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Stevanato Group S.p.A.

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43
Medical - Instruments & Supplies · Healthcare
Price
$19.17
-0.93 (-4.63%)
Market Cap
$5.23B
Winston Score
43
Winston is serious
Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.

Share count rising — dilution

+3.1% over 4y

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

Diluted shares outstanding: 264.7M (2021) → 273.0M (2025)

Stevanato Group is an Italian company that makes the glass containers and delivery systems used to hold and inject drugs. Its main products include glass vials, syringes, and cartridges that pharmaceutical and biotech companies fill with medicines — including vaccines and injectable biologics. The company is one of the largest suppliers of primary drug packaging in the world.

Stevanato earns revenue by selling these containers and drug delivery devices to drugmakers, and it also provides engineering equipment that helps customers build their own packaging lines. It operates globally, with manufacturing in Europe, North America, and Asia, and generates roughly $900 million in annual revenue. Its moat comes from the strict regulatory requirements in drug packaging, which make it hard for customers to switch suppliers once a container is approved for a specific drug. The key growth driver is rising demand for injectable biologics and GLP-1 drugs like semaglutide, though a slowdown in biotech spending or customer inventory destocking could pressure near-term results.

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+6.6% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Slow revenue growth

EPS Growth

+0.0% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Slow EPS growth

R&D Spend

$24M/ year

Declining (-23% vs prior year)

2.1% of revenue

Below sector average (18%)

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

Insider Activity

0.0%ownership

Flat

Insiders holding steady — not selling despite ability to

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$112M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↑ Burn rate improving

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

Growth context

Stevanato Group S.p.A. is growing revenue at 7% year-over-year. The Winston Score measures business quality today — these growth metrics show what could matter tomorrow.

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Quality

Gross Margin
27.5%
Modest — 27.5% gross margin
Operating Margin
14.2%
Healthy — 14.2% operating margin
ROCE
2.0%
Weak — 2.0% return on capital

ROIC between 0% and 5%. They earn a few cents back per dollar invested in the business.

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Growth

Sales YoY
+6.7%
Slow sales growth (6.7% YoY)
EPS YoY
+9.5%
Earnings growing (9.5% YoY)

Single-digit earnings growth — steady but not exciting.

EPS Consistency
4/8 quarters
Earnings inconsistent quarter-to-quarter

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
185%
Turns 185% of profit into real cash
FCF Margin
-0.6%
Burning cash (-0.6%)

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

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Stability

Debt / Equity
0.28
Conservative — low debt load (0.28)
Interest Cover
21.61x
Comfortably covers interest (21.6x)

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

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
37.6x
Pricey — P/E 37.6

P/E over 35. The market is pricing in heavy, sustained growth.

P/E vs Forward
+15.6
GROWING
Earnings expected to grow meaningfully — cheaper on forward P/E (37.6 → 22.0)

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Dividends

Dividend Yield
0.33%
Small dividend — 0.33% yield

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

Dividend Growth
N/A
no trend
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