American Superconductor Corporation

AMSC

Industrial - Machinery · Industrials

Price

$33.02

-0.07 (-0.20%)

Market Cap

$1.60B

Exchange

NASDAQ

Winston Score

Winston is serious

Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.

Share count rising — dilution

+61.4% over 4y

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

Diluted shares outstanding: 27.2M (2022) → 43.9M (2026)

American Superconductor Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides megawatt-scale power resiliency solutions worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Grid and Wind. The Grid segment offers products and services that enable electric utilities, industrial facilities, and renewable energy project developers to connect, transmit, and distribute power under the Gridtec Solutions brand; and engineering planning services. It provides transmission planning services, which identify pow

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+58.6% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue accelerating

EPS Growth

+167.2% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Strong earnings growth

R&D Spend

$16M/ year

↑ Rising (+38% vs prior year)

5.3% of revenue

In line with sector average (4%)

R&D investment increasing — building for the future

Insider Activity

5.0%ownership

↑ Rising

Insiders increasing their stake — aligned with shareholders

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$79M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↑ Burn rate improving

Company generates more cash than it spends — no dilution risk from fundraising

Revenue accelerating

American Superconductor Corporation grew revenue 59% 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

26.5%

Modest — 26.5% gross margin

Operating Margin

2.5%

Thin — 2.5% operating margin

ROCE

0.8%

Weak — 0.8% 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 YoY

+41.0%

Fast-growing sales (41.0% YoY)

EPS YoY

+3775.6%

Earnings growing fast (3775.6% YoY)

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

EPS Consistency

6/8 quarters

Earnings grew in most of the last 8 quarters

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion

15%

Weak — only 15% of profit becomes cash

FCF Margin

5.7%

Thin free cash flow (5.7%)

FCF margin between 0% and 10%. Some cash from sales, but not a lot.

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Stability

Debt / Equity

N/A

Data not available

Interest Cover

100.00x

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Comfortably covers interest (100.0x)

Interest coverage above 8. Profits cover interest many times over.

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)

11.0x

Attractive valuation — P/E 11.0

P/E in the normal range. Price is roughly $15 for every $1 of yearly profit.

P/E vs Forward

-15.8

SLOWING

Earnings expected to fall — forward P/E higher than today

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.

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