Standard BioTools

LAB

Medical - Equipment & Services · Healthcare

Price

$0.89

+0.04 (+4.36%)

Market Cap

$350.3M

Exchange

NASDAQ

Winston Score

Winston is worried

Weak fundamentals across most pillars.

Share count rising — dilution

+403.6% over 4y

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

Diluted shares outstanding: 75.8M (2021) → 381.6M (2025)

Standard BioTools Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and sells a range of instrumentation, consumables, and services to scientists and biomedical researchers to develop therapeutics in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia pacific. The company operates in two segments, Proteomics and Genomics. Its proteomics and genomics include instruments, consumables, software, and services based upon technologies used in the identification of proteins, as well

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+4.6% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Slow revenue growth

EPS Growth

-71.4% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Earnings declining

R&D Spend

$26M/ year

↓ Declining (-58% vs prior year)

30.5% of revenue

1.7x the sector average (18%)

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

Insider Activity

89.1%ownership

→ Flat

Insiders holding steady — not selling despite ability to

Cash Runway

~17 months

$266M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↓ Burn rate worsening

Adequate runway but may need to raise capital within 2 years

Growth context

Standard BioTools is growing revenue at 5% 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

53.5%

Healthy — 53.5% gross margin

Operating Margin

-44.5%

Losing money on operations — -44.5%

ROCE

-1.6%

Weak — -1.6% return on capital

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

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Growth

Sales YoY

-35.8%

Shrinking sales (-35.8% YoY)

EPS YoY

N/A

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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

-109.5%

Burning cash (-109.5%)

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

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Stability

Debt / Equity

0.05

Conservative — low debt load (0.05)

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

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.

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