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Zentek Ltd.

$ZTEK·$51M·Other Precious Metals·Basic Materials
$0.47-2.1%YTD-28.7%1Y-49.5%
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ZTZTEK
$ZTEKZentek Ltd.
$0.47-2.10%45 posts+6%
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Today's AI verdict on what's driving $ZTEK, plus how loud the X conversation is and which way it's leaning.

AI analysis

TickerTalks’ read on the fundamentals and what’s driving the move.

Broken storySelling offAI verdict · as of 2026-07-17

Falling on heavy selling — points lower unless it turns around.

Zentek at 13% of range with -75% gross margin — the specific research-stage nanotech story.

Zentek is a specific research-stage Canadian nanotech developer whose whole equity value has been eroded through a specific 47% twelve-month drawdown. The stock is at 13% of its 52-week range with essentially no volume participation.

Where the picture reads:

  • The economics are catastrophically broken: -75% gross margin means Zentek's cost-of-goods exceeds revenue by 75% — meaning the underlying business is in a specific existential unit-economics gap.
  • The tape has broken: sitting 14% below the 50-day and 27% below the 200-day at 13% of the 52-week range with volume 76% below average — the specific pattern of a stock the market has stopped participating in.
  • The specific PS ratio is telling: 80x TTM sales at negative gross margins means the equity is priced entirely on future commercial-conversion arriving — meaning the specific pipeline event has to actually land.
  • The sentiment corpus is empty for this ticker — meaning there's no discretionary read from social flow, and the equity signal has to come entirely from operational disclosure.

What restarts a leg is a specific commercial-revenue event or a strategic partnership announcement. What continues the collapse is another quarter of current unit economics with continued cash burn — the specific setup for a restructuring event.

What to watch: Any specific commercial-revenue event, strategic partnership announcement, or cash-runway update. A specific commercial event restarts a leg; another quarter of current burn continues the collapse.

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What it does

Plain-English summary of the business — what they sell and how they make money.

Researches and licenses graphene-based antimicrobial coatings and nanomaterial technologies for filtration, medical, and packaging applications.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Where Other Precious Metals sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $ZTEK.

Other Precious Metals · Basic Materials

No material change from last week — domestic rare earth and lithium production onshoring accelerates as executive orders and retaliatory restrictions reshape the critical minerals supply chain.

What this means for $ZTEK

Neutral — Researches and licenses graphene-based antimicrobial coatings and nanomaterial technologies for filtration, medical, and packaging applications; limited exposure means the US-China critical mineral export controls escalating domestic supply urgency is not a near-term catalyst or headwind.

Top industry ETF

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Fundamentals & catalyst

Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.

Key ratios

P/E
-9.2How much investors are paying per dollar of profit the company actually earned in the last 12 months. Lower means the stock looks cheaper relative to earnings.~15–25 is typical for the S&P 500; high-growth names trade 30+; hyper-growth or speculative can be 100+ or negative.
ROIC
-61.5%What percentage return the business earns on every dollar of capital (equity + debt) deployed in operations. The cleanest measure of business quality.Above ~15% is high-quality; consistently above 25% suggests a real moat. Below the company's cost of capital is value-destroying.
Op margin
-9.3%Operating profit (after sales, marketing, R&D, and overhead but before interest and taxes) as a percentage of revenue. The clearest view of how well the underlying business is run.Mature business above 20% is healthy; software businesses can run 30%+; commodity / retail businesses operate in single digits.
FCF yield
-8.0%Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capex) divided by the company's market cap. The cash-on-cash return you'd get owning the whole business at today's price.Above ~5% is attractive; below ~2% means you're paying up for growth. Capital-light businesses (software) run higher than capital-heavy ones (utilities).
P/S
79.8Same idea as P/E but per dollar of revenue. Useful for companies that aren't profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless.Under ~2 is cheap; software / SaaS often runs 8–15; well above 20 implies the market is pricing in very high future growth.
ROE
-61.3%Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity. Similar to ROIC but counts only the equity side.Above 20% is strong, but can be inflated by leverage — a heavily indebted company can show high ROE with weak underlying ROIC.
Gross margin
-74.8%Revenue minus the direct cost of producing what was sold, as a percentage of revenue. The first read on whether the product is structurally profitable.Software / SaaS is typically 70%+; consumer goods 30–50%; commodity / hardware businesses can be under 20%.
D/E
0.2Total debt divided by shareholders' equity. Measures how much the business runs on borrowed money versus owner capital.Under 1 is conservative; 1–2 is typical for mature businesses; over 2 is leveraged and more sensitive to interest rates.

Past earnings

QuarterReportedActualEstimateSurprise
Q1 2026Jun 25, 2026$-0.02$-0.02+1.9%
Q1 2026Jun 25, 2026$-0.03$-0.02-25.2%
Q4 2025Feb 17, 2026$-0.01$-0.02+58.3%
Q3 2025Nov 13, 2025$-0.02——

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q3 FY25$65K+72.9%-1957%-4245%$-0.02$-2.0M
Q2 FY25$6K-60.5%-12.4%-33539%$-0.02$-1.5M
Q1 FY25$58K+953.0%47.1%-3119%$-0.01$-1.2M
Q4 FY24$814K+14032.3%67.1%-258%$-0.02$-1.3M

Forward consensus

5-year forecast · up to 1 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY27$117K$117K – $117K-$0.04-$0.04 – -$0.041
FY28$82K$82K – $82K-$0.04-$0.04 – -$0.041
FY29$1.1M$1.1M – $1.1M-$0.11-$0.11 – -$0.111
FY30$3.7M$3.7M – $3.7M-$0.16-$0.16 – -$0.161
FY31$14.7M$14.7M – $14.7M-$0.10-$0.10 – -$0.101

Setup & momentum

Volume, range, and moving-average position — the technical setup driving short-term moves.

Right now

Vol vs 30dToday's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.0.2×Today's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.
52w rangeWhere the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.13%Where the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.
vs 50d MALatest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.-13.9%Latest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.
vs 200d MALatest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.-26.9%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatMid float · 102.2M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today0.1% of floatToday's volume as a percent of the free float. Above 5% on a single day is unusually high turnover for the available share count.β0.295-year weekly beta vs the S&P 500. Above 1.5 means the stock typically moves more than the index; below 0.8 moves less.

SEC filings

Material 8-K, 13D, S-3, and 424B5 events from the last 180 days — the filings that actually move the price.

No material 8-K / SC 13D / S-3 / 424B5 filings in the last 180 days.

+ 27 other (24 6-Ks · 1 40-F/A · 1 40-F · 1 D) in window

Recent news

Latest headlines from major outlets, sourced and timestamped — context for whatever just moved.

Zentek Engages Atrium Research Corporation For Company-Sponsored Research Coveragenewsfilecorp.com·3d agoZentek's ZenGUARD(TM) Enhanced Air Filtration Media Completes Qualification Program with Quality Filters Inc.; First U.S. Commercial Order Receivednewsfilecorp.com·11d agoZentek Establishes Pathway to Sell ZenGUARD(TM) Enhanced Air Filtration Media in the U.S.newsfilecorp.com·19d agoZentek Forms U.S. Joint Venture to Position Its Albany Ultra-High-Purity Graphite in the North American National-Security Supply Chainnewsfilecorp.com·22d agoZentek Granted U.S. Patent for ZenGUARD(TM) Graphene-Based Technologynewsfilecorp.com·39d ago

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