Latest Ratios: P/E Ratio -0.5x · EV/EBITDA N/A · ROE -20.1%. (2019–2025 historical series)
Price-based multiples — how expensive the stock is relative to earnings, sales, book value, and cash flow
| Metric | TTM | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2021 | FY 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Market Cap | $1M | $7M | $176M | — | — | — | — |
| Enterprise Value | $-569608 | $-7765600 | $131M | — | — | — | — |
| P/E Ratio → | -0.51 | — | 16.46 | — | — | — | — |
| P/S Ratio | 0.05 | 0.03 | 0.97 | — | — | — | — |
| P/B Ratio | 0.11 | 0.08 | 1.80 | — | — | — | — |
| P/FCF | — | — | 16.21 | — | — | — | — |
| P/OCF | — | — | 12.48 | — | — | — | — |
P/E links to full P/E history page with 30-year chart
Enterprise-value multiples — capital-structure-neutral measures of total business value
| Metric | TTM | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2021 | FY 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EV / Revenue | — | -0.04 | 0.72 | — | — | — | — |
| EV / EBITDA | — | — | 9.23 | — | — | — | — |
| EV / EBIT | — | — | 10.77 | — | — | — | — |
| EV / FCF | — | — | 12.06 | — | — | — | — |
Margins and return-on-capital ratios measuring operating efficiency
Full margin charts and quarterly trend are on the Earnings History page
| Metric | TTM | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2021 | FY 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross Margin | 16.0% | 16.0% | 26.1% | 29.3% | 3.7% | 3.9% | 29.8% |
| Operating Margin | -9.3% | -9.3% | 6.0% | 6.6% | 5.0% | 6.9% | 16.1% |
| Net Profit Margin | -9.6% | -9.6% | 5.8% | 5.9% | 5.7% | 4.9% | 13.9% |
| Metric | TTM | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2021 | FY 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROE | -20.1% | -20.1% | 13.8% | 31.4% | 146.0% | 128.0% | 42.5% |
| ROA | -13.0% | -13.0% | 7.8% | 15.3% | 62.9% | 51.3% | 16.1% |
| ROIC | -21.6% | -21.6% | 17.0% | 58.8% | — | — | 32.1% |
| ROCE | -18.2% | -18.2% | 13.3% | 88.9% | — | — | 42.0% |
Solvency and debt-coverage ratios — lower is generally safer
| Metric | TTM | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2021 | FY 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debt / Equity | 0.13 | 0.13 | 0.07 | 0.07 | 0.66 | 0.55 | 0.37 |
| Debt / EBITDA | — | — | 0.51 | 0.28 | 0.39 | 0.27 | 0.60 |
| Net Debt / Equity | — | -0.17 | -0.46 | -0.22 | -4.08 | -5.29 | 0.15 |
| Net Debt / EBITDA | — | — | -3.18 | -0.94 | -2.39 | -2.58 | 0.25 |
| Debt / FCF | — | — | -4.15 | — | -78.64 | -13.93 | — |
| Interest Coverage | -127.48 | -127.48 | 64.04 | 221.44 | 104.87 | 17.24 | 41.70 |
Net cash position: cash ($25M) exceeds total debt ($11M)
Short-term solvency ratios and asset-utilisation metrics
| Metric | TTM | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2021 | FY 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current Ratio | 2.82 | 2.82 | 2.54 | 1.78 | 1.62 | 1.54 | 1.08 |
| Quick Ratio | 2.06 | 2.06 | 1.65 | 1.03 | 1.14 | 1.21 | 0.85 |
| Cash Ratio | 0.74 | 0.74 | 0.98 | 0.30 | 0.53 | 0.58 | 0.15 |
| Asset Turnover | — | 1.50 | 1.16 | 1.43 | 11.45 | 9.21 | 1.16 |
| Inventory Turnover | 6.26 | 6.26 | 2.83 | 2.83 | 0.55 | 0.59 | 6.16 |
| Days Sales Outstanding | — | 72.19 | 56.70 | 85.10 | 75.90 | 101.22 | 119.23 |
Earnings, FCF, buyback, and dividend yields — total returns to shareholders
Full dividend history and growth charts are on the Dividend History page
| Metric | TTM | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2021 | FY 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dividend Yield | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Payout Ratio | — | — | — | — | 103.1% | 292.3% | — |
| Metric | TTM | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2021 | FY 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings Yield | — | — | 6.1% | — | — | — | — |
| FCF Yield | — | — | 6.2% | — | — | — | — |
| Buyback Yield | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | — | — | — | — |
| Total Shareholder Yield | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | — | — | — | — |
| Shares Outstanding | — | $1M | $13M | $12M | $13M | $13M | $5M |
Persistent operational cash burn
Based on recent market data, SUGP trades at a P/S ratio of 0.05, which, according to financial filings, suggests the market is heavily discounting the company's future earnings potential due to the persistent negative net margins and the lack of a clear path to profitability in the near term.
The extremely low P/B ratio of 0.11 indicates that the market values the company at a significant discount to its book value, likely reflecting investor skepticism regarding the quality of its assets. This valuation multiple suggests that the market views the firm as a distressed entity rather than a growth-oriented industrial services provider.
As reported in historical financial statements, SUGP's ROIC has plummeted from a positive 8.8% in 2024Q1 to a negative 17.7% in 2025Q4, indicating that the company is currently destroying shareholder value rather than compounding it through its core security and engineering operations.
The sharp decline in ROIC suggests that the company's investments in hardware and personnel are failing to generate adequate returns relative to the capital employed. This trend warrants further investigation into whether the current capital allocation strategy is fundamentally flawed or merely suffering from temporary market-wide headwinds in Hong Kong.
According to the latest quarterly data, SUGP's cash conversion cycle has fluctuated significantly, reaching 68 days in 2025Q4, which, based on reported figures, highlights the ongoing difficulty in managing the timing between service delivery and the collection of payments from its diverse client base.
The variability in DSO and DIO suggests that the company lacks the leverage to enforce favorable payment terms, forcing it to carry higher working capital burdens. This inefficiency directly contributes to the firm's reliance on cash reserves to bridge the gap between operational outlays and revenue realization.
Based on the most recent balance sheet, SUGP maintains a current ratio of 2.82, which, as reported in financial filings, provides a temporary cushion against immediate insolvency despite the company's ongoing struggle to generate positive operating cash flow from its core security and engineering service segments.
While the current ratio appears healthy, the rapid depletion of cash reserves from $52.3 million to $25.4 million over the past year suggests that this liquidity is being consumed by operational deficits. Investors should monitor whether this cash burn rate remains sustainable without requiring external financing or further asset liquidation.
The most commonly misapplied metric for SUGP is the top-line revenue growth rate, which, according to recent analysis, obscures the underlying margin compression and the lack of profitability inherent in the company's current labor-intensive, low-margin security guarding and screening service business model.
Analysts often focus on revenue expansion as a proxy for success, but for SUGP, this metric fails to account for the rising statutory minimum wage costs that erode gross margins. A more appropriate metric would be the operating margin per segment, which would better reveal the true earning power of the engineering versus the guarding business.
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SU Group Holdings Limited Ordinary Shares's current P/E ratio is -0.5x. The historical average is 16.5x.
SU Group Holdings Limited Ordinary Shares's return on equity (ROE) is -20.1%. The historical average is 56.9%.
Based on historical data, SU Group Holdings Limited Ordinary Shares is trading at a P/E of -0.5x. Compare with industry peers and growth rates for a complete picture.
SU Group Holdings Limited Ordinary Shares has 16.0% gross margin and -9.3% operating margin.