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SCAG, Scage Future

Farm & Heavy Equipment capital-intensive Unprofitable

We are a pioneering and leading zero-emission solution provider in China, focusing on the development and commercialization of heavy-duty NEV trucks and e-fuel solutions.

We have participated in the design, production and testing of several NEV trucks, covering application scenarios for logistics, mining and port transportation.

We provide technology-empowered NEV trucks to address the diverse commercial transportation needs of our global customers.

Latest annual: FY2025 20-F · 1 ADS = 1 ordinary share
SCAG · Scage Future
I

The business

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

Revenue · FY2025
$11M
+82.0% YoY
Vital signs · TTM
Cash & investments $91K
Cash burn · annual $6M
Runway 0 mo
Gross margin −6%

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.
What moves the needle
Operating margin has run around −121% through the cycle on a −6.4% gross margin, the operating line deeply negative — so the lever is the path to a margin at all: revenue growth against the cost curve and the cash runway, not the level of a margin that isn't there yet. Read this kind of business on volume, mix and the cost of the platform. On its own account, the filing leans hardest on pricing power & competition, set against the numbers in what the filing emphasizes, below.

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, 2023–2025

realized figures from each filing · older years to the left
2023’232024’242025’25TTMTTMJun 2025
Income statement
$438K$6M$11M$11MRevenueRevenue
−82%9%−6%−6%Gross marginGross mgn
($7M)($6M)($13M)($13M)Operating incomeOp. inc.
n/m−96.1%−120.6%−120.6%Operating marginOp. mgn
($7M)($6M)($13M)($13M)Net incomeNet inc.
Cash flow & returns
($5M)($6M)($6M)($6M)Operating cash flowOp. cash
$446K$542K$301K$301KDepreciationDeprec.
$1M($785K)$7M$7MWorking capital & otherWC & other
$166K$51K$13K$13KCapexCapex
37.9%0.8%0.1%0.1%Capex / revenueCapex/rev
($5M)($6M)($6M)($6M)Owner earningsOwner earn.
n/m−102.7%−53.1%−53.1%Owner earnings marginOE mgn
($5M)($6M)($6M)($6M)Free cash flowFCF
n/m−102.7%−53.1%−53.1%Free cash flow marginFCF mgn
Balance sheet
$173K$2M$91K$91KCash & investmentsCash+inv
$2M$3M$3MReceivablesReceiv.
$2M$1M$1MInventoryInvent.
$221K$3M$3MAccounts payablePayables
$3M$880K$880KOperating working capitalOper. WC
$9M$5M$5MCurrent assetsCur. assets
$13M$25M$25MCurrent liabilitiesCur. liab.
0.7×0.2×0.2×Current ratioCurr. ratio
$11M$26M$26MTotal assetsAssets
($173K)($2M)($91K)($91K)Net debt / (cash)Net debt
-44.4×-15.9×-39.7×-39.7×Interest coverageInt. cov.
($26M)($5M)($5M)Shareholders’ equityEquity
Per share
50.7M50.7M72.2M72.2MShares out (diluted)Shares
$0.01$0.12$0.15$0.15Revenue / shareRev/sh
$-0.13$-0.12$-0.18$-0.18EPS (diluted)EPS
$-0.10$-0.12$-0.08$-0.08Owner earnings / shareOE/sh
$-0.10$-0.12$-0.08$-0.08Free cash flow / shareFCF/sh
$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00Cap. spending / shareCapex/sh
$-0.51$-0.07$-0.07Book value / shareBVPS

The diluted share count moved ×1.42 into 2025 — shares issued, not a split the totals corroborate — and the per-share figures carry the counts as filed.

The record, charted

FY2023–2025

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

Share count
72Mpeak FY2025
Gross margin
−6%low FY2023

Owner earnings vs. net income

Owner earningsNet income

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

($6M)owner earningsvs.($13M)net incomelow FY2024

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 $13M loss into ($6M) of owner earnings: more cash than the profit line showed, after the non-cash charges and the capital it put back in.

FY2025FY2024FY2023
Reported net income($13M)($6M)($7M)
Depreciation & amortizationnon-cash charge added back+$301K+$542K+$446K
Working capital & othertiming of cash in and out, other non-cash items+$7M−$785K+$1M
Cash from operations($6M)($6M)($5M)
Capital expenditurecash put back in to keep running and to grow−$13K−$51K−$166K
Owner earnings($6M)($6M)($5M)
Owner-earnings marginowner earnings ÷ revenue-53%-103%-1155%

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 .

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 20-F · source on SEC EDGAR →
Material weakness in financial controls
“In the course of auditing our consolidated financial statements for the years ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, we identified two material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting as of June 30, 2025 and 2024.”

The figures below are only as sound as the controls that produced them. read the note →

Will it survive?

  • Does not cover its interest
    Operating income ($13M) ÷ interest expense $338K
    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, debt-free
    Cash $91K − debt $0
    What this means

    Cash and short-term investments exceed every dollar of debt by $91K, 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.

  • Tight
    DSO 85 + DIO 31 − DPO 84 days
    What this means

    Days cash is tied up between paying suppliers and collecting from customers. Lower is better; a long cycle means growth itself eats cash.

Is it a good business?

  • Not enough data
    Industry peers: median -30%
    What this means

    The filing data didn't include the inputs for this check.

  • Consumes cash through the cycle
    3-yr median margin, range -1155%–-53%; latest ($6M) = operating cash ($6M) − maintenance capex $13K
    Industry peers: median -178%
    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 -53% of revenue this year, a -103% median across 3 years.

  • Loss, and burning cash
    Net income ($13M) · cash from operations ($6M)

    In the filing’s words The filing discloses a material weakness in its financial controls — the reported numbers here, and the record built on them, are only as reliable as the controls that produced them.

    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? 0.04×
    Harvesting
    Capex $13K ÷ depreciation $301K
    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 2 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 · $11M
    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× · 0.20×
    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.

  • 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 $-0.12/share (latest year $-0.18), the averaged base the calculator's gate runs on, and book value is $-0.07/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 contestability

The 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, Jun 30, 2025

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$5M
  • Cash & short-term investments$91K
  • Receivables$3M
  • Inventory$1M
  • Other current assets$1M
Current liabilities$25M
  • Accounts payable$3M
  • Other current liabilities$23M
Current ratio0.20×all current assets ÷ what's due · Graham looked for 2×
Quick ratio0.16×stricter: inventory excluded
Cash ratio0.00×strictest: cash alone against what's due
Working capital($20M)the cushion left after near-term bills
Cash runway0.0 yrsthe business is consuming cash; this is how long the cash on hand lasts at that rate
Deeper floors
Tangible book value($5M)equity stripped of goodwill & intangibles
Net current asset value($22M)Graham's net-net: current assets less all liabilities
Debt incl. operating leases$131K$131K of it operating leases
Deferred revenue$193Kcustomer cash collected before delivery; operating float

From the company's latest filing.

Peers, Farm & Heavy Equipment

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
MLRMiller Industries Inc.$790M12%5.7%13%2%
STRTSTRATTEC SECURITY CORPORATION$565M12%3.2%5%2%
FLYFirefly Aerospace Inc.$160M19%-238.8%-30%-178%
PKEPark Aerospace Corp.$73M31%15.1%6%8%
JOBYJoby Aviation Inc.$53M-45745.5%-49%-33375%
BETABeta Technologies Inc.$36M72%-1214.9%-100%-1085%
AEVAAeva Technologies Inc.$18M37%-1451.8%-177%-1214%
SCAGScage Future$11M-6%-120.6%-103%
Group median19%-179.7%-140%
IV

The price

What a price has to assume.

What the price implies

reverse-DCF

Enter the US price, in dollars: the NYSE/Nasdaq quote you hold. Per the filing's own cover, “American depositary shares, each representing one ordinary”; Scage Future reports in USD, so every figure in this tool is stated per ADS so your dollar quote reconciles exactly. The record tables elsewhere on this page remain as filed.

Scage Future 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

Enter a price to run it.

Owner earnings it must reach
Margin the price demands
Owner-earnings margin today−53%

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, "Scage Future (SCAG), the owner's record," https://ownerscorecard.com/c/SCAG, data as of 2026-07-09.

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