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Cheetah Mobile Inc. CMCM

14 fiscal years on record · CNY · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
CNY 1.2B
▲ 42.6% YoY
CNY -257.7M

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

In brief

What this company does

Cheetah Mobile Inc. is a China-based IT company that provides internet, robotics and enterprise products and services across global markets. It provides advertising services to advertisers worldwide, value-added services including the sale of premium membership to its users, a multi-cloud management platform, overseas advertising agency services to companies globally, and robotic products to international clients. Through its acquisitions of Beijing OrionStar in November 2023 and UFACTORY in July 2025, the company built a robotics products portfolio, and it now offers robotics products and services for use in exhibitions, museums, retail environments, service halls, restaurants, hospitals, hotels, schools and factories. As of December 31, 2025, its principal executive offices were located on leased premises of approximately 8,899 square meters in Beijing, China, and it also maintained offices overseas, mainly in Japan. The company is a holding company incorporated in the Cayman Islands in July 2009 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kingsoft Corporation, a Cayman Islands company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange since October 2007. It changed its name from Kingsoft Internet Software Holdings Limited to Cheetah Mobile Inc. in March 2014. In May 2014, it completed its initial public offering, offering and selling 138,000,000 Class A ordinary shares represented by ADSs, which are listed on the NYSE under the symbol "CMCM."

Written from the business description in Cheetah Mobile Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 23 April 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

CNY 1.2B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 14-year series below
Revenue CNY B Net income CNY B
FY2025 · Revenue 1.2 · Net income -0.3
2.00B4.00B-0.25B-0.50B
201220152018202120242025
Compound annual growth
+9.2%
−5.8%
−11.2%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at −5.8% a year over the five years to FY2025.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

−20 cents
lost on every revenue dollar
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating -15.6% · Net -20.4%
10%20%-50%
201220182025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE -14.7%
20%40%-10%-20%
201220182025
Three returns, three denominators.

Each CNY of equity lost 15 cents this year.

Cash & shareholders

·
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow CNY M
FY2017 · FCF 606.2
400M800M
201220182025
Net buybacks CNY M Dividends CNY M
FY2019 · Dividends · · Net buybacks -16.8
100M200M
20132014201620182019

Total assetsCNY 4.7B
EquityCNY 1.6B
CashCNY 1.5B
Current ratio1.27×

Equity funds 34% of total assets.

The 14-year record

14 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · CNY

EPS, diluted, dividend per share and shares outstanding are shown without shading, and a vertical line marks the year the share count changed — the series crosses a large, unexplained change in share count, so the years on either side are not on a comparable scale.

row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
CMCM, 14-year financial record
Metric 20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012
Revenue CNY B1.20.80.70.90.81.63.65.05.04.63.81.90.70.3
Operating income CNY B−0.2−0.4−0.2−0.2−0.2−0.5−1.10.50.4−0.00.20.10.10.0
EBITDA CNY B−0.2−0.4−0.2−0.2−0.2−0.5−1.10.50.50.00.20.10.10.0
Income tax CNY B0.00.0−0.0−0.00.00.10.00.10.1−0.00.10.00.00.0
Net income CNY B−0.3−0.6−0.6−0.5−0.40.4−0.31.21.3−0.10.20.10.10.0
Free cash flow CNY B◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌0.60.30.90.30.20.0
EPS, diluted CNY ◌−0.42−0.41−0.36−0.250.29−0.250.780.94−0.060.120.050.050.01
Dividend / sh CNY ◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌
Payout %———————————5429—
ROE %−14.7−28.4−22.0−16.3−10.09.6−6.023.936.9−2.77.05.840.8◌
Shares out B◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌0.000.90◌

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 67 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 14 of the 14 fiscal years we could check. 12 checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2013. Five checks were skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2012. Five checks were skipped: revenue is not tagged before 2012.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityServices-Prepackaged Software
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inoutside the United States — SEC code E9
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2012

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