# Tauron (1T5.MU)

Canonical: https://gigainvestors.com/s/1T5.MU

Analysis as of: 2026-10-16T07:33:25.839Z. Financial observations: FY2016–FY2026.

Listing currency: EUR. Reporting currency: PLN.

## Verdict

Not a wonderful business

Quality tests for Buy: not passed (profit record: fail; earnings resilience is evidence only). Published buy qualification: no.

Share price: EUR 2.22 per share; close as of 2026-10-15.

## Checklist

### understandable: fail

- 4 revenue declines in the last 10 years (informational)

- more than 2 net loss years

- operating margin variation exceeds 0.35

- Financial history: 10 years

- Years with declining revenue: 4

- Years with a net loss: 3

- Operating margin variation: 1.06×

Chart: Operating margin; fiscal year observations.

- FY2017: 0.10×

- FY2018: 0.04×

- FY2019: 0.01×

- FY2020: -0.07×

- FY2021: 0.05×

- FY2022: 0.02×

- FY2023: 0.06×

- FY2024: 0.07×

- FY2025: 0.15×

- LTM to Jun 2026: 0.13×

### moat: fail

- ROIC median below threshold

- ROIC worst years below threshold (more than 1 bad year allowed)

- ROIC, median of available years: 4.5%

- ROIC, second-lowest year: 0.9%

- Typical minus recent gross margin: -2.1 pp

- Typical gross margin (annual median): 9.1%

- Recent gross margin (lower of latest and 3-year median): 11.2%

- Years with nonpositive capital: 0

- Capital spending / revenue: 17.1%

- ROIC including acquisitions, ten-year median: -1.1%

Chart: ROIC excluding acquisitions; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: 3.8%

- FY2017: 5.4%

- FY2018: 2.1%

- FY2019: 0.9%

- FY2020: -8.2%

- FY2021: 6.8%

- FY2022: 1.9%

- FY2023: 7.1%

- FY2024: 5.3%

- FY2025: 11.7%

### economics: fail

- owner earnings cash conversion below threshold

- Owner earnings / net income, 5-yr: -0.04×

- Cash conversion uses consolidated totals: No

- Owner earnings, five-year total: PLN -187M

- Net income, five-year total: PLN 5.2B

- Return on incremental invested capital: 17.0%

- Working capital / revenue, annual change: -0.0 pp

- Working capital / revenue, change between three-year averages: 0.2 pp

- Working capital / revenue, final three-year average: 8.5%

Chart: Annual owner cash / profit; fiscal year observations.

- FY2021: 1.00×

- FY2022: 1.00×

- FY2023: 1.00×

- FY2024: -3.43×

- FY2025: 0.15×

### management: pass

- Historical market-dollar context (not the management verdict): 2017 to 2025 (8 years)

- buybacks unrelated to price (informational)

- ROIC first 3 years vs last 3 years: 3.8% vs 7.1%

- Per-share earnings: 0.12 to 0.64 (three-year endpoint medians)

- Management verdict uses per-share economic progress: Yes

- Ordinary dilution, 5-year annual growth: 0.0%

- Market cap gain: PLN 10B

- Cumulative retained earnings: PLN 7.5B

- Diluted shares, 5-year annual growth: 0.0%

- $1 test, starting fiscal year: FY2017

- $1 test, ending fiscal year: FY2025

- Per-share value growth: 32.8%

- Per-share value change: PLN 0.52

- Per-share value, starting three-year median: PLN 0.12

- Per-share value, ending three-year median: PLN 0.64

- Buyback history: 0 years

- Debt-funded buybacks: No

- Cumulative net income, 10 years: PLN 5.0B

- ROIC, first three-year median: 3.8%

- ROIC, last three-year median: 7.1%

Chart: Earnings per share; fiscal year observations.

- FY2017: PLN 0.79

- FY2018: PLN 0.12

- FY2019: PLN -0.01

- FY2020: PLN -1.24

- FY2021: PLN 0.19

- FY2022: PLN -0.08

- FY2023: PLN 0.64

- FY2024: PLN 0.33

- FY2025: PLN 1.89

### accounting: pass

- Sloan accruals: -7.5%

- Receivables to sales index (DSRI): 1.02×

- Restructuring years, last five: 0

- Earnings backed by cash: Yes

- Operating cash / earnings: 2.11×

- Accounting red flags: 0

- Goodwill and intangibles / equity: 0.09×

Chart: Sloan accruals; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: -8.1%

- FY2017: -6.1%

- FY2018: -5.0%

- FY2019: -4.9%

- FY2020: -15.6%

- FY2021: -11.5%

- FY2022: -6.4%

- FY2023: -7.1%

- FY2024: -16.2%

- FY2025: -7.5%

## Holders

## Price story

Up 165% since Oct 2023 · sales -0.1%

Story as of 2026-10-16T09:59:56.136Z; price observation 2026-10-15.

### Sales · FY2025–2026

sales -0.1%; source https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/; observed 2026-10-16.

- FY2017: PLN 17B 

- FY2018: PLN 18B 

- FY2019: PLN 21B 

- FY2020: PLN 21B 

- FY2021: PLN 25B 

- FY2022: PLN 37B 

- FY2023: PLN 50B 

- FY2024: PLN 35B 

- FY2025: PLN 34B 

- FY2026: PLN 34B 

### Gross margin · FY2025

gross margin 19.2%; source https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/; observed 2026-10-16.

- FY2016: 10.9% 

- FY2017: 16.7% 

- FY2018: 9.3% 

- FY2019: 6.1% 

- FY2021: 8.9% 

- FY2022: 5.3% 

- FY2023: 8.8% 

- FY2024: 11.2% 

- FY2025: 19.2% 

## Owner memo

Memo as of 2026-10-16T08:06:05.509Z.

### How it makes money

Annual sales are PLN 34.4 billion.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/api/fundamentals/1T5.MU.json#2025-12-31 (filed 2026-10-16T07:33:25.839Z); FY2025: revenue 34358000000; grossProfit 6597000000; margin = grossProfit / revenue.

### Why customers stay

Margins ranged from 8.8% to 19.2% during 2023–25; it earns 4.5% on its capital.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/api/fundamentals/1T5.MU.json#2023-12-31 (filed 2026-10-16T07:33:25.839Z); FY2023: grossProfit / revenue = 8.8%.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/api/fundamentals/1T5.MU.json#2024-12-31 (filed 2026-10-16T07:33:25.839Z); FY2024: grossProfit / revenue = 11.2%.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/api/fundamentals/1T5.MU.json#2025-12-31 (filed 2026-10-16T07:33:25.839Z); FY2025: grossProfit / revenue = 19.2%.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:33:25.839Z); 10-year return on capital observations [[2016,0.03761071422426612],[2017,0.054410217157467036],[2018,0.021013503699564853],[2019,0.008828965985541356],[2020,-0.08219343461747151],[2021,0.06752136752136752],[2022,0.018926104860413087],[2023,0.07069373034110928],[2024,0.05300473842607415],[2025,0.11710351577464043]]; median 0.04530772632517013. ROIC follows the displayed moat series; financial companies use return on tangible equity.

### Are managers owners

Insiders own 0% of the company.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16); 1T5.MU SharesStats.PercentInsiders = 0 percentage points; cache date 2026-10-16.

### What the price says

The price is 0.5 times annual sales.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:33:25.839Z); Closing price 2.22 EUR; reporting-to-trading FX 0.22932319353296232; FY2025 annual sales per share 19.604582967890945; price multiple 0.4937957923971826. FY2025 cash earnings/share 0.28130448230893057. Closing-price date 2026-10-15.

## Monthly share-price history (EUR per share)

- 2016-10: EUR 0.60 per share

- 2016-11: EUR 0.59 per share

- 2016-12: EUR 0.64 per share

- 2017-01: EUR 0.66 per share

- 2017-02: EUR 0.66 per share

- 2017-03: EUR 0.82 per share

- 2017-04: EUR 0.77 per share

- 2017-05: EUR 0.80 per share

- 2017-06: EUR 0.85 per share

- 2017-07: EUR 0.88 per share

- 2017-08: EUR 0.94 per share

- 2017-09: EUR 0.88 per share

- 2017-10: EUR 0.84 per share

- 2017-11: EUR 0.76 per share

- 2017-12: EUR 0.74 per share

- 2018-01: EUR 0.75 per share

- 2018-02: EUR 0.65 per share

- 2018-03: EUR 0.58 per share

- 2018-04: EUR 0.56 per share

- 2018-05: EUR 0.50 per share

- 2018-06: EUR 0.53 per share

- 2018-07: EUR 0.50 per share

- 2018-08: EUR 0.49 per share

- 2018-09: EUR 0.41 per share

- 2018-10: EUR 0.42 per share

- 2018-11: EUR 0.49 per share

- 2018-12: EUR 0.51 per share

- 2019-01: EUR 0.53 per share

- 2019-02: EUR 0.55 per share

- 2019-03: EUR 0.50 per share

- 2019-04: EUR 0.41 per share

- 2019-05: EUR 0.39 per share

- 2019-06: EUR 0.39 per share

- 2019-07: EUR 0.39 per share

- 2019-08: EUR 0.35 per share

- 2019-09: EUR 0.36 per share

- 2019-10: EUR 0.39 per share

- 2019-11: EUR 0.42 per share

- 2019-12: EUR 0.38 per share

- 2020-01: EUR 0.37 per share

- 2020-02: EUR 0.29 per share

- 2020-03: EUR 0.26 per share

- 2020-04: EUR 0.25 per share

- 2020-05: EUR 0.26 per share

- 2020-06: EUR 0.55 per share

- 2020-07: EUR 0.59 per share

- 2020-08: EUR 0.58 per share

- 2020-09: EUR 0.49 per share

- 2020-10: EUR 0.41 per share

- 2020-11: EUR 0.50 per share

- 2020-12: EUR 0.59 per share

- 2021-01: EUR 0.64 per share

- 2021-02: EUR 0.57 per share

- 2021-03: EUR 0.56 per share

- 2021-04: EUR 0.73 per share

- 2021-05: EUR 0.74 per share

- 2021-06: EUR 0.77 per share

- 2021-07: EUR 0.71 per share

- 2021-08: EUR 0.77 per share

- 2021-09: EUR 0.74 per share

- 2021-10: EUR 0.74 per share

- 2021-11: EUR 0.58 per share

- 2021-12: EUR 0.56 per share

- 2022-01: EUR 0.54 per share

- 2022-02: EUR 0.46 per share

- 2022-03: EUR 0.63 per share

- 2022-04: EUR 0.69 per share

- 2022-05: EUR 0.75 per share

- 2022-06: EUR 0.73 per share

- 2022-07: EUR 0.68 per share

- 2022-08: EUR 0.50 per share

- 2022-09: EUR 0.44 per share

- 2022-10: EUR 0.39 per share

- 2022-11: EUR 0.43 per share

- 2022-12: EUR 0.45 per share

- 2023-01: EUR 0.49 per share

- 2023-02: EUR 0.45 per share

- 2023-03: EUR 0.41 per share

- 2023-04: EUR 0.45 per share

- 2023-05: EUR 0.52 per share

- 2023-06: EUR 0.62 per share

- 2023-07: EUR 0.79 per share

- 2023-08: EUR 0.96 per share

- 2023-09: EUR 0.78 per share

- 2023-10: EUR 0.84 per share

- 2023-11: EUR 0.96 per share

- 2023-12: EUR 0.87 per share

- 2024-01: EUR 0.81 per share

- 2024-02: EUR 0.82 per share

- 2024-03: EUR 0.72 per share

- 2024-04: EUR 0.67 per share

- 2024-05: EUR 0.92 per share

- 2024-06: EUR 0.93 per share

- 2024-07: EUR 0.87 per share

- 2024-08: EUR 0.84 per share

- 2024-09: EUR 0.79 per share

- 2024-10: EUR 0.86 per share

- 2024-11: EUR 0.81 per share

- 2024-12: EUR 0.86 per share

- 2025-01: EUR 0.98 per share

- 2025-02: EUR 1.08 per share

- 2025-03: EUR 1.18 per share

- 2025-04: EUR 1.42 per share

- 2025-05: EUR 1.60 per share

- 2025-06: EUR 1.95 per share

- 2025-07: EUR 1.98 per share

- 2025-08: EUR 2.05 per share

- 2025-09: EUR 2.03 per share

- 2025-10: EUR 2.42 per share

- 2025-11: EUR 2.25 per share

- 2025-12: EUR 2.06 per share

- 2026-01: EUR 2.56 per share

- 2026-02: EUR 2.68 per share

- 2026-03: EUR 2.25 per share

- 2026-04: EUR 2.24 per share

- 2026-05: EUR 2.31 per share

- 2026-06: EUR 2.16 per share

- 2026-07: EUR 2.13 per share

- 2026-08: EUR 2.02 per share

- 2026-09: EUR 2.09 per share

- 2026-10: EUR 2.20 per share

## Annual estimated value (EUR per share)

Historical values use today's bond yield for every fiscal year

Historical values use today's FX rate into trading currency for every fiscal year

Historical values use current restated fundamentals and current commodity classification; they are not point-in-time estimates

Prior published observations retained from 2026-10-15T06:39:11.462Z where newer inputs omit a numeric field or fiscal period.

## Sources

Estimates depend on assumptions and are not guarantees or investment advice. Underlying data remains subject to its source licenses; public reading does not grant bulk redistribution rights.
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Tauron

1T5 · MU

STOXX Europe 600

Not a wonderful business

3 quality tests fail. A lower price would not fix the business.

Share price
EUR 2.22
Quality tests
Fail
Annual history
10 years
Market value
$1.1B

The business

How it makes money
Why customers stay
Are managers owners
What the price says

1. Is this a good business?

Evidence only; not required for Buy

3 loss years were recorded (limit 2), and margins varied 105.7% around their average (limit 35%).

10y median
5.9%
Worst year
-7.3%
Latest · LTM
12.6%

Capital return excluding acquisitions: median 4.5% (minimum 15%), and the second-worst year 0.9% (minimum 10%).

10y median
4.5%
Worst year
-8.2%
Latest · 2025
11.7%

Each $1 of profit left $-0.04 for owners over five years (minimum $0.80).

Five-year totals
-0.04×
Annual median
1.00×
Latest · 2025
0.15×

Per-share value rose from 0.12 to 0.64, comparing three-year medians at each end (must rise and stay positive).

9y median
PLN 0.19
Worst year
PLN -1.24
Latest · 2025
PLN 1.89

Profits were backed by cash: accruals were -7.5% of assets (limit 10%).

10y median
-7.3%
Worst year
-4.9%
Latest · 2025
-7.5%

Profit record · fail 3 loss years in 10 (at most 2), mean operating margin 4.8%, three-year average owner earnings per share -0.07 PLN. 3 loss years in the last 10; at most 2 allowed. Three-year average owner earnings per share is not positive.

RevenuePLN 34B
50B020172026
FY2017 · Revenue: PLN 17B; FY2018 · Revenue: PLN 18B; FY2019 · Revenue: PLN 21B; FY2020 · Revenue: PLN 21B; FY2021 · Revenue: PLN 25B; FY2022 · Revenue: PLN 37B; FY2023 · Revenue: PLN 50B; FY2024 · Revenue: PLN 35B; FY2025 · Revenue: PLN 34B; FY2026 · Revenue: PLN 34B
Revenue
Owner earningsPLN 493M
1.1B-3.4B20162025
FY2016 · Owner earnings: PLN -1.5B; FY2017 · Owner earnings: PLN -488M; FY2018 · Owner earnings: PLN -1.5B; FY2019 · Owner earnings: PLN -11M; FY2020 · Owner earnings: PLN -3.4B; FY2021 · Owner earnings: PLN 338M; FY2022 · Owner earnings: PLN -134M; FY2023 · Owner earnings: PLN 1.1B; FY2024 · Owner earnings: PLN -2.0B; FY2025 · Owner earnings: PLN 493M
Owner earnings
Operating margin12.6%
14.6%-7.3%20172026
FY2017 · Operating margin: 10.4%; FY2018 · Operating margin: 4.1%; FY2019 · Operating margin: 0.9%; FY2020 · Operating margin: -7.3%; FY2021 · Operating margin: 5.3%; FY2022 · Operating margin: 2.4%; FY2023 · Operating margin: 6.4%; FY2024 · Operating margin: 7.2%; FY2025 · Operating margin: 14.6%; FY2026 · Operating margin: 12.6%
Operating margin
Net cash / debtPLN -13B
1.8B-14B20162025
FY2016 · Net cash / debt: PLN 335M; FY2017 · Net cash / debt: PLN -8.4B; FY2018 · Net cash / debt: PLN -9.7B; FY2019 · Net cash / debt: PLN 1.8B; FY2020 · Net cash / debt: PLN 1.1B; FY2021 · Net cash / debt: PLN 904M; FY2022 · Net cash / debt: PLN -14B; FY2023 · Net cash / debt: PLN -14B; FY2024 · Net cash / debt: PLN -14B; FY2025 · Net cash / debt: PLN -13B
Net cash / debt
Diluted shares1.8B
1.8B020162025
FY2017 · Diluted shares: 1.8B; FY2018 · Diluted shares: 1.8B; FY2019 · Diluted shares: 1.8B; FY2020 · Diluted shares: 1.8B; FY2021 · Diluted shares: 1.8B; FY2022 · Diluted shares: 1.8B; FY2023 · Diluted shares: 1.8B; FY2024 · Diluted shares: 1.8B; FY2025 · Diluted shares: 1.8B
Diluted shares
Prices 15 Oct 2026 · FY2025