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Jiayin Group

JFIN
49
Financial - Credit Services · Financial Services
Price
$2.43
+0.07 (+2.97%)
Market Cap
$126.3M
Exchange
NASDAQ
Winston Score
49
Winston is serious
Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.
Data as of Aug 23, 2026 · filings through Mar 31, 2026
How the score breaks down
Quality
Good
Growth
Weak
Cash Flow
Weak
Stability
Exceptional
Valuation
Good
Dividends
Good

Share count falling — buybacks

4.8% over 4y

The company has reduced its share count over this period, returning value to shareholders through buybacks.

Diluted shares outstanding: 54.0M (2021) → 51.4M (2025)

Winston Score History

The full picture

Jiayin Group is a Chinese online lending platform that connects individual borrowers with lenders and financial institutions. It operates in the consumer finance industry, helping everyday people in China get personal loans through a mobile app and website. The company acts as a middleman, matching borrowers who need cash with funding sources willing to lend it.

Jiayin makes money by charging service fees based on the loans it facilitates, rather than lending its own money directly. It operates almost entirely in China, making it a small player in a large but heavily regulated market. The company's high gross margin reflects its asset-light model, since it does not hold loans on its own balance sheet. The biggest risk Jiayin faces is ongoing regulatory pressure from Chinese authorities, who have repeatedly tightened rules around online lending platforms, which could limit growth or force further changes to its business model.

Score breakdown

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Quality

Profit per sale
Gross Margin
56.2%
Premium pricing power — 56.2% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
-9.3%
Losing money on operations — -9.3%
Return on the money invested
ROCE
22.2%
Exceptional — 22.2% return on capital

ROIC between 15% and 25%. Every dollar invested in the business earns 15 to 25 cents back per year.

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Growth

Sales growth
Sales YoY
-15.0%
Shrinking sales (-15.0% YoY)
Profit growth
EPS YoY
-27.7%
Earnings shrinking (-27.7% YoY)

Earnings per share down more than 10%. Either a bad year, or a real decline.

How steady the profit is
EPS Consistency
3/8 quarters
Earnings rarely grow — volatile business

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Cash Flow

Profit that turns into cash
Cash Conversion
0%
Weak — only 0% of profit becomes cash
Spare cash per sale
FCF Margin
0.0%
Thin free cash flow (0.0%)

FCF margin between 0% and 10%. Some cash from sales, but not a lot.

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Stability

What it owes vs what it owns
Debt / Equity
0.16
Conservative — low debt load (0.16)
Covers its interest
Interest Cover
1451.74x
Comfortably covers interest (1451.7x)

Interest coverage above 8. Profits cover interest many times over.

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Valuation

Price vs profit
P/E Ratio (TTM)
0.9x
Attractive valuation — P/E 0.9

P/E under 10. The price tag is small relative to last year's profit.

Cheaper or dearer next year
P/E vs Forward
-3.2
SLOWING
Earnings expected to fall — forward P/E higher than today

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Dividends

Dividend
Dividend Yield
28.88%
Healthy income — 28.88% yield

Yield above 6% — often a flag the market is pricing in a cut.

Dividend record
Dividend Growth
N/A
Data not available

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