profit from every HK$100 of sales.
HK$0HK$100
Cosco Shipping
HK$16.96-0.99% today
+23.6% in 1 year
1-year low HK$13.011-year high HK$18.32
Trading in the middle of its range for the past year.
The essentials
Four questions every investor asks, answered in one line each.
more sales each year, on average, 2022 to 2025.
0%20% a year
You pay HK$7.10 for every HK$1 of profit it makes in a year.
CheapExpensive
It holds more cash than debt.
No debt5 years
Money in, money out
What Cosco Shipping sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from CN¥391 billion in 2022 to CN¥220 billion in 2025, with CN¥30.9 billion of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Cosco Shipping handed back more cash to shareholders than it generated last year.
CN¥24.6B
Free cash flow 2025CN¥20.5B
Bought back its own sharesCN¥6.6B
Paid as dividendsCN¥24.6B
Cash vs. debtCN¥150.9B vs. CN¥76.6B
Cosco Shipping vs. similar companies
Cosco Shipping grows in the middle of these 5 and is the cheapest for its profits.
| Company | Profit from HK$100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per HK$1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cosco Shipping | 7.1× · Cheap | ||
 Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone | 34.7× · Expensive | ||
 A.P. Møller - Mærsk | 15.6× · Fair price | ||
 Hapag-Lloyd | 24.9× · Fair price | ||
 Shanghai International Port (Group) | 9.7× · Cheap |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Cosco Shipping's last five years, its segments, earnings, insiders and peers, and writes the bull case, the bear case and what the price expects.
Run the AI analysisFull statementsIncome, balance sheet and cash flow, year by year
Income statement
| In millions of CNY | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 391,058 | 175,453 | 233,859 | 219,504 | |
| 170,478 | 27,601 | 67,684 | 42,702 | |
| 159,982 | 22,369 | 58,354 | 33,998 | |
| 191,235 | 56,154 | 88,785 | 65,960 | |
| 109,792 | 23,860 | 49,172 | 30,860 | |
| 6.79 | 1.48 | 3.08 | 1.98 | |
| 43.6% | 15.7% | 28.9% | 19.5% | |
| 40.9% | 12.7% | 25.0% | 15.5% | |
| 28.1% | 13.6% | 21.0% | 14.1% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of CNY | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 511,930 | 462,571 | 497,472 | 483,758 |
| Cash | 235,614 | 181,165 | 184,189 | 150,882 |
| Total debt | 94,017 | 84,386 | 76,222 | 76,560 |
| Total liabilities | 258,137 | 219,220 | 212,413 | 200,352 |
| 200,591 | 196,115 | 234,668 | 232,265 | |
| 16,166 | 16,154 | 15,956 | 15,549 | |
| 48.4% | 10.9% | 18.8% | 12.2% | |
| 54.7% | 12.2% | 21.0% | 13.3% |
Cash flow
| In millions of CNY | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 196,799 | 22,584 | 69,313 | 45,546 | |
| 10,491 | 15,323 | 25,999 | 25,016 | |
| 186,307 | 7,261 | 43,314 | 20,530 | |
| Dividends paid | 46,013 | 30,868 | 12,050 | 24,639 |
| 0 | 1,261 | 2,018 | 6,561 | |
| – | – | – | – |
Valuation
- 7.1×
- –
- –
- 0.9×
- 1.0×
- 10.6×
- 2.2×
- 9.4%
- 14.1%
- 11.3%
Profitability
- 19.5%
- 15.5%
- 14.1%
- –
- 12.2%
- 22.6%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- −17.5%
- −33.7%
- –
- –
- −1.3%
Financial health
- -1.1×
- 0.33
- –
- 14.9×
- 1.51
- –
- –
How it ranks in Industrials
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Top 25%of 979
Top 23%of 984
Top 3%of 866
Bottom 1%of 985
Top 14%of 987
11.3%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$113a year at today's yield, before tax
–per share
Raised–not every year
How safe it looks
79.8% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 120.0%
News
COSCO SHIPPING Holdings reports Q3 resultsSeeking Alpha · Oct 29, 2026First Trust NASDAQ-100 Ex-Technology Sector Idx Fd ETF declares $0.1919 dividendSeeking Alpha · Sep 24, 2026Insider trades
Our insider feed has not updated since May 26, 2026. Trades filed after that are not listed yet.
No insider trades on file.
The seven classic investing rulebooks
4/7Passes 4 of 7. Each bar is how well the company fits that investor's published rules, from 0 to 100; 60 or more counts as a pass.
Warren Buffett
67Pass
Benjamin Graham
87Pass
Philip Fisher
48No pass
Peter Lynch
27No pass
Joel Greenblatt
67Pass
Charlie Munger
61Pass
Terry Smith
45No pass
Questions about Cosco Shipping
Is Cosco Shipping a good stock to buy?
A solid business, and the price looks low. 4 of the 7 famous investors' published rulebooks we apply pass it. Whether it suits you depends on your goals and the price you pay; invest-like never tells anyone to buy or sell. The AI analysis lays out the case for and against. Read the Cosco Shipping AI analysis
What does Cosco Shipping do?
COSCO SHIPPING Holdings Co., Ltd., an investment holding company, engages in the container shipping business in the United States, Europe, the Asia Pacific, Mainland China, and internationally. It is in Marine Shipping, based in Tianjin, China, with 32,768 employees.
Does Cosco Shipping pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 11.3% a year, about 80% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out HK$24.6 billion in dividends.
Is Cosco Shipping stock halal?
No. Cosco Shipping does not pass our halal screen: its debt is 35% of its market value, at or above the 33% limit. How we check
How has Cosco Shipping stock done over the past year?
Up 23.6% over the past twelve months, to HK$16.96. It traded between HK$13.01 and HK$18.32 and is 7.4% below its high.
Who are Cosco Shipping's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone, A.P. Møller - Mærsk, Hapag-Lloyd and Shanghai International Port (Group). The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Cosco Shipping's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 12, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.