Produces flat/sheet steel products for the automotive industry. Supplies steel to hollow structural product manufacturers. Now — the numbers.
That much dependence is a risk in itself: if this one line weakens, the whole company feels it directly.
The company closed last year at a loss: costs ran above sales. The picture changes only if spending is reined in.
An average decline of 14% a year over the last 4 years — the most striking risk in this picture. Red columns mark years that ended in a loss.
Before the clock runs out, either sales must climb sharply or new money must come in. This is the most critical line in the whole picture.
This company is not turning a profit, so the market is pricing its sales instead: 0.3× for every dollar of annual revenue.
Against companies in its own sector, it looks cheaper than 7% of them.
No analyst target is on record for this company.
An investor who bought at the very peak is down 67% today. The business is the same; what changed most is the price — and the expectations — the market pins on it.
The company sells $1.5B a year; the problem isn’t sales — it’s costs running above that number.
A loss of $710.2M against $1.5B in annual sales.
At the current pace of spending, the cash lasts less than a year. After that, the company needs to find new money.
On our five-subject report card, ASTL sits behind the class. A low grade doesn’t mean “doomed” — it means “big claim, small proof.”
The takeaway: ASTL’s sales are going backwards, and it closed last year at a loss. The road back runs through both.
The total grade weighs these five subjects against the sector — it isn’t a simple average of the five.