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Ranked against 20 sector peers with collected financials. Valuation from latest close × latest fiscal-year fundamentals; 13F conviction as of 2026-09-30.
Percentile is “goodness” within the peer set (100 = best). For valuation and leverage that means cheaper / less-levered ranks higher.
| Company | Mkt cap ▼ | P/E | EV/EBITDA | P/S | Rev gr | Gross | Net | ROE | ROIC | Net D/EBITDA | 13F |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SBLK | $3.4B | 39.6× | 9.4× | 3.2× | -17.6% | — | 8.1% | 3.4% | 3.4% | -1.6× | 37 |
| DAC | $2.9B | 5.9× | 4.5× | 2.8× | 2.8% | — | 47.4% | 13.0% | 10.0% | 0.2× | 25 |
| LPG | $2.3B | 12.0× | 9.1× | 4.9× | 36.3% | — | 40.2% | 17.0% | 11.4% | 0.8× | 58 |
| SFL | $1.8B | — | 11.4× | 2.5× | -18.9% | — | -3.6% | -2.8% | -0.7% | 6.5× | 45 |
| CMRE | $1.7B | — | 4.7× | 2.0× | -1.2% | — | 41.5% | 17.5% | 10.1% | 1.7× | — |
| TEN | $1.6B | 12.3× | 7.8× | 2.1× | -0.7% | — | 20.1% | 8.8% | 4.5% | 3.7× | — |
| GSL | $1.5B | — | 3.5× | 2.0× | 7.8% | — | 54.3% | 23.1% | 16.7% | 0.8× | — |
| NVGS | $1.3B | 14.8× | — | 2.3× | 3.6% | — | 17.1% | 8.2% | 7.2% | — | 26 |
| TK | $1.3B | 13.2× | 0.9× | 1.4× | -22.2% | 66.6% | 10.3% | 4.5% | 4.5% | -2.4× | 26 |
| GNK | $1.2B | — | 15.5× | 3.4× | -19.1% | — | -1.3% | -0.5% | -0.4% | 1.6× | 36 |
| ASC | $870M | 24.2× | — | 2.8× | -23.6% | — | 13.2% | 6.5% | 5.4% | — | 34 |
| HSHP | $792M | 44.2× | 14.9× | 6.0× | 6.7% | 78.8% | 13.4% | 10.9% | 2.1% | 6.7× | 19 |
| PANL | $526M | 26.8× | 6.2× | 0.8× | 17.8% | — | 3.1% | 4.5% | 3.7% | -0.1× | 24 |
| ESEA | $476M | 3.4× | 2.9× | 2.1× | 7.0% | — | 60.1% | 29.6% | 20.1% | 0.2× | 11 |
| SHIP | $349M | 15.9× | — | 2.2× | -5.6% | — | 13.4% | 7.5% | 3.7% | — | — |
| DSX | $316M | 23.1× | 8.9× | 1.5× | -6.4% | — | 8.3% | 3.5% | 1.7% | 5.3× | — |
| GASS | $312M | 5.0× | 2.6× | 1.8× | 3.5% | — | 35.0% | 8.8% | 8.8% | -1.2× | 3 |
| SMHI | $267M | — | 8.8× | 1.2× | -16.0% | 20.2% | -12.2% | -10.5% | -4.6% | 4.4× | 16 |
| IMPP | $230M | 3.9× | 3.4× | 1.4× | 9.2% | — | 31.0% | 9.4% | 9.4% | -0.1× | — |
| TORO | $153M | 55.3× | — | 7.3× | -5.9% | — | 28.1% | 3.6% | 3.6% | — | — |
| NCT | $2M | 15.5× | — | 0.1× | -1.5% | 31.2% | 12.3% | 12.5% | 11.2% | -0.5× | — |
Peers = companies sharing NCT's sector (Deep Sea Foreign Transportation of Freight) with collected SEC financials. Multiples use the most recent end-of-day close and latest fiscal-year fundamentals (trailing, not forward). Missing cells mean the peer never reported that line item, has no collected price, or has a non-positive denominator. Not investment advice.
What the company returns to shareholders — and whether it's covered by cash.
No dividend to cover. Last year: $0 dividends + $0 buybacks = $0 returned on $6.3M FCF.
Yields use the latest fiscal-year dividends/buybacks over current market cap. Dividends and buybacks from the SEC cash-flow statement; payout coverage vs net income and free cash flow. Educational — not a recommendation.
How management deployed cash over 3 years — and what it earned on reinvestment.
A balanced mix of reinvestment and shareholder returns.
Operating income fell despite reinvestment — a warning on capital productivity. Current ROIC on all capital: 11%. Rough measure (includes maintenance capex).
Cash uses aggregated from the SEC cash-flow statement over 3 fiscal years. "Return on reinvestment" is a rough proxy — operating-income change ÷ cumulative CapEx + M&A — and includes maintenance capex. Educational — not a recommendation.
EOD close · as of 2026-10-29
How a revenue dollar becomes profit — FY2025
Dividends and buybacks are cash paid out, shown here against the same year's profit for scale — not funded from it.
Each value shows its share of revenue below it (common-size).
| Line Item | FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $25.1M 100.0% | $25.5M 100.0% | $32.4M 100.0% |
| Cost of Revenue | $17.3M 68.8% | $18.2M 71.2% | $18.1M 55.7% |
| Gross Profit | $7.8M 31.2% | $7.3M 28.8% | $14.4M 44.3% |
| Research & Development | $621K 2.5% | $601K 2.4% | — |
| Selling, General & Admin | $2.3M 9.2% | $1.7M 6.5% | $876K 2.7% |
| Total Operating Expenses | $2.9M 11.7% | $2.3M 8.9% | $876K 2.7% |
| Operating Income | $4.9M 19.5% | $5.1M 19.9% | $13.5M 41.6% |
| Interest Expense | $1.9M 7.6% | $2.7M 10.6% | $2.7M 8.4% |
| Interest & Investment Income | $4K 0.0% | $307K 1.2% | $195K 0.6% |
| Other Income (Expense), net | -$1.8M -7.1% | -$1.9M -7.6% | -$2.6M -8.1% |
| Pretax Income | $3.1M 12.4% | $3.1M 12.3% | $10.9M 33.6% |
| Net Income | $3.1M 12.4% | $3.1M 12.3% | $10.9M 33.5% |
| Per Share | |||
| EPS (Basic) | $0.10 | $0.10 | $0.40 |
| EPS (Diluted) | $0.10 | $0.10 | $0.40 |
| Weighted Avg Shares (Basic) | 25.4M | 24.6M | 24.5M |
| Weighted Avg Shares (Diluted) | 25.4M | 24.6M | 24.5M |
Source: SEC EDGAR XBRL filings (annual, fiscal year). Quarterly flow items are derived from cumulative filings; balance-sheet figures are as-of each period end. Ratios and margins are computed, not reported.
How much the company owes, how it's trended, and how comfortably it's serviced.
Cash of $5.6M (at 2025-06-30) covers all $2.1M of scheduled principal — no refinancing pressure. Scheduled principal only (excludes interest & revolver draws). As of 2025-12-31 (F-1/A). The cash figure is from 2025-06-30, so the two are not the same balance-sheet date — the schedule has not been refiled since.
Green ≤ 1.5× · amber ≤ 3× · red > 3× (leverage relative to cash earnings).
Coverage is adequate but not comfortable. Effective rate ~65.7% on $2.9M of debt.
Cash of $5.6M fully covers short-term debt of $1.7M.
Mostly short-term debt (balance-sheet current vs non-current split). See the maturity ladder above for the year-by-year repayment schedule.
Debt, cash, interest and equity from the SEC balance sheet & income statement. Effective rate = interest ÷ average debt. Maturity ladder from the SEC long-term-debt repayment schedule. Educational — not a recommendation.
Solve the discounted cash flow backwards, then stress-test the assumptions.
Average free cash flow across the last 3 positive fiscal years (FY2023, FY2024, FY2025). Smooths the cycle. Stock compensation is NOT charged — it is added back inside operating cash flow.
A reverse DCF cannot be solved for NCT: its net cash ($2.7M) exceeds its market value, so enterprise value is negative. Discounting a positive cash-flow stream always gives a positive number, so no growth rate reaches that target. This is common for banks, brokers and payment companies, where customer balances sit in the cash line and are not the company's to spend.
Default is 10.0% — this company's computed cost of capital (published default — this company's cost of capital could not be computed), the same rate the Analysis tab discounts at.
2-stage DCF · 0.00B shares (market data) · net debt -$2.7M
Today's price is outside this grid at every discount rate shown — the assumptions it requires lie beyond the plotted range, which is itself the finding.
mean 139.5% · volatility σ 184% · implied rate exceeded in 2/2 yrs
Central path = implied -60.0%/yr growth; shaded band = ±1σ (184%) of this company's historical FCF volatility, widening with time. The wider the band, the less certain the growth.
Reverse DCF: rather than guessing a fair value, we solve for the growth the current price implies, then you stress-test the assumptions. Enterprise value of the FCF stream, less net debt, ÷ shares. Educational — not a recommendation.
EOD close · as of 2026-10-29
Is the profit real, and how strong is the balance sheet?
FY2025 · every deduction from revenue to net income
DuPont — the three levers
ROE 13% against ROIC 11% — 1% of the return on equity comes from leverage and buybacks rather than from the operating business.
Equity is the year-end figure. On average equity over the two year-ends, ROE is 17.4% — the two diverge when buybacks or issuance move equity during the year.
What the company owes vs. what it holds
This shows debt/cash structure and net leverage. The year-by-year maturity schedule is on the Debt & Leverage tab.
Latest year: profit growth vs revenue growth
High operating leverage: profit moved 2.3× as fast as sales — great in an upturn, painful in a downturn.
Each line as % of revenue — the trend in color
| % of revenue | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost of Revenue | 55.7 | 71.2 | 68.8 |
| Gross Profit | 44.3 | 28.8 | 31.2 |
| R&D | — | 2.4 | 2.5 |
| SG&A | 2.7 | 6.5 | 9.2 |
| Operating Income | 41.6 | 19.9 | 19.5 |
| Net Income | 33.5 | 12.3 | 12.4 |
Green = margin-favorable vs the row's own range · red = unfavorable.
The metrics that matter, over time
A 30-second read on NCT: price, valuation and headline fundamentals from SEC filings. The four questions at the top of the page are where the judgements live.
Cost of capital cannot be computed, so the spread is unknown.
| Fiscal year | Gross margin | Operating margin | Net margin |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 44.3% | 41.6% | 33.5% |
| FY2024 | 28.8% | 19.9% | 12.3% |
| FY2025 | 31.2% | 19.5% | 12.3% |
Return on equity (13%) and return on invested capital (11%) are within a couple of points in FY2025, so the headline return is the operating return — there is no meaningful leverage effect to strip out.
No material counter-signal in the checked set: ROIC vs WACC spread, 5-year spread history, gross margin trend, operating margin trend, net margin against 3 years ago, revenue growth, ROIC ex-goodwill gap.
Missing from our data, so excluded from this answer: tax_rate.
Converts 1.35x of reported profit into free cash flow over 3 years, with accruals negative.
| Step | Amount | Running total |
|---|---|---|
| Net income | $3M | $3M |
| Share-based comp | not reported | not reported |
| Other non-cash & working capital | $4M | $7M |
| Operating cash flow | $7M | $7M |
| Capex | −$1M | $6M |
| Free cash flow | $6M | $6M |
| Fiscal year | Revenue growth | Receivables growth | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024 | -21.3% | not reported | not reported |
| FY2025 | -1.5% | 9.7% | 11.2 points |
| Fiscal year | DSO | DIO | DPO | Cash conversion cycle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | not reported | not reported | not reported | not reported |
| FY2024 | 3.7 days | not reported | 20.8 days | -17 days |
| FY2025 | 4.2 days | not reported | 21.6 days | -17.5 days |
| Fiscal year | Accruals / assets |
|---|---|
| FY2023 | not reported |
| FY2024 | -5.1 percent |
| FY2025 | -6.1 percent |
Below the line, the asset base is being consumed faster than it is replaced.
Depreciation here includes amortisation of acquired intangibles — goodwill written down over time, customer lists, acquired technology. Capex does not replace those and is not meant to, so an acquisitive or asset-light company sits below 1.0 permanently and correctly. The signal is cleanest for capital-intensive businesses, where the two measure the same physical base. For that reason this informs the earnings-quality verdict but never caps it.
Shares outstanding are up 9% since FY2023 — per-share cash flow has grown more slowly than the totals above, and the gap is the owners'.
Missing from our data, so excluded from this answer: share_based_compensation.
Stressed coverage of 1.8x sits between comfortable and thin.
| EBITDA decline | Interest coverage |
|---|---|
| 0% | 2.56x |
| 5% | 2.44x |
| 10% | 2.31x |
| 15% | 2.18x |
| 20% | 2.05x |
| 25% | 1.92x |
| 30% | 1.79x |
| 35% | 1.67x |
| 40% | 1.54x |
| 45% | 1.41x |
| 50% | 1.28x |
| 55% | 1.15x |
| 60% | 1.03x |
Ladder as of 2025-12-31 (F-1/A); cash from the 2025-06-30 balance sheet; FCF from FY2025.
Balance sheet at 2025-06-30. Undrawn revolving credit is not shown: the tag is collected but not yet mapped through to the API.
Operating leases are $15,453,053 of the $18,361,998 total — a fixed obligation that does not appear in a headline debt figure.
At $1.55, free cash flow must compound -20.0%/yr for 10 years. It has done 100.85%/yr over 2 years.
| Fiscal year | FCF growth | Price requires |
|---|---|---|
| FY2024 | 269.9% | −20.0% |
| FY2025 | 9.1% | −20.0% |
The cost of capital could not be computed for this company, so the requirement is solved at the published 10% default — a different rate would move it materially.