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Buxton Resources Limited

BUX.AX
19
Industrial Materials · Basic Materials
Price
A$0.05
+0.00 (+6.67%)
Market Cap
A$15.1M
Exchange
Australian Securities Exchange
Winston Score
19
Winston is worried
Weak fundamentals across most pillars.
Based on the IPO prospectus (annual filing). This score will refine automatically once the company reports its first quarters.

Share count rising — dilution

+69.4% over 4y

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

Diluted shares outstanding: 136.1M (2021) → 230.4M (2025)

Buxton Resources Limited is a small Australian mineral exploration company. It searches for valuable minerals buried underground, with its main focus on lithium and other battery metals in Western Australia. The company does not yet produce or sell any minerals — it is still in the early stage of finding and testing potential deposits.

Buxton makes money by raising funds from investors and using that cash to fund exploration work. It operates entirely in Australia and is a very small company with no meaningful revenue, which explains why its costs far exceed any income. Like most junior explorers, its main asset is its exploration licenses and the potential value of what might be found underground. The biggest risk is that exploration is expensive and uncertain — most projects never become producing mines — so the company depends heavily on continued investor funding and making a significant mineral discovery to survive long term.

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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

Revenue Growth

-1.7% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue declining

EPS Growth

+22.4% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Steady EPS growth

R&D Spend

$0/ year

0.0% of revenue

Below sector average (3%)

Research and development spending

Insider Activity

12.0%ownership

Insiders own a meaningful stake in the company

Cash Runway

~7 months

$3M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

→ Burn rate stable

Short runway — potential dilution ahead through share issuance

Cash watch

Buxton Resources Limited 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

Gross Margin
100.0%
Premium pricing power — 100.0% gross margin
Operating Margin
-440.0%
Losing money on operations — -440.0%
ROCE
-120.1%
Weak — -120.1% return on capital

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

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Growth

Sales YoY
-64.2%
Shrinking sales (-64.2% YoY)
EPS YoY
N/A
Data not available
EPS Consistency
N/A
Data not available

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
N/A
Data not available
FCF Margin
-384.9%
Burning cash (-384.9%)

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
Data not available

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.
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