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CTT Systems AB

CTT.ST
52
Aerospace & Defense · Industrials
Price
kr 124.80
+0.40 (+0.32%)
Market Cap
kr 1.55B
Exchange
Stockholm Stock Exchange
Winston Score
52
Winston is curious
Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.

CTT Systems is a Swedish company that makes humidity control systems for commercial aircraft. Its main product, called Cair, adds moisture to the very dry air inside airplane cabins, making long flights more comfortable for passengers. Airlines and aircraft manufacturers like Boeing and Airbus are its core customers.

CTT earns money by selling its hardware systems to airlines and collecting recurring revenue from spare parts, maintenance, and service contracts over the life of each installation. The company operates globally but is headquartered in Sweden and focuses almost entirely on the commercial aviation market. Its competitive moat comes from being a niche specialist — there are very few companies offering cabin humidification systems, and switching costs are high once the equipment is installed on a fleet. The key growth driver is the continued expansion of long-haul widebody aircraft orders worldwide, since humidification systems are most relevant on longer flights; the main risk is that any slowdown in airline capital spending or new aircraft deliveries would directly reduce demand.

Winston Score History

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: 12.5M (2021) → 12.5M (2025)

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Quality

Gross Margin
61.4%
Premium pricing power — 61.4% gross margin
Operating Margin
14.7%
Healthy — 14.7% operating margin
ROCE
3.2%
Weak — 3.2% 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
+0.1%
Nearly flat sales (0.1% YoY)
EPS YoY
-35.7%
Earnings shrinking (-35.7% YoY)

Earnings per share down more than 10%. Either a bad year, or a real decline.

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

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
54%
Weak — only 54% of profit becomes cash
FCF Margin
6.3%
Modest free cash flow (6.3%)

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

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Stability

Debt / Equity
0.14
Conservative — low debt load (0.14)
Interest Cover
152.50x
Comfortably covers interest (152.5x)

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

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
37.6x
Pricey — P/E 37.6

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

P/E vs Forward
+27.1
GROWING
Earnings expected to grow meaningfully — cheaper on forward P/E (37.6 → 10.4)

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Dividends

Dividend Yield
1.85%
Small dividend — 1.85% yield

Modest yield. The bulk of any return needs to come from price appreciation.

Dividend Growth
+92.9%
Dividend growing fast (92.9% YoY)

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