2024–2025 (latest 2 aligned FYs; v3 window cap 5): revenue $9.4M to $9.5M, increasing; diluted EPS 0.01 to 0.02, increasing. Two-year history is scoreable but carries less confidence than a full-cycle record.
91
Median gross margin 53.9% over 2y, very stable.
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Median ROIC -3.7%, above the 12% hurdle in 0% of years.
40
Net debt/EBITDA 12.5x, no material interest expense disclosed.
78
Owner earnings changed +339.8%/yr over up to the ten most recent annual observations.
Price vs. value if growth stopped today
A cautious baseline, not a price target: what the shares may support if normalized owner earnings simply hold steady.
Above value if growth stopped todayBelow value if growth stopped today
1293% above value if growth stopped today
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$2.24
1293% above value if growth stopped today
What today’s price assumes: owner earnings growing ~69%/yr over 5 years. The zero-growth estimate assumes owner earnings stay flat (0% growth).
How to read this
We solve for the constant annual change in owner earnings that would make the five-year zero-growth estimate equal today’s price. This keeps the existing model inputs and calculation unchanged; it is an expectations lens, not a forecast.
This zero-growth estimate assumes trailing owner earnings persist — unreliable for declining businesses. Flag status unavailable — four adjacent recent FY revenue observations are required.
Among the current top-score group, the median current price is 239% above the zero-growth estimate across 48 of the current top 50 companies by Moat Score with both values.
Missing a usable price or zero-growth estimate: ANF, BKNG.
Model details under moat-index@3.0.0: zero-growth multiple 11.1×, capped-growth comparison at no more than 18×; 9% discount rate; high-end growth 0% (capped at 4%) using min(5y revenue CAGR, 5y diluted-EPS CAGR), clamped to 0%–4%; maintenance capex uses min(capex, D&A); abstain when D&A is unavailable. This is a disclosed model range, not intrinsic value as fact.
4 years of fundamentals
The business, in plain English
AMBOW EDUCATION HOLDING LTD. booked $9.5M of revenue in FY2025 in the Consumer Discretionary sector and kept 54.8% of it as gross profit — a solid-margin business by that measure. After every other cost, 14.4% of each revenue dollar reached the bottom line.
The balance sheet carried $3.2M of total debt in FY2025 against $1.4M of owner earnings — roughly 2.4 years of owner earnings to retire it all. Balance-Sheet Safety scores it 40/100.
Put together: Pricing Power is the strongest of the five filters (91/100) and Returns on Capital the weakest (0/100), which is how AMBO lands at 58/100 — a Shallow moat.
This breakdown is generated from the filed numbers and sub-scores above — no outside narrative, no estimates. Where a filing doesn’t disclose an input, the sentence that would need it is omitted instead of guessed.
FY2022–FY2025 · 4 fiscal years, normalized from AMBO’s SEC filings
Sales, as filed$9.5M FY2025Revenue kept after cost of goods54.8% FY2025Standard ROIC or separately labeled Operating ROICROIC 1.1% FY2025Cash an owner could take out$1.4M FY2025
Gaps in a line mean that item isn’t in AMBO’s filings for that year. The series is never interpolated or estimated. The Table view lists every filed value, including operating and net margins, total debt, and share count.
Flagship explainer
How AMBOW EDUCATION HOLDING LTD. makes its money
Start with a dollar of revenue and follow what the filing says remains.
Honest partial: the filing did not provide a normalized tag for Research and development, Selling, general and administrative; those components are omitted, not plugged.
· event Dec 31, 2025 · retrieved Jul 26, 2026 · annual-row source set
Curated 19-manager tier
Who reported holding AMBOW EDUCATION HOLDING LTD.
Delayed public 13F reports for 2026-Q1—not live positions, trades, or recommendations.
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Named manager positions and quarter-over-quarter changes
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Baupost Group
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Berkshire Hathaway
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Fundsmith
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Yacktman Asset Management
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Position size uses shares and filed value from each manager’s 13F. Portfolio weight uses the eligible long-share filing denominator. Changes compare only with the immediately preceding calendar quarter.
What AMBOW EDUCATION HOLDING LTD. insiders reported
The complete Form 4 source snapshot retrieved on Aug 11, 2026 contains no transaction rows.
Verified empty: the retrieved source snapshot contains no transaction event.
Source snapshot retrieved 2026-08-11T07:00:13.245Z · SEC Form 4
Moat Score history
15 logged readings since Jul 17, 2026 · append-only, never rewritten
Moat Score over timeLast scored reading of each day, on the 0–100 scale58.1 / 100
Breaks in the line mark methodology or normalizer upgrades — readings across versions aren’t compared, so a level shift there isn’t a change in the business.
Tier changesSame-methodology and same-normalizer crossings of the Wide / Narrow / Shallow bars
Scores are logged append-only and never overwritten — this record cannot be reconstructed retroactively, which is exactly why it’s worth keeping.
Insider activity
Form 4 reports mix P/S market or private transactions with compensation-plan mechanics. Activity casually described as “insider selling” can include compensation mechanics; awards, tax withholding, and option exercises are shown by their exact filed class here, never collapsed into “Bought” or “Sold.”
These are disclosed filing facts and arithmetic aggregates, not a signal or verdict.
This machine-readable surface covers SEC ownership filings from 2003; it does not represent earlier paper-era records.
No reported Form 4 transactions were found in the complete checked issuer window for AMBO, –. The totals and cluster result below are arithmetic over that certified window.
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Only P and S are included; awards, gifts, exercises, withholding, and other mechanics are excluded.
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Transaction-code histogram
Supporting event counts for the same certified window, Aug 11, 2025–Aug 11, 2026.
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Track record
How AMBOW EDUCATION HOLDING LTD.’s moat rated in each of the years we can reconstruct from its filings — scored only on what was knowable at the time — and what its price and returns did afterward. The score never saw a price; the two are joined only in hindsight, for education, not as a signal.
Point-in-time scores 2012–2025, one methodology version · reconstructed from filings on file each Dec 31 — never with hindsight
Point-in-time Moat Score (dot colored by tier)Indexed price (total-return (dividends reinvested))Rated Wide-moat that year
How to read this: each dot is what the engine would have scored AMBO on that December 31; the line below is its total-return price path (dividends reinvested) in the years since.
Two tracks, one timeline: the score has its own 0–100 scale (top), the price its own 100-based scale (bottom) — never a shared axis. The indexed price path isn't available for this company yet; gaps in the score line are years with no reconstructed rating (see the table for why). The Table view carries every value.
What followed, in the years it rated Wide
In the reconstructed history shown, AMBO did not rate Wide-moat in any year, so there is no wide-moat track record to report. That absence is itself the honest answer — we don’t manufacture a comparison where the rating never earned one.
Consumer Discretionary context
#137 of 487 scored Consumer Discretionary companies, ranked by Moat Score.
Does AMBOW EDUCATION HOLDING LTD. have an economic moat?
Based on its FY2025 SEC filings, the Moat Index scores AMBOW EDUCATION HOLDING LTD. (AMBO) 58.1 out of 100 — a Shallow moat. The five questions behind that score begin at 20% each; if exactly one genuinely lacks data, the other four weights are renormalized and disclosed. revenue and EPS trend 82, pricing power 91, returns on capital 0, balance-sheet safety 40, capital allocation 78.
Is AMBO trading below the conservative owner-earnings estimate?
The value if growth stopped today — a zero-growth baseline — is $0.16 per share. It capitalizes normalized owner earnings at a 9% rate and assumes 0% growth. Versus a recent price of $2.24, that is 1293% above value if growth stopped today. The model also publishes a capped-growth comparison, but the zero-growth estimate is the cautious baseline. It assumes trailing owner earnings persist and is unreliable for declining businesses. This is an educational estimate from primary SEC filings, not intrinsic value as a fact or investment advice.
How has AMBO's Moat Score changed over time?
The record logs 15 readings since Jul 17, 2026; the latest reads 58.1 out of 100 (shallow moat). No tier changes on record yet. (Methodology or normalizer upgrades on Jul 20, 2026, Jul 23, 2026, Jul 26, 2026 re-based the score; readings across versions aren't compared.) The history is append-only — readings are only ever added, never rewritten.
Scored from primary SEC filings via the public methodology. Educational only — not a recommendation to buy or sell AMBO. See the disclaimer.