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Camurus AB

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69
Medical - Pharmaceuticals · Healthcare
Price
625.41 GBp
-0.80 (-0.13%)
Market Cap
£37.22B
Exchange
London Stock Exchange
Winston Score
69
Winston is curious
A decent business — some strong pillars, some weaker.

Share count rising — dilution

+10.2% over 4y

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

Diluted shares outstanding: 54.5M (2021) → 60.0M (2025)

Camurus is a Swedish pharmaceutical company that develops and sells prescription medicines for serious, hard-to-treat conditions like opioid addiction, cancer pain, and hormone disorders. Its main product is Brixia (buprenorphine), a once-weekly or once-monthly injectable used to treat opioid use disorder, which is sold under the name Brixia in Europe and Brixsuko in other markets. The company's key technology is called FluidCrystal, a drug delivery platform that allows medicines to be released slowly inside the body over days or weeks.

Camurus makes money by selling its injectable medicines to hospitals, clinics, and specialty pharmacies, primarily across Europe and the United States. With a gross margin above 90%, the business keeps most of what it earns from each sale, which reflects the high value of its patented drug delivery technology and limited direct competition in its niche. The main growth driver is expanding the use of its opioid addiction treatment in the U.S. market, though it faces the ongoing risk of patent challenges and competition from other long-acting addiction therapies.

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

-4.5% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue declining

EPS Growth

-27.8% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Earnings declining

R&D Spend

$492M/ year

Declining (-26% vs prior year)

21.7% of revenue

In line with sector average (18%)

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

Insider Activity

38.0%ownership

Flat

Insiders holding steady — not selling despite ability to

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$3.9B cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↓ Burn rate worsening

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

Revenue declining

Camurus AB'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
91.7%
Premium pricing power — 91.7% gross margin
Operating Margin
33.9%
Excellent — 33.9% operating margin
ROCE
4.1%
Weak — 4.1% 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
+10.0%
Steady sales growth (10.0% YoY)
EPS YoY
+23.0%
Earnings growing fast (23.0% YoY)

Healthy double-digit earnings growth — what compounders look like.

EPS Consistency
4/8 quarters
Earnings inconsistent quarter-to-quarter

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
140%
Turns 140% of profit into real cash
FCF Margin
36.2%
Converts sales into free cash efficiently (36.2%)

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
0.00
Conservative — low debt load (0.00)
Interest Cover
140.55x
Comfortably covers interest (140.6x)

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

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
54.4x
Expensive — P/E 54.4

P/E over 35. The market is pricing in heavy, sustained growth.

P/E vs Forward
+41.2
GROWING
Earnings expected to grow meaningfully — cheaper on forward P/E (54.4 → 13.2)

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.
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