Craig Zeng
[Foreign Language] Thank you, Mr. Long. Hello, everyone. I’m Craig Zeng, the CFO of Autohome. First, I'd like to give you an overview of our traditional business. For the third quarter, our media service revenue reached RMB 566 million returning to positive year-over-year growth for the first time up over a year continuous adjustment. This speculate Autohome's leading position and a stable market share in the auto media vertical sector. Our excellent performance is mainly attributable to two factors. First, we embrace changes and proactively pursue innovation to upgrade our traditional visits. For example, to all time the pandemic impact will fly via and other advanced technologies to our car searching tools and help online auto shows for customers to reach potential buyers more effectively, which also generated additional traffic for Autohome’s platform. In the first nine months of the year, we have helped 305 online auto shows covering over 500 million people nation-wide and offering user a simple secured searching the choosing cars anytime and anywhere. Normalizing online auto shows has effectively ordered user production, improve their experience and help partners to navigate the top business environment. Our online auto shows have received high grades from both users and our OEM customers, resulting in great improvement in our media business. Second, we concentrated our sources on fortifying our competitive advantages and enhancing our industry presence. For example, Autohome initiated the 818 Super Auto Show, the world's most positive IT in the auto media sector and has helped the auto show annually for four consecutive year. This year, we not only devoted more resources to the show but also collaborated with China Central Television CCTV media platform to more effectively promote OEM brands and products accelerating the pace of digital transformation across the auto industry. This year's 818 Super Auto Show generated over 16.4 billion exposure other across the entire network and over 1 billion short video view, identifying the unprecedented level of Autohome brand influence in the auto media vertical industry. The increased media exposure, those having hand with our continued advancement in content creation as well as our ongoing efforts to build our core IT through which we have constructed a useful and firm video-based content ecosystem. For instance, our pursuit of content innovation, we signed a contract for the industry's first hyper realistic [indiscernible] the video has garnered over 100 million views across the entire network and for the view generated indeed responses among our users. Additionally, in the first three quarters of 2022, our core original IP series, including the travel journal among others are accumulating over 236 million views on Autohome platform and over 372 million on entire network, demonstrating our growing influence. So in the future, Autohome will introduce additional macro features, virtual assets and other interesting arrangements to our portfolio to further upgrade the quality of our video-based content ecosystem, encouraging greater participation and stricter engagement is set among young users. This series of efforts to strengthen our user metal content bolsters our ability to deliver long-term steady traffic growth according to QuestMobile, Autohome aggregated average daily active users achieved a big consecutive demand of accelerating growth in September showing by 7.4% year-over-year to RMB 49.66 million. Furthermore, our mobile average daily active user [ph] was over 12.3 million greatly seeing the industry level and affording our industry-leading position. [Foreign Language] Now, let's move ahead our Eastern region business, where revenue accelerated growth trends in the third quarter with year-over-year growth of over 5%, surpassing growth rate for the first two quarters of 2022. Moreover, the quarter-over-quarter growth rate was over 7% in terms of the number of our customers in the third quarter over 13,000 dealers such our premium region and over 7,000 dealer purchased the tax [ph] a combined total of over 20,000 dealers purchasing the high-end versions of our subscription packages. This represents an increase of over 1,200 dealer clients or 6.5% growth compared to the second quarter. The steady increase in both revenue and the number of customers once again illustrates our ability to keep empower our client business. Moving forward, building on our excellent product capability, we'll continue to expand our product pipeline and increased R&D into [indiscernible] to holistically fulfill our customers' needs with upgraded products and services. [Foreign Language] Turning to our new initiative, we continue to execute our development plan and accelerate the realization of our second growth curve while we look at our NEV business representing the direction of the future, our new car business with the fast growth potential of our digital product business empowering our customers we have made significant progress and achieved substantial advancements. [Foreign Language] First, let's look at NEV, shifting the continuous evolution of the NEV market structure and the increase in NEV penetration rates. Autohome adapted proactively and elapsed the market transformation by pioneering a unique multi brand retail model energy space, offering 3D holographic versus [indiscernible], followed by test driving services across a broad support of China's new NEV brands makers and the model. And this base provides a one-stop story for selecting, test driving and purchasing cars which is completely support the traditional time-consuming car purchasing experience and stop uses [indiscernible]. And this space has not only helped us stay ahead of the market also to keep attention from other NEV automakers to look at Autohome in a whole new life. In September, we unveiled our first offline store in Shanghai, attracting great attention across the industry. In the future, Autohome energy space will increase its presence in top-tier cities and that hands into lower tier cities, covering more NEV brands and the model by building ecosystem that benefits all parties Autohome will continue to continue the fast-growing and prosperer Chinese NEV industry. Notably, during the quarter, we signed a top strategic partners with the Beijing Institute of Technology information company. Going forward, the two parties we opened up index corporation in various areas such as NEV data applications. This cooperation will empower Autohome with valuable data sources to develop more digital products and services supporting NEV sales and the marketing improve [indiscernible] for use NEV and broaden our NEV business growth prospect. Before, in Q3, revenue generated from NEV brands continue to grow ligated and is increased by 140.7% year-over-year, once again outperforming the industry sales growth overall. [Foreign Language] Next, the used car market. With this year positive changes in governmental policies, China undoubtedly the world's profit growing and high potential user market -- to make the most of this opportunity, we continue to consolidate resources across TPG, Tianbo and Autohome to gain a competitive ads and propel development of our one-stop use car transaction platform, -- for into sellers, our treating do product, which targets users looking to fit in their used cars and purchase new ones has toward attractive for OEM sheathing way to reach potential new car buyers. We have already established collaboration with 22 brands and received positive feedback. For Itabir, we provide a standardized on subsidiary for searching, buying and leasing car, realizing the industry's first acception of one of a processing test driving services and delivering a smooth and main user experience. In addition, we continue to make progress with our 35 new car systems and have rapidly increased the number 35 new cars sort on our platform. creating more ease and transaction opportunities for both new car dealers and buyers. Going forward, Autohome will accelerate implementation of business innovation to establish a full new tactical system covering upstream, midstream and downstream players, augmenting our competitive advantage while contributing to overall industry development. We continue to deepen these units with DCP in the third quarter through our matching and auction services, our platform accounted for around 21% of all used car transactions in China in the third quarter with 3 percentage points year-over-year growth and weak tax operating conditions will continue to improve going forward. Lastly, on the data product front, data products continued their healthy growth trend in the third quarter with revenue 7% year-over-year, the number of clients up by 5% quarter-over-quarter and 6% year-over-year to over 9,800 a -- during the first 9 months of 2022, the average number of data products adopted by the [indiscernible] and the average revenue per dilator increased roughly by 31% and 20% year-over-year respective. On top of that, we successfully capitalized on opportunities brought by the auto industry digital transformation as part of our continued efforts to upgrade our product. Presently, Autohome has established in-depth collaboration with 48 mainstream automakers, which will continue to support and accelerate Autohome's second growth curve. [Foreign Language] To summarize, despite uncertain microeconomic environment, we are pleased to have achieved extraordinary results in all three of our business segments, expanding our recovery momentum since the first half of 2022. As one of the leaders in China's auto industry, Autohome has focused on two main strategies over the past year. First, we are actively advancing our ecosystem approach, consolidating resources with Ping An Group to build a one-stop featuring Autohome platform that provides comprehensive services for auto users. In meantime, we are deeply invested in the industry's future and committed to leading industry-wide innovation by continuously calculating our innovative business segment backed by our strong business foundation and perilous financial performance. Autohome will foster digital transformation in the industry creating lasting value for all our stakeholders with outstanding performance that navigates market cycles. [Foreign Language] Next, let me walk you through the key financials for the third quarter 2022. Please note that as with prior call, I'll reference RMB only in my discussion today, unless otherwise stated. [Foreign Language] Net revenues for the third quarter were RMB 1.84 billion, up 4.5% year-over-year. For detailed breakdown, media services revenue came in at RMB 556 million, an increase of 28% year-over-year. This generation services revenue increased 5.3% year-over-year to RMB 809 million and online marketplace and others revenue was RMB 478 million. [Foreign Language] Moving on to Costs. Cost of revenue in the third quarter was RMB 331 million compared to RMB 281 million in Q3 last year. The increase was primarily attributable to our continued investment in content. Gross margin in the third quarter was 82.1% compared to 84.1% in Q3, 2021. Turning to operating expenses. Sales and marketing expenses in the third quarter was RMB 863 million compared to RMB 712 million in Q3, 2021. The increase was primarily attributable to the escalation of marketing and promotional spending. Product and development expenses were RMB 387 million compared to RMB 364 million in Q3 2021. The increase was primarily attributable to greater investments in research and development activities for digital products. Finally, general and administrative expenses were RMB 136 million compared to RMB 111 million in Q3, 2021. Overall, we delivered operating profit of RMB 192 million in the third quarter compared to RMB 365 million in the corresponding period of 2021. Adjusted net income attributable to Autohome Inc. was RMB 590 million in the third quarter, compared to RMB 583 million in the corresponding period of 2021. Non-GAAP basic and diluted earnings per share in the third quarter were both RMB 1.18 compared to both RMB 1.15 in the corresponding period of 2021. Non-GAAP basic and diluted earnings per ADS in the third quarter were RMB 4.73 and RMB 4.72 respectively, compared to RMB 4.61 for both in the transforming period of 2021. As of September 30, 2022, our balance sheet remains very strong with cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments of RMB 2.34 billion. We generated net operating cash flow of RMB 541 million in the third quarter of 2022 On November 18, 2021, our Board of Directors authorized a share repurchase program under which we may, reflected up to US$200 million of Autohome ADS for a period not to exceed 12 months thereafter. As of October 31st, 2022, we have repurchased approximately 3.61 million ADS for a total cost of approximately US$106 million. On November 3rd, 2022, our Board of Directors authorized an extension of the share repurchase program for another sale plan is filing on November 17th, 2023. Autohome stable long-term operations, healthy cash flow and ample cash reserves as well as our active stock repurchase program demonstrates our intention to improve the company's potential Chapter efficiency and reset our long-standing expectation to our investors' interest we will maintain our efforts to proactively manage market value. You can go to the outstanding on cases. [Foreign Language] With that, we are ready to answer your questions, Operator?