Shun Jiang
谢谢,小平。我是云米的首席财务官顺。在提供运营更新和讨论我们2019年第一季度的财务表现之前,我将快速翻译陈先生的讲话。大家好。感谢参加今天的财报电话会议。2019年开局良好,我们延续了去年的强劲增长势头,第一季度运营和财务表现稳健。第一季度净收入同比增长超过一倍,因为我们继续在整个产品组合中经历强劲的市场需求,同时进一步提升了品牌认知度和渠道渗透率。我们持续的收入增长和健康的盈利能力再次证明了我们高度可扩展业务模式的可行性以及我们强大的执行能力。
在过去的几个月里,我们推出了许多令人兴奋的新产品线,进一步丰富和多样化了我们支持物联网的产品组合,加强了我们的IoT @ Home平台,并为用户带来了跨多个场景的更全面和增强的体验。这些产品包括我们旗舰21Face系列智能冰箱、洗衣机、热水器以及抽油烟机的补充型号。此外还有增值产品,如扫地机器人、食物处理器、电饭煲等。此外,我们还推出了革命性的AirBot高端抽油烟机,采用最先进的航天发动机原理开发,以及为即将到来的5G时代开发的5G Face智能冰箱。这些产品吸引了包括央视和人民日报在内的主流媒体以及消费市场的广泛关注,并证明了我们强大的创新产品开发和营销能力。
除了这些云米品牌产品外,我们还向市场推出了新的小米品牌产品系列,包括新的500加仑和600加仑系列净水器产品以及食物处理器等小家电产品,这些产品也受到了市场的良好反响。我们的新产品管线依然强劲,预计在未来几个月内将推出多款旗舰小米品牌和云米品牌产品,涵盖现有和新的产品类别。我们对这些产品带来的额外增长机会感到兴奋。
作为我们增长战略的重要组成部分,我们在第一季度进一步扩大和多样化销售渠道。截至3月31日,云米线下体验店数量超过1,600家,我们正按计划在近期实现之前设定的至少2,000家门店的目标。在线上方面,我们继续保持强大的合作伙伴关系,并加强了在京东、天猫、苏宁等领先电商平台的存在,最近还扩展到了拼多多。同时,我们继续致力于进一步发展我们的专有电商平台,包括[外语]和我们自己的微信小程序[外语]或云米生活方式中心。两者都在快速增长,并将成为未来提供增量收入流的重要驱动力。我们将在未来几个季度提供这些渠道的额外进展更新。
在价值链投资方面,我们的智能净水系统设施广东栗子科技和触摸屏组件设施广东爱触科技都已成功整合到我们的平台中并开始商业制造。这种整合为我们提供了对供应链的更大控制权,并已经开始产生增量成本节约。我们还在继续评估几项额外的战略价值链投资和合作伙伴机会,以进一步加强我们的供应链整合并促进我们业务生态系统的扩展。
扩大我们的家庭用户基础,并向消费者宣传我们IoT @ Home平台和物联网智能产品的能力和优势,将继续是我们长期增长战略的核心。为此,我们不断努力通过AI+物联网以及即将到来的5G+AI+物联网方向,增强家庭环境中不同场景的用户体验。
展望2019年,我们的重点仍然是实现强劲的营收增长和市场份额增长。我们对实现目标的执行能力充满信心。以上是我们创始人的评论。我现在将提供运营更新并讨论我们2019年第一季度的财务表现。
正如小平提到的,我们以强劲的收入增长和运营表现开启了2019年。快速总结一些关键的运营更新:我们继续深化家庭渗透,家庭用户数量在2019年第一季度末增长到超过200万,而2018年底约为170万,2018年第一季度末约为100万。此外,拥有至少两款我们物联网产品的家庭用户比例从上一季度的13.3%增加到15.2%,表明用户采用多款云米产品的趋势日益增强,使云米互联家庭更接近现实。
现在,让我们来看看我们的季度财务表现。我们很高兴报告又一个强劲的季度财务业绩,因为我们实现了显著的营收增长,接近我们指导范围的上限,同时保持了稳健的盈利水平以及健康的现金流和流动性。净收入从2018年第一季度的3.308亿元人民币增长104.4%至6.762亿元人民币,这主要得益于云米品牌产品的持续成功推出和销量大幅增长。如前所述,第一季度通常是日历年中的季节性低谷,与第二和第四季度相比。
物联网智能产品收入从2018年第一季度的2.465亿元人民币增长103.8%至5.025亿元人民币,这主要得益于公司智能厨房和其他智能产品的成功推出,尽管增长部分被智能净水系统类别收入的暂时下降所抵消。在物联网产品类别中,如前所述,智能净水系统收入同比下降18.9%至1.2亿元人民币,而2018年第一季度为1.48亿元人民币。这种暂时下降主要是由于市场对2019年4月推出的新小米品牌500加仑和600加仑智能净水产品的预期,以及这些产品发布的轻微延迟。正如您所见,这种暂时下降的影响在很大程度上被我们多样化的产品组合所缓解,这帮助我们在第一季度实现了强劲的整体同比净收入增长。此外,根据我们已经在4月和5月看到的销售趋势,我们预计智能净水系统产品类别在第二季度将恢复健康的两位数同比增长。
智能厨房产品收入从2018年第一季度的6,810万元人民币增长188.7%至1.966亿元人民币。快速增长主要得益于公司云米品牌冰箱产品销量的大幅增长。其他智能产品收入从2018年第一季度的3,040万元人民币增长511.1%至1.859亿元人民币。快速增长主要得益于公司云米品牌洗衣机和热水器产品销量的大幅增长。
另外,耗材产品收入从2018年第一季度的3,740万元人民币增长28.7%至4,810万元人民币,主要得益于对公司净水器滤芯产品需求的增加。增值业务收入从2018年第一季度的4,690万元人民币增长167.5%至1.256亿元人民币,主要得益于新产品的推出,以及对公司增值产品特别是小家电产品需求的增加。
毛利润从2018年第一季度的9,780万元人民币增长93.6%至1.894亿元人民币。毛利率稳健为28%,而2018年第一季度为29.6%。同样,毛利率同比下降主要是由于公司业务和产品组合的变化。作为额外的参考点,2018年全年的毛利率也是28%,而2018年第四季度的毛利率仅为27%。
总运营费用从2018年第一季度的6,550万元人民币增长133.8%至1.531亿元人民币,主要由于公司业务的快速增长,以及股权激励费用的增加。研发费用从2018年第一季度的2,100万元人民币增长74.3%至3,660万元人民币,主要由于员工相关费用的增加,包括为吸引和留住研发人员的股权激励费用,以及与新产品开发相关的费用增加。销售和营销费用从2018年第一季度的3,990万元人民币增长153.3%至1.009亿元人民币,主要由于员工相关费用的增加,以及与云米品牌产品相关的物流、广告、营销和品牌推广费用的增加。
一般及行政费用为1,560万元人民币,而2018年第一季度为470万元人民币,主要由于员工相关费用的增加,包括股权激励费用,以及行政部门的扩张。净利润为4,130万元人民币,较2018年第一季度的2,940万元人民币增长40.5%。非GAAP净利润(不包括股权激励费用的影响)为5,310万元人民币,较2018年第一季度的3,160万元人民币增长68.1%,并加速环比增长。非GAAP净利率为7.9%,而2018年第一季度为9.6%。同样,这主要是由于毛利率同比下降,这是公司产品和业务组合变化的结果。作为额外的参考点,2018年全年的非GAAP净利率为7.1%,而2018年第四季度的非GAAP净利率仅为6.8%。
2019年第一季度,运营活动产生的净现金为健康的2,920万元人民币。我们的资产负债表也保持健康。截至2019年3月31日,公司拥有现金及现金等价物7.64亿元人民币,受限现金3,100万元人民币,短期投资3.451亿元人民币。
展望未来,正如陈先生提到的,我们的重点将继续是实现强劲的营收增长,同时保持健康的盈利水平。现在,让我们来看看我们的展望。对于2019年第二季度,公司预计净收入将在11.5亿元人民币至12亿元人民币之间,同比增长约62.1%至69.2%。这一展望基于当前市场状况,反映了公司对市场和运营状况以及客户需求的初步估计,所有这些都可能发生变化,特别是考虑到当前的宏观环境。
我还想补充一点,2018年第二季度是一个特别强劲的季度,我们在2018年各季度经历了相当明显的季节性,特别是在第三季度。鉴于我们在未来几个月内稳健且可见的新产品管线和发布计划,包括小米品牌和云米品牌产品,特别是进入2019年6月和第三季度,我们目前预计2019年第三季度的季节性将比2018年同期明显减弱,因此对实现全年目标保持信心。因此,基于我们在2019年第一季度看到的增长,根据当前对市场状况的评估,我们预计可以在2019年全年实现相似的增长水平。
以上是我们的准备发言。我们现在将开放电话会议进行问答环节。主持人,请继续。
Shun Jiang
Thank you, Xiaoping. This is Shun, Viomi's CFO. I will quickly translate Mr. Chen's remarks before providing an operational update and discuss our financial performance for the first quarter of 2019. Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining today's earnings call. 2019 began positively as we continued a strong growth momentum from last year with robust operating and financial performance in the first quarter. First quarter net revenues more than doubled year-over-year, as we continue to experience robust market demand across our product portfolio, while further enhancing our brand recognition and channel penetration. Our sustained revenue growth and healthy profitability once again demonstrated the viability of our highly scalable business model as well as our strong execution capabilities. We launched numerous newly exciting product lines over the past several months, further enriching and diversifying our IoT-enabled product portfolio, strengthening our IoT @ Home platform and bringing our users more comprehensive and enhanced experiences across multiple scenarios. These products include complementary models of our flagship 21Face series of smart refrigerators, washing machines, water heaters as well as range hoods. In addition to value-added products, such as sweeper robots, food processors, rice cookers amongst many others. Moreover, we also introduced our revolutionary AirBot premium range hood, developed with state-of-the-art space engine principles, as well as the 5G Face smart refrigerator, developed for the upcoming 5G era. These products attracted wide attention from mainstream media, including CCTV and People's Daily as well as the consumer market, and are a testament to a strong innovation product development and marketing capabilities. In addition to these Viomi branded products, we also brought to market a new series of Xiaomi branded products including new 500-gallon and 600-gallon series of water purifier products as well as small appliances products such as food processors which have also been well received by the market. Our new product pipeline remained strong with multiple flagship Xiaomi-branded and Viomi-branded products, both in existing and new product categories expected to be introduced in the -- over the coming months. We're excited to the additional growth opportunities these products present. Also as an important part of our growth strategies, we further expanded and diversified our sales channels in the first quarter. As of March 31, the number of Viomi offline experience stores reached more than 1,600 and we are on track to achieve our previously stated of at least 2000 stores in the near term. On the online front, we continued maintaining strong partnerships and strengthened our presence on leading e-commerce platform such as Yopine, JD.com, Tmall and Suning and have recently expanded to Pinduoduo. Meanwhile, we continue to be dedicated to the further development of our proprietary e-commerce platforms including [Foreign Language] and our own WeChat program [Foreign Language] Or Viomi lifestyle center. Both have been growing rapidly and will be an important driver in delivering incremental revenue streams going forward. We will provide additional progress updates to these channels in the coming quarters. In terms of our value chain investments, both Guangdong Lizi Technology, our smart water purification system facility and Guangdong AI Touch Technology, our touch screen components facility had been successfully integrated into our platform and commenced commercial manufacturing. This integration has provided us greater control over our supply chain and has already started to generate incremental cost savings. We're also continuing to evaluate several, additional strategic value chain investments and partnership opportunities to further strengthen our supply chain integration and facilitate expansion of our business ecosystem. Growing our household user base and educating consumers on the capabilities and benefits of our IoT @ Home platform and IOT-enabled smart products will continue to be central to our long-term growth strategy. To this end, we are continually making efforts to enhance user experiences across different scenarios in the home environment through the AI plus IoT and soon 5G plus AI plus IoT direction. Looking ahead in 2019, our priorities remain focused on delivering topline -- robust topline growth and market share gains. We are fully confident in our execution capabilities in achieving our goals. That concludes our founder’s comments. I will now provide an operational update and discuss our financial performance for the first quarter of 2019. As Xiaoping mentioned, we began 2019 on a positive note with strong revenue growth and operational performance. To quickly summarize some of our key operational updates, we continued deepening our household penetration with a number of household users growing to more than two million at the end of the first quarter of 2019, compared to approximately 1.7 million at the end of 2018 and approximately one million as of the end of the first quarter of 2018. In addition, the percentage of household users possessing at least two of our IoT products, increased to 15.2% from 13.3% in the prior quarter, demonstrating the increasing trend of users adopting multiple Viomi products and making the Viomi connected home a closer reality. Now, let's move on to our quarterly financial performance. We are pleased to report another strong quarter of financial results as we delivered significant topline growth towards the upper end of our guidance range, together with solid levels of profitability as well as healthy cash flows and liquidity. Net revenues increased by 104.4% to 672 point -- RMB676.2 million from RMB330.8 million for the first quarter of 2018, primarily due to the continued successful rollout and significant increase in sales of Viomi-branded products. As previously discussed, the first quarter is generally a seasonal trough during the calendar year as compared to the second and fourth quarters. Revenues from IoT-enabled smartphone products increased by 103.8% to RMB502.5 million from RMB246.5 million for the first quarter of 2018, primarily due to the successful rollout of the companies, smart kitchen and other smart products, though the growth was partially offset by temporary decline in revenues from the smart water purification systems category. Within the IoT products category, as just mentioned, revenues from smart water purification systems decreased on a year-on-year basis by 18.9% to RMB120 million as compared to RMB148 million for the first quarter of 2018. This temporary decline was primarily due to anticipation of new Xiaomi branded 500-gallon and 600-gallon smart water purification products that were brought to the market in April 2019, together with a minor delay in the launch of these products. As you can see, the impact of this temporary decline was largely mitigated by our diverse product mix, which helped us achieve strong overall year-on-year net revenue growth in the first quarter. In addition, based on the sales trends we have already seen in April and May, we expect to resume healthy double-digit year-on-year revenue growth from the smart water purification system product category in the second quarter. Revenues from smart kitchen products increased by 188.7% to RMB 196.6 million from RMB 68.1 million for the first quarter of 2018. The rapid growth was primarily driven by significant increases in sales volumes of the company's Viomi branded refrigerator products. Revenues from other smart products increased by 511.1% to RMB 185.9 million from RMB 30.4 million for the first quarter of 2018. The rapid growth was primarily driven by significant increases in sales volumes of the company's Viomi branded washing machine and water heater products. Separately revenues from consumable products increased by 28.7% to RMB 48.1 million from RMB 37.4 million for the first quarter of 2018, primarily due to increased demand for the company's water purifier filter products. Revenues from value-added businesses increased 167.5% to RMB 125.6 million from RMB 46.9 million for the first quarter of 2018, primarily due to new product introductions, together with increased demand for the company's value-added products in particular small appliances products. Gross profit increased by 93.6% of RMB 189.4 million from RMB 97.8 million for the first quarter of 2018. Gross margin was solid at 28% compared to 29.6% for the first quarter of 2018. Again, this decrease in gross margin on a year-on-year basis was primarily due to shifts in the company's business and product mix. As additional points of reference, gross margin for the full year of 2018 was also 28% and gross margin for the fourth quarter of 2018 was only 27%. Total operating expenses increased by 133.8% to RMB 153.1 million from RMB 65.5 million for the first quarter of 2018, primarily due to the rapid growth of the company's business, as well as increases in share-based compensation expenses. Research and development expenses increased by 74.3% to RMB 36.6 million from RMB 21 million for the first quarter of 2018, primarily due to an increase in employee-related expenses, including share-based compensation expenses to attract and retain the R&D personnel, as well as increases in expenses associated with new product development. Selling and marketing expenses increased by 153.3% to RMB 100.9 million from RMB 39.9 million for the first quarter of 2018, primarily due to an increase in employee-related expenses as well as increases in logistics, advertising, marketing and brand promotion expenses in relation to Viomi branded products. G&A expenses was RMB 15.6 million compared to RMB 4.7 million for the first quarter of 2018, primarily due to an increase in employee-related expenses, including share-based compensation expenses, as well as the expansion of administrative departments. Net income was RMB 41.3 million, an increase of 40.5% from RMB 29.4 million for the first quarter of 2018. Non-GAAP net income, which excludes the impact of share-based compensation expenses, was RMB 53.1 million, an increase of 68.1% from RMB 31.6 million for the first quarter of 2018 and accelerating on a quarter-on-quarter basis. Non-GAAP net margin was 7.9% compared to 9.6% for the first quarter of 2018. Again, this was primarily due to the year-over-year decline in gross margin, as a result of shifts in the company's product and business mix. As additional points of reference, non-GAAP net margin for the full year of 2018 was 7.1% and non-GAAP net margin for the fourth quarter of 2018 was only 6.8%. For the first quarter of 2019 net cash provided by operating expenses was healthy at RMB 29.2 million. Our balance sheet also remained healthy. As of March 31, 2019, the company had cash-and-cash equivalents of RMB 764 million, restricted cash of RMB 31 million and short-term investments of RMB 345.1 million. As we look ahead, as Mr. Chen mentioned, our priority will be to continue to deliver robust top line growth, while still maintaining healthy levels of profitability. Now, let's turn to our outlook. For the second quarter of 2019, the company expects net revenues to be between RMB 1.15 billion and RMB 1.2 billion, representing year-over-year growth of approximately 62.1% to 69.2%. This outlook is based on current market conditions and reflects the company's and preliminary estimates of market and operating conditions and customer demand, which are all subject to change, especially given the current macro environment. I would also like to add that the second quarter of 2018 was an especially strong quarter and we experienced quite noticeable seasonality across quarters during 2018, especially during the third quarter. Given our robust and visible new product pipeline and launch schedule over the next several months both for Xiaomi-branded and Viomi-branded products, especially heading into June and the third quarter of 2019, we currently expected there to be significantly less noticeable seasonality in the third quarter of 2019 as compared to the same period in 2018 and thus remain confident in achieving our full year targets. Therefore based on the growth that we have seen in the first quarter of 2019, we would expect based on current evaluation of market conditions that we can achieve similar levels of growth for the full year of 2019. That concludes our prepared remarks. We will now open the call for Q&A. Operator please go ahead.