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Keweenaw Land Association, Limited

KEWL
31
Paper, Lumber & Forest Products · Basic Materials
Price
$60.16
+0.90 (+1.52%)
Market Cap
$67.8M
Winston Score
31
Winston is serious
Below-average fundamentals — multiple weak pillars.

Share count falling — buybacks

13.1% over 4y

The company has reduced its share count over this period, returning value to shareholders through buybacks.

Diluted shares outstanding: 1.3M (2021) → 1.1M (2025)

Keweenaw Land Association is a land company that owns a large tract of timberland in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Its core business is managing and leasing this forestland, which covers roughly 180,000 acres. The company earns money by selling timber harvesting rights and leasing land for hunting, recreation, and other uses.

Revenue comes from timber sales, land leases, and occasional land sales rather than from making or selling finished products. The company operates entirely within Michigan, making it a very small, regionally focused business. Its main competitive advantage is simply owning a large, contiguous block of land that is difficult to replicate. The key risk is that the company currently runs at an operating loss, meaning its costs exceed its income from operations, and its growth depends heavily on timber prices and demand for recreational land leases, both of which can be unpredictable.

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+26.7% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Strong revenue growth

EPS Growth

-262.1% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Earnings declining

R&D Spend

$0/ year

0.0% of revenue

Below sector average (3%)

Research and development spending

Insider Activity

0.0%ownership

Flat

Insiders holding steady — not selling despite ability to

Cash Runway

5+ years

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

→ Burn rate stable

$4M cash & investments at current burn rate

Strong grower

Keweenaw Land Association, Limited is growing revenue at 27% year-over-year. The Winston Score penalises unprofitable companies, but revenue at this pace tells a different story — this is a company still in "build mode."

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Quality

Gross Margin
69.3%
Premium pricing power — 69.3% gross margin
Operating Margin
-106.5%
Losing money on operations — -106.5%
ROCE
-0.7%
Weak — -0.7% return on capital

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

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Growth

Sales YoY
+36.7%
Fast-growing sales (36.7% YoY)
EPS YoY
+145.9%
Earnings growing fast (145.9% 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
57%
Weak — only 57% of profit becomes cash
FCF Margin
22.5%
Converts sales into free cash efficiently (22.5%)

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
N/A
Data not available
Interest Cover
N/A
Data not available

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
389.6x
Expensive — P/E 389.6

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

P/E vs Forward
N/A
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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.
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