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Euroseas

ESEA
71
Marine Shipping · Industrials
Market Cap
$488.4M
Exchange
NASDAQ
Winston Score
71
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A high-quality business with solid fundamentals.

Euroseas Ltd. is a shipping company that moves goods across oceans using container ships. These ships carry boxes full of products — like electronics, clothing, and food — for importers, exporters, and freight companies around the world. Euroseas is a smaller, Greece-based operator focused specifically on the containership market, particularly mid-size and feeder vessels that serve regional trade routes.

The company makes money by chartering its ships to customers, meaning it rents out vessels under contracts that can last months or years, earning a daily rate for each ship. Euroseas operates internationally, with routes connecting Europe, Asia, and other regions, and its fleet of roughly a dozen vessels keeps costs relatively predictable. Its main competitive advantage is locking in longer-term charters that provide steady cash flow, but the biggest risk is that shipping rates can drop sharply when global trade slows or when too many new ships enter the market, squeezing profits quickly.

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+7.7% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Slow revenue growth

EPS Growth

+65.8% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

Insider Activity

60.0%ownership

Flat

Insiders holding steady — not selling despite ability to

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$177M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↑ Burn rate improving

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

Growth context

Euroseas is growing revenue at 8% year-over-year. The Winston Score measures business quality today — these growth metrics show what could matter tomorrow.

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Quality

Gross Margin
67.0%
Premium pricing power — 67.0% gross margin
Operating Margin
59.1%
Excellent — 59.1% operating margin
ROCE
5.0%
Weak — 5.0% 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
+7.0%
Steady sales growth (7.0% YoY)
EPS YoY
+21.3%
Earnings growing fast (21.3% YoY)

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

EPS Consistency
6/8 quarters
Earnings grew in most of the last 8 quarters

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
103%
Turns 103% of profit into real cash
FCF Margin
28.1%
Converts sales into free cash efficiently (28.1%)

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
0.47
Conservative — low debt load (0.47)
Interest Cover
9.36x
Comfortably covers interest (9.4x)

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

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
3.7x
Attractive valuation — P/E 3.7

P/E under 10. The price tag is small relative to last year's profit.

P/E vs Forward
-0.1
SLOWING
Earnings expected to fall — forward P/E higher than today

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Dividends

Dividend Yield
4.44%
Healthy income — 4.44% yield

Generous yield. Worth checking whether the payout is sustainable.

Dividend Growth
+18.0%
Dividend growing fast (18.0% YoY)

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