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Freedom Holding Corp.FRHCCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Financials›Investment Banks/Brokers

Brokerage, banking and telecom group serving Central Asia (Kazakhstan) and other emerging markets, Nasdaq-listed.

Momentum leader 88
Mkt cap
$11.4B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
32%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$18.4M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
39.7×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
n/a
WACC 7.7%
Hurdle
n/a
no reverse DCF
Close · USD$178.85
1D+0.9%
1W-4.4%
1M+7.3%
3M+19.2%
6M+27.9%
YTD+47.0%
1Y+25.3%
ATR %3.9%
Beta0.95
52w lowhigh6.2% off high

What Freedom does

Brokerage, banking and telecom group serving Central Asia (Kazakhstan) and other emerging markets, Nasdaq-listed.

Earns commissions on customer trades and interest on margin lending and its own securities, so results follow trading activity and market conditions; a large part of income also comes from trading with its own capital. Founder Timur Turlov is chief executive and controlling shareholder. It is incorporated in Nevada and run from Almaty.

Products and services

  • Retail brokerage (Freedom Broker)
  • Banking (Freedom Bank)
  • Insurance
  • Telecom (Freedom Telecom)

Customers

  • Retail investors and consumers in Kazakhstan/Centr

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Financial services/telecom
  • Retail brokerage & banking
  • Telecom (Kazakhstan)

What could go right

  • Central Asian financial services penetration growth
  • Telecom subscriber growth

What could go wrong

  • Regional/geopolitical concentration risk
  • Regulatory scrutiny in US/Kazakhstan

Moat: narrow (regulatory licence, scale, brand). Early-mover licensing and scale across brokerage, banking and telecom in Kazakhstan are hard for entrants to match.

Headquarters: Almaty, Kazakhstan · Founded: 2008 · Employees: 11,846

Named competitors

Freedom at a glance

Size Freedom (FRHC) is a United States Financials company (Investment Banks/Brokers) with a market value of $11.4B, the 720th largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $178.85 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 27.9%, against -4.0% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — highest of 21 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 8.2% over the last twelve months (peer median +17.6%); the operating margin is 29.2% (peer median 44.0%).

Valuation It trades at 39.7× forward earnings against a peer median of 12.9× (3rd most expensive of 21).

Relative performance

10012011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026FRHC 126Peer median 97
Six months, rebased to 100: Freedom against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Freedom financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2026-03-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$2.25B$2.08B$1.93B$1.59B$808M
Revenue growth—+8%+21%+96%—
Gross profit$1.63B$1.49B$1.27B$1.26B$655M
EBITDA$694M$656M$589M$869M$400M
Net income$155M$153M$76.3M$376M$231M
Free cash flow-$133M-$38.2M$773M-$59.9M$42.8M
Capital expenditure$247M$222M$95.3M$43.8M$38.5M
Total debt$2.78B$2.42B$1.95B$3.07B$1.61B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Freedom competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-20%0%+20%-10%0%+10%EVRJEFXHLI39588697MCXFUTU8601ASXSAVE6017886019016806VIRT6881138040BSEXPS68FRHC6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Freedom is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

-20%0%+20%+40%+60%20×40×EVRJEFXHLI39588697MCXFUTUASXSAVE6017886019016806VIRT6881138040BSEXPS68FRHCRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Freedom is the large dot.

Freedom competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (FRHC vs KSPI vs IBKR)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
Freedom FRHC$11.4B+28%+8%29%39.7×n/a
Kaspi.kz Joint Stock Company Sponsored ADR RegS KSPI$17.7B+7%+39%40%7.3×n/a
Interactive Brokers IBKR$129B-10%+16%87%23.9×n/a

How Freedom compares with its peers

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.

Freedom against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureFRHCPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+7.3%+1.7%5th highest of 21
6-month return+27.9%-4.0%highest of 21
Distance from 52-week high-6.2%-20.9%4th highest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)+8.2%+17.6%7th lowest of 21
Operating margin29.2%44.0%5th lowest of 21
Forward P/E39.7×12.9×3rd most expensive of 21

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq gDelivered g
Freedom FRHCUnited States$11.4B+28%+8%29%39.7×n/an/a
Evercore EVRUnited States$10.9B-17%+37%22%14.2×n/an/a
Jefferies Financial JEFUnited States$10.9B-11%+26%41%11.3×n/an/a
TMX X.TOCanada$12.1B+10%+4%28%22.8×n/an/a
Houlihan Lokey HLIUnited States$10.1B-5%0%20%18.0×n/an/a
Orient Securities 3958.HKHong Kong$10.1B-13%+21%40%5.9×n/an/a
Japan Exchange 8697.TJapan$13.4B+11%+40%61%19.7×n/an/a
Multi Commodity Exchange of India MCX.NSIndia$9.51B+16%+122%79%50.8×n/an/a
Futu Holdings Ltd. Sponsored ADR FUTUUnited States$13.7B-32%+44%69%6.8×n/an/a
Daiwa Securities 8601.TJapan$14.0B+11%+18%17%10.8×n/an/a
ASX ASX.AXAustralia$9.02B+15%+3%65%24.2×n/an/a
Nordnet SAVE.STSweden$8.70B+13%+11%58%23.7×n/an/a
Everbright Securities 601788.SSChina$8.70B-9%-4%36%14.6×n/an/a
Founder Securities 601901.SSChina$8.52B-4%-21%47%11.7×n/an/a
Shenwan Hongyuan 6806.HKHong Kong$15.4B-26%-22%31%4.5×n/an/a
Virtu Financial VIRTUnited States$8.37B+5%+28%38%7.8×n/an/a
China Galaxy Securities 6881.HKHong Kong$15.7B-20%+17%55%4.6×n/an/a
Meritz Financial 138040.KSSouth Korea$15.7B+18%+31%49%8.6×n/an/a
BSE BSE.NSIndia$16.4B-4%+58%65%47.0×n/an/a
XP Inc. Class A XPUnited States$7.83B-21%+17%32%6.7×n/an/a
Singapore Exchange S68.SISingapore$17.2B-2%+14%57%27.0×n/an/a

Questions

Who are Freedom's main competitors?
Named competitors: Kaspi.kz (KSPI), Halyk Bank (private or unlisted), Local Kazakh brokers (private or unlisted), Interactive Brokers (IBKR). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Evercore (EVR), Jefferies Financial (JEF), TMX (X.TO), Houlihan Lokey (HLI), Orient Securities (3958.HK), Japan Exchange (8697.T).
Is Freedom expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 39.7× against a peer median of 12.9×, 3rd most expensive of 21 in its peer set.
How has Freedom stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +27.9% against -4.0% for the median peer; over one year +25.3%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.