Company Analysis

Lucas GC Limited (LGCL)

Nasdaq: LGCL · Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. · Beijing, CN · filing with the SEC since 2022
Grade4.9
◀ Past 4.4● Present 5.8▶ Future 4.4
1 est.

The grade of Lucas GC Limited

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
4.9/10
◀ Past4.425% of the headline
● Present5.835% of the headline
▶ Future4.440% 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?

4.4/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.0/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2022.

weight 22% of this tense · 70th percentile among 79 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Lucas GC Limited's filings since 2022 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
4.8/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+12.4% a year over 5 filed years; profitable in 5 of 5.

weight 45% of this tense · 48th percentile among 70 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Lucas GC Limited's 5 filed years say what it did: revenue went from CNY 652 million in fiscal 2021 to CNY 1.0 billion in fiscal 2025, up 12.4% a year; it rose in 2 of 4 years; the deepest fall was 29% from fiscal 2023 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 5 of 5 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span12.4%bottom 45% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 19% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 9% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak29.3%bottom 36% of its family

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

Shareholder treatment

as filed
2.2/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 7.3% a year. 0% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 1 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 33% of this tense · 22nd percentile among 41 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Lucas GC Limited's diluted share count grew about 7.3% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 0% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 1 sale and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearsbottom 31% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 13% 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?

5.8/1035% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Financial health

as filed
6.3/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 3%: 3¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 31%: owes 31¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 63rd percentile among 74 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Lucas GC Limited earned about 3 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 78 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 31 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 21.6% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 29% of its family
  • return on equitytop 39% of its family
  • gross profit against assetstop 5% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforebottom 25% of its family

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

Industry position

as filed
5.7/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 43% of 73 in its family; net margin 0.9%.

weight 33% of this tense · 57th percentile among 73 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Lucas GC Limited's standing among 73 graded names in its industry family: revenue of CNY 1.0 billion in fiscal 2025 is not ranked by size, since the family reports in another currency; a net margin of 0.9% ranks in the top 42%; revenue growth of 10.8% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 45% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • net margin0.9%top 42% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth10.8%top 45% 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 42 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 42 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, 42 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: Lucas GC 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 42 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?

4.4/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
4.0/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 40% of 71 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 40th percentile among 71 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Lucas GC Limited's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of CNY 30 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 6.7% of its assets as net cash, top 49% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -4.6% of revenue (bottom 31%); a gross margin of 33.8% (bottom 23%); research spending of 16.8% of revenue (top 46%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets6.7%top 49% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue-4.6%bottom 31% of its family
  • gross margin33.8%bottom 23% of its family
  • research spending against revenue16.8%top 46% of its family

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

Growth drivers

as filed
6.7/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 33% of 70 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 45% of this tense · 67th percentile among 70 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Lucas GC Limited's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 10.8% a year over the last three filed years against 12.4% over all 5, slowing (top 35% of its family); the newest year grew -2% (bottom 21%); research spending grew 30% a year (top 11%); capital spending grew 82.3% a year (top 8%) (its annual reports). Lucas GC Limited reported 3 product lines in fiscal 2025: Outsourcing Service at CNY 898 million (86%), Recruitment Service at CNY 111 million (11%), Product and Service Other at CNY 33 million (3%); 1 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-1.7 points a yeartop 35% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth-2.0%bottom 21% of its family
  • three-year growth of research spending30.0%top 11% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending82.3%top 8% 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
1.7/10

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

bottom 17% of 65 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 17th percentile among 65 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Lucas GC Limited's newest year against its own record: revenue of CNY 1.0 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 16.8% below the CNY 1.3 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 10% of its family); net income of CNY 10 million against a prior three-year average of CNY 51 million (bottom 15%); a net margin of 0.9% against 4.6% before (bottom 25%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-16.8%bottom 10% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-81%bottom 15% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-3.6 pointsbottom 25% 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 LGCL · research, not advice