PONYPony AI Inc.

$5.13-75% 1Y

Is the business good?

How good a business is PONY?

Pony AI Inc. earns −41% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.

−41%

Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 50 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value

Operating margin
−290%

Operating margin · Information Technology Services median 9.5% · fiscal year to FY2025

Share count, year on year
+232%

Share count, year on year · shareholders own a smaller slice than a year ago

Gross margin
16%

Gross margin

Operating margin by fiscal year
YearOperating margin
FY2022−250%
FY2023−199%
FY2024−381%
FY2025−290%
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Gross marginfiscal year to FY2025
16%
Operating marginfiscal year to FY2025
−290%
Net marginfiscal year to FY2025
−149%
Free cash flow margin
−232%
R&D as % of revenue
242%
Revenue, trailing twelve months
$90M
Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
−$209M
Net income, trailing twelve months
−$134M
Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
−41%

Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.

Customers and suppliers

Who buys from PONY and who it buys from, as the companies report it.

33%of revenue comes from customer one, the largest of 3 disclosed customers
Customerswho buys
Supplierswho it buys from

None disclosed.

A company has to disclose every customer behind 10% or more of its revenue. Each share comes from the latest annual report of the company that states it and shows on both companies’ pages; PONY’s own figures are from its FY2025 20-F. Smaller customers and suppliers go unreported.