LightInTheBox Holding Co. Ltd. American Depositary Shares each representing twelve ordinary shares (LITB)

FairStock Score: 86/100 — HIGH CONVICTION

Key Financials

AI Analysis

AI-generated, general educational analysis — not personal investment advice.

I look for businesses with durable economics, honest accounting, and a price that offers a margin of safety. LightInTheBox is an internet retailer of apparel and lifestyle goods, plus logistics services, with only 345 employees. That is a tough neighborhood: online retail competes on price, selection, and shipping, and I see no obvious moat. The numbers confirm the challenge. Revenue growth is -3.51% and profit growth is -22.22%. In the latest reported quarter, fiscal Q2 2026, revenue was $56.8 million, net income was $1.6 million, and the net margin was 2.77%. Thin margins leave little room for error. Financial strength is mixed. FairStock's Altman Z-Score of -4.85 signals meaningful distress risk, and D/E and ROE are not available. Yet ROCE is 9.42%, and FairStock's Piotroski F-Score is 7/9, suggesting some accounting signals are acceptable. The stock at $2.90 on 2026-10-13 has a $40.2 million market cap, FairStock P/E of 6.04, and FairStock EV/EBITDA of 3.14. That looks statistically cheap, but cheapness is not safety when earnings are shrinking. EPS of $0.48 may not hold if profit growth remains negative. FairStock gives an 86/100 score, but its Lynch category is none because there are zero years of filed results, needing three. A low beta of 0.02 and no dividend do not change the core issue: this is a small, competitive, shrinking retailer with an uncertain future. I would need evidence of stable or growing sales and a stronger balance sheet before calling it a high-quality bargain.

In plain English: The company sells clothing and general merchandise online, mostly in Europe and North America. Sales and profit have been shrinking, and a financial-risk measure is very weak. The share price looks low compared with reported earnings, but the business itself does not look strong.

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Data as of 2026-10-13 close · note generated 2026-10-15 · model deepseek-flash

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