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TAL Education Group (TAL)

NYSE / Consumer Defensive / Education & Training Services

Share price

12.00 USD Market dataClose of Oct 16, 2026

Market capitalisation

7.30B USD Market dataClose of Oct 16, 2026
Market data
Oct 16, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2026, filed Jun 12, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 16, 2026
Filed years
10, FY2017 to FY2026
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

14.1% Computed

From the FY2026 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

13.76x Computed

FY2026 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

7.0% Computed

FY2026 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2017 Revenue: 1.04B USDFY2017 Net income: 116.9M USDFY2018 Revenue: 1.72B USDFY2018 Net income: 198.4M USDFY2019 Revenue: 2.56B USDFY2019 Net income: 367.2M USDFY2020 Revenue: 3.27B USDFY2020 Net income: -110.2M USDFY2021 Revenue: 4.50B USDFY2021 Net income: -116.0M USDFY2022 Revenue: 4.39B USDFY2022 Net income: -1.14B USDFY2023 Revenue: 1.02B USDFY2023 Net income: -135.6M USDFY2024 Revenue: 1.49B USDFY2024 Net income: -3.6M USDFY2025 Revenue: 2.25B USDFY2025 Net income: 84.6M USDFY2026 Revenue: 3.01B USDFY2026 Net income: 530.8M USD
Revenue Net income10 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 13.76x at the close of 2026-10-16 on FY2026 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 10.00x and 15.00x.

Today, against the Consumer Defensive sector (135 companies), 13.76x sits at the 25th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 13.73x to 34.00x.

Is it good

Return on equity was 14.1% in FY2026, in the band labelled "Ordinary" (8.0% to 15.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data.

Today, against the Education & Training Services industry (36 companies), 14.1% sits at the 72nd percentile; the middle half of that group runs from -54.1% to 15.7%.

Is it safe

Current ratio was 2.17 in FY2026, 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 Education & Training Services industry (39 companies), 2.17 sits at the 71st percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 0.86 to 2.20.

Year by year against peers
Whether TAL Education Group's return on equity stayed above the median of the Education & Training Services industry, year by year. (FY2022 to FY2026, 5 fiscal years of TAL Education Group with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way TAL Education Group's return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2017 to FY2026, 10 filed years of TAL Education Group)
What could explain it
What in TAL Education Group's filed statements could explain the movements. (6 readings drawn from the statement lines TAL Education Group filed)
What to check next
What to check next on TAL Education Group, and where in its filings. (3 questions for TAL Education Group)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on TAL Education Group's returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (9 of sixteen figures read for TAL Education Group)

These are TAL’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 FY2026 annual report: 20-F, filed Jun 12, 2026, accession 0001104659-26-073410.

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Quality

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

SEC filingComputed

TAL Education Group: 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 ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed Jun 12, 2026, 0001104659-26-073410
Return on equity14.1% ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed Jun 12, 2026, 0001104659-26-073410
Return on capital employed, pre-tax6.6% ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed Jun 12, 2026, 0001104659-26-073410
Return on assets8.9% ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed Jun 12, 2026, 0001104659-26-073410
Gross margin55.4% ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed Jun 12, 2026, 0001104659-26-073410
Operating margin9.2% ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed Jun 12, 2026, 0001104659-26-073410
Net margin17.6% ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed Jun 12, 2026, 0001104659-26-073410
TAL 17.6%
EDU 8.4%LOPE 19.5%LAUR 16.6%GHC 6.0%LRN 13.4%
6.0%19.5%
Net margin: TAL 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

TAL Education Group: 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 ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed Jun 12, 2026, 0001104659-26-073410
Current ratio2.17 ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed Jun 12, 2026, 0001104659-26-073410
Quick ratio2.09 ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed Jun 12, 2026, 0001104659-26-073410
Interest coverage
Why n/a

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

n/a ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed Jun 12, 2026, 0001104659-26-073410
Altman Z-score3.08 ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2026 20-F, filed Jun 12, 2026, 0001104659-26-073410
Net debt
Why n/a

The FY2026 balance sheet carries no net debt we could read.

n/a ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed Jun 12, 2026, 0001104659-26-073410
Total assets 5.94BTotal liabilities 2.16BShareholders' equity 3.77BOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What TAL Education Group owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2026, from the balance sheet it filed (20-F, filed Jun 12, 2026, 0001104659-26-073410).

TAL Education Group: balance sheet position
Total assets5.94B FiledFY2026 20-F, filed Jun 12, 2026
Total liabilities2.16B FiledFY2026 20-F, filed Jun 12, 2026
Shareholders' equity3.77B FiledFY2026 20-F, filed Jun 12, 2026
Cash3.24B FiledFY2026 20-F, filed Jun 12, 2026
Total debtn/a FiledFY2026 20-F, filed Jun 12, 2026
Net debtn/a
Current ratio2.17
Debt to equityn/a
  • Debt to equity: FY2026: 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: FY2026: 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

TAL Education Group: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings13.76x ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2026 20-F, filed Jun 12, 2026, 0001104659-26-073410
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 16, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book1.93x ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2026 20-F, filed Jun 12, 2026, 0001104659-26-073410
Price to sales2.43x ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2026 20-F, filed Jun 12, 2026, 0001104659-26-073410
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 16, 2026 · FY2026 20-F, filed Jun 12, 2026, 0001104659-26-073410
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 16, 2026 · FY2026 20-F, filed Jun 12, 2026, 0001104659-26-073410
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 16, 2026 · FY2026 20-F, filed Jun 12, 2026, 0001104659-26-073410
Diluted earnings per share
Why n/a

The FY2026 filing carries no diluted earnings per share we could read.

n/a FiledFY2026 20-F, filed Jun 12, 2026, 0001104659-26-073410
Graham number
Why n/a

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

n/a ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed Jun 12, 2026, 0001104659-26-073410

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

TAL Education Group: valuation
Share price12.00 USD
Market capitalisation7.30B 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 TAL Education Group

  1. New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. (EDU)Market cap 9.44B USD
  2. Grand Canyon Education, Inc. (LOPE)Market cap 4.21B USD
  3. Laureate Education, Inc. (LAUR)Market cap 5.32B USD
  4. Graham Holdings Company (GHC)Market cap 5.10B USD
  5. Stride, Inc. (LRN)Market cap 3.42B USD

Same industry (Education & Training Services) and size band (Mid, 2B to 10B), 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

TAL Education Group: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield7.0% ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2026 20-F, filed Jun 12, 2026, 0001104659-26-073410
Free cash flow508.3M USD ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed Jun 12, 2026, 0001104659-26-073410
Free cash flow margin16.9% ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed Jun 12, 2026, 0001104659-26-073410
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 16, 2026 · FY2026 20-F, filed Jun 12, 2026, 0001104659-26-073410
Payout ratio
Why n/a

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

n/a ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed Jun 12, 2026, 0001104659-26-073410
FY2017 Free cash flow: 307.9M USDFY2017 Net income: 116.9M USDFY2018 Free cash flow: 558.9M USDFY2018 Net income: 198.4M USDFY2019 Free cash flow: 56.0M USDFY2019 Net income: 367.2M USDFY2020 Free cash flow: 677.8M USDFY2020 Net income: -110.2M USDFY2021 Free cash flow: 709.7M USDFY2021 Net income: -116.0M USDFY2022 Free cash flow: -1.19B USDFY2022 Net income: -1.14B USDFY2023 Free cash flow: -103.0M USDFY2023 Net income: -135.6M USDFY2024 Free cash flow: 193.4M USDFY2024 Net income: -3.6M USDFY2025 Free cash flow: 286.2M USDFY2025 Net income: 84.6M USDFY2026 Free cash flow: 508.3M USDFY2026 Net income: 530.8M 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 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.

TAL Education Group: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
13.76xFY2026Oct 16, 2026
1.93xFY2026Oct 16, 2026
n/aFY2026Oct 16, 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.
7.0%FY2026Oct 16, 2026
n/aFY2026Jun 12, 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/aFY2026Oct 16, 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/aFY2026Jun 12, 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.
2.17FY2026Jun 12, 2026
2.43xFY2026Oct 16, 2026
n/aFY2026Oct 16, 2026
n/a The filed income statement reports no earnings per share.
3.08FY2026Oct 16, 2026
-2.72FY2026Jun 12, 2026
6/9FY2026Jun 12, 2026

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2026, the newest full year on file. 10 filed fiscal years on record, FY2017 to FY2026, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 16, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 16, 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, FY2017 to FY2026, read from the annual reports TAL Education Group filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in USD, as filed.

TAL Education Group: 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
FY20263.01B276.0M530.8Mn/a508.3M9.2%14.1%20-F, Jun 12, 20260001104659-26-073410
FY20252.25B-3.2M84.6Mn/a286.2M-0.1%2.3%20-F, Jun 16, 20250001410578-25-001415
FY20241.49B-69.2M-3.6Mn/a193.4M-4.6%-0.1%20-F, May 31, 20240001104659-24-067123
FY20231.02B-90.7M-135.6Mn/a-103.0M-8.9%-3.5%20-F, May 31, 20230001410578-23-001399
FY20224.39B-614.5M-1.14Bn/a-1.19B-14.0%-28.2%20-F, Jun 14, 20220001410578-22-001873
FY20214.50B-438.2M-116.0Mn/a709.7M-9.8%-2.2%20-F, May 7, 20210001104659-21-063077
FY20203.27B137.4M-110.2Mn/a677.8M4.2%-4.4%20-F, Jun 30, 20200001104659-20-078996
FY20192.56B341.6M367.2Mn/a56.0M13.3%14.8%20-F, May 16, 20190001144204-19-026826
FY20181.72B208.6M198.4Mn/a558.9M12.2%12.2%20-F, Jun 26, 20180001144204-18-035695
FY20171.04B134.6M116.9Mn/a307.9M12.9%18.1%20-F, Jun 28, 20170001144204-17-034624
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2017 to FY2026: 12.5%
  • Earnings, compound annual growth FY2017 to FY2026: 18.3%
  • Earnings per share: Fewer than two filed years carry earnings per share.
  • Free cash flow, compound annual growth FY2017 to FY2026: 5.7%

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

TAL Education Group: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.72 ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed Jun 12, 2026, 0001104659-26-073410
Piotroski F-score6/9 ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed Jun 12, 2026, 0001104659-26-073410
Named tests met0 of 30 Computed
Beta0.57 ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 0 met, 18 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
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); Near the 52-week low; 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; 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; High yield, low payout; 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); Cash-covered dividend; 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(16)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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What to do with what you have read.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 16 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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