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KE Holdings Inc. (BEKE)

KE Holdings runs Beike, a platform in China for buying, selling and renting homes, and owns Lianjia, the brokerage brand the business started as. Operations began in 2001 through Beijing Lianjia, founded that September by Mr. ZUO Hui, and the Beike platform launched in 2018, the same year KE Holdings Inc. was incorporated in the Cayman Islands as the holding company. The platform facilitated approximately 5.6 million housing transactions in 2025 with aggregate GTV of RMB3,183.3 billion, and the company states its figures in renminbi. The depositary shares have traded on the NYSE since 13 August 2020 and the Class A ordinary shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange since 11 May 2022, the two fully fungible with each other.

KE Holdings Inc.

KE Holdings runs Beike, a platform in China for buying, selling and renting homes, and owns Lianjia, the brokerage brand the business started as. Operations began in 2001 through Beijing Lianjia, founded that September by Mr. ZUO Hui, and the Beike platform launched in 2018, the same year KE Holdings Inc. was incorporated in the Cayman Islands as the holding company. The platform facilitated approximately 5.6 million housing transactions in 2025 with aggregate GTV of RMB3,183.3 billion, and the company states its figures in renminbi. The depositary shares have traded on the NYSE since 13 August 2020 and the Class A ordinary shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange since 11 May 2022, the two fully fungible with each other.

The platform

The filing describes Beike as an open platform for participants in the housing related industry, connecting home buyers, sellers, landlords, tenants and people seeking renovation and furnishing with brokerage brands, stores, agents and other service providers. Its foundation is ACN, the Agent Cooperation Network, a set of cooperation rules through which brokerage brands, stores and agents collaborate on a transaction, with property listings standardised and checked for authenticity. Around ACN sit service modules: SaaS systems, the customer front end, a community-centric network, AI-powered technology applications, training and recruiting programmes, and transaction service centres. The platform doubles as a sales channel for real estate developers, and new home sales through it came to RMB890.9 billion of GTV in 2025.

The listings book

Housing Dictionary, launched in 2008, holds housing information running from neighbourhoods and communities down to buildings, floors and rooms, and covered approximately 303 million properties at the end of 2025. Agents supply new property information or raise an amendment through the mobile app, Weixin Mini Programs and other entrances. The company uses it to verify that a listing is genuine, to fill in property information and to value a property from that information and past transaction history. Customers reach listings through the ke.com website, the Beike apps and the Beike Weixin Mini Programs, with VR or pictures, floor plans, agent comments and past transactions in the same neighbourhood.

Who is on it

At the end of 2025 there were over 445,000 active agents and approximately 58,000 active community-centric brokerage stores on the platform, representing 279 real estate brokerage brands; counting every agent and store rather than the active ones, approximately 523,000 and approximately 61,000. Lianjia itself had over 90,000 active agents and approximately 4,900 active offline brokerage stores. The other 278 brands ran approximately 53,000 active stores with over 354,000 active agents, and approximately 68% of the GTV of existing and new home transactions in 2025 was generated by connected brokerage stores and the sales channels the company procured for new home transactions.

Rentals and renovation

Home units under management in the rental services business passed 700,000 at the end of 2025, against over 430,000 a year earlier. Almost all of that is Carefree Rent, the decentralised rental property management and operation service, which passed 690,000 units against over 420,000. Carefree Rent takes scattered rental home listings and runs them as institutionalised long-term rental properties, with specialised property management and rental service teams. The renovation and furnishing business sits alongside it, built partly on Shengdu, acquired outright on 20 April 2022 for RMB3.92 billion in cash and 44,315,854 Class A ordinary shares.

How it earns

There are five streams: existing home transaction services, new home transaction services, home renovation and furnishing, home rental services, and emerging and other services. On existing homes the company charges commissions through its own Lianjia brand, splits commissions with other brokerage firms whose stores work with Lianjia agents on the platform, takes platform service fees from firms that own and operate stores on Beike, and charges an additional franchise fee under franchise brands such as Deyou. On new homes it takes sales commissions from real estate developers. Other value-added charges cover transaction closing services, field work such as on-site verification, and agent recruiting and training.

From KE Holdings's annual report on Form 20-F for the year ended 31 December 2025. The filing

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KE Holdings Inc. files a 20-F with the SEC once a year, in renminbi. In the year to 31 December 2025 it reported revenue of CNY 94,580 million ($13.2 billion at the year's average rate), up 1.2% on the year before. Its profit attributable to shareholders was CNY 2,994 million, down 26.3%, and diluted earnings per share CNY 0.86.

KE Holdings (BEKE) in brief

KE Holdings (BEKE) reported revenue of CNY 94.6 billion for the year to 31 December 2025, up 1.2% on the year before.
Read moreProfit attributable to shareholders was CNY 3.0 billion and diluted earnings per share CNY 0.86. Revenue was CNY 93.5 billion in 2024, CNY 77.8 billion in 2023, CNY 60.7 billion in 2022 and CNY 80.8 billion in 2021. Profit attributable to shareholders in the same years was CNY 4.1 billion, CNY 5.9 billion, a loss of CNY 1.4 billion and a loss of CNY 524 million. Revenue grew 6.1% a year, compounded, over the five years to 2025. At the close of 10 November 2026 the market cap of KE Holdings was $20.4 billion, 46.8 times its earnings for 2025.

The share in the US

Last close$18.11 on 10 November 2026
52-week range$14.26 (26 June 2026) to $19.59 (13 May 2026)
Over one yearup 12.2%
Market cap$20.4 billion: 3,373,256,629 shares outstanding at 31 December 2025 (20-F), each US share standing for 3 ordinary shares
P/E, latest fiscal year46.8: the last close over diluted EPS for the year to Dec 2025, CNY 0.86 per ordinary share times 3, CNY 2.58 per US share, $0.39 at 6.68 CNY per US dollar on 6 November 2026 (FRED DEXCHUS). The company reports once a year, so this is the latest fiscal year, not the last four quarters.

US dollars per share as it trades in the US; the market cap and the P/E are worked out here, not filed. Prices from IEX, for splits.

Ratios

From the latest annual report, the year to Dec 2025, in dollars

ROE4.5%
ROCE3.1%
Operating margin2.2%
Net margin3.2%
FCF margin-1.0%
Interest covern/a
Debt to equity0.02
Cash conversion-0.13
Share count, last 12 months-1.8%
Sales CAGR, 3 years16.0%
Profit CAGR, 3 yearsn/a
EPS$0.39

At the close of 10 November 2026

Price$18.11
Market cap$20.4 billion
Stock P/E46.85
Price to book2.05
EV / EBITDAn/a
Dividend yield2.0%
Market cap / sales1.44
52-week high$19.59
52-week low$14.26
Price, 1 year12.2%
Price CAGR, 3 yearsn/a
Price CAGR, 5 yearsn/a
Worked from the filed figures; hover a name for the formula.
Read moreThe priced ones use the latest price, the last regular-hours trade on IEX. Debt to equity here stands on the borrowing lines of KE Holdings Inc.'s balance sheet, added together, finance leases inside them only where the company puts them there; operating leases are a separate line. Nothing here is a valuation or a view.
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The public record on BEKE

DividendsCNY 2,881 million paid in cash dividends in FY2025
Filings74 in twelve months: 73 reports on Form 6-K, most often next Day Disclosure Return (37); monthly Return for Equity Issuer and Hong Kong Depositary Receipts listed under Chapter 19B of the Exchange Listing Rules on Movements in Securities (9); grant of restricted share units (6); next Day Disclosure Return (Equity issuer - changes in issued shares or treasury shares, share buybacks and/or on-market sales of treasury shares) (5); date of Board Meeting (2)
Planned insider sales3 Form 144 notices in twelve months, $131.6 million; latest 25 September 2026
Options tapeput/call 0.24 by open interest at the 10 November 2026 close; the straddle prices a 4.1% move to 13 November 2026
13F holders204 funds reported a position for the quarter to 30 June 2026; largest Price T Rowe Associates Inc.
Insider trading2 sales and 0 purchases on Form 4 in twelve months
Congress0 House trades disclosed in six months
Short interest22.8 million shares short, 6.08 days to cover at 30 October 2026

Income statement (profit and loss), 8 fiscal years

Year toDec 2018Dec 2019Dec 2020Dec 2021Dec 2022 †Dec 2023 †Dec 2024Dec 2025
Revenue28,64646,01570,48180,75260,66977,77793,45794,580
Cost of sales21,77734,74753,62164,93346,88856,05970,51374,368
Gross profit6,87011,26816,86015,81913,78121,71822,94420,212
Research and development6711,5712,4783,1942,5461,9372,2832,581
Operating profit-1,218-1,7862,842-1,355-8334,7973,7652,111
Profit before tax-499-1,2764,3871,1412927,8846,8704,677
Income tax-71.49041,6091,6651,6901,9942,7921,686
Profit for the year-428-2,1802,778-525-1,3975,8904,0782,991
Profit attributable to shareholders-468-2,1842,778-524-1,3865,8834,0652,994
Filing20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F
CNY million, from each year's annual report on the SEC's EDGAR, linked in the last row, on the US GAAP tags the company filed.
Read moreA line the company does not file under the standard tag is left out rather than estimated. A year marked † shows the figure as the company restated it in a later annual report (Dec 2022, Dec 2023); the first-filed figure is in the CSV. Profit for the year includes the part that belongs to minority shareholders; profit attributable to shareholders is the part EPS is struck on. Each year links to its own page.
Year toDec 2018Dec 2019Dec 2020Dec 2021Dec 2022 †Dec 2023 †Dec 2024Dec 2025
Diluted EPS-1.75-2.940.32-0.15-0.391.631.150.86
Basic EPS-1.75-2.940.32-0.15-0.391.671.190.90
Filing20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F

CNY per ordinary share, as filed. One US-listed share can stand for more or fewer ordinary shares; the P/E above puts the two on the same basis.

Revenue by segment

Dec 2018Dec 2019Dec 2020Dec 2021Dec 2022Dec 2023Dec 2024Dec 2025Share
of the parts, latest year
New home transaction services7,47220,27437,93846,47228,65030,57633,65330,59732.4%
Existing home transaction services20,15524,56930,56531,94824,12427,95428,20125,02026.5%
Home rental servicesn/an/an/an/a1,5156,10014,33421,90023.2%
Home renovation and furnishingn/an/a1091975,04710,85014,76915,42616.3%
Emerging and other services1,0201,1731,8702,1351,3332,2972,5001,6361.7%
New home transaction servicesExisting home transaction servicesHome rental services FY2022 to FY2025Home renovation and furnishing FY2020 to FY2025Emerging and other services
28.6Dec 201846.0Dec 201970.5Dec 202080.8Dec 202160.7Dec 202277.8Dec 202393.5Dec 202494.6Dec 2025

CNY billion; hover a block for its figure and share; a part named with years is one the company split its revenue into only then

CNY million, from the latest 20-F, in the company's own words. A year is shown only where the parts add up to the revenue above.

Revenue by product or service

Dec 2018Dec 2019Dec 2020Dec 2021Dec 2022Dec 2023Dec 2024Dec 2025Share
of the parts, latest year
New home transaction services7,47220,27437,93846,47228,65030,57633,65330,59732.4%
Existing home transaction services20,15524,56930,56531,94824,12427,95428,20125,02026.5%
Home rental servicesn/an/an/an/a1,5156,10014,33421,90023.2%
Home renovation and furnishingn/an/a1091975,04710,85014,76915,42616.3%
Emerging and other services1,0201,1731,8702,1351,3332,2972,5001,6361.7%
New home transaction servicesExisting home transaction servicesHome rental services FY2022 to FY2025Home renovation and furnishing FY2020 to FY2025Emerging and other services
28.6Dec 201846.0Dec 201970.5Dec 202080.8Dec 202160.7Dec 202277.8Dec 202393.5Dec 202494.6Dec 2025

CNY billion; hover a block for its figure and share; a part named with years is one the company split its revenue into only then

CNY million, from the latest 20-F, in the company's own words. A year is shown only where the parts add up to the revenue above.

Cash flow statement

Year toDec 2018Dec 2019Dec 2020Dec 2021Dec 2022 †Dec 2023 †Dec 2024Dec 2025
Cash from operations3,2171139,3623,5958,51911,4149,447-376
Purchase of property, plant and equipment5437038871,4307938741,037608
Free cash flow2,674-5908,4752,1657,72610,5408,410-984
Cash from investing2,609-3,874-14,978-24,884-8,472-3,977-9,3785,894
Cash from financing-1,28223,02625,406-1,074-1,213-7,218-5,795-9,793
Buybacksn/a207n/an/a1,3205,1515,1016,581
Dividends paidn/an/an/an/an/a1,4262,8312,881
Filing20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F
CNY million, from the cash flow statement as filed.
Read morePurchase of property, plant and equipment is the cash line as filed; purchases of intangible assets and acquisitions are not in it. Free cash flow is cash from operations less that purchase, arithmetic on the two filed lines. Cash from investing and from financing are the company's own section totals, below zero where cash went out. Buybacks are the cash paid for the company's own shares.

Balance sheet at year end

Year toDec 2018Dec 2019Dec 2020Dec 2021Dec 2022 †Dec 2023 †Dec 2024Dec 2025
Funded by
Equity attributable to shareholders-7,804-8,92566,76566,97468,92072,10071,32466,441
Non-controlling interestsn/a87.227.181.513410112488.5
Borrowings, as filedn/a7,9091,5284546192902881,148
Other liabilitiesn/a68,19335,97632,80939,67447,84061,41348,991
Total equity and liabilitiesn/a67,265104,296100,319109,347120,332133,149116,668
Owned
Property, plant and equipmentn/a1,1341,4721,9722,0371,9652,4002,070
Goodwill1,1352,4772,4671,8064,9344,8574,7774,660
Other intangible assetsn/a2,5601,6431,1411,6871,067858723
Cash and cash equivalents9,11624,31940,97020,44619,41319,63511,4437,773
Trade and other receivablesn/a8,09313,1849,3254,0753,0185,2973,091
Inventoriesn/an/an/a19.01283041,6102,854
Other assetsn/a28,68144,55965,61077,07389,486106,76495,497
Total assetsn/a67,265104,296100,319109,347120,332133,149116,668
Filing20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F
CNY million, at each fiscal year end.
Read moreBoth totals are the company's own; other liabilities and other assets are each total less the rows shown. Borrowings is the company's own stated total where it files one; it is never added up from its parts here.

Ratios on the filed lines

Year toDec 2018Dec 2019Dec 2020Dec 2021Dec 2022 †Dec 2023 †Dec 2024Dec 2025
Gross margin24.0%24.5%23.9%19.6%22.7%27.9%24.6%21.4%
Operating margin-4.3%-3.9%4.0%-1.7%-1.4%6.2%4.0%2.2%
Net margin-1.6%-4.7%3.9%-0.6%-2.3%7.6%4.3%3.2%
Free cash flow margin9.3%-1.3%12.0%2.7%12.7%13.6%9.0%-1.0%
Return on year-end equityn/an/a4.2%-0.8%-2.0%8.2%5.7%4.5%
Effective tax raten/an/a36.7%146.0%578.0%25.3%40.6%36.0%
Filing20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F

Arithmetic on the filed lines of the same year: margins over revenue, return on equity as profit attributable to shareholders over year-end equity, tax over profit before tax.

Questions

What was KE Holdings' revenue in 2025?

KE Holdings (BEKE) reported revenue of CNY 94.6 billion for the year to 31 December 2025, up 1.2% on the year before.

How much did KE Holdings earn in 2025?

Profit attributable to shareholders was CNY 3.0 billion for the year to 31 December 2025, and diluted earnings per share CNY 0.86.

What is KE Holdings' P/E ratio?

At the close of 10 November 2026, KE Holdings traded at 46.8 times its earnings for 2025.

What is KE Holdings' market cap?

The market cap of KE Holdings was $20.4 billion at the close of 10 November 2026.

Peers: Real Estate

CompanyMarket capP/EROEOp. marginSales growth
TTM
Debt to equityDiv. yield
CBRE Group, Inc. CBRE$38.9 billion28.8615.9%4.6%14.5%0.91n/a
KE Holdings Inc. BEKE *$20.4 billion46.854.5%2.2%1.2%0.022.0%
Jones Lang Lasalle Inc. JLL$17.1 billion16.2014.3%4.9%11.4%0.28n/a
Invitation Homes Inc. INVH$15.8 billion23.757.7%11.5%7.2%0.994.4%
Compass, Inc. COMP$7.6 billion71.214.2%-1.4%89.8%1.00n/a
Terreno Realty Corp. TRNO$7.4 billion19.967.7%41.6%17.2%0.203.2%
Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corp. VAC$4.0 billionn/a-11.8%-0.9%4.6%2.552.8%
Newmark Group, Inc. NMRK$2.0 billion13.6510.3%7.4%17.5%1.501.6%
Opendoor Technologies Inc. OPEN$1.2 billionn/a-278.5%-19.0%-28.8%5.17n/a
Marcus & Millichap, Inc. MMI$936 million63.232.6%1.3%10.0%0.002.0%
Agnt, Inc. AGNT$476 millionn/a-9.2%-0.3%7.7%0.006.9%
Douglas Elliman Inc. DOUG$158 million2.6432.4%5.3%-3.5%0.00n/a
All 38 in Real Estate
CompanyMarket capP/EROEOp. marginSales growth
TTM
Debt to equityDiv. yield
Brookfield Corporation BN *$94.6 billion86.490.8%n/a-12.7%0.090.8%
CBRE Group, Inc. CBRE$38.9 billion28.8615.9%4.6%14.5%0.91n/a
KE Holdings Inc. BEKE *$20.4 billion46.854.5%2.2%1.2%0.022.0%
Jones Lang Lasalle Inc. JLL$17.1 billion16.2014.3%4.9%11.4%0.28n/a
Invitation Homes Inc. INVH$15.8 billion23.757.7%11.5%7.2%0.994.4%
Compass, Inc. COMP$7.6 billion71.214.2%-1.4%89.8%1.00n/a
Terreno Realty Corp. TRNO$7.4 billion19.967.7%41.6%17.2%0.203.2%
Millrose Properties, Inc. MRP$4.3 billion8.668.6%85.2%n/a0.5311.7%
St. Joe Co. JOE$4.1 billion34.5315.8%32.0%11.1%0.710.9%
Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corp. VAC$4.0 billionn/a-11.8%-0.9%4.6%2.552.8%
Curbline Properties Corp. CURB$3.6 billion122.251.2%17.6%50.6%0.262.4%
Cushman & Wakefield Ltd. CWK$3.3 billion47.903.3%4.5%10.2%1.24n/a
Urban Edge Properties UE$2.6 billion25.187.4%n/a5.5%1.213.9%
Newmark Group, Inc. NMRK$2.0 billion13.6510.3%7.4%17.5%1.501.6%
Getty Realty Corp. GTY$1.9 billion17.508.0%63.5%12.3%0.936.8%
Innovative Industrial Properties Inc. IIPR$1.5 billion12.437.7%51.4%-4.4%0.3813.8%
Ellington Financial Inc. EFC$1.5 billion6.8410.3%38.7%48.5%2.0313.7%
Piedmont Realty Trust, Inc. PDM$1.2 billionn/a-6.1%13.8%2.9%1.621.3%
Opendoor Technologies Inc. OPEN$1.2 billionn/a-278.5%-19.0%-28.8%5.17n/a
Forestar Group Inc. FOR$1.2 billion6.949.2%n/a11.8%0.43n/a
Marcus & Millichap, Inc. MMI$936 million63.232.6%1.3%10.0%0.002.0%
Sky Harbour Group Corp. SKYH$861 millionn/a1.3%-69.9%54.3%1.09n/a
Five Point Holdings, LLC FPH$648 million11.231.3%-2.9%-39.1%0.19n/a
Gladstone Commercial Corp. GOOD$489 million51.4112.5%n/a10.6%5.8011.9%
Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc. HPP$486 millionn/a-25.1%n/a2.8%1.310.0%
Agnt, Inc. AGNT$476 millionn/a-9.2%-0.3%7.7%0.006.9%
Tejon Ranch Co. TRC$476 million60.721.6%5.8%45.4%0.20n/a
FRP Holdings, Inc. FRPH$365 million1,899.000.0%11.6%2.5%0.50n/a
American Realty Investors Inc. ARL$351 million41.811.3%-18.3%6.8%0.350.0%
Maui Land & Pineapple Co. Inc. MLP$298 millionn/a-14.9%-36.3%-4.1%0.28n/a
Alico, Inc. ALCO$277 million169.951.5%-138.0%-61.4%0.810.5%
Claros Mortgage Trust, Inc. CMTG$240 millionn/a-44.3%n/a-31.1%1.85n/a
Douglas Elliman Inc. DOUG$158 million2.6432.4%5.3%-3.5%0.00n/a
Amrep Corp. AXR$115 million19.764.2%14.8%-15.3%0.00n/a
Mobile Infrastructure Corp. BEEP$93 millionn/a-15.4%n/a-0.8%1.54n/a
Star Holdings STHO$93 millionn/a-14.0%-9.4%-10.2%0.67n/a
Seritage Growth Properties SRG$89 millionn/a-20.1%-172.0%-23.7%0.17n/a
Intergroup Corp. INTG$84 million51.25n/a16.0%14.9%n/an/a
8 companies share its SEC industry code (Real Estate Agents & Managers (For Others)); the rest are the names nearest in size in its wider industry, Real Estate, one of the Fama-French 48 industries, a published grouping of SEC industry codes.
Read moreBy market capitalisation; a click on a heading sorts by it, largest first, and a second click turns it round. Each figure is the same arithmetic as the ratio box above, on each company's own filings and latest close; a name marked * is a foreign company that files once a year, on its latest fiscal year.

Annual reports on EDGAR

FormYear toFiled
20-F31 December 202524 April 2026EDGAR
20-F31 December 202417 April 2025EDGAR
20-F31 December 202326 April 2024EDGAR
20-F31 December 202227 April 2023EDGAR
20-F31 December 202119 April 2022EDGAR
20-F31 December 20206 April 2021EDGAR