Burcon Nutrascience Stock Today
| BU Stock | CAD 0.09 0.01 5.56% |
PerformanceInsignificant
| Odds Of DistressVery High
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Burcon NutraScience is selling at 0.085 as of the 14th of March 2025; that is 5.56% down since the beginning of the trading day. The stock's open price was 0.09. Burcon NutraScience has a very high chance of experiencing financial distress in the next few years of operation. It also did not have a very good performance during the last 90 trading days. The performance scores are derived for the period starting the 14th of December 2024 and ending today, the 14th of March 2025. Click here to learn more.
Business Domain Food, Beverage & Tobacco | Category Consumer Defensive | Classification Consumer Staples |
Burcon NutraScience Corporation, together with its subsidiary, develops plant proteins and ingredients for use in the food and beverage industries in Canada. Burcon NutraScience Corporation was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. The company has 253.76 M outstanding shares of which 84.77 K shares are currently shorted by private and institutional investors with about 0.39 days to cover all short positions. More on Burcon NutraScience
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| CEO | Johann Tergesen | ||||
| Business Concentration | Packaged Foods & Meats, Food, Beverage & Tobacco, Consumer Defensive, Consumer Staples, Food Products, Packaged Foods, Consumer Defensive (View all Sectors) | ||||
Burcon NutraScience's financial strength is of vital concern to both outside investors and internal stakeholders. Efficiency and cost control are keys to Burcon NutraScience's success, along with its ability to generate sufficient cash flow to pay bills, repay debt, and make a consistent year-to-year profit. | |||||
Debt LevelsBurcon NutraScience can leverage the use of borrowed funds to amplify returns from an investment. In general, analyzing the relationship between debt to total assets helps investors to understand Burcon NutraScience's financial leverage. It provides some insight into what part of Burcon NutraScience's total assets is financed by creditors.
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Burcon NutraScience (BU) is traded on Toronto Exchange in Canada and employs 25 people. Burcon NutraScience is listed under Packaged Foods & Meats category by Fama And French industry classification. The company currently falls under 'Micro-Cap' category with a current market capitalization of 21.57 M. Market capitalization usually refers to the total value of a company's stock within the entire market. To calculate Burcon NutraScience's market, we take the total number of its shares issued and multiply it by Burcon NutraScience's current market price. To manage market risk and economic uncertainty, many investors today build portfolios that are diversified across equities with different market capitalizations. However, as a general rule, conservative investors tend to hold large-cap stocks, and those looking for more risk prefer small-cap and mid-cap equities. Burcon NutraScience classifies itself under Food Products sector and is part of Consumer Staples industry. The entity has 253.76 M outstanding shares of which 84.77 K shares are currently shorted by private and institutional investors with about 0.39 days to cover all short positions.
Burcon NutraScience has accumulated about 1.46 M in cash with (5.78 M) of positive cash flow from operations. This results in cash-per-share (CPS) ratio of 0.07.
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Ownership AllocationBurcon NutraScience holds a total of 253.76 Million outstanding shares. Burcon NutraScience retains significant amount of outstanding shares owned by insiders. An insider is usually defined as a CEO, other corporate executive, director, or institutional investor who own at least 10% of the company's outstanding shares. Since such a large part of the company is owned by insiders, it is advisable to analyze if each of these insiders have been buying or selling the stock in recent months. Please note that no matter how many assets the company secures, if the real value of the firm is less than the current market value, you may not be able to make money on it.
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Burcon NutraScience Risk Profiles
Although Burcon NutraScience's alpha and beta are two of the key measurements used to evaluate Burcon NutraScience's performance over the market, the standard measures of volatility play an important role as well.
| Mean Deviation | 4.8 | |||
| Semi Deviation | 5.44 | |||
| Standard Deviation | 7.69 | |||
| Variance | 59.17 |
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Burcon NutraScience Corporate Directors
| Peter Kappel | Independent Director | Profile | |
| Alan Chan | Independent Director | Profile | |
| Debora Fang | Independent Director | Profile | |
| Bradford Allen | Lead Independent Director | Profile |
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