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Detwiler Fenton Group

DMCD
43
Insurance - Brokers · Financial Services
Price
$0.00
+0.00 (+0.00%)
Market Cap
$563
Winston Score
43
Winston is serious
Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.

Share count rising — dilution

+17.8% over 4y

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

Diluted shares outstanding: 2.9M (2000) → 3.4M (2004)

Detwiler Fenton Group is a small financial services firm focused on asset management and investment advisory services. It helps clients — typically institutions and high-net-worth individuals — manage their money by making investment decisions on their behalf. The firm operates in the broader asset management industry, which is highly competitive and fragmented.

The company earns revenue primarily through management fees charged as a percentage of the assets it oversees, which explains its 100% gross margin since the core product is a service with no physical cost of goods. It appears to operate mainly in the United States and, with a market cap near zero, is a very small player in its industry. The main risk the business faces is client attrition — if clients pull their money out during market downturns or find lower-cost alternatives, revenue drops directly, making asset retention the central challenge for sustaining growth.

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

-3.7% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue declining

EPS Growth

<−1,000% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Earnings declining

R&D Spend

$0/ year

0.0% of revenue

Below sector average (7%)

Research and development spending

Insider Activity

46.9%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

Detwiler Fenton Group'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
100.0%
Premium pricing power — 100.0% gross margin
Operating Margin
-6.1%
Losing money on operations — -6.1%
ROCE
-5.5%
Weak — -5.5% return on capital

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

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Growth

Sales YoY
+5.9%
Slow sales growth (5.9% YoY)
EPS YoY
+158.2%
Earnings growing fast (158.2% YoY)

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

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

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
4%
Weak — only 4% of profit becomes cash
FCF Margin
-0.8%
Burning cash (-0.8%)

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

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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)
0.0x
Attractive valuation — P/E 0.0

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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