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IHS Holding

IHS on NYSE. Radiotelephone communications. Market value $2.8bn.

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This company reports once a year (it is based outside the US), so every figure comes from its annual report for the year to December 2025.

We can't read total debt from the filing, so debt is left out.

Cash flow or capital spending isn't reported, so free cash flow is unknown.

Should I look at this?

Not a fit for our list right now

Why it could be worth it

Nothing stands out yet.

What to watch out for

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Cash yield
annual report to December 2025
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We could not compute this from the filings.

Price to profit
annual report to December 2025
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The filings do not give us enough to work this out.

Return on capital
five annual reports to December 2025
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The filings do not give us enough to work this out.

Quality score: not known. Price score: not known. Our list needs 70 on quality and 60 on price.

$8.44 a share, 48% above its 1-year low

Over the past year the price has ranged from $5.71 to $8.95.

Prices from Tuesday’s close (6 October).

Five years of cash, in billions

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Shares outstanding
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Health checks

  • Free cash flow positiveNot enough data
  • Accounting looks honest (Beneish)Not enough data
  • Financial strength (Piotroski)Not enough data
  • Profit backed by cash (accruals)Not enough data
  • DebtUnknown
  • Revenue growth, five yearsUnknown
  • Buying back its own sharesRoughly flat

Dates

Next results (estimated)
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Last annual report (10-K)
16 March 2026
Next quarterly (estimated, 10-Q)
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Who owns it

None of the long-term investors we follow own it. 121 funds in all.

Jun '25
Dec '25
Jun '26
Largest holders overall

From 13F filings for the quarter ended 30 June 2026.

Big holders and activists

2 investors own more than 5%.

  • UBS Group AG
    Passive investor
    5.8%
    Since 30 June 2026
  • International Finance Corporation
    Passive investor
    5.7%
    Since 31 December 2021

From Schedule 13D and 13G filings: anyone owning more than 5% must file one.

What insiders did

No insider bought shares on the open market in the last 12 months. 3 sold $3m, $3m of it under preset trading plans.

  • Howden Stephen J
    EVP, Chief Financial Officer
    Sold
    under a preset trading plan
    Date
    7 April 2026
    Shares
    49,212
    Price
    $8.25
    Value
    $405,999
  • Darwish Mohamad
    EVP, IHS Nigeria CEO
    Sold
    under a preset trading plan
    Date
    7 April 2026
    Shares
    27,972
    Price
    $8.24
    Value
    $230,489
  • Darwish Sam
    Chairman and CEO, Director
    Sold
    under a preset trading plan
    Date
    7 April 2026
    Shares
    124,275
    Price
    $8.24
    Value
    $1m
  • Darwish Sam
    Chairman and CEO, Director
    Sold
    under a preset trading plan
    Date
    18 March 2026
    Shares
    86,793
    Price
    $8.18
    Value
    $709,967
  • Howden Stephen J
    EVP, Chief Financial Officer
    Sold
    under a preset trading plan
    Date
    18 March 2026
    Shares
    39,612
    Price
    $8.17
    Value
    $323,630
  • Darwish Mohamad
    EVP, IHS Nigeria CEO
    Sold
    under a preset trading plan
    Date
    18 March 2026
    Shares
    16,153
    Price
    $8.18
    Value
    $132,132

From Form 4 filings: insiders must report trades in their own company's shares within two days.

Warning signs in its filings

Problems the company itself reported to the SEC, in its own words.

IHS Holding doesn’t file a US annual report (10-K), so we haven’t checked it.

A 10-K is the yearly report every US company files with the SEC. An 8-K is a short notice of a big event.

What could go wrong

Cheap for a reason is the question the numbers cannot answer.

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The deep dive

Everything above is arithmetic on public filings. The deep dive reads the last ten years of annual reports, the proxy statements, and the earnings calls, then argues the case the way Buffett, Klarman, and Hohn would, and checks every claim against the source.

  • What the business is worth, as a range, and the margin of safety at today’s price
  • Prices to start buying, buy, and buy hard
  • The three things that would make this a mistake
  • Every number footnoted to the filing it came from
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