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Chinese-owned global textile machinery maker under the historic Swiss Saurer brand, producing spinning and twisting machines.
Chinese-owned global textile machinery maker under the historic Swiss Saurer brand, producing spinning and twisting machines.
Moat: narrow (brand, installed base). Century-old Saurer brand recognition and installed base among global textile mills.
Headquarters: Changzhou, China · Employees: 3,090
Size Saurer Intelligent Technology (600545.SS) is a China Industrials company (Industrial Machinery) with a market value of $776M, the 2840th largest of 4,839 China companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at CN¥3.08 on 6 Nov 2026.
Performance Over six months the shares fell 37.0%, against -22.9% for the median peer and -16.4% for the China market (cap-weighted) — 3rd lowest of 21 in its peer set.
Growth Revenue fell 7.0% over the last twelve months (peer median +5.7%); the operating margin is -20.9% (peer median 6.4%).
Valuation It trades at 2.2× enterprise value to sales against a peer median of 2.9× (7th cheapest of 21).
Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 22% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is -6%, so the hurdle is +28 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 17.6 points below its cost of capital (9.0% WACC).
| TTM | FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | CN¥3.62B | CN¥3.56B | CN¥4.02B | CN¥6.02B | CN¥5.10B |
| Revenue growth | — | -12% | -33% | +18% | — |
| Gross profit | CN¥424M | CN¥459M | CN¥659M | CN¥1.12B | CN¥690M |
| EBITDA | n/a | -CN¥445M | CN¥52.5M | CN¥465M | -CN¥619M |
| Net income | -CN¥497M | -CN¥614M | -CN¥127M | CN¥35.8M | -CN¥323M |
| Free cash flow | CN¥197M | -CN¥37.7M | -CN¥106M | CN¥195M | -CN¥10.8M |
| Capital expenditure | CN¥38.5M | CN¥43.3M | CN¥47.7M | CN¥139M | CN¥111M |
| Total debt | CN¥2.27B | CN¥2.44B | CN¥2.49B | CN¥2.50B | CN¥2.46B |
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| Company | Market cap | 6M return | Revenue growth | Op. margin | EV / Sales | Req g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saurer Intelligent Technology 600545.SS | $776M | -37% | -7% | -21% | 2.2× | 22.3% |
| Rieter RIEN.SW | $371M | -31% | +20% | -4% | 1.1× | n/a |
Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.
| Measure | 600545.SS | Peer median | Rank in peer set |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1-month return | -20.0% | -6.4% | 3rd lowest of 21 |
| 6-month return | -37.0% | -22.9% | 3rd lowest of 21 |
| Distance from 52-week high | -63.2% | -43.2% | 2nd lowest of 21 |
| Revenue growth (TTM) | -7.0% | +5.7% | 4th lowest of 21 |
| Operating margin | -20.9% | 6.4% | 3rd lowest of 21 |
| EV / Sales | 2.2× | 2.9× | 7th cheapest of 21 |
| Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs) | 22.3% | 12.6% | 6th most demanding of 15 |
| Growth delivered (Del g) | -6.0% | +8.9% | 3rd lowest of 15 |
| Hurdle (Req g minus delivered) | +28.3 pp | +1.5 pp | 2nd most demanding of 15 |
| ROIC minus cost of capital | -17.6 pp | -4.0 pp | 3rd lowest of 21 |
| Company | Market | Market cap | 6M return | Revenue growth | Op. margin | EV / Sales | Req g | Delivered g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saurer Intelligent Technology 600545.SS | China | $776M | -37% | -7% | -21% | 2.2× | 22.3% | -6.0% |
| Hiecise Precision Equipment 300809.SZ | China | $776M | -36% | -13% | 4% | 9.4× | 37.2% | +18.7% |
| Wuhan Huazhong Numerical Control System 300161.SZ | China | $772M | -20% | -2% | -12% | 4.0× | n/a | n/a |
| Uchida Yoko 8057.T | Japan | $771M | +17% | +26% | 4% | 0.2× | -13.2% | +7.9% |
| SDI 2351.TW | Taiwan | $782M | -16% | +7% | 8% | 2.4× | 24.9% | +3.9% |
| QuakeSafe Technologies 300767.SZ | China | $783M | -28% | -3% | -27% | 10.9× | 27.5% | -1.7% |
| Hanyu Group Joint Stock 300403.SZ | China | $770M | -22% | +1% | 21% | 4.3× | 13.3% | +4.7% |
| Guizhou Zhongyida 600610.SS | China | $783M | -27% | +5% | 12% | 5.2× | 23.8% | -0.6% |
| Zenner Metering Technology (Shanghai) 301303.SZ | China | $785M | -17% | +9% | 10% | 2.6× | 15.0% | +15.8% |
| Zhongzhong Science and Technology (Tianjin) 603135.SS | China | $767M | -32% | -3% | 4% | 5.0× | n/a | n/a |
| Vontron Technology 000920.SZ | China | $766M | -6% | +4% | 12% | 2.2× | 11.1% | +10.0% |
| Tsurumi Manufacturing 6351.T | Japan | $763M | +14% | +11% | 13% | 1.2× | -7.6% | +11.2% |
| Yijiahe Technology 603666.SS | China | $762M | -12% | -39% | -72% | 14.4× | 11.8% | -11.3% |
| Huachangda Intelligent Equipment 300278.SZ | China | $757M | -26% | +28% | -2% | 1.7× | n/a | n/a |
| Hangzhou Fortune Gas Cryogenic 603173.SS | China | $796M | -14% | +4% | 15% | 1.2× | -8.2% | +22.6% |
| Sichuan Crun 002272.SZ | China | $757M | -34% | +11% | -4% | 3.3× | n/a | n/a |
| Motorcomm Electronic Technology 688515.SS | China | $757M | -41% | +54% | -15% | 5.6× | n/a | n/a |
| JC Finance & Tax Interconnect 002530.SZ | China | $797M | -24% | +12% | 10% | 4.5× | n/a | n/a |
| BHI 083650.KS | South Korea | $798M | -64% | +90% | 12% | 1.0× | -9.1% | +26.0% |
| Focused Photonics (Hangzhou) 300203.SZ | China | $751M | -16% | -10% | -9% | 2.4× | -4.2% | -6.0% |
| Eureka Forbes EUREKAFORB.NS | India | $749M | -29% | +13% | 9% | 2.3× | 34.3% | +221.8% |