Share count
12Mpeak FY2025
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ONEG, OneConstruction Group Limited
Homebuilders capital-intensive
A capital-intensive business, run on heavy physical assets that must be kept working and earn a return above what they cost to maintain.
The business
What it sells, where the money comes from, the kind of company it is.
Revenue · FY2025
$52M
−17.7% YoY
Vital signs · TTM, with 3-yr average
Revenue $52M 3-yr avg $57M
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
- Gross margin has run about 7.0% and operating margin about 3.5% through the cycle, a thin spread that turns the result on volume and the cost of what it sells far more than on the price it sets. That margin has held in a narrow 3.2%–4.0% band over the years, so steadiness itself is the evidence — the lever is unit growth and cost discipline, not a moving line. On its own account, the filing leans hardest on customer concentration, set against the numbers in what the filing emphasizes, below.
- Is it a good business?
- Return on capital has run high across the record (median 47%, above 15% in 2 of 3 years), though buybacks and expensed R&D and brands shrink the capital base, so the figure overstates the underlying economics. Owner earnings, the cash-based check, have been thin too. Whether these returns reflect real pricing power or an accounting artifact is the judgment the 10-K is for.
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, 2023–2025
realized figures from each filing · older years to the left| 2023’23 | 2024’24 | 2025’25 | TTMTTMSep 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Income statement | ||||
| $54M | $63M | $53M | $52M | RevenueRevenue |
| 5% | 7% | 7% | 7% | Gross marginGross mgn |
| $2M | $2M | $2M | $481K | Operating incomeOp. inc. |
| 4.0% | 3.5% | 3.2% | 0.9% | Operating marginOp. mgn |
| $2M | $2M | $898K | ($475K) | Net incomeNet inc. |
| 18% | 7% | 21% | — | Effective tax rateTax rate |
| Cash flow & returns | ||||
| ($2M) | ($7M) | ($5M) | ($5M) | Operating cash flowOp. cash |
| $2K | $3K | $4K | $4K | DepreciationDeprec. |
| ($3M) | ($9M) | ($6M) | ($5M) | Working capital & otherWC & other |
| $6K | $7K | $3K | $3K | CapexCapex |
| 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Capex / revenueCapex/rev |
| ($2M) | ($7M) | ($5M) | ($5M) | Owner earningsOwner earn. |
| −3.3% | −11.0% | −9.6% | −9.8% | Owner earnings marginOE mgn |
| ($2M) | ($7M) | ($5M) | ($5M) | Free cash flowFCF |
| −3.3% | −11.0% | −9.6% | −9.8% | Free cash flow marginFCF mgn |
| 47% | 51% | 12% | — | ROICROIC |
| 44% | 31% | 7% | -4% | Return on equityROE |
| 44% | 31% | 7% | −4% | Retained to equityRetained/eq |
| Balance sheet | ||||
| — | $2M | $749K | $5M | Cash & investmentsCash+inv |
| — | $27M | $23M | $17M | ReceivablesReceiv. |
| — | $233K | — | $233K | InventoryInvent. |
| — | $6M | $10M | $10M | Accounts payablePayables |
| — | $20M | $13M | $6M | Operating working capitalOper. WC |
| — | $43M | $49M | $49M | Current assetsCur. assets |
| — | $38M | $16M | $15M | Current liabilitiesCur. liab. |
| — | 1.1× | 3.1× | 3.4× | Current ratioCurr. ratio |
| — | $44M | $50M | $50M | Total assetsAssets |
| — | ($2M) | ($749K) | ($5M) | Net debt / (cash)Net debt |
| 13.0× | 7.2× | — | 1.5× | Interest coverageInt. cov. |
| $4M | $6M | $12M | $13M | Shareholders’ equityEquity |
| Per share | ||||
| 11.3M | 11.3M | 11.7M | 13.0M | Shares out (diluted)Shares |
| $4.84 | $5.64 | $4.55 | $4.02 | Revenue / shareRev/sh |
| $0.15 | $0.16 | $0.08 | $-0.04 | EPS (diluted)EPS |
| $-0.16 | $-0.62 | $-0.44 | $-0.39 | Owner earnings / shareOE/sh |
| $-0.16 | $-0.62 | $-0.44 | $-0.39 | Free cash flow / shareFCF/sh |
| $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | Cap. spending / shareCapex/sh |
| $0.34 | $0.50 | $1.04 | $0.97 | Book value / shareBVPS |
The record, charted
FY2023–2025Each measure over its full record; the current point and the worst year marked.
ROIC
12%low FY2025
Gross margin
7%low FY2023
Owner earnings vs. net income
Owner earningsNet incomeThe accountant's number, and the cash an owner can take; the gap is the tell.
($5M)owner earningsvs.$898Knet 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 2025 the business reported $898K of profit but ($5M) of owner earnings: $6M less than the profit line, taken out by capital spending and the timing of cash.
| FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reported net income | $898K | $2M | $2M |
| Depreciation & amortizationnon-cash charge added back | +$4K | +$3K | +$2K |
| Working capital & othertiming of cash in and out, other non-cash items | −$6M | −$9M | −$3M |
| Cash from operations | ($5M) | ($7M) | ($2M) |
| Maintenance capital expenditurethe spending needed just to hold position and volume | −$3K | −$3K | −$2K |
| Owner earnings | ($5M) | ($7M) | ($2M) |
| Growth capital expenditurediscretionary; spent to get bigger, not to stand still | — | −$4K | −$4K |
| Free cash flow | ($5M) | ($7M) | ($2M) |
| Owner-earnings marginowner earnings ÷ revenue | -10% | -11% | -3% |
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 .
Much of fiscal 2025's profit didn't arrive as operating cash; it sits in “working capital & other” above. That can be a real inventory or timing swing, or profit that doesn't run through operating cash at all: a heavy tax year, equity-method earnings, or investment income booked through investing. For a year like this, owner earnings understates the cash earned; the full cash-flow statement carries the rest.
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
FY2025 20-F · source on SEC EDGAR →
Will it survive?
- ThinOperating income $481K ÷ interest expense $312K
What this means
Operating profit covers interest, but with little room. A bad year, a refinancing at higher rates, or a revenue wobble closes the gap fast.
- Net cash, debt-freeCash $5M − debt $0
What this means
Cash and short-term investments exceed every dollar of debt by $5M, 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.
- TightDSO 115 + DIO 2 − DPO 78 days
What this means
Days cash is tied up between paying suppliers and collecting from customers. Lower is better; a long cycle means growth itself eats cash.
Is it a good business?
- Not enough dataIndustry peers: median 11%
What this means
The filing data didn't include the inputs for this check.
- Consumes cash through the cycle3-yr median margin, range -11%–-3%; latest ($5M) = operating cash ($5M) − maintenance capex $3KIndustry peers: median 3%
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 -10% of revenue this year, a -10% median across 3 years.
- Loss, and burning cashNet income ($475K) · cash from operations ($5M)
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? 0.75×HarvestingCapex $3K ÷ depreciation $4K
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 2 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 · $52M
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 PassCurrent ratio ≥ 2× · 3.39×
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.
- 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 $0.11/share (latest year $-0.04), the averaged base the calculator's gate runs on, and book value is $0.97/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?
Low contestabilityThe moat is physical, regulated or balance-sheet-funded, the kind AI cuts costs within but does not contest.
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.
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, Sep 30, 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 assets$49M
- Cash & short-term investments$5M
- Receivables$17M
- Inventory$233K
- Other current assets$28M
Current liabilities$15M
- Accounts payable$10M
- Other current liabilities$4M
Current ratio3.39×all current assets ÷ what's due · Graham looked for 2×
Quick ratio3.37×stricter: inventory excluded
Cash ratio0.33×strictest: cash alone against what's due
Working capital$35Mthe cushion left after near-term bills
Cash runway0.9 yrsthe business is consuming cash; this is how long the cash on hand lasts at that rate
Deeper floors
Tangible book value$13Mequity stripped of goodwill & intangibles
Net current asset value$12MGraham's net-net: current assets less all liabilities
Debt incl. operating leases$383K$383K of it operating leases
Deferred revenue$241Kcustomer cash collected before delivery; operating float
From the company's latest filing.
What an owner would ask, FY2025
read the 10-K →- How much of the revenue rides on one buyer?≈$5M · 10% of revenue on the largest customers (TTM)
“Concentration risk There were two, two and two customers from whom revenues individually represent greater than 10% of our total revenues for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively.”verify →
The questions the record and the charts do not answer on their own; each carries the figure and the place to look.
Peers, Homebuilders
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HOVHovnanian Enterprises Inc. | $3.0B | — | 1.8% | 3% | 7% |
| IBPInstalled Building Products | $3.0B | 30% | 9.7% | 17% | 7% |
| GEOGeo Group Inc (The) REIT | $2.6B | — | 12.2% | 8% | 8% |
| BZHBeazer Homes USA Inc. | $2.4B | 16% | 3.9% | 5% | 3% |
| GRBKGreen Brick Partners Inc. | $2.0B | 26% | 15.8% | 15% | -0% |
| LGIHLGI Homes Inc. | $1.7B | 25% | 13.3% | 11% | -7% |
| SDHCSmith Douglas Homes Corp. | $971M | 26% | 2.4% | 33% | 2% |
| ONEGOneConstruction Group Limited | $52M | 7% | 3.5% | 47% | -10% |
| Group median | — | 26% | 6.8% | 13% | 2% |
The price
What a price has to assume.
What the price implies
reverse-DCFEnter the home-market price, not the US ADR quote. OneConstruction Group Limited 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.
OneConstruction Group Limited 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
Enter a price to run it.
Owner earnings it must reach—
Margin the price demands—
Owner-earnings margin today−10%
A dated snapshot of the price you typed, the assumptions you set, and what the page showed for them. A snapshot is never edited after it is saved. Your notebook is yours alone — the commitment states what is stored and what we will never do.
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, "OneConstruction Group Limited (ONEG), the owner's record," https://ownerscorecard.com/c/ONEG, data as of 2026-07-09.
Manual order: ← OMSE its page in the Manual ONON →
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