The Label · The Season, Not the Day
This name holds its distribution label.
Arqit Quantum Inc holds its Distribution at $17.42. Elevated stress, defensive posture warranted, held for 25 days.
As held on the ledger · 2025-09-30
| Phase | Distribution · caution |
| Quantitative state | Elevated stress, defensive posture warranted, held for 25 days |
| Price at the screen | $17.42 |
| Valuation | N/A trailing · -16.43 forward price to earnings |
| Values screen | FAIL · score 70.0 |
| Beta | 2.21 |
The Workings
Five Screens, Shown in Full
Does not pass. Accounts receivable
| Test | Figure | Limit | What it means | Status |
|---|
| Business activity |
Permissible |
Core business clean |
Its core business isn't built on prohibited lines: no gambling, alcohol, tobacco, weapons, or interest-based lending. |
Pass |
| Debt load |
1.68% |
Below 33% |
Interest-bearing debt is just 1.7% of its assets, well under the one-third ceiling: it does not run on borrowed money. |
Pass |
| Interest-bearing cash |
0.00% |
Below 33% |
Cash held in interest-bearing accounts and securities is 0.0% of assets, under the one-third limit. |
Pass |
| Receivables |
87.83% |
Below 49% |
Money owed to the company is 87.8% of assets, above the 49% limit. |
Fail |
| Revenue purity |
232.45% |
Below 5% |
232.5% of revenue comes from non-compliant sources, over the 5% line. |
Fail |
Five checks adapted from AAOIFI screening standards: business activity plus four balance-sheet ratios. All five must pass for ethical clearance. Every figure is arithmetic on public accounts, not judgement.
The Business, in Plain Words
The fundamentals · plain-English read
| Forward P/E | -16.4x |
| EPS, trailing | -3.03 |
| EPS, forward | -1.06 |
| Revenue growth | +829.9%growing very fast |
| Profit margin | 0.0%currently unprofitable |
| Return on equity | -220.2%not currently earning a positive return on equity |
| FCF yield | -6.50% |
| Debt to equity | 0.08minimal debt: a conservative balance sheet |
| Current ratio | 4.88comfortably covers its short-term bills |
| Beta | 2.21much more volatile than the market |
| Short interest, float | 0.25% |
| 52-week range | 11.52 - 62.00 |
| Moat | NONE |
| Market cap | $303M |
| Employees | 87 |
The risks · The things to watch: it's a small-cap, so the share price can swing harder than the market; it already moves more than the market on an average day; its business and earnings are exposed to United Kingdom and to currency swings.
Plain-English interpretation of our own screen data. Analysis, not advice.
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