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Chinese media and diversified investment holding company with newspaper and other minority industrial stakes.
Chinese media and diversified investment holding company with newspaper and other minority industrial stakes.
Moat: none. Conglomerate holding structure with no single dominant competitive advantage.
Headquarters: Beijing, China · Employees: 302
Size Huawen Media (000793.SZ) is a China Information Technology company (Internet Software/Services) with a market value of $1.19B, the 1974th largest of 4,839 China companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at CN¥1.81 on 6 Nov 2026.
Performance Over six months the shares fell 33.7%, against -3.8% for the median peer and -16.4% for the China market (cap-weighted) — 2nd lowest of 21 in its peer set.
Growth Revenue grew 0.4% over the last twelve months (peer median +9.0%); the operating margin is -13.8% (peer median 11.0%).
Valuation It trades at 22.2× enterprise value to sales against a peer median of 1.1× (most expensive of 21).
Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 18% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is -35%, so the hurdle is +52 pp: the price needs faster growth than the company has been delivering — of companies that just grew 25–50% a year, 93.8% slowed down over the next four years.
Capital Return on invested capital runs 9.4 points below its cost of capital (9.0% WACC).
| TTM | FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | CN¥336M | CN¥356M | CN¥328M | CN¥566M | CN¥759M |
| Revenue growth | — | +9% | -42% | -25% | — |
| Gross profit | CN¥68.8M | CN¥38.5M | CN¥53.6M | CN¥101M | CN¥110M |
| EBITDA | n/a | -CN¥11.7M | -CN¥136M | -CN¥92.9M | -CN¥93.7M |
| Net income | CN¥32.1M | -CN¥156M | -CN¥708M | -CN¥1.10B | -CN¥683M |
| Free cash flow | CN¥231M | -CN¥12.8M | -CN¥29.2M | CN¥162M | -CN¥176M |
| Capital expenditure | CN¥9.53M | CN¥4.53M | CN¥7.31M | CN¥51.3M | CN¥49.7M |
| Total debt | CN¥989M | CN¥1.48B | CN¥1.38B | CN¥1.49B | CN¥2.30B |
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| Measure | 000793.SZ | Peer median | Rank in peer set |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1-month return | -6.7% | +1.3% | 7th lowest of 21 |
| 6-month return | -33.7% | -3.8% | 2nd lowest of 21 |
| Distance from 52-week high | -47.5% | -27.5% | 4th lowest of 21 |
| Revenue growth (TTM) | +0.4% | +9.0% | 5th lowest of 21 |
| Operating margin | -13.8% | 11.0% | lowest of 21 |
| EV / Sales | 22.2× | 1.1× | most expensive of 21 |
| Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs) | 17.8% | 0.8% | 4th most demanding of 15 |
| Growth delivered (Del g) | -34.6% | +12.9% | lowest of 15 |
| Hurdle (Req g minus delivered) | +52.3 pp | -13.8 pp | most demanding of 15 |
| ROIC minus cost of capital | -9.4 pp | +6.0 pp | 3rd lowest of 17 |
| Company | Market | Market cap | 6M return | Revenue growth | Op. margin | EV / Sales | Req g | Delivered g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huawen Media 000793.SZ | China | $1.19B | -34% | 0% | -14% | 22.2× | 17.8% | -34.6% |
| Baltic Classifieds BCG.L | United Kingdom | $1.14B | -99% | +7% | 68% | 11.6× | 15.2% | +15.9% |
| Moonpig MOON.L | United Kingdom | $1.13B | +41% | +7% | 21% | 2.5× | 3.7% | +0.3% |
| WEBTOON Entertainment WBTN | United States | $1.31B | -27% | 0% | -3% | 0.6× | n/a | n/a |
| NHN 181710.KS | South Korea | $1.34B | +44% | +12% | 6% | 0.6× | -4.4% | +8.9% |
| Yelp YELP | United States | $1.06B | -28% | +2% | 13% | 0.7× | -18.4% | +10.9% |
| Trustpilot TRST.L | United Kingdom | $1.36B | +12% | +19% | 5% | 4.7× | 32.7% | +20.0% |
| CarTrade Tech CARTRADE.NS | India | $1.39B | +40% | +16% | 30% | 14.9× | 34.5% | +25.6% |
| EverQuote EVER | United States | $1.02B | +41% | +24% | 11% | 1.0× | -7.0% | +14.8% |
| Mony MONY.L | United Kingdom | $1.42B | +21% | +2% | 26% | 2.4× | -0.7% | +5.3% |
| D-MARKET Elektronik Hizmetler ve Ticaret AS Sponsored ADR HEPS | United States | $979M | -3% | +22% | -3% | 0.4× | n/a | n/a |
| Sify Technologies Limited Sponsored ADR SIFY | United States | $941M | -20% | +11% | 8% | 1.8× | n/a | n/a |
| BuySell Technologies 7685.T | Japan | $938M | -28% | +58% | 11% | 1.2× | -1.2% | +46.8% |
| Omada Health OMDA | United States | $924M | +2% | +48% | 0% | 2.3× | 28.7% | +42.9% |
| Weibo 9898.HK | Hong Kong | $1.58B | -24% | +2% | 25% | 0.5× | n/a | n/a |
| LegalZoom.com LZ | United States | $897M | -19% | +12% | 4% | 0.9× | 6.1% | +9.9% |
| TeamViewer TMV.DE | Germany | $894M | -5% | +2% | 34% | 2.2× | -11.0% | +10.4% |
| iQIYI, Inc. Sponsored ADR IQ | United States | $886M | -20% | -3% | -2% | 0.6× | n/a | n/a |
| Gushengtang 2273.HK | Hong Kong | $874M | +1% | +12% | 13% | 1.9× | 2.4% | +27.6% |
| Yalla Group Ltd. Sponsored ADR YALA | United States | $863M | -21% | -4% | 31% | 0.1× | n/a | n/a |
| Ziff Davis ZD | United States | $1.70B | +21% | -8% | 10% | 0.7× | -10.6% | +4.6% |