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Anacomp

ANMP
69
Specialty Business Services · Industrials
Price
$0.40
+0.00 (+0.00%)
Market Cap
$1.5M
Winston Score
69
Winston is curious
A decent business — some strong pillars, some weaker.

Anacomp is a business services company that helps organizations manage, store, and access large volumes of documents and data. Its core services include document digitization, microfilm processing, and records management, serving customers in industries like banking, insurance, healthcare, and government. The company is a niche player in the document lifecycle management space, handling both physical and digital records for clients that need to preserve and retrieve information over long periods.

Anacomp earns revenue through service contracts and project-based work, giving it a mix of recurring and one-time income streams. It operates primarily in the United States and is a small-cap company with a market cap near zero, suggesting it may be thinly traded or in a transitional phase. Its moat comes from long-term client relationships and the specialized, often regulated nature of records management, but the broader shift toward fully digital workflows reduces demand for legacy services like microfilm, which remains a key risk to long-term revenue.

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

-0.5% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue declining

EPS Growth

-35.1% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Earnings declining

R&D Spend

$0/ year

0.0% of revenue

Below sector average (4%)

Research and development spending

Insider Activity

34.0%ownership

Flat

Insiders holding steady — not selling despite ability to

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$3M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

→ Burn rate stable

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

Revenue declining

Anacomp's revenue is actually shrinking. In a growth stock, that removes the core investment thesis. The low Winston Score here may be warranted — unless there's a turnaround story.

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.

Share count broadly stable

0.0% over 4y

The share count has stayed roughly flat over this period — little dilution or buyback activity.

Diluted shares outstanding: 3.7M (2018) → 3.7M (2022)

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Quality

Gross Margin
47.5%
Healthy — 47.5% gross margin
Operating Margin
17.1%
Healthy — 17.1% operating margin
ROCE
13.2%
Good — 13.2% return on capital

ROIC between 5% and 15%. They earn 5 to 15 cents back per year on every dollar invested.

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Growth

Sales YoY
+11.9%
Steady sales growth (11.9% YoY)
EPS YoY
+2130.8%
Earnings growing fast (2130.8% YoY)

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

EPS Consistency
8/8 quarters
Every recent quarter grew earnings vs last year

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
216%
Turns 216% of profit into real cash
FCF Margin
42.2%
Converts sales into free cash efficiently (42.2%)

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

Debt / Equity
N/A
Data not available
Interest Cover
100.00x
Comfortably covers interest (100.0x)

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

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
1.7x
Attractive valuation — P/E 1.7

P/E under 10. The price tag is small relative to last year's profit.

P/E vs Forward
N/A
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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.
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