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Burning Rock Biotech Limited

BNR
36
Medical - Diagnostics & Research · Healthcare
Price
$8.81
-0.43 (-4.65%)
Market Cap
$9.3M
Exchange
NASDAQ Global Market
Winston Score
36
Winston is serious
Below-average fundamentals — multiple weak pillars.
Data as of Aug 9, 2026 · filings through Mar 31, 2026

Share count falling — buybacks

89.7% over 4y

The company has reduced its share count over this period, returning value to shareholders through buybacks.

Diluted shares outstanding: 10.4M (2021) → 1.1M (2025)

Burning Rock Biotech is a Chinese company that makes cancer tests using a technology called next-generation sequencing (NGS). These tests analyze a patient's DNA to help doctors figure out what type of cancer they have and which treatments might work best. The company sells its tests to hospitals, cancer centers, and pharmaceutical companies across China.

Burning Rock earns money by selling diagnostic test kits and by running tests in its own central laboratory, where it processes patient samples and delivers results. It also partners with drug companies to help them run clinical trials, which adds another revenue stream. The company operates almost entirely in China, where the NGS cancer testing market is still growing but also becoming more competitive as local rivals and global players expand. Its main risk is that it continues to lose money — with a negative operating margin — and must grow revenue fast enough to reach profitability before its cash runs out.

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

-18.9% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue declining

EPS Growth

-36.0% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Earnings declining

R&D Spend

$166M/ year

Declining (-28% vs prior year)

30.9% of revenue

1.7x the sector average (18%)

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

Insider Activity

17.1%ownership

Insiders own a meaningful stake in the company

Cash Runway

~4 years

$446M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

$446M cash & investments at current burn rate

Revenue declining

Burning Rock Biotech Limited'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.

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Quality

Gross Margin
72.3%
Premium pricing power — 72.3% gross margin
Operating Margin
-17.5%
Losing money on operations — -17.5%
ROCE
-3.6%
Weak — -3.6% return on capital

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

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Growth

Sales YoY
-1.7%
Shrinking sales (-1.7% YoY)
EPS YoY
N/A
Data not available
EPS Consistency
7/8 quarters
Every recent quarter grew earnings vs last year

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
N/A
Data not available
FCF Margin
-7.7%
Burning cash (-7.7%)

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

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Stability

Debt / Equity
0.00
Conservative — low debt load (0.00)
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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