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Weibo Corporation

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50
Internet Content & Information · Communication Services
Price
$7.75
-0.10 (-1.27%)
Market Cap
$1.85B
Exchange
NASDAQ
Winston Score
50
Winston is curious
Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.

Share count rising — dilution

+16.7% over 4y

The company has issued more shares over this period, which dilutes each existing shareholder’s stake.

Diluted shares outstanding: 230.2M (2021) → 268.6M (2025)

Weibo Corporation, through its subsidiaries, operates as a social media platform for people to create, distribute, and discover content in the People's Republic of China. It operates in two segments, Advertising and Marketing Services; and Value-Added Services. The company offers discovery products to help users discover content on its platform; self-expression products that enable its users to express themselves on its platform; and social products to promote social interaction between users on

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+4.0% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Slow revenue growth

EPS Growth

-153.1% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Earnings declining

R&D Spend

$325M/ year

Rising (+5% vs prior year)

18.5% of revenue

1.5x the sector average (12%)

Investing heavily in future products and technology

Insider Activity

0.0%ownership

Relatively low insider ownership

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$2.3B cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

Company generates more cash than it spends — no dilution risk from fundraising

Heavy R&D investment

Weibo Corporation is putting 18% of revenue into R&D and that number is rising. That's 1.5x the sector average. And they're generating enough cash to self-fund it.

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Quality

Gross Margin
73.9%
Premium pricing power — 73.9% gross margin
Operating Margin
19.4%
Healthy — 19.4% operating margin
ROCE
1.6%
Weak — 1.6% return on capital

ROIC between 0% and 5%. They earn a few cents back per dollar invested in the business.

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Growth

Sales YoY
+0.3%
Nearly flat sales (0.3% YoY)
EPS YoY
+49.2%
Earnings growing fast (49.2% YoY)

Earnings growing 25%+ a year. The compounder zone.

EPS Consistency
6/8 quarters
Earnings grew in most of the last 8 quarters

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
0%
Weak — only 0% of profit becomes cash
FCF Margin
0.0%
Thin free cash flow (0.0%)

FCF margin between 0% and 10%. Some cash from sales, but not a lot.

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Stability

Debt / Equity
0.48
Conservative — low debt load (0.48)
Interest Cover
16.31x
Comfortably covers interest (16.3x)

Interest coverage above 8. Profits cover interest many times over.

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
4.1x
Attractive valuation — P/E 4.1

P/E under 10. The price tag is small relative to last year's profit.

P/E vs Forward
-0.9
SLOWING
Earnings expected to fall — forward P/E higher than today

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Dividends

Dividend Yield
8.31%
Healthy income — 8.31% yield

Yield above 6% — often a flag the market is pricing in a cut.

Dividend Growth
N/A
no trend
Data not available

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