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ANGH, Anghami Inc.
A telecom carrier, renting access to a network that must be constantly rebuilt.
The business
What it sells, where the money comes from, the kind of company it is.
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.
The record
Ten years of arithmetic, read across the cycle.
The record, 2020–2024
realized figures from each filing · older years to the left| 2020’20 | 2021’21 | 2022’22 | 2023’23 | 2024’24 | TTMTTMDec 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Income statement | ||||||
| $31M | $36M | $48M | $41M | $78M | $78M | RevenueRevenue |
| 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 | $487K | DepreciationDeprec. |
| ($6M) | $1M | $61M | $12M | $15M | $15M | Working capital & otherWC & other |
| $80K | $164K | $2M | $99K | $46K | $46K | CapexCapex |
| 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 | $14M | Cash & investmentsCash+inv |
| $5M | $5M | $10M | $6M | $10M | $10M | ReceivablesReceiv. |
| $14M | $16M | $27M | $26M | $26M | $26M | Accounts payablePayables |
| ($10M) | ($10M) | ($16M) | ($20M) | ($17M) | ($17M) | Operating working capitalOper. WC |
| $12M | $10M | $18M | $15M | $31M | $31M | Current assetsCur. assets |
| $27M | $40M | $35M | $32M | $51M | $51M | Current liabilitiesCur. liab. |
| 0.5× | 0.3× | 0.5× | 0.5× | 0.6× | 0.6× | Current ratioCurr. ratio |
| — | — | $600K | $600K | — | $600K | GoodwillGoodwill |
| $14M | $13M | $30M | $19M | $124M | $124M | Total 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 | $60M | Shareholders’ equityEquity |
| Per share | ||||||
| 1.5M | 1.6M | 26.0M | 26.4M | 57.6M | 66.9M | Shares out (diluted)Shares |
| $20.61 | $22.88 | $1.86 | $1.57 | $1.36 | $1.17 | Revenue / shareRev/sh |
| $3.88 | $-11.46 | $-2.35 | $-0.60 | $-1.10 | $-0.95 | EPS (diluted)EPS |
| $0.06 | $-10.56 | $-0.00 | $-0.15 | $-0.83 | $-0.72 | Owner earnings / shareOE/sh |
| $0.06 | $-10.56 | $-0.08 | $-0.15 | $-0.83 | $-0.72 | Free cash flow / shareFCF/sh |
| $0.05 | $0.11 | $0.08 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | Cap. spending / shareCapex/sh |
| $-11.52 | $-17.30 | $-0.20 | $-0.49 | $1.04 | $0.90 | Book 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.
| 4-yr | 5-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
FY2020–2024Each measure over its full record; the current point and the worst year marked.
Owner earnings vs. net income
Owner earningsNet incomeThe accountant's number, and the cash an owner can take; the gap is the tell.
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.
| FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | FY2021 | FY2020 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
Quality & stewardship
Returns, the balance sheet, capital allocation, and pay.
Owner’s Scorecard
“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?
- Can it pay its interest? -355.1×Does not cover its interestOperating 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-freeCash $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 othersDSO 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 dataIndustry peers: median -2%
What this means
The filing data didn't include the inputs for this check.
- Consumes cash through the cycle5-yr median margin, range -61%–0%; latest ($48M) = operating cash ($48M) − maintenance capex $46KIndustry 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.
- Are earnings backed by cash? ($48M)Loss, and burning cashNet 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×HarvestingCapex $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 MissRevenue ≥ $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 MissCurrent 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 MissA 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 MissUninterrupted 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 contestabilityThe moat is physical, regulated or balance-sheet-funded, the kind AI cuts costs within but does not contest.
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, 2024Can 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.
- Cash & short-term investments$14M
- Receivables$10M
- Other current assets$7M
- Accounts payable$26M
- Other current liabilities$25M
From the company's latest filing.
Acquisitions & goodwill
from the balance sheet & the 5-year cash-flow recordGoodwill 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.
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.
| Company | Revenue | Gross margin | Op. margin | ROIC | Owner earn. margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CALXCalix | $1.0B | 50% | -0.8% | -2% | 3% |
| GOGOGogo Inc. | $910M | 93% | 28.4% | 5% | 7% |
| IRDMIridium Communications Inc | $872M | 95% | 10.5% | 2% | 35% |
| GSATGlobalstar Inc. | $273M | 96% | -47.3% | -6% | 10% |
| NMAXNewsmax Inc. | $189M | — | -52.8% | -92% | -57% |
| ADArray Digital Infrastructure Inc. | $163M | 72% | 1.4% | 1% | 5% |
| ANGHAnghami Inc. | $78M | 25% | -35.8% | -107% | -9% |
| SPIRSpire Global Inc. | $72M | 40% | -101.4% | -44% | -83% |
| Group median | — | 72% | -18.3% | -4% | 4% |
The price
What a price has to assume.
What the price implies
reverse-DCFEnter 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.
Revenue, delivered23%/yr’20→’24
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