Yalla Group Ltd

YALAdata completeness 88%8 fiscal years on file

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

The thesis, from the filings

Yalla Group Ltd earns about 99% on invested capital, far 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 $6.51 and $18.11 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$273.1M1$303.6M2$318.9M3$339.7M3$341.9M3
Net income$82.6M4$79M5$113.1M6$134.2M6$148.1M6
Operating cash flow$144.2M7$119.5M8$139.3M9$172.8M9$137.5M9
Capital expenditure$1.49M10$1.57M11$1.28M12$705,86312$1.98M12
Free cash flow (derived)$142.8M7$118M8$138M9$172.1M9$135.6M9
Total debt
Cash & equivalents$351.5M13$407.3M14$311.9M15$488.4M15$527M15
Diluted shares179.9M176.6M181.8M183.2M180.1M

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
$44.99
your share of equity
Profit it earned you last year
$8.23
Free cash flow it threw off
$7.53
Debt you’d be carrying

10 shares is a claim on $44.99 of net worth that earned you $8.23 and generated $7.53 of cash last year.

iii. Is this a good business?
Moat signal · return on invested capital
99% avg · 5y
FY21 FY22 237%FY23 44%FY24 62%FY25 52%

It earned about 99% 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
+0% 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 $6.51 and $18.11 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
$18.11
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears10
  • fcfGrowth5.4%
  • fcfBase$138M
DCF · Growth Exit 5Y
$16.75
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears5
  • fcfGrowth5.4%
  • fcfBase$138M
Earnings Power Value
$6.51
assumptions (8)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • normalizedEarnings$113.1M
  • growthAssumed0.0%
Graham Number
$9.17
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 years5.4%
Discount rate (WACC)8.93%
Terminal growth2.5%
At your growth, a share is worth $16.75
The three cases
Bear0.0%$13.88
Base5.4%$16.75
Bull10.4%$19.96

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

Default growth 5.4%= 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 0000950170-24-046629 (Revenues)
  2. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0000950170-25-056954 (Revenues)
  3. 20-F · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001193125-26-168267 (Revenues)
  4. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0000950170-24-046629 (NetIncomeLoss)
  5. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0000950170-25-056954 (NetIncomeLoss)
  6. 20-F · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001193125-26-168267 (NetIncomeLoss)
  7. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0000950170-24-046629 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  8. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0000950170-25-056954 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  9. 20-F · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001193125-26-168267 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  10. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0000950170-24-046629 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  11. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0000950170-25-056954 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  12. 20-F · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001193125-26-168267 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  13. 20-F · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0000950170-24-046629 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  14. 20-F · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0000950170-25-056954 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  15. 20-F · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001193125-26-168267 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)