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HF FOODS GROUP INC.

HFFG · Industrials · $82.5M mkt cap · FY2025 filings · No moat ·

Doesn't clear the bar

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The five investor questions

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2021–2025 (latest 5 aligned FYs; v3 window cap 5): revenue $797M to $1.2B, increasing; diluted EPS 0.43 to -0.73, decreasing.

29

Median gross margin 17.1% over 9y, very stable.

12

Median ROIC 2.7%, above the 12% hurdle in 33% of years.

28

Net debt/EBITDA n/ax, interest coverage -3x.

44

Owner earnings changed trend unclear over up to the ten most recent annual observations, share count n/a.

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
61% below value if growth stopped today
$19.1M
$4.00
$4.00
$1.55
61% below value if growth stopped today

A discount this large is often a warning rather than a bargain — the market may expect earnings to keep falling. See the revenue trend above.

How to read this

What today’s price assumes: owner earnings shrinking ~17%/yr over 5 years. The estimate assumes owner earnings stay flat (0% growth).

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. The recent FY revenue series does not trigger the three-consecutive-declines flag.

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.

10 years of fundamentals

The business, in plain English

HF FOODS GROUP INC. booked $1.2B of revenue in FY2025 in the Industrials sector and kept 16.9% of it as gross profit — a thin-margin business by that measure. After every other cost, −3.2% of each revenue dollar reached the bottom line.

Across the filed record, revenue grew from $296M (FY2017) to $1.2B (FY2025) — about 19.5% a year compounded over 8 years.

It earned −8.7% on invested capital in the latest filed year, FY2025. Across the full 9-year measurable filed record, median ROIC was 2.7%. Over the v3 recent window (9 measurable filed years), median ROIC was 2.7%. The Returns on Capital filter above scores it 12/100.

The balance sheet carried $106M of total debt in FY2025. Balance-Sheet Safety scores it 28/100.

Put together: Business Trend is the strongest of the five filters (55/100) and Returns on Capital the weakest (12/100), which is how HFFG lands at 34/100 — a None 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.

FY2016–FY2025 · 10 fiscal years, normalized from HFFG’s SEC filings

Sales, as filed$1.2B FY2025
$0$500M$1B2016201920222025
Revenue kept after cost of goods16.9% FY2025
0%10%20%2016201920222025
Standard ROIC or separately labeled Operating ROICROIC −8.7% FY2025
−50%0%2016201920222025
Cash an owner could take out−$29.4M FY2025
−$200M$02016201920222025

Gaps in a line mean that item isn’t in HFFG’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.

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How HF FOODS GROUP INC. makes its money

Start with a dollar of revenue and follow what the filing says remains.

revenueBranching filed flows with values and percentages directly labeled. Missing filing concepts are omitted rather than estimated.Revenue$1.2B · 100%Cost of revenue$1.0B · 83%Gross profit$208M · 17%Operating income−$33M · −3%Income before tax−$45.3M · −4%Income tax−$6M · −0%Net income−$38.8M · −3%As of 2025-12-31 · 1 SEC filing sourceBuy Like Buffett · buylikebuffett.com

Honest partial: the filing did not provide a normalized tag for Research and development, Selling, general and administrative; those components are omitted, not plugged.

Table alternative
Filed lineValue% of revenueSource
$1.2B100%
Cost of revenue$1.0B83%
$208M17%
−$33M−3%
Income before tax−$45.3M−4%
Income tax−$6M−0%
−$38.8M−3%
Source: · event Dec 31, 2025 · retrieved Jul 26, 2026 · annual-row source set
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What HF FOODS GROUP INC. owns — and owes

HF FOODS GROUP INC.'s filing tags don't support a full breakdown — here's what is filed:

Table alternative
Filed lineValue% of assetsSource
Total assets$542M100%
Cash and equivalents$8.6M2%
$106M20%
Stockholders’ equity$202M37%
Source: · event Dec 31, 2025 · retrieved Jul 26, 2026 · annual-row source set

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What drives HF FOODS GROUP INC.’s return on equity?

ROE is five filed business factors multiplied together.

DuPont return on equity factor treeReturn on equity branches into tax burden, interest burden, operating margin, asset turnover, and the equity multiplier.Return on equity−18%Tax burden86%net income ÷ pretax incomeInterest burden137%pretax ÷ operating incomeOperating margin−3%operating income ÷ revenueAsset turnover2.25×revenue ÷ average assetsEquity multiplier2.47×average assets ÷ average equityAs of 2025-12-31 · 1 SEC filing sourceBuy Like Buffett · buylikebuffett.com
DuPont source inputs
InputValueFiscal yearSource
−$38.8MFY2025
Income before tax−$45.3MFY2025
Operating income−$33MFY2025
$1.2BFY2025
Ending assets$542MFY2025
Beginning assets$550MFY2024
$202MFY2025
$239MFY2024
Source:
  • SEC filingFiling detailsAccession 0001680873-26-000015
· event Dec 31, 2025 · retrieved Jul 26, 2026 · annual-row source set
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Where HF FOODS GROUP INC.'s cash went

HF FOODS GROUP INC.’s filing does not supply enough provenance-matched cash-flow lines for a truthful flow chart — here’s what is filed:

Table alternative
Filed lineValue% of cash from operationsSource
Cash from operations$25.5M100%
Depreciation and amortization$28.4M111%
Source: · event Dec 31, 2025 · retrieved Jul 26, 2026 · annual-row source set

Curated 19-manager tier

Who reported holding HF FOODS GROUP INC.

Delayed public 13F reports for 2026-Q2—not live positions, trades, or recommendations.

0 holding0 exited0 not holding0/19 resolved19 unavailable

Named manager positions and quarter-over-quarter changes
ManagerReported positionQuarter-over-quarterFiling accession
Abrams CapitalUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Akre CapitalUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Baupost GroupUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Berkshire HathawayUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Brave Warrior AdvisorsUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Dodge & CoxUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
First EagleUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
FundsmithUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Gardner Russo & QuinnUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Gates Foundation TrustUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Mairs & PowerUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Markel / Markel-GaynerUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Oakmark / Harris AssociatesUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Pershing SquareUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Polen CapitalUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Sequoia / Ruane CunniffUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Southeastern Asset ManagementUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Tweedy, BrowneUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Yacktman Asset ManagementUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable

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.

Source: Filing source unavailable · event Jun 30, 2026 · retrieved Jul 26, 2026

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What HF FOODS GROUP INC. insiders reported

Records still being gathered — partial as of retrieval Aug 18, 2026.

Partial coverage: the incomplete Form 4 walk cannot establish no activity, an activity date, or zero counts.

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 scale33.5 / 100
0406080100WideNarrowShallowNo moatJul 17, 2026Jul 26, 2026

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

  1. Normalizer upgraded unstamped (version unknown)moat-xbrl-normalizer@1.1.0 — readings across versions aren’t comparedJul 26, 2026
  2. Methodology upgraded moat-index@2.0.0moat-index@3.0.0 — readings across versions aren’t comparedJul 23, 2026
  3. Methodology upgraded moat-index@1.2.0moat-index@2.0.0 — readings across versions aren’t comparedJul 20, 2026

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.

Records still being gathered — partial as of retrieval Aug 18, 2026.

Trailing-12-month totals and the 90-day cluster result are withheld because this issuer walk is incomplete.

No reported Form 4 rows were captured for HFFG; the incomplete walk cannot establish zero activity, zero counts, or a negative cluster result.

A filing source-event date will appear when a Form 4 row is captured.

Retrieved .

Industrials context

#311 of 446 scored Industrials companies, ranked by Moat Score.

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Common questions about HFFG

Does HF FOODS GROUP INC. have an economic moat?
Based on its FY2025 SEC filings, the Moat Index scores HF FOODS GROUP INC. (HFFG) 33.5 out of 100 — below the Shallow-moat bar, so no 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 55, pricing power 29, returns on capital 12, balance-sheet safety 28, capital allocation 44.
Is HFFG trading below the conservative owner-earnings estimate?
The value if growth stopped today — a zero-growth baseline — is $4.00 per share. It capitalizes normalized owner earnings at a 9% rate and assumes 0% growth. Versus a recent price of $1.55, that is 61% below 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 HFFG's Moat Score changed over time?
The record logs 15 readings since Jul 17, 2026; the latest reads 33.5 out of 100 (no 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 HFFG. See the disclaimer.