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Wing Yip Food Holdings Group Limited American Depositary Shares

WYHG
35
Packaged Foods · Consumer Defensive
Price
$3.80
-0.83 (-17.93%)
Market Cap
$47.8M
Exchange
NASDAQ Global Select
Winston Score
35
Winston is serious
Below-average fundamentals — multiple weak pillars.

Share count falling — buybacks

73.8% over 4y

The company has reduced its share count over this period, returning value to shareholders through buybacks.

Diluted shares outstanding: 48.0M (2021) → 12.6M (2025)

Wing Yip Food Holdings Group Limited is a Chinese food company that makes and sells packaged food products, primarily in China. The company focuses on condiments, sauces, and seasoning products used in everyday cooking by households and food service businesses. It operates in the packaged foods industry, which in China is large but highly fragmented with many local and national competitors.

Wing Yip earns money by manufacturing and selling its food products through retail channels, distributors, and food service customers across China. The company is small, with a market cap of around $100 million, and its gross margin of roughly 27% suggests moderate pricing power but limited ability to stand out from rivals. Its low return on invested capital of 3.5% points to a thin competitive moat, and the main risk the business faces is intense price competition from both large domestic brands and regional players in China's crowded condiments and packaged food market.

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

-8.6% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue declining

EPS Growth

-80.0% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Earnings declining

R&D Spend

$4M/ year

Declining (-15% vs prior year)

3.1% of revenue

1.5x the sector average (2%)

R&D spend declining — could signal cost-cutting or efficiency

Insider Activity

48.6%ownership

Insiders own a meaningful stake in the company

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$91M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↓ Burn rate worsening

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

Revenue declining

Wing Yip Food Holdings Group Limited American Depositary Shares'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
26.6%
Modest — 26.6% gross margin
Operating Margin
5.8%
Thin — 5.8% operating margin
ROCE
0.9%
Weak — 0.9% 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
-9.1%
Shrinking sales (-9.1% YoY)
EPS YoY
-30.6%
Earnings shrinking (-30.6% YoY)

Earnings per share down more than 10%. Either a bad year, or a real decline.

EPS Consistency
2/8 quarters
Earnings rarely grow — volatile business

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
-244%
Weak — only -244% of profit becomes cash
FCF Margin
-13.3%
Burning cash (-13.3%)

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

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Stability

Debt / Equity
0.17
Conservative — low debt load (0.17)
Interest Cover
7.53x
Adequate interest coverage (7.5x)

Interest coverage between 3 and 8. Profits cover interest several times over.

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
7.8x
Attractive valuation — P/E 7.8

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

P/E vs Forward
N/A
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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.
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