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HEPS, D-Market Electronic Services & Trading

E-Commerce & Marketplaces retail Unprofitable

A retailer, earning thin margins on high volume, where inventory turns, unit economics and scale decide the outcome.

Latest annual: FY2024 20-F · figures as filed, in TRY · 1 ADS = 1 ordinary share
HEPS · D-Market Electronic Services & Trading
I

The business

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

Revenue · FY2024
TRY 57.0B
+11.1% YoY · 85% 5-yr CAGR
Vital signs · TTM, with 5-yr average
Revenue TRY 57.0B 5-yr avg TRY 37.3B
Operating margin 0.0% 5-yr avg −10.8%
Owner-earnings margin 6% 5-yr avg 4%
Free cash flow margin 6% 5-yr avg 4%

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 −5.5% through the cycle, 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.

II

The record

Ten years of arithmetic, read across the cycle.

The record, 2019–2024

realized figures from each filing · older years to the left
2019’192020’202021’212022’222023’232024’24TTMTTMDec 2024
Income statement
TRY 2.6BTRY 15.2BTRY 24.8BTRY 38.2BTRY 51.3BTRY 57.0BTRY 57.0BRevenueRevenue
TRY 101M(TRY 828M)(TRY 6.8B)(TRY 7.4B)(TRY 1.0B)TRY 17MTRY 17MOperating incomeOp. inc.
3.9%−5.5%−27.3%−19.3%−2.0%0.0%0.0%Operating marginOp. mgn
(TRY 132M)(TRY 937M)(TRY 3.3B)(TRY 6.9B)TRY 109M(TRY 1.6B)(TRY 1.6B)Net incomeNet inc.
Cash flow & returns
TRY 364MTRY 1.1B(TRY 47M)TRY 1.0BTRY 7.2BTRY 5.7BTRY 5.7BOperating cash flowOp. cash
TRY 66MTRY 302MTRY 637MTRY 1.2BTRY 1.7BTRY 2.0BTRY 2.0BDepreciationDeprec.
TRY 429MTRY 1.7BTRY 2.6BTRY 6.7BTRY 5.4BTRY 5.3BTRY 5.3BWorking capital & otherWC & other
TRY 54MTRY 244MTRY 645MTRY 2.0BTRY 1.7BTRY 2.0BTRY 2.0BCapexCapex
2.1%1.6%2.6%5.3%3.2%3.5%3.5%Capex / revenueCapex/rev
TRY 310MTRY 852M(TRY 692M)(TRY 199M)TRY 5.6BTRY 3.7BTRY 3.7BOwner earningsOwner earn.
11.9%5.6%−2.8%−0.5%10.9%6.5%6.5%Owner earnings marginOE mgn
TRY 310MTRY 852M(TRY 692M)(TRY 991M)TRY 5.6BTRY 3.7BTRY 3.7BFree cash flowFCF
11.9%5.6%−2.8%−2.6%10.9%6.5%6.5%Free cash flow marginFCF mgn
-29%-142%2%-48%-48%Return on equityROE
−29%−142%2%−48%−48%Retained to equityRetained/eq
Balance sheet
TRY 282MTRY 1.3BTRY 12.2BTRY 12.6BTRY 10.4BTRY 9.1BTRY 9.1BCash & investmentsCash+inv
TRY 53MTRY 67MTRY 278MTRY 278MReceivablesReceiv.
TRY 770MTRY 2.9BTRY 2.9BTRY 5.7BTRY 6.0BTRY 6.0BInventoryInvent.
TRY 823MTRY 2.9BTRY 3.2BTRY 5.7BTRY 6.0BTRY 6.3BOperating working capitalOper. WC
TRY 1.7BTRY 11.8BTRY 13.8BTRY 21.1BTRY 20.9BTRY 20.9BCurrent assetsCur. assets
TRY 2.7BTRY 8.2BTRY 12.8BTRY 19.7BTRY 21.6BTRY 21.6BCurrent liabilitiesCur. liab.
0.6×1.4×1.1×1.1×1.0×1.0×Current ratioCurr. ratio
TRY 2.0BTRY 13.4BTRY 16.6BTRY 25.4BTRY 26.1BTRY 26.1BTotal assetsAssets
0.4×-0.9×-2.1×-1.8×-0.2×0.0×0.0×Interest coverageInt. cov.
(TRY 655M)(TRY 2.6B)TRY 11.4BTRY 4.9BTRY 4.8BTRY 3.3BTRY 3.3BShareholders’ equityEquity
Per share
284M284M305M326M325M328M328MShares out (diluted)Shares
TRY 9.16TRY 53.36TRY 81.35TRY 117.27TRY 158.06TRY 173.73TRY 173.73Revenue / shareRev/sh
TRY -0.46TRY -3.29TRY -10.93TRY -21.22TRY 0.34TRY -4.89TRY -4.89EPS (diluted)EPS
TRY 1.09TRY 3.00TRY -2.27TRY -0.61TRY 17.18TRY 11.23TRY 11.23Owner earnings / shareOE/sh
TRY 1.09TRY 3.00TRY -2.27TRY -3.04TRY 17.18TRY 11.23TRY 11.23Free cash flow / shareFCF/sh
TRY 0.19TRY 0.86TRY 2.12TRY 6.17TRY 5.13TRY 6.12TRY 6.12Cap. spending / shareCapex/sh
TRY -2.30TRY -9.24TRY 37.56TRY 14.91TRY 14.68TRY 10.12TRY 10.12Book value / shareBVPS
Per-share growththe realized rate an owner's share compounded
5-yr5-yr
Revenue / share+80.1%/yr+80.1%/yr
Owner earnings / share+59.4%/yr+59.4%/yr
Capital spending / share+100.6%/yr+100.6%/yr

The record, charted

FY2019–2024

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

Share count
328Mpeak 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.

TRY 3.7Bowner earningsvs.(TRY 1.6B)net incomelow FY2021

Where the cash went

ReinvestBuybacksDividendsAcquisitionsRetained

Each year's operating cash, by what management did with it: the mix, and how it drifts.

FY2019FY2024

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 TRY 1.6B loss into TRY 3.7B 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(TRY 1.6B)TRY 109M(TRY 6.9B)(TRY 3.3B)(TRY 937M)
Depreciation & amortizationnon-cash charge added back+TRY 2.0B+TRY 1.7B+TRY 1.2B+TRY 637M+TRY 302M
Working capital & othertiming of cash in and out, other non-cash items+TRY 5.3B+TRY 5.4B+TRY 6.7B+TRY 2.6B+TRY 1.7B
Cash from operationsTRY 5.7BTRY 7.2BTRY 1.0B(TRY 47M)TRY 1.1B
Maintenance capital expenditurethe spending needed just to hold position and volume−TRY 2.0B−TRY 1.7B−TRY 1.2B−TRY 645M−TRY 244M
Owner earningsTRY 3.7BTRY 5.6B(TRY 199M)(TRY 692M)TRY 852M
Growth capital expenditurediscretionary; spent to get bigger, not to stand still−TRY 791M
Free cash flowTRY 3.7BTRY 5.6B(TRY 991M)(TRY 692M)TRY 852M
Owner-earnings marginowner earnings ÷ revenue6%11%-1%-3%6%

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
“We have identified material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting and have as a result determined that our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective.”

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 TRY 17M ÷ interest expense TRY 7.7B
    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.

  • Debt under-captured — leverage unknown, not low
    What this means

    This company pays far more interest than its tagged debt implies (the rest sits under segment dimensions the data source strips), so its net cash or net debt cannot be read honestly: the gap is unknown, not zero, and 'net cash' here would be exactly the fiction the figure is meant to prevent. Judge it on the record and owner earnings instead.

  • Not enough data
    What this means

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

Is it a good business?

  • Debt under-captured
    Industry peers: median 20%
    What this means

    This company's interest bill implies far more debt than its filings tag at the consolidated level (the rest sits under segment dimensions the data source strips), so invested capital, and the return on it, cannot be read honestly. Judge this one on Owner Earnings and the record instead.

  • Solid through the cycle
    6-yr median margin, range -3%–12%; latest TRY 3.7B = operating cash TRY 5.7B − maintenance capex TRY 2.0B
    Industry peers: median 2%
    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 6% of revenue this year, a 6% median across 6 years.

  • Loss, but cash-generative
    Net income (TRY 1.6B) · cash from operations TRY 5.7B

    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.

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? 0.98×
    Maintaining
    Capex TRY 2.0B ÷ depreciation TRY 2.0B
    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 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
    Revenue ≥ $2B (a dollar floor) · TRY 57.0B
    What this means

    Big enough to weather a storm. Graham's floor is a dollar figure — about $2B of revenue as a conservative modern stand-in. This company reports in its home currency and we carry no exchange rate, so we show the figure and leave the size bar for you to apply rather than convert it with a number we don't have.

  • Strong liquidity Miss
    Current ratio ≥ 2× · 0.97×
    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
    Debt ≤ working capital ·
    What this means

    The filings tag only a fraction of the debt this company's interest bill implies (much of it sits under segment dimensions the data source strips), so this test can't be run honestly.

  • Earnings stability Miss
    A profit every year (6-yr record) · 5 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.

  • Earnings growth
    Earnings +33% over the record ·
    What this means

    Earnings were negative early in the record, a growth rate isn't meaningful.

  • 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 TRY -7.85/share (latest year TRY -4.49), the averaged base the calculator's gate runs on, and book value is TRY 9.30/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, 2019–2024

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

  • Profitable years 1 of 6
    What this means

    Lost money in 5 year(s), look at what happened there before trusting the average.

  • Operating margin −10% → −7% (3-yr avg ends)

    In the filing’s words The filing ties gains to its own pricing, but names price competition too — pricing power that is real yet contested, not unopposed. The margin shows who is winning.

    What this means

    Through the cycle the operating margin widened — about −10% early to −7% lately, median −5% — pricing power intact or improving.

  • Owner earnings growth +51%/yr
    What this means

    Owner earnings grew about 51% a year over the record.

  • Worst year 2021 · −27.3% op. margin
    What this means

    Operations went underwater in 2021, understand why before trusting the good years.

  • Share count +2.9%/yr
    What this means

    The share count is rising, dilution works against you on a per-share basis.

Does AI threaten the moat?

Moderate contestability

AI 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 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.

“Any sensitive information (including confidential, competitive, proprietary, or personal data) that we input into a third-party AI platform could be leaked or disclosed to others, including if sensitive information is used to train the third parties' AI model, which could subject us to legal or regulatory liability and…”

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, 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 assetsTRY 20.9B
  • Cash & short-term investmentsTRY 9.1B
  • ReceivablesTRY 278M
  • InventoryTRY 6.0B
  • Other current assetsTRY 5.4B
Current liabilitiesTRY 21.6B
  • Other current liabilitiesTRY 21.6B
Current ratio0.97×all current assets ÷ what's due · Graham looked for 2×
Quick ratio0.69×stricter: inventory excluded
Cash ratio0.42×strictest: cash alone against what's due
Working capital(TRY 731M)the cushion left after near-term bills
Deeper floors
Tangible book valueTRY 3.1Bequity stripped of goodwill & intangibles
Debt incl. operating leasesTRY 997MTRY 993M of it operating leases
Deferred revenueTRY 1.9Bcustomer cash collected before delivery; operating float

From the company's latest filing.

How the cash was used, 2019–2024

Over the record, the business generated TRY 15.4B of operating cash; how management split it reads as a cash builder, a large share of cash simply built up on the balance sheet.

  • ReinvestedTRY 6.6B · 43%
  • BuybacksTRY 69M · 0%
  • Retained (debt / cash)TRY 8.7B · 56%
  • Returned to ownersTRY 69M

    1% of the owner earnings the business produced over the span, TRY 0 as dividends and TRY 69M as buybacks.

  • Source of fundingOperating cash

    Operating cash covered reinvestment and returns; over the span cash and short-term investments rose TRY 8.9B.

  • Average price paid for buybacks

    Buybacks ran TRY 69M over the span, but the filings don't tag the share count needed to deduce the average price paid.

  • Net change in share count15.5%

    The diluted count rose from 284M to 328M: issuance (stock pay, deals) outran any buybacks, so owners were diluted on net.

  • Dividend record

    No dividend line was reported in the filing data over the span; the record here neither confirms nor rules out a payout.

Buybacks are gross of stock issued to staff; the share-count line above is the net of that, the figure that decides whether owners gained. The average price paid blends a year of purchases (and any accelerated repurchase), so it is close, not exact. The record of where the cash went and on what terms.

Peers, E-Commerce & Marketplaces

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
AMZNAmazon.com Inc.$716.9B42%5.3%22%8%
HEPSD-Market Electronic Services & TradingTRY 57.0B-3.7%6%
CPNGCoupang Inc.$34.5B23%-0.5%2%
CDWCDW Corp.$22.4B17%6.6%17%5%
DKSDick's Sporting Goods$17.2B32%7.1%28%6%
CHWYChewy Inc.$12.6B27%-0.8%2%
WWayfair$12.5B28%-5.4%1%
NSITInsight Enterprises$8.2B15%3.4%13%2%
Group median1.4%4%
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. Per the filing's own cover, “American Depositary Shares, with each ADS representing one ordinary”; D-Market Electronic Services & Trading reports in TRY, so every figure in this tool is stated per ADS and translated at TRY 1 = $0.021 (2026-07-17, reference rate) so your dollar quote reconciles exactly. The record tables elsewhere on this page remain as filed, in TRY.

Type today's close and see the owner-earnings growth you'd have to believe to justify it, beside what D-Market Electronic Services & Trading has delivered.

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Through the cycle, D-Market Electronic Services & Trading earns about $73M on its 6.0% median owner-earnings margin. This year’s 6.5% margin runs in line with that. Normalize, below, values the price on that through-cycle figure rather than the latest year.

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.

Enter a price above to run it.

Implied by the price
Owner-earnings growth · ’20→’24+176%/yr
Owner-earnings growth · ’19→’24+51%/yr
Owner-earnings yield
P/E (3-yr earnings ’22–’24)
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 $78M on 357M shares outstanding, per the 20-F cover, as of 2025-12-31; net cash $194M. 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, "D-Market Electronic Services & Trading (HEPS), the owner's record," https://ownerscorecard.com/c/HEPS, data as of 2026-07-09.

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