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Nocopi Technologies

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25
Chemicals - Specialty · Basic Materials
Price
$1.60
-0.13 (-7.30%)
Market Cap
$17.8M
Winston Score
25
Winston is worried
Below-average fundamentals — multiple weak pillars.

Share count rising — dilution

+60.2% over 4y

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

Diluted shares outstanding: 6.7M (2021) → 10.8M (2025)

Nocopi Technologies is a small specialty chemicals company that develops authentication and anti-counterfeiting technologies. Its core products are proprietary chemical markers and inks that can be embedded into documents, labels, or packaging to prove they are genuine. Businesses that need to protect their products from faking — such as consumer goods companies, pharmaceutical firms, and government agencies — are the main customers.

The company earns revenue by licensing its chemical technology and selling specialty materials to clients, rather than manufacturing finished goods at large scale. Nocopi operates primarily in North America and is a very small company with a market cap that rounds to zero, meaning it has limited financial resources. The operating loss shows the business spends more than it earns today, and the key risk is that larger, better-funded competitors in the anti-counterfeiting space could crowd out a company this size before it reaches consistent profitability.

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

-54.6% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue declining

EPS Growth

+76.9% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

R&D Spend

$179,900/ year

Flat (+1% vs prior year)

12.0% of revenue

4.0x the sector average (3%)

Steady R&D investment year-over-year

Insider Activity

64.8%ownership

Declining

Insider ownership declining — could be dilution or selling

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$12M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

→ Burn rate stable

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

Revenue declining

Nocopi Technologies'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
63.5%
Premium pricing power — 63.5% gross margin
Operating Margin
-74.5%
Losing money on operations — -74.5%
ROCE
-1.5%
Weak — -1.5% return on capital

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

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Growth

Sales YoY
-29.5%
Shrinking sales (-29.5% 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
47.8%
Converts sales into free cash efficiently (47.8%)

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)
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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