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ANGH, Anghami Inc.

Telecom Operators capital-intensive Unprofitable

A telecom carrier, renting access to a network that must be constantly rebuilt.

Latest annual: FY2024 20-F
ANGH · Anghami Inc.
I

The business

What it sells, where the money comes from, the kind of company it is.

Revenue · FY2024
$78M
+88.7% YoY · 26% 4-yr CAGR
Vital signs · TTM, with 5-yr average
Revenue $78M 5-yr avg $47M
Gross margin −31% 5-yr avg 13%
Operating margin −79.6% 5-yr avg −39.4%
ROIC −107% 5-yr avg −107%
Owner-earnings margin −61% 5-yr avg −23%
Free cash flow margin −61% 5-yr avg −24%

The business in brief

read the 10-K →

What this business is and what moves its needle, from its own SEC filings.

Situation
Unprofitable. No sustained operating profit across the record; an earnings multiple has nothing to rest on. What the record does show is revenue, the gross-margin trajectory, and the burn against the cash on hand.
What moves the needle
Operating margin has run around −36% through the cycle on a 25% gross margin, the operating line deeply negative — so the lever is the path to a margin at all: revenue growth against the cost curve and the cash runway, not the level of a margin that isn't there yet. The cash cycle has run negative through the cycle (a median of −170 days): the operation is paid before it pays, so working capital releases cash as the business grows rather than tying it up. Read this kind of business on subscribers, revenue per user, and network capex. On its own account, the filing leans hardest on pricing power & competition, set against the numbers in what the filing emphasizes, below.

Every line is arithmetic on the company's filings, shown in full in the sections below.

II

The record

Ten years of arithmetic, read across the cycle.

The record, 2020–2024

realized figures from each filing · older years to the left
2020’202021’212022’222023’232024’24TTMTTMDec 2024
Income statement
$31M$36M$48M$41M$78M$78MRevenueRevenue
27%25%19%25%−31%−31%Gross marginGross mgn
($3M)($14M)($17M)($15M)($62M)($62M)Operating incomeOp. inc.
−8.4%−38.2%−35.8%−35.2%−79.6%−79.6%Operating marginOp. mgn
$6M($18M)($61M)($16M)($64M)($64M)Net incomeNet inc.
Cash flow & returns
$171K($16M)$85K($4M)($48M)($48M)Operating cash flowOp. cash
$151K$156K$204K$487K$498K$487KDepreciationDeprec.
($6M)$1M$61M$12M$15M$15MWorking capital & otherWC & other
$80K$164K$2M$99K$46K$46KCapexCapex
0.3%0.5%4.4%0.2%0.1%0.1%Capex / revenueCapex/rev
$91K($16M)($119K)($4M)($48M)($48M)Owner earningsOwner earn.
0.3%−46.2%−0.2%−9.4%−61.3%−61.3%Owner earnings marginOE mgn
$91K($16M)($2M)($4M)($48M)($48M)Free cash flowFCF
0.3%−46.2%−4.2%−9.4%−61.3%−61.3%Free cash flow marginFCF mgn
Balance sheet
$6M$633K$3M$6M$14M$14MCash & investmentsCash+inv
$5M$5M$10M$6M$10M$10MReceivablesReceiv.
$14M$16M$27M$26M$26M$26MAccounts payablePayables
($10M)($10M)($16M)($20M)($17M)($17M)Operating working capitalOper. WC
$12M$10M$18M$15M$31M$31MCurrent assetsCur. assets
$27M$40M$35M$32M$51M$51MCurrent liabilitiesCur. liab.
0.5×0.3×0.5×0.5×0.6×0.6×Current ratioCurr. ratio
$600K$600K$600KGoodwillGoodwill
$14M$13M$30M$19M$124M$124MTotal assetsAssets
($6M)($633K)($3M)($6M)($14M)($14M)Net debt / (cash)Net debt
-1.4×-5.1×-31.4×-54.2×-355.1×-355.1×Interest coverageInt. cov.
($17M)($27M)($5M)($13M)$60M$60MShareholders’ equityEquity
Per share
1.5M1.6M26.0M26.4M57.6M66.9MShares out (diluted)Shares
$20.61$22.88$1.86$1.57$1.36$1.17Revenue / shareRev/sh
$3.88$-11.46$-2.35$-0.60$-1.10$-0.95EPS (diluted)EPS
$0.06$-10.56$-0.00$-0.15$-0.83$-0.72Owner earnings / shareOE/sh
$0.06$-10.56$-0.08$-0.15$-0.83$-0.72Free cash flow / shareFCF/sh
$0.05$0.11$0.08$0.00$0.00$0.00Cap. spending / shareCapex/sh
$-11.52$-17.30$-0.20$-0.49$1.04$0.90Book value / shareBVPS

The diluted share count moved ×16.76 into 2022 — shares issued, not a split the totals corroborate — and the per-share figures carry the counts as filed.

The diluted share count moved ×2.18 into 2024 — shares issued, not a split the totals corroborate — and the per-share figures carry the counts as filed.

Per-share growththe realized rate an owner's share compounded
4-yr5-yr
Revenue / share−49.4%/yr−49.4%/yr (4-yr)
Capital spending / share−65.2%/yr−65.2%/yr (4-yr)

The record, charted

FY2020–2024

Each measure over its full record; the current point and the worst year marked.

Share count
58Mpeak FY2024
Gross margin
−31%low FY2024

Owner earnings vs. net income

Owner earningsNet income

The accountant's number, and the cash an owner can take; the gap is the tell.

($48M)owner earningsvs.($64M)net incomelow FY2024

Net income is the accountant's number; owner earnings is the cash an owner could take out. The walk between them, off the cash-flow statement, and whether the gap is widening or holding.

In fiscal 2024 the business turned a $64M loss into ($48M) of owner earnings: more cash than the profit line showed, after the non-cash charges and the capital it put back in.

FY2024FY2023FY2022FY2021FY2020
Reported net income($64M)($16M)($61M)($18M)$6M
Depreciation & amortizationnon-cash charge added back+$498K+$487K+$204K+$156K+$151K
Working capital & othertiming of cash in and out, other non-cash items+$15M+$12M+$61M+$1M−$6M
Cash from operations($48M)($4M)$85K($16M)$171K
Maintenance capital expenditurethe spending needed just to hold position and volume−$46K−$99K−$204K−$164K−$80K
Owner earnings($48M)($4M)($119K)($16M)$91K
Growth capital expenditurediscretionary; spent to get bigger, not to stand still−$2M
Free cash flow($48M)($4M)($2M)($16M)$91K
Owner-earnings marginowner earnings ÷ revenue-61%-9%0%-46%0%

Owner earnings is the cash an owner could pull out without starving the business: operating cash less the capital it must spend to hold its position .

Maintenance capex is estimated as depreciation where a growing business invests above it; free cash flow is the figure the scorecard's free-cash margin reads.

III

Quality & stewardship

Returns, the balance sheet, capital allocation, and pay.

Owner’s Scorecard

FY2024 20-F · source on SEC EDGAR →
Material weakness in financial controls
“In connection with the audit of our consolidated financial statements since the year ended December 31, 2022 to present day, Anghami identified certain material weaknesses in our internal controls over financial reporting.”

The figures below are only as sound as the controls that produced them. read the note →

Will it survive?

  • Does not cover its interest
    Operating income ($62M) ÷ interest expense $175K
    What this means

    A full year of operating profit didn't cover the interest bill. This is the zombie zone: the business depends on refinancing, asset sales, or forbearance to service its debt.

  • Net cash, debt-free
    Cash $14M − debt $0
    What this means

    Cash and short-term investments exceed every dollar of debt by $14M, on net the company owes nothing, and can act from strength when others can't. Net debt is the leverage figure that matters: the cash is already set against the debt. Strategic or illiquid investments aren't counted here.

  • Negative, funded by others
    DSO 44 + DIO 0 − DPO 94 days
    What this means

    Days cash is tied up between paying suppliers and collecting from customers. A negative cycle is a quiet moat: suppliers and customers fund the operation (Buffett's “float”), the company grows on other people's money. (Little or no inventory, a services / asset-light model, so the inventory leg is ~0.)

Is it a good business?

  • Not enough data
    Industry peers: median -2%
    What this means

    The filing data didn't include the inputs for this check.

  • Consumes cash through the cycle
    5-yr median margin, range -61%–0%; latest ($48M) = operating cash ($48M) − maintenance capex $46K
    Industry peers: median 5%
    What this means

    What an owner could take out without starving the business: operating cash less the maintenance capital it must spend to hold its position — Buffett's owner earnings. That's -61% of revenue this year, a -9% median across 5 years.

  • Loss, and burning cash
    Net income ($64M) · cash from operations ($48M)

    In the filing’s words The filing discloses a material weakness in its financial controls — the reported numbers here, and the record built on them, are only as reliable as the controls that produced them.

    What this means

    The company reported a net loss, so a conversion ratio isn't meaningful. What matters then is whether operations still threw off cash, here, they did not.

How is the cash used?

  • Not enough data
    What this means

    The filing data didn't include the inputs for this check.

  • Investing or harvesting? 0.09×
    Harvesting
    Capex $46K ÷ depreciation $487K
    What this means

    Descriptive, not a grade. Above ~1× means investing faster than assets wear out (growth, or, sustained for years, today's earnings carrying less depreciation than tomorrow's will). Below means spending less than it's wearing out (efficiency, or a melting asset base). The ratio won't tell you which; the filings will.

Graham’s defensive tests · 0 of 4 met

Graham’s numerical criteria for the defensive investor (The Intelligent Investor, ch. 14), run on the filings. A floor of safety, not a buy signal; many fine modern businesses fail his strictest liquidity rules by design.

  • Adequate size Miss
    Revenue ≥ $2B · $78M
    What this means

    Big enough to weather a storm. Graham's 1972 floor was ~$100M of sales (≈ $700M today); we use a $2B revenue line as a conservative modern stand-in.

  • Strong liquidity Miss
    Current ratio ≥ 2× · 0.60×
    What this means

    Current assets at least twice current liabilities, near-term bills covered without touching the business. Strict by design: many cash-rich modern firms run leaner and miss it, holding their cushion in longer-dated securities.

  • Earnings stability Miss
    A profit every year (5-yr record) · 4 loss years
    What this means

    Graham wanted earnings in each of the past ten years, the stability a defensive owner leans on.

  • Dividend record Miss
    Uninterrupted dividends · none paid
    What this means

    An unbroken dividend was Graham's mark of durability. He wanted twenty years; the filings show about ten, and a single suspension breaks the streak. Non-payers, many fine modern compounders, fall outside his defensive net by design.

  • Moderate price
    P/E ≤ 15 and P/E × P/B ≤ 22.5 · decided by the price
    What this means

    Graham's valuation gate, the wall he kept between a sound business and a sound investment. Three-year average earnings are $-0.70/share (latest year $-0.95), the averaged base the calculator's gate runs on, and book value is $0.90/share. Enter a price in “What the price implies” just below for the P/E, P/B, and whether it clears. But this is the rule Buffett outgrew: there's no hard P/E law, and a wonderful business can deserve a far richer multiple if the thesis holds, treat it as the bargain-hunter's floor, not a verdict on the price.

Durability & moat, 2020–2024

Whether the record’s returns held, and what the capital reinvested earned.

  • Profitable years 1 of 5
    What this means

    Lost money in 4 year(s), look at what happened there before trusting the average.

  • Operating margin −23% → −57% (2-yr avg ends)

    In the filing’s words The filing attributes gains to higher prices, but the margin in the record has not followed — the claim outruns the result here.

    What this means

    Through the cycle the operating margin slipped — about −23% early to −57% lately, median −36% — competition or costs are biting in.

  • Worst year 2024 · −79.6% op. margin
    What this means

    Operations went underwater in 2024, understand why before trusting the good years.

Does AI threaten the moat?

Low contestability

The moat is physical, regulated or balance-sheet-funded, the kind AI cuts costs within but does not contest.

In its own filing A competitive risk, new this year

Its FY2025 10-K names artificial intelligence as a competitive threat, in language that was not in the prior year's filing.

“AI-driven competition may reduce demand for licensed music streaming and compress our addressable market Advances in generative AI may reduce demand for licensed music streaming by enabling users to create personalized content on demand.”

AI is unlikely to contest a moat that is physical, regulated or balance-sheet-funded; here it reads more as a cost tool than a threat, and the company is using it that way.

Read from the filing's own risk factors, paired with the industry's structure under its SIC code; the durability is read above, the price below.

All figures as filed; the source filing is linked above.

Current Position

as of fiscal year-end, Dec 31, 2024

Can the business pay what it owes this year, off the freshest balance sheet: the quality of the assets, the debt actually coming due, and what a low ratio means here.

Current assets$31M
  • Cash & short-term investments$14M
  • Receivables$10M
  • Other current assets$7M
Current liabilities$51M
  • Accounts payable$26M
  • Other current liabilities$25M
Current ratio0.60×all current assets ÷ what's due · Graham looked for 2×
Quick ratio0.60×stricter: inventory excluded
Cash ratio0.28×strictest: cash alone against what's due
Working capital($20M)the cushion left after near-term bills
Cash runway0.3 yrsthe business is consuming cash; this is how long the cash on hand lasts at that rate
Deeper floors
Tangible book value($33M)equity stripped of goodwill & intangibles
Net current asset value($35M)Graham's net-net: current assets less all liabilities
Debt incl. operating leases$239K$239K of it operating leases
Deferred revenue$4Mcustomer cash collected before delivery; operating float

From the company's latest filing.

Acquisitions & goodwill

from the balance sheet & the 5-year cash-flow record

Goodwill grows only when a company acquires and falls only when it concedes it overpaid. The size of that bet, the cash put into buying rather than building, and how much has already been written off.

Goodwill & intangibles$92M74% of all assets; the premium carried on the balance sheet for businesses acquired
Against book equity1%goodwill is this share of book equity; the rest is the company’s own retained and paid-in capital
Cash spent acquiring$0over 5 years buying other businesses, against $3M of capital spent building

None written down over the record; the goodwill is still carried at full cost. That is the deals holding their value on the books so far; whether they keep doing so is the test an owner watches, since the write-down, when it comes, is the admission the price was too high.

Goodwill, acquired intangibles and equity from the latest balance sheet; acquisition spend and write-downs summed across the 5-year record, from the company's own filings.

Peers, Telecom Operators

The same industry, side by side on owner economics. Each figure is a through-cycle median, so a peak or trough year can’t distort it; the group median at the foot is the line to read each against.

CompanyRevenueGross marginOp. marginROICOwner earn. margin
CALXCalix$1.0B50%-0.8%-2%3%
GOGOGogo Inc.$910M93%28.4%5%7%
IRDMIridium Communications Inc$872M95%10.5%2%35%
GSATGlobalstar Inc.$273M96%-47.3%-6%10%
NMAXNewsmax Inc.$189M-52.8%-92%-57%
ADArray Digital Infrastructure Inc.$163M72%1.4%1%5%
ANGHAnghami Inc.$78M25%-35.8%-107%-9%
SPIRSpire Global Inc.$72M40%-101.4%-44%-83%
Group median72%-18.3%-4%4%
IV

The price

What a price has to assume.

What the price implies

reverse-DCF

Enter the home-market price, not the US ADR quote. Anghami Inc. reports in USD, and every figure here (owner earnings, book value, the share count) is on that ordinary-share basis. Enter the price on the same basis: the local-exchange quote per ordinary share. A US ADR price in dollars bundles the ADR-to-ordinary ratio, so it will not reconcile with these figures and would throw the multiple off.

Anghami Inc. is profitable, but owner earnings are negative this year because capital spending currently outruns operating cash, a build-out, so the owner-earnings reverse-DCF has no positive base to grow. We read the price from both ends instead: type a price to see the steady-state profitability it demands, then set the mature margin you would believe and weigh the two against each other. Nothing leaves your browser unless you enter it in your notebook.

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The assumptions

Revenue, delivered23%/yr’20→’24

Enter a price to run it.

Owner earnings it must reach
Margin the price demands
Owner-earnings margin today−61%

Two reads of one future. From your price: the owner earnings the company must reach, valued at a mature multiple and discounted back at your rate, expressed as the margin it implies on revenue grown at your rate. From your belief: the mature margin you would credit, set on the dial above. When the margin the price demands runs above the one you would believe, you are paying for a future taken on faith. For a deep cyclical at a trough, normalized through-cycle earnings are the better lens; this mode is for the genuinely unprofitable, and for the profitable business whose capital spending currently outruns its cash.

Cite: Owner Scorecard, "Anghami Inc. (ANGH), the owner's record," https://ownerscorecard.com/c/ANGH, data as of 2026-07-09.

Manual order: ← AMX its page in the Manual ANPA →

Industry order: ← AMX the Telecom Operators chapter ASTS →