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Profit Planners Management

PPMT
57
Specialty Business Services · Industrials
Winston Score
57
Winston is curious
A decent business — some strong pillars, some weaker.

Profit Planners Management, Inc. is a small business services company that helps other companies manage their finances and back-office operations. Its core services include outsourced accounting, bookkeeping, and financial management, aimed at small and mid-sized businesses that do not want to hire full in-house finance teams. The company operates in the specialty business services segment of the industrials sector.

The company earns revenue by charging clients fees for ongoing financial management and advisory services, essentially acting as an outsourced finance department. It is a very small company, with a market cap near zero, and operates primarily in the United States. The gross margin near 48% suggests decent pricing power on its services, but a deeply negative return on invested capital signals the business is not yet generating strong returns on what it spends to grow. The main risk is its very small scale, which makes it vulnerable to client losses and limits its ability to compete against larger, better-resourced outsourced finance providers.

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+21.0% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Steady revenue growth

EPS Growth

+185.7% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Strong earnings growth

Insider Activity

56.2%ownership

Flat

Insiders holding steady — not selling despite ability to

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$386,011 cash & investments

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

Growth + cash flow

Profit Planners Management is a rare growth stock that's already generating positive cash flow while growing at 21%. The Winston Score doesn't fully credit this transition from "burner" to "earner."

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
40.1%
Healthy — 40.1% gross margin
Operating Margin
14.1%
Healthy — 14.1% operating margin
ROCE
N/A
Data not available

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Growth

Sales YoY
+24.7%
Fast-growing sales (24.7% YoY)
EPS YoY
N/A
Data not available
EPS Consistency
6/8 quarters
Earnings grew in most of the last 8 quarters

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
133%
Turns 133% of profit into real cash
FCF Margin
15.9%
Converts sales into free cash efficiently (15.9%)

FCF margin between 10% and 20%. Every $100 in sales becomes $10 to $20 in real cash.

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Stability

Debt / Equity
N/A
Data not available
Interest Cover
100.00x
Comfortably covers interest (100.0x)

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

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
0.1x
no trend
Attractive valuation — P/E 0.1

P/E under 10. The price tag is small relative to last year's profit.

P/E vs Forward
N/A
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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.
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