Margins varied 45.8% around their average (limit 35%).
- 10y median
- 35.3%
- Worst year
- 24.1%
- Latest · 2025
- 83.3%
# China Galaxy Securities (601881.SHG) Canonical: https://gigainvestors.com/s/601881.SHG Analysis as of: 2026-10-16T07:34:46.913Z. Financial observations: FY2005–FY2025. Listing currency: CNY. Reporting currency: CNY. ## Verdict Not a wonderful business Quality tests for Buy: not passed (profit record: pass; earnings resilience is evidence only). Published buy qualification: no. Share price: CNY 11.93 per share; close as of 2026-10-15. Estimated value: low CNY 8.96 per share, central CNY 10.20 per share, high CNY 11.85 per share. Buy at or below the central value CNY 10.20 per share. Valuation as of 2026-10-16T07:34:46.913Z; scenarios are not confidence intervals. Expected annual return: 9.0% at the stated quote. About 9.0% a year at today's price (required return 10.0%). required return 10.0% a year (10% floor; CN 10-year bond 1.7% + 4 points). ## Checklist ### understandable: fail - 5 revenue declines in the last 10 years (informational) - operating margin variation exceeds 0.35 - Financial history: 10 years - Years with declining revenue: 5 - Years with a net loss: 0 - Operating margin variation: 0.46× Chart: Operating margin; fiscal year observations. - FY2016: 0.37× - FY2017: 0.32× - FY2018: 0.24× - FY2019: 0.34× - FY2020: 0.38× - FY2021: 0.41× - FY2022: 0.29× - FY2023: 0.79× - FY2024: 0.32× - FY2025: 0.83× ### moat: fail - Years with nonpositive invested capital use equity plus debt and leases; positive earnings with no positive capital are shown above 100%. - ROIC median below threshold - ROIC worst years below threshold (more than 1 bad year allowed) - ROIC, median of available years: 4.0% - ROIC, second-lowest year: 2.5% - Years with nonpositive capital: 4 - Capital spending / revenue: 2.2% - ROIC including acquisitions, ten-year median: 4.6% - Typical minus recent gross margin: -28.7 pp Chart: ROIC excluding acquisitions; fiscal year observations. - FY2016: 4.4% - FY2017: 2.5% - FY2018: 1.9% - FY2019: 3.1% - FY2020: 3.6% - FY2021: 4.7% - FY2022: 9.8% - FY2023: 14.3% - FY2024: 3.3% - FY2025: 28.7% ### economics: pass - Owner earnings / net income, 5-yr: 1.02× - Cash conversion uses consolidated totals: No - Owner earnings, five-year total: CNY 50B - Net income, five-year total: CNY 49B - Return on incremental invested capital: >100% - Working capital / revenue, annual change: 202.5 pp - Working capital / revenue, change between three-year averages: 1680.4 pp - Working capital / revenue, final three-year average: -303.5% Chart: Annual owner cash / profit; fiscal year observations. - FY2021: 1.02× - FY2022: 0.98× - FY2023: 1.05× - FY2024: 1.04× - FY2025: 1.03× ### management: fail - Historical market-dollar context (not the management verdict): 2017 to 2025 (8 years) - potential debt-funded buybacks (informational) - buybacks unrelated to price (informational) - ROIC first 3 years vs last 3 years: 2.5% vs 14.3% - Per-share earnings: 0.52 to 0.92 (three-year endpoint medians) - five-year and ten-year diluted share growth both above threshold - Management verdict uses per-share economic progress: Yes - Ordinary dilution, 10-year annual growth: 1.7% - Ordinary dilution, 5-year annual growth: 1.2% - Market cap gain: CNY 83B - Cumulative retained earnings: CNY 22B - Diluted shares, 10-year annual growth: 1.7% - Diluted shares, 5-year annual growth: 1.2% - $1 test, starting fiscal year: FY2017 - $1 test, ending fiscal year: FY2025 - Per-share value growth: 7.4% - Per-share value change: CNY 0.40 - Per-share value, starting three-year median: CNY 0.52 - Per-share value, ending three-year median: CNY 0.92 - Average buyback yield: 0.2% - Buyback history: 1 years - Debt-funded buybacks: Yes - Acquisition spending: CNY 1.4B - Cumulative net income, 10 years: CNY 73B - ROIC, first three-year median: 2.5% - ROIC, last three-year median: 14.3% Chart: Earnings per share; fiscal year observations. - FY2016: CNY 0.52 - FY2017: CNY 0.47 - FY2018: CNY 0.31 - FY2019: CNY 0.50 - FY2020: CNY 0.70 - FY2021: CNY 1.03 - FY2022: CNY 0.72 - FY2023: CNY 0.72 - FY2024: CNY 0.92 - FY2025: CNY 1.14 ### accounting: fail - earnings not backed by cash - Sloan accruals: 4.4% - Receivables to sales index (DSRI): 0.14× - Earnings backed by cash: No - Operating cash / earnings: -2.04× - Accounting red flags: 0 - Goodwill and intangibles / equity: 0.01× Chart: Sloan accruals; fiscal year observations. - FY2016: -4.6% - FY2017: 13.5% - FY2018: -3.1% - FY2019: -6.5% - FY2020: -2.5% - FY2021: -1.9% - FY2022: -3.4% - FY2023: 5.7% - FY2024: 2.2% - FY2025: 4.4% ## Holders ## Price story Down 36% since Aug 2025 · sales -13.9% Story as of 2026-10-16T10:00:02.460Z; price observation 2026-10-15. Price needs cash profits to grow 2.9% a year for ten years ### Sales · FY2024–2025 sales -13.9%; source https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/; observed 2026-10-16. - FY2016: CNY 18B - FY2017: CNY 15B - FY2018: CNY 15B - FY2019: CNY 20B - FY2020: CNY 24B - FY2021: CNY 31B - FY2022: CNY 27B - FY2023: CNY 35B - FY2024: CNY 33B - FY2025: CNY 28B ### Gross margin · FY2024 gross margin 68.9%; source https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/; observed 2026-10-16. - FY2016: 72.9% - FY2017: 71.0% - FY2018: 60.4% - FY2019: 70.1% - FY2020: 72.4% - FY2021: 73.6% - FY2022: 66.8% - FY2024: 68.9% ## Owner memo Memo as of 2026-10-16T08:06:05.509Z. ### How it makes money Operates in financial conglomerates; annual sales are CNY 28.2 billion. - Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:34:46.913Z); FY2025: revenue 28247023000; operatingIncome 23522801000; margin = operatingIncome / revenue. ### Why customers stay Margins ranged from 32% to 83.3% during 2023–25; it earns 4% on its capital. - Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:34:46.913Z); FY2023: operatingIncome / revenue = 79.1%. - Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:34:46.913Z); FY2024: operatingIncome / revenue = 32%. - Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:34:46.913Z); FY2025: operatingIncome / revenue = 83.3%. - Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:34:46.913Z); 10-year return on capital observations [[2016,0.04409192458719082],[2017,0.025312839665247062],[2018,0.018643010935816193],[2019,0.03127544541401689],[2020,0.03634350589467801],[2021,0.046842813193014365],[2022,0.09758115618782971],[2023,0.1429014200427961],[2024,0.03338204956262885],[2025,0.28658208002848573]]; median 0.04021771524093441. ROIC follows the displayed moat series; financial companies use return on tangible equity. ### Where the cash goes Paid dividends in 10 of 10 years. - Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:34:46.913Z); FY2016: growth capex 0; upkeep 158436000; owner earnings 5196649000. Growth capex / owner earnings = 0. - Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:34:46.913Z); FY2017: growth capex 0; upkeep 277247000; owner earnings 3919953000. Growth capex / owner earnings = 0. - Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:34:46.913Z); FY2018: growth capex 3284454.996070862; upkeep 1339542545.0039291; owner earnings 1766069454.9960709. Growth capex / owner earnings = 0.0018597541488413144. - Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:34:46.913Z); FY2019: growth capex 0; upkeep 528395000; owner earnings 5415161000. Growth capex / owner earnings = 0. - Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:34:46.913Z); FY2020: growth capex 0; upkeep 423290000; owner earnings 7631243000. Growth capex / owner earnings = 0. - Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:34:46.913Z); FY2021: growth capex 0; upkeep 599067000; owner earnings 10657048000. Growth capex / owner earnings = 0. - Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:34:46.913Z); FY2022: growth capex 0; upkeep 1157202000; owner earnings 7580769000. Growth capex / owner earnings = 0. - Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:34:46.913Z); FY2023: growth capex 0; upkeep 695160000; owner earnings 8282618000. Growth capex / owner earnings = 0. - Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:34:46.913Z); FY2024: growth capex 0; upkeep 770640000; owner earnings 10422198000. Growth capex / owner earnings = 0. - Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:34:46.913Z); FY2025: growth capex 0; upkeep 843534000; owner earnings 12885933000. Growth capex / owner earnings = 0. - Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:34:46.913Z); Dividend observations: [[2016,3130011000],[2017,1571275000],[2018,1216471000],[2019,912353000],[2020,1621961000],[2021,2470197000],[2022,3770571000],[2023,3069864000],[2024,4275654000],[2025,4999382000]]. Zero only counted when supported by a complete cash-flow statement. ### Are managers owners Insiders own 72.2% of the company. - Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16); 601881.SHG SharesStats.PercentInsiders = 72.249 percentage points; cache date 2026-10-16. ### What the price says The price assumes cash profits grow 2.9% yearly over ten years; actual growth was 1%. - Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:34:46.913Z); Ten-year compound average after fade. Initial solved rate 0.027933193434046877. Price 11.93; FX 1; discount 0.1; same standard ten-year fade to terminal 0.03. FY2015 owner earnings/share 1.0696631632981546 → FY2025 1.1784762440598031. Closing-price date 2026-10-15. ## Monthly share-price history (CNY per share) - 2017-01: CNY 11.82 per share - 2017-02: CNY 13.77 per share - 2017-03: CNY 13.36 per share - 2017-04: CNY 12.30 per share - 2017-05: CNY 11.24 per share - 2017-06: CNY 11.86 per share - 2017-07: CNY 11.95 per share - 2017-08: CNY 15.92 per share - 2017-09: CNY 15.64 per share - 2017-10: CNY 13.02 per share - 2017-11: CNY 11.93 per share - 2017-12: CNY 10.51 per share - 2018-01: CNY 11.68 per share - 2018-02: CNY 10.17 per share - 2018-03: CNY 10.37 per share - 2018-04: CNY 10.09 per share - 2018-05: CNY 9.13 per share - 2018-06: CNY 8.13 per share - 2018-07: CNY 7.86 per share - 2018-08: CNY 7.39 per share - 2018-09: CNY 7.07 per share - 2018-10: CNY 7.35 per share - 2018-11: CNY 7.68 per share - 2018-12: CNY 6.82 per share - 2019-01: CNY 7.53 per share - 2019-02: CNY 10.90 per share - 2019-03: CNY 10.75 per share - 2019-04: CNY 12.38 per share - 2019-05: CNY 10.13 per share - 2019-06: CNY 12.25 per share - 2019-07: CNY 11.39 per share - 2019-08: CNY 10.50 per share - 2019-09: CNY 10.89 per share - 2019-10: CNY 10.73 per share - 2019-11: CNY 10.28 per share - 2019-12: CNY 11.61 per share - 2020-01: CNY 11.22 per share - 2020-02: CNY 10.53 per share - 2020-03: CNY 9.50 per share - 2020-04: CNY 9.93 per share - 2020-05: CNY 9.80 per share - 2020-06: CNY 11.47 per share - 2020-07: CNY 13.07 per share - 2020-08: CNY 13.55 per share - 2020-09: CNY 12.69 per share - 2020-10: CNY 11.75 per share - 2020-11: CNY 12.89 per share - 2020-12: CNY 12.51 per share - 2021-01: CNY 10.73 per share - 2021-02: CNY 10.77 per share - 2021-03: CNY 10.35 per share - 2021-04: CNY 9.98 per share - 2021-05: CNY 11.17 per share - 2021-06: CNY 10.78 per share - 2021-07: CNY 9.53 per share - 2021-08: CNY 10.29 per share - 2021-09: CNY 10.48 per share - 2021-10: CNY 9.88 per share - 2021-11: CNY 10.43 per share - 2021-12: CNY 11.19 per share - 2022-01: CNY 10.48 per share - 2022-02: CNY 10.11 per share - 2022-03: CNY 9.95 per share - 2022-04: CNY 9.28 per share - 2022-05: CNY 8.84 per share - 2022-06: CNY 9.67 per share - 2022-07: CNY 8.69 per share - 2022-08: CNY 9.90 per share - 2022-09: CNY 9.00 per share - 2022-10: CNY 9.01 per share - 2022-11: CNY 9.92 per share - 2022-12: CNY 9.29 per share - 2023-01: CNY 9.80 per share - 2023-02: CNY 9.62 per share - 2023-03: CNY 10.05 per share - 2023-04: CNY 10.78 per share - 2023-05: CNY 11.36 per share - 2023-06: CNY 11.61 per share - 2023-07: CNY 13.59 per share - 2023-08: CNY 11.53 per share - 2023-09: CNY 10.99 per share - 2023-10: CNY 12.13 per share - 2023-11: CNY 12.51 per share - 2023-12: CNY 12.05 per share - 2024-01: CNY 11.63 per share - 2024-02: CNY 12.15 per share - 2024-03: CNY 11.98 per share - 2024-04: CNY 12.45 per share - 2024-05: CNY 11.51 per share - 2024-06: CNY 10.86 per share - 2024-07: CNY 10.89 per share - 2024-08: CNY 11.13 per share - 2024-09: CNY 15.39 per share - 2024-10: CNY 14.56 per share - 2024-11: CNY 15.59 per share - 2024-12: CNY 15.23 per share - 2025-01: CNY 13.97 per share - 2025-02: CNY 16.66 per share - 2025-03: CNY 16.62 per share - 2025-04: CNY 15.64 per share - 2025-05: CNY 15.81 per share - 2025-06: CNY 17.15 per share - 2025-07: CNY 17.20 per share - 2025-08: CNY 18.51 per share - 2025-09: CNY 17.77 per share - 2025-10: CNY 17.58 per share - 2025-11: CNY 15.90 per share - 2025-12: CNY 15.72 per share - 2026-01: CNY 15.02 per share - 2026-02: CNY 14.61 per share - 2026-03: CNY 12.74 per share - 2026-04: CNY 12.78 per share - 2026-05: CNY 12.28 per share - 2026-06: CNY 12.57 per share - 2026-07: CNY 12.63 per share - 2026-08: CNY 12.36 per share - 2026-09: CNY 11.59 per share - 2026-10: CNY 11.69 per share ## Annual estimated value (CNY per share) - FY2016: low CNY 5.71 per share, central CNY 6.49 per share, high CNY 7.54 per share - FY2017: low CNY 5.64 per share, central CNY 6.42 per share, high CNY 7.46 per share - FY2018: low CNY 5.21 per share, central CNY 5.92 per share, high CNY 6.88 per share - FY2019: low CNY 5.61 per share, central CNY 6.39 per share, high CNY 7.42 per share - FY2020: low CNY 6.85 per share, central CNY 7.79 per share, high CNY 9.05 per share - FY2021: low CNY 8.93 per share, central CNY 10.16 per share, high CNY 11.80 per share - FY2022: low CNY 7.71 per share, central CNY 8.77 per share, high CNY 10.19 per share - FY2023: low CNY 9.54 per share, central CNY 10.85 per share, high CNY 12.60 per share - FY2024: low CNY 10.42 per share, central CNY 11.85 per share, high CNY 13.77 per share - FY2025: low CNY 8.96 per share, central CNY 10.20 per share, high CNY 11.85 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 2026-10-15T06:40:33.396Z where newer inputs omit a numeric field or fiscal period. ## Sources Estimates depend on assumptions and are not guarantees or investment advice. 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601881 · SHG
CSI 300
Not a wonderful business
3 quality tests fail. A lower price would not fix the business.
Margins varied 45.8% around their average (limit 35%).
Capital return excluding acquisitions: median 4% (minimum 15%), and the second-worst year 2.5% (minimum 10%).
Each $1 of profit left $1.02 for owners over five years (minimum $0.80).
Share growth was 1.7% over ten years and 1.2% over five (either must be at most 1% a year).
Profits lacked the required cash backing.
Profit record · pass 0 loss years in 10 (at most 2), mean operating margin 43.0%, three-year average owner earnings per share 0.96 CNY.
| Value range | CNY 8.96 – CNY 11.85 |
|---|---|
| Buy at or below | Central value CNY 10.20 |
| Discount to value | 1 − 11.93 / 10.20 = -16.9% |
| Return / year | About 9.0% a year at today's price (required return 10.0%) |
| Cash-flow inputs | Owner cash CNY 0.82/share; 0.0% growth for 5 years, then fades to 3.0%; excess cash CNY 0.00/share today. |
| Required return | 10.0% / year, earned by construction at the central value |