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

This company holds roughly $646,009 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.

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Valion Bio

VBIO
Biotechnology · Healthcare
Exchange
NASDAQ
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The full picture

Valion Bio, Inc. is a small biotechnology company focused on developing experimental medical treatments, likely in early-stage drug discovery or clinical development. Biotech companies like this one work on creating new medicines or therapies, typically targeting diseases with limited existing treatment options. The company does not yet appear to have approved commercial products generating meaningful revenue.

Valion Bio makes little to no money from product sales at this stage, which is typical for early-stage biotechs — the deeply negative operating margin reflects heavy spending on research and development relative to revenue. Companies like this are primarily funded through equity raises and partnerships rather than product sales, and they operate at a loss while advancing drug candidates through clinical trials. The main risk is that drug development is expensive, time-consuming, and most candidates fail before reaching approval, meaning the company depends heavily on continued access to capital and positive clinical trial results to survive and grow.

Growth Profile

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

Revenue Growth

Revenue data limited

EPS Growth

YoY Growth Rate

EPS data limited

Insider Activity

1.8%ownership

Relatively low insider ownership

Cash Runway

~4 months

$1M cash & investments

Short runway — potential dilution ahead through share issuance

Cash watch

Valion Bio 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
-164.7%
Losing money on operations — -164.7%
Return on the money invested
ROCE
-8.2%
Weak — -8.2% 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
N/A
Data not available
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
N/A
Data not available
Spare cash per sale
FCF Margin
N/A
Data not available

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Stability

What it owes vs what it owns
Debt / Equity
0.02
Conservative — low debt load (0.02)
Covers its interest
Interest Cover
N/A
Data not available

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Valuation

Price vs profit
P/E Ratio (TTM)
N/M
no trend
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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