Guangdong Electric Power Development Co., Ltd.
000539 · SZSE · China
ged.com.cnFinancials as of FY2025
Converts fuel and renewable resources into electricity within one Chinese province, earning from the volume of power it delivers into the regional grid rather than from subscriptions, fees or interest.
- Depends onUpstream position: supplies 5 industries, depends on 3
- ScaleMarket cap is $4.3B, above the global median of $1.18B
- FinancialsAltman Z-Score 0.39: distress zone
- Interpretations3 currently firing — 3
What this company is and how it runs — written from structure, not news.
The system gathers different fuel and renewable inputs at separate generation sites, converts them into electricity and, at some sites, steam, then hands that output to grid intermediaries for onward delivery. Within its wider supply network it is classified as sitting upstream, feeding more industries than the number it draws from.
It earns revenue mainly by selling the electricity it generates, priced and billed against the volume delivered rather than through subscriptions, commissions or interest. A small residual share of revenue comes from other lines such as steam, leasing, use of fly ash from combustion and other minor services.
Its net income has stayed positive across the most recent run of years on file, though an earlier year within the same broader window was a loss, so its earnings scale looks reestablished rather than continuously stable across the full period covered. CompanyGraph reads its way of scaling as adding or operating physical generating capacity, the same mechanism shared by a very large population of companies classified under the same physical-conversion economics.
Its own disclosures name a small group of suppliers of fuel and construction or engineering inputs, and its own controlling shareholder's group is among them. Its generation process itself depends on physical inputs, coal, natural gas, wind, sunlight, water and biomass, that it converts into electricity.
Its own disclosures show revenue concentrated overwhelmingly in one named grid-linked buyer, with a short list of other named counterparties, grid operators and one large industrial buyer accounting for the remainder. It delivers its output through named grid operators that act as both the buyer of record and the route to end users.
CompanyGraph classifies this way of operating, converting inputs into electricity under a capped physical rate, as common: a very large population of companies is classified the same way, so the operating shape itself is not distinctive. Separately, the company states that it holds the leading position among listed power companies in its home province, measured by its own cited share of generating capacity and electricity sales there.
The industry pattern this company is classified under treats the capped physical rate at which fixed plant converts inputs into output, weighed against the price it can capture for that output, as its binding limit, a general pattern being tested against the company rather than a measurement of it. Its own risk disclosure separately lists operational and safety reliability, including load adjustments, shutdowns and maintenance activity across its units, ahead of competition within the electricity market, which touches similar ground without confirming the same framing in the company's own words.
Its own disclosures show revenue concentrated overwhelmingly in one named buyer, with its own risk presentation naming operational and safety reliability first and competition within the electricity market second, alongside one disclosed pending construction-contract legal dispute. Separately, CompanyGraph's own reading of its financial statements shows its debt load, and the cash flow available to cover that debt, sitting at elevated levels alongside a broader measure of financial distress, with more than one of these readings pointing the same way.
The company discloses that it is majority controlled by a state-owned parent whose own ultimate controller is a provincial state-asset regulator, and its own risk disclosure names competition within the electricity market as one of its foremost concerns. More broadly, CompanyGraph's general reading of businesses that convert physical inputs into a capped output treats the cost of those inputs, weighed against the price it can sell at, as a recurring outside pressure, though this has not been separately confirmed for this company beyond what its own disclosures state.
Read from the company's own filings and public materials (gathered August 2026) together with figures CompanyGraph recomputed from its statements. Written August 2026. A question with no evidence behind it is left out rather than answered.
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Screen for these patternsHow is this stock valued?
Close Below 40W SMA With Profitability
The price sits below its 40-week average, on three profitable years and cash above profit.
Where is this company structurally exposed?
Within or Near the Altman Distress Zone
Debt is a large share of its assets, and large against its cash flow.
Ulcer Index Elevated, Drawdown From Peak Significant, 20-Week Volatility Elevated
It sits well below its peak, and the fall has been both deep and long.
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