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PLUR, Pluri Inc.

Biotechnology consumer brand UnprofitableDistress / turnaround

We are a biotechnology company, leveraging our proprietary cell expansion platform to develop scalable, cell-based solutions across the healthcare, food, and agriculture sectors.

Through a collaborative network of ventures, we are advancing a diverse pipeline of products and services, including cultivated food, regenerative medicine, and cell-based ingredients.

We have developed a unique three-dimensional ("3D") technology platform for cell expansion with an industrial-scale cell manufacturing facility operated in accordance with Good Manufacturing Practice ("GMP") standards, currently on a self-declared basis.

Latest annual: FY2025 10-K
PLUR · Pluri Inc.
I

The business

What it sells, where the money comes from, the kind of company it is.

Revenue · FY2025
$1M
+309.8% YoY · 90% 5-yr CAGR
Vital signs · TTM
Cash & investments $43M
Cash burn · annual $20M
Runway 2.1 yrs

The business in brief

read the 10-K →

What this business is and what moves its needle, from its own SEC filings.

Situation
Unprofitable. No meaningful revenue yet; the record is the cash on hand against the burn. 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
Operating margin has run around −9493% through the cycle on a 96% gross margin, the operating line in the red even at its best — so the lever is whether the spending below the gross line can come down enough to clear a profit: revenue growth against the cost curve, and the cash runway until it does. Stock-based pay runs about 1386% of sales, a real and recurring claim on owners that the GAAP margin understates. Read this kind of business on the pipeline against the patent cliff, and pricing. On its own account, the filing leans hardest on pricing power & competition, set against the numbers in what the filing emphasizes, below.
Is it a good business?
Return on capital has rarely cleared the cost of capital (median −68%, above 15% in 0 of 9 years). Owner earnings, the cash-based check, have been thin too. This is price-taker territory, where the balance sheet and the cycle matter more than any multiple; the rest is in the 10-K.

Every line is arithmetic on the company's filings, shown in full in the sections below.

II

The record

Ten years of arithmetic, read across the cycle.

The record, 2014–2025

realized figures from each filing · older years to the left
2014’142015’152016’162018’182019’192020’202022’222023’232024’242025’25TTMTTMMar 2026
Income statement
$379K$379K$3M$50K$54K$23K$234K$287K$326K$1M$1MRevenueRevenue
n/mn/m228%n/mn/mn/mn/mn/mn/m747%998%SG&A / revenueSG&A/rev
n/mn/m803%n/mn/mn/mn/mn/mn/m962%n/mR&D / revenueR&D/rev
($28M)($25M)($23M)($34M)($36M)($29M)($42M)($27M)($22M)($22M)($26M)Operating incomeOp. inc.
n/mn/m−819.1%n/mn/mn/mn/mn/mn/mn/mn/mOperating marginOp. mgn
($27M)($25M)($23M)($26M)($35M)($29M)($41M)($28M)($21M)($23M)($26M)Net incomeNet inc.
Cash flow & returns
($19M)($21M)($19M)($21M)($29M)($26M)($37M)($23M)($18M)($18M)($20M)Operating cash flowOp. cash
$2M$2M$2M$2M$2M$2M$1M$362K$253K$316K$498KDepreciationDeprec.
$58K($2M)($499K)($4M)($1M)($1M)($5M)$1M($4K)$2M$592KWorking capital & otherWC & other
$2M$831K$2M$342K$239K$270K$280K$262K$323K$2M$1MCapexCapex
415.0%219.3%61.5%684.0%442.6%n/m119.7%91.3%99.1%121.1%123.1%Capex / revenueCapex/rev
($21M)($21M)($20M)($22M)($30M)($27M)($37M)($23M)($18M)($20M)($22M)Owner earningsOwner earn.
n/mn/m−712.0%n/mn/mn/mn/mn/mn/mn/mn/mOwner earnings marginOE mgn
($21M)($21M)($20M)($22M)($30M)($27M)($37M)($23M)($18M)($20M)($22M)Free cash flowFCF
n/mn/m−712.0%n/mn/mn/mn/mn/mn/mn/mn/mFree cash flow marginFCF mgn
-38%-56%-58%-135%-158%-47%-78%-68%-101%-702%ROICROIC
-43%-42%-61%-92%-162%-52%-137%-212%-21758%Return on equityROE
−43%−42%−61%−92%−162%−52%−137%−212%n/mRetained to equityRetained/eq
Balance sheet
$24M$30M$15M$30M$24M$46M$10M$5M$7M$6M$43MCash & investmentsCash+inv
$2M$2M$2M$58K$3K$3KReceivablesReceiv.
$3M$3M$3M$3M$2M$2M$2M$2M$964K$866K$743KAccounts payablePayables
($1M)($2M)($477K)($3M)($2M)($740K)Operating working capitalOper. WC
$62M$57M$36M$32M$26M$48M$58M$41M$31M$22M$10MCurrent assetsCur. assets
$7M$6M$6M$9M$8M$8M$7M$6M$4M$32M$32MCurrent liabilitiesCur. liab.
8.4×9.2×6.2×3.7×3.2×6.1×8.5×7.4×7.0×0.7×0.3×Current ratioCurr. ratio
$74M$68M$46M$39M$31M$66M$68M$51M$40M$39M$26MTotal assetsAssets
$1M$22M$24M$24M$25MTotal debtDebt
($45M)$12M$18M$17M($18M)Net debt / (cash)Net debt
-46.9×-32.3×-25.6×-25.4×-28.0×Interest coverageInt. cov.
$62M$58M$38M$29M$22M$56M$30M$13M$96K($7M)($19M)Shareholders’ equityEquity
n/mn/m107.9%n/mn/mn/mn/mn/m803.1%160.4%378.9%Stock comp / revenueSBC/rev
Per share
95.3M105M119M15.9M18.5M27.3M48.3M6.9M7.9M9.5M9.4MShares out (diluted)Shares
$0.00$0.00$0.02$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.04$0.04$0.14$0.11Revenue / shareRev/sh
$-0.28$-0.23$-0.19$-1.65$-1.91$-1.07$-0.85$-4.12$-2.66$-2.38$-2.71EPS (diluted)EPS
$-0.22$-0.20$-0.17$-1.37$-1.61$-0.98$-0.76$-3.36$-2.33$-2.09$-2.30Owner earnings / shareOE/sh
$-0.22$-0.20$-0.17$-1.37$-1.61$-0.98$-0.76$-3.36$-2.33$-2.09$-2.30Free cash flow / shareFCF/sh
$0.02$0.01$0.01$0.02$0.01$0.01$0.01$0.04$0.04$0.17$0.14Cap. spending / shareCapex/sh
$0.65$0.55$0.32$1.79$1.18$2.06$0.62$1.94$0.01$-0.72$-1.97Book value / shareBVPS

The diluted share count moved ×1/7.51 into 2018 — shares retired, not a split the totals corroborate — and the per-share figures carry the counts as filed.

The diluted share count moved ×1.48 into 2020 — shares issued, not a split the totals corroborate — and the per-share figures carry the counts as filed.

The diluted share count moved ×1.77 into 2022 — shares issued, not a split the totals corroborate — and the per-share figures carry the counts as filed.

The diluted share count moved ×1/7.03 into 2023 — shares retired, not a split the totals corroborate — and the per-share figures carry the counts as filed.

Share counts before TTM are restated ×1.5 for a stock split, so per-share figures sit on one basis.

Per-share growththe realized rate an owner's share compounded
11-yr5-yr
Revenue / share+38.3%/yr+178.3%/yr
Capital spending / share+23.6%/yr+76.7%/yr

The record, charted

FY2014–2025

Each measure over its full record; the current point and the worst year marked.

Share count
6Mpeak FY2016
ROIC
−101%low FY2019

Owner earnings vs. net income

Owner earningsNet income

The accountant's number, and the cash an owner can take; the gap is the tell.

($20M)owner earningsvs.($23M)net incomelow FY2022

Net income is the accountant's number; owner earnings is the cash an owner could take out. The walk between them, off the cash-flow statement, and whether the gap is widening or holding.

In fiscal 2025 the business turned a $23M loss into ($20M) of owner earnings: more cash than the profit line showed, after the non-cash charges and the capital it put back in.

FY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022FY2020
Reported net income($23M)($21M)($28M)($41M)($29M)
Depreciation & amortizationnon-cash charge added back+$316K+$253K+$362K+$1M+$2M
Stock-based compensationreal costnon-cash, but a real cost+$2M+$3M+$4M+$9M+$3M
Working capital & othertiming of cash in and out, other non-cash items+$2M−$4K+$1M−$5M−$1M
Cash from operations($18M)($18M)($23M)($37M)($26M)
Capital expenditurecash put back in to keep running and to grow−$2M−$323K−$262K−$280K−$270K
Owner earnings($20M)($18M)($23M)($37M)($27M)
Owner-earnings marginowner earnings ÷ revenue-1484%-5627%-8055%-15718%-115822%

Owner earnings is the cash an owner could pull out without starving the business: operating cash less the capital it must spend to hold its position . The cash-flow statement also adds stock comp back as non-cash, but it is a real cost paid in shares; counted as the expense it is (less $2M), owner earnings is nearer ($22M).

Maintenance capex is estimated as depreciation where a growing business invests above it; free cash flow is the figure the scorecard's free-cash margin reads.

III

Quality & stewardship

Returns, the balance sheet, capital allocation, and pay.

Owner’s Scorecard

FY2025 10-K · source on SEC EDGAR →

Will it survive?

  • Does not cover its interest
    Operating income ($22M) ÷ interest expense $873K
    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 cash
    Cash $6M + ST investments $34M − debt $24M
    What this means

    Cash and short-term investments exceed every dollar of debt by $16M, 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 average through the cycle
    9-yr median, range -158%–-38%; -155% latest = NOPAT ($18M) ÷ invested capital $11M
    Industry peers: median -58%
    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. The headline is the median of the last 9 years (it ran -155% most recently), so one peak or trough year doesn't set the verdict. Asset-light businesses (R&D expensed, little capital) read artificially high, pair this with Owner Earnings.

  • Consumes cash through the cycle
    10-yr median margin, range -115822%–-712%; latest ($20M) = operating cash ($18M) − maintenance capex $2M
    Industry peers: median -2534%
    What this means

    What an owner could take out without starving the business: operating cash less the maintenance capital it must spend to hold its position — Buffett's owner earnings. That's -1484% of revenue this year, a -8055% median across 10 years. Treating stock comp as the real expense it is (less $2M of SBC) leaves ($22M).

  • Loss, and burning cash
    Net income ($23M) · cash from operations ($18M)
    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 not.

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? 5.12×
    Expanding
    Capex $2M ÷ depreciation $316K
    What this means

    Descriptive, not a grade. Above ~1× means investing faster than assets wear out (growth, or, sustained for years, today's earnings carrying less depreciation than tomorrow's will). Below means spending less than it's wearing out (efficiency, or a melting asset base). The ratio won't tell you which; the filings will.

Graham’s defensive tests · 0 of 5 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 Miss
    Revenue ≥ $2B · $1M
    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 Miss
    Current ratio ≥ 2× · 0.68×
    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 Miss
    Debt ≤ working capital · $24M vs ($10M) 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.

  • Earnings stability Miss
    A profit every year (10-yr record) · 10 loss years
    What this means

    Graham wanted earnings in each of the past ten years, the stability a defensive owner leans on.

  • Dividend record Miss
    Uninterrupted dividends · none paid
    What this means

    An unbroken dividend was Graham's mark of durability. He wanted twenty years; the filings show about ten, and a single suspension breaks the streak. Non-payers, many fine modern compounders, fall outside his defensive net by design.

  • Earnings growth
    Earnings +33% over the record ·
    What this means

    Earnings were negative early in the record, a growth rate isn't meaningful.

  • 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 $-2.22/share (latest year $-2.09), the averaged base the calculator's gate runs on, and book value is $-0.63/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.

Durability & moat, 2014–2025

Whether the record’s returns held, and what the capital reinvested earned.

  • Profitable years 0 of 10
    What this means

    Lost money in 10 year(s), look at what happened there before trusting the average.

  • Return on capital ≥ 15% 0 of 4 yrs
    What this means

    A moat shows up as a high return on invested capital that holds year after year, not one good vintage.

  • Operating margin −4945% → −5983% (3-yr avg ends)
    What this means

    The recent-years average (−5983%) sits below the early years (−4945%), but the latest year (−1660%) is back near the early level: a cyclical trough dragging the window down, not a one-way slide. The through-cycle median is −9493% — read it across the cycle, not on the dip.

  • Reinvestment, incremental ROIC returns capital
    What this means

    The capital base barely grew: this business returns cash through dividends and buybacks rather than reinvesting. Judge it on the cash returned, not on compounding.

  • Worst year 2020 · −128156.5% op. margin
    What this means

    Operations went underwater in 2020, understand why before trusting the good years.

  • How management talks about it Owner’s terms
    What this means

    The filing reasons in an owner’s terms — per-share, return on capital, the long term — and the record has held; the words and the results are of a piece.

Does AI threaten the moat?

Low contestability

The moat is physical, regulated or balance-sheet-funded, the kind AI cuts costs within but does not contest.

In its own filing Raised, but not as a competitor

The filing raises AI among its risks, but in other terms (security, regulation, energy or the like), not as a competitor to its product; it frames AI mainly as a capability.

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, and the company is using it that way.

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 the latest quarter, Mar 31, 2026

Can 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.

Current assets$10M
  • Cash & short-term investments$43M
  • Receivables$3K
Current liabilities$32M
  • Debt due within a year$13K
  • Accounts payable$743K
  • Other current liabilities$31M
Current ratio0.33×all current assets ÷ what's due · Graham looked for 2×
Quick ratioinventory untagged this quarter, so withheld rather than shown equal to the current ratio
Cash ratio1.34×strictest: cash alone against what's due
Working capital($22M)the cushion left after near-term bills
Debt due this year vs. cash$13K due · $43M cash covered by cash on hand, no refinancing forced · both figures from the Mar 31, 2026 balance sheet
Cash runway2.0 yrsthe business is consuming cash; this is how long the cash on hand lasts at that rate
Revenue, latest quarter vs. a year ago−60.9%the freshest read on whether the business is still growing
Current ratio, recent quarters7.0× → 0.3×
Deeper floors
Tangible book value($24M)equity stripped of goodwill & intangibles
Debt incl. operating leases$6M$6M of it operating leases
Deferred revenue$2Mcustomer cash collected before delivery; operating float

From the company's latest filing.

Management, ownership & pay

read the proxy →

From the proxy: how much of the business the people running it own, and how they are paid, beside what the business earned for its owners in the same years.

Fiscal yearPay, as filed“Actually paid”Owner earnings
2023$2.6M−$238k($23M)
2024$741k$307k($18M)
2025$1.5M$577k($20M)

Both pay figures are the company’s own, from the pay-versus-performance table its proxy statement files. “As filed” is the Summary Compensation Table total: salary, bonus, and equity awards at their value on the day of grant. “Actually paid” is the SEC’s prescribed recalculation, which re-marks those equity awards to what they became as they vested; it can swing far above or below the filed figure in either direction, and negative years occur. Owner earnings are the whole business's, from the record above, for the same fiscal years.

  • Stock-based compensation$2M

    The slice of the business handed to employees in shares this year, 160% of revenue. Buffett's oldest accounting fight: this is compensation, compensation is an expense, real whether or not the headline earnings admit it. One trap: the cash-flow statement adds SBC back, so the operating cash, and the owner earnings drawn from it, are flattered by exactly this amount; counted as the cost it is, what an owner keeps is lower.

What an owner would ask, FY2025

read the 10-K →
  • Which reported numbers are a judgment call?
    Management names Acquisitions, Stock compensation as critical estimates

    each rests partly on management's judgment; the filing's note sets out the assumptionsverify →

The questions the record and the charts do not answer on their own; each carries the figure and the place to look.

Peers, Biotechnology

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.

CompanyRevenueGross marginOp. marginROICOwner earn. margin
FATEFate Therapeutics Inc.$7M-834.6%-56%-744%
ABEOAbeona Therapeutics Inc.$6M74%-2313.2%-80%-1453%
PRMEPrime Medicine Inc.$5M-4498.1%-177%-3607%
SGMTSagimet Biosciences Inc. Series A$2M-2844.5%-59%
CLDXCelldex Therapeutics Inc.$2M96%-1799.4%-38%-1461%
PLURPluri Inc.$1M49%-8420.8%-68%-6856%
INBXInhibrx Biosciences Inc.$1M-12178.9%-10806%
LXEOLexeo Therapeutics Inc.$654K-16706.0%-47%-15111%
Group median74%-3671.3%-59%-3607%
IV

The price

What a price has to assume.

What the price implies

reverse-DCF

Pluri Inc. is profitable, but owner earnings are negative this year because capital spending currently outruns operating cash, a build-out, so the owner-earnings reverse-DCF has no positive base to grow. We read the price from both ends instead: type a price to see the steady-state 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.

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The assumptions

Revenue, delivered96%/yr’19→’25

Enter a price to run it.

Owner earnings it must reach
Margin the price demands
Owner-earnings margin today−2010%

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.

Cite: Owner Scorecard, "Pluri Inc. (PLUR), the owner's record," https://ownerscorecard.com/c/PLUR, data as of 2026-07-09.

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