CHINA YUCHAI INTERNATIONAL LTD

CYDdata completeness 100%8 fiscal years on file

Data notes: no data for concept 'interestExpense'

The thesis, from the filings

CHINA YUCHAI INTERNATIONAL LTD earns about 5% on invested capital, below its ~9% cost of capital, and has bought back 8% of its shares over 5 years — no moat visible in the numbers. The estimate methods put fair value between $11.91 and $19.43 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 2020FY 2021FY 2022FY 2023FY 2024
Revenue$3.18B1$3.36B2$2.31B3$2.54B4$2.67B5
Net income$84.8M6$43.1M7$31.4M8$40.2M9$45M10
Operating cash flow$218.7M11$79.8M12−$17.2M13$172.6M14$108.6M15
Capital expenditure$90.3M16$90.5M17$62M18$33.5M19$50.2M20
Free cash flow (derived)$128.4M11−$10.7M12−$79.2M13$139.1M14$58.4M15
Total debt$946.5M21$1.07B22$852.3M23$848.3M24$930.5M25
Cash & equivalents$929.7M26$688.8M27$626.7M28$772.9M29$824.7M29
Diluted shares40.9M40.9M40.9M40.9M37.5M

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
$340.5
your share of equity
Profit it earned you last year
$12
Free cash flow it threw off
$15.58
Debt you’d be carrying
$248

10 shares is a claim on $340.5 of net worth that earned you $12 and generated $15.58 of cash last year, against $248 of debt.

iii. Is this a good business?
Moat signal · return on invested capital
5% avg · 5y
FY20 9%FY21 4%FY22 3%FY23 4%FY24 5%

It earned about 5% 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
−8% shares · 5y

Share count is down 8% over 5 years — management has been buying back stock, quietly handing owners a bigger slice. Total debt has held roughly steady.

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 $11.91 and $19.43 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
$17.76
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears10
  • fcfGrowth0.0%
  • fcfBase$58.4M
DCF · Growth Exit 5Y
$19.43
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears5
  • fcfGrowth0.0%
  • fcfBase$58.4M
Earnings Power Value
$11.91
assumptions (8)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • normalizedEarnings$43.1M
  • growthAssumed0.0%
Graham Number
$29.55
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 $19.43
The three cases
Bear0.0%$19.43
Base0.0%$19.43
Bull5.0%$24.82

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 2020-12-31 · accession 0001193125-21-128033 (Revenue)
  2. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001193125-22-114040 (Revenue)
  3. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001193125-23-117772 (Revenue)
  4. 20-F · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001193125-24-116234 (Revenue)
  5. 20-F · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0000950170-25-058324 (Revenue)
  6. 20-F · period ending 2020-12-31 · accession 0001193125-21-128033 (ProfitLossAttributableToOwnersOfParent)
  7. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001193125-22-114040 (ProfitLossAttributableToOwnersOfParent)
  8. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001193125-23-117772 (ProfitLossAttributableToOwnersOfParent)
  9. 20-F · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001193125-24-116234 (ProfitLossAttributableToOwnersOfParent)
  10. 20-F · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0000950170-25-058324 (ProfitLossAttributableToOwnersOfParent)
  11. 20-F · period ending 2020-12-31 · accession 0001193125-21-128033 (CashFlowsFromUsedInOperatingActivities)
  12. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001193125-22-114040 (CashFlowsFromUsedInOperatingActivities)
  13. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001193125-23-117772 (CashFlowsFromUsedInOperatingActivities)
  14. 20-F · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001193125-24-116234 (CashFlowsFromUsedInOperatingActivities)
  15. 20-F · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0000950170-25-058324 (CashFlowsFromUsedInOperatingActivities)
  16. 20-F · period ending 2020-12-31 · accession 0001193125-21-128033 (PurchaseOfPropertyPlantAndEquipmentClassifiedAsInvestingActivities)
  17. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001193125-22-114040 (PurchaseOfPropertyPlantAndEquipmentClassifiedAsInvestingActivities)
  18. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001193125-23-117772 (PurchaseOfPropertyPlantAndEquipmentClassifiedAsInvestingActivities)
  19. 20-F · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001193125-24-116234 (PurchaseOfPropertyPlantAndEquipmentClassifiedAsInvestingActivities)
  20. 20-F · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0000950170-25-058324 (PurchaseOfPropertyPlantAndEquipmentClassifiedAsInvestingActivities)
  21. 20-F · period ending 2020-12-31 · accession 0001193125-21-128033 (Borrowings)
  22. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001193125-22-114040 (Borrowings)
  23. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001193125-23-117772 (Borrowings)
  24. 20-F · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001193125-24-116234 (Borrowings)
  25. 20-F · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0000950170-25-058324 (Borrowings)
  26. 20-F · period ending 2020-12-31 · accession 0001193125-22-114040 (CashAndCashEquivalents)
  27. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001193125-23-117772 (CashAndCashEquivalents)
  28. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001193125-24-116234 (CashAndCashEquivalents)
  29. 20-F · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0000950170-25-058324 (CashAndCashEquivalents)