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RYET, Ruanyun Edai Technology Inc.

Software asset-light Unprofitable

A software business, earning high margins on code once it is written.

Latest annual: FY2026 20-F · US listing is the ordinary share
RYET · Ruanyun Edai Technology Inc.
I

The business

What it sells, where the money comes from, the kind of company it is.

Revenue · FY2026
$7M
+11.9% YoY
Vital signs · TTM, with 3-yr average
Revenue $7M 3-yr avg $8M
Gross margin 25% 3-yr avg 38%
Operating margin −97.8% 3-yr avg −42.7%
ROIC −102% 3-yr avg −400%
Owner-earnings margin −123% 3-yr avg −54%
Free cash flow margin −123% 3-yr avg −54%

The business in brief

read the 10-K →

What this business is and what moves its needle, from its own SEC filings.

Situation
Unprofitable. No meaningful revenue yet; the record is the cash on hand against the burn.
What moves the needle
Operating margin has run around −23% through the cycle on a 32% gross margin, the operating line deeply negative — so the lever is the path to a margin at all: revenue growth against the cost curve and the cash runway, not the level of a margin that isn't there yet. The cash cycle has run negative through the cycle (a median of −23 days): the operation is paid before it pays, so working capital releases cash as the business grows rather than tying it up. Read this kind of business on retention and the cost of growth. On its own account, the filing leans hardest on supplier & input dependence, set against the numbers in what the filing emphasizes, below.

Every line is arithmetic on the company's filings, shown in full in the sections below.

II

The record

Ten years of arithmetic, read across the cycle.

The record, 2024–2026

realized figures from each filing · older years to the left
2024’242025’252026’26TTMTTMMar 2026
Income statement
$9M$7M$7M$7MRevenueRevenue
$3M$4M$2M$2MGross profitGross prof.
32%57%25%25%Gross marginGross mgn
($2M)($486K)($7M)($7M)Operating incomeOp. inc.
−23.2%−7.3%−97.8%−97.8%Operating marginOp. mgn
($2M)($520K)($8M)($8M)Net incomeNet inc.
Cash flow & returns
($799K)($2M)($9M)($9M)Operating cash flowOp. cash
$415K$241K$167K$167KDepreciationDeprec.
$890K($2M)($1M)($1M)Working capital & otherWC & other
$4K$144K$65K$65KCapexCapex
0.0%2.2%0.9%0.9%Capex / revenueCapex/rev
($804K)($2M)($9M)($9M)Owner earningsOwner earn.
−8.8%−29.4%−123.2%−123.2%Owner earnings marginOE mgn
($804K)($2M)($9M)($9M)Free cash flowFCF
−8.8%−29.4%−123.2%−123.2%Free cash flow marginFCF mgn
-697%-102%-102%ROICROIC
-876%-139%-139%Return on equityROE
−876%−139%−139%Retained to equityRetained/eq
Balance sheet
$2M$3M$840K$840KReceivablesReceiv.
$210K$59K$18K$18KInventoryInvent.
$2M$1M$2M$2MAccounts payablePayables
$182K$2M($1M)($1M)Operating working capitalOper. WC
$4M$4M$12M$12MCurrent assetsCur. assets
$5M$6M$9M$9MCurrent liabilitiesCur. liab.
0.8×0.7×1.4×1.4×Current ratioCurr. ratio
$405K$460K$470K$470KNet PP&ENet PP&E
$5M$6M$14M$14MTotal assetsAssets
$240K($162K)$6M$6MShareholders’ equityEquity
Per share
30.0M30.0M34.2M35.6MShares out (diluted)Shares
$0.31$0.22$0.22$0.21Revenue / shareRev/sh
$-0.07$-0.02$-0.23$-0.22EPS (diluted)EPS
$-0.03$-0.07$-0.27$-0.26Owner earnings / shareOE/sh
$-0.03$-0.07$-0.27$-0.26Free cash flow / shareFCF/sh
$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00Cap. spending / shareCapex/sh
$0.01$-0.01$0.17$0.16Book value / shareBVPS

Net income is the accountant's number; owner earnings is the cash an owner could take out. The walk between them, off the cash-flow statement, and whether the gap is widening or holding.

In fiscal 2026 the business reported a $8M loss but ($9M) of owner earnings: $1M less than the profit line, taken out by capital spending and the timing of cash.

FY2026FY2025FY2024
Reported net income($8M)($520K)($2M)
Depreciation & amortizationnon-cash charge added back+$167K+$241K+$415K
Working capital & othertiming of cash in and out, other non-cash items−$1M−$2M+$890K
Cash from operations($9M)($2M)($799K)
Capital expenditurecash put back in to keep running and to grow−$65K−$144K−$4K
Owner earnings($9M)($2M)($804K)
Owner-earnings marginowner earnings ÷ revenue-123%-29%-9%

Owner earnings is the cash an owner could pull out without starving the business: operating cash less the capital it must spend to hold its position .

Maintenance capex is estimated as depreciation where a growing business invests above it; free cash flow is the figure the scorecard's free-cash margin reads.

III

Quality & stewardship

Returns, the balance sheet, capital allocation, and pay.

Owner’s Scorecard

FY2026 20-F · source on SEC EDGAR →

Will it survive?

  • No meaningful interest burden
    Little or no interest expense reported
    What this means

    Little or no interest expense reported, the business isn't leaning on lenders to operate.

  • Not enough data
    What this means

    The filing data didn't include the inputs for this check.

  • Negative, funded by others
    DSO 41 + DIO 1 − DPO 129 days
    What this means

    Days cash is tied up between paying suppliers and collecting from customers. A negative cycle is a quiet moat: suppliers and customers fund the operation (Buffett's “float”), the company grows on other people's money.

Is it a good business?

  • Not enough data
    Industry peers: median -47%
    What this means

    The filing data didn't include the inputs for this check.

  • Consumes cash through the cycle
    3-yr median margin, range -123%–-9%; latest ($9M) = operating cash ($9M) − maintenance capex $65K
    Industry peers: median -46%
    What this means

    What an owner could take out without starving the business: operating cash less the maintenance capital it must spend to hold its position — Buffett's owner earnings. That's -123% of revenue this year, a -29% median across 3 years.

  • Loss, and burning cash
    Net income ($8M) · cash from operations ($9M)
    What this means

    The company reported a net loss, so a conversion ratio isn't meaningful. What matters then is whether operations still threw off cash, here, they did not.

How is the cash used?

  • Not enough data
    What this means

    The filing data didn't include the inputs for this check.

  • Investing or harvesting? 0.39×
    Harvesting
    Capex $65K ÷ depreciation $167K
    What this means

    Descriptive, not a grade. Above ~1× means investing faster than assets wear out (growth, or, sustained for years, today's earnings carrying less depreciation than tomorrow's will). Below means spending less than it's wearing out (efficiency, or a melting asset base). The ratio won't tell you which; the filings will.

Graham’s defensive tests · 0 of 2 met

Graham’s numerical criteria for the defensive investor (The Intelligent Investor, ch. 14), run on the filings. A floor of safety, not a buy signal; many fine modern businesses fail his strictest liquidity rules by design.

  • Adequate size Miss
    Revenue ≥ $2B · $7M
    What this means

    Big enough to weather a storm. Graham's 1972 floor was ~$100M of sales (≈ $700M today); we use a $2B revenue line as a conservative modern stand-in.

  • Strong liquidity Miss
    Current ratio ≥ 2× · 1.36×
    What this means

    Current assets at least twice current liabilities, near-term bills covered without touching the business. Strict by design: many cash-rich modern firms run leaner and miss it, holding their cushion in longer-dated securities.

  • Moderate price
    P/E ≤ 15 and P/E × P/B ≤ 22.5 · decided by the price
    What this means

    Graham's valuation gate, the wall he kept between a sound business and a sound investment. Three-year average earnings are $-0.10/share (latest year $-0.22), the averaged base the calculator's gate runs on, and book value is $0.16/share. Enter a price in “What the price implies” just below for the P/E, P/B, and whether it clears. But this is the rule Buffett outgrew: there's no hard P/E law, and a wonderful business can deserve a far richer multiple if the thesis holds, treat it as the bargain-hunter's floor, not a verdict on the price.

All figures as filed; the source filing is linked above.

Current Position

as of fiscal year-end, Mar 31, 2026

Can the business pay what it owes this year, off the freshest balance sheet: the quality of the assets, the debt actually coming due, and what a low ratio means here.

Current assets$12M
  • Receivables$840K
  • Inventory$18K
  • Other current assets$12M
Current liabilities$9M
  • Accounts payable$2M
  • Other current liabilities$7M
Current ratio1.36×all current assets ÷ what's due · Graham looked for 2×
Quick ratio1.36×stricter: inventory excluded
Cash ratio0.00×strictest: cash alone against what's due
Working capital$3Mthe cushion left after near-term bills
Deeper floors
Tangible book value$6Mequity stripped of goodwill & intangibles
Net current asset value$3MGraham's net-net: current assets less all liabilities

From the company's latest filing.

Peers, Software

The same industry, side by side on owner economics and what the growth costs. Each column names the period it is read over, and a median resting on fewer than three years carries that count beside it; the group median at the foot is the line to read each figure against.

CompanyRevenuelatest FY, USDGross marginmedian over the recordOp. marginmedian over the recordROICmedian over the recordOwner earn. marginmedian over the recordSales & marketinglatest FYStock paylatest FY
RDVTRed Violet Inc. Common Stock$90M-3.0%-3%20%24.1%7.2%
SVCOSilvaco Group Inc.$63M80%-67.5%-40%-34%29.0%17.1%
YXTYXT.COM GROUP HOLDING LIMITED$50M58%-67.0%-1156%1y-63%
ALARALARUM TECHNOLOGIES LTD.$41M49%-169.9%-59%-115%
HPAIHelport AI Limited$35M58%33.9%78%
RYETRuanyun Edai Technology Inc.$7M32%-23.2%-400%2y-29%
BMRBeamr Imaging Ltd. Ordinary Share$3M97%-44.2%-54%-28%
BLIVBeLive Holdings Ordinary Share$1M55%39.2%1y62%1y-35%2y
Group median58%-33.7%-47%-34%
IV

The price

What a price has to assume.

What the price implies

reverse-DCF

Enter the US price, in dollars: the NYSE/Nasdaq quote you hold. Ruanyun Edai Technology Inc.'s US listing is the ordinary share itself. The record tables elsewhere on this page remain as filed.

Ruanyun Edai Technology Inc. is profitable, but owner earnings are negative this year because capital spending currently outruns operating cash, a build-out, so the owner-earnings reverse-DCF has no positive base to grow. We read the price from both ends instead: type a price to see the steady-state profitability it demands, then set the mature margin you would believe and weigh the two against each other. Nothing leaves your browser unless you enter it in your notebook.

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The assumptions

Enter a price to run it.

Owner earnings it must reach
Margin the price demands
Owner-earnings margin today−123%

Two reads of one future. From your price: the owner earnings the company must reach, valued at a mature multiple and discounted back at your rate, expressed as the margin it implies on revenue grown at your rate. From your belief: the mature margin you would credit, set on the dial above. When the margin the price demands runs above the one you would believe, you are paying for a future taken on faith. For a deep cyclical at a trough, normalized through-cycle earnings are the better lens; this mode is for the genuinely unprofitable, and for the profitable business whose capital spending currently outruns its cash.

Cite: Owner Scorecard, "Ruanyun Edai Technology Inc. (RYET), the owner's record," https://ownerscorecard.com/c/RYET, data as of 2026-08-17.

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