Yahoo Finance Drone Delivery Canada (CVE:FLT) Is In A Good Position To Deliver On Growth Plans
Even when a business is losing money, it's possible for shareholders to make money if they buy a good business at the right price. For example, although Amazon.com made losses for many years after listing, if you had bought and held the shares since 1999, you would have made a fortune. But the harsh reality is that very many loss making companies burn through all their cash and go bankrupt.
So, the natural question for Drone Delivery Canada (CVE:FLT) shareholders is whether they should be concerned by its rate of cash burn. In this report, we will consider the company's annual negative free cash flow, henceforth referring to it as the 'cash burn'. First, we'll determine its cash runway by comparing its cash burn with its cash reserves.
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When Might Drone Delivery Canada Run Out Of Money?
A company's cash runway is calculated by dividing its cash hoard by its cash burn. As at March 2022, Drone Delivery Canada had cash of CA$24m and no debt. Looking at the last year, the company burnt through CA$11m. Therefore, from March 2022 it had 2.2 years of cash runway. That's decent, giving the company a couple years to develop its business. The image below shows how its cash balance has been changing over the last few years.
How Is Drone Delivery Canada's Cash Burn Changing Over Time?
In our view, Drone Delivery Canada doesn't yet produce significant amounts of operating revenue, since it reported just CA$283k in the last twelve months. Therefore, for the purposes of this analysis we'll focus on how the cash burn is tracking. With cash burn dropping by 6.6% it seems management feel the company is spending enough to advance its business plans at an appropriate pace. While the past is always worth studying, it is the future that matters most of all. So you might want to take a peek at how much the company is expected to grow in the next few years.
Can Drone Delivery Canada Raise More Cash Easily?
Even though it has reduced its cash burn recently, shareholders should still consider how easy it would be for Drone Delivery Canada to raise more cash in the future. Issuing new shares, or taking on debt, are the most common ways for a listed company to raise more money for its business. Many companies end up issuing new shares to fund future growth. We can compare a company's cash burn to its market capitalisation to get a sense for how many new shares a company would have to issue to fund one year's operations.
Drone Delivery Canada's cash burn of CA$11m is about 9.0% of its CA$126m market capitalisation. That's a low proportion, so we figure the company would be able to raise more cash to fund growth, with a little dilution, or even to simply borrow some money.
So, Should We Worry About Drone Delivery Canada's Cash Burn?
Drone Delivery Canada appears to be in pretty good health when it comes to its cash burn situation. Not only was its cash burn relative to its market cap quite good, but its cash runway was a real positive. Considering all the factors discussed in this article, we're not overly concerned about the company's cash burn, although we do think shareholders should keep an eye on how it develops. On another note, we conducted an in-depth investigation of the company, and identified 3 warning signs for Drone Delivery Canada (2 are significant!) that you should be aware of before investing here.
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