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AutoCount Dotcom

Bursa ACE-listed · founded 1996 · 240k SMEs
👤 Choo Yan Tiee (Co-founded AutoCount with brother Choo Chin Peng in 1996. MD/CEO, EY Malaysia 2019 entrepreneur nominee, owns 30.8%.)🌐 site

A 1996 Malaysian accounting shop spent 26 years getting boring — then a new law made its software mandatory.

Will it work? · our read
Mandated demand. A 26-year bootstrapped accounting incumbent handed a captive upgrade cycle by law. 240k locked-in SMEs, 83% margins, record profit. The mandate bump fades; the SaaS base decides.
01How the money moves
240k SMEs run their accounts on AutoCount
Malaysia mandates e-invoicing via MyInvois
They upgrade to AutoCount's e-invoice module + cloud subs
02The numbers
RM75.3M (about $17M)FiledFY2025 revenue (audited)
FY2025 (ended Dec 2025)source: RM75.3M (FY2025 statutory)
240k+
businesses served
RM27.4M
9M'25 net profit
RM4.4M
Q1'26 recurring rev
Bars show scale and the shift to durable subscriptions, our read — the mandate converts an installed base into recurring revenue. Bursa filings
FY2025 revenue RM75.5M (about $17M), up 25%; PAT RM31.2M, up 58% — a record year, 83% gross margin.
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SourcesSources last checked 16 August 2026
Revenue.value RM75.3M is AutoCount's FY2025 statutory revenue from its Bursa Malaysia audited annual results, mirrored on StockAnalysis (FY2025 RM75.33M, FY2024 RM60.60M, FY2023 RM41.49M) — hence FILED. The company's own results announcement (Feb 2026) headlined it as 'record revenue of RM75.5 million, up 24.6%' with PAT RM31.2M (up 58.2%) and 83% gross margin; I use the round statutory figure and note the RM0.2M rounding gap. USD converted at about 4.45 MYR/USD (RM75.3M is about $16.9M, shown as 'about $17M'). Metric tiles: '240k+ businesses' is AutoCount's own cumulative marketing figure on its site (likely lifetime installs, not active payers) — treated as company-stated, our-read on precision; RM27.41M is the 9-month FY2025 net profit and RM4.4M the record Q1 FY2026 recurring revenue, both per Focus Malaysia citing Bursa filings. Honest caveat carried through softSpot/dies/keyMove.counter: a large slice of FY2024-25 growth was one-off e-invoicing onboarding revenue — Q1 FY2026 revenue fell 43% YoY (RM14.47M vs RM25.55M) as it normalised — so durability now rests on the growing recurring SaaS base (recurring income rose from 12.7% to 30.4% of total revenue per Focus Malaysia). Founders Choo Yan Tiee (MD/CEO) and Choo Chin Peng (chairman) are brothers, each about 30.8% holders; founder.links carries only the confirmed product site (no verified personal/social profile found — none fabricated). Regulation angle is clean: Malaysia's phased LHDN MyInvois e-invoicing mandate legally forces SMEs into compliant invoicing, and AutoCount's incumbent installed base captures the upgrade. verified:true (first-party audited filing). We never score you.