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Historic Discoveries

SVXA
Chemicals - Specialty · Basic Materials
Price
$0.00
+0.00 (+0.00%)
Market Cap
$3,661
Winston Score
Winston looking sleepy
No score yet — Winston is napping.
We couldn’t gather enough financial data to score this stock reliably.

Share count rising — dilution

+788712.3% over 2y

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

Diluted shares outstanding: 4K (2005) → 30.1M (2007)

Historic Discoveries, Inc. (SVXA) is a small specialty chemicals company. It focuses on developing and commercializing chemical compounds, though its specific product lines and end markets are not widely documented in public sources. The company operates in the basic materials sector, which typically serves industrial, agricultural, or manufacturing customers.

The company generates revenue through product sales, though its financial profile raises questions — a deeply negative return on invested capital of -44.5% suggests the business is consuming more capital than it earns, despite a reported operating margin above 30%. It appears to be a very small, early-stage or micro-cap operation with limited geographic and operational scale. The central risk for investors is whether the company can translate any proprietary chemical technology or discoveries into sustainable, cash-generating revenue before its capital runs out.

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

-100.0% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue declining

EPS Growth

+50.0% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Strong earnings growth

R&D Spend

$0/ year

0.0% of revenue

Below sector average (3%)

Research and development spending

Insider Activity

0.5%ownership

Flat

Insiders holding steady — not selling despite ability to

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$10,775 cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

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

Revenue declining

Historic Discoveries'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
N/A
Data not available
Operating Margin
N/A
Data not available
ROCE
0.0%
Weak — 0.0% 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
+69.2%
Fast-growing sales (69.2% YoY)
EPS YoY
N/A
Data not available
EPS Consistency
2/8 quarters
Earnings rarely grow — volatile business

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
N/A
Data not available
FCF Margin
-131.9%
Burning cash (-131.9%)

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
0.97x
Dangerous — barely covers interest (1.0x)

Interest coverage below 1. Their profits don't cover the interest bill.

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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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