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Chinese producer of agrochemical active ingredients (pesticides/herbicides) for crop protection.
Chinese producer of agrochemical active ingredients (pesticides/herbicides) for crop protection.
Sells active ingredients by the tonne, mainly to companies that blend them into finished crop-protection products, so earnings follow tonnage and ingredient prices, which swing with Chinese plant capacity and environmental inspections. It makes ingredients and intermediates rather than selling branded products to farmers.
Moat: none (scale). Agrochemical intermediates are commodity-like with many Chinese producers competing on cost.
Headquarters: Anhui, China · Employees: 1,914
Size Anhui Guangxin Agrochemical (603599.SS) is a China Materials company (Chemicals: Specialty) with a market value of $1.43B, the 1697th largest of 4,839 China companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at CN¥10.53 on 6 Nov 2026.
Performance Over six months the shares fell 29.1%, against -22.3% for the median peer and -16.4% for the China market (cap-weighted) — 10th lowest of 21 in its peer set.
Growth Revenue fell 12.8% over the last twelve months (peer median +9.1%); the operating margin is 18.3% (peer median 6.3%).
Valuation It trades at 13.1× forward earnings against a peer median of 19.3× (4th cheapest of 18).
Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about -4% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +1%, so the hurdle is -4 pp: the price already allows for a slowdown.
Capital Return on invested capital runs 0.7 points above its cost of capital (5.8% WACC).
Next results Next results expected around 29 Apr 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).
| TTM | FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | CN¥3.31B | CN¥3.51B | CN¥4.62B | CN¥5.86B | CN¥9.06B |
| Revenue growth | — | -24% | -21% | -35% | — |
| Gross profit | CN¥1.41B | CN¥1.04B | CN¥1.33B | CN¥2.15B | CN¥3.65B |
| EBITDA | n/a | CN¥826M | CN¥915M | CN¥1.56B | CN¥2.79B |
| Net income | CN¥672M | CN¥657M | CN¥779M | CN¥1.44B | CN¥2.32B |
| Free cash flow | CN¥624M | CN¥502M | CN¥351M | CN¥238M | CN¥2.51B |
| Capital expenditure | CN¥192M | CN¥88.1M | CN¥296M | CN¥576M | CN¥524M |
| Total debt | CN¥2.86B | CN¥3.13B | CN¥3.43B | CN¥3.57B | CN¥2.26B |
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| Company | Market cap | 6M return | Revenue growth | Op. margin | Forward P/E | Req g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anhui Guangxin Agrochemical 603599.SS | $1.43B | -29% | -13% | 18% | 13.1× | -3.8% |
| Jiangsu Yangnong Chemical 600486.SS | $3.42B | -22% | +3% | 13% | 16.2× | 0.8% |
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| Measure | 603599.SS | Peer median | Rank in peer set |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1-month return | +1.4% | -15.3% | 3rd highest of 21 |
| 6-month return | -29.1% | -22.3% | 10th lowest of 21 |
| Distance from 52-week high | -36.8% | -42.3% | 6th highest of 21 |
| Revenue growth (TTM) | -12.8% | +9.1% | lowest of 21 |
| Operating margin | 18.3% | 6.3% | 4th highest of 21 |
| Forward P/E | 13.1× | 19.3× | 4th cheapest of 18 |
| Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs) | -3.8% | 16.9% | 4th least demanding of 12 |
| Growth delivered (Del g) | +0.6% | +10.1% | 4th lowest of 12 |
| Hurdle (Req g minus delivered) | -4.4 pp | +11.3 pp | 4th least demanding of 12 |
| ROIC minus cost of capital | +0.7 pp | -1.9 pp | 5th highest of 21 |
| Company | Market | Market cap | 6M return | Revenue growth | Op. margin | Forward P/E | Req g | Delivered g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anhui Guangxin Agrochemical 603599.SS | China | $1.43B | -29% | -13% | 18% | 13.1× | -3.8% | +0.6% |
| Guangdong Orient Zirconic Industry Science & Technology 002167.SZ | China | $1.44B | +5% | +17% | 14% | 48.5× | 32.4% | +10.1% |
| Jilin OLED Material Tech 688378.SS | China | $1.45B | -17% | +74% | 18% | 28.1× | 46.2% | +15.2% |
| Elementis ELM.L | United Kingdom | $1.45B | +34% | -12% | 20% | 16.9× | 16.9% | -4.8% |
| LOTTE CHEMICAL 011170.KS | South Korea | $1.45B | -59% | +5% | -2% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Shenzhen Rongda Photosensitive & Technology 300576.SZ | China | $1.40B | -31% | +14% | 10% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Shandong Dawn Polymer 002838.SZ | China | $1.40B | -35% | +31% | 6% | 19.3× | n/a | n/a |
| Guangdong Guanghua Sci-Tech 002741.SZ | China | $1.40B | -9% | +61% | 4% | 58.4× | n/a | n/a |
| Shaily Engineering Plastics SHAILY.NS | India | $1.48B | +14% | +18% | 24% | 56.7× | 35.8% | +22.8% |
| Anhui Wanwei Updated High-Tech Material Industry 600063.SS | China | $1.49B | -32% | +3% | 4% | 20.0× | n/a | n/a |
| GCH Technology 688625.SS | China | $1.38B | -32% | +8% | 18% | 19.2× | 27.6% | +16.3% |
| KumhoPetrochem 011780.KS | South Korea | $1.50B | -37% | 0% | 7% | 4.3× | -16.5% | +7.5% |
| Denka 4061.T | Japan | $1.51B | -33% | -3% | 9% | 12.7× | n/a | n/a |
| Befar 601678.SS | China | $1.51B | -14% | +19% | 5% | 21.8× | -6.4% | +18.2% |
| Osaka Soda 4046.T | Japan | $1.52B | -2% | +8% | 19% | 13.5× | 5.1% | +0.5% |
| BASF India BASF.NS | India | $1.35B | -23% | +13% | 4% | 17.4× | n/a | n/a |
| Wankai New Materials 301216.SZ | China | $1.35B | -48% | +5% | 4% | 8.3× | n/a | n/a |
| Stepan SCL | United States | $1.52B | +26% | +10% | 4% | 19.0× | 14.9% | +4.5% |
| Jiangyin Jianghua Micro-electronics Materials 603078.SS | China | $1.33B | -7% | +18% | 7% | 79.3× | 32.0% | +17.0% |
| ADAMA 000553.SZ | China | $1.55B | -33% | -6% | 3% | 30.7× | -7.2% | +0.3% |
| COFCO Biotechnology 000930.SZ | China | $1.32B | -21% | -9% | -2% | n/a | n/a | n/a |