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Vuzix

VUZI
22
Consumer Electronics · Technology
Price
$2.26
-0.06 (-2.59%)
Market Cap
$187.9M
Exchange
NASDAQ
Winston Score
22
Winston is worried
Weak fundamentals across most pillars.

Share count rising — dilution

+26.9% over 4y

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

Diluted shares outstanding: 61.1M (2021) → 77.6M (2025)

Vuzix Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, markets, and sells augmented reality (AR) wearable display and computing devices for consumer and enterprise markets in North America, the Asia-Pacific, Europe, and internationally. It provides M300XL, M400, and M4000 series of smart glasses for enterprise, industrial, commercial, and medical markets; Vuzix Blade smart glasses; waveguide optics and related coupling optics; and Vuzix Shield smart glasses, as well as custom

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

-12.0% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue declining

EPS Growth

+18.2% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Steady EPS growth

R&D Spend

$13M/ year

Rising (+29% vs prior year)

201.0% of revenue

13.4x the sector average (15%)

Investing heavily in future products and technology

Insider Activity

14.8%ownership

Flat

Insiders holding steady — not selling despite ability to

Cash Runway

~9 months

$20M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↑ Burn rate improving

Short runway — potential dilution ahead through share issuance

Heavy R&D investment

Vuzix is putting 201% of revenue into R&D and that number is rising. That's 13.4x the sector average.

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Quality

Gross Margin
-56.6%
Thin — -56.6% gross margin
Operating Margin
-517.9%
Losing money on operations — -517.9%
ROCE
-20.9%
Weak — -20.9% return on capital

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

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Growth

Sales YoY
+14.2%
Fast-growing sales (14.2% 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
-386.9%
Burning cash (-386.9%)

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

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Stability

Debt / Equity
0.01
Conservative — low debt load (0.01)
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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