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PDD Holdings Inc. (PDD)

NASDAQ / Consumer Cyclical / Specialty Retail

Share price

82.42 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

117.30B 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

23.7% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

8.03x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

n/a Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Why n/a

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

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2016 Revenue: 504.9M CNYFY2016 Net income: -292.0M CNYFY2017 Revenue: 1.74B CNYFY2017 Net income: -525.1M CNYFY2018 Revenue: 13.12B CNYFY2018 Net income: -10.22B CNYFY2019 Revenue: 30.14B CNYFY2019 Net income: -6.97B CNYFY2020 Revenue: 59.49B CNYFY2020 Net income: -7.18B CNYFY2021 Revenue: 93.95B CNYFY2021 Net income: 7.77B CNYFY2022 Revenue: 130.56B CNYFY2022 Net income: 31.54B CNYFY2023 Revenue: 247.64B CNYFY2023 Net income: 60.03B CNYFY2024 Revenue: 393.84B CNYFY2024 Net income: 112.43B CNYFY2025 Revenue: 431.85B CNYFY2025 Net income: 97.84B 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 8.03x 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 Specialty Retail industry (44 companies), 8.03x sits at the 12th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 15.54x to 47.91x.

Is it good

Return on equity was 23.7% 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 Specialty Retail industry (70 companies), 23.7% sits at the 79th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from -13.0% to 18.0%.

Is it safe

Current ratio was 2.43 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 Specialty Retail industry (78 companies), 2.43 sits at the 79th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 1.10 to 2.15.

Year by year against peers
Whether PDD Holdings Inc.'s return on equity stayed above the median of the Specialty Retail industry, year by year. (FY2021 to FY2025, 5 fiscal years of PDD Holdings Inc. with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way PDD Holdings Inc.'s return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 filed years of PDD Holdings Inc.)
What could explain it
What in PDD Holdings Inc.'s filed statements could explain the movements. (4 readings drawn from the statement lines PDD Holdings Inc. filed)
What to check next
What to check next on PDD Holdings Inc., and where in its filings. (3 questions for PDD Holdings Inc.)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on PDD Holdings Inc.'s returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (6 of sixteen figures read for PDD Holdings Inc.)

These are PDD’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 0001104659-26-050727.

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Quality

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

SEC filingComputed

PDD Holdings 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 29, 2026, 0001104659-26-050727
Return on equity23.7% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001104659-26-050727
Return on capital employed, pre-tax22.4% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001104659-26-050727
Return on assets15.5% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001104659-26-050727
Gross margin56.3% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001104659-26-050727
Operating margin21.6% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001104659-26-050727
Net margin22.7% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001104659-26-050727
PDD 22.7%
WSM 13.9%SE 6.9%ULTA 9.3%EBAY 18.3%MELI 6.9%
6.9%22.7%
Net margin: PDD 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

PDD Holdings 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 29, 2026, 0001104659-26-050727
Current ratio2.43 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001104659-26-050727
Quick ratio2.43 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001104659-26-050727
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, 0001104659-26-050727
Altman Z-score4.56 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001104659-26-050727
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, 0001104659-26-050727
Total assets 630.04BTotal liabilities 216.66BShareholders' equity 413.39BOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What PDD Holdings Inc owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from the balance sheet it filed (20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001104659-26-050727).

PDD Holdings Inc: balance sheet position
Total assets630.04B FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026
Total liabilities216.66B FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026
Shareholders' equity413.39B FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026
Cash422.31B FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026
Total debtn/a FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026
Net debtn/a
Current ratio2.43
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

PDD Holdings Inc: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings8.03x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001104659-26-050727
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 book1.90x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001104659-26-050727
Price to sales1.82x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001104659-26-050727
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, 0001104659-26-050727
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 29, 2026, 0001104659-26-050727
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, 0001104659-26-050727
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, 0001104659-26-050727
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, 0001104659-26-050727

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

PDD Holdings Inc: valuation
Share price82.42 USD
Market capitalisation117.30B 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 PDD Holdings Inc

  1. Williams-Sonoma, Inc. (WSM)Market cap 29.68B USD
  2. Sea Limited (SE)Market cap 59.69B USD
  3. Ulta Beauty, Inc. (ULTA)Market cap 26.05B USD
  4. eBay Inc. (EBAY)Market cap 54.69B USD
  5. MercadoLibre, Inc. (MELI)Market cap 94.14B USD

Same industry (Specialty Retail) 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.

Computed

PDD Holdings Inc: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow 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 29, 2026, 0001104659-26-050727
Free cash flow
Why n/a

The FY2025 filing carries no free cash flow we could read.

n/a ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001104659-26-050727
Free cash flow margin
Why n/a

No free cash flow, and no operating cash flow and capital expenditure pair, is filed for this year.

n/a ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001104659-26-050727
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 29, 2026, 0001104659-26-050727
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 29, 2026, 0001104659-26-050727
FY2016 Free cash flow: 877.5M CNYFY2016 Net income: -292.0M CNYFY2017 Free cash flow: 9.68B CNYFY2017 Net income: -525.1M CNYFY2018 Free cash flow: 7.74B CNYFY2018 Net income: -10.22B CNYFY2019 Free cash flow: 14.79B CNYFY2019 Net income: -6.97B CNYFY2020 Free cash flow: 28.15B CNYFY2020 Net income: -7.18B CNYFY2021 Net income: 7.77B CNYFY2022 Net income: 31.54B CNYFY2023 Net income: 60.03B CNYFY2024 Net income: 112.43B CNYFY2025 Net income: 97.84B 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.

PDD Holdings Inc.: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
8.03xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
1.90xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
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.
n/aFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/a The filed cash flow statement reports neither free cash flow nor the operating cash flow and capital spending it is built from.
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.
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/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.
2.43FY2025Apr 29, 2026
1.82xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/a The filed income statement reports no earnings per share.
4.56FY2025Oct 15, 2026
-2.08FY2025Apr 29, 2026
4/9FY2025Apr 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 PDD Holdings Inc filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in CNY, as filed.

PDD Holdings 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
FY2025431.85B93.10B97.84Bn/an/a21.6%23.7%20-F, Apr 29, 20260001104659-26-050727
FY2024393.84B108.42B112.43Bn/an/a27.5%35.9%20-F, Apr 28, 20250001410578-25-000951
FY2023247.64B58.70B60.03Bn/an/a23.7%32.1%20-F, Apr 25, 20240001104659-24-051610
FY2022130.56B30.40B31.54Bn/an/a23.3%26.8%20-F, Apr 26, 20230001104659-23-049927
FY202193.95B6.90B7.77Bn/an/a7.3%10.3%20-F, Apr 25, 20220001104659-22-049283
FY202059.49B-9.38B-7.18Bn/a28.15B-15.8%-11.9%20-F, Apr 30, 20210001104659-21-058237
FY201930.14B-8.54B-6.97Bn/a14.79B-28.3%-28.3%20-F, Apr 24, 20200001104659-20-051022
FY201813.12B-10.80B-10.22Bn/a7.74B-82.3%-54.3%20-F, Apr 24, 20190001104659-19-023251
FY20171.74B-595.7M-525.1Mn/a9.68B-34.2%-43.6%20-F, Apr 24, 20190001104659-19-023251
FY2016504.9M-286.2M-292.0Mn/a877.5M-56.7%-81.9%20-F, Apr 24, 20190001104659-19-023251
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 111.7%
  • Earnings: Earnings was not positive in both 2016 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, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2020: 138.0%

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

PDD Holdings Inc: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.08 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001104659-26-050727
Piotroski F-score4/9 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 29, 2026, 0001104659-26-050727
Named tests met2 of 30 Computed
Beta0.84 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 2 met, 14 not met, 14 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
Owner earnings yield; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman)
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); Low beta, profitable; Near the 52-week low; 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/B (David Dreman)
Not measured
Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); High returns and growth; EV/EBITDA and coverage; High yield, low payout; Dividends and buybacks; 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-covered dividend; Cash-flow yield and ROIC; 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(18)
  • 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.
  • 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: 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.
  • 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.
  • Free Cash Flow Yield: 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 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.
  • Capex To Ocf: 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.

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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, EV/EBIT. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason. 14 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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