Share count
1.1Bpeak FY2021
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FUTU, Futu Holdings Limited
Capital Markets & Asset Management financial
We are a leading one-stop financial technology platform transforming the investing experience with our fully digitalized securities brokerage and wealth management product distribution services.
We launched our business on the premise that no one should be precluded from investing on the basis of prohibitive transaction costs or market inexperience.
Technology permeates every part of our business, allowing us to offer a redefined user experience built upon a secure, stable, agile and scalable online platform.
The business
What it sells, where the money comes from, the kind of company it is.
Revenue · FY2025
HK$10.6B
+74.9% YoY · 40% 5-yr CAGR
Vital signs · TTM, with 5-yr average
Revenue HK$10.6B 5-yr avg HK$5.7B
Net margin 106.9% 5-yr avg 90.0%
The business in brief
read the 10-K →What this business is and what moves its needle, from its own SEC filings.
- What moves the needle
- Assets under management and the fee rate on them. What decides it: net flows in or out, the market's move on the assets already there (the firm rises and falls with the indices it invests in), the drift toward cheaper passive products, and the operating leverage on a largely fixed cost base. On its own account, the filing leans hardest on concentrated dependence, set against the numbers in what the filing emphasizes, below.
- Is it a good business?
- Operating margin has run at the high end of fee-business margins across the record (median 81%, above 25% in 8 of 9 years), the economics of a business that takes a cut without carrying the risk. It earns this on little capital, so return on equity has run near 16%, the leverage of a model that needs almost no plant to grow. A high return that does not fade can mark a moat, but whether the assets stay (net flows, not last year's market) is what the flow disclosures and the 10-K settle, not the multiple.
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 →Hong Kong SAR China is 74% of revenue, so this is largely a single-region business.
Revenue by geography, FY2025
- Hong Kong SAR China74%HK$7.8B
- Others26%HK$2.7B
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.
The record
Ten years of arithmetic, read across the cycle.
The record, 2017–2025
realized figures from each filing · older years to the left| 2017’17 | 2018’18 | 2019’19 | 2020’20 | 2021’21 | 2022’22 | 2023’23 | 2024’24 | 2025’25 | TTMTTMDec 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Income statement | ||||||||||
| HK$185M | HK$408M | HK$511M | HK$2.0B | HK$3.9B | HK$4.0B | HK$3.9B | HK$6.0B | HK$10.6B | HK$10.6B | RevenueRevenue |
| 1.8% | 49.2% | 34.9% | 72.9% | 81.3% | 89.1% | 126.9% | 109.5% | 133.2% | 133.2% | Operating marginOp. mgn |
| −4.4% | 33.9% | 32.4% | 66.6% | 71.8% | 73.0% | 108.5% | 89.9% | 106.9% | 106.9% | Net marginNet mgn |
| (HK$8M) | HK$139M | HK$166M | HK$1.3B | HK$2.8B | HK$2.9B | HK$4.3B | HK$5.4B | HK$11.3B | HK$11.3B | Net incomeNet inc. |
| — | 31% | 7% | 9% | 12% | 12% | 15% | 16% | 17% | 17% | Effective tax rateTax rate |
| Cash flow & returns | ||||||||||
| HK$1.9B | HK$4.5B | HK$2.0B | HK$20.4B | HK$6.0B | HK$3.4B | (HK$6.4B) | HK$30.9B | HK$40.7B | HK$40.7B | Owner earningsOwner earn. |
| — | — | 7% | 16% | 13% | 14% | 17% | 19% | 28% | 28% | Return on equityROE |
| Balance sheet | ||||||||||
| — | HK$16.1B | HK$21.4B | HK$71.3B | HK$101.5B | HK$94.5B | HK$97.1B | HK$158.8B | HK$228.4B | HK$228.4B | Total assetsAssets |
| HK$375M | HK$216M | HK$363M | HK$1.0B | HK$5.7B | HK$5.7B | HK$8.1B | HK$14.1B | HK$17.2B | HK$17.2B | Cash & investmentsCash+inv |
| (HK$233M) | (HK$150M) | HK$2.5B | HK$8.3B | HK$21.0B | HK$20.9B | HK$24.6B | HK$28.0B | HK$40.0B | HK$40.0B | Shareholders’ equityEquity |
| Per share | ||||||||||
| 404M | 512M | 918M | 1.05B | 1.22B | 1.15B | 1.12B | 1.12B | 1.13B | 0K | Shares out (diluted)Shares |
| HK$0.46 | HK$0.80 | HK$0.56 | HK$1.90 | HK$3.21 | HK$3.48 | HK$3.52 | HK$5.39 | HK$9.35 | — | Revenue / shareRev/sh |
| HK$-0.02 | HK$0.27 | HK$0.18 | HK$1.26 | HK$2.30 | HK$2.54 | HK$3.82 | HK$4.85 | HK$9.99 | — | EPS (diluted)EPS |
| HK$4.58 | HK$8.72 | HK$2.13 | HK$19.45 | HK$4.90 | HK$2.97 | HK$-5.71 | HK$27.60 | HK$36.02 | — | Owner earnings / shareOE/sh |
| HK$-0.58 | HK$-0.29 | HK$2.78 | HK$7.91 | HK$17.21 | HK$18.12 | HK$21.94 | HK$25.00 | HK$35.37 | — | Book value / shareBVPS |
The diluted share count moved ×1.79 into 2019 — 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
| 8-yr | 5-yr | |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue / share | +45.8%/yr | +37.6%/yr |
| Owner earnings / share | +29.4%/yr | +13.1%/yr |
| EPS | — | +51.3%/yr |
| Capital spending / share | +12.9%/yr | +2.6%/yr |
| Book value / share | — | +34.9%/yr |
The record, charted
FY2017–2025Each measure over its full record; the current point and the worst year marked.
Revenue
HK$10.6Blow FY2017
Quality & stewardship
Returns, the balance sheet, capital allocation, and pay.
Owner’s Scorecard
FY2025 20-F · source on SEC EDGAR →
Is it a good business?
- Operating margin 133.2%Wide fee margin (≥30%)Operating income HK$14.1B ÷ revenue HK$10.6BIndustry peers: median 25%
What this means
The heart of a asset manager: how much of each fee dollar survives the cost of running the business. Fees ride on assets under management, so the swing factors are net flows in or out and the market's move on the assets already there; the cost base is largely fixed, which lifts margins in a bull market and squeezes them in a bear one. A high margin held for years, through a market it does not control, is the operational mark of a real franchise.
- Net margin 106.9%WideNet income HK$11.3B ÷ revenue HK$10.6B
What this means
What reaches the owner after tax and interest. For a capital-light fee business this should be a wide share of revenue; when it is thin despite a high operating margin, debt taken on for acquisitions is usually the reason, so read it next to the balance sheet.
- Return on equity 28%Very high (≥25%)Net income HK$11.3B ÷ equity HK$40.0BIndustry peers: median 13%
What this means
Because the business ties up little capital, a healthy fee stream throws off a high return on the equity behind it. Read it with the buyback record: returning capital lifts this ratio honestly, but heavy debt taken to do so can flatter it.
Does AI threaten the moat?
Moderate contestabilityAI is likely to reshape costs and some products here without clearly contesting or sparing the core moat; how the company itself frames it is the tell.
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 question is whether a moat the record shows as durable outlasts a technology that lowers the cost of part of what the firm sells. The durability is read in the record above, the filing's own framing of AI beside it; the industry label decides nothing on its own.
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, 2025Can 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 assetsHK$223.7B
- Cash & short-term investmentsHK$17.2B
- Other current assetsHK$206.5B
Current liabilitiesHK$187.7B
- Other current liabilitiesHK$187.7B
Current ratio1.19×all current assets ÷ what's due · Graham looked for 2×
Quick ratio1.19×stricter: inventory excluded
Cash ratio0.09×strictest: cash alone against what's due
Working capitalHK$36.0Bthe cushion left after near-term bills
Deeper floors
Tangible book valueHK$39.9Bequity stripped of goodwill & intangibles
Net current asset valueHK$35.5BGraham's net-net: current assets less all liabilities
Debt incl. operating leasesHK$200MHK$200M of it operating leases
Deferred revenueHK$1Mcustomer cash collected before delivery; operating float
From the company's latest filing.
Peers, Capital Markets & Asset Management
The same industry, side by side on fee margins. 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 | Op. margin | Net margin | ROE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLKBlackRock Inc. | $24.2B | 35.4% | 29.9% | 14% |
| JEFJefferies Financial Group | $10.8B | 30.1% | 6.1% | 6% |
| FUTUFutu Holdings Limited | HK$10.6B | 81.3% | 71.8% | 16% |
| BENFranklin Resources Inc. | $8.8B | 21.8% | 15.0% | 10% |
| IBKRInteractive Brokers Group Inc. | $6.2B | 24.6% | 10.1% | 13% |
| HOODRobinhood Markets Inc. | $4.5B | -28.6% | -29.0% | -8% |
| VIRTVirtu Financial | $3.6B | 14.2% | 10.4% | 22% |
| SEICSEI Investments Company | $2.3B | 26.6% | 27.0% | 27% |
| Group median | — | 25.6% | 12.7% | 13% |
The price
What a price has to assume.
What the price implies
reverse-DCFEnter the US price, in dollars: the NYSE/Nasdaq quote you hold. Per the filing's own cover, “American depositary shares, each of which represents eight Class”; Futu Holdings Limited reports in HKD, so every figure in this tool is stated per ADS and translated at HKD 1 = $0.128 (2026-07-17, reference rate) so your dollar quote reconciles exactly. The record tables elsewhere on this page remain as filed, in HKD.
Type today's close and see the owner-earnings growth you'd have to believe to justify it, beside what Futu Holdings Limited has delivered.
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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.
Enter a price above to run it.
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Implied by the price—
Owner-earnings growth · ’21→’25+66%/yr
Owner-earnings growth · ’17→’25+35%/yr
Owner-earnings growth · ’17→’25+35%/yr
Owner-earnings yield—
What a growth belief costs, in multiples
The growth each return requires, at your price
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 yield—
High-grade bond yield—
Margin over the bond—
Owner earnings $5.2B on 141M shares outstanding (a weighted average, the only count this filer tags); net cash $2.2B. 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, "Futu Holdings Limited (FUTU), the owner's record," https://ownerscorecard.com/c/FUTU, data as of 2026-07-09.
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