George Chu
谢谢程先生。早上好,美国的投资者们,晚上好,亚洲的各位。正如程先生提到的,我将首先讨论我们第二季度的业绩,然后重点介绍一些近期的业务发展。请参考我们分别于8月15日周四和8月14日周三提交的收益新闻稿和10-Q表格,以及本次电话会议的PPT演示文稿,这些都可以从我们网站的活动与演示部分下载。解释完毕后,我将以我们的展望和指引作为结束。
截至2013年6月30日的三个月,我们的业绩喜忧参半。总收入下降32%至890万美元,而毛利润仅下降4%至360万美元。我们最大且最盈利的业务——互联网广告——收入同比略有增长。本季度我们在多个行业增加了新客户,特别是食品饮料、服装、[听不清]以及[配饰] [ph]和教育行业,与去年第二季度相比。我们的付费客户从855家增加到约1,368家。尽管我们的客户在与我们的平均支出方面仍持谨慎态度,但我们感到鼓舞的是,我们明显优于许多同行,客户数量在增长,我们的客户基础也在非常积极地扩张。我们相信,强大的价值主张[听不清]将使我们能够很好地占据额外的市场份额。
电视广告收入为250万美元,与去年同期的610万美元相比下降了近60%。第二季度电视广告的同比下降反映了我们的战略决策,即[听不清]我们代表客户购买的电视广告,并分配[听不清]我们购买的电视广告来推广我们的电视真人秀节目。正如我们在之前的电话会议中多次提到的,电视广告并非我们增长战略的核心组成部分,因为其为我们产生的利润率较低[ph],并且为我们的大多数客户产生的[OI] [ph]较低。[尽管如此] [ph]我们非常鼓舞的是,通过更有选择性地、机会性地代表客户进行电视[听不清],我们能够将这项业务的利润率从去年第二季度的2%提高到2013年第二季度的10%。
品牌管理销售渠道拓展收入从2012年同期的160万美元降至2013年第二季度的90万美元。我们在去年同期有一个异常强劲的季度,并在去年年底完成了该项目。我们预计该业务将在2014年初恢复增长。
2013年第二季度的总销售成本为530万美元,而2012年同期为940万美元。2013年第二季度的毛利润为360万美元,同比下降4%。我们的利润率从2012年第二季度的28.7%提高到2013年第二季度的40.5%。通过减少低利润率的电视广告销售并增加高利润率的互联网广告销售,我们能够将毛利率提高了超过1,100个基点。
截至2013年6月30日的三个月的运营费用约为280万美元,较2012年第二季度下降5%。我们投资于销售和营销以及研发,我们在这两个领域投入了大量资金,因为我们相信这两个领域将帮助我们维持未来的增长,同时我们减少了行政和管理费用。
2013年第二季度的运营收入为80万美元,与去年同期大致相同。2013年第二季度的运营利润率从去年同期的6.2%提高到9%。
截至2013年6月30日的三个月,归属于普通股股东的净利润为40万美元,每股收益为0.02美元,而截至2012年6月30日的三个月分别为90万美元和0.04美元。两个期间的加权平均流通股数约为2,220万股。
接下来看我们的资产负债表,第二季度末我们的现金及现金等价物为340万美元,而2012年12月31日为550万美元。2013年6月30日的营运资本为2,570万美元,流动比率为3.6:1。2013年6月30日的股东权益总额为4,550万美元,高于2012年12月31日的4,420万美元。
截至2013年6月30日的六个月,我们的经营活动现金略有流出,而2012年前六个月的经营活动现金流入为110万美元。
我们将简要总结上半年的财务业绩。更多详情请参考我们提交给SEC的10-Q文件。截至6月30日的六个月,净收入为1,590万美元,而2012年前六个月为2,810万美元。前述电视广告收入的下降是净收入同比下降的主要原因。毛利润同比持平,为620万美元,而我们的毛利率显著提高至38.8%,去年同期为22%。我们产生了约50万美元的归属于普通股股东的净利润,稀释后每股收益为0.02美元。
在讨论我们的展望之前,我想总结一下中国网络在过去几个月的几个关键发展。首先,中国网络参加了2013年全渠道零售大会,这是香港乃至亚洲最顶级的零售行业活动之一,时间是6月4日至6月6日。我代表公司出席。我受邀并代表公司作为主题演讲嘉宾之一,分享我们在中国的经验。其次,我们于2013年7月16日与中国商业期刊(中国第二大商业期刊)签订了合作协议,共同发起一项竞赛,以识别并推出具有良好增长潜力的优秀企业。目前,中国商业期刊作为领先的印刷出版物,拥有超过92万每周订阅者和超过300万在线读者,我们将与他们合作,在2013年下半年更积极、更公开地推出这项非常激动人心的活动。
娃哈哈商业有限公司是中国最大的食品饮料公司之一的房地产开发子公司,计划通过购物中心、超市、大卖场连锁店、品牌折扣店、儿童和便利店在中国关键区域扩张,我们已与他们合作,帮助他们组织和举办与特许经营相关的会议,以促进娃哈哈的扩张计划。
这些是我们在2013年第二季度完成的三项关键工作。
关于我们的展望,我想请大家参考我们演示文稿的第17页到第22页,您可以通过我们的投资者关系网站在线找到这些幻灯片。首先,在下半年,第三季度,Q1实现了一项举措,这是中国的一项[听不清]业务。这是我们将与中国商业期刊共同讨论的活动,我们相信通过这次活动,将在全中国创造巨大的销售额和客户基础,我们将定期提供月度更新,告知我们的股东和投资者这次活动将变得多么激动人心。
第二项举措是,我们将为小企业推出一款自动APP创建平台。它叫做Golden Touch App。Golden Touch App是一个技术门户,可以让客户在几分钟内建立自己的APP。Golden Touch APP的目标是每年为客户在其各自的移动网站上托管约10,000个即用型APP。我们在前一个周末的活动中推出了这款应用,并收到了对其利润的非常积极和热烈的反馈。这些服务的正式发布将在2013年9月。
另一项业务举措是,我们将审慎地与第三方增强现实技术建立潜在的战略合作与发展。增强现实是一种视觉互动系统,结合了第三方突破性的基于效果的视频营销产品,如按次付费和按通话付费。这项技术将与我们现有的互联网门户结合,帮助为我们的访客提供真正的线上到线下体验,同时增强用户体验、互联网浏览者的体验以及我们客户的现场演示体验,这将是2013年第三季度可能建立的合资企业。
第三项更令人兴奋的是,我们正在与百度进行联合产品开发。这是我们研究了一年多的新概念之一,称为唯一渠道管理控制台。这项激动人心的联合产品开发,整个系统将具备信息验证和发布、流量分析、潜在客户转化分析以及[听不清]监控等关键功能,与百度的[requisition] [ph]系统结合,还有互联网影响力或百度公关等,所有这些都将置于云数据库管理系统之下。
最后一项举措在过去几个季度已经提到,我们一直在积极寻找收购或合并的可能性。我们已经确定了四个潜在的收购类别:第一是移动云经销商管理系统,第二是移动云销售管理系统,第三是移动云会员积分系统,第四是移动云订单系统解决方案。所有这些类别将构成我们所谓的基于云的一站式服务,为小企业提供年度收费服务。因此,通过将我们原有的约3,000家客户基础增加到目前超过15,000家客户基础,一旦我们开始更积极地通过我们的产品服务对这个庞大的客户基础进行货币化,我们相信巨大的增长将在2014年到来。
鉴于所有这些举措的推进,我们重申之前对2013年全年3,600万美元收入和120万美元净利润的指引,因为我们仍在品牌建设、人力资源以及特别是研究和技术方面持续大量投资。
总之,我的准备发言到此结束。我们现在将开放电话会议,接受各位对管理团队的任何提问。
George Chu
Thank you, Mr. Cheng. Good morning to investor in the U.S. and good evening to those in Asia. As Mr. Cheng mentioned, I'll begin discussing our second quarter results before I highlight a few recent business development. Please refer to the earnings press release and 10-Q we have filed on Thursday, August 15, and Wednesday, August 14, respectively as well as the PowerPoint presentation for these conferences which can be downloaded from our website under events and presentation. And then after explaining, I will close with our outlook and guidance. We have mixed results for the three months ended June 30, 2013. Total revenue was down 32% to 8.9 million, while gross profit was only down 4% to 3.6 million. Our largest and most profitable businesses Internet advertising grew revenue slightly year-over-year. We added new customers during the quarters in varieties of industries, especially in food and beverage, clothing and [inaudible] as well [accessories] [ph] and education compared to second quarter of last year. We have increased from 855 paying clients to about 1,368. While our clients remain cautious with their average spending with us, we’re encouraged by the fact that we are clearly outperforming many of our peers and number of clients are growing and our client base are also growing very aggressively. We believe that the strong value proposition [inaudible] will position us well to take additional market share. Revenue from TV advertising was $2.5 million, down almost 60% compared to $6.1 million in the same period a year ago. The year-over-year decline in TV advertising in the second quarter reflects our strategic decision to [inaudible] our TV advertising, purchased on behalf of clients and allotted [inaudible] TV ads we purchased [inaudible] to promote our TV reality show. As we have stated many times on prior calls, TV advertisement is not a core component of our growth strategy given low margin [generated for us] [ph] and low [OI] [ph] generated for a majority of our clients. [Nevertheless] [ph] we were very encouraged that we were able to grow some margin in this business from 2% in Q2 last year to 10% in Q2 2013 by being more selective opportunistic our TV [inaudible] on behalf of our clients. Revenue from brand management sales channel expansion fell to $0.9 million in the second quarter of 2013 from $1.6 million in the same period a year ago. We had an exceptionally strong quarter a year ago and we completed the project at end of last year. We expect to resume growth in the business toward the beginning of 2014. Total cost of sales for the second quarter of 2013 was $5.3 million compared to $9.4 million for the same period in 2012. Gross profit was $3.6 million in the Q2 2013, down 4% compared to the same period a year ago. Our margin increased from 28.7% in the second period of 2012 to 40.5% in the second quarter of 2013. By reducing our sales of lower margin TV advertisement and growing our higher margin Internet advertisement sales, we were able to increase our gross margin by over 1,100 basis points. Our operating expenses for the three months ended June 30, 2013 were approximately $2.8 million, down 5% compared to the second quarter of 2012. We invested in sales and marketing and research and development, which we’re heavily invested because we believe these two area will help us sustain future growth while we reduce our general and administrative expenses. Our operating income for second quarter of 2013 was $0.8 million roughly the same as the period a year ago. Operating margin for the second quarter of 2013 increased to 9% from 6.2% in the corresponding period a year ago. Net income attributable to common stockholders for three months ended June 30, 2013 was $0.4 million and earnings per share was $0.02 compared to $0.9 million and $0.04 for the three months ended June 30, 2012 respectively. The weighted average shares outstanding were approximately 22.2 million in both periods. Moving on to our balance sheet, we ended the second quarter with $3.4 million in cash and cash equivalents compared to $5.5 million at December 31, 2012. Working capital was $25.7 million on June 30, 2013 and current ratio was 3.6 to 1. Total shareholder equity was $45.5 million at June 30, 2013, up from $44.2 million at December 31, 2012. We have slight cash outflow from operations during the six months ended June 30, 2013 compared to $1.1 million of cash inflow from operation for the first six months of 2012. We will briefly summarize our first half financial results. For additional details please refer to our 10-Q filings with SEC. Net revenue was $15.9 million for the six months ended June 30, compared to $28.1 million for the first six months of 2012. The aforementioned decline in TV advertising revenue accounted for the majority of year-over-year decrease in net revenue. Gross profit was flat year-over-year at $6.2 million while our gross margin improved significantly to 38.8% and 22% in the year ago period. We generated approximately $0.5 million of net income attributable to common stockholders and diluted EPS was $0.02. Before I discuss our outlook, I would like to summarize a few key developments of ChinaNet in the past few months. First of all, ChinaNet participated in 2013 Omni-Channel Retailing Conference, one of the most premier retail industry events in Hong Kong as well as in Asia, from June 4th to June 6th. And I represented the company. I was invited and represented the company as one of the keynote speakers to share our experiences in China. And also second one that we have entered into partnership agreement with China Business Journal, which is the second largest Business Journal in China, on July 16, 2013 to launch a contest to identify and launch good business with good growth potential. Right now China Business Journal, a leading print publication with over 920,000 weekly subscribers and over 3 million online readers, and thus we will just partner with them and we will launch this very exciting event in the second half in a more aggressively, publicly in the second half of 2013. Wahaha Commercial Co., Ltd, a real estate development subsidiary company of one of the largest food and beverage company in China with plans to expand throughout key areas in China via shopping malls, supermarket, hypermarket chain, brand discount stores, kids and convenience stores, we have engaged with them to help them to organize and host a franchise-related conference to help promote Wahaha’s expansion plant. So these are the three key things that we have accomplished in the second quarter of 2013. And for our outlook, I would like you turn to the presentation slide of our, slide you can find online through our IR website, from page 17 to page 22. First of all, in the second half, in Q3, the Q1 achieved is a initiative this is a [Inaudible] business in China. This is the event that will have just discussed about with on that collectively with China Business Journal and we believe this is going to create a tremendous sales as well as client base throughout China by going through this event and we will give monthly update on regular basis to inform our shareholders, investors how exciting this event will become. In the second initiative is that we will be launching an automatic APP creating platform for small businesses. It's called Golden Touch App. Golden Touch App is a technology portal which can allow customer to build up their own APP period of minutes. Golden Touch APP targets to host about 10,000 instant-use APPs in their respective mobile sites for customer on annual basis. And we have launched this app to allow the new products in the previous weekend event which we have received a tremendous and very positive feedback on its profits. And the official launch of these services will be in September 2013. And the other business initiatives is that we will thoughtfully enter into potential strategic cooperation and development with the third party Augmented Reality technology. Augmented Reality is a visual engagement system, combined with third party ground breaking performance based video marketing products which either Pay Per View and Pay Per Call. This technology will combine with our existing internet portals to help to give our visitors a true online-to-offline experience, also enhancing the user experience, the internet viewers experiences as well on the live presentation experience of our customers and the this will be a of potential joint venture set up in the Q3 of 2013. And the third one is more of the exciting one is that we will, we are under a joint product development with Baidu. This is one of the new concepts that we have - we have to study for over a year it's called the only channel management console. This exciting joint product developments we will be, this whole system will have possess a key functions of information verification and release, traffic analysis, and lead conversion analysis also [inaudible] monitor collectively with Baidu [requisition] [ph] system, also the internet influence or Baidu PRs and everything will be under the cloud database management systems. And the last initiatives have been mentioned in past few quarters, we have been aggressively looking for acquisition of merger possibilities. And we have identified four potential acquisition categories, the first one is mobile cloud dealer management system, mobile cloud sales management system, third one is mobile cloud membership bonus system, Mobile Cloud Ordering System Solution. So all these categories will be we are [Inaudible] to complete while we call them one stop service on cloud based services to the small business on a annual fee basis. So that's why by increasing our client base of original about 3000 currently existing over, over 15,000 client base. Once we start it should be more aggressively monetize this huge client base with our one product services, we believe that our huge growth will come in 2014. So with all this initiative in line we are reiterating our prior guidance for three year of 2013 of $36 million revenue and $1.2 million of net income as we still continued heavily invest into the branding as well as human resources as well as especially research and technologies. So in conclusion, this concludes of my prepared remarks. We will now open the call for any question you may have for the management team.