Weibo Corporation (9898.HK)
ValueMarkers Composite Index
87% below intrinsic value ($68)
Weibo Corporation (9898.HK) — VMCI valuation read
Across 120 indicators, Weibo Corporation (9898.HK) lands at VMCI 61/100. The Communication Services sector median is 50, so the 11-point above-median read is the active comparison. Pillar weighting on the score: Value 35%, Quality 30%, Integrity 15%, Growth 12%, Risk 8%.
No material Form 4 disclosures landed on 9898.HK in the past 30 days. Quiet insider tape removes one signal source; the active reads stay with the trailing-twelve-month financials and the next 10-Q.
**Investor frame.** On Value, 9898.HK trades at 23.0x earnings, 28% above the Communication Services median of 18.0x; the EV/EBITDA delta of -2.0x reinforces that single line. On Quality, ROIC of 9.0% trails the Communication Services median (10.0%) by 1.0pp. On Risk, net debt to EBITDA of 3.4x is the binding constraint on the bear case for 9898.HK on the trailing balance sheet.
9898.HK fell 0.4% over the trailing 7 days, with a -7.0% read on a 30-day basis.
Weibo Corporation, through its subsidiaries, operates as a social media platform for people to create, distribute, and discover content in the People's Republic of China. It operates in two segments, Advertising and Marketing Services; and Value-Added Services. The company offers discovery products to help users discover content on its platform; self-expression products that enable its users to express themselves on its platform; and social products to promote social interaction between users on its platform. It also provides advertising and marketing solutions, such as social display advertisements; and promoted marketing offerings, such as Fans Headline and Weibo Express promoted feeds, as well as promoted trends and search products that appear alongside user's trends discovery and search behaviors. In addition, the company offers products, such as trends, search, video/live streaming, and editing tools; content customization, copyright contents pooling, and user interaction development; and search list recommendation, trends list recommendation, and Weibo app opening advertisements. Further, it provides back-end management, traffic support, and product solutions to MCNs, unions, and e-commerce partners; open application platform for other app developers that allows users to log into third-party applications with their Weibo account for sharing third-party content on its platform; and Weibo Wallet, a product that enables platform partners to conduct interest generation activities on Weibo, such as handing out red envelops and coupons. The company was formerly known as T.CN Corporation and changed its name to Weibo Corporation in 2012. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Beijing, China. Weibo Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Sina Corporation.
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