Coal-fired power generator in Hunan province, a listed subsidiary of state-owned China Datang Corporation.
Coal-fired power generator in Hunan province, a listed subsidiary of state-owned China Datang Corporation.
Sells electricity from its coal-fired plants to the provincial grid at tariffs set or guided by the government, with coal bought on the open market, so profit is the gap between tariff and fuel cost.
Moat: none (scale, parent backing). Datang parent secures coal and financing, but tariffs are regulated and margins coal-cost driven.
Headquarters: Changsha, Hunan, China · Employees: 4,080
Size Datang Huayin Electric Power (600744.SS) is a China Utilities company (Electric Utilities) with a market value of $1.83B, the 1369th largest of 4,839 China companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at CN¥6.01 on 6 Nov 2026.
Performance Over six months the shares fell 29.6%, against -20.6% for the median peer and -16.4% for the China market (cap-weighted) — 6th lowest of 20 in its peer set.
Growth Revenue fell 9.8% over the last twelve months (peer median +0.4%); the operating margin is 6.0% (peer median 10.3%).
Valuation It trades at 9.60× book value against a peer median of 0.96× (2nd most expensive of 21).
Price implies The share price implies a return on equity of about 65.6%; Datang Huayin Electric Power delivers -11.8%, so the price asks more than the business earns today.
| TTM | FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | CN¥7.66B | CN¥8.03B | CN¥8.33B | CN¥9.87B | CN¥9.63B |
| Revenue growth | — | -4% | -16% | +2% | — |
| Gross profit | CN¥1.87B | CN¥840M | CN¥371M | CN¥386M | -CN¥123M |
| EBITDA | n/a | CN¥1.96B | CN¥1.51B | CN¥1.41B | CN¥849M |
| Net income | -CN¥159M | CN¥81.6M | -CN¥113M | -CN¥187M | CN¥24.2M |
| Free cash flow | -CN¥972M | -CN¥2.00B | -CN¥1.99B | -CN¥3.15B | -CN¥2.16B |
| Capital expenditure | CN¥4.26B | CN¥5.23B | CN¥3.76B | CN¥4.75B | CN¥2.78B |
| Total debt | CN¥26.5B | CN¥25.4B | CN¥24.0B | CN¥19.8B | CN¥17.3B |
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| Company | Market cap | 6M return | Revenue growth | ROE | Price / book | Implied ROE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Datang Huayin Electric Power 600744.SS | $1.83B | -30% | -10% | -12% | 9.60× | 65.6% |
| CHN Energy Changyuan Electric Power 000966.SZ | $1.99B | -16% | -9% | -2% | 0.98× | 7.0% |
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| Measure | 600744.SS | Peer median | Rank in peer set |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1-month return | -2.6% | -4.9% | 8th highest of 21 |
| 6-month return | -29.6% | -20.6% | 6th lowest of 20 |
| Return on equity | -11.8% | 6.2% | 2nd lowest of 21 |
| Price / book | 9.60× | 0.96× | 2nd most expensive of 21 |
| ROE the price implies | 65.6% | 7.0% | most demanding of 20 |
| ROE delivered | -11.8% | 5.7% | lowest of 18 |
| Company | Market | Market cap | 6M return | Revenue growth | ROE | Price / book | Implied ROE | Delivered ROE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Datang Huayin Electric Power 600744.SS | China | $1.83B | -30% | -10% | -12% | 9.60× | 65.6% | -11.8% |
| Guangdong Baolihua New Energy Stock 000690.SZ | China | $1.87B | +9% | +1% | 8% | 0.95× | 4.8% | 7.5% |
| CESC CESC.NS | India | $1.77B | -32% | +9% | 13% | 1.34× | 22.2% | n/a |
| Beijing Jingneng Clean Energy 0579.HK | Hong Kong | $1.74B | -27% | -1% | 7% | 0.34× | 4.4% | 6.7% |
| Chongqing Three Gorges Water Conservancy and Electric Power 600116.SS | China | $1.73B | -8% | +4% | 6% | 0.97× | 5.4% | 5.7% |
| CHN Energy Changyuan Electric Power 000966.SZ | China | $1.99B | -16% | -9% | -2% | 0.98× | 7.0% | -1.9% |
| Romande Energie REHN.SW | Switzerland | $1.68B | -1% | +2% | 4% | 0.58× | n/a | 4.1% |
| Chongqing Fuling Electric Power Industrial 600452.SS | China | $2.00B | -25% | -7% | 8% | 2.30× | 18.6% | 7.6% |
| HCIG Energy Investment 000600.SZ | China | $2.01B | -31% | -12% | 7% | 0.96× | 5.7% | 7.4% |
| Central Puerto SA Sponsored ADR CEPU | United States | $1.64B | -29% | +51% | 18% | 0.75× | 7.6% | 17.8% |
| Dynagreen Environmental Protection 601330.SS | China | $1.63B | -4% | +11% | 8% | 1.32× | 7.3% | 8.4% |
| Nava NAVA.NS | India | $1.59B | -26% | +9% | 10% | 1.71× | 29.4% | n/a |
| Jiangsu New Energy Development 603693.SS | China | $1.56B | -21% | -3% | 5% | 1.45× | 10.4% | 4.9% |
| Harbin Hatou Investment 600864.SS | China | $1.56B | -18% | 0% | 0% | 0.81× | 6.6% | -0.2% |
| Henan Yuneng 001896.SZ | China | $2.14B | -39% | -6% | 6% | 3.92× | 33.6% | 5.7% |
| Huadian Liaoning Energy Development 600396.SS | China | $2.23B | +2% | 0% | -6% | 11.35× | 26.9% | -5.5% |
| MVV Energie MVV1.DE | Germany | $2.23B | +1% | -8% | 2% | 0.87× | 4.5% | 1.9% |
| Vedanta Power VEDPOWER.NS | India | $1.46B | n/a | +5% | -61% | 1.05× | 9.7% | n/a |
| Hawaiian Electric Industries HE | United States | $1.45B | -43% | +2% | 14% | 0.82× | 6.7% | 13.6% |
| Shikoku Electric Power 9507.T | Japan | $2.33B | +24% | -3% | 9% | 0.77× | 4.4% | 8.5% |
| SPIC Green Energy 000875.SZ | China | $2.34B | -34% | -4% | 1% | 0.89× | 6.7% | 0.7% |