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YRD, Yiren Digital Ltd.

We are a Cayman Islands exempted company with limited liability and our affairs are governed by our memorandum and articles of association, as amended and restated from time to time, and the Companies Act of the Cayman Islands, which is referred to as the Companies Act below, and the common law of the Cayman Islands.

Latest annual: FY2025 20-F · figures as filed, in CNY · 1 ADS = 2 ordinary shares
YRD · Yiren Digital Ltd.
I

The business

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

Revenue · FY2025
CN¥5.7B
−1.5% YoY · 8% 5-yr CAGR
Vital signs · TTM, with 5-yr average
Revenue CN¥5.7B 5-yr avg CN¥4.9B
Return on equity 1% 5-yr avg 17%
Return on tangible equity 1% 5-yr avg 17%
Equity / assets 68.9% 5-yr avg 70.8%

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 Credit solution business (88%), Others (7%) and Insurance brokerage business (5%).
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 9%, above 12% in only 5 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 →

The largest slice of sales is Credit solution business at 88%, but the profit engine is Others: 7% of revenue and 94% of the profitable segments' operating profit. Credit solution business ran a CN¥318M operating loss.

Revenue by reportable segment, FY2025
Operating profit profitable segments only
  • Credit solution business88%CN¥5.0Bloss of CN¥318M
  • Others7%CN¥382M94% of profit
  • Insurance brokerage business5%CN¥298M6% of profit

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 the profitable segments' operating profit (a loss-making segment carries its loss in dollars in the legend, not a share of the bar), 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
CN¥3.2BCN¥11.5BCN¥11.2BCN¥8.6BCN¥4.0BCN¥4.5BCN¥3.4BCN¥4.9BCN¥5.8BCN¥5.7BCN¥5.7BRevenueRevenue
CN¥73MCN¥62M(CN¥73M)(CN¥26M)CN¥81MCN¥105MCN¥105MNet interest incomeNet int.
CN¥993MCN¥1.6BCN¥372MCN¥370MCN¥167MCN¥261MCN¥100MCN¥266MCN¥266MCredit-loss provisionProvision
CN¥1.1B(CN¥188M)CN¥1.6BCN¥1.2B(CN¥693M)CN¥1.0BCN¥1.2BCN¥2.1BCN¥1.6BCN¥55MCN¥55MNet incomeNet inc.
-1%11%17%14%20%21%15%Effective tax rateTax rate
Cash flow & returns
23.3%-2.5%11.1%12.0%-10.3%13.3%14.0%20.2%12.2%0.4%0.4%Return on assetsROA
26%-18%21%20%26%17%1%1%Return on equityROE
15%−2%−2%Retained to equityRetained/eq
26%-18%21%20%26%17%1%1%Return on tangible equityROTCE
Balance sheet
CN¥4.8BCN¥7.5BCN¥14.3BCN¥9.6BCN¥6.7BCN¥7.7BCN¥8.5BCN¥10.3BCN¥13.0BCN¥13.5BCN¥13.5BTotal assetsAssets
CN¥5MCN¥5MCN¥5MCN¥5MCN¥5MGoodwillGoodwill
(CN¥7.2B)(CN¥7.9B)(CN¥363M)CN¥4.5BCN¥3.8BCN¥4.8BCN¥6.0BCN¥8.1BCN¥9.5BCN¥9.3BCN¥9.3BShareholders’ equityEquity
Per share
119M182M186M187M180M171M175M179M175M175M175MShares out (diluted)Shares
CN¥9.39CN¥-1.03CN¥8.48CN¥6.20CN¥-3.84CN¥6.06CN¥6.81CN¥11.64CN¥9.06CN¥0.31CN¥0.31EPS (diluted)EPS
CN¥3.32CN¥0.57CN¥0.70CN¥1.56CN¥1.56Dividends / shareDiv/sh
CN¥-60.57CN¥-43.25CN¥-1.95CN¥24.07CN¥20.95CN¥28.26CN¥34.38CN¥45.25CN¥54.62CN¥53.08CN¥53.08Book value / shareBVPS
CN¥-60.57CN¥-43.25CN¥-1.95CN¥24.07CN¥20.95CN¥28.26CN¥34.36CN¥45.22CN¥54.59CN¥53.05CN¥53.05Tangible 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.

Per-share growththe realized rate an owner's share compounded
9-yr5-yr
Revenue / share+2.1%/yr+8.3%/yr
Owner earnings / share−15.4%/yr+21.1%/yr
EPS−31.5%/yr
Dividends / share−9.0%/yr (8-yr)+123.3%/yr (1-yr)
Capital spending / share−5.8%/yr+14.1%/yr
Book value / share+20.4%/yr

The record, charted

FY2016–2025

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

Share count
175Mpeak FY2019
Revenue
CN¥5.7Blow FY2016
III

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?

  • Below the cost of equity
    Net income CN¥55M ÷ equity CN¥9.3B
    Industry peers: median 5%
    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.

  • Modest
    Net income ÷ (equity − goodwill CN¥5M − intangibles CN¥0)
    Industry peers: median 13%
    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
    Industry peers: median 47%
    What this means

    Noninterest expense or revenue missing.

Is it sound?

  • Capital (equity / assets) 68.9%
    Well capitalized
    Equity CN¥9.3B ÷ assets CN¥13.5B
    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) 252%
    Elevated
    Provision for credit losses CN¥266M ÷ net interest income CN¥105M
    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 Named as a competitive risk

Its FY2025 10-K names artificial intelligence as a competitive threat.

“In light of a tightening regulatory landscape domestically, our ability to customize and innovate products, coupled with robust channel partnerships, will play a vital role in maintaining our competitiveness. 121 For our others business, we fully embrace AI to offer selected high-quality products and services that alig…”

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.

Peers, Capital Markets & Asset Management

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
YRDYiren Digital Ltd.CN¥5.7B20%20%0.8%
BKKTBakkt Inc.$2.3B-146%-252%0.5%
GDOTGreen DOT Corp$2.0B5%13%-0.1%
ATLCAtlanticus Holdings Corporation$2.0B42%42%55%21.3%
UPSTUpstart$1.0B-7%-8%0.0%
SOFISoFi Technologies$3.6B-6%-9%85%3.6%
SYFSynchrony Financial$19.0B21%25%27%15.5%
OMFOneMain Holdings Inc.$4.9B23%48%39%15.3%
Group median13%16%2.2%
IV

The price

What a price has to assume.

What the price implies

price / tangible book

Enter the US price, in dollars: the NYSE/Nasdaq quote you hold. Per the filing's own cover, “American depositary shares, each of which represents two ordinary”; Yiren Digital Ltd. reports in CNY, so every figure in this tool is stated per ADS and translated at CNY 1 = $0.147 (2026-07-17, reference rate) so your dollar quote reconciles exactly. The record tables elsewhere on this page remain as filed, in CNY.

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 Yiren Digital Ltd.’s record justifies.

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The assumptions

Tangible book / share, delivered22%/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 equity20%
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 $1.4B on 87M shares, a 20% 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, "Yiren Digital Ltd. (YRD), the owner's record," https://ownerscorecard.com/c/YRD, data as of 2026-07-09.

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