# Kingsoft Cloud Holdings (KC.US)

Canonical: https://gigainvestors.com/s/KC

Analysis as of: 2026-10-16T07:29:34.872Z. Financial observations: FY2017–FY2025.

Listing currency: USD. Reporting currency: CNY.

## 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: $8.84 per share; close as of 2026-10-15.

## Checklist

### understandable: fail

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

- more than 2 net loss years

- negative average operating margin

- operating margin variation exceeds 0.35

- Financial history: 9 years

- Years with declining revenue: 2

- Years with a net loss: 9

- Operating margin variation: 0.61×

Chart: Operating margin; fiscal year observations.

- FY2017: -0.59×

- FY2018: -0.44×

- FY2019: -0.29×

- FY2020: -0.18×

- FY2021: -0.19×

- FY2022: -0.27×

- FY2023: -0.19×

- FY2024: -0.11×

- FY2025: -0.06×

### 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: -28.2%

- ROIC, second-lowest year: -153.9%

- Typical minus recent gross margin: -10.5 pp

- Typical gross margin (annual median): 5.3%

- Recent gross margin (lower of latest and 3-year median): 15.7%

- Years with nonpositive capital: 2

- Capital spending / revenue: 27.9%

- ROIC including acquisitions, ten-year median: -41.4%

Chart: ROIC excluding acquisitions; fiscal year observations.

- FY2018: 0.0%

- FY2019: 0.0%

- FY2020: -34.9%

- FY2021: -153.9%

- FY2022: -201.8%

- FY2023: -61.1%

- FY2024: -21.6%

- FY2025: -8.2%

### economics: fail

- owner earnings cash conversion below threshold

- Cash conversion uses consolidated totals: No

- Owner earnings, five-year total: CNY -14B

- Net income, five-year total: CNY -9.3B

- Working capital / revenue, annual change: -0.5 pp

Chart: Owner earnings · five years; fiscal year observations.

- FY2021: CNY -1.5B

- FY2022: CNY -2.9B

- FY2023: CNY -3.2B

- FY2024: CNY -4.1B

- FY2025: CNY -2.2B

### management: fail

- buybacks unrelated to price (informational)

- Per-share earnings: -18.47 to -7.95 (three-year endpoint medians)

- per-share value declined or ends nonpositive

- Management verdict uses per-share economic progress: Yes

- Ordinary dilution, 5-year annual growth: 6.5%

- Diluted shares, 5-year annual growth: 6.5%

- Per-share value change: CNY 10.52

- Per-share value, starting three-year median: CNY -18.47

- Per-share value, ending three-year median: CNY -7.95

- Average buyback yield: 3.4%

- Buyback history: 1 years

- Debt-funded buybacks: No

- ROIC, last three-year median: -21.6%

Chart: Earnings per share; fiscal year observations.

- FY2017: CNY -13.44

- FY2018: CNY -18.93

- FY2019: CNY -18.47

- FY2020: CNY -4.35

- FY2021: CNY -6.53

- FY2022: CNY -11.19

- FY2023: CNY -9.10

- FY2024: CNY -7.95

- FY2025: CNY -3.09

### accounting: pass

- Sloan accruals: -17.7%

- Receivables to sales index (DSRI): 0.72×

- Restructuring years, last five: 0

- Stock compensation / operating cash flow: 11.8%

- Earnings backed by cash: Yes

- Accounting red flags: 0

- Goodwill and intangibles / equity: 0.55×

Chart: Sloan accruals; fiscal year observations.

- FY2018: -10.6%

- FY2019: -11.1%

- FY2020: -5.6%

- FY2021: -4.2%

- FY2022: -16.4%

- FY2023: -13.3%

- FY2024: -14.8%

- FY2025: -17.7%

## Holders

## Price story

Down 62% since Oct 2021 · "Kingsoft Cloud Holdings (NASDAQ:KC) Reports Q2 2025 Revenue Beat but Wider-Than-Expected Loss" (chartmill.com, Aug 2025) · sales +22.8%

Story as of 2026-10-16T09:59:00.433Z; price observation 2026-10-15.

- 2025-08-20: Kingsoft Cloud Holdings (NASDAQ:KC) Reports Q2 2025 Revenue Beat but Wider-Than-Expected Loss ([chartmill.com](https://www.chartmill.com/news/KC/Chartmill-33427-Kingsoft-Cloud-Holdings-NASDAQKC-Reports-Q2-2025-Revenue-Beat-but-Wider-Than-Expected-Loss))

### Sales · FY2024–2025

sales +22.8%; source https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1795589/000110465926047100/kc-20251231x20f.htm; observed 2026-04-23.

- FY2017: CNY 1.2B 

- FY2018: CNY 2.2B 

- FY2019: CNY 4.0B 

- FY2020: CNY 6.6B 

- FY2021: CNY 9.1B 

- FY2022: CNY 8.2B 

- FY2023: CNY 7.0B 

- FY2024: CNY 7.8B 

- FY2025: CNY 9.6B 

### Gross margin · FY2025

gross margin 15.7%; source https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1795589/000110465926047100/kc-20251231x20f.htm; observed 2026-04-23.

- FY2019: 0.2% 

- FY2020: 5.4% 

- FY2021: 3.9% 

- FY2022: 5.3% 

- FY2023: 12.1% 

- FY2024: 17.2% 

- FY2025: 15.7% 

## Owner memo

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

### How it makes money

Operates in software application; annual sales are CNY 9.6 billion.

- Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1795589/000110465926047100/kc-20251231x20f.htm (filed 2026-04-23); FY2025: revenue 9558619000; grossProfit 1503408000; margin = grossProfit / revenue.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16); KC.US: Kingsoft Cloud Holdings Limited provides cloud services to businesses and organizations primarily in China. The company's product portfolio includes cloud products, such as infrastructure as a service (IaaS) infrastructure, platform as a service (PaaS) middleware, software as a service (SaaS) applications, and AI solution. It offers research and development services, as well as enterprise digital solutions and related services. The company also provides public cloud services to customers in various verticals, including video, e-commerce, intelligent mobility, artificial intelligence, and mobile internet; and enterprise cloud services to customers in financial services, public service, and healthcare businesses. Kingsoft Cloud Holdings Limited was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in Beijing, China.

### Why customers stay

Margins ranged from 12.1% to 17.2% during 2023–25; it lost 28.2% on its capital.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-04-23); FY2023: grossProfit / revenue = 12.1%.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-04-23); FY2024: grossProfit / revenue = 17.2%.

- Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1795589/000110465926047100/kc-20251231x20f.htm (filed 2026-04-23); FY2025: grossProfit / revenue = 15.7%.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-04-23); 9-year return on capital observations [[2018,0],[2019,0],[2020,-0.3487679196887838],[2021,-1.538828390536488],[2022,-2.017566222034778],[2023,-0.6109057433414155],[2024,-0.21609669589024577],[2025,-0.08236616009271953]]; median -0.2824323077895148. ROIC follows the displayed moat series; financial companies use return on tangible equity.

### Where the cash goes

Paid no dividends in 9 years.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-04-23); Dividend observations: [[2017,0],[2018,0],[2019,0],[2020,0],[2021,0],[2022,0],[2023,0],[2024,0],[2025,0]]. Zero only counted when supported by a complete cash-flow statement.

### Are managers owners

Insiders own <0.1% of the company.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16); KC.US SharesStats.PercentInsiders = 0.032 percentage points; cache date 2026-10-16.

### What the price says

The price is 1.9 times annual sales; cash earnings are negative.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-04-23); Closing price 8.84 USD; reporting-to-trading FX 0.14944; FY2025 annual sales per share 31.55151231478963; price multiple 1.8748443814256361. FY2025 cash earnings/share -7.317514320630225. Closing-price date 2026-10-15.

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

- 2020-05: $20.14 per share

- 2020-06: $31.52 per share

- 2020-07: $35.10 per share

- 2020-08: $34.48 per share

- 2020-09: $29.53 per share

- 2020-10: $29.05 per share

- 2020-11: $40.23 per share

- 2020-12: $43.55 per share

- 2021-01: $50.27 per share

- 2021-02: $58.88 per share

- 2021-03: $39.32 per share

- 2021-04: $43.92 per share

- 2021-05: $39.06 per share

- 2021-06: $33.93 per share

- 2021-07: $29.00 per share

- 2021-08: $32.19 per share

- 2021-09: $28.32 per share

- 2021-10: $22.97 per share

- 2021-11: $17.28 per share

- 2021-12: $15.75 per share

- 2022-01: $8.45 per share

- 2022-02: $6.74 per share

- 2022-03: $6.07 per share

- 2022-04: $3.62 per share

- 2022-05: $4.82 per share

- 2022-06: $4.45 per share

- 2022-07: $3.28 per share

- 2022-08: $3.44 per share

- 2022-09: $1.99 per share

- 2022-10: $2.53 per share

- 2022-11: $3.02 per share

- 2022-12: $3.83 per share

- 2023-01: $4.80 per share

- 2023-02: $3.85 per share

- 2023-03: $8.89 per share

- 2023-04: $5.73 per share

- 2023-05: $4.46 per share

- 2023-06: $6.10 per share

- 2023-07: $7.04 per share

- 2023-08: $5.69 per share

- 2023-09: $4.93 per share

- 2023-10: $4.76 per share

- 2023-11: $4.37 per share

- 2023-12: $3.78 per share

- 2024-01: $2.60 per share

- 2024-02: $2.87 per share

- 2024-03: $3.04 per share

- 2024-04: $3.07 per share

- 2024-05: $2.83 per share

- 2024-06: $2.51 per share

- 2024-07: $2.70 per share

- 2024-08: $2.33 per share

- 2024-09: $2.94 per share

- 2024-10: $2.75 per share

- 2024-11: $6.69 per share

- 2024-12: $10.49 per share

- 2025-01: $12.57 per share

- 2025-02: $16.33 per share

- 2025-03: $14.36 per share

- 2025-04: $13.59 per share

- 2025-05: $11.17 per share

- 2025-06: $12.52 per share

- 2025-07: $14.48 per share

- 2025-08: $14.77 per share

- 2025-09: $14.92 per share

- 2025-10: $12.60 per share

- 2025-11: $12.36 per share

- 2025-12: $10.34 per share

- 2026-01: $13.21 per share

- 2026-02: $13.48 per share

- 2026-03: $13.36 per share

- 2026-04: $15.07 per share

- 2026-05: $12.28 per share

- 2026-06: $9.05 per share

- 2026-07: $11.15 per share

- 2026-08: $10.24 per share

- 2026-09: $9.12 per share

- 2026-10: $8.84 per share

## Annual estimated value (USD 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

## Sources

[Original 20-F filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1795589/000110465926047100/kc-20251231x20f.htm); period 2025-12-31, filed 2026-04-23.

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.

## Reported holder observations



# KC — Kingsoft Cloud Holdings

Held by 1 investor · USD 15,679,009 total · 2025 Q1 · reported price USD 14.36 (split-adjusted).
Page: https://gigainvestors.com/s/KC

## Holders (2025 Q1)

| Investor | Value | % of their portfolio | This quarter |
|---|---:|---:|---|
| Howard Marks (https://gigainvestors.com/oc) | USD 15,679,009 | 0.4% | new |

## Total held by quarter

- 2020 Q2: USD 18,242,189 · 2 holders · USD 31.52
- 2020 Q3: USD 22,072,666 · 2 holders · USD 29.53
- 2020 Q4: USD 22,458,190 · 2 holders · USD 43.60
- 2021 Q1: USD 393,000 · 1 holder · USD 39.30
- 2021 Q2: USD 339,000 · 1 holder · USD 33.90
- 2021 Q3: USD 283,000 · 1 holder · USD 28.30
- 2021 Q4: USD 158,000 · 1 holder · USD 15.80
- 2022 Q1: USD 0 · 0 holders
- 2022 Q2: USD 0 · 0 holders
- 2022 Q3: USD 0 · 0 holders
- 2022 Q4: USD 0 · 0 holders
- 2023 Q1: USD 0 · 0 holders
- 2023 Q2: USD 0 · 0 holders
- 2023 Q3: USD 0 · 0 holders
- 2023 Q4: USD 0 · 0 holders
- 2024 Q1: USD 0 · 0 holders
- 2024 Q2: USD 0 · 0 holders
- 2024 Q3: USD 0 · 0 holders
- 2024 Q4: USD 0 · 0 holders
- 2025 Q1: USD 15,679,009 · 1 holder · USD 14.36
- 2025 Q2: USD 0 · 0 holders