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Kura Oncology

KURA on Nasdaq. Kura Oncology develops cancer drugs for patients with leukemia and head and neck cancer. Market value $945m.

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Price checks use the past 12 months to June 2026. Quality checks use five annual reports, the latest for the year to December 2025.

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Cash yield
past 12 months to June 2026
-12.5%low

For every $100 of what the whole company costs, it produced $-12.54 of spare cash in the past 12 months. A savings account pays about $4.

Price to profit
past 12 months to June 2026
n/a

The filings do not give us enough to work this out.

Return on capital
five annual reports to December 2025
-56.1%five-year median

Each dollar kept in the business earns -56 cents a year. Above 10 is good.

Quality score: 34 of 100. Price score: 0 of 100. Our list needs 70 on quality and 60 on price.

$10.53 a share, 43% above its 1-year low

Over the past year the price has ranged from $7.36 to $13.90.

Pays no dividend

Prices from Tuesday’s close (6 October).

Five years of cash, in billions

-0.1
-0.1
-0.1
0.1
-0.1
-0.1
2021202220232024202512 monthsto Jun '26

Spare cash swings from quarter to quarter here: a shortfall of $117 million in the past 12 months, a shortfall of $71 million in the year to December 2025.

Revenue
n/an/a$0$54m$67m
Operating margin
n/an/an/a-358.5%-449.9%
Debt to equity
n/a0.020.020.020.06
Shares outstanding
0.07bn0.07bn0.08bn0.09bn0.09bn

Health checks

  • Free cash flow positive1 of 5 years
  • Accounting checksSkipped: company is not yet profitable
  • Debt0.06× equity
  • Revenue growth, five yearsUnknown
  • Buying back its own sharesNo, 33% more shares since 2021

The quarter to June 2026

How the business did, compared with the same quarter a year earlier.

  • Sales: $21 million last quarter, up 37% on a year ago.
  • A loss of $68 million, compared with a loss of $66 million a year ago.
  • Over the past 12 months it spent $117 million more cash than it brought in. A year earlier it had $123 million spare.
  • 1% more shares than a year ago. Each share owns a bit less of the company.
  • It has $60 million more cash than debt, down from $72 million a year ago.
Sales by quarter
Sales by quarter
Quarter toAmount
September 2024Not reported
December 2024Not reported
March 2025$14m
June 2025$15m
September 2025$21m
December 2025$17m
March 2026$18m
June 2026$21m
Profit by quarter
Profit by quarter
Quarter toAmount
September 2024-$54m
December 2024-$19m
March 2025-$57m
June 2025-$66m
September 2025-$74m
December 2025-$81m
March 2026-$73m
June 2026-$68m

From the company's quarterly reports to the SEC.

Dates

Next results (estimated)
n/a
Last annual report (10-K)
5 March 2026
Next quarterly (estimated, 10-Q)
11 November 2026

Who owns it

1 long-term investor we follow owns it, up from 0 last quarter. 220 funds in all.

Jun '25
Dec '25
Jun '26
Largest holders overall

From 13F filings for the quarter ended 30 June 2026.

Big holders and activists

8 investors own more than 5%.

From Schedule 13D and 13G filings: anyone owning more than 5% must file one.

What insiders did

In the last 12 months, 1 insider bought $2m of shares on the open market. 7 sold $4m, $2m of it under preset trading plans.

  • FORD KATHLEEN
    Chief Operating Officer
    Sold
    under a preset trading plan
    Date
    29 September 2026
    Shares
    3,668
    Price
    $10.75
    Value
    $39,437
  • Leoni Mollie
    Chief Medical Officer
    Sold
    Date
    29 September 2026
    Shares
    28,802
    Price
    $10.75
    Value
    $309,567
  • Powl Brian T.
    Chief Commercial Officer
    Sold
    Date
    29 September 2026
    Shares
    15,430
    Price
    $10.75
    Value
    $165,852
  • Bair Teresa Brophy
    Chief Legal Officer
    Sold
    under a preset trading plan
    Date
    28 September 2026
    Shares
    8,442
    Price
    $10.50
    Value
    $88,618
  • FORD KATHLEEN
    Chief Operating Officer
    Sold
    under a preset trading plan
    Date
    28 September 2026
    Shares
    6,906
    Price
    $10.50
    Value
    $72,494
  • Leoni Mollie
    Chief Medical Officer
    Sold
    Date
    28 September 2026
    Shares
    12,448
    Price
    $10.50
    Value
    $130,670
  • DOYLE THOMAS JAMES
    SVP, Finance & Accounting
    Sold
    Date
    28 September 2026
    Shares
    4,607
    Price
    $10.50
    Value
    $48,361
  • Powl Brian T.
    Chief Commercial Officer
    Sold
    Date
    28 September 2026
    Shares
    17,020
    Price
    $10.53
    Value
    $179,183
  • Burrows Francis
    Chief Scientific Officer
    Sold
    Date
    24 September 2026
    Shares
    20,726
    Price
    $10.83
    Value
    $224,514
  • WILSON TROY EDWARD
    President and CEO, Director
    Bought
    Date
    24 August 2026
    Shares
    100,000
    Price
    $12.39
    Value
    $1m

From Form 4 filings: insiders must report trades in their own company's shares within two days.

Warning signs in its filings

Problems the company itself reported to the SEC, in its own words.

None of the warning signs we check for were found.

We look for five warning signs: doubt it can keep going, weak checks on its own accounts, a notice that its past accounts can't be relied on, a change of auditor, and one customer bringing in a big share of sales. We don't check lawsuits, investigations or debt yet.

We checked the auditor's report, internal controls, restatement notices, auditor changes and big customers in the 10-K filed 5 Mar 2026, plus the 10-Q filed 12 Aug 2026 and 6 later 8-Ks.

A 10-K is the yearly report every US company files with the SEC. An 8-K is a short notice of a big event.

What could go wrong

Cheap for a reason is the question the numbers cannot answer.

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The deep dive

Everything above is arithmetic on public filings. The deep dive reads the last ten years of annual reports, the proxy statements, and the earnings calls, then argues the case the way Buffett, Klarman, and Hohn would, and checks every claim against the source.

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  • The three things that would make this a mistake
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