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Orient Securities released its 2024 three-quarter report. 9M2024 achieved cumulative operating income of 14.08 billion yuan, +2.81% year over year; net profit to mother of 3.3 billion yuan, +15.57% year over year; and a weighted average ROE of 4.16%, +0.49pct compared to the same period last year.
Among them, in the 2024Q3 single quarter, the company achieved operating income of 5.508 billion yuan, +10.16% /month-on-month +11.03%, and net profit of 1.191 billion yuan to mother, +24.58%/-2.81% month-on-month.
Fee business: The wealth management business went public, and the debt scale increased year-on-year 1) The company's 9M2024 achieved cumulative net brokerage fee revenue of 1.6 billion, -26.0% year over year, and achieved brokerage business revenue of 0.55 billion in a single quarter of 2024Q3, -20.0% /-1.6% month-on-month. 2024Q3 brokerage business revenue accounted for 16.1% of main securities revenue, -5.4 pct year on year.
2) The company's 9M2024 achieved cumulative asset management revenue of 1.02 billion yuan, and 2024Q3 achieved asset management business revenue of 0.31 billion in a single quarter, -34.8% YoY/-11.0% month-on-month. It is expected that the company's active equity public fund rate will decline after the public fund rate reform. 9M2024's cumulative long-term stock investment revenue (mainly Huitianfu Fund) was 0.31 billion yuan, -36.3% YoY, and 2024Q3 was 0.08 billion in a single quarter, -39.4% YoY/-33.9% YoY.
In terms of management scale, the non-cargo AUM of Huitianfu Fund and Eastern Securities Asset Management at the end of the third quarter of 2024 was 502.4/150.6 billion yuan, respectively, +7.8%/-11.7% year on year; mixed stock AUM was 249/99.3 billion yuan, respectively, -4.6%/-19.9% year on year.
3) The company's 9M2024 achieved cumulative investment banking revenue of 0.83 billion yuan, or -30.2% year over year, and 2024Q3 achieved investment banking revenue of 0.28 billion yuan in a single quarter, -37.8% YoY/+3.3% month-on-month. (1) According to the release date statistics, the 9M2024 company's refinancing scale was 0.3 billion, -90% compared to the same period last year. (2) Debt debt of 363.2 billion, +20% year-on-year.
Capital business: The investment business was greatly improved, and the share size was further reduced 1) The company's 9M2024 achieved a cumulative net investment income of 4.14 billion yuan, +77.1% over the same period last year, accounting for 45.4% of the main securities revenue. The net investment income of 2024Q3 in a single quarter was 1.86 billion yuan, +96.6% YoY/+26.2% YoY. As of the end of the third quarter of 2024, the financial investment scale of the company was 202.9 billion yuan, +6% year on year, including transactional financial assets of 101.5 billion yuan, -5% year on year. The estimated 2024Q3 investment leverage was 2.50 times, +0.07 times year on year; we estimated the return on investment in 2024Q3 was 3.66%, +1.63 pct year on year.
2) In terms of credit business, the company 9M2024 achieved cumulative net interest income of 0.92 billion yuan, and net interest income of 0.22 billion yuan in a single quarter of 2024Q3, or -32.8% YoY /-43.5%. At the end of 9M2024, the company bought and resold financial assets of 3.79 billion yuan. Compared with -30.2% at the end of 2023, the share size dropped further. In terms of securities financing, in the face of declining market business, the scale of the company's financing business bucked the trend. At the end of 9M2024, the company raised 23.53 billion in capital, +11.7% compared to the end of 2023.
Profit Forecasts, Valuations, and Ratings
Considering the recovery in the equity market and the increase in the company's own revenue, we raised the company's return on investment assumptions, and thereby raised the profit forecast. We expect the company's revenue for 2024-2026 to be 18/19.4/21.2 billion, respectively, +5.3%/+7.9%/+9.4%; net profit to mother will be 4.4/5.1/5.5 billion, respectively, +60.1%/+15.2%/+7.7%; EPS is 0.52/0.60/0.64 yuan/share, respectively. We expect subsequent companies to benefit from the popularity of trading and the recovery of the new development fund market. Performance is expected to recover, and maintain a “buy” rating based on the company's historical situation.
Risk warning: Market recovery falls short of expectations, liquidity is tight, the process of entering the market for residents' capital is slowing down, and the risk of policy changes