Due diligence report highlights big losses at five of the troubled firm’s business units

Chinese actress Gan Wei is better known as the wife of Jia Yueting, founder of Chinese internet company LeEco, which was once a successful tech story but now faces a severe cash crunch.

Gan recently forwarded Jia a post on Sina Weibo, a microblog platform, which says that “Life may be fraught with hardships, but happiness should never be affected by that. Even if life is hard, I still love it.”

Gan has been very supportive ever since Jia publicly admitted in November that the company’s expansion efforts have gone too far and the troubled Chinese tycoon was bombarded with questions and doubts about his ambitious business plan and his ability to reinvigorate LeEco.

But the financial crisis may be far more severe than Gan and Jia had expected. The 21st Century Business Herald quoted a due diligence report from an undisclosed financial institution that said LeE- co has seven business units which span smartphones, finance, sports and automobiles, but only its video-streaming unit and movie business are making money. The others are all in the red.

In the first three quarters of 2016, LeEco recorded 9.73 billion yuan ($1.43 billion) in losses, although its revenue stood at around 40 billion yuan, the 21st Century Business Herald said.

Smartphones are the biggest culprit, contributing 5.66 billion yuan in losses. Its sports and automobile units posted 2.63 billion yuan and 1.34 billion yuan in losses respectively, the report added.

LeEco was not immediately available for comment.

Almost at the same time, five investment funds, all investors in Leshi Internet Information and Technology Corp, the listed videostreaming unit of LeEco, lowered their valuation of Leshi’s stock.

ICBC Credit Suisse Asset Management Co Ltd, for instance, lowered its valuation to 22.37 yuan per share. In comparison, Leshi stock closed at 30.68 yuan before its shares were halted from trading in April. The suspension continues. LeEco did not disclose when the shares will resume trading.

This equals Leshi shares declining to their 10 percent daily limit for three consecutive days, analysts said.

Shen Meng, director of boutique investment bank Chanson & Co, said LeEco has been suffering from a number of setbacks, which considerably diminished investor confidence.

Last month, Shanghai High People’s Court froze 15.9 billion yuan worth of Jia’s stocks in Leshi due to unpaid interest debt.

The ruling came as a China Merchants Bank branch applied for a property preservation order in June to block the 1.24 billion yuan of assets owned by Jia, his wife and three affiliated companies.

Shen said LeEco’s cash flow problems were worsening, despite a 16.8 billion yuan investment from real estate developer Sunac