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UPDATED: Nov 12, 2025

Stock Analysis

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NetEase
NASDAQ:NTES
$142.34
$2.03 |1.45%
Day Range:
$140.79 - $143.57
Market Cap:
91.74B
P/E Ratio:
19.0500
Avg Value:
$122.26
Year Range:
$84.97 - $159.55
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General Information
Founded in the late 1990s as an internet portal, NetEase has transformed into a leading force in the second-largest online game company gaming in China.

While its initial success was built upon the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Fantasy Westward Journey, NetEase has expanded its portfolio with captivating franchises that resonate with both domestic and international players. Over the past decade, the company has created titles such as Justice, Identity V, Naraka: Bladepoint, and Eggy Party, all of which maintain significant player bases today. Beyond in-house development, the company also collaborates with likes of Microsoft and Marvel to create and publish games based on renowned IPs, including World of Warcraft, Diablo Immortal, and Marvel Rivals.

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NetEase (NTES) Stock Graph
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How We Grade NetEase (NTES)

We grade stocks based on past performance, their future growth potential, intrinsic value, dividend history, and overall financial health.

The chart below shows how we grade NetEase (NTES) across the board compared to its closest peers.

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Benzinga Edge Rankings

Benzinga Edge stock rankings give you four critical scores to help you identify the strongest and weakest stocks to buy and sell.

84.07

Growth measures a stock's combined historical expansion in earnings and revenue across multiple time periods, with emphasis on both long-term trends and recent performance.

60.15

Value is a percentile-ranked composite metric that evaluates a stock's relative worth by comparing its market price to fundamental measures of the company's assets, earnings, sales, and operating performance.

Momentum measures a stock's relative strength based on its price movement patterns and volatility over multiple timeframes, ranked as a percentile against other stocks.

81.23

Quality is a composite ranking that evaluates a company's operational efficiency and financial health by analyzing historical profitability metrics and fundamental strength indicators on a percentile basis relative to peers.

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Peer Ratings

See how NetEase compares to its peers in these key performance metrics from Benzinga Rankings.

Top Peers
Value
Quality
Growth
Momentum
Short
Medium
Long
RBLXRoblox
0
0
33.43
89.86
EAElectronic Arts
1.87
53.83
29.44
79.69
TTWOTake-Two Interactive
0
0
6.3
72.15
PLTKPlaytika Holding
36.7
0
23.15
10.17
Short: price trend over the last couple of months
Medium: price trend over the last couple of quarters
Long: price trend over the past year
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Valuation

Earnings History (3 years)

It is important to look at a companies earnings history to see not only if they are profitable, but if their earnings are growing.
As you can see from the chart above, NTES's earnings have increased for the past three years, this is a positive sign for the stock.
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Financial Health
What is the current state of the company's financial situation?

We measure the health of a company based on how profitable they are and their ability to cover both their short-term and long-term debts. The key indicators that we use are the Operating Margin, Quick Ratio, and Debt-to-Equity ratio relative to the companies peers

Operational Margin 0.3249

The operating margin measures how much profit a company makes after it spends money on wages, materials or other administrative expenses but before interest and taxes. It is a good representation of how efficiently a company is able to generate profit from its core operations.

Quick Ratio 3.0220

The quick ratio measures how much of a company's debt, that is due in less than 1 year, can be covered using its cash equivalents, marketable securities, and money that is currently owed to them (accounts receivables).

A company with a quick ratio of less than 1.00 does not, in many cases, have the capital on hand to meet its short-term obligations if they were all due at once, while a quick ratio greater than one indicates the company has the financial resources to remain solvent in the short term.

Debt-to-Equity 0.3636

Debt-to-equity is calculated by dividing a company's total liabilities by its shareholders equity. It is a measure of the degree to which a company is financing its operations through debt versus wholly owned funds. Generally speaking, a D/E ratio below 1.0 would be seen as relatively safe, whereas ratios of 2.0 or higher would be considered risky.

The chart above shows NetEase (NTES) operating margin, quick ratio, and debt-to-equity ratio compared to its peers. The black markers represent the peer averages for each ratio and the blue bars represent NetEase (NTES) ratio values.
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Dividend
There are few things we like to see when evaluating the quality of a company's dividend history and future

Ideally, we would like to see a company have a long history of consistently high dividend payouts that have grown at a consistent rate. From here we want to be confident that this sort of dividend growth and consistency will persist into the future.

The chart below shows the historical trend in NetEase (NTES) dividend yield on an annual basis.

85.27%
NetEase (NTES) saw a increase in it's dividend yield since 2020
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Past Performance
How has NetEase (NTES) performed over the past 5 years?

The two main factors that we consider when analyzing past performance is overall return and volatility

Using these two metrics, we can determine if this stock gave its investors enough return for the risk that they took on by owning it. This is measured by the sharpe ratio, which has been used as a primary measure of risk/reward trade-off for almost 60 years.

This ratio can be interpreted as the amount of return an investor has received for the amount of risk that they took on by owning the stock over that timeframe.

NetEase (NTES) sharpe ratio over the past 5 years is 0.7655 which is considered to be above average compared to the peer average of -0.2531

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Company Financials
INCOME STATEMENT
The income statement also known as the profit and loss statement, primarily focuses on the company's revenues and expenses during a particular period.

The main purpose of an income statement is to convey details of profitability and business activities. Below, is NTES's income statement for the previous four years along with its trailing-twelve- month profit & loss.

FISCAL YEAR (BIL.)
2021 ($)
2022 ($)
2023 ($)
2024 ($)
TTM ($)
Total Revenue
87.61
96.50
103.47
105.30
109.68
Operating Revenue
87.61
96.50
103.47
105.30
109.68
Cost Of Revenue
40.64
43.73
40.40
39.49
40.40
Gross Profit
46.97
52.77
63.06
65.81
69.28
Operating Expense
30.55
33.14
35.35
36.22
34.81
Selling General And Administration
16.48
18.10
18.87
18.70
17.17
Research and Development
14.08
15.04
16.48
17.52
17.64
Operating Income
16.42
19.63
27.71
29.58
34.47
Net Non-Operating Interest Income Expense
1.52
2.15
4.12
4.92
4.47
Other Income Expense
3.17
2.47
2.23
1.21
2.46
Other Non-Operating Income Expenses
0.71
0.85
1.05
0.60
0.77
Pre-Tax Income
21.10
24.25
34.06
35.72
41.40
Tax Provision
4.13
5.03
4.70
5.46
6.14
Net Income
16.86
20.34
29.42
29.70
34.21
Net Income Common Stockholders
16.86
20.34
29.42
29.70
34.21
Total Operating Income As Reported
16.42
19.63
27.71
29.58
34.47
Total Expenses
71.19
76.87
75.76
75.71
75.21
Net Income From Continuing And Discontinued Operation
16.86
20.34
29.42
29.70
34.21
Normalized Income
14.86
18.38
28.31
29.17
32.76
Interest Income
1.52
2.15
4.12
4.92
4.47
Interest Expense
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Net Interest Income
1.52
2.15
4.12
4.92
4.47
EBIT
16.42
19.63
27.71
29.58
34.47
EBITDA
19.69
22.49
30.76
32.00
36.60
Reconciled Cost Of Revenue
40.64
43.73
40.40
39.49
40.40
Reconciled Depreciation
3.28
2.86
3.06
2.42
2.13
Normalized EBITDA
17.24
20.86
29.59
31.39
34.91
Tax Rate For Calcs
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.15
Tax Effect Of Unusual Items
0.46
0.30
0.07
0.08
0.24
BALANCE SHEET
The balance sheet is a snapshot of a companies financials during a particular period in time.

It breaks down what company owns (assets) and what a company owes (liabilities), in order to give investors an overview of its capital structure.

FISCAL YEAR (BIL.)
2021 ($)
2022 ($)
2023 ($)
2024 ($)
TTM ($)
Total Assets
153.64
172.76
185.92
195.99
208.50
Current Assets
113.12
131.60
142.69
153.32
162.95
Total Non-Current Assets
40.52
41.16
43.23
42.67
45.55
Total Liabilities Net Minority Interest
54.22
63.89
57.84
53.50
54.39
Current Liabilities
50.50
56.83
53.84
49.67
50.45
Other Non-Current Liabilities
0.37
0.60
0.72
0.82
1.22
Total Equity Gross Minority Interest
99.42
108.87
128.08
142.49
154.10
Stockholders Equity
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Total Capitalization
96.60
108.39
124.71
139.11
149.59
Common Stock Equity
95.33
104.73
124.29
138.69
149.59
Net Tangible Assets
88.01
96.33
116.47
131.24
145.48
Working Capital
62.62
74.77
88.85
103.66
112.50
Invested Capital
115.96
132.26
143.95
150.92
160.86
Tangible Book Value
88.01
96.33
116.47
131.24
145.48
Total Debt
21.69
28.46
20.48
12.82
11.28
Net Debt
6.13
2.64
0.00
0.00
0.00
Share Issued
3.45
3.32
3.32
3.21
0.00
Ordinary Shares Number
3.27
3.22
3.21
3.17
0.00
CASH FLOW STATEMENTS
A companies statement of cash flows gives an investor a break down of the cash inflows and outflows from a companies operations and investment activities.
FISCAL YEAR (BIL.)
2021 ($)
2022 ($)
2023 ($)
2024 ($)
TTM ($)
Cash Flow from Continuing Operating Activities
24.93
27.71
35.33
39.68
46.56
Net Income from Continuing Operations
16.98
19.22
29.36
30.26
35.26
Depreciation and Amortization
3.28
2.86
3.06
2.42
2.13
Deferred Tax
0.41
0.49
0.13
0.32
0.59
Deferred Income Tax
0.41
0.49
0.13
0.32
0.59
Stock-Based Compensation
3.04
3.17
3.24
3.88
3.81
Other Non-Cash Items
Change in Working Capital
3.19
3.50
0.38
3.65
6.21
Change in Receivables
-1.19
0.55
-1.47
0.72
0.53
Changes in Account Receivables
-1.19
0.55
-1.47
0.72
0.53
Change in Inventory
-0.34
-0.03
0.30
0.12
-0.02
Change in Payables and Accrued Expense
2.73
1.85
0.30
0.30
2.25
Change in Payable
0.61
-0.05
-0.87
-1.23
0.23
Change in Account Payable
-0.16
0.45
-0.56
0.09
0.20
Change in Other Current Assets
Change in Other Current Liabilities
Change in Other Working Capital
1.35
0.39
1.16
3.32
4.83
Cash Flow from Continuing Investing Activities
-7.08
-7.37
-17.04
17.92
10.96
Net PPE Purchase and Sale
-1.53
-2.06
-2.29
-1.26
-1.30
Net Business Purchase and Sale
Purchase of Business
Net Investment Purchase and Sale
-5.91
-4.45
-12.00
18.21
11.13
Purchase of Investment
-101.27
-111.14
-130.49
-168.01
-158.13
Sale of Investment
95.36
106.69
118.48
186.22
169.27
Net Other Investing Changes
1.40
-0.32
-0.42
-0.41
-0.23
Financing Cash Flow
-12.59
-10.24
-21.47
-27.34
-21.16
Cash Flow from Continuing Financing Activities
-12.59
-10.24
-21.47
-27.34
-21.16
Net Issuance Payments of Debt
1.71
4.85
-8.31
-7.48
-2.42
Net Long-Term Debt Issuance
6.12
5.35
-0.82
1.99
Long-Term Debt Issuance
6.39
13.57
13.92
9.83
Long-Term Debt Payments
-0.27
-8.22
-14.74
-7.84
Net Short-Term Debt Issuance
0.74
-1.27
-13.65
-6.66
-4.41
Net Common Stock Issuance
-8.44
-8.33
-5.23
-8.83
-6.25
Common Stock Issuance
Common Stock Payments
-8.33
-5.23
-8.83
-6.25
Cash Dividends Paid
-3.51
-6.72
-8.01
-11.17
-12.62
Net Other Financing Charges
-2.35
-0.03
0.09
0.14
0.13
End Cash Position
68.29
81.17
74.83
145.60
181.22
Changes in Cash
5.26
10.10
-3.18
30.26
36.35
Beginning Cash Position
63.08
70.96
78.21
115.33
144.91
Capital Expenditure
-3.11
-2.64
-4.28
-2.21
-2.29
Issuance of Capital Stock
Issuance of Debt
11.55
6.39
13.57
13.92
9.83
Repayment of Debt
-10.27
-0.27
-8.22
-14.74
-7.84
Repurchase of Capital Stock
-8.33
-5.23
-8.83
-6.25
Free Cash Flow
21.82
25.07
31.06
37.47
44.27