Earnings Sentiment

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Earnings Call Transcript Word Cloud

     

Bullish Statements during Earnings call

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We also broadened the application of AI into our smart products to generate further labor saving, improve content quality and provide more value to dealer, customers
In the first of three quarters, you know, the overall used car business including TTP maintained a very good growth momentum
This will create additional opportunities for car sales and take advantage of TTP's vehicle disposal capacity
In summary, we delivered steady revenue and profit growth during the quarter, while continuing to optimize our revenue structure
In addition, we're also boosting the transaction conversion rate by increasing customer and the user satisfaction rate
Revenue from data products, in particular, generated strong growth momentum, increasing more than 30% compared to the same period last year
Our new retail business is gaining growth momentum as synergies among our diverse business lines begin to take hold, which will greatly strengthen overall growth prospects going forward
But for Autohome, our used car business shows a very strong resilience
So by offering those digital products and by facilitating them with our new retail model, I believe that we can do a better job in the future
We are confident that our diversified business will drive Autohome growth to the next level
We see very strong vigor and vitality in different tier of the cities
We hope that by relying on this kind of large language model product, we can continue to have the dealers to cut cost and improve efficiency as well as to enhance their overall operational efficiency
And we are very confident about the long-term development trend and its potential of the Chinese auto market
Total exposure exceeded 14.5 billion impressions, which further strengthens our profile in the industry
And we're very confident that next year the overall used car business revenue will continue to expand
This will ultimately create a one-stop ecosystem that spans the entire consumer cycle from the research and the purchase phase through to the use and exchange of cars to drive long-term sustainable growth
And we believe that the used car market can expect a double-digit growth
And with the development of NEV, more and more consumers, they got the advantage of purchase and used car in the low cost, while at the same time, a separate endorsement policy and its implementation for the used car also delivered more development potential and phase for the car dealership industry
On the digitalization front, we upgraded our technology and information channel to improve communication and the user profiling and strengthen the efficiency and accuracy of customer outreach
Revenues from NEV brands were up by nearly 70% year-over-year as a result
We expect that next year used car market will continue to keep pace and this year's good trend, and continue to be very active and embraced a new stage of high quality development
This marks our 5th straight quarter of top line and bottom line growth on a year-over-year basis, while consistently maintaining a high net profit margin
In the third quarter, our new businesses continued to drive Autohome's overall growth as we further optimized our revenue structure
In addition, we also upgraded the foundation of infrastructure and capabilities, our digital platform, to enhance the value of our data products and seamlessly integrate big data and the cutting edge technologies to empower the digital transformation of dealers
Moreover, adjusted net income attributable to Autohome for the quarter was up 2.3% year-over-year with our adjusted net margin hedging 31.7%
In a word, the Chinese auto sector in the medium and long-term will enjoy a stable and upward trend
We are rapidly expanding our digital product portfolio across a range of application scenarios in order to support dealers as a shift from human-driven to a digital-driven operations to improve our operational efficiency and ultimately lower the door prices for customers
According to QuestMobile, mobile DAU in September increased 39.3% year-over-year to 63 (ph) -- 69.01 million underscoring our ability to steadily strengthen our leadership position in the automotive media vertical
In product wise, in the first half of this year, we have launched our AI based intelligent two, which is called Smart Selection to facilitate and empower the dealers to quickly segment their clients and to reach out to the high net worth individuals as soon as possible, release their capacity and improve service quality
our balance sheet remained very strong with cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments of RMB23.43 billion
       

Bearish Statements during earnings call

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In terms of the revenue, you can see that this year, the new car price cuts and promotion campaigns do generate some challenges for the used car market
In Q3, we see that the sales from the ICE car dealers dropped by a little bit less than 9%
And according to the data from CPCA in the first nine months of 2023, the overall profit margin for the Chinese auto industry is 4.9%, much lower than 5.7%, which is the overall industrial company's profit margin
In Q2, this number was 21.4%; you can notice there is a big slowdown of the growth speed
As a result, there is still challenges for the entire auto industry
And for the used car market, I already mentioned that due to the price cut of the new vehicles and because of COVID-19, we do see that used car market has been under some pressure as well as some restrictions
However, I think that this is because even though ICE cars are still making profit, but their market share is declining
And this year, as we know, the dealers, they generally encounter some difficulties, so, we will of course never raised the price
And I see that the sales of the ICE vehicles have been declining
NEVs experienced a high speed growth, but most of them are still suffering from losses
Of course, the dealers are under some impact
As a result, entire auto sector are still going on the restructuring
First of all, could you please share your views on market outlook for the upcoming quarters? And do you expect continued price competitions among OEMs
The decrease was primarily attributable to a decline in personnel related expenses
Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from our current expectations
And TTP still makes profit so far
   

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