Company Analysis

Chagee Holdings Limited (CHA)

Nasdaq: CHA · Retail-Eating & Drinking Places · filing with the SEC since 2024
Grade6.8
◀ Past 7.2● Present 6.9▶ Future 6.4
2 est.

The grade of Chagee Holdings Limited

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
6.8/10
◀ Past7.225% of the headline
● Present6.945% of the headline
▶ Future6.430% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

Of the nine metrics, 7 read as filed from the record and 2 are SI estimates, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

7.2/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.5/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2024.

weight 45% of this tense · 75th percentile among 8 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Chagee Holdings Limited's filings since 2024 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
8.4/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+66.7% a year over 3 filed years; profitable in 3 of 3.

weight 33% of this tense · 84th percentile among 8 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Chagee Holdings Limited's 3 filed years say what it did: revenue went from CNY 4.6 billion in fiscal 2023 to CNY 13 billion in fiscal 2025, up 66.7% a year; it rose in 2 of 2 years; it never fell from a peak; net income was positive in 3 of 3 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span66.7%top 6% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 19% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 19% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak0.0%top 19% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
4.7/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 3.8% a year. 22% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 47th percentile among 5 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 2 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Chagee Holdings Limited's diluted share count grew about 3.8% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 22% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-13 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearsbottom 36% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 42% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

6.9/1045% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Financial health

as filed
5.9/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 15%: 15¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 34%: owes 34¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 59th percentile among 8 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Chagee Holdings Limited earned about 15 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 34 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 63.7% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 19% of its family
  • return on equitytop 25% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforebottom 21% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
9.4/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 6% of 8 in its family; net margin 9.1%.

weight 33% of this tense · 94th percentile among 8 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Chagee Holdings Limited's standing among 8 graded names in its industry family: revenue of CNY 13 billion in fiscal 2025 is not ranked by size, since the family reports in another currency; a net margin of 9.1% ranks in the top 6%; revenue growth of 66.7% a year over the last 2 filed years ranks in the top 6% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • net margin9.1%top 6% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth66.7%top 6% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

SI estimate
5.0/10

What are the people in charge doing?

SI estimate 5.0/10, confidence 20 of 100 (family median).

weight 22% of this tense · 50th percentile among 6 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
It files no Form 8-K (a foreign issuer reports on Form 6-K), so officer and director changes cannot be read there; the record of its people begins on 2026-03-18 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 8 months and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 6 members with one.
What the record cannot read
It files no Form 8-K (a foreign issuer reports on Form 6-K), so officer and director changes cannot be read there; the record of its people begins on 2026-03-18 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 8 months and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge.
How it was reasoned
family median, 6 readings behind it.
Confidence
20 of 100
What would change it
Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: Chagee Holdings Limited's leadership is put at 5.0 of 10 with a confidence of 20 of 100, because it files no Form 8-K (a foreign issuer reports on Form 6-K), so officer and director changes cannot be read there; the record of its people begins on 2026-03-18 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 8 months and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 6 members with one. Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

6.4/1030% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Room to expand

as filed
7.1/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 29% of 8 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 71st percentile among 8 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Chagee Holdings Limited's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of CNY 7.6 billion against no long-term debt tagged leaves 66.6% of its assets as net cash, top 6% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 9.5% of revenue (top 31%); research spending of 2.1% of revenue (top 50%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets66.6%top 6% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue9.5%top 31% of its family
  • research spending against revenue2.1%top 50% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
7.2/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 28% of 8 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 45% of this tense · 72nd percentile among 8 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Chagee Holdings Limited's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 66.7% a year over the last three filed years against 66.7% over all 3, speeding up (top 12% of its family); the newest year grew 4% (top 44%); research spending grew 382.7% a year (top 50%); capital spending grew 261.5% a year (top 6%) (its annual reports). Chagee Holdings Limited reported 4 product lines in fiscal 2025: Raw Materials Packaging at CNY 10 billion (78%), Company Owned Teahouses at CNY 1.5 billion (12%), Franchising and Other Services at CNY 977 million (8%), and 1 more; 3 of 4 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+0.0 points a yeartop 12% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth4.0%top 44% of its family
  • three-year growth of research spending382.7%top 50% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending261.5%top 6% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

SI estimate
5.0/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

SI estimate 5.0/10, confidence 20 of 100 (family median).

weight 33% of this tense · 50th percentile among 6 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
The record does not carry four filed years of revenue and two of the three parts: revenue against the prior pace, earnings against the prior average, the margin change, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 6 members with one.
What the record cannot read
The record does not carry four filed years of revenue and two of the three parts: revenue against the prior pace, earnings against the prior average, the margin change.
How it was reasoned
family median, 6 readings behind it.
Confidence
20 of 100
What would change it
Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: Chagee Holdings Limited's expectations vs reality is put at 5.0 of 10 with a confidence of 20 of 100, because the record does not carry four filed years of revenue and two of the three parts: revenue against the prior pace, earnings against the prior average, the margin change, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 6 members with one. Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton CHA · research, not advice