Mines coal from reserves it controls and converts a portion of it into electricity at its own power plants, earning from selling both the raw commodity and the power made from it.
- Depends onUpstream position: supplies 6 industries, depends on 3
- ScaleLevered free cash flow is -$358.45M, lower than 95% of all stocks globally
- FinancialsAltman Z-Score 0.99: distress zone
- Interpretations4 currently firing — 4
What this company is and how it runs — written from structure, not news.
It runs as an upstream energy producer that coordinates its own chain end to end: coal is extracted from mines it controls, moved by rail and road, and either sold as a raw product or burned at power plants it also controls to make electricity, with no outside contract manufacturer in between. CompanyGraph also maps it as feeding several other industries as a supplier while depending on a smaller number of industries upstream of it.
Money comes from selling two linked outputs of broadly similar scale, coal extracted from its own mines and electricity generated by burning coal at its own plants, with a small number of large, state-connected buyers in the power and coal industries accounting for most of that revenue. Across every year covered by the financial statements on file, that revenue has converted into a profit rather than a loss.
CompanyGraph reads its growth as coming from adding large, discrete blocks of capacity, fixed mine output already capped by approved limits, plus new power-plant units and a wind project the company's own materials describe as under construction or newly started, each requiring large upfront capital and regulatory approval before it adds output. Recent cash flow has been strong enough that this spending has not absorbed all of the cash generated by operations, suggesting at least partial self-funding, though the company's own risk disclosures also describe a relatively high debt load and material debt-service pressure alongside that spending.
Its own disclosures name suppliers concentrated in power-plant equipment and engineering, list materials, electricity, fuel and water as operating inputs, and place it downstream of a small number of other industries in CompanyGraph's mapping. One of those named suppliers, China Coal Energy Group, is also its controlling parent and one of its largest customers, and its coal sales are described as coordinated in part through that same parent's centralized marketing platform, so a single related party sits on several sides of its operations at once.
Its own filings name a small set of buyers led by State Grid Corporation of China and its own controlling parent, China Coal Energy Group, as accounting for most of its revenue, with the remaining named buyers being a regional energy group, an overseas power buyer and another mining group. CompanyGraph also maps it as an upstream supplier into several other industries beyond these named buyers, feeding demand it does not itself control.
This kind of coal-and-power production system is not rare: CompanyGraph maps many other companies operating under the same reserve-depleting production economics, though within that shared shape its margins and returns have sat persistently at the upper end of the peer range across several measures, a positional fact CompanyGraph does not attribute to any specific mechanism. The company's own materials separately claim an advantage from the location, scale and quality of its coal reserves, their closeness to a major demand region, and a self-described position as a large integrated coal-and-power operator in its regional market, claims CompanyGraph has not independently confirmed as something competitors cannot replicate.
The company's own materials point to funding as a limit on its growth, describing heavy capital spending needs, a relatively high debt load and material debt-service pressure, together with new projects that depend on clearing regulatory approvals in sequence and on retaining enough skilled core staff. Separately, the broader pattern CompanyGraph tests for this kind of coal business is a limit set by a resource base that shrinks with every tonne taken out and grows more costly to replace, a pattern whose current bearing on this company its own disclosures do not address.
Its own filings list safety hazards, including water, fire, roof, gas and coal-dust risks tied to complex underground geology, as the first risk it names about itself, ahead of funding, market and environmental risks. They also disclose that a very small number of buyers, led by one dominant customer and a second buyer that is also its controlling parent group, account for most of its revenue, so trouble with either relationship would concentrate on very few counterparties.
Its own filings describe oversight from securities and economic-planning regulators, alongside coal-specific safety law and regulation that govern how it can operate its mines. The company itself ranks safety conditions as its first named risk, ahead of funding conditions, market conditions and tightening environmental rules, in that stated order, and it reports no material foreign-currency exposure or overseas operations as a separate pressure.
Read from the company's own filings and public materials (gathered August 2026) together with figures CompanyGraph recomputed from its statements. Written September 2026. A question with no evidence behind it is left out rather than answered.
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Cash-Flow Ratios Elevated
More of its sales turn into cash than in its industry, and less of that cash is consumed by reinvestment than at most of its peers.
Three Margin Ratios Elevated Across Gross, Operating, And Cash-Conversion Levels
Its gross margin and its cash margin are high for its industry, and its operating margin is high outright.
Industry-Benchmarked ROA and Margin Elevated
Returns and margins have sat in the top of its industry across five years.
Three Margin Ratios Elevated Across Gross, Operating, And Net Levels
Its gross and net margins are high for its industry, and its operating margin is high outright.
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