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Company snapshot — TAL Education Group

TAL in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
TAL Education Group runs learning services in China, offering small-class and personalised tutoring alongside online courses through its Xueersi platform. It also supplies learning content across print, digital and device formats, plus software, network and device sales tied to those services. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Beijing.
Where it sits in the stack
TAL sits outside the Closelook index; it belongs to the Education & Training Services corner of our wider universe, not the AI build-out sleeves the diary tracks by layer.
Who it is priced against
The name the market compares it with is New Oriental Education, another large Chinese tutoring operator.
Why Closelook tracks it
TAL carries no Closelook index seat and no score yet; the diary's reading on it is limited to chart structure noted in passing, not a scored or quoted name.
What the diary watches
Whether regulatory limits on China's tutoring sector ease or tighten further, since that has shaped how much of its original business TAL can still run.

TAL Education Group (TAL) trades on US exchanges, classified under Consumer Defensive.

The Closelook company score reads 69/100 composite (momentum 63, quality 56, valuation 68) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for TAL, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Consumer Defensive · US · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Consumer Defensive · US

Scored names in the same sector and country from the Closelook universe.

Compared against TAL on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return no distribution in twelve months · buybacks 646 m USD in FY2026

Dividends and capital return

What TAL pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Distributions No cash distribution recorded in the price series over the last three years
  • Buybacks, FY2026 646 m USD 10.0% of today's market value
  • Share count −68.3% in FY2026 43 m USD of stock-based compensation in the year
  • Capital returned 646 m USD · 127% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 50/100 · S&P 500 fund at 49, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-18
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 97th percentile of the window, +4.9% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-18
  • Sector × region Consumer staples in US: −0.7% week · −4.3% month · +0.1% quarter · −3.8% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from XLP.US; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-09-20
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.07 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-18

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-19

Quick answers

What is TAL Education Group (TAL)?

TAL Education Group trades as TAL on the US exchange (US) and is classified under Consumer Defensive in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-19.

Is TAL in a Closelook index?

Not currently — TAL Education Group is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-19.

What is TAL Education Group's Closelook composite score?

69 out of 100, with momentum 63, quality 56 and valuation 68 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-19. Scores are Closelook's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does TAL trade against its moving averages?

Uptrend stack intact: Trades +2.9% vs the 50-day and +7.1% vs the 200-day average, 11.7% below the 52-week high and +33% off the 52-week low; a golden cross printed 12 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-18 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does TAL Education Group do?

TAL Education Group runs learning services in China, offering small-class and personalised tutoring alongside online courses through its Xueersi platform. It also supplies learning content across print, digital and device formats, plus software, network and device sales tied to those services. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Beijing. The name the market compares it with is New Oriental Education, another large Chinese tutoring operator.

Where does TAL Education Group sit in the AI build-out?

TAL sits outside the Closelook index; it belongs to the Education & Training Services corner of our wider universe, not the AI build-out sleeves the diary tracks by layer. TAL carries no Closelook index seat and no score yet; the diary's reading on it is limited to chart structure noted in passing, not a scored or quoted name.

Does TAL Education Group pay a dividend?

No cash distribution shows in TAL Education Group’s price series over the last three years. In fiscal 2026 the company bought back 646 m USD of its own shares, 127% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count fell 68.3% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for TAL, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Education & Training Services, then Consumer Defensive. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.