# Weebit Nano (WBT.AU)

Canonical: https://gigainvestors.com/s/WBT.AU

Analysis as of: 2026-10-16T07:47:48.590Z. Financial observations: FY2016–FY2026.

Listing currency: AUD. Reporting currency: AUD.

## Verdict

Not a wonderful business

Quality tests for Buy: not passed (profit record: fail; earnings resilience is evidence only). Published buy qualification: no.

Share price: AUD 2.46 per share; close as of 2026-10-15.

## Checklist

### understandable: fail

- 1 revenue decline in the last 10 years (informational)

- more than 2 net loss years

- Financial history: 10 years

- Years with declining revenue: 1

- Years with a net loss: 10

Chart: Net income; fiscal year observations.

- FY2017: AUD -22K

- FY2018: AUD -4.3M

- FY2019: AUD -6.3M

- FY2020: AUD -4.0M

- FY2021: AUD -11M

- FY2022: AUD -28M

- FY2023: AUD -39M

- FY2024: AUD -41M

- FY2025: AUD -38M

- FY2026: AUD -55M

### moat: fail

- Years with nonpositive invested capital use equity plus debt and leases; positive earnings with no positive capital are shown above 100%.

- ROIC median below threshold

- ROIC worst years below threshold (more than 1 bad year allowed)

- ROIC, median of available years: -309.9%

- ROIC, second-lowest year: -4491.4%

- Years with nonpositive capital: 6

- Capital spending / revenue: 6.4%

- ROIC including acquisitions, ten-year median: -1546.0%

Chart: ROIC excluding acquisitions; fiscal year observations.

- FY2017: -1281.6%

- FY2018: -2546916.1%

- FY2019: -4491.4%

- FY2020: -95.4%

- FY2021: -49.3%

- FY2022: -524.5%

- FY2023: -37.6%

- FY2024: -58.3%

- FY2025: -1340.2%

- FY2026: -29.5%

### economics: fail

- owner earnings cash conversion below threshold

- incremental invested capital return below threshold

- Cash conversion uses consolidated totals: No

- Owner earnings, five-year total: AUD -201M

- Net income, five-year total: AUD -201M

- Return on incremental invested capital: -460.1%

- Working capital / revenue, final three-year average: 65.2%

Chart: Owner earnings · five years; fiscal year observations.

- FY2022: AUD -28M

- FY2023: AUD -39M

- FY2024: AUD -41M

- FY2025: AUD -38M

- FY2026: AUD -55M

### management: fail

- Historical market-dollar context (not the management verdict): 2017 to 2026 (9 years)

- potential debt-funded buybacks (informational)

- buybacks unrelated to price (informational)

- ROIC first 3 years vs last 3 years: -4491.4% vs -58.3%

- Per-share earnings: -0.04 to -0.22 (three-year endpoint medians)

- per-share value declined or ends nonpositive

- five-year and ten-year diluted share growth both above threshold

- Management verdict uses per-share economic progress: Yes

- Ordinary dilution, 10-year annual growth: 8.8%

- Ordinary dilution, 5-year annual growth: 13.0%

- Market cap gain: AUD 2.0B

- Cumulative retained earnings: AUD -252M

- Diluted shares, 10-year annual growth: 8.8%

- Diluted shares, 5-year annual growth: 13.0%

- $1 test, starting fiscal year: FY2017

- $1 test, ending fiscal year: FY2026

- Per-share value change: AUD -0.18

- Per-share value, starting three-year median: AUD -0.04

- Per-share value, ending three-year median: AUD -0.22

- Buybacks concentrated in cheaper years (correlation): -0.31

- Average buyback yield: 0.8%

- Buyback history: 10 years

- Debt-funded buybacks: Yes

- Acquisition spending: AUD 0

- Cumulative net income, 10 years: AUD -227M

- ROIC, first three-year median: -4491.4%

- ROIC, last three-year median: -58.3%

Chart: Earnings per share; fiscal year observations.

- FY2017: AUD -0.00

- FY2018: AUD -0.04

- FY2019: AUD -0.09

- FY2020: AUD -0.04

- FY2021: AUD -0.09

- FY2022: AUD -0.18

- FY2023: AUD -0.22

- FY2024: AUD -0.22

- FY2025: AUD -0.19

- FY2026: AUD -0.23

### accounting: pass

- Sloan accruals: -20.3%

- Receivables to sales index (DSRI): 0.42×

- Restructuring years, last five: 0

- Earnings backed by cash: Yes

- Accounting red flags: 0

- Goodwill and intangibles / equity: 0.00×

Chart: Sloan accruals; fiscal year observations.

- FY2017: -1037.9%

- FY2018: -107300.2%

- FY2019: -320052.9%

- FY2020: -45.1%

- FY2021: -19.0%

- FY2022: -10.3%

- FY2023: -21.0%

- FY2024: -25.5%

- FY2025: -15.7%

- FY2026: -20.3%

## Holders

## Price story

Down 71% since Jun 2026 · sales +246.4%

Story as of 2026-10-16T10:00:13.739Z; price observation 2026-10-15.

### Sales · FY2025–2026

sales +246.4%; source https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/; observed 2026-10-16.

- FY2017: AUD 105K 

- FY2018: AUD 0 

- FY2019: AUD 0 

- FY2020: AUD 0 

- FY2021: AUD 0 

- FY2022: AUD 0 

- FY2023: AUD 0 

- FY2024: AUD 1.0M 

- FY2025: AUD 4.4M 

- FY2026: AUD 15M 

### Gross margin · FY2017

gross margin 91.2%; source https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/; observed 2026-10-16.

- FY2017: 91.2% 

## Owner memo

Memo as of 2026-10-16T08:06:05.509Z.

### How it makes money

Operates in semiconductors; annual sales are AUD 15.3 million.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/api/fundamentals/6RI.F.json#2026-06-30 (filed 2026-10-16T07:47:48.590Z); FY2026: revenue 15276000; grossProfit 15276000; margin = grossProfit / revenue.

### Why customers stay

Margins ranged from 100% to 100% during 2024–26.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/api/fundamentals/6RI.F.json#2024-06-30 (filed 2026-10-16T07:47:48.590Z); FY2024: grossProfit / revenue = 100%.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/api/fundamentals/6RI.F.json#2025-06-30 (filed 2026-10-16T07:47:48.590Z); FY2025: grossProfit / revenue = 100%.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/api/fundamentals/6RI.F.json#2026-06-30 (filed 2026-10-16T07:47:48.590Z); FY2026: grossProfit / revenue = 100%.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:47:48.590Z); 10-year return on capital observations [[2017,-12.816222541192836],[2018,-25469.16139815418],[2019,-44.9140597684782],[2020,-0.9538476100536047],[2021,-0.49300948113583964],[2022,-5.244676141216781],[2023,-0.37611239160043636],[2024,-0.5831014764103687],[2025,-13.402417434617885],[2026,-0.29521489006076784]]; median -3.0992618756351926. ROIC follows the displayed moat series; financial companies use return on tangible equity.

### Where the cash goes

Paid dividends in 4 of 10 years; bought back AUD 5 million of shares.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:47:48.590Z); Dividend observations: [[2017,0],[2018,0],[2019,0],[2020,715888.65],[2021,1442726.9],[2022,952690.54],[2023,2562931.7],[2024,0],[2025,0],[2026,0]]. Zero only counted when supported by a complete cash-flow statement.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/api/fundamentals/6RI.F.json#2026-06-30 (filed 2026-10-16T07:47:48.590Z); FY2026: cash repurchases 5005000 AUD.

### Are managers owners

Insiders own 7.2% of the company.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16); WBT.AU SharesStats.PercentInsiders = 7.162 percentage points; cache date 2026-10-16.

### What the price says

The price is 38.7 times annual sales; cash earnings are negative.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:47:48.590Z); Closing price 2.46 AUD; reporting-to-trading FX 1; FY2026 annual sales per share 0.06359620820722472; price multiple 38.68155145326001. FY2026 cash earnings/share -0.22885476034853852. Closing-price date 2026-10-15.

## Monthly share-price history (AUD per share)

- 2016-11: AUD 0.82 per share

- 2016-12: AUD 0.77 per share

- 2017-01: AUD 0.75 per share

- 2017-02: AUD 0.65 per share

- 2017-03: AUD 0.67 per share

- 2017-04: AUD 0.60 per share

- 2017-05: AUD 0.42 per share

- 2017-06: AUD 0.47 per share

- 2017-07: AUD 0.45 per share

- 2017-08: AUD 0.40 per share

- 2017-09: AUD 0.45 per share

- 2017-10: AUD 0.94 per share

- 2017-11: AUD 1.52 per share

- 2017-12: AUD 1.49 per share

- 2018-01: AUD 1.59 per share

- 2018-02: AUD 1.29 per share

- 2018-03: AUD 1.19 per share

- 2018-04: AUD 1.39 per share

- 2018-05: AUD 1.64 per share

- 2018-06: AUD 1.64 per share

- 2018-07: AUD 1.34 per share

- 2018-08: AUD 1.12 per share

- 2018-09: AUD 0.99 per share

- 2018-10: AUD 0.72 per share

- 2018-11: AUD 0.70 per share

- 2018-12: AUD 0.70 per share

- 2019-01: AUD 0.57 per share

- 2019-02: AUD 0.51 per share

- 2019-03: AUD 0.36 per share

- 2019-04: AUD 0.74 per share

- 2019-05: AUD 0.48 per share

- 2019-06: AUD 0.44 per share

- 2019-07: AUD 0.43 per share

- 2019-08: AUD 0.40 per share

- 2019-09: AUD 0.38 per share

- 2019-10: AUD 0.39 per share

- 2019-11: AUD 0.43 per share

- 2019-12: AUD 0.39 per share

- 2020-01: AUD 0.39 per share

- 2020-02: AUD 0.37 per share

- 2020-03: AUD 0.26 per share

- 2020-04: AUD 0.39 per share

- 2020-05: AUD 0.38 per share

- 2020-06: AUD 0.26 per share

- 2020-07: AUD 0.28 per share

- 2020-08: AUD 0.78 per share

- 2020-09: AUD 0.73 per share

- 2020-10: AUD 1.49 per share

- 2020-11: AUD 1.92 per share

- 2020-12: AUD 2.42 per share

- 2021-01: AUD 2.80 per share

- 2021-02: AUD 2.30 per share

- 2021-03: AUD 2.32 per share

- 2021-04: AUD 2.21 per share

- 2021-05: AUD 1.90 per share

- 2021-06: AUD 1.65 per share

- 2021-07: AUD 2.61 per share

- 2021-08: AUD 2.81 per share

- 2021-09: AUD 2.54 per share

- 2021-10: AUD 3.38 per share

- 2021-11: AUD 3.00 per share

- 2021-12: AUD 2.86 per share

- 2022-01: AUD 3.35 per share

- 2022-02: AUD 2.62 per share

- 2022-03: AUD 2.65 per share

- 2022-04: AUD 2.68 per share

- 2022-05: AUD 2.56 per share

- 2022-06: AUD 2.38 per share

- 2022-07: AUD 2.71 per share

- 2022-08: AUD 2.78 per share

- 2022-09: AUD 2.08 per share

- 2022-10: AUD 2.75 per share

- 2022-11: AUD 3.15 per share

- 2022-12: AUD 3.25 per share

- 2023-01: AUD 4.74 per share

- 2023-02: AUD 7.64 per share

- 2023-03: AUD 4.98 per share

- 2023-04: AUD 5.30 per share

- 2023-05: AUD 6.75 per share

- 2023-06: AUD 5.07 per share

- 2023-07: AUD 6.20 per share

- 2023-08: AUD 3.98 per share

- 2023-09: AUD 3.18 per share

- 2023-10: AUD 3.31 per share

- 2023-11: AUD 3.60 per share

- 2023-12: AUD 4.27 per share

- 2024-01: AUD 3.48 per share

- 2024-02: AUD 4.34 per share

- 2024-03: AUD 3.35 per share

- 2024-04: AUD 3.15 per share

- 2024-05: AUD 2.28 per share

- 2024-06: AUD 2.55 per share

- 2024-07: AUD 2.35 per share

- 2024-08: AUD 2.30 per share

- 2024-09: AUD 1.90 per share

- 2024-10: AUD 2.03 per share

- 2024-11: AUD 2.76 per share

- 2024-12: AUD 3.60 per share

- 2025-01: AUD 2.27 per share

- 2025-02: AUD 2.11 per share

- 2025-03: AUD 1.91 per share

- 2025-04: AUD 1.76 per share

- 2025-05: AUD 1.82 per share

- 2025-06: AUD 1.63 per share

- 2025-07: AUD 2.42 per share

- 2025-08: AUD 2.83 per share

- 2025-09: AUD 3.18 per share

- 2025-10: AUD 5.44 per share

- 2025-11: AUD 3.92 per share

- 2025-12: AUD 5.06 per share

- 2026-01: AUD 5.30 per share

- 2026-02: AUD 4.98 per share

- 2026-03: AUD 3.65 per share

- 2026-04: AUD 4.25 per share

- 2026-05: AUD 7.25 per share

- 2026-06: AUD 8.35 per share

- 2026-07: AUD 4.31 per share

- 2026-08: AUD 3.74 per share

- 2026-09: AUD 3.88 per share

- 2026-10: AUD 2.79 per share

## Annual estimated value (AUD per share)

Historical values use today's bond yield for every fiscal year

Historical values use today's FX rate into trading currency for every fiscal year

Historical values use current restated fundamentals and current commodity classification; they are not point-in-time estimates

## Sources

Estimates depend on assumptions and are not guarantees or investment advice. Underlying data remains subject to its source licenses; public reading does not grant bulk redistribution rights.
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Weebit Nano

WBT · AU

S&P/ASX 200

Not a wonderful business

4 quality tests fail. A lower price would not fix the business.

Share price
AUD 2.46
Quality tests
Fail
Annual history
11 years
Market value
$413M

The business

How it makes money
Why customers stay
Where the cash goes
Are managers owners
What the price says

1. Is this a good business?

Evidence only; not required for Buy

10 loss years were recorded (limit 2).

10y median
AUD -19M
Worst year
AUD -55M
Latest · 2026
AUD -55M

Capital return excluding acquisitions: median -309.9% (minimum 15%), and the second-worst year -4491.4% (minimum 10%).

10y median
-309.9%
Worst year
-2546916.1%
Latest · 2026
-29.5%

Owners received -201.5 million over five years (must be positive), and new investment earned -460.1% (minimum 12%).

5y median
AUD -39M
Worst year
AUD -55M
Latest · 2026
AUD -55M

Per-share value fell from -0.04 to -0.22, comparing three-year medians at each end (must rise and stay positive), and share growth was 8.8% over ten years and 13% over five (either must be at most 1% a year).

10y median
AUD -0.14
Worst year
AUD -0.23
Latest · 2026
AUD -0.23

Profits were backed by cash: accruals were -20.3% of assets (limit 10%).

10y median
-23.2%
Worst year
-10.3%
Latest · 2026
-20.3%

Profit record · fail 10 loss years in 10 (at most 2), mean operating margin -1443.4%, three-year average owner earnings per share -0.21 AUD. 10 loss years in the last 10; at most 2 allowed. Operating margin observed in 4 of the last 10 years; at least 5 needed. Three-year average owner earnings per share is not positive.

RevenueAUD 15M
15M020172026
FY2017 · Revenue: AUD 105K; FY2018 · Revenue: AUD 0; FY2019 · Revenue: AUD 0; FY2020 · Revenue: AUD 0; FY2021 · Revenue: AUD 0; FY2022 · Revenue: AUD 0; FY2023 · Revenue: AUD 0; FY2024 · Revenue: AUD 1.0M; FY2025 · Revenue: AUD 4.4M; FY2026 · Revenue: AUD 15M
Revenue
Owner earningsAUD -55M
1.00-55M20172026
FY2017 · Owner earnings: AUD -13K; FY2018 · Owner earnings: AUD -4.3M; FY2019 · Owner earnings: AUD -6.3M; FY2020 · Owner earnings: AUD -4.0M; FY2021 · Owner earnings: AUD -11M; FY2022 · Owner earnings: AUD -28M; FY2023 · Owner earnings: AUD -39M; FY2024 · Owner earnings: AUD -41M; FY2025 · Owner earnings: AUD -38M; FY2026 · Owner earnings: AUD -55M
Owner earnings
Operating margin-377.6%
10.0%-4455.0%20172026
FY2017 · Operating margin: -20.9%; FY2024 · Operating margin: -4455.0%; FY2025 · Operating margin: -920.3%; FY2026 · Operating margin: -377.6%
Operating margin
Net cash / debtAUD 168M
168M-123K20172026
FY2017 · Net cash / debt: AUD 2K; FY2018 · Net cash / debt: AUD 3K; FY2019 · Net cash / debt: AUD -123K; FY2020 · Net cash / debt: AUD 4.0M; FY2021 · Net cash / debt: AUD 22M; FY2022 · Net cash / debt: AUD 50M; FY2023 · Net cash / debt: AUD 88M; FY2024 · Net cash / debt: AUD 62M; FY2025 · Net cash / debt: AUD 88M; FY2026 · Net cash / debt: AUD 168M
Net cash / debt
Diluted shares240M
240M020172026
FY2017 · Diluted shares: 103M; FY2018 · Diluted shares: 103M; FY2019 · Diluted shares: 69M; FY2020 · Diluted shares: 103M; FY2021 · Diluted shares: 130M; FY2022 · Diluted shares: 150M; FY2023 · Diluted shares: 176M; FY2024 · Diluted shares: 188M; FY2025 · Diluted shares: 200M; FY2026 · Diluted shares: 240M
Diluted shares
Prices 15 Oct 2026 · FY2026