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Powell Max Limited (PMAX)

Nasdaq: PMAX · Services-Miscellaneous Business Services · Central, Hong Kong, HK · filing with the SEC since 2024
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Grade4.1
◀ Past 3.8● Present 3.2▶ Future 5.1
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The grade of Powell Max Limited

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
4.1/10
◀ Past3.825% of the headline
● Present3.235% of the headline
▶ Future5.140% 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?

3.8/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.6/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2024.

weight 22% of this tense · 76th percentile among 35 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Powell Max 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
2.9/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

-1.8% a year over 3 filed years; profitable in 1 of 3.

weight 45% of this tense · 29th percentile among 34 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Powell Max Limited's 3 filed years say what it did: revenue went from HKD 38 million in fiscal 2022 to HKD 36 million in fiscal 2024, down 1.8% a year; it rose in 1 of 2 years; the deepest fall was 26% from fiscal 2023 to fiscal 2024; net income was positive in 1 of 3 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span-1.8%bottom 25% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 24% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profitbottom 32% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak25.8%bottom 34% of its family

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

Shareholder treatment

as filed
2.4/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 2.7% a year. 0% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 33% of this tense · 24th percentile among 25 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 2 fiscal years to 2024-12-31, Powell Max Limited's diluted share count grew about 2.7% 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 0 sales 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 37% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 12% 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?

3.2/1035% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Financial health

as filed
3.1/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE -85%: lost 85¢ per shareholder dollar. Leverage 66%: owes 66¢ per asset dollar.

weight 33% of this tense · 31st percentile among 35 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2024-12-31, Powell Max Limited lost about 85 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 23 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 66 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 5.4% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 36% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 8% of its family
  • gross profit against assetsbottom 38% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforebottom 43% of its family

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

Industry position

as filed
1.7/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 17% of 35 in its family; net margin -49.6%.

weight 45% of this tense · 17th percentile among 35 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Powell Max Limited's standing among 35 graded names in its industry family: revenue of HKD 36 million in fiscal 2024 is not ranked by size, since the family reports in another currency; a net margin of -49.6% ranks in the bottom 19%; revenue growth of -1.8% a year over the last 2 filed years ranks in the bottom 16% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • net margin-49.6%bottom 19% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth-1.8%bottom 16% of its family

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

Leadership

SI estimate
6.5/10

What are the people in charge doing?

SI estimate 6.5/10, confidence 20 of 100 (family median).

weight 22% of this tense · 50th percentile among 25 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 2026-03-10 (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 6 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 25 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 2026-03-10 (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 6 months and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge.
How it was reasoned
family median, 25 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: Powell Max Limited's leadership is put at 6.5 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; the record of its people begins on 2026-03-10 (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 6 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 25 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?

5.1/1040% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Room to expand

as filed
5.3/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 47% of 35 in its family for room to expand.

weight 33% of this tense · 53rd percentile among 35 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Powell Max Limited's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2024): cash of HKD 42 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 67.5% of its assets as net cash, top 1% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -35.4% of revenue (bottom 10%); a gross margin of 39.4% (top 50%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets67.5%top 1% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue-35.4%bottom 10% of its family
  • gross margin39.4%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
5.0/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 50% of 34 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 45% of this tense · 50th percentile among 34 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Powell Max Limited's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2024: revenue grew -1.8% a year over the last three filed years against -1.8% over all 3, speeding up (top 40% of its family); the newest year grew -25.7% (bottom 1%); capital spending grew 78.6% a year (top 11%) (its annual reports). Powell Max Limited 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+0.0 points a yeartop 40% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth-25.7%bottom 1% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending78.6%top 11% 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
4.8/10

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

SI estimate 4.8/10, confidence 20 of 100 (family median).

weight 22% of this tense · 50th percentile among 29 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 29 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, 29 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: Powell Max Limited's expectations vs reality is put at 4.8 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 29 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 PMAX · research, not advice