The important announcements for Hong Kong stocks yesterday are as follows:

1) Company news

$NEW ORIENTAL-S (09901.HK)$: Announced the results for the third quarter ended February 29, 2024. Net revenue for the period was US$1,257 million, up 60.1% year on year; net profit attributable to shareholders of US$87.167 million, up 6.8% year on year

In the first nine months of fiscal year 2024, New Oriental achieved net revenue of US$3.177 billion, an increase of 48.6% year on year; net profit attributable to shareholders was US$283 million, an increase of 90.5% year on year. As of February 29, 2024, the total number of schools and learning centers was 911, an increase of 199 over the same period of the previous year.

$CHINA COAL (01898.HK)$: First quarter revenue of 45.395 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 23.3%; net profit of 4.97 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 30.5%.

$GWMOTOR (02333.HK)$: Revenue for the first quarter was about 42.86 billion yuan, up 47.6% year on year; net profit was about 3.228 billion yuan, up 1752.55% year on year.

According to the announcement, the increase in net profit was mainly due to the increase in the company's sales scale during the reporting period, the optimization of the sales structure, which led to a significant increase in performance indicators such as operating income and net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies compared to the same period last year.

$HISENSE HA (00921.HK)$: Revenue for the first quarter was 23.486 billion yuan, up 20.87% year on year; net profit was 981 million yuan, up 59.48% year on year.

$SHANGHAI PECHEM (00338.HK)$: Revenue for the first quarter was RMB 21.282 billion, down 3.2% year on year; net profit was RMB 840.61 million, turning a year-on-year loss into a profit.

$CGN POWER (01816.HK)$: Revenue for the first quarter was 19.182 billion yuan, up 4.88% year on year; net profit was 3.38% year on year.

$CIMC ENRIC (03899.HK)$: Revenue for the first quarter was 4.635 billion yuan, down 6.8% year on year; cumulative new orders were 7.478 billion yuan, up 35.74% year on year; active orders were 26.904 billion yuan, up 41.88% year on year.

$NEWBORNTOWN (09911.HK)$: The average monthly activity of the social business reached about 285.48 million in the first quarter, an increase of about 2.6% over the previous quarter; the total revenue from the social business is expected to reach about RMB 980 million to RMB 1.01 billion, an increase of about 65.8% to 70.9% over the previous year.

$PRADA (01913.HK)$: Net revenue for the first quarter was 1,187 billion euros, an increase of 16.5% over the previous year.

$MINMETALS LAND (00230.HK)$: Contract sales in the first quarter were approximately $1.29 billion, with a total floor area of about 64,000 square meters, a year-on-year decrease of about 61.4% and 54.0%, respectively.

$SENSETIME-W (00020.HK)$: On April 23, the company held a technical exchange day event at AIDC in Lingang, Shanghai. Among them, the company launched the 600 billion parameter model “Nishi-Nissin 5.0,” which greatly improved knowledge, mathematics, reasoning and coding capabilities, and comprehensively benchmarked GPT-4Turbo. The company has applied to the Stock Exchange to resume trading of Class B shares starting at 9:00 a.m. on April 25, 2024.

$BII TRANS TECH (01522.HK)$: The amount of newly signed and successful projects completed in the first quarter was about 490 million yuan.

2) Repurchase news

$HSBC HOLDINGS (00005.HK)$: Approximately HK$82,6392 million was spent to repurchase 1,285,200 shares at a repurchase price of HK$64.05-64.65.

$HANG SENG BANK (00011.HK)$: Approximately HK$597.95 million was spent to repurchase 600,000 shares at a repurchase price of HK$98.65-100.3.

$SWIRE PACIFIC A (00019.HK)$: HK$14.238,700 was spent to repurchase 228,000 shares at a repurchase price of HK$61.5-62.95.

Editor/Somer