X Financial

XYFdata completeness 100%8 fiscal years on file

Data notes: no data for concept 'interestExpense'

The thesis, from the filings

X Financial earns about 23% on invested capital, far above its ~9% cost of capital, and has bought back 26% of its shares over 5 years — the marks of a durable business run for its owners. The estimate methods put fair value between $6.94 and $49.75 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$569.1M1$516.6M2$678.2M3$804.4M4$1.09B5
Net income$129.5M6$117.7M7$167.2M8$211M9$209.4M10
Operating cash flow$70.5M11$46.8M12$114.7M13$208.7M14$209.9M15
Capital expenditure$411,14116$877,90817$1.19M18$1.95M19$3.13M20
Free cash flow (derived)$70.1M11$45.9M12$113.5M13$206.8M14$206.7M15
Total debt$45M21$58.6M22
Cash & equivalents$91.8M23$87.3M24$168.4M25$134.9M26$141.2M27
Diluted shares336.9M322.4M290.8M293.4M249.5M

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
$44.92
your share of equity
Profit it earned you last year
$8.39
Free cash flow it threw off
$8.29
Debt you’d be carrying
$2.35

10 shares is a claim on $44.92 of net worth that earned you $8.39 and generated $8.29 of cash last year, against $2.35 of debt.

iii. Is this a good business?
Moat signal · return on invested capital
23% avg · 5y
FY21 24%FY22 20%FY23 25%FY24 24%FY25 20%

It earned about 23% on invested capital, year after year, against a ~9% cost of capital — the footprint of real pricing power. Competition usually drags returns like this back down; here it hasn't.

seeing a moat in the numbers →
Management signal · capital allocation
−26% shares · 5y

Share count is down 26% over 5 years — management has been buying back stock, quietly handing owners a bigger slice. Total debt has risen 30% over the same window.

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 $6.94 and $49.75 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
$49.75
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears10
  • fcfGrowth20.0%
  • fcfBase$206.7M
DCF · Growth Exit 5Y
$27.35
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears5
  • fcfGrowth20.0%
  • fcfBase$206.7M
Earnings Power Value
$6.94
assumptions (8)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • normalizedEarnings$167.2M
  • growthAssumed0.0%
Graham Number
$9.21
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 $27.35
The three cases
Bear0.0%$12.17
Base20.0%$27.35
Bull20.0%$27.35

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 2021-12-31 · accession 0001104659-22-051593 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  2. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001104659-23-051321 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  3. 20-F/A · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001410578-24-002071 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  4. 20-F · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0001410578-25-000892 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  5. 20-F · period ending 2025-12-31 · accession 0001104659-26-052016 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  6. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001104659-22-051593 (NetIncomeLoss)
  7. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001104659-23-051321 (NetIncomeLoss)
  8. 20-F/A · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001410578-24-002071 (NetIncomeLoss)
  9. 20-F · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0001410578-25-000892 (NetIncomeLoss)
  10. 20-F · period ending 2025-12-31 · accession 0001104659-26-052016 (NetIncomeLoss)
  11. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001104659-22-051593 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  12. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001104659-23-051321 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  13. 20-F/A · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001410578-24-002071 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  14. 20-F · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0001410578-25-000892 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  15. 20-F · period ending 2025-12-31 · accession 0001104659-26-052016 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  16. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001104659-22-051593 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  17. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001104659-23-051321 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  18. 20-F/A · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001410578-24-002071 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  19. 20-F · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0001410578-25-000892 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  20. 20-F · period ending 2025-12-31 · accession 0001104659-26-052016 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  21. 20-F · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0001410578-25-000892 (ShortTermBorrowings)
  22. 20-F · period ending 2025-12-31 · accession 0001104659-26-052016 (ShortTermBorrowings)
  23. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001104659-22-051593 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  24. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001104659-23-051321 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  25. 20-F/A · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001410578-24-002071 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  26. 20-F · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0001410578-25-000892 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  27. 20-F · period ending 2025-12-31 · accession 0001104659-26-052016 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)