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Cheche Group

CCG
19
Internet Content & Information · Communication Services
Exchange
NASDAQ
Winston Score
19
Winston is worried
Weak fundamentals across most pillars.

Cheche Group is a Chinese technology company that runs an online platform for buying car insurance. Drivers in China can compare quotes from different insurance companies and purchase policies directly through Cheche's platform. The company acts as a digital middleman between insurance providers and customers, similar to how sites like Compare the Market work in other countries.

Cheche makes money by earning a commission or fee each time a customer buys an insurance policy through its platform. The company operates almost entirely in China, where car ownership has grown rapidly over the past two decades. Its gross margin of around 5% is thin, which reflects how competitive the online insurance distribution market is in China. The main risk the business faces is that large insurers or well-funded tech giants like Alibaba or Tencent could build similar tools and cut out smaller platforms like Cheche entirely.

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

-20.8% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue declining

EPS Growth

+48.4% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

Insider Activity

56.5%ownership

Flat

Insiders holding steady — not selling despite ability to

Cash Runway

~9 years

$150M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

$150M cash & investments at current burn rate

Revenue declining

Cheche Group's revenue is actually shrinking. In a growth stock, that removes the core investment thesis. The low Winston Score here may be warranted — unless there's a turnaround story.

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Quality

Gross Margin
4.9%
Thin — 4.9% gross margin
Operating Margin
-2.0%
Losing money on operations — -2.0%
ROCE
-3.0%
Weak — -3.0% return on capital

Negative ROIC means the business is losing money on every dollar invested in it.

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Growth

Sales YoY
-4.4%
Shrinking sales (-4.4% YoY)
EPS YoY
N/A
Data not available
EPS Consistency
2/8 quarters
Earnings rarely grow — volatile business

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
N/A
Data not available
FCF Margin
-0.3%
Burning cash (-0.3%)

Free cash flow is negative. They are burning cash, not generating it.

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Stability

Debt / Equity
0.27
Conservative — low debt load (0.27)
Interest Cover
N/A
Data not available

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
N/M
no trend
Negative earnings — P/E not meaningful
P/E vs Forward
N/A
not available
Data not available

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.
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