佛朗斯股份(02499.HK)2025年中期业绩会
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The management team delves into the analysis of platform operation, IGV technology commercialization, dividend policy, and internationalization strategy, demonstrating the transformation of light assets and promotion strategy of intelligent devices. The mid-term performance report for 2025 shows that the company achieved double-digit growth in the face of market challenges, optimized asset structure, and improved market competitiveness through platform upgrades, expansion of electric loader business, and international expansion. In the future, the company will focus on B-end enterprises, build a high-dimensional sharing ecosystem, deepen digital transformation, strengthen risk control, promote steady growth in operating scale, and achieve the dual goals of shareholder returns and global expansion.
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Reported on the performance of Langshi Holdings in the first half of 2025, facing the complex international situation and market competition, by implementing a strong network and category internationalization strategy, achieving steady performance growth, and increasing market share. It emphasized the company's platform strategy upgrade to a light asset operation model, establishing asset entrusted operation cooperation with multiple parties, optimizing business and asset structure, consolidating its leading position in the industry, and laying a foundation for future development.

Since the development of the electric loader business, the company has not only achieved remarkable results in terms of managing fleet size, the number of direct service centers, and income, but also improved the company's profitability through high gross profit margins. The company plans to increase resource input, accelerate market expansion, strengthen operational management and risk control, and promote high-quality business development. In terms of internationalization, the company has established a foothold in Hong Kong and successfully expanded into Indonesia. The overseas market feedback has been positive, providing a new engine for the company's performance growth, marking a new era for Chinese services going global.

In the first half of 2025, the company deepened industry chain collaboration, achieved resource sharing and complementary advantages through strategic cooperation with upstream and downstream enterprises, and built an efficient industry ecosystem. The financial performance was impressive, with double-digit growth in operating income, net profit, and EBITDA, a stable and improving gross profit margin, a significant increase in management equipment scale and customer service numbers, a decrease in cost expense ratio, and enhanced investment return, laying a foundation for long-term sustainable development.

The company plans to launch a light asset operation model in 2025, by separating asset ownership, management rights, and usage rights to strengthen asset management and operational capabilities. The goal is to create a leading global B2B industrial and logistics equipment high-dimensional sharing ecosystem, focusing on enterprise clients and providing efficient services around industrial and logistics equipment. The strategic implementation includes three steps: strengthening networks, expanding product categories, and internationalizing. The plan is to expand into overseas markets such as Southeast Asia and the Middle East by 2025, promoting the efficient development of enterprises.

Facing the complex and ever-changing international situation and domestic market competition, the company achieved double-digit growth in revenue and profit through strategic transformation and innovation. Specific measures include optimizing business structure with a platform-based, light-asset operating model, diversifying product offerings to open up a second growth curve, actively expanding markets to enhance brand advantage, and improving operational efficiency through digital and refined management. These measures not only mitigate market risks but also significantly enhance the company's profitability and market share.

The dialogue discussed the impact of company zero depreciation assets on future profit growth. It is expected that in 2025 and 2026, thousands of equipment will be depreciated each year, forming a significant pool of zero depreciation assets, directly increasing gross profit and net profit, enhancing market competitiveness and pricing flexibility, and verifying the success of the company's sustainable high-profit model. The goal is for net profit levels to be on par with the world's top companies, bringing stable high returns to shareholders.

The dialogue provides a detailed explanation of the two fee models for managing third-party assets through the platform: fixed platform management fees and asset subleasing fees. It analyzes the differences in revenue performance and self-owned asset business under different models, emphasizing the role of the platform model in promoting the company's scale development and optimizing asset structure, demonstrating the core advantages of the company's light asset operation strategy.

The conversation revolved around the double-digit growth in the company's performance in the first half of the year, with a focus on discussing the reasons for the significant growth in maintenance and repair business and its synergistic effect with the application business. Simultaneously, they explored the commercialization landing strategy of IGV technology, emphasizing the role of platform business operation models, service system upgrades, and acquisition integration in driving revenue growth, as well as the commercialization path of IGV technology as part of an overall solution.

The development history of AGV forklift technology, the current challenges it faces, and market promotion strategies including technology investment, product versatility improvement, sales model innovation, and customized service solutions for different customer groups were discussed, aiming to promote the widespread application of intelligent logistics equipment.

The 10% dividend payout rate set by the company for 2024 is considered a conservative starting point, not a long-term fixed standard. In the future, as the company transitions to a light asset model, reduces capital expenditure, and strengthens cash flow, management expects to gradually increase the dividend payout rate or total amount. The specific dividend distribution scheme will be decided by the board of directors and shareholders based on actual operating results, cash flow situation, and other factors. The company is committed to maintaining transparent communication with the market, aiming to share operating results with shareholders, continuously optimize capital structure, enhance free cash flow, and maximize long-term shareholder value with a responsible attitude.

The conversation delved into the planning of a global layout and the strategy of coordinating the development of domestic and foreign markets, including the pace of overseas market expansion, priority of resource allocation, and synergistic effects of domestic and international markets, demonstrating the company's vision of achieving global business dual circulation development through localized operations, technological improvement, and supply chain optimization.
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Q:What are the highlights of Lans Corporation's business in the first half of 2025? What achievements did Lans Corporation make in terms of financial performance?
A:In the first half of 2025, the operational highlights of Langs Corporation mainly include three aspects: Firstly, the company successfully promoted the platform strategy upgrade, transformed comprehensively from a distributor to an application merchant through four iterations of business model transformation, and adopted a light asset operation mode in 2025, greatly enhancing the company's digital empowerment and intelligent operational management capabilities. Secondly, the new electric loader business achieved strong growth, not only performing well in market expansion and revenue, but also achieving high profit margins, playing a key role in improving the overall profitability of the company. Finally, the internationalization process accelerated, with the company making breakthroughs in overseas market layout, successfully establishing a subsidiary in Indonesia, establishing a localized operation and service team, opening up a new engine for performance growth for the company. In the increasingly intense market competition environment, Langs Corporation adheres to the operating strategy of stable growth, strong internal controls, solid services, and organizational development. In the first half of 2025, it achieved impressive operational results. The company's operating scale continues to climb, with operating income increasing by nearly 18% year-on-year, and net profit also increasing to over 50 million yuan, while the Ibida business grew by 12.8% year-on-year. In addition, all branch businesses are developing evenly, the gross profit level continues to improve, the scale of managed assets and the number of customers have significantly increased, further consolidating the company's leading position in the market and promoting high-quality development of the company's operational performance.
Q:How does Rance Corporation enhance its market competitiveness through deepening strategic cooperation?
A:In the first half of 2025, Lans Corporation actively deepened strategic cooperation with upstream and downstream companies in the industrial chain, empowered downstream companies through technology output and model innovation, and strengthened cooperation with upstream suppliers. In the meantime, the company continuously improved product technology and enriched product categories through the independent research and development of a smart asset operation management system. These measures not only solidified the company's equipment application business foundation, but also helped the company to continually enhance its competitiveness in the market competition, laying a solid foundation for long-term sustainable development.
Q:How can a company drive long-term development and sustainability through strengthening core competencies? What are the future strategic plans and development focuses of the company?
A:Relying on brand effect and platform service capabilities, the company has net added nearly 2700 service enterprise customers, achieving a 38% year-on-year high growth, and increasing the number of major customers by 9.8%. Through refined management, brand effect enhancement, and operational efficiency improvement, the company has successfully reduced key cost rates, such as a 1.2 percentage point decrease in equipment depreciation cost rate compared to the same period last year, and a 1.5 percentage point decrease in comprehensive financing cost rate. At the same time, the effective implementation of strong network and internationalization tactics has gradually released benefits, keeping operating expense ratio basically stable, providing space for further improvement in profitability. The company's current strategic positioning is as a platform business, committed to building a global leading B2B industrial and logistics equipment high-dimensional sharing ecosystem under the empowerment of new technologies. In the future, the company will focus on three core tasks: serving B-end enterprises; focusing on industrial and logistics equipment; and building a high-dimensional sharing platform, not only for production materials and tools, but also for production services.
Q:What is the future development roadmap of the company?
A:The company will steadily implement a three-step strategy of strengthening its network, expanding its product categories, and internationalization. Firstly, in terms of strengthening its network, the company will increase its offline service points through organic growth, mergers and acquisitions, and empowering partnerships, gradually achieving a goal of 1000 stores and improving customer service response efficiency. Secondly, in terms of product categories, the company will expand beyond its foundational category of forklifts to include other industrial and logistics equipment categories, building comprehensive solutions and continuously expanding into new equipment categories based on the success of electric loaders. Lastly, in terms of internationalization, the company will actively explore the potential of the domestic market while strategically expanding into overseas markets, establishing localized operational centers in regions such as Southeast Asia and the Middle East through a regional tiered strategy to enhance global service capabilities, and help to increase business scale and international status.
Q:What specific results have the company achieved in terms of business scale growth and profitability improvement?
A:Under clear strategic guidelines and firm operational strategies, the company achieved significant results in all aspects in the first half of the year, driving continuous improvement in various investment return rates such as ROA, ROE, DPS and DVPS. In particular, EPS increased by more than 19%, ROA increased by 3% year-on-year, and both ROE and DVPS indicators achieved nearly 9% year-on-year growth, reflecting the steady enhancement of investment returns, creating long-term and upward investment value for shareholders.
Q:To achieve this strategic goal, what capabilities does the company need to possess and how can the effectiveness be verified through KPI indicators?
A:The company needs to possess strong asset management and operational capabilities internally, and provide superior customer experience externally. These two core capabilities will be validated through 7 KPI indicators, including equipment utilization efficiency, cost, lifespan, as well as supply price, delivery time, service, and quality, etc. A total of ten systems including supply chain, service network, Internet of things, and remanufacturing will be constructed around these 7 KPI indicators to create a high-dimensional shared ecosystem platform for the B-end.
Q:How can the company implement a light asset operation model to support its development?
A:In 2025, the company launched a light asset operation model for platform merchants, based on the separation of asset ownership, management rights, and usage rights, to strengthen asset management and operational capabilities. Online, the company relies on a smart asset management system to integrate technologies such as the Internet of Things, wearable devices, big data, and artificial intelligence. Offline, the company relies on supply chains, service networks, and remanufacturing systems to jointly promote asset appreciation and efficiency improvement, enabling the company to quickly scale up its development.
Q:How does the company achieve a counter-trend breakthrough in the current fiercely competitive market environment, and then realize double-digit growth in revenue and profits in the first half of the year?
A:Facing the complex and changing international situation and the intensifying competition in the domestic market, the company has achieved growth through timely strategic layout and diversified business strategies. Specifically, the company's strategic transformation has been significant, optimizing the business and asset structure through the light-asset operation model of platform plus services, promoting scaled development. Additionally, the new electric loader business has achieved outstanding results through proactive market development, driving the improvement of the company's profitability and rapid growth. Furthermore, the company has increased market penetration through market expansion strategies, utilizing its excellent brand advantage, rich product line, differentiated solutions, and professional service level to enhance customer satisfaction and renewal rate, thus continuously increasing equipment scale, customer base, and market share.
Q:How many pieces of equipment are expected to be fully depreciated in 2025 and 2026? What specific insights do these zero depreciation assets provide for profit growth in the coming years?
A:Based on a comprehensive and prudent forecast and evaluation of the current asset condition and management capabilities, the company expects that several thousand units of equipment will be fully depreciated in the fiscal years 2025 and 2026. This will keep the size of zero-depreciation assets stable and significantly increase, providing sustainable underlying asset support for the company's profit growth. Zero-depreciation assets can directly increase gross profit and net profit, strengthen market competitiveness and pricing flexibility, and validate the company's sustainable high-profit business model. With a large number of equipment fully depreciated, the overall profitability of the company will continue to strengthen, and the quality and quantity of business growth will be consistently improved.
Q:What is the impact of the continuous expansion of the company's zero depreciation assets on the company's net profit growth in the next few years?
A:The continuously expanding pool of zero depreciation assets is the stability and amplifier for the company's continued profit growth in the coming years. We are confident that with the continual growth of the zero depreciation asset pool, the company's net profit level will be on par with the top global enterprises, and bring stable and high returns for shareholders in the long term.
Q:What is the fee structure of third-party asset management companies in platform management?
A:For third-party asset companies managed through the platform, we adopt a diversified cooperation model. One is a fixed platform management fee settlement method, mainly targeting clients as asset holders, receiving a fixed platform management fee on a monthly basis. The other is an asset subleasing settlement model, targeting manufacturers or financial institutions as asset holders, where the third party manages asset and service operations through the Frans platform. The third party earns a fixed asset value and pays sublease rent to Frans in the form of asset subleasing, while Frans charges the overall asset and service fee for the scheme.
Q:What are the differences in profit performance between the platform model and the self-owned asset business?
A:In the case of the fixed platform management fee settlement model, as the asset holder and user are the same party (customer), there is no need to consider asset appreciation income, thus better reflecting the strong management value of Frans. This settlement model has the advantage of high returns, providing higher return performance than the self-owned asset business. As for the asset sublease fee settlement model, since the asset holder bears risks and receives part of the revenue from holding the assets, the overall gross profit margin may be slightly lower by about 1 to 3 percentage points, but it helps the company to transform into a light asset model and optimize asset structure.
Q:What are the reasons for the significant increase in maintenance and repair income of the company and its impact on non-application business?
A:The company's maintenance and repair income achieved a growth of over 40% in the first half of 2025, mainly benefiting from the scale and revenue growth driven by the platform-based operation model. After the company transformed into a platform-based operation model with light assets, the platform plus service operation model has been widely recognized. End users choose to unify the management of their equipment under Flounce to achieve cost reduction and efficiency improvement. This not only promoted the growth of maintenance and repair income, but also effectively promoted the development of non-application businesses.
Q:In which aspects does the upgraded benefits of the Group's large service center manifest?
A:After the upgrade of the group's large service center, optimization measures such as integrating service resources and upgrading service systems significantly increased the market recognition of maintenance and warranty plans, driving a significant increase in business volume and customer numbers. Additionally, the benefits of the acquisition of Lychee You are mainly reflected in the rapid expansion of the national service network coverage, providing strong support for revenue growth.
Q:What is the relationship between maintenance and repair business and application business?
A:Maintaining and repairing businesses and application businesses work collectively and develop together. Specifically, this is manifested in the synergistic effect that strengthens customer retention and increases cross-selling opportunities. Maintenance and repair data drives the optimization of application business models, assisting the company in providing precise and differentiated service solutions. Additionally, the good financial performance achieved enables balanced development with application businesses. The stable cash flow from maintenance and repair services helps offset initial investments in application businesses, improving overall cash flow.
Q:How does the company plan to promote the commercialization of IGV technology?
A:The company has implemented a forward-looking strategic defense layout for AGV forklifts, mastered core technologies such as navigation algorithms and integrated scheduling, and successfully commercialized products in different application scenarios. Currently, the company mainly enters the market through sales, while increasing research and development investment in the intelligent field, improving the versatility and technical maturity of IGV products; changing sales models, combining asset operation and management advantages, and promoting the popularity of IGV forklifts through leasing and overall solutions, further consolidating the company's leading position in the industry.
Q:Is the proposed 10% dividend rate set for 2024 a benchmark for future continuous dividend distribution policies?
A:The proposed 10% dividend rate in 2024 is the first dividend payment implemented by the company after achieving good performance in its first full financial year after going public, in order to timely reward shareholders, marking the beginning of a clear and stable dividend policy for the company. This ratio is considered a conservative starting point rather than a long-term fixed upper or lower limit, taking into account the current development stage, future strategic funding needs, and current net profit level. As the company transitions to a light asset platform model, capital expenditure requirements decrease and operating cash flow strengthens. The company's management expects to gradually increase the dividend ratio or total amount in the future to share the company's operating results with shareholders, and continue to increase profit distribution after meeting future development funding needs.
Q:How will the company's future faction plan, proportion, timing and form be determined?
A:The company's future dividend plan, proportion, timing and form will strictly comply with the company's articles of association and dividend policy. The decision will be made prudently by the board of directors and shareholders' meeting after comprehensive consideration of actual operating results, cash flow situation, major investment layout and long-term development funding needs. The company promises to maintain transparent communication with the market, and reminds investors to pay attention to the company's official announcements to obtain specific dividend distribution arrangements.
Q:After the internationalization strategic layout, how does the company plan the market expansion pace and resource investment priorities in different overseas market characteristics? How is the synergy with the domestic market reflected?
A:The company follows the principle that economics is an extension of politics, and internationalizes its expansion in friendly countries with the Belt and Road policy. It adopts a regional tiered strategy, prioritizing regions with well-developed infrastructure and clear logistics needs, such as Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. In terms of resource investment, the company will focus on building localized service capabilities, enhancing product technology, market development, and brand promotion. The synergy between the domestic and international markets is reflected in multiple aspects such as customers, technology, and supply chain. The company will expand internationally by serving domestic customers going abroad, enhancing customer stickiness, and seizing overseas service opportunities. At the same time, it will use overseas data feedback to improve product applicability and performance, achieving close interaction and dual-cycle development of the domestic and international markets.
Q:How does the company view and handle the synergies between the international and domestic markets?
A:While digging deep into the potential demand of domestic market, the company actively layout overseas market in order to achieve efficient coordinated development of domestic and international business. The company replicates the mature operational model domestically to overseas, by improving customer service penetration, optimizing supply chain resources, and enhancing asset operation efficiency, thus driving rapid expansion of the company's business scale.

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