Joanne Zuo
谢谢Olivia,大家好。首先,我代表田先生宣读CEO致辞。我们本季度取得了强劲的业绩,运营和财务表现卓越。这得益于我们成功的战略以及持续优化和调整运营的不懈努力。第二季度,学生总入学人数达到39,357人,同比增长90.8%,呈现强劲增长。活跃的学生参与度反映了我们课程的吸引力以及品牌知名度的提升。我们持续丰富和多元化课程内容,覆盖更多学科和教育主题。通过为不同年级设计差异化课程,我们已有效将课程扩展至更广泛的年龄段。令人满意的是,前几个季度学习中心网络的优化计划取得了良好成效,上海及外地学习中心的入学情况均令人满意。此外,我们在已有业务的关键城市审慎扩展网络。第二季度,我们在重庆和深圳各新增了一个学习中心。这两个城市都是经济活跃的市场,我们相信K-12课后教育在这些市场具有巨大的增长潜力。截至2019年8月31日,我们拥有54个学习中心,其中44个在上海,10个在其他城市。除了学生基础的稳健增长和学习中心的健康发展外,我们在其他兴趣导向教育项目方面也取得了令人鼓舞的进展。第二季度期间,四季教育的团队在各类数独和桥牌比赛中表现出色,包括在全国性活动中获得最高奖项。特别值得一提的是,今年我们首次推出了桥牌夏令营,学生们在学习桥牌历史和技术的过程中收获了愉快的体验。所有这些兴趣导向活动表明,我们不仅是学生学业提升的优秀辅导服务提供商,也是一个吸引人且受认可的社区,供学生与朋友一起发展各种逻辑思维游戏的兴趣。此外,我们的数学学习项目也按计划启动了与多个兴趣导向教育项目的校内合作,同时利用我们在数学辅导方面的优势,培养学生对学习的热情并充实他们的学习体验。正如我们之前提到的,2019财年是公司的转型之年,我们积极调整业务以适应新的监管环境和不断变化的市场需求。我们的努力在2020财年结出硕果,特别是我们出色的第二季度业绩证明了战略调整的成功。我们相信,在转型阶段之后,我们已经走上了健康发展的轨道。凭借我们广泛的教育能力和成功的运营经验,我们将专注于巩固在上海及其他已有业务城市的实力和优势。同时,我们将在扩张计划中保持审慎和勤勉,以保持高质量增长为目标。更重要的是,我们始终致力于为不同年龄段的学生提供多元化的教育内容和学习体验。现在让我们转向财务业绩。首先,我想用中文强调本季度的几个财务亮点,稍后也会用英文介绍。[外语]我们强劲的第二季度业绩清楚地证明了我们为K-12学生提供全面课后教育以及广泛多样课程的战略。我们报告了出色的总入学人数增长,同时保持了多元化势头,非数学课程和初中项目的入学人数不断增加。得益于市场对我们高质量课程的巨大需求,我们第二季度的收入同比增长37.9%,超过了我们指引范围的高端。前几个季度的学习中心网络优化计划导致毛利率大幅扩张,第二季度毛利率较去年同期上升282个基点至55.1%。加上我们高效的运营成本控制,我们很高兴实现了强劲的运营收入和净利润,分别同比增长234.9%和217.8%,本季度运营利润率和净利润率分别达到22.0%和15.8%。我们不断改善的运营表现证明了我们商业模式和战略转型的有效执行。我们始终坚守使命,通过高质量和有效的教育释放学生的智力潜能,同时为股东带来长期价值。现在,我想带您详细了解我们2020财年第二季度的财务业绩。2020财年第二季度收入同比增长37.9%,从去年同期的9340万元人民币增至1.288亿元人民币,主要归因于公司在2019财年开设的新学习中心的健康增长成果,以及课程内容扩展和更高多元化带来的学生入学人数增加。2020财年第二季度收入成本同比增长29.8%,从去年同期的4460万元人民币增至5790万元人民币,主要归因于教职员工成本以及学习中心租金、水电和维护成本的增加。2020财年第二季度毛利润同比增长45.3%,从去年同期的4880万元人民币增至7100万元人民币。2020财年第二季度一般及行政费用同比增长1.8%,从去年同期的3200万元人民币增至3260万元人民币。2020财年第二季度销售及营销费用同比增长20.4%,从去年同期的830万元人民币增至1000万元人民币,主要由于广告费用增加。2020财年第二季度运营收入同比增长234.9%,从去年同期的850万元人民币增至2830万元人民币。调整后运营收入(不包括股权激励费用)同比增长115.3%,从去年同期的1660万元人民币增至3570万元人民币。2020财年第二季度补贴收入为2.4万元人民币,去年同期为340万元人民币,主要由于公司从地方政府获得的非限制性现金激励补贴收入,该金额各期有所不同。2020财年第二季度利息收入净额为150万元人民币,去年同期为190万元人民币。2020财年第二季度其他费用净额为30万元人民币,去年同期为120万元人民币,主要由于投资的公允价值变动和外汇波动。2020财年第二季度净利润同比增长217.8%,从去年同期的640万元人民币增至2030万元人民币。调整后净利润同比增长70.9%,从去年同期的1570万元人民币增至2690万元人民币。2020财年第二季度普通股股东应占每ADS基本和摊薄收益分别为0.40元人民币和0.39元人民币,去年同期分别为0.14元人民币和0.13元人民币。2020财年第二季度非GAAP普通股股东应占每ADS基本和摊薄净收益分别为0.53元人民币和0.52元人民币,去年同期分别为0.33元人民币和0.31元人民币。截至2019年8月31日,公司拥有现金及现金等价物5.163亿元人民币,较2019年2月28日的4.396亿元人民币增长17.5%。考虑到我们财报电话会议的时长,对于2020财年前六个月的财务业绩,我建议听众参考我们的财报新闻稿以获取更多细节。展望2020财年第三季度,公司预计收入将在1.003亿元人民币至1.048亿元人民币之间,同比增长约10%至15%。上述展望基于当前市场状况,反映了公司对市场、运营状况和客户需求的初步估计,这些都可能发生变化。我的准备发言部分到此结束。我们现在将开放电话会议进行提问。主持人,请继续。
Joanne Zuo
Thank you, Olivia and hello everyone. Let me first read the CEO remarks on behalf of Mr. Tian. We achieved a strong quarter with remarkable operating and financial performances. Thanks to our successful strategy and relentless efforts to optimize and adjust our operations. In the second quarter, total student enrollment reached 39,357 representing a vigorous growth of 90.8% year-over-year. The active student participation reflects the attractiveness of our programs and our enhanced brand awareness. We consistently enrich and diversify our cost offerings to cover more academic subjects and educational topics. With differentiated programs designed for different grade levels, we have efficiently extended our courses to broader age groups. To our satisfaction, the optimization program for our learning center network in previous quarters paid off well with satisfactory enrollment in learning centers both in and out of Shanghai. In addition, we prudently expand our network in key cities that we already have presence. In the second quarter, we added an additional learning center in Chongqing and one in Shenzhen. Both cities are economically dynamic markets that we believe have great growth potential for K-12 after-school education. As of August 31, 2019, we had 54 learning centers including 44 in Shanghai and 10 in other cities. Besides the solid growth of our student base and healthy development of our learning centers, we have made encouraging strides across our other interest-oriented educational programs. During the second quarter, Four Seasons Education's teams achieved outstanding performances in various Sudoku and Bridge match including winning top awards in national activities. A special note for this year, we launched our first Bridge summer camp where students harvested an enjoyable experience in learning the history and the technique of bridge cards. All these interest-oriented activities illustrated that we are not only an excellent tutoring service provider for students' academic improvement, but also an attractive and the recognized community for students to develop their interest in various logical thinking games with friends. Furthermore, our maths learning program also started its in-school collaborations with multiple interest-oriented educational projects on track while leveraging our strength in maths tuition to nurture students into the anthem for study and to substantiate their learning experience. As we mentioned, fiscal 2019 was a year of transformation for the company where we proactively adjusted our business to adapt to the new regulatory environment and evolving market demands. Our efforts are bearing fruits in fiscal 2020, especially our outstanding second quarter results demonstrated a success of our strategic adjustments. We believe we have gained a trajectory of healthy development following a stage of transformation. With our extensive educational capability and successful operating experience, we will focus on solidifying our strength and its advantages in Shanghai and other cities where we already established our presence. Meanwhile we will remain prudent and diligent in our expansion plan with the goal of maintaining quality growth. More importantly we are always dedicated to bringing diversified educational content, and in which the learning experience to students at different age. Now let's move on to the financial results. First, I would like to emphasize a few financial highlights for the quarter in Chinese, which will also be introduced later in English. [Foreign Language] Our robust second quarter result is a clear testament to our strategy of providing comprehensive education after-school for K-12 students with an extensive and a variety of cost offerings. We reported excellent total enrollment growth while carrying the momentum of diversification with an increasing number of enrollments in our non-math courses and middle school programs. Bolstered by the enormous market demand for our high-quality courses our revenue growth reached 37.9% year-over-year in the second quarter, exceeding the high end of our guidance range. Our learning center network optimization program in previous quarters led to substantial expansion in gross margin, which was up 282 basis points to 55.1% in the second quarter compared to the year-ago period. Coupled with our efficient operational cost control, we're thrilled to deliver strong operating income and net profit, which grow 234.9% and 217.8% year-over-year with operating margin and net margin up 22.0% and 15.8%, respectively for the quarter. Our improving operational performance demonstrates the effective execution of our business model and the strategic transformation. We stayed true to our mission to unlock students' intellectual potential through a high-quality and effective education while bringing long-term value to our shareholders. Now I'd like to walk you through more details on our second quarter fiscal 2020 fiscal financial results. Revenue increased by 37.9% to RMB128.8 million for the second quarter of fiscal year 2020 from RMB93.4 million in the same period of last year, primarily attributable to the healthy ramp-up results of new learning centers that company opened during the fiscal 2019 and the increase in student enrollments as a result of the expanded cost offering with higher diversification. Cost of revenue increased by 29.8% to RMB57.9 million for the second quarter of fiscal year 2020 from RMB44.6 million in the same period of last year, primarily attributable to the increase in faculty staff cost as well as learning centers' rental, utilities and maintenance cost. Gross profit increased by 45.3% to RMB71.0 million for the second quarter of fiscal 2020 from RMB48.8 million in the same period of last year. General and administrative expenses increased by 1.8% to RMB32.6 million for the second quarter of fiscal 2020 from RMB32.0 million in the same period of last year. Sales and marketing expenses increased by 20.4% to RMB10 million for the second quarter of fiscal year 2020 from RMB8.3 million in the same period of last year, primarily due to the increased advertising expenses. Operating income increased by 234.9% to RMB28.3 million for the second quarter of fiscal year 2020 from RMB8.5 million in the same period of last year. Adjusted operating income, which excludes share-based compensation expenses increased by 115.3% to RMB35.7 million for the second quarter of fiscal year 2020 from RMB16.6 million in the same period of last year. Subsidy income was RMB24.0 thousand for the second quarter of fiscal year 2020, compared with RMB3.4 million in the same period of last year, primarily due to the subsidy income of unrestricted cash incentives that the company received from the local government authority, the amount of which varies from period-to-period. Interest income net was RMB1.5 million for the second quarter of fiscal year 2020, compared with RMB1.9 million in the same period of last year. Other expenses net was RMB0.3 million for the second quarter fiscal year 2020 compared with RMB 1.2 million in the same period of last year, primarily due to fair value change and foreign exchange fluctuations of investments. Net income increased by 217.8% to RMB 20.3 million during the second quarter of fiscal year 2020 compared with RMB 6.4 million in the same period of last year. Adjusted net income increased by 70.9% to RMB 26.9 million compared with RMB 15.7 million in the same period of last year. Basic and diluted income per ADS attributable to ordinary shareholders for the second quarter of fiscal year 2020 were RMB 0.40 and RMB 0.39 compared with RMB 0.14 and RMB 0.13 respectively for the same period of last year. Non-GAAP basic and diluted net income per ADS attributable to ordinary shareholders for the second quarter of fiscal year 2020 was RMB 0.53 and RMB 0.52 compared with RMB 0.33 and RMB 0.31 respectively for the same period of last year. Cash and cash equivalents as of August 31, 2019, the company had cash and cash equivalents of RMB 516.3 million, an increase of 17.5% compared with RMB 439.6 million as of February 28, 2019. To be mindful of the length of our earnings call, for the first six months of fiscal 2020 financial results I will encourage listeners to refer to our earnings press release for further details. Looking forward for the third quarter of fiscal 2020, the company expects to generate revenue in range of RMB 100.3 million to RMB 104.8 million, representing year-over-year growth of approximately 10% to 15%. The above outlook is based on the current market conditions and reflects the company's preliminary estimates of market and operating conditions and customer demand, which are all subject to change. This concludes my portion of prepared remarks. We will now open to the call to questions. Operator, please go ahead.