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Hongli Group Inc. (HLP)

NASDAQ / Basic Materials / Steel

Share price

3.00 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

224.2M USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026
Market data
Oct 15, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2025, filed May 13, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 15, 2026
Filed years
6, FY2020 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

3.4% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

115.41x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

0.3% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, by fiscal year

FY2019 Revenue: 9.3M USDFY2019 Net income: 2.1M USDFY2020 Revenue: 11.2M USDFY2020 Net income: 2.4M USDFY2021 Revenue: 21.7M USDFY2021 Net income: 3.2M USDFY2022 Revenue: 20.3M USDFY2022 Net income: 2.9M USDFY2023 Revenue: 16.0M USDFY2023 Net income: 864.7K USDFY2024 Revenue: 14.1M USDFY2024 Net income: -1.9M USDFY2025 Revenue: 19.6M USDFY2025 Net income: 1.9M USD
Revenue Net income7 fiscal years; a year whose statement names no SEC filing is market data, and the table in Filings says which.
Named tests met
0 of 30 Which tests
The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 115.41x 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 Basic Materials sector (124 companies), 115.41x sits at the 95th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 15.03x to 34.97x.

Is it good

Return on equity was 3.4% 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 Basic Materials sector (247 companies), 3.4% sits at the 56th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from -20.2% to 11.8%.

Is it safe

Interest coverage was 14.75x in FY2025, in the band labelled "Comfortable" (6.00x and above), on lines anchored on Damodaran's interest-coverage table, suggesting an interest bill operating profit covers many times over.

Year by year against peers
Whether Hongli Group Inc.'s return on equity stayed above the median of the Basic Materials sector, year by year. (FY2024 to FY2025, 2 fiscal years of Hongli Group Inc. with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Hongli Group Inc.'s gross margin has moved, and how steadily. (FY2019 to FY2025, 7 filed years of Hongli Group Inc.)
What could explain it
What in Hongli Group Inc.'s filed statements could explain the movements. (8 readings drawn from the statement lines Hongli Group Inc. filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Hongli Group Inc., and where in its filings. (6 questions for Hongli Group Inc.)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Hongli Group Inc.'s returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (10 of sixteen figures read for Hongli Group Inc.)

These are HLP’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 May 13, 2026, accession 0001213900-26-055737.

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Quality

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

SEC filingComputed

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

The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.

n/a ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed May 13, 2026, 0001213900-26-055737
Return on equity3.4% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed May 13, 2026, 0001213900-26-055737
Return on capital employed, pre-tax4.2% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed May 13, 2026, 0001213900-26-055737
Return on assets2.7% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed May 13, 2026, 0001213900-26-055737
Gross margin32.5% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed May 13, 2026, 0001213900-26-055737
Operating margin12.4% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed May 13, 2026, 0001213900-26-055737
Net margin9.9% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed May 13, 2026, 0001213900-26-055737
HLP 9.9%
LUD 1.7%FRD 1.4%ACNT 1.2%KBSX -3.1%
-3.1%9.9%
Net margin: HLP against the 4 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

Hongli Group Inc: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity
Why n/a

The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.

n/a ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed May 13, 2026, 0001213900-26-055737
Current ratio1.12 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed May 13, 2026, 0001213900-26-055737
Quick ratio0.95 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed May 13, 2026, 0001213900-26-055737
Interest coverage14.75x ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed May 13, 2026, 0001213900-26-055737
Altman Z-score10.05 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed May 13, 2026, 0001213900-26-055737
Net debt
Why n/a

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

n/a ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed May 13, 2026, 0001213900-26-055737
Total assets 72.2MTotal liabilities 14.4MShareholders' equity 57.8MOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Hongli Group Inc owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from the balance sheet it filed (20-F, filed May 13, 2026, 0001213900-26-055737).

Hongli Group Inc: balance sheet position
Total assets72.2M FiledFY2025 20-F, filed May 13, 2026
Total liabilities14.4M FiledFY2025 20-F, filed May 13, 2026
Shareholders' equity57.8M FiledFY2025 20-F, filed May 13, 2026
Cash1.8M FiledFY2025 20-F, filed May 13, 2026
Total debtn/a FiledFY2025 20-F, filed May 13, 2026
Net debtn/a
Current ratio1.12
Debt to equityn/a
  • Debt to equity: FY2025: The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.

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

Hongli Group Inc: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings115.41x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed May 13, 2026, 0001213900-26-055737
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 book3.88x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed May 13, 2026, 0001213900-26-055737
Price to sales11.44x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed May 13, 2026, 0001213900-26-055737
Enterprise value to EBIT
Why n/a

The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed May 13, 2026, 0001213900-26-055737
Enterprise value to EBITDA
Why n/a

The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed May 13, 2026, 0001213900-26-055737
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 May 13, 2026, 0001213900-26-055737
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 May 13, 2026, 0001213900-26-055737
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 May 13, 2026, 0001213900-26-055737

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value HLP 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 Hongli Group Inc today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

Hongli Group Inc: valuation
Share price3.00 USD
Market capitalisation224.2M USD
Enterprise value to EBITDAn/a
Graham numbern/a
Diluted earnings per share, FY2019n/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 Hongli Group Inc

  1. Luda Technology Group Limited (LUD)Market cap 88.3M USD
  2. Friedman Industries, Incorporated (FRD)Market cap 297.6M USD
  3. Ascent Industries Co. (ACNT)Market cap 122.1M USD
  4. FST Corp. (KBSX)Market cap 58.6M USD

Same industry (Steel) and size band (Micro, 50M to 300M), 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

Hongli Group Inc: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield0.3% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed May 13, 2026, 0001213900-26-055737
Free cash flow660.8K USD ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed May 13, 2026, 0001213900-26-055737
Free cash flow margin3.4% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed May 13, 2026, 0001213900-26-055737
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 May 13, 2026, 0001213900-26-055737
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 May 13, 2026, 0001213900-26-055737
FY2019 Free cash flow: 446.2K USDFY2019 Net income: 2.1M USDFY2020 Free cash flow: 2.4M USDFY2020 Net income: 2.4M USDFY2021 Free cash flow: 135.0K USDFY2021 Net income: 3.2M USDFY2022 Free cash flow: -2.6M USDFY2022 Net income: 2.9M USDFY2023 Free cash flow: 582.5K USDFY2023 Net income: 864.7K USDFY2024 Free cash flow: -446.5K USDFY2024 Net income: -1.9M USDFY2025 Free cash flow: 660.8K USDFY2025 Net income: 1.9M USD
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 filingMarket data

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.

Hongli Group Inc.: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
115.41xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
3.88xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/a The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.
0.3%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2025May 13, 2026
n/a The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.
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/aFY2025May 13, 2026
n/a The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.
1.12FY2025May 13, 2026
11.44xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/a The filed income statement reports no earnings per share.
10.05FY2025Oct 15, 2026
-2.13FY2025May 13, 2026
5/9FY2025May 13, 2026

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 6 filed fiscal years on record, FY2020 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

7 fiscal years, FY2019 to FY2025. 6 read from the annual reports Hongli Group Inc filed with the SEC, each naming its filing; the rest from statements that name none, which are market data. Amounts in USD, as reported.

Hongli Group 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
FY202519.6M2.4M1.9Mn/a660.8K12.4%3.4%20-F, May 13, 20260001213900-26-055737
FY202414.1M-1.6M-1.9Mn/a-446.5K-11.2%-3.5%20-F, May 12, 20250001213900-25-042120
FY202316.0M1.0M864.7Kn/a582.5K6.4%4.1%20-F, Apr 30, 20240001213900-24-037946
FY202220.3M2.9M2.9Mn/a-2.6M14.4%21.8%20-F, May 16, 20230001213900-23-040060
FY202121.7M3.9M3.2Mn/a135.0K18.1%27.9%20-F, May 16, 20230001213900-23-040060
FY202011.2M2.5M2.4Mn/a2.4M22.1%n/a20-F, May 16, 20230001213900-23-040060
FY20199.3M2.9M2.1M0.17446.2K31.0%40.4%Market data, supplied Oct 15, 2026accession n/a
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2019 to FY2025: 13.2%
  • Earnings, compound annual growth FY2019 to FY2025: -1.1%
  • Earnings per share: Fewer than two filed years carry earnings per share.
  • Free cash flow, compound annual growth FY2019 to FY2025: 6.8%

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

Hongli Group Inc: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.13 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed May 13, 2026, 0001213900-26-055737
Piotroski F-score5/9 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed May 13, 2026, 0001213900-26-055737
Named tests met0 of 30 Computed
Beta0.34 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 0 met, 23 not met, 7 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
None of the named tests.
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 returns and growth; Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); 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); Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Tangible book or below; Cash-flow yield and ROIC; Clean books, high ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff)
Not measured
Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); EV/EBITDA and coverage; ROIC at or above WACC; Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); Cash-covered dividend. 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 debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.
  • Positive Earnings Streak: The latest filed year has no per-share earnings we can read; the test needs 10.
  • EV/EBIT: The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.
  • Return on Invested Capital: The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.
  • 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: The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.
  • 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: The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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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

  • 15 figures could not be read on this company, among them Debt to Equity, Positive Earnings Streak, EV/EBIT. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason. 7 named tests come back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.
  • We hold 6 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.

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