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TCL电子(1070.HK):最坏的情况可能已经过去

TCL Electronics (1070.HK): The worst may be over

安信國際 ·  Aug 9, 2021 00:00

Summary of the report

The company announces results for the first half of 2021. The company's operating income in the first half of 2021 was HK $34.93 billion, an increase of 103.7% over the same period last year, mainly due to the increase in panel prices and the simultaneous promotion of ASP. The return net profit reached HK $1.04 billion, but it was mainly an one-off contribution from the sale of Jingchen Semiconductor's shares. The net profit after deducting Fei is only HK $245 million, a decrease of 45.9% over the same period last year, but within our expectations. According to our calculation, most of the deducted non-net profit of the company in the first half of the year is contributed by the Internet business, while the hardware business contributes less to the net profit.

We believe that the reason is that the price of the upstream panel continues to rise in the second half of 2020, and the speed of price increase of the company can not keep up, so it greatly affects the gross profit margin and net profit margin of the hardware business, especially the brand TV business.

The growth rate of TCL TV business has slowed. In the first half of 2021, global sales of TCL TVs reached 11.27 million units, an increase of 11.8% over the same period last year. The company's product structure continued to optimize, with smart TV sales up 1.5% year-on-year to 91.6%. The proportion of 4K TV sales remained at a high level of 53.2%, while quantum dot TV sales increased 3.1% year-on-year to 5.0%. From a regional point of view, overseas sales of TCL televisions increased by 22.2% compared with the same period last year, including 43% in the first quarter and 7% in the second quarter, and the average selling price of TVs increased by 32.0%. In the domestic part, in the context of the industry-wide recession, the company's TV sales also declined in the first half of the year, but performed better than its competitors, with its market share rising 1.1 percentage points year on year to 13.9%, ranking third; retail market share reached 13.2%, leaping to the second place in the country.

Internet business continues to grow at a high rate. In the overseas part, the company achieved revenue of 121 million Hong Kong dollars in the first half of 2021, a slight decrease of 2.9% compared with the same period last year. In the domestic part, Thunderbird focused on membership services and value-added services, with revenue of HK $600 million in the first half of the year, an increase of 51.3% over the same period last year and an increase of 31.5% over the same period last year. Among them, Thunderbird's member business income, value-added business revenue and advertising business revenue increased by 75.9%, 44.8% and 13.0% respectively compared with the same period last year. We continue to be optimistic about the future development of the company's Internet business because of its rapid growth, high profit margins and obvious marginal benefits. The business is expected to contribute more than 50 per cent of net profit by 2023.

Investment advice: looking forward to the second half of the year, we believe that the panel price increase, which has a great impact on the company's profitability, will gradually ease from the second half of 2021 with the introduction of new production capacity of panel manufacturers and the optimization of TCL TV product structure and the improvement of terminal prices, while the pressure on the company's performance and stock price will ease gradually. We are still optimistic about the medium-and long-term growth of TCL Electronics, and the company's "hardware + Internet" two-wheel drive growth path is still very clear. Taking into account the time required for the adjustment of the company's terminal price and the optimization of the product structure, we have lowered the company's profit forecast and estimated that the non-return net profit for 2021-2022 will be HK $605 million and HK $1.16 billion respectively, with a target price of HK $6.80. maintain a "buy" rating.

Risk tips: 1) declining demand for overseas televisions; 2) intensified domestic competition; 3) large fluctuations in panel prices.

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