On the 36th day of the NYSE, I will hand over the first performance report since the listing.
In the early hours of this morning, the company released a lot of unaudited financial statements for the second quarter of FY20. The financial report showed that the total revenue in the second quarter was 2.709 billion yuan (about 409.4 million US dollars), an increase of 2489%. The net loss of shareholders was RMB 6,493.9 million (US$981.4 million), and the net loss for the same period last year was RMB 109.5 million, which was expanded.
The R&D expenditure for the quarter was 647% higher than that of the same period of last year, and the cost of marketing expenditure was 2.971 billion yuan, which made the business loss of 8.1 million yuan under non-GAAP. In the financial report, the equity incentives previously issued to all employees were calculated at one time, which resulted in a cumulative net loss of 7.8 billion yuan under US GAAP.
For the first 12 months ended June 30, 2018, the platform GMV was 262.1 billion yuan, an increase of 583% over the same period of last year. The number of active buyers was 343.6 million, an increase of 245% over the same period of last year. The average number of monthly users in Q18 2018 It was 195 million, an increase of 495% compared with 32.8 million in the same period of last year. The average annual consumption of active buyers was 762.8 yuan, an increase of 98% compared with 385.0 yuan in the same period last year.
A lot of founders, chairman and CEO Huang Wei said that the large increase in the number of GMVs and monthly users has proved the potential of the new e-commerce model to serve the most users. Technology, the e-commerce industry is still developing rapidly, with huge opportunities, and many will be firmly grasping this opportunity.
During the financial reporting period, the amount of cash and cash equivalents held by the company was 9 billion yuan. A lot of executives claimed in the subsequent conference call that they had a strong cash flow and the financial net loss was in line with their expectations. GMV and revenue Synchronous growth has fully demonstrated that the platform has the ability to continue to improve profitability while driving GMV growth.
Shares on Thursday, the stock price closed at 17.99 US dollars, plummeted 14.94%, lower than the issue price of 19 US dollars / share, the total market value fell below 20 billion US dollars. After the financial report, the stock price rose more than 5%, then the gains narrowed .
In the near future, there are a lot of shorts in the market. According to Hunting.com, since the listing at the end of last month, the number of short options has increased from 5,914,160, to 13,373,757 before and after August 15, an increase of 126.1%.
It took only 3 years from the establishment to the listing, and it took only one month from submitting the prospectus, updating the prospectus to ringing the bell. Of course, it took only 5 days to fight, and it suffered a break in the stock price and tasted a rapid fall. The taste of the company. Even before the release of the financial report, many of the US law firms initiated a class action investigation. Two law firms have issued announcements on their respective official websites. Investors have lost a lot of money. As of now, there are a lot of collective lawsuits faced by 10 US law firms.
However, this month is not a complete negative event. On August 22nd, the company announced the staged results of the 'doubles action' through an open letter, indicating that the platform has closed 1,128 stores and nearly 4.3 million pieces of goods have been sold. Although there is still no way to give a measure of the impact of the fight, the rectification of the more painstaking pains may have a certain normative impact on itself and the industry.
Futu Securities believes that it is a problem that they are most concerned about whether they can keep such an explosive growth rate in the future. It is also a problem for the charisma of the social group. MAU has indeed increased by WeChat, and it may be difficult to have previous results in the future.