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Phoenix New Media Limited (FENG)

NYSE / Communication Services / Internet Content & Information

Share price

1.40 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

350.3K USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026
Market data
Oct 15, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2025, filed Apr 29, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 15, 2026
Filed years
10, FY2016 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 equity

0.0% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

6.43x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Dividend yield

42.6% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2016 Revenue: 1.44B CNYFY2016 Net income: 80.6M CNYFY2017 Revenue: 1.58B CNYFY2017 Net income: 34.4M CNYFY2018 Revenue: 1.38B CNYFY2018 Net income: -65.6M CNYFY2019 Revenue: 1.33B CNYFY2019 Net income: 724.0M CNYFY2020 Revenue: 1.21B CNYFY2020 Net income: 365.3M CNYFY2021 Revenue: 1.03B CNYFY2021 Net income: -273.1M CNYFY2022 Revenue: 785.7M CNYFY2022 Net income: -125.7M CNYFY2023 Revenue: 692.0M CNYFY2023 Net income: -109.1M CNYFY2024 Revenue: 703.7M CNYFY2024 Net income: -52.9M CNYFY2025 Revenue: 765.6M CNYFY2025 Net income: 365.0K CNY
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Named tests met
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The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 6.43x 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 below the lowest.

Today, against the Internet Content & Information industry (33 companies), 6.43x sits at the 28th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 5.74x to 36.60x.

Is it good

Return on equity was 0.03% in FY2025, in the band labelled "Likely below the cost of equity" (below 8.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data, suggesting returns on shareholders' money below the usual cost of equity.

Today, against the Internet Content & Information industry (53 companies), 0.03% sits at the 43rd percentile; the middle half of that group runs from -15.4% to 8.9%.

Is it safe

Current ratio was 2.85 in FY2025, in the band labelled "At or above Graham's requirement" (2.00 and above), on lines anchored on Graham's defensive-investor criteria, suggesting short-term assets well above short-term obligations.

Today, against the Internet Content & Information industry (60 companies), 2.85 sits at the 68th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 1.08 to 3.09.

Year by year against peers
Whether Phoenix New Media Limited's return on equity stayed above the median of the Internet Content & Information industry, year by year. (FY2022 to FY2025, 4 fiscal years of Phoenix New Media Limited with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Phoenix New Media Limited's return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 filed years of Phoenix New Media Limited)
What could explain it
What in Phoenix New Media Limited's filed statements could explain the movements. (5 readings drawn from the statement lines Phoenix New Media Limited filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Phoenix New Media Limited, and where in its filings. (5 questions for Phoenix New Media Limited)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Phoenix New Media Limited's returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (10 of sixteen figures read for Phoenix New Media Limited)

These are FENG’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 29, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-188853.

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Quality

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

SEC filingComputed

Phoenix New Media Limited: 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 29, 2026, 0001193125-26-188853
Return on equity0.0% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001193125-26-188853
Return on capital employed, pre-tax-3.0% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001193125-26-188853
Return on assets0.0% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001193125-26-188853
Gross margin48.9% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001193125-26-188853
Operating margin-4.5% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001193125-26-188853
Net margin0.1% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001193125-26-188853
FENG 0.1%
CMCM -22.4%TC 38.3%KRKR 5.0%NAMI -23.9%CCG -0.6%
-23.9%38.3%
Net margin: FENG 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

Phoenix New Media Limited: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity
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 29, 2026, 0001193125-26-188853
Current ratio2.85 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001193125-26-188853
Quick ratio2.85 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001193125-26-188853
Interest coverage
Why n/a

No interest expense is filed for this year, so coverage is not computed.

n/a ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001193125-26-188853
Altman Z-score0.59 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001193125-26-188853
Net debt
Why n/a

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

n/a ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001193125-26-188853
Total assets 1.65BTotal liabilities 541.5MShareholders' equity 1.17BOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Phoenix New Media Limited owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from the balance sheet it filed (20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001193125-26-188853).

Phoenix New Media Limited: balance sheet position
Total assets1.65B FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026
Total liabilities541.5M FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026
Shareholders' equity1.17B FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026
Cash537.5M FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026
Total debtn/a FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026
Net debtn/a
Current ratio2.85
Debt to equityn/a
  • Debt to equity: FY2025: 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.
  • Interest cover: FY2025: No interest expense is filed for this year, so coverage is not computed.

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

Phoenix New Media Limited: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings6.43x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001193125-26-188853
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/a

A stored zero the filing does not prove, withheld rather than published as if it were a measurement.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001193125-26-188853
Price to sales
Why n/a

A stored zero the filing does not prove, withheld rather than published as if it were a measurement.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001193125-26-188853
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 29, 2026, 0001193125-26-188853
Enterprise value to EBITDA
Why n/m

EBITDA is zero or negative, so a multiple of it is not meaningful.

n/m ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001193125-26-188853
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 29, 2026, 0001193125-26-188853
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 29, 2026, 0001193125-26-188853
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 29, 2026, 0001193125-26-188853

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value FENG 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 Phoenix New Media Limited today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

Phoenix New Media Limited: valuation
Share price1.40 USD
Market capitalisation350.3K USD
Enterprise value to EBITDAn/m
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 Phoenix New Media Limited

  1. Cheetah Mobile Inc. (CMCM)Market cap 1.4M USD
  2. Token Cat Limited (TC)Market cap 4.0M USD
  3. 36Kr Holdings Inc. (KRKR)Market cap 5.5M USD
  4. Jinxin Technology Holding Company American Depositary Shares (NAMI)Market cap 5.1M USD
  5. Cheche Group Inc. (CCG)Market cap 12.6M USD

Same industry (Internet Content & Information) and size band (Nano, under 50M), 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

Phoenix New Media Limited: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield
Why n/m

Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.

n/m ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001193125-26-188853
Free cash flow-15.7M CNY ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001193125-26-188853
Free cash flow margin-2.0% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001193125-26-188853
Dividend yield42.6% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001193125-26-188853
Payout ratio274.0% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001193125-26-188853
FY2016 Free cash flow: 174.4M CNYFY2016 Net income: 80.6M CNYFY2017 Free cash flow: 145.2M CNYFY2017 Net income: 34.4M CNYFY2018 Free cash flow: -132.8M CNYFY2018 Net income: -65.6M CNYFY2019 Free cash flow: -388.2M CNYFY2019 Net income: 724.0M CNYFY2020 Free cash flow: -115.2M CNYFY2020 Net income: 365.3M CNYFY2021 Free cash flow: -159.7M CNYFY2021 Net income: -273.1M CNYFY2022 Free cash flow: -346.4M CNYFY2022 Net income: -125.7M CNYFY2023 Free cash flow: -70.5M CNYFY2023 Net income: -109.1M CNYFY2024 Free cash flow: -49.5M CNYFY2024 Net income: -52.9M CNYFY2025 Free cash flow: -15.7M CNYFY2025 Net income: 365.0K 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.

Phoenix New Media Limited: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
6.43xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/a A stored zero the filing does not prove, withheld rather than published as if it were a measurement.
n/aFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/a Operating profit is zero or negative, so there is no profit for a buyer's price to be a multiple of.
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/aFY2025Apr 29, 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.
42.6%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2025Apr 29, 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.
2.85FY2025Apr 29, 2026
n/aFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/a A stored zero the filing does not prove, withheld rather than published as if it were a measurement.
n/aFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/a The filed income statement reports no earnings per share.
0.59FY2025Oct 15, 2026
-2.47FY2025Apr 29, 2026
5/9FY2025Apr 29, 2026

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 10 filed fiscal years on record, FY2016 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

10 filed fiscal years, FY2016 to FY2025, read from the annual reports Phoenix New Media Limited filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in CNY, as filed.

Phoenix New Media Limited: 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
FY2025765.6M-34.4M365.0Kn/a-15.7M-4.5%0.0%20-F, Apr 29, 20260001193125-26-188853
FY2024703.7M-64.7M-52.9Mn/a-49.5M-9.2%-4.5%20-F, Apr 18, 20250000950170-25-055759
FY2023692.0M-125.7M-109.1Mn/a-70.5M-18.2%-8.9%20-F, Apr 25, 20240000950170-24-047904
FY2022785.7M-191.4M-125.7Mn/a-346.4M-24.4%-9.5%20-F, May 1, 20230000950170-23-016032
FY20211.03B-336.1M-273.1Mn/a-159.7M-32.6%-19.1%20-F, Apr 28, 20220001564590-22-016225
FY20201.21B-102.6M365.3Mn/a-115.2M-8.5%22.3%20-F, Apr 28, 20210001564590-21-021431
FY20191.33B-356.1M724.0Mn/a-388.2M-26.8%21.7%20-F, Apr 28, 20200001564590-20-019287
FY20181.38B-123.7M-65.6Mn/a-132.8M-9.0%-2.1%20-F, Apr 26, 20190001104659-19-023874
FY20171.58B15.0M34.4Mn/a145.2M0.9%1.4%20-F, Apr 26, 20180001104659-18-026859
FY20161.44B35.4M80.6Mn/a174.4M2.5%3.7%20-F, Apr 28, 20170001104659-17-027241
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: -6.8%
  • Earnings, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: -45.1%
  • Earnings per share: Fewer than two filed years carry earnings per share.
  • Free cash flow: Free cash flow was not positive in both 2016 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

Phoenix New Media Limited: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.47 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001193125-26-188853
Piotroski F-score5/9 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001193125-26-188853
Named tests met2 of 30 Computed
Beta0.19 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 2 met, 18 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
Tangible book or below; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman)
Does not
Large cap, low P/E; High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; High returns and growth; Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); EV/EBITDA and coverage; High yield, low payout; Dividends and buybacks; Low beta, profitable; Near the 52-week low; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); High returns, low debt; Owner earnings yield; High return on tangibles; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Cash-covered dividend; Cash-flow yield and ROIC; Clean books, high ROIC
Not measured
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Deep value; Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); ROIC at or above WACC; Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff). A test with a figure we could not read is incomplete, never met and never failed.
Figures we could not read(15)
  • Debt to Equity: 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.
  • Positive Earnings Streak: The latest filed year has no per-share earnings we can read; the test needs 10.
  • P/B Ratio: The stored figure is a zero that can stand for data we do not hold, so this test is not measured.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • EV/EBITDA: EBITDA is zero or negative, so a multiple of it is not meaningful.
  • Interest Coverage: No interest expense is filed for this year, so coverage is not computed.
  • 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 Ncav: 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.
  • P/S Ratio: The stored figure is a zero that can stand for data we do not hold, so this test is not measured.
  • Dividend Streak: The stored figure is a zero that can stand for data we do not hold, so this test is not measured.

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Declared positions

Whether anybody here owns this company.

Positions declared by the founder: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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What to do with what you have read.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 15 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.

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.

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