profit from every $100 of sales.
$0$100
Autohome
$22.35-2.27% today
-8.2% in 1 year
1-year low $16.381-year high $25.04
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 $10.91 for every $1 of profit it makes in a year.
CheapExpensive
It holds more cash than debt.
No debt5 years
Money in, money out
What Autohome sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from CN¥6.94 billion in 2022 to CN¥6.45 billion in 2025, with CN¥1.57 billion of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Autohome handed back more cash to shareholders than it generated last year.
Buybacks CN¥1.1BCN¥1.5B
Free cash flow 2025CN¥771M
Bought back its own sharesCN¥1.1B
Paid as dividendsCN¥1.5B
Cash vs. debtCN¥2.2B vs. CN¥42M
Autohome vs. similar companies
Autohome grows the slowest of these 5 and is the cheapest for its profits.
| Company | Profit from $100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per $1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Autohome | 10.9× · Cheap | ||
 Alphabet | 26.8× · Fair price | ||
 Meta | 27.1× · Fair price | ||
 Tencent Holdings | 14.3× · Cheap | ||
 Recruit | 60.1× · Very expensive |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Autohome'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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6,941 | 7,184 | 7,040 | 6,452 | |
| 5,706 | 5,772 | 5,556 | 4,668 | |
| 1,248 | 1,137 | 1,003 | 769 | |
| 1,672 | 1,490 | 1,308 | 1,043 | |
| 1,945 | 2,033 | 1,792 | 1,575 | |
| 14.48 | 15.32 | 13.32 | 11.72 | |
| 82.2% | 80.3% | 78.9% | 72.4% | |
| 18.0% | 15.8% | 14.3% | 11.9% | |
| 28.0% | 28.3% | 25.5% | 24.4% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of CNY | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 29,716 | 30,836 | 30,222 | 28,309 |
| Cash | 2,801 | 4,996 | 1,694 | 2,175 |
| Total debt | 110 | 196 | 94 | 42 |
| Total liabilities | 4,627 | 5,662 | 5,021 | 4,013 |
| 23,889 | 23,928 | 23,952 | 23,041 | |
| 125 | 123 | 122 | 118 | |
| 4.1% | 3.7% | 3.3% | 2.6% | |
| 8.1% | 8.5% | 7.5% | 6.8% |
Cash flow
| In millions of CNY | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,565 | 2,451 | 1,373 | 889 | |
| 118 | 79 | 140 | 118 | |
| 2,448 | 2,373 | 1,233 | 771 | |
| Dividends paid | 422 | 491 | 1,481 | 1,481 |
| 719 | 634 | 223 | 1,052 | |
| 169 | 195 | 192 | 219 |
Valuation
- 10.9×
- 15.9×
- –
- 0.7×
- 2.7×
- 22.3×
- 14.4×
- 4.5%
- 9.2%
- 8.6%
Profitability
- 72.4%
- 11.9%
- 24.4%
- 12.0%
- 2.7%
- 3.5%
- 3.5%
- 2.9%
- 1.0%
- 16.9%
Growth
- −2.4%
- −6.8%
- −37.4%
- +18.1%
- −1.9%
Financial health
- -2.0×
- 0.00
- 0.0%
- –
- 6.00
- 6.00
- 0.22
How it ranks in Communication Services
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Bottom 24%of 438
Bottom 47%of 441
Top 19%of 347
Bottom 14%of 441
Bottom 41%of 443
What analysts expect
- Average price target
- $43.67
- Range
- $28.00 – $70.00
These targets were collected on May 20, 2026 and our analyst feed has not updated since, so we no longer compare them with today's price.
Recent earnings
Our results feed has not updated since May 21, 2026. Results reported after that are not in this table yet.
| Date | EPS | Expected | Surprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 2026 | 0.32 | 0.36 | −11.1% |
| Nov 6, 2025 | 0.48 | 0.49 | −2.0% |
| Jul 31, 2025 | 0.56 | 0.53 | +5.7% |
| May 8, 2025 | 0.49 | 0.46 | +6.5% |
| Feb 20, 2025 | 0.55 | 0.55 | +0.0% |
| Nov 6, 2024 | 0.58 | 0.57 | +1.8% |
| Jul 31, 2024 | 0.65 | 0.64 | +1.6% |
| May 8, 2024 | 0.56 | 0.53 | +5.7% |
8.6%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$86a year at today's yield, before tax
+18.1%2020 to 2025
Raised1 yearin a row, in our data
Paid per share, each year
$0.76 in 2018 → $1.77 in 2025
How safe it looks
94.1% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 192.0%
News
No recent news on file.
Insider 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
1/7Passes 1 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
56No pass
Benjamin Graham
97Pass
Philip Fisher
52No pass
Peter Lynch
33No pass
Joel Greenblatt
31No pass
Charlie Munger
54No pass
Terry Smith
39No pass
Questions about Autohome
Is Autohome a good stock to buy?
A strong, very profitable business, and the price looks low. 1 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 Autohome AI analysis
What does Autohome do?
Autohome Inc. operates as an online destination for automobile consumers in the People's Republic of China. It is in Internet Content & Information.
Does Autohome pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 8.6% a year, about 94% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out $1.48 billion in dividends.
Is Autohome stock halal?
Yes. Autohome passes our halal screen: its business is permitted and its debt is 2% of its market value, under the 30% limit. How we check
How has Autohome stock done over the past year?
Down 8.2% over the past twelve months, to $22.35. It traded between $16.38 and $25.04 and is 10.7% below its high.
Who are Autohome's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are Alphabet, Meta, Tencent Holdings and Recruit. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Autohome's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 9, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.