but the key risk is that the company is very small, which makes it vulnerable to cash flow problems, competition from larger producers, and difficulty scaling operations profitably.

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

Revenue data limited

EPS Growth

EPS data limited

R&D Spend

$261,000/ year

Declining (-56% vs prior year)

0.3% of revenue

Below sector average (4%)

R&D spend declining — could signal cost-cutting or efficiency

Insider Activity

0.0%ownership

Flat

Insider ownership roughly steady over the past year

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Quality

Profit per sale
Gross Margin
48.3%
Healthy — 48.3% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
32.5%
Excellent — 32.5% operating margin
Return on the money invested
ROCE
34.4%
Exceptional — 34.4% 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
+70.8%
Fast-growing sales (+70.8% YoY)
Profit growth
EPS YoY
>+1,000%
Earnings growing fast (>+1,000% YoY)

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

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
59%
Weak — only 59% of profit becomes cash
Spare cash per sale
FCF Margin
4.5%
Thin free cash flow (4.5%)

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
0.85
Moderate — manageable debt (0.85)
Covers its interest
Interest Cover
6.87x
Adequate interest coverage (6.9x)

Interest coverage between 3 and 8. Profits cover interest several times over.

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Valuation

Price vs profit
P/E Ratio (TTM)
0.0x
Attractive valuation — P/E 0.0

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
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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.
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