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China Automotive Systems, Inc.
How the company evolved, year by year. Revenue and debt come from the annual reports — for most companies, the 10-K filings with the SEC since 2009; dividends from the payments themselves.
The bars are a balance on the closing date; the lines are what happened during the year. Revenue above equity is ordinary, not an anomaly — it means the company turns its capital over more than once a year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +28.9% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,785.57▲ +78.6%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 3 closed years. Each multiple uses that year’s closing price and that year’s reported numbers — not today’s. The range is set by the annual reports on record.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $4.26 | $4.10 | $3.23 | |
| P/E | 3.0x | 3.0x | 4.1x | 2.6x |
| P/S | 0.2x | 0.2x | 0.2x | 0.2x |
| P/B | 0.3x | 0.3x | 0.4x | 0.3x |
| EPS | $1.42 | $0.99 | $1.25 | |
| Dividend yield | — |
Seven formulas applied to what the company reported. None of them predicts a price — each answers what the stock would be worth if its assumption held. The assumption is printed next to every number, because it is the assumption that produces the result.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value — the two ceilings Graham proposed. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 6.6% a year plus a 0.0% dividend — Lynch adds the yield to the growth rate, so a payer is not priced like a company that returns nothing. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 17.9 among peers in the sector.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Cash flow growing 6.6% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 9.8x operating profit, less net debt. Sees the business before its financing, so debt does not distort the comparison. Banks have no EBITDA — interest is their revenue, not a cost.
Companies of similar size in Consumer Cyclical, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| RRGBRed Robin Gourmet Burgers Inc | $7.73 | — | — | — | — | $146.13M |
| COOKTraeger, Inc. | $55.86 |
China Automotive Systems, Inc., through its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells automotive systems and components in the People's Republic of China, the United States, and internationally. The company produces rack and pinion power steering gears for cars and light-duty vehicles; integral power steering gears for heavy-duty vehicles; power steering parts for light duty vehicles; sensor modules; automobile steering systems and columns; and automobile electronics and systems and parts. It also provides automotive motors and electromechanical integrated systems; polymer materials; and intelligent automotive technology research and development services. In addition, the company offers after sales services, and research and development support services; and inspection and testing of automotive products, as well as markets automotive parts in North America. It primarily sells its products to the original equipment manufacturing customers. China Automotive Systems, Inc. is headquartered in Jingzhou, the People's Republic of China.
Company description provided by Yahoo Finance.
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| 19.51% |
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| Payout | — | — | 80.81% | — |
| Profit margin | 5.59% | 5.59% | 4.61% | 6.53% |
| ROE | 10.67% | 10.67% | 8.58% | 10.93% |
Median, not average: a single year of near-zero profit produces a P/E of 400 and would drag an average on its own. P/E years above 200x are left out, the same cut the fair price uses — so this median matches the “its own history” method below. Price and EPS have no median: they are series that grow.
Dividend growing 0.0% a year against a 9.3% required return, taken from the stock’s beta. The only method anchored on what the company pays rather than what it reports.
Not the average of the seven numbers above. Four of the seven start from the same earnings per share — Graham, Lynch, sector multiples and its own history — so averaging all seven would let one input count four times and drown out the others. Instead each family produces one number, and the fair price is the average of the families that answered. A family with two working formulas contributes their average, not two votes.
6 methods answered, across 4 families.
Every formula reads the same reported statements and they can be wrong together. The margin is room for that.
+418.5% from the average.
These are models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. Change one assumption and the number changes with it — that is a property of valuation, not a defect of this page.
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| 0.9x |
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| -51.03% |
| $156.31M |
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