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Event: The company publishes its 2024 semi-annual report. With 2024H1, the company achieved total operating income of 14.512 billion yuan, +3.8%; net profit to mother of 1.189 billion yuan, +17.45%; net profit of non-return to mother of 1.112 billion yuan, +10.66% year over year; in a single quarter, Q2 achieved operating income of 7.191 billion yuan, +4% year over month, and -1.8% month on month; net profit to mother of 0.723 billion yuan, +21.7% year over month; net profit not attributable to mother Net profit of 0.641 billion yuan, +9.7% year over year and +36.3% month on month.
Coal business: Q2 production and sales increased month-on-month. 2024H1, the company achieved raw coal production, with sales volume of 5.982/5.9223 million tons, -1.11%/-2.68% year-on-year, of which washing refined coal sold 1.4389 million tons, or -8.68% year-on-year. The price of a ton of commercial coal was 807.68 yuan/ton, -12.1% year-on-year, and the cost of a ton of coal was 369.62 yuan/ton, -3% year-on-year. On a quarterly basis, Q2 Company's raw coal production/sales volume was 3.59/3.55 million tons, -2.2%/-3.3% year-on-year, and +49.7%/+49.4% month-on-month. Among them, washed refined coal sales were 0.82 million tons, -17.9% year-on-year, and +32.9% month-on-month. The price of a ton of commercial coal was 734 yuan/ton, -8.1% year over month, -20.1% month on month; the cost of a ton of coal was 350 yuan/ton, -5.1% year on year, -12.5% month on month.
Electricity business: Volume and price have risen sharply, and costs have dropped significantly. With 2024H1, the company achieved 19.37 billion kilowatts of electricity generation, +13.4% year over year; achieved sales volume of 18.36 billion kilowatt-hours, +13.6% year over year, and electricity price 0.48 yuan/kilowatt-hour, +0.67% year over year. Benefiting from the increase in Changxie coal cashout & falling thermal coal prices, the company's electricity cost was 0.405 yuan/kilowatt-hour, -8.87% compared with the same period last year. In the first half of the year, the gross profit of the company's electricity business was 1.36 billion yuan, an increase of 167.6% over the previous year.
On a quarterly basis, the company generated 9.367 billion kilowatts of electricity in Q2, +12.7% year-on-year, and -6.3% month-on-month; achieved sales of 8.887 billion kilowatts of electricity, +12.9% year-on-year and -6.2% month-on-month.
Consolidate the main coal industry and deepen the coal power layout. The company issued the “Plan for Issuing Shares to Purchase Assets” in August 2024. It plans to purchase Tianyue Coal assets at an issue price of 1.29 yuan/share and a transaction consideration of no more than 0.35 billion yuan. Tianyue Coal has a production capacity of 0.6 million tons/year, with reserves of 3.89 million tons. It mainly produces high-quality coking coal, which is a scarce type of coal in the market. After the acquisition is completed, it is expected to increase net profit by more than 0.16 billion yuan per year. Meanwhile, the Haizetan Coal Mine is a key project for the company to fully achieve the goal of integrated coal and electricity. The first working surface will be put into operation in 2026Q2, producing 3 million tons of coal in the same year. After production is put into operation in 2027, coal production can reach 10 million tons. According to preliminary estimates of the average coal price in the 2023 market, net profit can be increased by about 4.4 billion yuan, and the return on investment will reach more than 50%. After the project is put into operation, the company's coal and power business is expected to be deepened, and performance may be greatly improved.
Profit forecast: According to the company's semi-annual business situation, we expect the company's 2024-2026 net profit to be 2.39/2.78/3.62 billion yuan, EPS 0.11/0.12/0.16, and PE 10.31/8.88/6.82 times, respectively, maintaining a “buy” rating.
Risk warning: Domestic economic recovery falls short of expectations; coal prices have declined beyond expectations; infrastructure fixed asset investment funds have fallen short of expectations