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NetEase, Inc. (NTES)

NASDAQ / Technology / Electronic Gaming & Multimedia

Share price

123.73 USD Market dataClose of Oct 14, 2026

Market capitalisation

78.81B USD Market dataClose of Oct 14, 2026
Market data
Oct 14, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2025, filed Apr 15, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 14, 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

21.7% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

15.18x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

9.4% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2016 Revenue: 38.18B CNYFY2016 Net income: 11.60B CNYFY2017 Revenue: 54.10B CNYFY2017 Net income: 10.85B CNYFY2018 Revenue: 51.18B CNYFY2018 Net income: 6.48B CNYFY2019 Revenue: 59.24B CNYFY2019 Net income: 21.43B CNYFY2020 Revenue: 73.67B CNYFY2020 Net income: 12.33B CNYFY2021 Revenue: 87.61B CNYFY2021 Net income: 16.98B CNYFY2022 Revenue: 96.50B CNYFY2022 Net income: 19.84B CNYFY2023 Revenue: 103.47B CNYFY2023 Net income: 29.36B CNYFY2024 Revenue: 105.30B CNYFY2024 Net income: 30.26B CNYFY2025 Revenue: 112.63B CNYFY2025 Net income: 34.80B CNY
Revenue Net income10 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 15.18x at the close of 2026-10-14 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 between 15.00x and 25.00x.

Today, against the Technology sector (365 companies), 15.18x sits at the 25th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 15.44x to 59.25x.

Is it good

Return on equity was 21.7% in FY2025, in the band labelled "Strong" (15.0% to 25.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data, suggesting high returns on shareholders' money, which leverage can also produce.

Today, against the Technology sector (672 companies), 21.7% sits at the 84th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from -27.9% to 14.5%.

Is it safe

Current ratio was 3.45 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 Technology sector (733 companies), 3.45 sits at the 74th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 1.17 to 3.56.

Year by year against peers
Whether NetEase, Inc.'s return on equity stayed above the median of the Technology sector, year by year. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 fiscal years of NetEase, Inc. with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way NetEase, Inc.'s return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 filed years of NetEase, Inc.)
What could explain it
What in NetEase, Inc.'s filed statements could explain the movements. (5 readings drawn from the statement lines NetEase, Inc. filed)
What to check next
What to check next on NetEase, Inc., and where in its filings. (2 questions for NetEase, Inc.)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on NetEase, Inc.'s returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (10 of sixteen figures read for NetEase, Inc.)

These are NTES’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 0001104659-26-043468.

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Quality

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

SEC filingComputed

NetEase, 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, 0001104659-26-043468
Return on equity21.7% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001104659-26-043468
Return on capital employed, pre-tax21.2% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001104659-26-043468
Return on assets15.7% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001104659-26-043468
Gross margin64.3% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001104659-26-043468
Operating margin31.8% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001104659-26-043468
Net margin30.9% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001104659-26-043468
NTES 30.9%
APP 60.8%GRMN 23.0%MPWR 22.3%CDNS 20.9%ALAB 25.7%
20.9%60.8%
Net margin: NTES 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

NetEase, Inc: 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 15, 2026, 0001104659-26-043468
Current ratio3.45 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001104659-26-043468
Quick ratio3.44 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001104659-26-043468
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 15, 2026, 0001104659-26-043468
Altman Z-score8.31 ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001104659-26-043468
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, 0001104659-26-043468
Total assets 221.42BTotal liabilities 56.31BShareholders' equity 160.30BOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What NetEase, Inc owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from the balance sheet it filed (20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001104659-26-043468).

NetEase, Inc: balance sheet position
Total assets221.42B FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026
Total liabilities56.31B FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026
Shareholders' equity160.30B FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026
Cash69.97B FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026
Total debtn/a FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026
Net debtn/a
Current ratio3.45
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

NetEase, Inc: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings15.18x ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001104659-26-043468
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 14, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book3.30x ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001104659-26-043468
Price to sales4.69x ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001104659-26-043468
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 14, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001104659-26-043468
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 14, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001104659-26-043468
Price to earnings over growth0.64 ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001104659-26-043468
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, 0001104659-26-043468
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, 0001104659-26-043468

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

NetEase, Inc: valuation
Share price123.73 USD
Market capitalisation78.81B 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 NetEase, Inc

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  5. Astera Labs, Inc. Common Stock (ALAB)Market cap 51.47B USD

Same sector (Technology) 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

NetEase, Inc: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield9.4% ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001104659-26-043468
Free cash flow49.67B CNY ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001104659-26-043468
Free cash flow margin44.1% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001104659-26-043468
Dividend yield2.6% ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001104659-26-043468
Payout ratio39.7% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001104659-26-043468
FY2016 Free cash flow: 14.35B CNYFY2016 Net income: 11.60B CNYFY2017 Free cash flow: 10.23B CNYFY2017 Net income: 10.85B CNYFY2018 Free cash flow: 11.25B CNYFY2018 Net income: 6.48B CNYFY2019 Free cash flow: 16.01B CNYFY2019 Net income: 21.43B CNYFY2020 Free cash flow: 23.83B CNYFY2020 Net income: 12.33B CNYFY2021 Free cash flow: 23.32B CNYFY2021 Net income: 16.98B CNYFY2022 Free cash flow: 25.61B CNYFY2022 Net income: 19.84B CNYFY2023 Free cash flow: 33.03B CNYFY2023 Net income: 29.36B CNYFY2024 Free cash flow: 38.40B CNYFY2024 Net income: 30.26B CNYFY2025 Free cash flow: 49.67B CNYFY2025 Net income: 34.80B 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.

NetEase, Inc.: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
15.18xFY2025Oct 14, 2026
3.30xFY2025Oct 14, 2026
n/aFY2025Oct 14, 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.
9.4%FY2025Oct 14, 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.
2.6%FY2025Oct 14, 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.
3.45FY2025Apr 15, 2026
4.69xFY2025Oct 14, 2026
0.64FY2025Oct 14, 2026
8.31FY2025Oct 14, 2026
-1.99FY2025Apr 15, 2026
6/9FY2025Apr 15, 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 14, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 14, 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 NetEase, Inc filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in CNY, as filed.

NetEase, 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
FY2025112.63B35.83B34.80Bn/a49.67B31.8%21.7%20-F, Apr 15, 20260001104659-26-043468
FY2024105.30B29.58B30.26Bn/a38.40B28.1%21.8%20-F, Apr 15, 20250001410578-25-000728
FY2023103.47B27.71B29.36Bn/a33.03B26.8%23.6%20-F, Apr 25, 20240001104659-24-051449
FY202296.50B19.63B19.84Bn/a25.61B20.3%18.9%20-F, Apr 27, 20230001104659-23-050589
FY202187.61B16.42B16.98Bn/a23.32B18.7%17.8%20-F, Apr 28, 20220001104659-22-052206
FY202073.67B14.54B12.33Bn/a23.83B19.7%15.0%20-F, Apr 28, 20210001104659-21-055902
FY201959.24B13.79B21.43Bn/a16.01B23.3%34.9%20-F, Apr 29, 20200001104659-20-052796
FY201851.18B9.98B6.48Bn/a11.25B19.5%14.3%20-F, Apr 26, 20190001104659-19-023833
FY201754.10B12.99B10.85Bn/a10.23B24.0%23.7%20-F, Apr 20, 20180001104659-18-025392
FY201638.18B12.63B11.60Bn/a14.35B33.1%30.4%20-F, Apr 21, 20170001104659-17-025196
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 12.8%
  • Earnings, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 13.0%
  • Earnings per share: Fewer than two filed years carry earnings per share.
  • Free cash flow, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 14.8%

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

NetEase, Inc: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-1.99 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001104659-26-043468
Piotroski F-score6/9 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 15, 2026, 0001104659-26-043468
Named tests met1 of 30 Computed
Beta0.63 ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 1 met, 17 not met, 12 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
Cash-covered dividend
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Deep value; Large cap, low P/E; High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); High yield, low payout; Near the 52-week low; 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; 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); High returns and growth; EV/EBITDA and coverage; Dividends and buybacks; Low beta, profitable; ROIC at or above WACC; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); High returns, low debt; Cash-flow yield and ROIC. A test with a figure we could not read is incomplete, never met and never failed.
Figures we could not read(11)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Eps Growth 5Y: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • EV/EBITDA: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • 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.

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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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What to do with what you have read.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 11 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. 12 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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