HONG KONG, May 28, 2014 - (ACN Newswire) - Kingsoft Corporation Limited ("Kingsoft" or the "Company"; SEHK: 03888), a well-known Chinese software and Internet service company, announced its unaudited quarterly results for the three months ended 31 March 2014.
During the period under review, the revenue of Kingsoft increased 1% quarter-over-quarter and 48% year-over-year to RMB675.6 million. Revenue from the online game, Cheetah Mobile and office software and others represented 44%, 43% and 13% respectively, of the Company's total revenue for the first quarter of 2014. Gross profit for the first quarter of 2014 decreased 2% quarter-over-quarter and increased 44% year-over-year to RMB 569.0 million. Profit attributable to owners of the parent for the first quarter of 2014 increased 48% quarter-over-quarter and 26% year-over-year to RMB 246.2 million.
Dr. HongJiang Zhang, Chief Executive Officer of Kingsoft, said, "We are pleased to report another strong first quarter results. Total revenue achieved a new record of RMB675.6 million, an increase of 48% year-over-year. We will make proactive investments in mobile business development and market expansion in 2014, though it may have adverse impact on our operating margin in the short term. We firmly believe that these investments are important to support our long term business growth and help us to align our strategy with tremendous mobile opportunities."
FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
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For the 3 months ended
March 31 Change Dec 31 Change
RMB'000 (unaudited) 2014 2013 YoY(%) 2013 QoQ(%)
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Revenue 675,625 456,859 48% 668,752 1%
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-Online Games 294,911 266,666 11% 287,724 2%
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-Cheetah Mobile 292,847 125,974 132% 249,833 17%
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-Office Software, Others 87,867 64,219 37% 131,195 -33%
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Gross Profit 569,012 395,278 44% 579,072 -2%
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Profit Attributable to
Owners of the Parent 246,237 195,914 26% 166,301 48%
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Basic EPS (RMB Cents) 21 17 24% 14 50%
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OPERATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
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March 31 Dec 31 March 31
2014 2013 2013
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- ONLINE GAMES
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Daily Av. Peak Concurrent Users 599,384 632,171 631,098
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Monthly Average Paying Users 1,972,027 1,869,433 1,768,190
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Monthly Average Revenue per
Paying User (RMB) 48 49 47
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- CHEETAH MOBILE
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Mobile Monthly Active Users (Mil) 223 166 46
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Mobile User (Mil) 502 347 N/A
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% of Mobile MAU from Overseas Markets 63% 53% N/A
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MAU of Duba.com Personal
Start Page (Mil) 54 47 38
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BUSINESS REVIEW
Online Games Business
Revenue from the online game business increased 2% quarter-over-quarter and 11% year-over-year to RMB 294.9 million in the first quarter of 2014, even under the adverse impact of Chinese New Year holidays. With the continuous improvement of game experiences, JX Online III has grown for the past eleven consecutive quarters. In April 2014, Kingsoft launched a new expansion "Zhu Lu Zhong Yuan" for JX Online III and had received positive feedbacks. For now, more than five mobile games are under full swing development, of which two to three games are in the pipeline for release.
Monthly average paying accounts ("APA") for the Company's online games for the first quarter of 2014 increased 5% quarter-over-quarter and 12% year-over-year to 2 million. Daily average peak concurrent users ("ADPCU") for the Company's online games for the first quarter of 2014 reached 0.60 million while the monthly ARPU for the Company's online games for the first quarter of 2014 achieved RMB48.
Cheetah Mobile
Due to the growth in revenue from the internet-value added and online marketing services driven by contribution from mobile games and increasing traffic from Cheetah Mobile platform, revenue from Cheetah Mobile for the first quarter of 2014 increased 17% quarter-over-quarter and 132% year-over-year to RMB292.8 million.
Cheetah Mobile is now the #1 mobile application publisher in the Google Play Tools category based on worldwide downloads in March 2014, according to App Annie, and the #2 internet security software provider in China according to iResearch as of March 2014. Mobile monthly active users ("MAU") of Cheetah Mobile in March 2014 has increased 385% year over year from 46 million to 223 million, of which 63% are from the overseas markets. Mobile user in the first quarter of 2014 has increased 45% quarter over quarter from 347 million to 502 million. In the period under review, Cheetah Mobile strengthened its mobile monetization capabilities and had generated approximately 17% of its revenue from mobile services, compared with 11% in the fourth quarter of 2013. On 8 May 2014, Cheetah Mobile made its trading debut on the New York Stock Exchange.
Office Software and Others
Revenue from the office services and other business for the first quarter of 2014 decreased 33% quarter-over-quarter and increased 37% year-over-year to RMB87.9 million. The quarter-over-quarter decrease was mainly due to the adverse seasonal impact on WPS Office. The solid year-over-year increase was primarily attributable to record growth in revenue from WPS Office and online marketing revenue from WPS Office. The MAU of WPS Personal Edition continued to rise to over 66 million. The global MAU of WPS Mobile Office ramped up to 43 million in March 2014.
The daily data storage of Kingsoft's cloud storage services is close to 200T at the end of first quarter of 2014. Meanwhile, the Company focused on establishing a one-stop cloud service platform for game developers. By partnering with Xiaomi and leveraging the fast growing mobile game business, the platform will offer game developers a one-stop solution for server deployment, game testing, game operation and game promotion.
Mr. Jun Lei, Chairman of Kingsoft, concluded, "We had an impressive and promising start for 2014. The financial and operating metrics for the first quarter of 2014 demonstrated the successful adoption of our mobile business strategy. Our MAU continued to grow rapidly to a new record of 276 million in March2014, compared to 62 million a year ago. With the focused investment in mobile internet business, strengthened monetization capabilities of Cheetah Mobile, continuous optimization of JX Online III, full swing mobile game development, strong sales and fast growing user base of WPS, I believe the year of 2014 will manifest Kingsoft' breakthrough in its mobile transformation."
Contact:
Kingsoft Corporation Limited
Ms. Francie Lu
Tel: +86 10 62927777 ext.5581
Email: ir@kingsoft.com
Topic: Earnings
Source: Kingsoft Corporation Limited
Sectors: Daily Finance, IT Individual, eSports, Gaming
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