Communication Services
Live Price
Offline$8.25
+0.79% today
1Y Change
+45.68%
Window
Jun 25, 2025 → Jun 15, 2026
Coverage: 244 bars · Jun 25, 2025 → Jun 15, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
IHS Holding Limited (IHS) is a Communication Services stock with a market cap of $2.75B and listed on NYSE. The stock last traded around $8.24 and up 45.7% across the available one-year price window (Jun 25, 2025 → Jun 15, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of -7.6%, EPS growth of +108.8%, a dividend yield of 0.0%. What stands out right now is revenue -7.6%, EPS +108.8%, free cash flow -9.3% with operating margin 39.5% and ROIC 15.0%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at P/E 19.2 and price/sales 1.7. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a turnaround or cyclical reset than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines IHS price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Communication Services peers on this page.
Benchmark Edge
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
IHS
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Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
IHS Max Drawdown
-18.00%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
Uses the longest available daily history for IHS and SPY.
Financial profile
Profitability, balance sheet stamina, and cash efficiency drawn from the latest filings.
FY Revenue
$1.6B
-19.5% YoY
FY Net Income
-$25.8M
+94.4% YoY
Free Cash Flow
$347.7M
-0.1% YoY
Revenue Growth
-7.6%
EPS Growth
+108.8%
Gross Margin
52.0%
Net Margin
9.1%
Income statement
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| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 1.6B | 1.7B | 2.1B | 2.0B | 1.6B |
| Gross Profit | 864M | 821M | 1.0B | 804M | 672M |
| Operating Income | 266M | 479M | 531M | 312M | 388M |
| EBITDA | 648M | -795M | -998M | 253M | 591M |
| Net Income | 144M | -1.6B | -2.0B | -459M | -26M |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | — | — | — | — |
Balance sheet
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| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 826M | 578M | 294M | 514M | 916M |
| Total Assets | 4.5B | 4.3B | 5.4B | 6.3B | 5.5B |
| Total Liabilities | 4.6B | 4.6B | 5.0B | 5.0B | 3.8B |
| Shareholder Equity | -251M | -455M | 110M | 1.1B | 1.5B |
| Total Debt | 3.5B | 3.9B | 4.1B | 3.9B | 3.0B |
| Net Debt | 2.7B | 3.3B | 3.8B | 3.4B | 2.1B |
Cash flow positioning
Latest Full Year
Operating Cash Flow
750M
-17.3% YoY
Capital Expenditures
402M
+28.0% YoY
Free Cash Flow
348M
-0.1% YoY
Key ratios
Gross Margin
52.0%
Operating Margin
39.5%
Net Margin
9.1%
ROE
-56.9%
Debt / Equity
-13.97x
Next Step
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