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FRNT Financial

FRNT.V
22
Financial - Capital Markets · Financial Services
Price
C$0.07
+0.00 (+0.00%)
Market Cap
C$3.2M
Exchange
Toronto Stock Exchange Ventures
Winston Score
22
Winston is worried
Weak fundamentals across most pillars.
Data as of Jul 28, 2026 · filings through Mar 31, 2026

Share count rising — dilution

+6.3% over 4y

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

Diluted shares outstanding: 35.1M (2021) → 37.4M (2025)

FRNT Financial Inc. is a Canadian financial services firm that helps institutional investors access cryptocurrency markets. The company provides brokerage, structured products, and advisory services focused on digital assets like Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. It targets professional and institutional clients, such as hedge funds and asset managers, who want exposure to crypto but need a regulated, traditional-finance-style intermediary.

FRNT makes money through trading commissions, fees on structured products, and advisory services rather than selling software subscriptions or hardware. It operates primarily in Canada and serves North American institutional clients. The company is small, with a near-zero market cap, and competes in a crowded space alongside larger crypto-native firms and traditional banks expanding into digital assets. Its deep focus on institutional crypto services is its main differentiator, but the heavily negative operating margin signals the business is spending far more than it earns, making a path to profitability the central challenge it faces.

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

-8.0% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue declining

EPS Growth

+50.5% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

R&D Spend

$0/ year

0.0% of revenue

Below sector average (7%)

Research and development spending

Insider Activity

70.8%ownership

Insiders own a meaningful stake in the company

Cash Runway

~22 months

$2M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

→ Burn rate stable

Adequate runway but may need to raise capital within 2 years

Revenue declining

FRNT Financial'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.

The Winston Score above measures business quality today. Growth stocks often score lower because they invest in the future rather than maximising current profits. These metrics show what matters most for evaluating that future.

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Quality

Gross Margin
83.4%
Premium pricing power — 83.4% gross margin
Operating Margin
-169.1%
Losing money on operations — -169.1%
ROCE
-13.9%
Weak — -13.9% return on capital

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

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Growth

Sales YoY
-16.2%
Shrinking sales (-16.2% YoY)
EPS YoY
N/A
Data not available
EPS Consistency
0/8 quarters
Earnings rarely grow — volatile business

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
N/A
Data not available
FCF Margin
-253.9%
Burning cash (-253.9%)

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
N/A
Data not available

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
N/M
Negative earnings — P/E not meaningful
P/E vs Forward
N/A
not available
Data not available

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.
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