Altimmune

ALT

Biotechnology · Healthcare

Price

$2.87

+0.02 (+0.70%)

Market Cap

$253.3M

Exchange

NASDAQ

Winston Score

Winston is worried

Weak fundamentals across most pillars.

Share count rising — dilution

+113.4% over 4y

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

Diluted shares outstanding: 41.3M (2021) → 88.1M (2025)

Altimmune, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on developing treatments for obesity and liver diseases. The company's lead product candidate, pemvidutide (proposed INN, formerly known as ALT-801), is a GLP-1/glucagon dual receptor agonist that is in Phase 1b trial for the treatment of obesity and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. It is also developing HepTcell, an immunotherapeutic product candidate, which is in Phase 2 clinical trial for patients chronically infected with the

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+420.0% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue accelerating

EPS Growth

+18.2% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Steady EPS growth

R&D Spend

$66M/ year

↓ Declining (-19% vs prior year)

>1,000% of revenue

9001.6x the sector average (18%)

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

Insider Activity

0.8%ownership

Relatively low insider ownership

Cash Runway

~7 months

$44M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

→ Burn rate stable

Short runway — potential dilution ahead through share issuance

Revenue accelerating

Altimmune grew revenue 420% year-over-year and the growth rate is speeding up. That's the kind of momentum growth investors look for — the question is whether margins can follow.

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

Gross Margin

100.0%

Premium pricing power — 100.0% gross margin

Operating Margin

-111126.9%

Losing money on operations — -111126.9%

ROCE

-11.1%

Weak — -11.1% return on capital

Negative ROIC means the business is losing money on every dollar invested in it.

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Growth

Sales YoY

+105.0%

Fast-growing sales (105.0% YoY)

EPS YoY

N/A

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Data not available

EPS Consistency

0/8 quarters

Earnings rarely grow — volatile business

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion

N/A

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Data not available

FCF Margin

-165473.2%

Burning cash (-165473.2%)

Free cash flow is negative. They are burning cash, not generating it.

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Stability

Debt / Equity

0.15

Conservative — low debt load (0.15)

Interest Cover

N/A

Data not available

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)

N/M

—

Negative earnings — P/E not meaningful

P/E vs Forward

N/A

not available

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.

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