Incident Overview
China Taibao released its 2024 three-quarter report. In the first three quarters of 2024, the company achieved operating income of 310.564 billion yuan, +21.3%; insurance service revenue of 209.409 billion yuan, +2.3%; net profit to mother of 38.31 billion yuan, +65.5% year over year; deducted non-net profit of 38.315 billion yuan, +66.4% year over year; basic earnings per share of 3.98 yuan, +65.5% year on year; weighted average ROE was 14.6%, +4.7pt year over year. Among them, in 2024Q3, the company achieved operating income of 115.93 billion yuan, +44.2% year on year; net profit to mother was 13.178 billion yuan, +173.6% year over year, mainly affected by the rise in the capital market and the year-on-year increase in investment business.
Analytical judgment:
Life insurance: Price supplements drive NBV +38% year over year.
During the reporting period, Taibao Life Insurance achieved insurance service revenue of 62.345 billion yuan, -2.5% year on year; NBV 14.238 billion yuan, +37.9% year on year; and NBVM 20.1%, +6.2 pt year on year. By channel, the agent channel continues to deepen the transformation of “Core Personal Insurance”, and the business trend continues to improve. The new insurance scale premium is 33.832 billion yuan, +16.3% year over year; core team volume and quality increase, average monthly core manpower ratio +2.4%, core manpower monthly first-year premium ratio +15.0%; the quantity and quality of new manpower has increased rapidly, and the number of new employees has increased +15.5%, and the monthly first-year premium per newcomer is +35.0%. The banking insurance channel insists on value as the core. The premium for the new insurance scale is 24.015 billion yuan, -18.4% compared with the same period last year. It is mainly influenced by the integration of reporting banks. Among them, individuals paid 10.202 billion yuan of new insurance premiums during the long-term insurance period, +23.2% over the same period. The new insurance premium for the group insurance channel was 12.824 billion yuan, -19.3% compared with the same period last year.
Financial insurance: COR remained flat year over year.
During the reporting period, Taibao Industrial Insurance achieved insurance service revenue of 145.202 billion yuan, +4.1% year-on-year; the original premium income was 159.819 billion yuan, +7.7% year-on-year. Among them, the original insurance premium income for car insurance was 78.131 billion yuan, +3.3% year-on-year; the original insurance premium income for non-car insurance was 81.688 billion yuan, +12.2% year-on-year.
The comprehensive underwriting cost ratio was 98.7%, the same as last year, and the performance was steady.
Investment: The return on total investment improved year over year.
Since this year, the capital market has been in turmoil. The company has flexibly adjusted its tactical asset allocation strategy, actively allocated long-term fixed income assets, and continued to allocate equity investment types with undervalued, high dividends, and good long-term profit prospects, and achieved good results. As of the end of the reporting period, the Group's investment assets were 2584.275 billion yuan, +14.9% compared to the end of the previous year. In the first three quarters of 2024, the net return on investment of the company's investment assets was 2.9%, -0.1 pt year on year; the total return on investment was 4.7%, +2.3 pt year on year, mainly due to the high year-on-year increase in profit and loss due to changes in fair value.
Investment advice
We continue to be optimistic about the steady improvement in the company's debt side and the increase in performance due to equity flexibility. Based on the three-quarter report, we maintain our previous profit forecast. We expect revenue of 383.9/400.1/421.9 billion yuan for 2024-2026; estimated net profit to mother of 42.4/39.2/40.8 billion yuan for 2024-2026; and estimated EPS of 4.41/4.08/4.24 yuan for 2024-2026. The PEVs corresponding to the closing price of 36.80 yuan on October 31, 2024 were 0.64/0.60/0.57, respectively, maintaining the “buy” rating.
Risk warning
Risk of large macroeconomic fluctuations; risk of equity market shock; risk of sharp decline in interest rates.