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Share price

18.51 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

2.16B USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026
Market data
Oct 15, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2025, filed Apr 15, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 15, 2026
Filed years
9, FY2017 to FY2025
Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means
SEC filingFiled with the SEC
Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement
What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data
Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener
Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.
Reading

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Overview

What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on invested capital, after tax

n/a Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Why n/a

The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

148.84x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

0.2% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2017 Revenue: 455.7M CNYFY2017 Net income: -133.6M CNYFY2018 Revenue: 731.6M CNYFY2018 Net income: -208.9M CNYFY2019 Revenue: 1.21B CNYFY2019 Net income: -601.5M CNYFY2020 Revenue: 2.53B CNYFY2020 Net income: -1.75B CNYFY2021 Revenue: 4.02B CNYFY2021 Net income: -995.7M CNYFY2022 Revenue: 5.01B CNYFY2022 Net income: -745.9M CNYFY2023 Revenue: 5.39B CNYFY2023 Net income: -550.1M CNYFY2024 Revenue: 5.63B CNYFY2024 Net income: 75.2M CNYFY2025 Revenue: 5.91B CNYFY2025 Net income: 97.0M CNY
Revenue Net income9 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Named tests met
1 of 30 Which tests
The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 148.84x at the close of 2026-10-15 on FY2025 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits above the highest.

Today, against the Consumer Defensive sector (135 companies), 148.84x sits at the 97th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 13.84x to 33.63x.

Is it good

Operating margin was 3.8% in FY2025. No published threshold exists for operating margin, so its standing against peers is the reading.

Today, against the Education & Training Services industry (39 companies), 3.8% sits at the 55th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from -30.4% to 12.2%.

Is it safe

Interest coverage was 3.51x in FY2025, in the band labelled "Investment grade" (3.00x to 6.00x), on lines anchored on Damodaran's interest-coverage table.

Year by year against peers
Whether Youdao, Inc.'s operating margin stayed above the median of the Education & Training Services industry, year by year. (FY2018 to FY2025, 8 fiscal years of Youdao, Inc. with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Youdao, Inc.'s gross margin has moved, and how steadily. (FY2017 to FY2025, 9 filed years of Youdao, Inc.)
What could explain it
What in Youdao, Inc.'s filed statements could explain the movements. (6 readings drawn from the statement lines Youdao, Inc. filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Youdao, Inc., and where in its filings. (4 questions for Youdao, Inc.)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Youdao, Inc.'s returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (9 of sixteen figures read for Youdao, Inc.)

These are DAO’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2025 annual report: 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-155933.

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Quality

The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.

SEC filingComputed

Youdao, Inc: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax
Why n/a

The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.

n/a ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001193125-26-155933
Return on equity
Why n/m

Book equity is zero or negative. Return on equity computed over it flips sign and can read as a strong positive on a loss-making company, so we will not show a number.

n/m ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001193125-26-155933
Return on capital employed, pre-tax
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001193125-26-155933
Return on assets4.9% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001193125-26-155933
Gross margin44.3% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001193125-26-155933
Operating margin3.8% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001193125-26-155933
Net margin1.6% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001193125-26-155933
DAO 1.6%
MH 1.7%GHC 6.0%LAUR 16.6%EDU 8.4%LRN 13.4%
1.6%16.6%
Net margin: DAO against the 5 companies named under Valuation context, each as filed for its own latest year. Placement only: no average is drawn.

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Financial strength

What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.

SEC filingComputedCompany statement

Youdao, Inc: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity
Why n/m

Filed shareholders equity is zero or below, so debt measured against it is not a measurement (n/m).

n/m ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001193125-26-155933
Current ratio0.59 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001193125-26-155933
Quick ratio0.54 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001193125-26-155933
Interest coverage3.51x ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001193125-26-155933
Altman Z-score
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001193125-26-155933
Net debt
Why n/a

The FY2025 balance sheet carries no net debt we could read.

n/a ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001193125-26-155933
Total assets 1.98BTotal liabilities 3.91BOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity (zero or below, not drawn)
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Youdao, Inc owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from the balance sheet it filed (20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001193125-26-155933).

Youdao, Inc: balance sheet position
Total assets1.98B FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026
Total liabilities3.91B FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026
Shareholders' equity-1.97B FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026
Cash738.0M FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026
Total debtn/a FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026
Net debtn/a
Current ratio0.59
Debt to equityn/m
  • Debt to equity: FY2025: Filed shareholders equity is zero or below, so debt measured against it is not a measurement (n/m).

Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.

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Valuation context

What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Youdao, Inc: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings148.84x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001193125-26-155933
P/E on trailing twelve months
Why n/a

A trailing figure needs 4 filed quarters with the dates they were filed on, and we hold 0 for this company. Nothing is drawn rather than a line built from fewer.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book
Why n/m

Book equity is zero or negative, so a ratio measured against it (debt to equity, price to book) is not a measurement, and we will not show a number.

n/m ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001193125-26-155933
Price to sales2.44x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001193125-26-155933
Enterprise value to EBIT
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001193125-26-155933
Enterprise value to EBITDA
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001193125-26-155933
Price to earnings over growth
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001193125-26-155933
Diluted earnings per share
Why n/a

The FY2025 filing carries no diluted earnings per share we could read.

n/a FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001193125-26-155933
Graham number
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001193125-26-155933

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value DAO on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.

Its own record, and companies like it

Valuation

What the market charges for Youdao, Inc today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

Youdao, Inc: valuation
Share price18.51 USD
Market capitalisation2.16B USD
Enterprise value to EBITDAn/a
Graham numbern/a
Diluted earnings per sharen/a

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months: A trailing figure needs 4 filed quarters with the dates they were filed on, and we hold 0 for this company. Nothing is drawn rather than a line built from fewer.

Companies like Youdao, Inc

  1. McGraw Hill, Inc. (MH)Market cap 2.72B USD
  2. Graham Holdings Company (GHC)Market cap 5.08B USD
  3. Laureate Education, Inc. (LAUR)Market cap 5.38B USD
  4. New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. (EDU)Market cap 9.36B USD
  5. Stride, Inc. (LRN)Market cap 3.46B USD

Same industry (Education & Training Services) and size band (Mid, 2B to 10B), nearest in market value, net margin and current ratio. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.

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Cash generation

Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.

SEC filingComputed

Youdao, Inc: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield0.2% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001193125-26-155933
Free cash flow29.6M CNY ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001193125-26-155933
Free cash flow margin0.5% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001193125-26-155933
Dividend yield
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001193125-26-155933
Payout ratio
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001193125-26-155933
FY2017 Free cash flow: -97.8M CNYFY2017 Net income: -133.6M CNYFY2018 Free cash flow: -114.0M CNYFY2018 Net income: -208.9M CNYFY2019 Free cash flow: -390.4M CNYFY2019 Net income: -601.5M CNYFY2020 Free cash flow: -352.3M CNYFY2020 Net income: -1.75B CNYFY2021 Free cash flow: -1.41B CNYFY2021 Net income: -995.7M CNYFY2022 Free cash flow: -671.8M CNYFY2022 Net income: -745.9M CNYFY2023 Free cash flow: -456.0M CNYFY2023 Net income: -550.1M CNYFY2024 Free cash flow: -79.7M CNYFY2024 Net income: 75.2M CNYFY2025 Free cash flow: 29.6M CNYFY2025 Net income: 97.0M CNY
Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.

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Filings

Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.

SEC filing

The filed figures

Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.

Youdao, Inc.: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
148.84xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/mFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.
n/aFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/a Enterprise value is the market value plus total debt less cash, and the filed balance sheet reports no debt total or no cash.
0.2%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2025Apr 15, 2026
n/a The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.
n/aFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/a The filed cash flow statement reports no dividend paid at all. That is not the same as a filed zero, and we will not read it as one.
n/mFY2025Apr 15, 2026
n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.
0.59FY2025Apr 15, 2026
2.44xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/a The filed income statement reports no earnings per share.
n/aFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/a We hold no figure here and no stored reason for its absence. The gap is ours, not the company's.
-1.70FY2025Apr 15, 2026
4/9FY2025Apr 15, 2026

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 9 filed fiscal years on record, FY2017 to FY2025, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 15, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 15, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.

The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.

Ten years of filed figures, year by year

Ten years of filed figures

9 filed fiscal years, FY2017 to FY2025, read from the annual reports Youdao, Inc filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in CNY, as filed.

Youdao, Inc: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
YearRevenueOperating incomeNet incomeEPS, dilutedFree cash flowOperating marginReturn on equityFiling
FY20255.91B221.3M97.0Mn/a29.6M3.8%n/m20-F, Apr 15, 20260001193125-26-155933
FY20245.63B148.8M75.2Mn/a-79.7M2.6%n/m20-F, Apr 15, 20250001193125-25-080651
FY20235.39B-466.3M-550.1Mn/a-456.0M-8.7%n/m20-F, Apr 25, 20240001193125-24-111467
FY20225.01B-774.7M-745.9Mn/a-671.8M-15.4%n/m20-F, Apr 27, 20230001193125-23-119945
FY20214.02B-943.2M-995.7Mn/a-1.41B-23.5%n/m20-F, Apr 28, 20220001193125-22-127645
FY20202.53B-851.5M-1.75Bn/a-352.3M-33.7%n/m20-F, Apr 28, 20210001193125-21-135545
FY20191.21B-459.8M-601.5Mn/a-390.4M-38.1%-200.4%20-F, Apr 29, 20200001193125-20-124283
FY2018731.6M-219.1M-208.9Mn/a-114.0M-29.9%n/m20-F, Apr 29, 20200001193125-20-124283
FY2017455.7M-130.0M-133.6Mn/a-97.8M-28.5%n/a20-F, Apr 29, 20200001193125-20-124283
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2017 to FY2025: 37.8%
  • Earnings: Earnings was not positive in both 2017 and 2025, so a compound rate across the window is not defined. Both figures are in the table.
  • Earnings per share: Fewer than two filed years carry earnings per share.
  • Free cash flow: Free cash flow was not positive in both 2017 and 2025, so a compound rate across the window is not defined. Both figures are in the table.

Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.

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Risks and guardrails

The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.

ComputedCompany statement

Youdao, Inc: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-1.70 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001193125-26-155933
Piotroski F-score4/9 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001193125-26-155933
Named tests met1 of 30 Computed
Beta1.04 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 1 met, 19 not met, 10 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.

Which tests, by name(all 30)
Meets
Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx)
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Deep value; Large cap, low P/E; High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; High yield, low payout; Dividends and buybacks; Low beta, profitable; Near the 52-week low; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); Owner earnings yield; High return on tangibles; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Tangible book or below; Cash-flow yield and ROIC; Clean books, high ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff)
Not measured
Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); High returns and growth; EV/EBITDA and coverage; ROIC at or above WACC; P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); High returns, low debt; Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Cash-covered dividend; Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman). A test with a figure we could not read is incomplete, never met and never failed.
Figures we could not read(18)
  • Debt to Equity: Filed shareholders equity is zero or below, so debt measured against it is not a measurement (n/m).
  • Positive Earnings Streak: The latest filed year has no per-share earnings we can read; the test needs 10.
  • P/B Ratio: Book equity is zero or negative, so a ratio measured against it (debt to equity, price to book) is not a measurement, and we will not show a number.
  • EV/EBIT: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Return on Invested Capital: The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.
  • Altman Z-Score: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • PEG Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Eps Growth 5Y: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Return on Equity: Book equity is zero or negative. Return on equity computed over it flips sign and can read as a strong positive on a loss-making company, so we will not show a number.
  • EV/EBITDA: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Dividend Yield: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Payout Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Share Count Change Yoy: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • ROIC-WACC Spread: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Price To Graham: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Dividend Coverage Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Dividend Streak: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Price Tangible Book: Book equity is zero or negative, so a ratio measured against it (debt to equity, price to book) is not a measurement, and we will not show a number.

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Declared positions

Whether anybody here owns this company.

Positions declared by Javier Sanz Alvarez: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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Next step

What to do with what you have read.

A thesis is your reason for owning it, in your words, with the figures that must stay true. Checking those figures every night against the newest filed accounts, and telling you once when one breaks, is what the subscription adds.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 18 figures could not be read on this company, among them Debt to Equity, Positive Earnings Streak, P/B Ratio. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason. 10 named tests come back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.
  • We hold 9 filed fiscal years rather than 10, so the run above is shorter than a full decade and is counted as what it is.

And the one that is true of all of it: This is what the numbers say today. It cannot tell you the day one of them stops being true. Nothing here can, because the reasons are not written down.

Running this once is arithmetic on public documents and you are welcome to it. Writing down why you own each company, in your own words and with the numbers that have to stay true for it to hold, and then having those numbers re-checked every night against the newest filed accounts, and against the latest close where a rule watches a price, is Professional, the plan a new account starts on for 30 days, one trial per person. It writes to you the day one breaks, and stays quiet when nothing does. The check runs every night at 23:30 UTC. A filing is picked up the night after it is published.

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