金山云 (KC.US、03896.HK) 2025年第三季度业绩电话会
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会议摘要
In the third quarter of the company, the revenue of intelligent cloud business was 24.78 billion, a year-on-year increase of 31%, with public cloud services increasing by 49%. The AI cloud business accounts for 45% of public cloud revenue. Profitability has significantly improved, with the adjusted EBITDA margin increasing from 17% to 33%, achieving positive adjusted operating profit and net profit for the first time in a quarter. In the future, the company will increase investment in AI applications and reasoning services, optimize the strategy of self-procurement or leasing servers, strengthen cost control, and aim for high-quality sustainable development. Xiaomi and Kingsoft Eco contribute significantly, with an increasing revenue share, and the expected increase in associated transaction amount.
会议速览
In the third quarter of 2025, Kingsoft Cloud released its financial report and held a conference call, during which the management reviewed the company's business strategy, operational situation, and financial performance. The management discussed the future development direction and emphasized the risks and uncertainties in the market and operations. The conference provided real-time translation services, and all financial data mentioned are in Chinese Yuan unless otherwise specified.
In the third quarter of 2025, Kingsoft Cloud achieved a revenue of 2.48 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 31%. Both public cloud and industry cloud saw growth, with public cloud revenue reaching 1.75 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 49%. Smart Cloud Billing revenue reached 780 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of nearly 120%, accounting for 45% of public cloud revenue. Xiaomi and Kingsoft's ecosystem revenue reached 670 million yuan, an 84% year-on-year increase. The company's adjusted net profit reached a profit of 828.73 million yuan, with an operating profit margin of 0.6%, demonstrating a high-quality sustainable development trend.
The financial report shows that in the third quarter of 2025, the revenue reached 2.48 billion yuan, an increase of 31% year-on-year. Among them, public cloud revenue increased by 49% to 1.75 billion yuan. The intelligent computing cloud business performed strongly, with revenue growth of 122% to 782 million yuan, accounting for 45% of public cloud revenue. Xiaomi's cloud ecosystem revenue reached 691 million yuan, an increase of 84% year-on-year, accounting for 28% of total revenue. Adjusted net profit turned positive for the first time, reaching 28.7 million yuan, and profitability significantly improved.
In the third quarter of 2025, the company's public cloud business achieved a revenue of 1.75 billion RMB, a year-on-year increase of 49%, successfully supporting the large-scale training and inference needs of top internet customers, and providing high-quality cloud computing services. The industry cloud business revenue reached 730 million RMB, winning customer and market acclaim through deep exploration of enterprise service genes. In the fields of public services, digital health, and enterprise services, the company implemented intelligent transformation, empowering government affairs, healthcare, and financial industries, building core competitiveness, and achieving sustainable development.
In the third quarter of 2020, the revenue of intelligent cloud services reached 1.75 billion, a year-on-year increase of 49%. It successfully supported the large-scale training and inference needs of multiple top Internet companies, providing high-quality, high-performance, high-stability, and high-efficiency software construction services. In terms of ecosystem customers, it continues to provide high-quality services and enhance the rapid expansion ability of intelligent computing needs. In the field of public health, the Qingdao Municipal Government project will promote intelligent digital services based on the cloud platform. In the medical field, deep integration of artificial intelligence with traditional Chinese medicine clinical scenarios has been achieved to enhance disease management technology. In the enterprise services sector, it is promoting the intelligent transformation of bank credit report generation and building a comprehensive intelligent system.
In the field of public cloud, Intelligent Cloud has launched model API services, upgraded online model services, launched data labeling and data set marketplace, and strengthened technical capabilities. In the industry cloud field, a computing power scheduling platform is being developed in collaboration with WPS AI to create an industry cloud product architecture. Through the establishment of research and development centers in Beijing and Wuhan, talent is being attracted to maintain strong investment in the field of intelligence and kindness. As of the third quarter, the number of employees in Wuhan has increased significantly, and relying on the Xiaomi Kingsoft ecosystem, continuous investment in infrastructure will be made to improve core products and solution capabilities, and create value for all stakeholders.
The financial results for the third quarter were reported, including total revenue of 2.478 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 31%; public cloud service revenue of 1.762 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 49%; and intelligent cloud business revenue of 782 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 120%. The adjusted EBITDA profit margin increased to 33%, achieving positive adjusted operating and net profit for the first time in a quarter. Successfully raised 2.8 billion Hong Kong dollars for investment in intelligent cloud infrastructure to drive long-term value creation.
Discussed the core drivers of AI revenue growth, including the full billing of early orders and the release of deferred revenue, while analyzing the structural changes in internal and external customer demand, shifting from training needs of large customers to a more widespread demand for inference. In addition, the impact of changes in the acquisition of computational resources on gross margin and EBITDA profit margin was explored, with the expectation that future inference applications will bring higher gross profit levels and the profit margin trend will remain stable.
Discussed industries and scenarios for the future growth of computing power demand, including robot companies and internet API services, it is expected that these areas will drive revenue growth. Meanwhile, in terms of computing power resource allocation, the company will flexibly choose between self-sourcing and leasing models based on customer reliability and development trends, in order to control risks and optimize gross profit levels.
Discussed the pricing methods for AI training and inference, pointing out that both are based on server usage, and API services are expected to have a higher profit margin. At the same time, analyzed that large customers tend to favor a capital expenditure model, while small and medium-sized enterprises tend to lean towards a leasing model to reduce risks. Current financial performance is stable, and future profit margins are expected to increase.
要点回答
Q:What is the purpose of the conference call mentioned in the transcript?
A:The conference call is for discussing金山云2025年第三季度业绩,回答参与者的问题,并提供同声传译服务。
Q:Who are the key speakers presenting at the conference call?
A:The key speakers at the conference call include the Vice Chairman and CEO, Mr. Zhou Tao, and Ms. Li Yi, who will review business strategies, operations, and other company highlights, followed by Ms. Li discussing financial performance.
Q:What is the significance of the forward-looking statements mentioned in the transcript?
A:The forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations and market conditions, and they indicate potential future events that involve known or unknown risks and uncertainties, which may cause the company's actual results to differ from those projected.
Q:What financial figures were highlighted during the conference call?
A:During the conference call, financial figures mentioned are denominated in RMB, with the company's Q3 revenue reaching 24.8 billion RMB, representing a同比增长率 of 31% from the previous quarter. The call also highlighted that the revenue from public cloud and industry cloud both实现了同环比增长,其中公有云同比增长49%达到17.5亿人民币,而智算云业务本季度智能云账单收入达7.8亿人民币,同比增长近120%。
Q:How did the company's income and profitability figures perform in the latest quarter?
A:In the latest quarter, the company's adjusted gross profit margin was 390 million RMB, a year-on-year growth of 28%. The adjusted operating profit margin achieved a turnaround to profit, reaching 45.36 million RMB, and the adjusted net profit for the first time in history achieved a profit of 828.73 million RMB. The company balanced income growth and profit improvement, achieving significant scale effects while also strengthening cost and expense control.
Q:What is the growth trend for the company's revenue from the 'xiao mian kings' ecosystem?
A:Revenue from the 'xiao mian kings' ecosystem grew by 84% year over year to reach RMB 691 million in the latest quarter, and it contributed to 28% of the total revenue from January to September 2025. The cumulative revenue from the 'xiao mian kings' ecosystem for the period reached RMB 1.82 billion.
Q:How did the company's public cloud business perform in the third quarter of 2025? How did the industry cloud sector perform in that quarter?
A:In the third quarter of 2025, public cloud revenue reached 1.75 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 49%, maintaining strong growth momentum. We successfully supported the large-scale training and inference needs of many top clients in the Internet industry, providing high-quality, high-performance, high-stability, and high-efficiency cloud computing services. In particular, in the demand for generative artificial intelligence and Internet enterprises, we provided stable training and inference services, made progress in customer expansion and ecological collaborative sales, provided high-quality services to clients such as Xiaomi and Kingsoft, while enhancing the underlying resources and rapid response capabilities of ecological customers.
In the industry cloud sector, revenue reached 730 million yuan this quarter. We firmly believe that with the rapid iteration of artificial intelligence and intelligent industries, intelligence will evolve from model capabilities to industry solutions, empowering and reshaping thousands of industries. Kingsoft Cloud relies on its deep industry service genes, selects vertical industries and geographical advantages, and builds competitiveness for the future. For example, in the public service sector, we aim to become the preferred partner for intelligent computing inference in the government industry, and have established a government cloud platform in Qingyang, Gansu to comprehensively empower local government intelligence and digitization. In the field of digital health, we have made breakthroughs in projects involving artificial intelligence-assisted clinical scenarios for traditional Chinese medicine, not only achieving deep integration of traditional Chinese medicine theory and artificial intelligence, but also seizing the high ground in chronic disease management technology, and validating the actual value of intelligent improvement in patient quality of life and disease control rates at the clinical level. In the enterprise services field, we started with the intelligent generation of bank credit reports project, promoted the intelligent transformation of the entire credit process, and built an intelligent system covering customer access, credit report generation, loan disbursement, monitoring and early warning.
Q:What aspects do technological innovations in the public cloud field reflect?
A:In the field of public cloud, this quarter the intelligent cloud has made important progress in three aspects: first, we released the Model API service, providing high availability and easy integration of model invocation and management capabilities, laying the foundation for providing diversified model service modes in the future; second, the upgrade of the model online service integrates multiple open source models and has automatic scaling capabilities, providing a high availability platform base for inference services; finally, we launched the Data Annotation and Data Set Marketplace, aiming to provide customers with full support for data flow process and help customers efficiently advance the model training process.
Q:What are the highlights of the construction layout in the industry cloud field?
A:In the field of industry cloud, we have built a computing power scheduling platform, a lightweight max platform, and a generative artificial intelligence knowledge base based on private deployment scenarios. We closely integrate these with government office applications to create an intelligent product architecture that industry cloud customers can trust. In addition, through the organizational development of the research and development centers in Beijing and Wuhan, we have attracted excellent talents from all over the country and continue to strengthen our investment in the field of intelligence. As of the end of the third quarter, the number of employees in Wuhan has reached 2.8 times the number at the strategic launch. Overall, we will firmly grasp the historic opportunity brought by the Xiaomi Kingsoft ecology, continue to invest in infrastructure, focus on refining core products and solutions capability, and continuously create value for all stakeholders.
Q:What new services have been launched by the company?
A:The company has launched a model API service, online model services, and a data annotation and data set in the marketplace.
Q:What infrastructure and talent development initiatives has the company undertaken?
A:The company has built a computing power scheduling platform, a lightweight mass platform, and a generative artificial intelligence knowledge base. They have also collaborated with WPS AI to build a trusted intelligent product architecture for public services use cases. Through their dual R&D centers in Beijing and Wuhan, they have attracted talent from various regions, built a talent pipeline, and maintained a sustained investment in intelligent computing.
Q:What are the key financial performance indicators for the third quarter?
A:Revenue from public cloud services grew by 49% year over year, adjusted growth margin rose to 16%, adjusted EBITDA margin improved to 33%, and the company turned quarterly adjusted operational and adjusted net loss into profit for the first time. These results validate the company's execution in high-quality, sustainable development and its ability to capture monetary opportunities in the intelligent cloud space.
Q:How does the company's adjusted growth margin compare to the previous quarter?
A:The adjusted growth margin increased to 16% from 50% in the previous quarter, demonstrating a significant improvement in profitability.
Q:What was the impact of the company's risk equity financing?
A:The company successfully raised $2.8 billion in risk equity financing in September. Out of the funds raised, 8% will be allocated to further investment in air infrastructure and transfer spending to general operational needs. This funding will support the growth of the intelligent cloud business and create long-term value for all stakeholders.
Q:Can you answer first which industries will have a strong demand for computing power in the future?
A:As you mentioned, China's robot companies are in a growth environment. This year, we have already covered some robot companies in China and have seen rapid revenue growth. We believe that this growth trend will continue next year. At the same time, internet companies like ByteDance are quickly adopting our services, and we expect this to be a key factor driving revenue growth.

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