Chapter 1

Figures converted from Indonesian rupiah (IDR) at historical FX rates — see data/company.json.fx_rates. Ratios, margins, and multiples are unitless and unchanged.

Metrodata Electronics is Indonesia's largest listed technology distributor and IT-solutions group: roughly $1.6 billion of revenue, earnings that have risen every year since 2019, controlled by the Ciputra family, and financed almost entirely by working capital rather than debt. Yet the shares trade at about book value and under eight times earnings, some 40% below their early-2022 peak, even as profit has grown ~60% over the same window. This report exists to work out which of those two facts is the mistake.

What the company is

Metrodata runs two businesses under one listed holding company [1]. ICT Distribution — moving hardware, software, storage and peripherals from global principals to a national dealer network — is the scale engine. Solution & Consultation — cloud, cybersecurity, data and AI, and SAP-based business transformation delivered by subsidiaries such as Mitra Integrasi Informatika — is the smaller, higher-margin engine.

The economics of the two are very different, and the group's headline margins are an average of them. In FY2025, Distribution booked $1.24 billion of external sales but only $77 million of gross profit — a 6% gross margin — while Solution & Consultation turned $388 million of sales into $57 million of gross profit, a ~15% margin [2]. So a segment that is under a quarter of revenue produces well over a third of gross profit and pre-tax profit. This mix — a thin, high-volume distribution book carrying a richer solutions layer — is the shape of the whole business.

Source: FY2025 Annual Report, Note 25 Segment Information — external sales, gross profit and profit before tax by segment [3].

A record of steady growth

For a company the market treats as a value trap, the operating record is unusually consistent. Revenue has compounded from $1.30 billion in 2021 to $1.63 billion in 2025, and profit attributable to owners has risen every year — $35.6 million, $37.7 million, $42.3 million, $45.9 million, $48.8 million — carrying basic EPS from $0.0029 to $0.0040 [4]. Gross margin has held in a narrow 8.1–8.7% band and operating margin near 5.3% throughout, so the growth is volume plus a slowly richer mix, not a one-off margin event [5]. Each year is converted at its own period-end rate, so part of the flatter USD revenue line reflects rupiah depreciation.

Source: FY2025 Annual Report, 2025 Performance Highlights, five-year financial table [6].

The market moved the other way

The share price has done the opposite of the earnings. The stock reached an all-time high of $0.0592 (Rp 845) on 5 January 2022; it closed at $0.0286 (Rp 510) on 27 July 2026 — roughly 40% lower in rupiah terms, over a period in which EPS rose about 60%. The compression is entirely in the multiple: at the peak the shares changed hands near 20 times trailing earnings, and today they sit at about 7.7 times FY2025 EPS. On the roughly 12.28 billion shares outstanding [7], the current price implies a market capitalisation near $351 million — just under the ~$354 million of book equity on a like-for-like (current-rate) basis [8].

Valuation derived from the Rp 510 close (Yahoo Finance feed, 27 July 2026, converted at 5.6e-05 USD/IDR) against FY2025 EPS, book equity and the FY2024 dividend of Rp 24.00 ($0.0014) per share; peak of Rp 845 on 5 January 2022 per Simply Wall St price history.

Two things anchor the downside. First, the balance sheet is conservative: against $78 million of cash the group carried only $60 million of short-term and $7 million of long-term bank debt at end-2025, a small net-cash position, and it held $308 million of undrawn committed facilities [9]. Second, the company pays out roughly 40% of earnings — $0.0014 (Rp 24.00) per share distributed in 2025, a 39.8% payout — for a trailing yield near 4.7% at the current price, with the payout ratio having climbed from the low-20s a few years earlier [10]. A business that grows, self-funds, and returns cash is not the usual profile of a stock priced at liquidation value.

The counter-fact a bull has to hold is the one honest caveat to that net-cash comfort: short-term bank borrowings have tripled since 2023 ($19 million → $48 million → $60 million) to finance a growing working-capital book, so the net-cash cushion is thin and directionally shrinking, not a fortress [11].

Who owns it, and a wrinkle in the earnings

Metrodata is family-controlled. PT Ciputra Corpora — the Ciputra family holding company — owns 36.2% of the shares; President Commissioner Candra Ciputra holds a further 0.25% directly [12]. Two features of the register are worth a value investor's attention: a Singapore value manager, Pangolin Investment Management, sits on the top table with 6.4%, and long-standing holder Sukarto Bujung another 5.0%, with the public float at 35.4% [13]. The controlling family is aligned through a large economic stake; independent value capital already holds a seat.

There is one structural wrinkle a newcomer must not miss when reading the headline numbers. The distribution engine — most of group revenue — runs through PT Synnex Metrodata Indonesia, which Metrodata owns 50% [14]. Because that subsidiary is consolidated in full, the group reports 100% of its revenue but only half of its profit belongs to Metrodata shareholders. It shows up as a large minority leak: of $68.6 million of total comprehensive income in FY2025, only $48.9 million — about 71% — was attributable to owners of the parent [15]. The per-share figures above already net this out, but the headline "$1.6 billion revenue" overstates the shareholders' economic interest, and that gap is part of why the multiple looks the way it does. It deserves a chapter of its own.

What the Street expects next

Coverage is thin — one to three analysts — so forward estimates carry more uncertainty than the operating record. The available consensus looks for revenue near $1.66 billion in FY2026 and $1.83 billion in FY2027, with EPS around $0.0041 then $0.0045 — roughly 10% annual growth, an extrapolation of the recent trend rather than an inflection. Published 12-month price targets span $0.045 to ~$0.057 (Rp 800 to ~Rp 1,020), all above the current $0.0286, though on so few analysts the signal is weak. Momentum has, if anything, reaccelerated: Q1 FY2026 revenue grew 21.4% year on year.

Forward estimates and price targets: Simply Wall St and Investing.com consensus as of July 2026 (thin, 1–3 analyst coverage), converted at 5.6e-05 USD/IDR; Q1 FY2026 growth per company press release.

The question this report will answer

Metrodata presents a genuine tension. The evidence for a mispricing is real: a business that has grown revenue and owner's earnings every year, run conservatively, controlled by an aligned family, already held by a value fund, priced at about book value, under eight times earnings, and yielding near 5%. The evidence for a deserved discount is also real: it is fundamentally a ~3%-net-margin distributor whose largest engine is only half-owned, in a cyclical, capital-light business where scale does not automatically confer pricing power.

So the question the rest of this report exists to answer is this: is Metrodata's compressed valuation — roughly book value and under eight times earnings — the market correctly pricing a thin-margin distributor whose scale engine leaks half its profit to minorities, or is it mispricing a durable, conservatively financed proxy for Indonesian enterprise digitalisation that happens to grow? What would settle it is not the headline multiple but the quality of the earnings underneath it: how much of the growth belongs to shareholders, how durable the higher-margin solutions layer is, and whether the family runs the business for owners or for control.