On July 31, Huawei released its operating results for the first half of 2018. In the first half of this year, Huawei achieved sales revenue of 325.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 15%; operating profit margin of 14%.
Compared with the same period of last year, Huawei's operating profit margin has increased and its growth has been stable. In the first half of 2017, Huawei achieved sales revenue of RMB 283.1 billion, a year-on-year increase of 15%; operating profit margin of 11%.
Since 2013, Huawei's revenue has maintained a growth rate of more than 10% for five consecutive years, with the largest increase in 2016, reaching 40%. The sales revenue of 325.7 billion yuan in the first half of this year increased by 15% year-on-year, the first half of last year. Consistent. The operating profit margin of 14% is higher than 11% in the same period of last year, and has remained above 10% for four consecutive years since 2014.
In terms of carrier business, the proximity of 5G commercial brings new opportunities. IHS Markit data shows that since 2017, Huawei has surpassed Ericsson and become the world's largest network equipment supplier. Recently, there are news that Huawei is in Samsung and so on. Competing for the 5G equipment market in Korea.
Huawei said that its carrier business is focused on solving customer problems, leveraging 5G end-to-end, LTE continuous evolution, smart network, cloud data center and other leading advantages, helping operators build a cloud-oriented network for the future, making multiple connections and expanding Pipeline; intensive, solution-based solutions to maximize the operator's existing network value; provide a better connection experience and protection for individuals, families and organizations with agile digital operations and end-to-end experience management; active exploration, help Operators develop video, IoT, quality home wide, cloud network collaboration and other services, gaining new business growth.
While gradually getting rid of the reliance on communication services, consumer business has become another core business of Huawei. Last year's annual report showed that Huawei's carrier business fell below 50% for the first time in 2017, while consumer business contribution revenue has risen year after year. Nearly 40% of the income, compared with the previous year, the contribution of total revenue in 2017 increased by nearly five percentage points.
Regarding the consumer business in the first half of this year, Huawei said that its consumer business continues to create value for consumers through technological innovation. Based on innovations in photography and artificial intelligence, the HUAWEI P20 series brings smartphone photography to a new level. Revolutionary The GPU Turbo graphics processing acceleration technology has opened up the EMUI operating system and the processing bottleneck between the GPU and the CPU, which not only greatly improves the overall efficiency of the GPU graphics operation, but also reduces the energy consumption and breaks the performance and energy consumption. , improved user experience.
According to Yu Chengdong, as of July 18, Huawei's mobile phone shipments in 2018 have exceeded 100 million units. He also said that the annual target of Huawei mobile phones is 200 million units.
Trendforce also predicted that in the second quarter of this year, Huawei's mobile phone shipments may exceed Apple's, becoming the world's second largest mobile phone maker.
Sino's previously released data for the first half of 2018 also showed that Huawei's mobile phones (including Huawei and Glory brands) shipped 58.9 million units in the Chinese market, far ahead of the second OPPO's 38.13 million units. On the top, it can also rank second in the 116.5 billion yuan, second only to Apple's 172.7 billion yuan, but clearly ahead of OV, Xiaomi.
At the same time, Huawei's mobile phone market share in the Chinese market has further expanded. According to market research firm Canalys data, Huawei's market share in China reached 27%, up 22% year-on-year, which was created by Chinese smartphone manufacturers since the second quarter of 2011. Maximum share.
It is worth noting that the importance of Huawei Cloud is becoming more and more prominent. Compared with the first half of 2017 performance report, in the first half of 2018, Huawei separately described the performance of Huawei cloud business segment. The performance report pointed out that Huawei Cloud Accelerating the road to innovation in the field of cloud infrastructure, and is committed to providing customers with stable, reliable, secure and reliable cloud services. In the field of artificial intelligence, Huawei Cloud launches EI Wisdom, publishes deep learning, image search, EI Wisdom video and other series of services, promote AI in the industry application scenarios; in the field of computing, the new network enhanced cloud server C3ne, enabling cloud computing into the tens of millions of network forwarding era.
For Huawei's goal of achieving 200 million units of shipments in 2018, and Huawei's progress in 5G will become the focus of the market in the second half of the year. For the 2018 annual performance outlook, Huawei said that the company operates in the first half of 2018. The results are stable and it is expected to maintain good growth momentum and financial status throughout the year.