LIGHTBRIDGE CORPORATION
LTBR · Materials · $248.9M mkt cap · FY2025 filings · No moat ·
Doesn't clear the bar
The five investor questions
2010–2017: revenue 7586708.00 to 175446.00, decreasing; diluted EPS -0.68 to -0.68, decreasing. Diluted EPS was derived from net income and diluted weighted-average shares in 8 years where the direct tag was absent. Latest-filed diluted EPS remains usable for Business Trend, but an integer share-count change lacks enough evidence to confirm a comparable EPS basis; valuation growth therefore stays at 0%.
Median gross margin 39.5% over 2y, very stable.
Median ROIC -1770.6%, above the 12% hurdle in 0% of years.
Net cash position — no leverage risk.
Owner earnings trend unclear, share count n/a.
Price vs. owner-earnings value range
- Owner earnings (normalized)
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- Value range / share
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- Conservative high estimate / share
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- Recent price
- $7.45
- Price vs. high estimate
- No price data
Conservative range under moat-index@2.0.0: low end 11.1×, high end capped at 18×; 9% discount rate; high-end growth 0% (capped at 4%) using min(5y revenue CAGR, 5y diluted-EPS CAGR), clamped to 0%–4%; maintenance capex uses min(capex, D&A); abstain when D&A is unavailable. This is a disclosed model range, not intrinsic value as fact.
17 years of fundamentals
The business, in plain English
Across the filed record, revenue shrank from $7.6M (FY2010) to $0 (FY2025) — about −100.0% a year compounded over 15 years.
It earned −1631.2% on invested capital in FY2025, with a median of −1167.7% across 12 filed years. The Returns on Capital filter above scores it 0/100.
LTBR's filings don't disclose total debt in a form the methodology can use, so leverage is treated as unmeasured — never assumed to be zero.
The share count rose 170.6% between FY2010 and FY2025 — existing owners have been diluted over the record. Capital Discipline scores it 44/100.
Put together: Pricing Power is the strongest of the five filters (68/100) and Returns on Capital the weakest (0/100), which is how LTBR lands at 36/100 — a None moat.
This breakdown is generated from the filed numbers and sub-scores above — no outside narrative, no estimates. Where a filing doesn’t disclose an input, the sentence that would need it is omitted instead of guessed.
Gaps in a line mean that item isn’t in LTBR’s filings for that year — the series is never interpolated or estimated. The Table view lists every filed value, including operating and net margins, total debt, and share count.
Moat Score history
Tier changesSame-methodology crossings of the Wide / Narrow / Shallow bars
- Methodology upgraded moat-index@1.2.0tomoat-index@2.0.0 — readings across versions aren’t comparedJul 20, 2026
Scores are logged append-only and never overwritten — this record can’t be backfilled, which is exactly why it’s worth keeping.
Track record
How LIGHTBRIDGE CORPORATION’s moat rated in each of the years we can reconstruct from its filings — scored only on what was knowable at the time — and what its price and returns did afterward. The score never saw a price; the two are joined only in hindsight, for education, not as a signal.
How to read this: each dot is what the engine would have scored LTBR on that December 31; the line below is its total-return price path (dividends reinvested) in the years since.
Two tracks, one timeline: the score has its own 0–100 scale (top), the price its own 100-based scale (bottom) — never a shared axis. The price path is a total-return (dividends reinvested) index built from the same data the forward returns use; gaps in the score line are years with no reconstructed rating (see the table for why). The Table view carries every value.
What followed, in the years it rated Wide
In the reconstructed history shown, LTBR did not rate Wide-moat in any year, so there is no wide-moat track record to report. That absence is itself the honest answer — we don’t manufacture a comparison where the rating never earned one.
Materials context
#190 of 304 scored Materials companies, ranked by Moat Score.
Nearest peers by Moat Score
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Common questions about LTBR
- Does LIGHTBRIDGE CORPORATION have an economic moat?
- Based on its FY2025 SEC filings, the Moat Index scores LIGHTBRIDGE CORPORATION (LTBR) 35.7 out of 100 — below the Shallow-moat bar, so no moat. The five questions behind that score begin at 20% each; if exactly one genuinely lacks data, the other four weights are renormalized and disclosed. revenue and EPS trend 11, pricing power 68, returns on capital 0, balance-sheet safety 55, capital discipline 44.
- How has LTBR's Moat Score changed over time?
- The record logs 8 readings since Jul 17, 2026; the latest reads 35.7 out of 100 (no moat). No tier changes on record yet. (A methodology upgrade on Jul 20, 2026 re-based the score; readings across engine versions aren't compared.) The history is append-only — readings are only ever added, never rewritten.