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CMDB, Costamare Bulkers Holdings Limited
A capital-intensive business, run on heavy physical assets that must be kept working and earn a return above what they cost to maintain.
The business
What it sells, where the money comes from, the kind of company it is.
The business in brief
What this business is and what moves its needle, from its own SEC filings.
- Situation
- Unprofitable. No sustained operating profit across the record; an earnings multiple has nothing to rest on. What the record does show is revenue, the gross-margin trajectory, and the burn against the cash on hand. Distress / turnaround. Thin interest coverage, or operating cash burned against real debt, across the record. The balance sheet carries this situation; the debt schedule sets the clock.
- What moves the needle
- Whether the heavy assets earn more than they cost to keep. What decides it: the return on the capital sunk into them, how much of the capex is merely standing still versus growing, and what a downturn does to a fixed-cost base. Here the balance sheet is the defense and cyclicality the enemy.
Every line is arithmetic on the company's filings, shown in full in the sections below.
The record
Ten years of arithmetic, read across the cycle.
The record, 2023–2025
realized figures from each filing · older years to the left| 2023’23 | 2024’24 | 2025’25 | TTMTTMDec 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Income statement | ||||
| $0 | $0 | $597M | $597M | RevenueRevenue |
| $0 | $0 | ($31M) | ($31M) | Operating incomeOp. inc. |
| — | — | −5.1% | −5.1% | Operating marginOp. mgn |
| $0 | $6K | ($37M) | ($37M) | Net incomeNet inc. |
| Cash flow & returns | ||||
| $0 | $4K | $76M | $76M | Operating cash flowOp. cash |
| $0 | $0 | $28M | $28M | DepreciationDeprec. |
| $0 | ($2K) | $85M | $85M | Working capital & otherWC & other |
| — | 0% | -4% | -4% | ROICROIC |
| — | 100% | -6% | -6% | Return on equityROE |
| — | 100% | −6% | −6% | Retained to equityRetained/eq |
| Balance sheet | ||||
| — | $4K | $212M | $212M | Cash & investmentsCash+inv |
| — | $0 | $14M | $14M | InventoryInvent. |
| — | $0 | $14M | $14M | Operating working capitalOper. WC |
| — | $6K | $294M | $294M | Current assetsCur. assets |
| — | $2M | $123M | $123M | Current liabilitiesCur. liab. |
| — | 0.0× | 2.4× | 2.4× | Current ratioCurr. ratio |
| — | $2M | $929M | $929M | Total assetsAssets |
| — | $0 | $156M | $156M | Total debtDebt |
| — | ($4K) | ($56M) | ($56M) | Net debt / (cash)Net debt |
| — | — | -3.8× | -3.8× | Interest coverageInt. cov. |
| $0 | $6K | $666M | $666M | Shareholders’ equityEquity |
| Per share | ||||
| — | 10K | 24.2M | 24.2M | Shares out (diluted)Shares |
| — | $0.00 | $24.70 | $24.70 | Revenue / shareRev/sh |
| — | $0.60 | $-1.54 | $-1.54 | EPS (diluted)EPS |
| — | $0.60 | $27.53 | $27.53 | Book value / shareBVPS |
The diluted share count moved ×2418.05 into 2025 — shares issued, not a split the totals corroborate — and the per-share figures carry the counts as filed.
Quality & stewardship
Returns, the balance sheet, capital allocation, and pay.
Owner’s Scorecard
Will it survive?
- Can it pay its interest? -3.8×Does not cover its interestOperating income ($31M) ÷ interest expense $8M
What this means
A full year of operating profit didn't cover the interest bill. This is the zombie zone: the business depends on refinancing, asset sales, or forbearance to service its debt.
- Net cashCash $212M − debt $156M
What this means
Cash and short-term investments exceed every dollar of debt by $56M, on net the company owes nothing, and can act from strength when others can't. Net debt is the leverage figure that matters: the cash is already set against the debt. Strategic or illiquid investments aren't counted here.
- Not enough data
What this means
The filing data didn't include the inputs for this check.
Is it a good business?
- Below averageNOPAT ($24M) ÷ invested capital $609M (debt + equity − cash)Industry peers: median 4%
What this means
The rate the business earns on the money tied up in it, Buffett's north star, because over time a stock tracks the ROIC beneath it. Above ~15% sustained hints at a moat; a return below the cost of capital (~8%) erodes value as a business grows rather than building it — the test Buffett weighs most. Asset-light businesses (R&D expensed, little capital) read artificially high, pair this with Owner Earnings.
- Not enough dataIndustry peers: median 12%
What this means
The filing data didn't include the inputs for this check.
- Loss, but cash-generativeNet income ($37M) · cash from operations $76M
What this means
The company reported a net loss, so a conversion ratio isn't meaningful. What matters then is whether operations still threw off cash, here, they did.
How is the cash used?
- Not enough data
What this means
The filing data didn't include the inputs for this check.
- Investing or harvesting? —Not enough data
What this means
The filing data didn't include the inputs for this check.
Graham’s defensive tests · 2 of 3 met
Graham’s numerical criteria for the defensive investor (The Intelligent Investor, ch. 14), run on the filings. A floor of safety, not a buy signal; many fine modern businesses fail his strictest liquidity rules by design.
- Adequate size MissRevenue ≥ $2B · $597M
What this means
Big enough to weather a storm. Graham's 1972 floor was ~$100M of sales (≈ $700M today); we use a $2B revenue line as a conservative modern stand-in.
- Strong liquidity PassCurrent ratio ≥ 2× · 2.38×
What this means
Current assets at least twice current liabilities, near-term bills covered without touching the business. Strict by design: many cash-rich modern firms run leaner and miss it, holding their cushion in longer-dated securities.
- Conservative debt PassDebt ≤ working capital · $156M vs $170M WC
What this means
Graham's rule that borrowings not exceed net current assets. Capital-heavy and buyback-heavy firms routinely fail it, read it next to interest coverage, not alone.
- Moderate price —P/E ≤ 15 and P/E × P/B ≤ 22.5 · decided by the price
What this means
Graham's valuation gate, the wall he kept between a sound business and a sound investment. Three-year average earnings are $-0.51/share (latest year $-1.54), the averaged base the calculator's gate runs on, and book value is $27.53/share. Enter a price in “What the price implies” just below for the P/E, P/B, and whether it clears. But this is the rule Buffett outgrew: there's no hard P/E law, and a wonderful business can deserve a far richer multiple if the thesis holds, treat it as the bargain-hunter's floor, not a verdict on the price.
Does AI threaten the moat?
Low contestabilityThe moat is physical, regulated or balance-sheet-funded, the kind AI cuts costs within but does not contest.
AI is unlikely to contest a moat that is physical, regulated or balance-sheet-funded; here it reads more as a cost tool than a threat.
Read from the filing's own risk factors, paired with the industry's structure under its SIC code; the durability is read above, the price below.
All figures as filed; the source filing is linked above.
Current Position
as of fiscal year-end, Dec 31, 2025Can the business pay what it owes this year, off the freshest balance sheet: the quality of the assets, the debt actually coming due, and what a low ratio means here.
- Cash & short-term investments$212M
- Inventory$14M
- Other current assets$68M
- Debt due within a year$15M
- Other current liabilities$108M
From the company's latest filing.
Peers, Marine Shipping
The same industry, side by side on owner economics. Each figure is a through-cycle median, so a peak or trough year can’t distort it; the group median at the foot is the line to read each against.
| Company | Revenue | Gross margin | Op. margin | ROIC | Owner earn. margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KEXKirby | $3.4B | — | 7.7% | 4% | 10% |
| MATXMatson | $3.3B | 96% | 11.4% | 11% | 12% |
| TDWTidewater Inc. | $1.4B | — | -12.5% | -6% | 3% |
| INSWInternational Seaways Inc. Common Stock | $843M | — | 12.3% | 3% | 33% |
| PANLPangaea Logistics Solutions Ltd. | $632M | — | 7.7% | 10% | 10% |
| CMDBCostamare Bulkers Holdings Limited | $597M | — | -5.1% | -4% | — |
| LPGDorian LPG Ltd. | $482M | — | 35.2% | 7% | 38% |
| GNKGenco Shipping & Trading Limited | $342M | — | -1.1% | -0% | 31% |
| Group median | — | — | 7.7% | 3% | — |
The price
What a price has to assume.
What the price implies
reverse-DCFEnter the US price, in dollars: the NYSE/Nasdaq quote you hold. Costamare Bulkers Holdings Limited's US listing is the ordinary share itself. The record tables elsewhere on this page remain as filed.
The owner-earnings base could not be formed from this filing’s tagged data (operating cash flow or capital spending is missing), so the owner-earnings reverse-DCF has no base to grow. We read the price from both ends instead: type a price to see the profitability it demands, then set the mature margin you would believe and weigh the two against each other. Nothing leaves your browser unless you enter it in your notebook.
Enter a price to run it.
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Two reads of one future. From your price: the owner earnings the company must reach, valued at a mature multiple and discounted back at your rate, expressed as the margin it implies on revenue grown at your rate. From your belief: the mature margin you would credit, set on the dial above. When the margin the price demands runs above the one you would believe, you are paying for a future taken on faith. For a deep cyclical at a trough, normalized through-cycle earnings are the better lens; this mode is for the genuinely unprofitable, and for the profitable business whose capital spending currently outruns its cash.
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