Ambow Education Holding Ltd. American Depository Shares (each representing twenty (20) Class A Ordinary Shares) (AMBO)
FairStock Score: 57/100 — STEADY
Key Financials
| Current Price | $1.61 |
| Market Cap | $6M |
| P/E Ratio | -17.89 |
| ROE | -2.87% |
| Dividend Yield | —% |
| Sector | Consumer Defensive |
AI Analysis
AI-generated, general educational analysis — not personal investment advice.
I approach Ambow as a Graham-style asset and earnings question. The company is tiny, with a $6.3M market value at the 2026-10-13 close of $1.81, and it sells educational services plus HybriU, an AI platform. In fiscal Q2 2026, the quarter ended 2026-06-30, filed revenue was $2.4M and net income was -$146,000, versus fiscal Q2 2025 revenue of $2.8M and net income of $1.8M. That swing is not encouraging. Full-year FY2025, ended 2025-12-31, had revenue of $9.5M and net income of $1.4M, so annual profits exist, but the latest quarter is red. FairStock calculations show P/B 0.60, P/E -20.11, ROE -2.87%, ROCE 0.35%, Piotroski F-Score 4/9, Altman Z-Score -36.28, and D/E 1.02. The balance-sheet signal is alarming. Still, TTM free cash flow is $856,000, a 13.6% FCF yield on the $6.3M market cap; if sustainable, that is cheap. But with 8 employees, roughly $9.5M of FY2025 revenue, no dividend, a negative latest-quarter margin, and no Lynch category because only two years of filed results are available, I cannot call this a durable moat. It is a speculative asset play, not a compounding franchise. The price may be low against book value, but the business quality and stability do not give me the margin of safety I want. Several quarters of consistent profit and cash generation would be needed before trusting the apparent cheapness.
In plain English: Ambow Education is a very small company that sells education programs and an AI platform called HybriU for learning and events. The business looks weak right now: it lost money in the latest quarter and has high debt relative to its size. The stock price looks cheap compared with the company's assets minus debts, but that cheapness may reflect real business risk.
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Data as of 2026-10-13 close · note generated 2026-10-15 · model deepseek-flash
Sources (SEC EDGAR): fiscal Q2 2026 10-Q (period ended 2026-06-30) · fiscal Q1 2026 10-Q (period ended 2026-03-31) · fiscal Q2 2025 10-Q (period ended 2025-06-30) · fiscal Q1 2025 10-Q (period ended 2025-03-31) · FY2025 10-K (period ended 2025-12-31) · FY2024 10-K (period ended 2024-12-31)
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