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NKT A/S

NKT.CO
47
Electrical Equipment & Parts · Industrials
Price
kr 904.50
-7.50 (-0.82%)
Market Cap
kr 48.35B
Exchange
NASDAQ Copenhagen
Winston Score
47
Winston is serious
Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.

Share count rising — dilution

+14.3% over 4y

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

Diluted shares outstanding: 46.9M (2021) → 53.6M (2025)

NKT A/S is a Danish company that makes power cables — the thick wires that carry electricity across long distances. Its main products are high-voltage cables used to connect offshore wind farms to the power grid, link countries together through undersea connections, and upgrade aging electricity networks. Customers include energy companies, grid operators, and governments across Europe and beyond.

NKT earns money by selling and installing these cables under large, long-term contracts, often worth hundreds of millions of dollars each. The company operates mainly in Europe, with manufacturing facilities in Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and Poland, and generates roughly $2–3 billion in annual revenue. Its competitive position is strong because building high-voltage cable factories requires enormous capital and specialized expertise, leaving only a handful of global competitors. The key growth driver is the rapid expansion of offshore wind energy and grid modernization across Europe, though the main risk is project delays and cost overruns on large, complex installations.

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+3.2% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Slow revenue growth

EPS Growth

+8.0% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Slow EPS growth

R&D Spend

$0/ year

Declining (-100% vs prior year)

0.0% of revenue

Below sector average (4%)

R&D spend declining — could signal cost-cutting or efficiency

Insider Activity

0.1%ownership

Relatively low insider ownership

Cash Runway

~4 years

$1.2B cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↓ Burn rate worsening

$1.2B cash & investments at current burn rate

Growth context

NKT A/S is growing revenue at 3% year-over-year. The Winston Score measures business quality today — these growth metrics show what could matter tomorrow.

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
7.1%
Thin — 7.1% gross margin
Operating Margin
7.3%
Modest — 7.3% operating margin
ROCE
2.7%
Weak — 2.7% 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
+6.1%
Slow sales growth (6.1% YoY)
EPS YoY
+44.0%
Earnings growing fast (44.0% YoY)

Earnings growing 25%+ a year. The compounder zone.

EPS Consistency
8/8 quarters
Every recent quarter grew earnings vs last year

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
406%
Turns 406% of profit into real cash
FCF Margin
-16.0%
Burning cash (-16.0%)

Free cash flow is negative. They are burning cash, not generating it.

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Stability

Debt / Equity
0.16
Conservative — low debt load (0.16)
Interest Cover
509.98x
Comfortably covers interest (510.0x)

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

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
183.1x
Expensive — P/E 183.1

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

P/E vs Forward
+64.2
GROWING
Earnings expected to grow meaningfully — cheaper on forward P/E (183.1 → 118.9)

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.
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