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Oppenheimer Holdings

OPY
48
Financial - Capital Markets · Financial Services
Price
$109.13
-3.17 (-2.82%)
Market Cap
$1.16B
Winston Score
48
Winston is serious
Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.

Share count falling — buybacks

15.9% over 4y

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

Diluted shares outstanding: 13.6M (2021) → 11.4M (2025)

Oppenheimer Holdings is a mid-sized American financial services firm that helps people and organizations manage money and make investments. Its main services include wealth management for individual clients, investment banking for companies raising capital, and trading and research for institutional investors like pension funds and hedge funds. The company operates through a network of financial advisors across the United States and in select international markets.

Oppenheimer earns money through fees on assets it manages, commissions on trades, and fees from advising companies on deals like mergers and stock offerings. It operates primarily in the U.S., with some presence in Canada, Europe, and Asia, and generates roughly $1 billion in annual revenue. The firm competes against much larger banks and brokerages, which limits its pricing power and ability to win big deals, and its growth depends heavily on stock market conditions — when markets fall, client assets shrink and fee revenue follows.

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+21.0% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Steady revenue growth

EPS Growth

-165.9% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Earnings declining

R&D Spend

$0/ year

0.0% of revenue

Below sector average (7%)

Research and development spending

Insider Activity

42.7%ownership

Flat

Insiders holding steady — not selling despite ability to

Cash Runway

~1 months

$35M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↑ Burn rate improving

Short runway — potential dilution ahead through share issuance

Cash watch

Oppenheimer Holdings has less than a year of cash at its current burn rate. Growth investors should watch for potential share dilution from future fundraising — that directly reduces your ownership.

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
94.4%
Premium pricing power — 94.4% gross margin
Operating Margin
-1.9%
Losing money on operations — -1.9%
ROCE
-0.4%
Weak — -0.4% return on capital

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

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Growth

Sales YoY
+18.5%
Fast-growing sales (18.5% YoY)
EPS YoY
+26.5%
Earnings growing fast (26.5% 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
79%
Modest — 79% of profit becomes cash
FCF Margin
4.3%
Thin free cash flow (4.3%)

FCF margin between 0% and 10%. Some cash from sales, but not a lot.

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Stability

Debt / Equity
1.37
Elevated debt (1.37)
Interest Cover
3.36x
Tight — interest eats into profit (3.4x)

Interest coverage between 3 and 8. Profits cover interest several times over.

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
11.8x
Attractive valuation — P/E 11.8

P/E in the normal range. Price is roughly $15 for every $1 of yearly profit.

P/E vs Forward
-120.1
SLOWING
Earnings expected to fall — forward P/E higher than today

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Dividends

Dividend Yield
1.59%
Small dividend — 1.59% yield

Modest yield. The bulk of any return needs to come from price appreciation.

Dividend Growth
+116.7%
Dividend growing fast (116.7% YoY)

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