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TROO, TROOPS Inc. Ordinary Shares

Consumer Finance financial Unprofitable

TROOPS, Inc. is a conglomerate group of various businesses with its headquarters based in Hong Kong.

Giant Credit Limited has been providing personal loans and corporate loans to its customers since 2016.

The principal business of FAF is money lending which is similar to Giant Credit Limited but with a larger customer base.

Latest annual: FY2025 20-F
TROO · TROOPS Inc. Ordinary Shares
I

The business

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

Revenue · FY2025
$17M
+69.7% YoY · 32% 5-yr CAGR
Vital signs · TTM
Cash & investments $3M

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 led by Insurance Consultancy Services (75%) and Interest On Loans (13%), with 2 more lines behind.
Situation
Unprofitable. No meaningful revenue yet; the record is the cash on hand against the burn.
What moves the needle
Net interest margin, loan losses, and book value. A lender is read on the quality of its balance sheet, not an earnings multiple, and the worst year of credit losses matters more than the best. 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 equity has sat below the cost of equity (median -14%, above 12% in only 0 of 10 years). The cycle and the loan book decide this one; weigh the recession years in the record, not the average, and read the 10-K.

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 →

Insurance Consultancy Services is 75% of revenue, with Interest On Loans the other meaningful line at 13%.

Revenue by product line, FY2025
  • Insurance Consultancy Services75%$13M
  • Interest On Loans13%$2M
  • Property lease and management8%$1M
  • Technology Service3%$549K
  • Advisory And Referral Services1%$137K
By geographyHong Kong SAR China98%China1%Australia1%

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, 2016–2025

realized figures from each filing · older years to the left
2016’162017’172018’182019’192020’202021’212022’222023’232024’242025’25TTMTTMDec 2025
Income statement
$5M$51K$2M$5M$4M$4M$4M$4M$10M$17M$17MRevenueRevenue
$0$2K$39K$93K$93KNet interest incomeNet int.
$194K$2M$2MCredit-loss provisionProvision
($5M)($11M)($21M)($37M)($68M)($8M)($346K)($2M)($13M)($28M)($28M)Net incomeNet inc.
Cash flow & returns
-5.0%-11.4%-11.0%-26.5%-75.4%-12.0%-0.5%-2.4%-16.9%-40.4%-40.4%Return on assetsROA
-6%-13%-15%-31%-96%-13%-1%-3%-20%-57%-57%Return on equityROE
−6%−13%−15%−31%−96%−13%−1%−3%−20%−57%−57%Retained to equityRetained/eq
-20%-39%-18%-32%-674%-14%-1%-3%-25%-79%-79%Return on tangible equityROTCE
Balance sheet
$100M$98M$191M$140M$90M$70M$70M$70M$79M$69M$69MTotal assetsAssets
$37M$31M$248K$4M$60M$385K$385K$385K$12M$12M$12MGoodwillGoodwill
$87M$84M$138M$120M$71M$63M$62M$61M$68M$49M$49MShareholders’ equityEquity
Per share
7.4M11.3M35.1M79.2M98.1M102M102M102M102M121M122MShares out (diluted)Shares
$-0.68$-0.99$-0.60$-0.47$-0.69$-0.08$-0.00$-0.02$-0.13$-0.23$-0.23EPS (diluted)EPS
$11.68$7.39$3.94$1.51$0.72$0.62$0.61$0.60$0.67$0.41$0.40Book value / shareBVPS
$3.35$2.54$3.29$1.46$0.10$0.61$0.61$0.59$0.53$0.29$0.29Tangible book / shareTBVPS

The diluted share count moved ×1.53 into 2017 — shares issued, not a split the totals corroborate — and the per-share figures carry the counts as filed.

The diluted share count moved ×3.09 into 2018 — shares issued, not a split the totals corroborate — and the per-share figures carry the counts as filed.

The diluted share count moved ×2.26 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
9-yr5-yr
Revenue / share−16.0%/yr+26.5%/yr
Owner earnings / share−51.9%/yr
Capital spending / share−4.2%/yr
Book value / share−31.1%/yr−10.8%/yr

The record, charted

FY2016–2025

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

Share count
121Mpeak FY2025
Revenue
$17Mlow FY2017
III

Quality & stewardship

Returns, the balance sheet, capital allocation, and pay.

Owner’s Scorecard

FY2025 20-F · source on SEC EDGAR →
Material weakness in financial controls
“As of December 31, 2025, based on an assessment performed by our management on the performance of the above mentioned remediation measures, we concluded that the material weaknesses previously identified in our internal control over financial reporting had…”

The figures below are only as sound as the controls that produced them. read the note →

Is it a good business?

  • Loss on equity
    Net income ($28M) ÷ equity $49M
    Industry peers: median -38%

    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 bank's north star, what it earns on shareholders' capital. Cost of equity is roughly 10%, so a return durably above that builds value and below it destroys it. One year is noisy; the durability across a full credit cycle is what counts.

  • Loss
    Net income ÷ (equity − goodwill $12M − intangibles $1M)
    Industry peers: median -50%
    What this means

    The cleaner return, stripping out the goodwill paid for past acquisitions. This is the number a buyer of the whole bank actually earns on the hard capital.

  • Not enough data
    What this means

    Noninterest expense or revenue missing.

Is it sound?

  • Capital (equity / assets) 71.0%
    Well capitalized
    Equity $49M ÷ assets $69M
    What this means

    A plain-English leverage read: how much of the balance sheet is the owners' own money. This is a rough proxy; the regulatory figure is the CET1 ratio, which is risk-weighted and reported in the filing. The point is the same, how much loss the bank can absorb before depositors are at risk.

  • Funding
    Not enough data
    What this means

    Deposits or total assets missing.

  • Credit cost (provision / NII) 2129%
    Elevated
    Provision for credit losses $2M ÷ net interest income $93K
    What this means

    What the bank set aside this year against loans going bad, as a share of its lending income. This swings hard with the cycle, low in good years and spiking in recessions, so read it across the record, not in one year. Disciplined underwriting shows up as low, stable provisions through a downturn.

Does AI threaten the moat?

Low contestability

The moat is physical, regulated or balance-sheet-funded, the kind AI cuts costs within but does not contest.

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.

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, 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$15M
  • Cash & short-term investments$3M
  • Receivables$456K
  • Inventory$26K
  • Other current assets$11M
Current liabilities$17M
  • Accounts payable$1M
  • Other current liabilities$15M
Current ratio0.92×all current assets ÷ what's due · Graham looked for 2×
Quick ratio0.92×stricter: inventory excluded
Cash ratio0.21×strictest: cash alone against what's due
Working capital($1M)the cushion left after near-term bills
Deeper floors
Tangible book value$35Mequity stripped of goodwill & intangibles
Net current asset value($5M)Graham's net-net: current assets less all liabilities
Debt incl. operating leases$21M$4K of it operating leases

From the company's latest filing.

Peers, Consumer Finance

The same industry, side by side on the bank lens. 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.

CompanyRevenueROEROTCEEfficiencyNII / assets
ABTCAmerican Bitcoin Corp.$185M-38%-152%0.0%
BETRBetter Home & Finance Holding Company$165M-446%-3947%1.0%
ECPGEncore Capital Group Inc$88M15%58%0.5%
BGDEBig Digital Energy Inc.$40M-138%-138%0.2%
TROOTROOPS Inc. Ordinary Shares$17M-14%-22%0.0%
TRONTron Inc.$5M-50%-50%0.1%
CDChaince Digital Holdings Inc.$2M-12%-12%1.0%
VELVelocity Financial Inc.$186M16%16%2.5%
Group median-26%-36%0.4%
IV

The price

What a price has to assume.

What the price implies

price / tangible book

Enter the home-market price, not the US ADR quote. TROOPS Inc. Ordinary Shares 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.

A bank is worth a multiple of its tangible book value, and the multiple it deserves is set by the return it earns on that book. Type today’s price; we show what you would be paying against what TROOPS Inc. Ordinary Shares’s record justifies.

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The assumptions

Tangible book / share, delivered15%/yr’20→’25

The justified multiple is (return on tangible equity − growth) ÷ (cost of equity − growth). A bank earning exactly its cost of equity is worth about one times tangible book; the premium above that prices each point of durable excess return. A higher cost of equity lowers the justified multiple for a bank.

Enter a price above to run it.

Price / tangible book
Justified by the return
Normalized return on tangible equity−22%
Price / book
Earnings yield
P/E (3-yr avg ’23–’25)
Graham’s price gate

Graham applied the same standards to financial enterprises (Intelligent Investor ch.14): the 15× multiple cap on averaged earnings, and P/E times price-to-book at most 22.5. The gate marks the bargain-hunter’s floor, not a verdict.

Tangible book $35M on 122M shares, a −22% normalized return on it. The dials set the multiple such a return would justify; your price sets the multiple you are paying. It assumes the bank keeps earning that return; a credit cycle, a rate shock or a bad acquisition changes it, which is what the record and the 10-K are for.

Cite: Owner Scorecard, "TROOPS Inc. Ordinary Shares (TROO), the owner's record," https://ownerscorecard.com/c/TROO, data as of 2026-07-09.

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