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FOURTH PARADIGM(6682)
Analysis¡G
Fourth Paradigm announced its financial results for the first half of 2025, reporting revenue of RMB 2.626 billion, a significant 40.7% increase year-on-year. The company has aggressively advanced the implementation and application of its ¡§AI Agent + World Model¡¨ strategy, effectively capturing high-value enterprise AI transformation needs. This drove a 71.9% year-on-year revenue surge in its core business, the ¡§4ParadigmSage AI Platform¡¨, which generated RMB 2.149 billion, accounting for approximately 81.8% of total revenue. Benefiting from substantial revenue growth and the further release of operating leverage, the company reduced its loss attributable to shareholders to RMB 66.97 million, a 55.8% improvement from RMB 151 million in the prior year. The adjusted net loss (non-IFRS measure) narrowed by 71.2% to RMB 43.7 million from RMB 151 million.
In the first half of 2025, Fourth Paradigm enhanced its ¡§4ParadigmSage AI Platform¡¨ around the ¡§AI Agent + World Model¡¨ technical pathway, iterating capabilities in agent development toolchains, intelligent agent frameworks, AI application matrices, and computing power and model resource scheduling. These efforts aim to position the platform as an infrastructure enabling enterprises to fully profit from AI, creating a new AI-driven productivity system. The value of the ¡§AI Agent + World Model¡¨ approach was comprehensively rolled out to enterprise clients, with the number of flagship clients reaching 90, up by 4 from the previous year. The average revenue per flagship client rose to RMB 17.98 million, a 56.6% year-on-year increase.
In March 2025, Fourth Paradigm launched its Phancy consumer electronics business, offering integrated software-hardware solutions powered by AI agents. By embedding intelligent agent modules into end-user devices, Phancy delivers AI capabilities directly to consumers. Collaborating with brands like Bruce Lee, Lamborghini, and Lenovo, Phancy introduced smartwatches equipped with its AI chipsets. Additionally, partnerships with upstream and downstream industry players led to the launch of smart glasses, earphones, and smartphone back clips. These products are now available through online and offline channels. Beyond new products, Fourth Paradigm has worked with numerous software and hardware partners to build an interconnected ¡§Internet of Everything¡¨ ecosystem, continuously enhancing Phancy¡¦s influence. (I do not hold the aforementioned stock)
Strategy¡G
Buy-in Price: $61.00, Target Price: $69.00, Cut Loss Price: $58.00


HUA HONG SEMI(1347)
Analysis¡G
According to TrendForce, in China's AI server market by 2025, the proportion of imported chips from companies like NVIDIA (NVDA.US) and AMD (AMD.US) is expected to drop from 63% in 2024 to 42%, while the share of domestic chip suppliers is projected to rise to 40%. Domestic substitution has become an inevitable trend. Earlier, on August 21, DeepSeek released the DeepSeek-V3.1 large model, which adopts the UE8M0 FP8 Scale parameter precision, designed for next-generation domestic chips. Semiconductors, domestic computing power, and technological self-sufficiency will remain long-term trends in the future. Against the backdrop of ongoing uncertainties in U.S.-China trade policies surrounding AI computing chips, it is expected that major domestic large-model developers and internet platforms will gradually increase their procurement and usage of domestic chips.
Strategy¡G
Buy-in Price: $57.10, Target Price: $62.70, Cut Loss Price: $52.00



Alibaba (09988.HK) - Increased Investment in Flash Sales Weighs on Short-Term Profits

Company background

The company provides technological infrastructure and marketing platforms, operating seven business segments. The China Commerce segment includes retail commerce businesses such as Taobao, Tmall, and Hema, as well as wholesale businesses. The International Commerce segment comprises international retail and wholesale commerce businesses, including Lazada and AliExpress. The Local Services segment includes location-based businesses such as Ele.me, Amap, and Fliggy. The Cainiao segment covers domestic and international end-to-end logistics services and supply chain management solutions. The Cloud segment offers public and hybrid cloud services to enterprises both in China and internationally, including Alibaba Cloud and DingTalk. The Digital Media and Entertainment segment includes platforms such as Youku, Quark, and Alibaba Pictures, along with other content and distribution platforms, as well as online gaming businesses. The Innovation Initiatives and Others segment encompasses Damo Academy, Tmall Genie, and other businesses.

Financial performance

For FY2025Q4, the company achieved total revenue of RMB 236.5 billion, a year-on-year increase of 6.6%; operating profit was RMB 28.5 billion, up 92.8% year-on-year; adjusted EBITA reached RMB 32.6 billion, an increase of 36.1% year-on-year; adjusted net profit was RMB 29.8 billion, rising 22.2% year-on-year.

For full Year FY2025, the company reported total revenue of RMB 996.3 billion, a year-on-year increase of 5.9%; operating profit was RMB 140.9 billion, up 24.3% year-on-year; adjusted EBITA amounted to RMB 173.1 billion, growing 4.9% year-on-year, primarily driven by revenue growth and improved operational efficiency, partially offset by increased investments in e-commerce and technology sectors. Adjusted net profit was RMB 158.1 billion, remaining stable year-on-year.

By revenue type, Taotian Group revenue reached RMB 449.8 billion, up 3.4% year-on-year, accounting for 45.1% of total revenue. Alibaba International Digital Commerce Group revenue was RMB 132.3 billion, an increase of 28.9% year-on-year, representing 13.3% of total revenue. Cloud Intelligence Group revenue amounted to RMB 118.0 billion, growing 11.0% year-on-year, accounting for 11.8% of total revenue. Local Services Group revenue reached RMB 66.9 billion, up 12.2% year-on-year, representing 6.7% of total revenue.

Taobao and Tmall Group: GMV demonstrated steady growth and monetization rate improved, but increased investment in flash sales weighed on profits

Driven by national policies to expand domestic demand and boost consumption, coupled with the platform's continued efforts to enhance price competitiveness and optimize the consumer experience, we expect Taotian Group's GMV growth in FY2026Q1 to accelerate compared to the previous quarter. The deeper application of site-wide promotion tools, along with the additional 0.6% basic software service fee introduced by Taobao since September 2024, collectively contributed to a year-on-year improvement in Taotian Group's overall monetization rate. As a result, we anticipate that customer management revenue will increase by 7.7% year-on-year in FY2026, reaching RMB 347 billion.

However, substantial investments in flash sales are putting pressure on short-term profits. On July 2, 2025, Taobao Flash Sales announced that it would provide direct subsidies totaling RMB 50 billion to merchants and consumers over the next 12 months. The initiative yielded significant results shortly after its launch¡Xon July 7, daily orders for Taobao Flash Sales combined with Ele.me exceeded 80 million (compared to just over 60 million on June 23 of the same year), with non-food orders surpassing 13 million and daily active users exceeding 200 million.

Despite the rapid growth in daily order volume for Taobao Flash Sales and Ele.me, the overall subsidy level remains high, leading to short-term profit pressure on Taotian Group. We project that Taotian Group's adjusted EBITA will decrease by 14.2% year-on-year to RMB 148.5 billion in FY2026, with the corresponding adjusted EBITA margin declining from 17.4% to 14.2%.

Cloud Intelligence Group: AI Continues to Drive Cloud Revenue Growth

We forecast that Cloud Intelligence Group's revenue will increase by 22.1% year-on-year to RMB 144.1 billion in FY2026. We believe that the trend of AI democratization driven by DeepSeek will continue to boost overall model training and application demand, further accelerating the growth of cloud service demand and revenue. The company's strategic focus is clearly directed toward public cloud, and by proactively scaling back low-margin businesses while continuously optimizing its revenue structure, it has effectively mitigated, to some extent, the profit pressure caused by price reductions in public cloud products. As a result, we expect Cloud Intelligence Group's adjusted EBITA to reach RMB 13.2 billion in FY2026, with an adjusted EBITA margin of 9.2%.

Company valuation

Flash sales order volume is expected to continue growing and is likely to drive increased traffic to the core e-commerce platform. Going forward, it will be essential to closely monitor the stability of the business's fulfillment capabilities and the growth of merchant supply. Accordingly, we project the company's FY26-28 operating revenue to be RMB 1,044 billion / 1,160 billion / 1,260 billion, with adjusted net profit of RMB 138 billion / 158 billion / 185 billion, corresponding to EPS of RMB 6.02 / 7.21 / 8.42. Given the company's high growth potential, we applied a SOTP valuation method and derived a target price of HKD 144. The current stock price implies FY2026-2028 P/E ratios of 21x / 17x / 15x. We assign an "Accumulate" rating.

Risk factors

1) Intensifying competition;
2) Intensified trade friction;
3) Deteriorated market demand.

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Recommendation on 29-8-2025
RecommendationAccumulate
Price on Recommendation Date$ 124.500
Suggested purchase priceN/A
Target Price$ 144.000
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megantao@phillip.com.hk

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