Autohome Inc.

ATHMdata completeness 88%13 fiscal years on file

Data notes: no data for concept 'totalDebt'

The thesis, from the filings

Autohome Inc. earns about 9% on invested capital, below its ~9% cost of capital, and has bought back 6% of its shares over 5 years — no moat visible in the numbers. The estimate methods put fair value between $5.39 and $5.9 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 2021FY 2022FY 2023FY 2024FY 2025
Revenue$1.14B1$1.01B2$1.01B3$964.4M4$922.6M5
Net income$352.9M6$269M7$272.6M8$230.3M9$206.3M10
Operating cash flow$553M11$371.9M12$345.3M13$188.1M14$127.2M15
Capital expenditure$34.3M16$16.9M17$11.1M18$19.2M19$16.9M20
Free cash flow (derived)$518.6M11$355M12$334.2M13$168.9M14$110.3M15
Total debt
Cash & equivalents$664.8M21$406.2M22$703.7M23$232M24$311.1M25
Diluted shares500.5M499.7M491.3M486.6M472.1M

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
$69.79
your share of equity
Profit it earned you last year
$4.37
Free cash flow it threw off
$2.34
Debt you’d be carrying

10 shares is a claim on $69.79 of net worth that earned you $4.37 and generated $2.34 of cash last year.

iii. Is this a good business?
Moat signal · return on invested capital
9% avg · 5y
FY21 12%FY22 8%FY23 10%FY24 7%FY25 7%

It earned about 9% on invested capital against a ~9% cost of capital — below the cost of funding. The numbers show no moat.

seeing a moat in the numbers →
Management signal · capital allocation
−6% shares · 5y

Share count is down 6% over 5 years — management has been buying back stock, quietly handing owners a bigger slice.

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 $5.39 and $5.9 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
$5.39
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears10
  • fcfGrowth0.0%
  • fcfBase$168.9M
DCF · Growth Exit 5Y
$5.77
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears5
  • fcfGrowth0.0%
  • fcfBase$168.9M
Earnings Power Value
$5.9
assumptions (8)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • normalizedEarnings$269M
  • growthAssumed0.0%
Graham Number
$8.12
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 years0.0%
Discount rate (WACC)8.93%
Terminal growth2.5%
At your growth, a share is worth $5.77
The three cases
Bear0.0%$5.77
Base0.0%$5.77
Bull5.0%$7.01

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

Default growth 0.0%= 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 2021-12-31 · accession 0001193125-22-117521 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  2. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0000950170-23-014231 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  3. 20-F · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0000950170-24-047913 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  4. 20-F · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0000950170-25-053940 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  5. 20-F · period ending 2025-12-31 · accession 0001193125-26-155932 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  6. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001193125-22-117521 (NetIncomeLoss)
  7. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0000950170-23-014231 (NetIncomeLoss)
  8. 20-F · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0000950170-24-047913 (NetIncomeLoss)
  9. 20-F · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0000950170-25-053940 (NetIncomeLoss)
  10. 20-F · period ending 2025-12-31 · accession 0001193125-26-155932 (NetIncomeLoss)
  11. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001193125-22-117521 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  12. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0000950170-23-014231 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  13. 20-F · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0000950170-24-047913 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  14. 20-F · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0000950170-25-053940 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  15. 20-F · period ending 2025-12-31 · accession 0001193125-26-155932 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  16. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001193125-22-117521 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  17. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0000950170-23-014231 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  18. 20-F · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0000950170-24-047913 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  19. 20-F · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0000950170-25-053940 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  20. 20-F · period ending 2025-12-31 · accession 0001193125-26-155932 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  21. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001193125-22-117521 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  22. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0000950170-23-014231 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  23. 20-F · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0000950170-24-047913 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  24. 20-F · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0000950170-25-053940 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  25. 20-F · period ending 2025-12-31 · accession 0001193125-26-155932 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)