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CURR, Currenc Group Inc.

Commercial Services & Supplies diversified Unprofitable

We are a leading operator of global money transfer services and airtime trading in Southeast Asia.

Tranglo provides business-to-business ("B2B") remittance services for financial institutions and is considered as an upstream player of the remittance industry.

For Tranglo's money remittance business, it provides a single unified application programming interface for licensed banks and money service operators and acts as a one-stop settlement agent for cross-border money transfer, offering customers the ability to process payments globally.

Latest annual: FY2025 20-F · US listing is the ordinary share
CURR · Currenc Group Inc.
I

The business

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

Revenue · FY2025
$38M
−18.6% YoY
Vital signs · TTM, with 4-yr average
Revenue $38M 4-yr avg $46M
Gross margin 41% 4-yr avg 35%
Operating margin −21.0% 4-yr avg −30.8%
Owner-earnings margin 20% 4-yr avg −1%
Free cash flow margin 20% 4-yr avg −1%

The business in brief

read the 10-K →

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

What it is
Revenue is Fiat Remittance Service (58%), Sales of Airtime (41%) and ODL Remittance Service (1%).
Situation
Unprofitable. No meaningful revenue yet; the record is the cash on hand against the burn.
What moves the needle
Operating margin has run around −21% through the cycle on a 33% 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. On its own account, the filing leans hardest on customer concentration, 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.

Where the money comes from

read the 20-F →

Revenue spreads across 4 segments, the largest Fiat Remittance Service at 58%.

Revenue by reportable segment, FY2025
  • Fiat Remittance Service58%$22M
  • Sales of Airtime41%$16M
  • ODL Remittance Service1%$431K
  • Other Services0%$16K
By geographyMalaysia80%Indonesia20%

From the segment footnote of the company's own 20-F. Shares are of total revenue; the profit bar shows each segment's share of segment operating profit, before unallocated corporate costs.

II

The record

Ten years of arithmetic, read across the cycle.

The record, 2023–2025

realized figures from each filing · older years to the left
2023’232024’242025’25TTMTTMDec 2025
Income statement
$53M$46M$38M$38MRevenueRevenue
33%31%41%41%Gross marginGross mgn
($7M)($27M)($8M)($8M)Operating incomeOp. inc.
−12.5%−59.0%−21.0%−21.0%Operating marginOp. mgn
($14M)($39M)($19M)($19M)Net incomeNet inc.
Cash flow & returns
($15M)$3M$8M$8MOperating cash flowOp. cash
$607K$525K$496K$496KDepreciationDeprec.
($1M)$42M$26M$26MWorking capital & otherWC & other
$292K$577K$479K$479KCapexCapex
0.5%1.2%1.3%1.3%Capex / revenueCapex/rev
($16M)$3M$7M$7MOwner earningsOwner earn.
−29.3%6.2%19.5%19.5%Owner earnings marginOE mgn
($16M)$3M$7M$7MFree cash flowFCF
−29.3%6.2%19.5%19.5%Free cash flow marginFCF mgn
Balance sheet
$49M$64M$75M$76MCash & investmentsCash+inv
$126K$89K$31K$31KInventoryInvent.
$11K$14K$11K$11KAccounts payablePayables
$115K$75K$20K$20KOperating working capitalOper. WC
$103M$87M$101M$101MCurrent assetsCur. assets
$174M$145M$90M$90MCurrent liabilitiesCur. liab.
0.6×0.6×1.1×1.1×Current ratioCurr. ratio
$27M$12M$10M$10MGoodwillGoodwill
$141M$105M$114M$114MTotal assetsAssets
$12M$7M$2M$4MTotal debtDebt
($37M)($56M)($73M)($72M)Net debt / (cash)Net debt
($63M)($66M)($6M)($6M)Shareholders’ equityEquity
Per share
34.0M38.2M61.5M76.6MShares out (diluted)Shares
$1.57$1.22$0.62$0.49Revenue / shareRev/sh
$-0.42$-1.02$-0.30$-0.24EPS (diluted)EPS
$-0.46$0.08$0.12$0.10Owner earnings / shareOE/sh
$-0.46$0.08$0.12$0.10Free cash flow / shareFCF/sh
$0.01$0.02$0.01$0.01Cap. spending / shareCapex/sh
$-1.85$-1.73$-0.09$-0.07Book value / shareBVPS

The diluted share count moved ×1.61 into 2025 — shares issued, not a split the totals corroborate — and the per-share figures carry the counts as filed.

The record, charted

FY2022–2025

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

Share count
61Mpeak FY2025
Gross margin
41%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.

$7Mowner earningsvs.($19M)net incomelow FY2023

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 2025 the business turned a $19M loss into $7M of owner earnings: more cash than the profit line showed, after the non-cash charges and the capital it put back in.

FY2025FY2024FY2023
Reported net income($19M)($39M)($14M)
Depreciation & amortizationnon-cash charge added back+$496K+$525K+$607K
Working capital & othertiming of cash in and out, other non-cash items+$26M+$42M−$1M
Cash from operations$8M$3M($15M)
Capital expenditurecash put back in to keep running and to grow−$479K−$577K−$292K
Owner earnings$7M$3M($16M)
Owner-earnings marginowner earnings ÷ revenue20%6%-29%

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

FY2025 20-F · source on SEC EDGAR →

Will it survive?

  • No meaningful interest burden
    Little or no interest expense reported
    What this means

    Little or no interest expense reported, the business isn't leaning on lenders to operate.

  • Net cash
    Cash $75M + ST investments $300K − debt $4M
    What this means

    Cash and short-term investments exceed every dollar of debt by $72M, 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.

  • Not enough data
    What this means

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

Is it a good business?

  • Not meaningful here
    Invested capital ($77M) = debt $4M + equity ($6M) − cash
    Industry peers: median -2%
    What this means

    Invested capital is near zero or negative, usually years of buybacks pulling equity down. ROIC explodes or flips sign and stops meaning anything. Judge this one on Owner Earnings instead.

  • Solid through the cycle
    3-yr median margin, range -29%–20%; latest $7M = operating cash $8M − maintenance capex $479K
    Industry peers: median 8%
    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 20% of revenue this year, a 6% median across 3 years.

  • Loss, but cash-generative
    Net income ($19M) · cash from operations $8M
    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.

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? 0.97×
    Maintaining
    Capex $479K ÷ depreciation $496K
    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 · 1 of 3 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 · $38M
    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× · 1.12×
    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.

  • Conservative debt Pass
    Debt ≤ working capital · $4M vs $11M WC
    What this means

    Graham's rule that borrowings not exceed net current assets. Capital-heavy and buyback-heavy firms routinely fail it, read it next to interest coverage, not alone.

  • 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 $-0.31/share (latest year $-0.24), the averaged base the calculator's gate runs on, and book value is $-0.07/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.

Does AI threaten the moat?

Elevated contestability

The product is software or information, the very thing capable AI now produces more cheaply, so the moat is more contestable than the record alone implies.

In its own filing Raised, but not as a competitor

The filing raises AI among its risks, but in other terms (security, regulation, energy or the like), not as a competitor to its product; it frames AI mainly as a capability.

The product is the kind capable AI most directly contests: when a substitute can be built cheaply, the incumbent's pricing power is the first thing at risk. The record cannot say whether the moat outlasts that; past durability is a starting point, not a promise.

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, 2025

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$101M
  • Cash & short-term investments$76M
  • Inventory$31K
  • Other current assets$25M
Current liabilities$90M
  • Debt due within a year$1M
  • Accounts payable$11K
  • Other current liabilities$89M
Current ratio1.12×all current assets ÷ what's due · Graham looked for 2×
Quick ratio1.12×stricter: inventory excluded
Cash ratio0.84×strictest: cash alone against what's due
Working capital$11Mthe cushion left after near-term bills
Debt due this year vs. cash$1M due · $76M cash covered by cash on hand, no refinancing forced · both figures from the Dec 31, 2025 balance sheet
Deeper floors
Tangible book value($17M)equity stripped of goodwill & intangibles
Net current asset value$6MGraham's net-net: current assets less all liabilities
Debt incl. operating leases$4M$187K of it operating leases

From the company's latest filing.

Peers, Commercial Services & Supplies

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
FLYWFlywire$623M-6.6%-9%8%
IMXIInternational Money Express Inc.$608M14.5%40%6%
LQDTLiquidity Services Inc.$477M6.4%37%12%
PHRPhreesia Inc.$468M-17.3%-36%-7%
SEZLSezzle Inc.$236M-5.4%-141%14%
ASPSAltisource Portfolio Solutions S.A.$171M26%2.4%5%-3%
CASSCass Information Systems Inc$108M35.6%29%
CURRCurrenc Group Inc.$38M33%-21.0%6%
Group median-1.5%7%
IV

The price

What a price has to assume.

What the price implies

reverse-DCF

Enter the US price, in dollars: the NYSE/Nasdaq quote you hold. Currenc Group Inc.'s US listing is the ordinary share itself. The record tables elsewhere on this page remain as filed.

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Base

The assumptions

9.0% = the 4.55% 10-year Treasury (Jul 15, 2026) + 4.45 points of equity premium. The rate you require is yours to set.

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Implied by the price
Owner-earnings growth · since FY2024+157%/yr
Owner-earnings yield
P/E (3-yr earnings ’23–’25)
P/B
Graham’s price gate

Graham capped the multiple at 15×; Buffett and Munger let that rule go: a wonderful business can deserve 50× if the thesis holds. The gate marks the bargain-hunter's floor.

Against a high-grade bond: Graham’s yardstick bond yield%

Prefilled with the 10-year Treasury (4.55%, as of Jul 15, 2026). Edit it for today’s exact figure, or a AAA corporate yield.

Graham measured a stock against the bond you could own instead, the heart of his margin of safety. Enter a price above to weigh the owner-earnings yield against this bond.

Owner earnings $7M on 77M shares outstanding, per the 20-F cover, as of 2025-12-31; net cash $72M. The base is the latest year by default; Normalize values it on the through-cycle median owner-earnings margin (to avoid paying on a peak year). Net of stock comp treats option pay as the expense it is. The dials set the multiple a growth belief justifies; the price, and every dollar on this page, is yours.

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

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