Company Analysis

9F Inc. (JFU)

Nasdaq: JFU · Finance Services · filing with the SEC since 2018
Grade5.9
◀ Past 4.7● Present 6.5▶ Future 7.1
1 est.

The grade of 9F Inc.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
5.9/10
◀ Past4.740% of the headline
● Present6.535% of the headline
▶ Future7.125% of the headline

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

Of the nine metrics, 8 read as filed from the record and 1 is an SI estimate, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

4.7/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
5.6/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

6 warning events since 2018; the latest 2025-04-30.

weight 45% of this tense · 56th percentile among 130 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

9F Inc.'s filings since 2018 show 6 warning events: a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, 6 times, the latest 2025-04-30) (its current reports).

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

Track record

as filed
1.9/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

-44.1% a year over 7 filed years; profitable in 2 of 7.

weight 22% of this tense · 19th percentile among 104 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

9F Inc.'s 7 filed years say what it did: revenue went from CNY 4.4 billion in fiscal 2019 to CNY 134 million in fiscal 2025, down 44.1% a year; it rose in 1 of 6 years; the deepest fall was 97% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2024; net income was positive in 2 of 7 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span-44.1%bottom 5% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 11% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 50% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak97.2%bottom 12% of its family

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

Shareholder treatment

as filed
5.2/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 0.4% a year. 0% of cash flow returned.

weight 33% of this tense · 52nd percentile among 53 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, 9F Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 0.4% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 0% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). No open-market trades by its officers or directors are on the Form 4 record: a foreign private issuer's insiders file none.

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 18% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 22% 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?

6.5/1035% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Financial health

as filed
7.1/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 4%: 4¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 12%: owes 12¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 71st percentile among 117 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, 9F Inc. earned about 4 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 3 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 12 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count was unchanged over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 16% of its family
  • return on equitytop 27% of its family
  • gross profit against assetsbottom 42% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 15% of its family

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

Industry position

as filed
6.5/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 35% of 114 in its family; net margin 125.2%.

weight 33% of this tense · 65th percentile among 114 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

9F Inc.'s standing among 114 graded names in its industry family: revenue of CNY 134 million in fiscal 2025 is not ranked by size, since the family reports in another currency; a net margin of 125.2% ranks in the top 4%; revenue growth of -4.6% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 34% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • net margin125.2%top 4% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth-4.6%bottom 34% of its family

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

Leadership

SI estimate
5.5/10

What are the people in charge doing?

SI estimate 5.5/10, confidence 20 of 100 (family median).

weight 22% of this tense · 50th percentile among 74 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; no officer or director has filed a Form 3, 4 or 5 for it in the last fifteen months, so the years in charge cannot be read, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 74 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; no officer or director has filed a Form 3, 4 or 5 for it in the last fifteen months, so the years in charge cannot be read.
How it was reasoned
family median, 74 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: 9F Inc.'s leadership is put at 5.5 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; no officer or director has filed a Form 3, 4 or 5 for it in the last fifteen months, so the years in charge cannot be read, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 74 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?

7.1/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
8.3/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 17% of 108 in its family for room to expand.

weight 33% of this tense · 83rd percentile among 108 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

9F Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of CNY 750 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 17.5% of its assets as net cash, top 26% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 152.6% of revenue (top 2%); a gross margin of 81.2% (top 22%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets17.5%top 26% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue152.6%top 2% of its family
  • gross margin81.2%top 22% of its family

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

Growth drivers

as filed
4.9/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 49% of 100 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 49th percentile among 100 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

9F Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -4.6% a year over the last three filed years against -44.1% over all 7, speeding up (top 8% of its family); the newest year grew 7.5% (bottom 42%); capital spending grew -61% a year (bottom 13%) (its annual reports). 9F Inc. tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+39.5 points a yeartop 8% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth7.5%bottom 42% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-61.0%bottom 13% of its family

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

Expectations vs reality

as filed
8.0/10

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

top 20% of 78 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 80th percentile among 78 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

9F Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of CNY 134 million in fiscal 2025 came in 19.6% above the CNY 112 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 37% of its family); net income of CNY 168 million against a prior three-year average of CNY 228 million (top 12%); a net margin of more than its whole revenue against losses larger than its revenue before (top 11%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace19.6%top 37% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average+174%top 12% of its family
  • net margin against its prior averageup more than 100 pointstop 11% of its family

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

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 JFU · research, not advice