Valuation
26% of the score
0median 13
GDS Holdings Limited is valued at 26.3x its operating profit, including debt: past the 25 times where this criterion gives nothing.
25x
20x
15x
10x
6x
26.3x
Full points at 6x or less, none from 25xfull points
GDSGDS Holdings Limited
$31.65-5.6% 1Y
$31.65
$29.0252 weeks$47.52
RyuScore
Seven criteria, each scored 0 to 100 on a published scale, weighted into one number.
RyuScore 25 out of 100, Weak
Today's price. Only valuation depends on it.
Weak. GDS Holdings Limited scores higher than 22% of the 1,794 companies Ryufin scores.
Carried by cycle position and earnings quality, held back by valuation and return on capital.
Technology median 43 · all companies 50
Return on capital
18% of the score
0median 34
Over 7 years the business earned 0.2% a year after tax on the capital it uses.
2%
8%
15%
25%
0.2%
None at 2% or less, full points from 25%full points
7 years agolatest -0.1%
Return on new capital
16% of the score
0median 49
No operating profit over the period, so nothing was earned to reinvest.
Capital allocation
14% of the score
40median 64
How management spends the money: shares bought back or issued, and whether assets grow faster than the business they serve.
Share countUp 5.6% a year over 5 years: new shares
05%
-3%
5.6%
0 pointsfull points
Assets against salesAssets grew 6.9% a year, sales 15%
10012%
-2%
-7.9%
0 pointsfull points
Cycle position
12% of the score
100median 62
Today's operating margin of 3% is 0.43x its normal 7.1%: near a trough. Normal is half the 10 year median, half the last four years, so a margin that has held is not taken for a peak.
2x
1.5x
1x
0.7x
0.4x
A trough earns points, a peak costs themfull points
10 years agonow 3%
Balance sheet
8% of the score
26median 50
What the debt weighs against the profit that has to carry it.
Net debt to EBITDA2.4x a year of EBITDA
524.5x
0.5x
2.4x
0 pointsfull points
Interest coverOperating profit covers interest 0x
01.5x
12x
0.4x
0 pointsfull points
Earnings quality
6% of the score
88median 90
Whether the reported profit arrives as cash, and whether the accounts show the usual signs of stretching.
Cash against profitOperating cash flow was 86.72x profit over 3 years
1000.7x
1x
1.3x
86.7x
0 pointsfull points
AccrualsCash ran ahead of profit by 3.1% of assets
768%
0%
-8%
-3.1%
0 pointsfull points
How the RyuScore works
Each criterion earns 0 to 100 points on the scale drawn under it, and the RyuScore is their average weighted 26, 18, 16, 14, 12, 8 and 6. Scales bend in the company's favour between their ends, so an ordinary figure is never already near zero. Where a criterion cannot be measured from the filings it is taken out and the remaining weights scale up; a company needs 60% of the weight covered, and always a price, to get a score.
Built from the company's annual and quarterly filings with the SEC and today's share price. Banks, insurers and property trusts are not scored: their debt is their raw material, so these yardsticks mean something else there. Figures as of 2019-12-31, latest annual report FY2025.
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