What a brutal six months it’s been for Blink Charging. The stock has dropped 34.6% and now trades at $1.02, rattling many shareholders. This was partly driven by its softer quarterly results and might have investors contemplating their next move.

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Why Is Blink Charging Not Exciting?

Even though the stock has become cheaper, we're swiping left on Blink Charging for now. Here are three reasons why BLNK doesn't excite us and a stock we'd rather own.

1. EPS Trending Down

Analyzing the long-term change in earnings per share (EPS) shows whether a company's incremental sales were profitable – for example, revenue could be inflated through excessive spending on advertising and promotions.

Blink Charging’s earnings losses deepened over the last five years as its EPS dropped 8.7% annually. We’ll keep a close eye on the company as diminishing earnings could imply changing secular trends and preferences.

2. Cash Burn Ignites Concerns

If you’ve followed StockStory for a while, you know we emphasize free cash flow. Why, you ask? We believe that in the end, cash is king, and you can’t use accounting profits to pay the bills.

Blink Charging’s demanding reinvestments have drained its resources over the last five years, putting it in a pinch and limiting its ability to return capital to investors. Its free cash flow margin averaged negative 87.4%, meaning it lit $87.38 of cash on fire for every $100 in revenue.

3. Short Cash Runway Exposes Shareholders to Potential Dilution

As long-term investors, the risk we care about most is the permanent loss of capital, which can happen when a company goes bankrupt or raises money from a disadvantaged position. This is separate from short-term stock price volatility, something we are much less bothered by.

Blink Charging burned through $45.69 million of cash over the last year. With $42.02 million of cash on its balance sheet, the company has around 11 months of runway left (assuming its $6.36 million of debt isn’t due right away).

Unless the Blink Charging’s fundamentals change quickly, it might find itself in a position where it must raise capital from investors to continue operating. Whether that would be favorable is unclear because dilution is a headwind for shareholder returns.

We remain cautious of Blink Charging until it generates consistent free cash flow or any of its announced financing plans materialize on its balance sheet.

Final Judgment

Blink Charging’s business quality ultimately falls short of our standards. Following the recent decline, the stock trades at $1.02 per share (or a forward price-to-sales ratio of 0.9×). The market typically values companies like Blink Charging based on their anticipated profits for the next 12 months, but it expects the business to lose money. We also think the upside isn’t great compared to the potential downside here - there are more exciting stocks to buy. We’d recommend looking at one of our top digital advertising picks.

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