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GDS Holdings Limited (9698.HK)

HKD32.30 +0.46 (+1.44%)
CN HKSE Technology Information Technology Services
Address Building C, Sunland International 200137
Shanghai, CN
CEO Wei Huang
IPO 2020-11-02
ISIN KYG3902L1095

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Also trades on Hong Kong Stock Exchange · 9698.HK (HKD) Mexican Stock Exchange · GDSN.MX (MXN) NASDAQ Global Market · GDS (USD)
Description

GDS Holdings Limited operates and develops data centers throughout the People's Republic of China. The company provides a range of services, including colocation offerings that supply critical facility space, customer power, racks, and cooling. They also deliver managed hosting services, which cover essential functions like business continuity and disaster recovery, network management, data storage, system security, and support for operating systems, databases, and server middleware. Furthermore, GDS offers managed cloud solutions and consulting services. Their client base is broad, encompassing cloud service providers, major internet companies, financial institutions, telecommunications and IT service providers, along with prominent domestic private sector firms and multinational corporations. The company was established in 2001 and is based in Shanghai, China.

Market Cap & Enterprise Value
Merger & Acquisition History

No mergers or acquisitions recorded for this company.

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HKD32.30 +0.46 (+1.44%)
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Liquidity & share structure
Average Volume
6M
Beta
0.38
Float Shares
1.07B
Free Float %
68.4%
Price Performance
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-1.54% -8.42% -24.49% -21.09% +0.67% -1.19% +21.76% +250.16% -53.10% -59.88% -59.88%
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Market Data

Analyst Consensus (13 ratings, all time) Buy
Price Targets & DCF
Current price
32.30
Quality scores
Altman Z-Score
0.87
Distress
Piotroski F-Score
7 / 9
Strong
MOAT Score
3 / 10
No MOAT
Composite Rating
B-
Overall Score
3 / 5
Medium
DCF Score
1 / 5
Low
ROE Score
3 / 5
Medium
ROA Score
3 / 5
Medium
D/E Score
1 / 5
Low
P/E Score
3 / 5
Medium
P/Book Score
4 / 5
High
Operational MOAT
✗ Below peers
  • Revenue growth Information Technology Services: +10.1%
    +10.8% Q1'26: +22.5% (vs Q1'25)
  • EPS growth Information Technology Services: +16.7%
    +871.9% Q1'26: +197.7% (vs Q1'25)
  • FCF margin FCF growth · Information Technology Services: +32.8%
    -5.8% Q1'26: -9.7% (vs Q1'25)
  • EBIT margin Information Technology Services: +9.0%
    +13.2% Q1'26: +27.0% (vs Q1'25)
  • ROIC Information Technology Services: +9.5%
    +1.7% Q1'26: +5.4% (vs Q1'25)
  • Share dilution Information Technology Services: +0.0%
    -86.0% Q1'26: +13.0% (vs Q1'25)
  • Debt / EBITDA Net debt/EBITDA · Information Technology Services: -0.83×
    9.58× Q1'26: 6.81× (vs Q1'25)
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Projection years:
Market assumptions
WACC components (optional)
Ke (Cost of Equity) = Rf + β (0.45) × ERP
WACC = 11% × Ke + 89% × Kd (4.2%) × (1−t)

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Business assumptions
Current price: 32.30
Enterprise Value: Equity Value: Terminal Value: TV as % of EV:

Base values reflect the latest available data for this company and market conditions.

Consensus Estimates
Metric Dec 2016
actual
Dec 2017
actual
Dec 2018
actual
Dec 2019
actual
Dec 2020
actual
Dec 2021
actual
Dec 2022
actual
Dec 2023
actual
Dec 2024
actual
Dec 2025
actual
Dec 2026
19 Rev. Ana.
3 EPS Ana.
Dec 2027
17 Rev. Ana.
4 EPS Ana.
Dec 2028
9 Rev. Ana.
3 EPS Ana.
Dec 2029
14 Rev. Ana.
2 EPS Ana.
Dec 2030
8 Rev. Ana.
2 EPS Ana.
Revenue
1.06B
est: 1.18B (-10.1%)
1.62B
est: 1.89B (-14.6%)
2.79B
est: 3.18B (-12.2%)
4.12B
est: 4.60B (-10.4%)
5.74B
est: 6.84B (-16.1%)
7.82B
est: 9.53B (-18.0%)
9.33B
est: 10.41B (-10.4%)
9.96B
est: 10.92B (-8.8%)
10.32B
est: 11.61B (-11.1%)
11.43B
est: 11.50B (-0.5%)
12.72B
12.22B – 13.32B
+10.6% YoY
14.39B
13.59B – 16.20B
+13.2% YoY
17.08B
16.25B – 18.59B
+18.6% YoY
17.10B
16.28B – 18.62B
+0.1% YoY
18.93B
18.02B – 20.61B
+10.7% YoY
EBITDA
187.48M
est: 430.82M (-56.5%)
463.86M
est: 693.45M (-33.1%)
918.52M
est: 1.17B (-21.2%)
1.62B
est: 1.69B (-3.8%)
2.34B
est: 2.51B (-6.5%)
3.23B
est: 3.50B (-7.7%)
4.19B
est: 3.82B (+9.8%)
1.36B
est: 4.00B (-65.9%)
4.39B
est: 5.15B (-14.7%)
4.96B
est: 5.10B (-2.6%)
5.64B
5.42B – 5.91B
+10.6% YoY
6.38B
6.03B – 7.18B
+13.2% YoY
7.57B
7.21B – 8.25B
+18.6% YoY
7.58B
7.22B – 8.26B
+0.1% YoY
8.39B
7.99B – 9.14B
+10.7% YoY
EBIT
-19.49M
est: 40.59M (-148.0%)
82.23M
est: 65.34M (+25.9%)
168.36M
est: 109.87M (+53.2%)
479.78M
est: 158.92M (+201.9%)
672.94M
est: 236.24M (+184.9%)
569.52M
est: 329.33M (+72.9%)
898.00M
est: 359.54M (+149.8%)
-2.26B
est: 377.23M (-700.0%)
1.15B
est: 2.25B (-48.8%)
1.51B
est: 2.23B (-32.4%)
2.46B
2.37B – 2.58B
+10.6% YoY
2.79B
2.63B – 3.14B
+13.2% YoY
3.31B
3.15B – 3.60B
+18.6% YoY
3.31B
3.15B – 3.61B
+0.1% YoY
3.67B
3.49B – 3.99B
+10.7% YoY
Net Income
-276.41M
est: -699.53M (+60.5%)
-326.90M
est: -334.70M (+2.3%)
-430.27M
est: -297.69M (-44.5%)
-442.08M
est: -284.02M (-55.7%)
-669.21M
est: -358.15M (-86.9%)
-1.19B
est: -758.17M (-57.1%)
-1.27B
est: -1.35B (+5.9%)
-4.29B
est: -1.59B (-169.1%)
3.43B
est: -165.14M (+2,174.2%)
949.64M
est: 201.51M (+371.3%)
115.03M
20.64M – 274.91M
-42.9% YoY
50.59M
-61.23M – 97.52M
-56.0% YoY
85.10M
79.78M – 94.93M
+68.2% YoY
13.25M
12.42M – 14.77M
-84.4% YoY
21.56M
20.21M – 24.05M
+62.7% YoY
SGA
298.95M
est: 158.08M (+89.1%)
318.98M
est: 254.44M (+25.4%)
440.17M
est: 427.89M (+2.9%)
541.32M
est: 618.88M (-12.5%)
837.46M
est: 920.01M (-9.0%)
1.17B
est: 1.28B (-8.7%)
1.34B
est: 1.40B (-4.6%)
1.33B
est: 1.47B (-9.5%)
1.03B
est: 1.44B (-28.0%)
1.05B
est: 1.42B (-26.3%)
1.57B
1.51B – 1.65B
+10.6% YoY
1.78B
1.68B – 2.00B
+13.2% YoY
2.11B
2.01B – 2.30B
+18.6% YoY
2.11B
2.01B – 2.30B
+0.1% YoY
2.34B
2.23B – 2.55B
+10.7% YoY
EPS
-0.92
est: -0.48 (-93.1%)
-0.42
est: -0.23 (-84.2%)
-0.43
est: -0.20 (-112.1%)
-0.40
est: -0.19 (-106.8%)
-0.53
est: -0.24 (-117.3%)
-0.82
est: -0.52 (-58.8%)
-0.86
est: -0.92 (+6.2%)
-2.96
est: -1.09 (-172.6%)
-0.57
est: -0.80 (+29.0%)
4.71
est: 0.98 (+380.5%)
0.56
0.10 – 1.34
-42.9% YoY
0.25
-0.30 – 0.47
-56.0% YoY
0.41
0.39 – 0.46
+68.2% YoY
0.06
0.06 – 0.07
-84.4% YoY
0.10
0.10 – 0.12
+62.7% YoY
Historical Ratings (3M)
Date Rating Overall DCF ROE ROA D/E P/E P/B
2026-05-26 B- 3/5 1/5 3/5 3/5 1/5 3/5 4/5
2026-05-22 B 3/5 1/5 4/5 4/5 1/5 3/5 4/5
2026-05-21 B 3/5 1/5 4/5 4/5 1/5 3/5 4/5
2026-05-20 B 3/5 1/5 3/5 3/5 1/5 4/5 5/5
2026-05-19 B 3/5 1/5 3/5 3/5 1/5 4/5 5/5
2026-05-18 B- 2/5 1/5 3/5 3/5 1/5 2/5 4/5
2026-05-15 B- 2/5 1/5 3/5 3/5 1/5 2/5 4/5
2026-05-14 B- 2/5 1/5 3/5 3/5 1/5 2/5 4/5
2026-05-13 B- 2/5 1/5 3/5 3/5 1/5 2/5 4/5
2026-05-12 B- 2/5 1/5 3/5 3/5 1/5 2/5 4/5
2026-05-11 B- 2/5 1/5 3/5 3/5 1/5 2/5 4/5
2026-05-08 B- 2/5 1/5 3/5 3/5 1/5 2/5 4/5
2026-05-07 B- 2/5 1/5 3/5 3/5 1/5 2/5 4/5
2026-05-06 B- 2/5 1/5 3/5 3/5 1/5 2/5 4/5
2026-05-05 B- 2/5 1/5 3/5 3/5 1/5 2/5 4/5
2026-05-04 B- 2/5 1/5 3/5 3/5 1/5 2/5 4/5
2026-04-30 C+ 2/5 1/5 2/5 3/5 1/5 2/5 4/5
2026-04-29 C+ 2/5 1/5 2/5 3/5 1/5 2/5 4/5
2026-04-28 C+ 2/5 1/5 2/5 3/5 1/5 2/5 4/5
2026-04-27 C+ 2/5 1/5 2/5 3/5 1/5 2/5 4/5
2026-04-24 C+ 2/5 1/5 2/5 3/5 1/5 2/5 4/5
2026-04-23 C+ 2/5 1/5 2/5 3/5 1/5 1/5 4/5
2026-04-22 C+ 2/5 1/5 2/5 3/5 1/5 1/5 4/5
2026-04-21 C+ 2/5 1/5 2/5 3/5 1/5 1/5 4/5
2026-04-20 C+ 2/5 1/5 2/5 3/5 1/5 1/5 4/5
2026-04-17 C+ 2/5 1/5 2/5 3/5 1/5 1/5 4/5
2026-04-16 C+ 2/5 1/5 2/5 3/5 1/5 1/5 4/5
2026-04-15 C+ 2/5 1/5 2/5 3/5 1/5 1/5 4/5

Owner Earnings

Owner's Earnings (history) From To
Owner alignment
Owner's Earnings TTM
346.59M
OE per share TTM
5.80
Owner's Yield
0.66%
Maintenance CapEx ratio
Maint CapEx / Avg PPE
496.0%

Ownership Overview

Ownership breakdown

Ownership breakdown not available.

At a glance
Institutional holders
Total invested
Insider transactions (90d)
0
Beneficial owners (>5%)
0
Beneficial owners (>5%)

No beneficial ownership filings recorded.

Institutional Activity (13F)

Institutional ownership trend

Institutional history not available.

Top institutional holders

Top holders not available.

Insider Activity

Insider Activity — Latest Quarter

No insider activity available.

Insider buys vs sells (history)

Insider history not available.

Recent insider transactions

No recent insider transactions.

Executive team

Top executives
EBIT / Employee
661.5K
Shares Outstanding
1.56B

Executive compensation

Executive compensation (annual)

Executive compensation not available.

CEO compensation breakdown

No CEO compensation history available.

Proxy statements

Proxy statements (DEF 14A)

No proxy statements available for this company yet.

Recent SEC filings

Recent SEC filings

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Executive team

NameTitleCompensationGender
Daniel A. Newman Chief Financial Officer male
Kejing Zhang Executive Vice President of Sales & Service male
Laura Chen Head of Investor Relations female
Wei Huang Founder, Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer male
Yan Liang Executive Vice President of Data Center Operation & Delivery female
Yixin Qian Executive Vice President of Operation female
ESG Score History

No data available for this company.

Senate Trading Activity

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House Trading Activity

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