Company Valuation: Zhihu Inc.

Data adjusted to current consolidation scope
Fiscal Period: December 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028
Market Cap 1 19,761 5,586 3,977 2,182 1,931 1,702 - -
Change - -71.73% -28.79% -45.13% -11.53% -11.85% - -
Enterprise Value (EV) 1 17,604 1,060 1,871 -1,817 -1,404 -1,521 -1,539 -1,591
Change - -93.98% 76.51% -197.11% 22.7% -8.33% -1.18% -3.38%
P/E -11.5x -3.46x -4.71x -13.7x -9.52x -31.3x -56.2x -140x
PBR 2.51x 1x 0.88x 3.42x 0.48x 0.45x 0.45x 0.45x
PEG - 0.2x 0.1x 0.2x -0.3x 0.4x 1.3x 2.3x
Capitalization / Revenue 6.68x 1.55x 0.95x 0.61x 0.7x 0.65x 0.64x 0.59x
EV / Revenue 5.95x 0.29x 0.45x -0.5x -0.51x -0.58x -0.58x -0.55x
EV / EBITDA -21.4x -0.88x -2.12x 3.96x 2.88x 5.77x 6.89x 11.1x
EV / EBIT -12.7x -0.66x -1.74x 3.78x 2.77x 5.36x 6.94x 10.6x
EV / FCF -39.3x -0.95x -4.41x 6.42x 3.85x 17.6x 605x -187x
FCF Yield -2.54% -105% -22.7% 15.6% 26% 5.68% 0.17% -0.53%
Dividend per Share 2 - - - - - - - -
Rate of return - - - - - - - -
EPS 2 -18.36 -15.54 -8.46 -1.88 -2.41 -0.6952 -0.3872 -0.1548
Distribution rate - - - - - - - -
Net sales 1 2,959 3,605 4,199 3,599 2,749 2,601 2,644 2,873
EBITDA 1 -820.8 -1,205 -882.7 -459.1 -488.3 -263.6 -223.4 -143
EBIT 1 -1,391 -1,604 -1,072 -481.1 -507.3 -283.6 -221.6 -150.1
Net income 1 -1,469 -1,581 -843.6 -171.8 -192.9 -80.75 -18.58 11.71
Net Debt 1 -2,157 -4,526 -2,107 -3,999 -3,335 -3,223 -3,241 -3,293
Reference price 2 211.16 53.80 39.84 25.84 22.94 21.74 21.74 21.74
Nbr of stocks (in thousands) 93,584 103,826 99,834 84,466 84,165 78,279 - -
Announcement Date 14/03/22 22/03/23 26/03/24 26/03/25 25/03/26 - - -
1CNY in Million2CNY
Estimates

P/E, Detailed evolution

P/E (Y) EV / Sales (Y) EV / EBITDA (Y) Dividend Yield (Y) Capi.($)
-31.28x-0.58x5.77x-.--% 251M
16.29x4.44x10.38x1.27% 554B
20.76x6.12x18.41x-.--% 313B
24.29x2.6x13.47x-.--% 151B
4.23x88.55x3.21x0.13% 108B
32.54x3.95x25.97x-.--% 97.89B
11.15x8.39x94.68x0.6% 97.83B
29.07x5.52x15.59x-.--% 87.72B
73.27x4.29x20.94x-.--% 81.2B
9.04x3.03x44.55x0.68% 40.32B
Average 18.94x 12.63x 25.30x 0.27% 153.1B
Weighted average by Cap. 21.41x 10.76x 19.96x 0.52%

Y-o-Y evolution of P/E

Historical PBR trend

Evolution Enterprise Value / Sales

Change in Enterprise Value/EBITDA

Year-on-year evolution of the Yield

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