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SenesTech

SNES
28
Chemicals · Basic Materials
Price
$1.42
+0.01 (+0.71%)
Market Cap
$7.5M
Exchange
NASDAQ
Winston Score
28
Winston is worried
Below-average fundamentals — multiple weak pillars.

Share count rising — dilution

+702448.4% over 4y

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

Diluted shares outstanding: 5K (2021) → 32.8M (2025)

SenesTech is a small U.S. company that makes a product to control rat and mouse populations without killing them directly. Instead of traditional poisons, its main product — Contrac Soft Bait and the ContraPest line — works by reducing the fertility of rodents that eat it. Customers include pest control companies, agriculture operations, and municipalities that want a more humane or environmentally cautious approach to rodent management.

The company sells its products directly and through pest control distributors, operating primarily in the United States with some international expansion efforts. Revenue comes from product sales, and with a 62% gross margin the underlying economics look reasonable, but heavy operating losses show the company spends far more than it earns right now. SenesTech holds patents on its fertility-control technology, which gives it some protection from direct copying, but the main risk is whether it can grow sales fast enough to reach profitability before running out of cash.

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+1.6% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Slow revenue growth

EPS Growth

+69.5% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Strong earnings growth

R&D Spend

$2M/ year

Flat (-1% vs prior year)

76.5% of revenue

25.5x the sector average (3%)

Steady R&D investment year-over-year

Insider Activity

23.7%ownership

Insiders own a meaningful stake in the company

Cash Runway

~11 months

$7M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

→ Burn rate stable

Short runway — potential dilution ahead through share issuance

Cash watch

SenesTech 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
62.5%
Premium pricing power — 62.5% gross margin
Operating Margin
-429.8%
Losing money on operations — -429.8%
ROCE
-20.8%
Weak — -20.8% return on capital

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

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Growth

Sales YoY
+15.7%
Fast-growing sales (15.7% YoY)
EPS YoY
N/A
Data not available
EPS Consistency
0/8 quarters
Earnings rarely grow — volatile business

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
N/A
Data not available
FCF Margin
-279.2%
Burning cash (-279.2%)

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

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Stability

Debt / Equity
0.32
Conservative — low debt load (0.32)
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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