Founded in 2005 in New Zealand and now headquartered in Skokie, Illinois, LanzaTech is a leading provider of carbon management and advanced conversion technologies, focused on transforming waste materials into high-value fuels, chemicals, and critical inputs for industry. Our mission is to drive energy resilience, industrial competitiveness, and supply chain security by leveraging robust, scala…
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The business is unprofitable at the operating level (-141.74% margin). The thesis depends entirely on whether and when it reaches sustainable profitability.
Revenue up 12.6% YoY with margins expanding 77.9pp.
ROIC dropped from -67.52% to -111.77%, capital efficiency is deteriorating. Negative free cash flow of -$66M. The business is consuming cash, not generating it.
Based on TTM earnings · Diluted shares
Profitability & Returns
Revenue (TTM)
$58M
▲ +12.6% YoY
Net Income (TTM)
-$44M
▲ +64.5% YoY
Op. Margin
-99.20%
▲ +77.9pp YoY
ROIC
-159.88%
▼ -44.2pp YoY
Cash Flow & Balance Sheet
FCF (TTM)
-$54M
▲ +29.9% YoY
Op. Cash Flow (TTM)
-$53M
▲ +27.2% YoY
Net Debt
-$4M
Net Cash Position
Cash & Equiv.
$20M
3Y CAGR: +14.4%
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LanzaTech Global (LNZA)'s valuation is best read against its own history, its peers, and the growth its price implies. A high multiple is not the same as overvalued: fast-growing, high-quality businesses can deserve a premium. See the general approach in how to tell if a stock is overvalued.
On quality, LanzaTech Global scores 50/100 on Intrinsiqq's quality scorecard (a mixed business on these measures), weighing growth, margins, returns on capital, share count, and balance-sheet strength. All figures are computed from SEC filings; read the full . This is analysis, not investment advice.
LanzaTech Global scores 50 out of 100 on Intrinsiqq's quality score, a weighted blend of 6 metrics each scored 0 to 100, which makes it a mixed business on these measures. Recent fundamentals include a -99.2% operating margin and a -159.9% return on invested capital. The score weighs revenue and free-cash-flow growth, operating margins, return on invested capital, share-count change, and balance-sheet strength, all computed from SEC filings, not opinion. Because valuation only means something relative to quality, the full metric-by-metric breakdown is on the quality scorecard.
That depends on valuation and quality together, not either alone. you should weigh LNZA's valuation and scores 50/100 on quality (mixed). A cheap price is only a bargain if the business is durable, and a premium can be justified by genuine quality, so the two questions, "is it cheap?" and "is it good?", only make sense side by side. Read the valuation against the quality scorecard, run the DCF on your own assumptions, and decide for yourself. This is analysis from SEC filings, not investment advice.