ALUMINUM CORP OF CHINA LTD

ALMMFdata completeness 88%6 fiscal years on file

Data notes: no data for concept 'totalDebt'; no data for concept 'interestExpense'

The thesis, from the filings

ALUMINUM CORP OF CHINA LTD earns about 12% on invested capital, comfortably above its ~9% cost of capital, with a roughly flat share count — a real edge showing up in the numbers. The estimate methods put fair value between $74.41 and $11,993.84 a share.Whether it’s worth owning at today’s price is the last question — and yours to answer, below.

i. The business — what you’d actually own
FigureFY 2018FY 2019FY 2020FY 2021FY 2022
Revenue$26.2B1$27.3B2$28.5B3$42.3B4$42.2B5
Net income$108.6M6$122.2M7$113.6M8$797.1M9$607.8M10
Operating cash flow$1.89B11$1.79B12$2.28B13$4.43B14$4.02B15
Capital expenditure$981.1M16$1.28B17$772.2M18$320M19$640.3M20
Free cash flow (derived)$912.3M11$514.5M12$1.51B13$4.11B14$3.38B15
Total debt
Cash & equivalents$2.75B21$1.11B21$1.48B22$2.8B23$2.44B24
Diluted shares16.8M17.0M17.0M17.0M17.0M

Superscripts are receipts. Each links to the SEC filing the number came from (full list at the bottom).

ii. Your slice — ownership made literal
If you owned
shares
Net assets behind them
$4,633.64
your share of equity
Profit it earned you last year
$357.04
Free cash flow it threw off
$1,986.98
Debt you’d be carrying

10 shares is a claim on $4,633.64 of net worth that earned you $357.04 and generated $1,986.98 of cash last year.

iii. Is this a good business?
Moat signal · return on invested capital
12% avg · 5y
FY18 4%FY19 3%FY20 4%FY21 20%FY22 29%

It earned about 12% on invested capital against a ~9% cost of capital — comfortably above the cost of funding, a moderate advantage.

seeing a moat in the numbers →
Management signal · capital allocation
+1% shares · 5y

Share count is roughly flat over 5 years — little dilution, little buyback.

reading capital allocation →

Signals, not verdicts — read from the filings above. Numbers don’t prove a moat; they show its footprint. You decide.

iv. What it’s worth — engine v0.1.0

The 3 estimate methods that apply put fair value between $74.41 and $11,993.84 a share. They rest on different assumptions, so where they diverge is the story; the Graham Number is a stricter floor, not a target.

DCF · Growth Exit 10Y
$11,993.84
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears10
  • fcfGrowth20.0%
  • fcfBase$3.38B
DCF · Growth Exit 5Y
$6,621.49
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears5
  • fcfGrowth20.0%
  • fcfBase$3.38B
Earnings Power Value
$74.41
assumptions (8)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • normalizedEarnings$122.2M
  • growthAssumed0.0%
Graham Number
$19.1
assumptions (1)
  • grahamMultiplier2250.0%

Different models answer different questions — which to trust when →

v. The price question — last, on purpose
Is today’s price fair?
See live price ↗
Type a price. The ledger answers.
Or set your own belief
FCF growth, next 5 years20.0%
Discount rate (WACC)8.93%
Terminal growth2.5%
At your growth, a share is worth $6,621.49
The three cases
Bear0.0%$2,982.18
Base20.0%$6,621.49
Bull20.0%$6,621.49

Bear/base/bull growth = 0% / filed history / history + 5pp. Type a price to see the return each case implies.

Default growth 20.0%= this company’s own filed history (median-to-median FCF CAGR, clamped 0–20%). Your adjustments are recorded anonymously. They become the “what do owners actually believe” dataset.

Sources — the receipts
  1. 20-F · period ending 2018-12-31 · accession 0001161611-19-000052 (Revenue)
  2. 20-F · period ending 2019-12-31 · accession 0001387131-20-004040 (Revenue)
  3. 20-F · period ending 2020-12-31 · accession 0001104659-21-053404 (Revenue)
  4. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001104659-22-048663 (Revenue)
  5. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001104659-23-049473 (Revenue)
  6. 20-F · period ending 2018-12-31 · accession 0001161611-19-000052 (ProfitLossAttributableToOwnersOfParent)
  7. 20-F · period ending 2019-12-31 · accession 0001387131-20-004040 (ProfitLossAttributableToOwnersOfParent)
  8. 20-F · period ending 2020-12-31 · accession 0001104659-21-053404 (ProfitLossAttributableToOwnersOfParent)
  9. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001104659-22-048663 (ProfitLossAttributableToOwnersOfParent)
  10. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001104659-23-049473 (ProfitLossAttributableToOwnersOfParent)
  11. 20-F · period ending 2018-12-31 · accession 0001161611-19-000052 (CashFlowsFromUsedInOperatingActivities)
  12. 20-F · period ending 2019-12-31 · accession 0001387131-20-004040 (CashFlowsFromUsedInOperatingActivities)
  13. 20-F · period ending 2020-12-31 · accession 0001104659-21-053404 (CashFlowsFromUsedInOperatingActivities)
  14. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001104659-22-048663 (CashFlowsFromUsedInOperatingActivities)
  15. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001104659-23-049473 (CashFlowsFromUsedInOperatingActivities)
  16. 20-F · period ending 2018-12-31 · accession 0001161611-19-000052 (PurchaseOfPropertyPlantAndEquipmentClassifiedAsInvestingActivities)
  17. 20-F · period ending 2019-12-31 · accession 0001387131-20-004040 (PurchaseOfPropertyPlantAndEquipmentClassifiedAsInvestingActivities)
  18. 20-F · period ending 2020-12-31 · accession 0001104659-21-053404 (PurchaseOfPropertyPlantAndEquipmentClassifiedAsInvestingActivities)
  19. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001104659-22-048663 (PurchaseOfPropertyPlantAndEquipmentClassifiedAsInvestingActivities)
  20. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001104659-23-049473 (PurchaseOfPropertyPlantAndEquipmentClassifiedAsInvestingActivities)
  21. 20-F · period ending 2018-12-31 · accession 0001387131-20-004040 (CashAndCashEquivalents)
  22. 20-F · period ending 2020-12-31 · accession 0001104659-21-053404 (CashAndCashEquivalents)
  23. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001104659-22-048663 (CashAndCashEquivalents)
  24. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001104659-23-049473 (CashAndCashEquivalents)