Terry Wang
感谢各位。大家好,感谢今天参加我们的电话会议。我们对2015年第四季度的整体业绩感到满意。在各业务板块增长势头的推动下,我们的总收入同比增长15%至9.83亿元人民币。我们的IDC业务实现了稳健增长,其特点是数据中心组合的扩展以及三大区域的强劲销售。由于国内外客户和合作伙伴的强劲需求以及我们与他们建立的稳固关系,我们在云使能服务方面继续取得进展。我们的CDN业务也呈现健康增长,无论是环比还是同比均实现强劲增长。然而,收入增长部分被MNS业务的持续疲软所抵消,这主要是由于全行业带宽价格下降以及部分客户流失所致。在第四季度,尽管电信成本增加且向宽带零售客户销售的低利润率设备影响了业绩,我们的EBITDA仍处于指导范围内。我们还受到第四季度与持续业务重组相关的一些重组费用以及约2200万元人民币应收账款拨备的一次性费用的负面影响。审视我们的业务状况及整体市场状况,我们认识到我们正面临若干挑战。为应对这些挑战,我们将继续专注于业务重组。这一过程始于上个季度,旨在更好地服务于不断演变且日益专业化的数据服务市场。短期内,如前所述,这导致了增量成本的增加。然而,随着我们优化成本结构、提高运营效率并投资于核心增长机会,我们相信从长远来看,我们能够在财务和运营上重新点燃增长。随着我们继续扩展核心业务并利用与全球及国内合作伙伴公司的稳固合作关系,我们将进一步巩固我们作为中国领先互联网基础设施服务提供商的地位。现在,让我们更详细地回顾一下我们的各项核心业务。在我们的核心IDC业务中,我们通过向组合中增加700多个新机柜来扩展机柜容量,并预计在2016年上半年进一步加速部署。同时,我们保持了上季度71.7%的健康利用率,这反映了我们在可计费机柜增长与总机柜管理同步方面的成功。我们的主机流失率在第四季度从上一季度已经较低的0.26%进一步改善至0.14%。审视我们的客户渠道,新增机柜的销售持续攀升,北京、上海和广州的需求依然强劲。由于客户对Office 365和Windows Azure的采用增加,以及我们与其他领先国际公司合作的进展,云业务在第四季度的收入和盈利能力方面持续表现出强劲势头。我们上季度与IBM签署的Bluemix中国落地项目已进入排除阶段,并将部署在我们的北京大石馆数据中心。我们已经建立了全面的服务组合,并树立了公认的品牌,成为在华运营的跨国公司最值得信赖的云计算和数据中心服务提供商之一。我们将在未来几个时期以此为基础,进一步扩大客户群和产品供应。对于我们的CDN业务,我们很高兴看到世纪互联正在巩固其市场竞争力地位,这得益于增长战略的扎实执行以及旨在抓住该领域发展机遇的营销举措的完善。我们已经建立了一系列安全产品组合,见证了强劲的采用率,并获得了客户的积极反馈。此外,我们续签了与中央电视台的合作关系,并为其春节联欢晚会直播提供了支持,这是全球收视率最高的电视节目之一。我们的VPN业务在第四季度继续稳步增长,这得益于国内外客户需求的增加。展望未来,我们将继续利用交叉销售机会,加强DYXnet作为大中华区领先企业VPN服务提供商的地位。接下来谈谈我们的MNS业务。托管网络服务的净收入表现疲软,主要原因是全行业带宽价格持续下降以及市场竞争加剧。正如上一季度所讨论的,虽然IPU集团继续表现良好,但有机MNS业务仍然是整体业务中最具挑战性的部分之一。为此,我们将继续推进网络梳理流程,并重组我们的业务以适应不断变化的市场动态。同时,在审查了我们的应收账款并进行了必要的信用检查后,我们决定计提约2200万元人民币的应收账款拨备,我们认为这些款项收回的可能性较小。现在我想讨论一下我们第四季度的财务业绩。在开始之前,我想说明,我们今天将呈现我们的非GAAP指标。我们的非GAAP业绩排除了某些非现金费用,这些费用不属于我们核心运营的一部分。这些费用的详细信息可在我们早前发布的调节表中找到。另请注意,我们今天呈现的所有财务数字均为人民币金额,除非另有说明,百分比变化均为同比。我们2015年第四季度的净收入增长15%至9.83亿元人民币。托管及相关服务的净收入从2014年同期的5.96亿元人民币增长27%至7.55亿元人民币,这主要是由于可计费机柜总数同比增加以及公司云服务和CDN服务需求持续增长。2015年第四季度每机柜月均收入为10,030元人民币,而2015年第三季度为9,900元人民币。2015年第四季度托管网络服务的净收入为2.29亿元人民币,而2014年同期为2.58亿元人民币。下降的主要原因是全行业带宽价格持续下降。调整后毛利润为2.64亿元人民币,而2014年同期为2.91亿元人民币。调整后毛利率为26.9%,而2014年同期为34%,2015年第三季度为26%。毛利率下降的主要原因是电信服务支出增加、带宽销售价格下降以及向IPU客户销售的部分低利润率设备。调整后运营费用从2014年同期的2.34亿元人民币增加至2.76亿元人民币。调整后运营费用占净收入的百分比为28.1%,而去年同期为27.5%,2015年第三季度为25%。具体而言,销售和营销费用从2014年同期的1亿元人民币增加2%至1.02亿元人民币,这主要是由于服务费用增加,但被劳动力成本降低所抵消,因为我们已将部分职能外包给更具成本效益的服务提供商。一般及行政费用从2014年同期的1.6亿元人民币增加4%至1.66亿元人民币。这主要是由于与约2200万元人民币应收账款拨备相关的一次性费用,该费用被股权激励成本的减少所抵消。研发费用从2014年同期的4000万元人民币增加4%至4200万元人民币。或有购买对价公允价值变动在2015年第四季度为亏损500万元人民币,而2014年同期为亏损4500万元人民币。从盈利能力角度看,我们2015年第四季度的调整后EBITDA为1.02亿元人民币,而2014年同期为1.6亿元人民币。本季度调整后EBITDA利润率为10.4%,而2014年同期为18.8%,2015年第三季度为13.2%。2015年第四季度调整后净亏损为2900万元人民币,而2014年同期调整后净利润为700万元人民币。调整后净利润率为负3%,而2014年同期为0.8%,2015年第三季度为1.7%。2015年第四季度调整后稀释每股亏损为0.08元人民币,相当于每份ADS 0.48元人民币。截至2015年12月31日,我们的现金及现金等价物和短期投资为17.9亿元人民币,相当于2.76亿美元。我们的准备发言到此结束。感谢您今天参加我们的电话会议,我们现在想结束本次电话会议。谢谢。
Terry Wang
Thank you. Good day everyone and thank you for joining us today. We are pleased with our overall results in the fourth quarter of 2015. We grow our total revenues by 15% year-over-year to RMB983 million driven by the growth momentum across our various businesses. Our IDC business experienced solid growth, characterized by expansion of our data center portfolio and the robust sales across three regions. We continue to make strides in our cloud enabler services owing to a strong demand from and our solid relationships with domestic and international customers and partners. Our CDN business saw a healthy pick up as well, with robust growth in both a sequential and a year-over-year basis. However, revenue growth was partially offset by ongoing softness in MNS, primarily driven by the industry-wide decline in bandwidth pricing and loss of certain customers. In the fourth quarter our EBITDA came in within our guidance range and despite experienced increase in telecommunication costs and low margin equipment sales to our broadband retail customers. We were also negatively impacted by some restructuring charges associated with our ongoing business restructuring in the fourth quarter as well as a one-time charge related to accounts receivable provision of approximately RMB22 million. Looking at the state of our business and that of our overall market, we recognize that we are facing several challenges. To address these challenges we will continue to focus on restructuring our business. A process, which we initiated last quarter to better serve the evolving and increasingly specialized data service market. In the short-term this resulted in increasing incremental costs, as mentioned previously. However, as we fine-tune our cost structure, enhance operational efficiency and invest in core growth opportunities, we believe that in the long term we will be able to reignite growth both financially and operationally. As we continue to expand our core business and leverage our robust partnerships with both global and the domestic paired companies, we will further strengthen our position as a leading Internet infrastructure services provider in China. Now let’s go over each of our core businesses in more detail. In our core IDC business, we expanded cabinet capacity by adding over 700 new cabinets to our portfolio and expect to further accelerate deployment in the first half of 2016. Meanwhile, we maintain our healthy utilization rate of 71.7% from last quarter, reflecting our success in growing billable cabinets and management in tandem with total cabinets. Our hosting churn rate further improved to 0.14% in the fourth quarter from an already low level of 0.26%, in the prior period. Looking at our customer pipeline, sales of newly added cabinets continues to climb, and the demand from Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou remains strong. The cloud businesses showed continuous strength in terms of revenue and the profitability in the fourth quarter driven by increased customer adoption of Office 365 and Windows Azure as well as a progress in our other partnerships with leading international companies. The Bluemix China landing project that we signed with IBM last quarter has entered the exclusion stage and will be deployed in our Beijing Dashiguan data center. We have built a comprehensive portfolio of services and established a well-recognized brand as one of the most trusted providers of cloud computing and data center services for multinational companies operating in China and we will build upon this foundation in future few periods in order to further expand our customer base and the product offerings. For our CDN business we are glad to see that 21Vianet is solidifying its competitive position in the market supported by solid execution of growth strategies and the refinement of our marketing initiatives aimed at capturing development opportunities in this sector. We have established a portfolio of security products, witnessed strong adoption rates and received positive feedback from our customers. Additionally, we renew our partnership with CCTV and provided support for its Spring Festival Gala broadcast, which is one of the world’s most viewed TV programs. Our VPN business continued to grow steadily in the fourth quarter driven by increasing demand from both domestic and international customers. Going forward we will continue to leverage cross-selling opportunities to strengthen DYXnet’s position as a leading enterprise VPN service provider in the Greater China region. Moving on to our MNS business, net revenues from managed network services came in soft primarily due to the continual industry-wide decline of bandwidth prices and intensifying market competition. As discussed in the previous quarter, while IPU group continues to perform well, organic MNS business remains one of the most challenging parts of the overall business. To that end, we will continue our network grooming process and are restructuring our business to suit the changing market dynamics. In the meantime, after reviewing our accounts receivables and conducting necessary credit checks, we decided to make accounts receivable provision of about RMB22 million, which we believe are less likely to be able to collect. Now I want discuss our fourth quarter financial results. Before I begin I’d like to state that we will present our non-GAAP measures today. Our non-GAAP results exclude certain non-cash expenses, which are not a part of our core operations. The details of these expenses may be found in the reconciliation tables included in our earlier release. Also note that all the financial numbers we are presenting today are in RMB amounts and the percentage change is year-over-year unless otherwise noted. Our net revenues for the fourth quarter of 2015 increased by 15% to RMB983 million. Net revenues from hosting and related services increased by 27% to RMB755 million from RMB596 million in the comparative period of 2014 primarily due to a year-over-year increase in total number of a billable cabinets and the continuous growth in demand for company's cloud and CDN services. MRR per cabinet was RMB10,030 in the fourth of 2015 compared with a RMB9,900 in the third quarter of 2015. Net revenues from managed network services were RMB229 million in the fourth quarter of 2015 as compared to RMB258 million in the comparative period in 2014. The decrease was primarily due to the continued industry-wide decline in the bandwidth pricing. Adjusted gross profit was RMB264 million compared with RMB291 million in comparative period in 2014. Adjusted gross margin was 26.9% compared with 34% in the comparative period in 2014 and a 26% in the third quarter of 2015. The decrease in gross margin was primarily due to higher spending on telecommunications services, lower selling bandwidth prices and some lower margin equipment sales to IPU customers. Adjusted operating expenses increased to RMB276 million from RBM234 million in the comparative period in 2014. As a percentage of net revenue, adjusted operating expenses were 28.1% compared with 27.5% in prior-year period and 25% in the third quarter of 2015. More specifically, sales and marketing expenses increased by 2% to RMB102 million from RMB100 million in the comparative period in 2014 primarily due to higher services fees, which were more than offset by lower labor costs as we outsourced some functions to more cost-effective service providers. General and administrative expenses increased by 4% to RMB166 million from RMB160 million in the comparative period in 2014. Primarily due to a one-time charge related to accounts receivable provision of approximately RMB22 million, which offset by decrease of a share-based compensation costs. Research and development expenses increased by 4% to RMB42 million from RMB40 million in comparative period in 2014. Change in fair value of contingent purchase consideration payable was a loss of RMB5 million in the fourth quarter of 2015, compared with RMB45 million in the comparative period in 2014. From a profitability perspective, our adjusted EBITDA for fourth quarter of 2015 was RMB102 million, compared with RMB160 million in comparable period in 2014. Adjusted EBITDA margin for the quarter was 10.4%, compared with 18.8% in the comparative period in 2014, and 13.2% in the third quarter of 2015. Adjusted net loss for the fourth quarter was RMB29 million, compared with adjusted net profit of RMB7 million in the comparative period in 2014. Adjusted net margin was negative 3%, compared with 0.8% in comparative period in 2014, and 1.7% in the third quarter of 2015. Adjusted diluted loss per share for the fourth quarter of 2015 was RMB0.08, which represents the equivalent of RMB0.48 per ADS. As of December 31, 2015, our cash and cash equivalent and short-term investments were RMB1.79 billion, equivalent to US$276 million. This concludes our prepared remarks. Thank you for joining our call today and we now would like to conclude the call. Thank you