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FRMO

FRMO
54
Asset Management · Financial Services
Price
$7.00
+0.05 (+0.76%)
Market Cap
$308.2M
Winston Score
54
Winston is curious
Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.

FRMO Corporation is a small financial services company based in New York. It invests in and holds stakes in other asset management businesses, and it also invests directly in financial assets like cryptocurrencies and mining operations. Its main "customers" are really its own shareholders, who benefit if the value of its investments grows over time.

FRMO makes money through its ownership stakes in affiliated investment firms, including Horizon Kinetics, which manages money for outside clients and pays fees back to FRMO. The company operates almost entirely in the United States and has a market cap of roughly $300 million, making it quite small compared to traditional asset managers. Its close relationship with Horizon Kinetics is both its main competitive advantage and a key risk, since FRMO's financial results depend heavily on how well that one partner firm performs and how much it earns in management fees.

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: 44.0M (2021) → 44.0M (2025)

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Quality

Gross Margin
99.3%
Premium pricing power — 99.3% gross margin
Operating Margin
14520.1%
Excellent — 14520.1% operating margin
ROCE
81.7%
Exceptional — 81.7% return on capital

ROIC above 25%. Every dollar invested in the business earns more than 25 cents back per year.

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Growth

Sales YoY
-123.6%
Shrinking sales (-123.6% YoY)
EPS YoY
-96.1%
Earnings shrinking (-96.1% YoY)

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

EPS Consistency
2/8 quarters
Earnings rarely grow — volatile business

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
75%
Modest — 75% of profit becomes cash
FCF Margin
N/A
Data not available

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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)
50.0x
Expensive — P/E 50.0

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

P/E vs Forward
N/A
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Data not available

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.
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