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Li Auto Inc. (LI)

NASDAQ / Consumer Cyclical / Auto - Manufacturers

Share price

11.46 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

11.53B USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026
Market data
Oct 15, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2025, filed Apr 10, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 15, 2026
Filed years
8, FY2018 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

-1.4% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

67.78x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

-16.6% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2018 Net income: -1.53B CNYFY2019 Revenue: 284.4M CNYFY2019 Net income: -2.44B CNYFY2020 Revenue: 9.46B CNYFY2020 Net income: -151.7M CNYFY2021 Revenue: 27.01B CNYFY2021 Net income: -321.5M CNYFY2022 Revenue: 45.29B CNYFY2022 Net income: -2.03B CNYFY2023 Revenue: 123.85B CNYFY2023 Net income: 11.81B CNYFY2024 Revenue: 144.46B CNYFY2024 Net income: 8.05B CNYFY2025 Revenue: 112.31B CNYFY2025 Net income: 1.14B CNY
Revenue Net income8 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
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 67.78x 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 Cyclical sector (302 companies), 67.78x sits at the 93rd percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 12.87x to 31.26x.

Is it good

Return on invested capital was -1.4% in FY2025, in the band labelled "Likely below the cost of capital" (below 8.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data, suggesting returns below the usual cost of the capital employed.

Today, against the Consumer Cyclical sector (222 companies), -1.4% sits at the 14th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 3.6% to 14.8%.

Is it safe

Li Auto Inc. held more cash than debt at the end of FY2025 (net cash of 38.9bn CNY), so net debt to EBITDA is a net cash position rather than a leverage reading.

No peer distribution is published for net debt to EBITDA today; the year-by-year comparison uses the filed annual figures.

Year by year against peers
Whether Li Auto Inc.'s return on invested capital stayed above the median of the Consumer Cyclical sector, year by year. (FY2024 to FY2025, 2 fiscal years of Li Auto Inc. with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Li Auto Inc.'s gross margin has moved, and how steadily. (FY2019 to FY2025, 7 filed years of Li Auto Inc.)
What could explain it
What in Li Auto Inc.'s filed statements could explain the movements. (7 readings drawn from the statement lines Li Auto Inc. filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Li Auto Inc., and where in its filings. (7 questions for Li Auto Inc.)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Li Auto Inc.'s returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (12 of sixteen figures read for Li Auto Inc.)

These are LI’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 10, 2026, accession 0001104659-26-041705.

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Quality

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

SEC filingComputed

Li Auto Inc: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax-1.4% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 10, 2026, 0001104659-26-041705
Return on equity1.6% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 10, 2026, 0001104659-26-041705
Return on capital employed, pre-tax-0.6% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 10, 2026, 0001104659-26-041705
Return on assets0.7% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 10, 2026, 0001104659-26-041705
Gross margin18.7% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 10, 2026, 0001104659-26-041705
Operating margin-0.5% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 10, 2026, 0001104659-26-041705
Net margin1.0% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 10, 2026, 0001104659-26-041705
LI 1.0%
RIVN -67.7%HMC 3.9%STLA -14.6%F -4.4%GM 1.5%
-67.7%3.9%
Net margin: LI 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

Li Auto Inc: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity0.25 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 10, 2026, 0001104659-26-041705
Current ratio1.81 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 10, 2026, 0001104659-26-041705
Quick ratio1.68 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 10, 2026, 0001104659-26-041705
Interest coverage
Why n/m

Operating income is zero or below, so there is no operating profit to cover the interest bill and coverage is not meaningful (n/m).

n/m ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 10, 2026, 0001104659-26-041705
Altman Z-score1.79 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 10, 2026, 0001104659-26-041705
Net debt-45.04B ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 10, 2026, 0001104659-26-041705
Total assets 154.30BTotal liabilities 81.16BShareholders' equity 72.62BOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Li Auto Inc owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from the balance sheet it filed (20-F, filed Apr 10, 2026, 0001104659-26-041705).

Li Auto Inc: balance sheet position
Total assets154.30B FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 10, 2026
Total liabilities81.16B FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 10, 2026
Shareholders' equity72.62B FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 10, 2026
Cash62.86B FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 10, 2026
Total debt17.81B FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 10, 2026
Net debt-45.04B
Current ratio1.81
Debt to equity0.25
  • Interest cover: FY2025: Operating income is zero or below, so there is no operating profit to cover the interest bill and coverage is not meaningful (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

Li Auto Inc: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings67.78x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 10, 2026, 0001104659-26-041705
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 book1.06x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 10, 2026, 0001104659-26-041705
Price to sales0.69x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 10, 2026, 0001104659-26-041705
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 10, 2026, 0001104659-26-041705
Enterprise value to EBITDA9.32x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 10, 2026, 0001104659-26-041705
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 10, 2026, 0001104659-26-041705
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 10, 2026, 0001104659-26-041705
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 10, 2026, 0001104659-26-041705

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

Li Auto Inc: valuation
Share price11.46 USD
Market capitalisation11.53B USD
Enterprise value to EBITDA9.32x
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 Li Auto Inc

  1. Rivian Automotive, Inc. (RIVN)Market cap 18.80B USD
  2. Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (HMC)Market cap 44.20B USD
  3. Stellantis N.V. (STLA)Market cap 12.59B USD
  4. Ford Motor Company (F)Market cap 49.09B USD
  5. General Motors Company (GM)Market cap 73.41B USD

Same industry (Auto - Manufacturers) and size band (Large, 10B to 200B), 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

Li Auto Inc: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield-16.6% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 10, 2026, 0001104659-26-041705
Free cash flow-12.82B CNY ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 10, 2026, 0001104659-26-041705
Free cash flow margin-11.4% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 10, 2026, 0001104659-26-041705
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 10, 2026, 0001104659-26-041705
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 10, 2026, 0001104659-26-041705
FY2018 Free cash flow: -2.32B CNYFY2018 Net income: -1.53B CNYFY2019 Free cash flow: -2.75B CNYFY2019 Net income: -2.44B CNYFY2020 Free cash flow: 2.46B CNYFY2020 Net income: -151.7M CNYFY2021 Free cash flow: 4.90B CNYFY2021 Net income: -321.5M CNYFY2022 Free cash flow: 2.25B CNYFY2022 Net income: -2.03B CNYFY2023 Free cash flow: 44.19B CNYFY2023 Net income: 11.81B CNYFY2024 Free cash flow: 8.20B CNYFY2024 Net income: 8.05B CNYFY2025 Free cash flow: -12.82B CNYFY2025 Net income: 1.14B 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.

Li Auto Inc.: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
67.78xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
1.06xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
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.
-16.6%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
-1.4%FY2025Apr 10, 2026
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.
0.25FY2025Apr 10, 2026
1.81FY2025Apr 10, 2026
0.69xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/a The filed income statement reports no earnings per share.
1.79FY2025Oct 15, 2026
-2.48FY2025Apr 10, 2026
2/9FY2025Apr 10, 2026

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 8 filed fiscal years on record, FY2018 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

8 filed fiscal years, FY2018 to FY2025, read from the annual reports Li Auto Inc filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in CNY, as filed.

Li Auto 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
FY2025112.31B-521.1M1.14Bn/a-12.82B-0.5%1.6%20-F, Apr 10, 20260001104659-26-041705
FY2024144.46B7.02B8.05Bn/a8.20B4.9%11.3%20-F, Apr 10, 20250001410578-25-000678
FY2023123.85B7.41B11.81Bn/a44.19B6.0%19.6%20-F, Apr 12, 20240001104659-24-046495
FY202245.29B-3.65B-2.03Bn/a2.25B-8.1%-4.5%20-F, Apr 21, 20230001104659-23-047986
FY202127.01B-1.02B-321.5Mn/a4.90B-3.8%-0.8%20-F, Apr 19, 20220001104659-22-047043
FY20209.46B-669.3M-151.7Mn/a2.46B-7.1%-0.5%20-F, Mar 10, 20210001104659-21-034154
FY2019284.4M-1.86B-2.44Bn/a-2.75B-653.6%n/m20-F, Mar 10, 20210001104659-21-034154
FY2018n/a-1.13B-1.53Bn/a-2.32Bn/an/a20-F, Mar 10, 20210001104659-21-034154
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2019 to FY2025: 170.9%
  • Earnings: Earnings was not positive in both 2018 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 2018 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

Li Auto Inc: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.48 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 10, 2026, 0001104659-26-041705
Piotroski F-score2/9 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 10, 2026, 0001104659-26-041705
Named tests met0 of 30 Computed
Beta0.69 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 0 met, 26 not met, 4 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; Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); 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; ROIC at or above WACC; 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
Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); 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(12)
  • Positive Earnings Streak: The latest filed year has no per-share earnings we can read; the test needs 10.
  • EV/EBIT: 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.
  • Interest Coverage: Operating income is zero or below, so there is no operating profit to cover the interest bill and coverage is not meaningful (n/m).
  • 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.
  • 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 the founder: 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

  • 12 figures could not be read on this company, among them Positive Earnings Streak, EV/EBIT, PEG Ratio. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason. 4 named tests come back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.
  • We hold 8 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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ValueScreener · valuescreener.ai · Computed from accounts filed with the SEC by this company, read from EDGAR, and from dated closing prices. On this page a filed figure opens into its formula, its inputs and the statement, fiscal year and filing date it was read from, and a price into the day of its close. A figure that cannot show that trail says so.

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