# China Zheshang Bank (601916.SHG)

Canonical: https://gigainvestors.com/s/601916.SHG

Analysis as of: 2026-10-16T07:35:33.538Z. Financial observations: FY2015–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 2.96 per share; close as of 2026-10-15.

Estimated value: low CNY 4.50 per share, central CNY 5.58 per share, high CNY 7.36 per share. Buy at or below the central value CNY 5.58 per share. Valuation as of 2026-10-16T07:35:33.538Z; scenarios are not confidence intervals.

Expected annual return: 13.7% at the stated quote. About 13.7% 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: pass

- Financial history: 10 years

- Profitable years in the last ten: 10

- Required profitable years: 9

- Return on common equity variation (informational): 0.27×

Chart: Net income; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: CNY 10B

- FY2017: CNY 10B

- FY2018: CNY 11B

- FY2019: CNY 12B

- FY2020: CNY 11B

- FY2021: CNY 12B

- FY2022: CNY 12B

- FY2023: CNY 15B

- FY2024: CNY 15B

- FY2025: CNY 13B

### moat: fail

- Tangible common book per share

- Parent-total proxy for preferred equity and common earnings

- median return on common equity below threshold

- Bank / P&C ROTE, median of available years: 8.5%

- Required median return: 12.0%

- Return uses tangible common equity: Yes

- Bank ROTE, second-lowest year: 7.3%

- Years with reported combined ratio: 0

Chart: Return on tangible common equity; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: 15.2%

- FY2017: 11.8%

- FY2018: 11.3%

- FY2019: 9.7%

- FY2020: 8.9%

- FY2021: 7.3%

- FY2022: 7.4%

- FY2023: 8.2%

- FY2024: 7.7%

- FY2025: 6.5%

### economics: pass

- Tangible common book per share

- Parent-total proxy for preferred equity and common earnings

- Book value per share + reinvested dividends, annualized return: 13.5%

- Book return interval: 10 years

- Starting book value per share: CNY 2.72

- Ending book value per share: CNY 7.29

Chart: Annual book + dividend return; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: 41.8%

- FY2017: 35.4%

- FY2018: 14.3%

- FY2019: 62.1%

- FY2020: 9.0%

- FY2021: -18.2%

- FY2022: 1.3%

- FY2023: 6.6%

- FY2024: -0.6%

- FY2025: 4.6%

### management: fail

- Tangible common book per share

- Parent-total proxy for preferred equity and common earnings

- ordinary share count growth exceeds 2% annually in both the full and five-year windows

- Diluted shares, 10-year annual growth: 4.3%

- Diluted shares, 5-year annual growth: 13.9%

- Share growth excluding flagged crisis recapitalisations: 4.3%

- Five-year share growth excluding flagged crisis recapitalisations: 13.9%

- Flagged crisis recapitalisations: 0

- Book created / earnings retained after dividends and buybacks: 1.30×

- Book value created per share: CNY 4.58

- Earnings retained per share after dividends and buybacks: CNY 3.51

Chart: Shares (first year = 100); fiscal year observations.

- FY2015: 100

- FY2016: 99

- FY2017: 99

- FY2018: 104

- FY2019: 80

- FY2020: 79

- FY2021: 125

- FY2022: 124

- FY2023: 138

- FY2024: 152

- FY2025: 152

### accounting: pass

- Financial accounting warning count: 0

- Known restatement years: 0

## Holders

## Price story

The price assumes profits grow 2.2% a year forever · net income -14.8%

Story as of 2026-10-16T10:00:05.545Z; price observation 2026-10-15.

The price assumes profits grow 2.2% a year forever

### Net income · FY2025

net income -14.8%; source https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/; observed 2026-10-16.

- FY2016: CNY 10B 

- FY2017: CNY 10B 

- FY2018: CNY 11B 

- FY2019: CNY 12B 

- FY2020: CNY 11B 

- FY2021: CNY 12B 

- FY2022: CNY 12B 

- FY2023: CNY 15B 

- FY2024: CNY 15B 

- FY2025: CNY 13B 

## Owner memo

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

### How it makes money

Operates in regional banking; annual sales are CNY 60.3 billion.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:35:33.538Z); FY2025: revenue 60296000000.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16); 601916.SHG: China Zheshang Bank Co., Ltd. provides corporate and retail banking services in Mainland China. The company operates through Corporate Banking, Retail Banking, and Treasury Business segments. The Corporate Banking segment offers corporate loans and advances, trade financing, corporate deposits, credit commitments and financial guarantees, debt instrument underwriting and other corporate, and intermediary banking services to corporate clients, governments, and other institutions. The Retail Banking segment provides personal loans and advances, personal deposits, wealth management, bank card business, and other types of retail banking services to individual customers. The Treasury Business segment is involved in money market transactions, repurchase transactions, debt instrument investments, equity instrument investments, and proprietary business. It also engages in the financial derivatives business. China Zheshang Bank Co., Ltd. was incorporated in 1993 and is headquartered in Hangzhou, China.

### Why customers stay

It earns 8.5% on shareholders’ money, excluding intangible assets.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:35:33.538Z); 10-year return on tangible equity observations [[2016,0.15191243340181487],[2017,0.11779254772428176],[2018,0.11259280792968501],[2019,0.09700083377383617],[2020,0.088576945235982],[2021,0.07279754995183878],[2022,0.07356291786501326],[2023,0.08180661715938373],[2024,0.07727772349780167],[2025,0.0645530062501248]]; median 0.08519178119768286. 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 2026-10-16T07:35:33.538Z); Dividend observations: [[2016,2353092000],[2017,3065339000],[2018,4041754000],[2019,885000000],[2020,5780000000],[2021,4313000000],[2022,2000000000],[2023,5683000000],[2024,5469000000],[2025,5278000000]]. Zero only counted when supported by a complete cash-flow statement.

### Are managers owners

Insiders own 34.8% of the company.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16); 601916.SHG SharesStats.PercentInsiders = 34.797 percentage points; cache date 2026-10-16.

### What the price says

The price assumes profits grow 2.2% a year forever.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:35:33.538Z); Price 2.96; FX 1; original perpetual distributable cash 0.23089824182338572; discount 0.1; growth 0.021993837221829154. Same book-value model and 4× ceiling; no ten-year operating fade applies. Closing-price date 2026-10-15.

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

- 2019-12: CNY 4.49 per share

- 2020-01: CNY 4.28 per share

- 2020-02: CNY 3.94 per share

- 2020-03: CNY 3.80 per share

- 2020-04: CNY 3.83 per share

- 2020-05: CNY 3.63 per share

- 2020-06: CNY 3.70 per share

- 2020-07: CNY 3.87 per share

- 2020-08: CNY 3.92 per share

- 2020-09: CNY 3.96 per share

- 2020-10: CNY 3.74 per share

- 2020-11: CNY 3.87 per share

- 2020-12: CNY 3.83 per share

- 2021-01: CNY 3.70 per share

- 2021-02: CNY 3.86 per share

- 2021-03: CNY 3.82 per share

- 2021-04: CNY 3.71 per share

- 2021-05: CNY 3.78 per share

- 2021-06: CNY 3.73 per share

- 2021-07: CNY 3.40 per share

- 2021-08: CNY 3.33 per share

- 2021-09: CNY 3.33 per share

- 2021-10: CNY 3.23 per share

- 2021-11: CNY 3.22 per share

- 2021-12: CNY 3.29 per share

- 2022-01: CNY 3.22 per share

- 2022-02: CNY 3.22 per share

- 2022-03: CNY 3.12 per share

- 2022-04: CNY 3.11 per share

- 2022-05: CNY 3.05 per share

- 2022-06: CNY 3.12 per share

- 2022-07: CNY 3.04 per share

- 2022-08: CNY 3.05 per share

- 2022-09: CNY 2.80 per share

- 2022-10: CNY 2.59 per share

- 2022-11: CNY 2.77 per share

- 2022-12: CNY 2.76 per share

- 2023-01: CNY 2.78 per share

- 2023-02: CNY 2.74 per share

- 2023-03: CNY 2.69 per share

- 2023-04: CNY 2.89 per share

- 2023-05: CNY 2.70 per share

- 2023-06: CNY 2.64 per share

- 2023-07: CNY 2.78 per share

- 2023-08: CNY 2.57 per share

- 2023-09: CNY 2.56 per share

- 2023-10: CNY 2.55 per share

- 2023-11: CNY 2.53 per share

- 2023-12: CNY 2.52 per share

- 2024-01: CNY 2.69 per share

- 2024-02: CNY 2.78 per share

- 2024-03: CNY 2.99 per share

- 2024-04: CNY 3.00 per share

- 2024-05: CNY 2.98 per share

- 2024-06: CNY 2.76 per share

- 2024-07: CNY 2.82 per share

- 2024-08: CNY 2.62 per share

- 2024-09: CNY 2.94 per share

- 2024-10: CNY 2.84 per share

- 2024-11: CNY 2.90 per share

- 2024-12: CNY 2.91 per share

- 2025-01: CNY 2.90 per share

- 2025-02: CNY 2.86 per share

- 2025-03: CNY 2.94 per share

- 2025-04: CNY 2.99 per share

- 2025-05: CNY 3.22 per share

- 2025-06: CNY 3.39 per share

- 2025-07: CNY 3.39 per share

- 2025-08: CNY 3.24 per share

- 2025-09: CNY 2.98 per share

- 2025-10: CNY 2.99 per share

- 2025-11: CNY 3.07 per share

- 2025-12: CNY 3.04 per share

- 2026-01: CNY 2.91 per share

- 2026-02: CNY 2.98 per share

- 2026-03: CNY 3.00 per share

- 2026-04: CNY 2.97 per share

- 2026-05: CNY 3.00 per share

- 2026-06: CNY 2.63 per share

- 2026-07: CNY 3.03 per share

- 2026-08: CNY 2.90 per share

- 2026-09: CNY 2.88 per share

- 2026-10: CNY 2.97 per share

## Annual estimated value (CNY per share)

- FY2016: low CNY 7.16 per share, central CNY 8.95 per share, high CNY 11.93 per share

- FY2017: low CNY 9.16 per share, central CNY 11.45 per share, high CNY 15.26 per share

- FY2018: low CNY 9.83 per share, central CNY 12.29 per share, high CNY 16.39 per share

- FY2019: low CNY 15.11 per share, central CNY 18.88 per share, high CNY 25.18 per share

- FY2020: low CNY 15.01 per share, central CNY 18.76 per share, high CNY 25.01 per share

- FY2021: low CNY 10.64 per share, central CNY 13.30 per share, high CNY 17.74 per share

- FY2022: low CNY 8.20 per share, central CNY 10.25 per share, high CNY 13.66 per share

- FY2023: low CNY 6.92 per share, central CNY 8.65 per share, high CNY 11.53 per share

- FY2024: low CNY 5.72 per share, central CNY 7.15 per share, high CNY 9.53 per share

- FY2025: low CNY 4.50 per share, central CNY 5.58 per share, high CNY 7.36 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 2026-10-15T06:41:16.776Z 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.

China Zheshang Bank

601916 · SHG

CSI 300

Not a wonderful business

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

Share price: CNY 2.96
Buy up to: CNY 5.58
Expected / yr: 13.7% at today's price (10.0% at central value)

The business

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

1. Is this a good business?

Evidence only; not required for Buy

Profits were positive in 10 years (at least 9 needed).

Net income

10y median: CNY 12B
Worst year: CNY 10B
Latest · 2025: CNY 13B

Earned a median 8.5% on tangible equity (minimum 12%).

Return on tangible common equity

10y median: 8.5%
Worst year: 6.5%
Latest · 2025: 6.5%

Book value plus dividends grew 13.5% a year (minimum 7%).

Annual book + dividend return

10y median: 7.8%
Worst year: -18.2%
Latest · 2025: 4.6%

Ordinary share growth was 4.3% over the full period and 13.9% over five years (either must be at most 2% a year).

Shares (first year = 100)

11y median: 104
Worst year: 152
Latest · 2025: 152

0 accounting warnings were found (none allowed).

accounting warnings: 0
Passing bar: ≤ 0

Profit record · pass 0 loss years in 10 (at most 2), three-year average earnings per share 0.54 CNY.

2. Is the price low enough?

PriceEstimated rangeBuy price

2019-12 · Price CNY 4.49 · Value 18.88 · Buy at or below 18.88; 2020-01 · Price CNY 4.28 · Value 18.88 · Buy at or below 18.88; 2020-02 · Price CNY 3.94 · Value 18.76 · Buy at or below 18.76; 2020-03 · Price CNY 3.80 · Value 18.76 · Buy at or below 18.76; 2020-04 · Price CNY 3.83 · Value 18.76 · Buy at or below 18.76; 2020-05 · Price CNY 3.63 · Value 18.76 · Buy at or below 18.76; 2020-06 · Price CNY 3.70 · Value 18.76 · Buy at or below 18.76; 2020-07 · Price CNY 3.87 · Value 18.76 · Buy at or below 18.76; 2020-08 · Price CNY 3.92 · Value 18.76 · Buy at or below 18.76; 2020-09 · Price CNY 3.96 · Value 18.76 · Buy at or below 18.76; 2020-10 · Price CNY 3.74 · Value 18.76 · Buy at or below 18.76; 2020-11 · Price CNY 3.87 · Value 18.76 · Buy at or below 18.76; 2020-12 · Price CNY 3.83 · Value 18.76 · Buy at or below 18.76; 2021-01 · Price CNY 3.70 · Value 18.76 · Buy at or below 18.76; 2021-02 · Price CNY 3.86 · Value 13.30 · Buy at or below 13.30; 2021-03 · Price CNY 3.82 · Value 13.30 · Buy at or below 13.30; 2021-04 · Price CNY 3.71 · Value 13.30 · Buy at or below 13.30; 2021-05 · Price CNY 3.78 · Value 13.30 · Buy at or below 13.30; 2021-06 · Price CNY 3.73 · Value 13.30 · Buy at or below 13.30; 2021-07 · Price CNY 3.40 · Value 13.30 · Buy at or below 13.30; 2021-08 · Price CNY 3.33 · Value 13.30 · Buy at or below 13.30; 2021-09 · Price CNY 3.33 · Value 13.30 · Buy at or below 13.30; 2021-10 · Price CNY 3.23 · Value 13.30 · Buy at or below 13.30; 2021-11 · Price CNY 3.22 · Value 13.30 · Buy at or below 13.30; 2021-12 · Price CNY 3.29 · Value 13.30 · Buy at or below 13.30; 2022-01 · Price CNY 3.22 · Value 13.30 · Buy at or below 13.30; 2022-02 · Price CNY 3.22 · Value 10.25 · Buy at or below 10.25; 2022-03 · Price CNY 3.12 · Value 10.25 · Buy at or below 10.25; 2022-04 · Price CNY 3.11 · Value 10.25 · Buy at or below 10.25; 2022-05 · Price CNY 3.05 · Value 10.25 · Buy at or below 10.25; 2022-06 · Price CNY 3.12 · Value 10.25 · Buy at or below 10.25; 2022-07 · Price CNY 3.04 · Value 10.25 · Buy at or below 10.25; 2022-08 · Price CNY 3.05 · Value 10.25 · Buy at or below 10.25; 2022-09 · Price CNY 2.80 · Value 10.25 · Buy at or below 10.25; 2022-10 · Price CNY 2.59 · Value 10.25 · Buy at or below 10.25; 2022-11 · Price CNY 2.77 · Value 10.25 · Buy at or below 10.25; 2022-12 · Price CNY 2.76 · Value 10.25 · Buy at or below 10.25; 2023-01 · Price CNY 2.78 · Value 10.25 · Buy at or below 10.25; 2023-02 · Price CNY 2.74 · Value 8.65 · Buy at or below 8.65; 2023-03 · Price CNY 2.69 · Value 8.65 · Buy at or below 8.65; 2023-04 · Price CNY 2.89 · Value 8.65 · Buy at or below 8.65; 2023-05 · Price CNY 2.70 · Value 8.65 · Buy at or below 8.65; 2023-06 · Price CNY 2.64 · Value 8.65 · Buy at or below 8.65; 2023-07 · Price CNY 2.78 · Value 8.65 · Buy at or below 8.65; 2023-08 · Price CNY 2.57 · Value 8.65 · Buy at or below 8.65; 2023-09 · Price CNY 2.56 · Value 8.65 · Buy at or below 8.65; 2023-10 · Price CNY 2.55 · Value 8.65 · Buy at or below 8.65; 2023-11 · Price CNY 2.53 · Value 8.65 · Buy at or below 8.65; 2023-12 · Price CNY 2.52 · Value 8.65 · Buy at or below 8.65; 2024-01 · Price CNY 2.69 · Value 8.65 · Buy at or below 8.65; 2024-02 · Price CNY 2.78 · Value 7.15 · Buy at or below 7.15; 2024-03 · Price CNY 2.99 · Value 7.15 · Buy at or below 7.15; 2024-04 · Price CNY 3.00 · Value 7.15 · Buy at or below 7.15; 2024-05 · Price CNY 2.98 · Value 7.15 · Buy at or below 7.15; 2024-06 · Price CNY 2.76 · Value 7.15 · Buy at or below 7.15; 2024-07 · Price CNY 2.82 · Value 7.15 · Buy at or below 7.15; 2024-08 · Price CNY 2.62 · Value 7.15 · Buy at or below 7.15; 2024-09 · Price CNY 2.94 · Value 7.15 · Buy at or below 7.15; 2024-10 · Price CNY 2.84 · Value 7.15 · Buy at or below 7.15; 2024-11 · Price CNY 2.90 · Value 7.15 · Buy at or below 7.15; 2024-12 · Price CNY 2.91 · Value 7.15 · Buy at or below 7.15; 2025-01 · Price CNY 2.90 · Value 7.15 · Buy at or below 7.15; 2025-02 · Price CNY 2.86 · Value 5.58 · Buy at or below 5.58; 2025-03 · Price CNY 2.94 · Value 5.58 · Buy at or below 5.58; 2025-04 · Price CNY 2.99 · Value 5.58 · Buy at or below 5.58; 2025-05 · Price CNY 3.22 · Value 5.58 · Buy at or below 5.58; 2025-06 · Price CNY 3.39 · Value 5.58 · Buy at or below 5.58; 2025-07 · Price CNY 3.39 · Value 5.58 · Buy at or below 5.58; 2025-08 · Price CNY 3.24 · Value 5.58 · Buy at or below 5.58; 2025-09 · Price CNY 2.98 · Value 5.58 · Buy at or below 5.58; 2025-10 · Price CNY 2.99 · Value 5.58 · Buy at or below 5.58; 2025-11 · Price CNY 3.07 · Value 5.58 · Buy at or below 5.58; 2025-12 · Price CNY 3.04 · Value 5.58 · Buy at or below 5.58; 2026-01 · Price CNY 2.91 · Value 5.58 · Buy at or below 5.58; 2026-02 · Price CNY 2.98 · Value 5.58 · Buy at or below 5.58; 2026-03 · Price CNY 3.00 · Value 5.58 · Buy at or below 5.58; 2026-04 · Price CNY 2.97 · Value 5.58 · Buy at or below 5.58; 2026-05 · Price CNY 3.00 · Value 5.58 · Buy at or below 5.58; 2026-06 · Price CNY 2.63 · Value 5.58 · Buy at or below 5.58; 2026-07 · Price CNY 3.03 · Value 5.58 · Buy at or below 5.58; 2026-08 · Price CNY 2.90 · Value 5.58 · Buy at or below 5.58; 2026-09 · Price CNY 2.88 · Value 5.58 · Buy at or below 5.58; 2026-10 · Price CNY 2.97 · Value 5.58 · Buy at or below 5.58; 2026-10 · Price CNY 2.96 · Value 5.58 · Buy at or below 5.58

CNY per share · annual estimates

Price & return math
Value range	CNY 4.50 – CNY 7.36
Buy at or below	Central value CNY 5.58
Discount to value	1 − 2.96 / 5.58 = 47.0%
Return / year	About 13.7% a year at today's price (required return 10.0%)
Cash-flow inputs	Book CNY 7.29/share; ROE 9.0%; first payout CNY 0.23/share, growing 5.9% perpetually (4× book payout cap applied).
Required return	10.0% / year, earned by construction at the central value

Net incomeCNY 13B

Net income

Book / shareCNY 7.29

Book / share

Dividend / shareCNY 0.19

Dividend / share

Return on tangible equity6.5%

Return on tangible equity

Diluted shares27B

Diluted shares

Prices 15 Oct 2026 · FY2025