Q4 2022 360 DigiTech Inc Earnings Call
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Speaker 2: At this time, I would like to turn the conference call over to Ms Karen Gee, Senior Director of Capital Market. Please go ahead Karen.
Speaker 1: Thank you, operator. Hello, everyone, and welcome to 360 Digitech's fourth quarter and the full year 2022 earnings conference call.
Speaker 3: Our earnings release was distributed earlier today and is available on our IR website.
Speaker 3: Joining me today are Mr. Wu Haisheng, our CEO , Mr. Alex Xu, our CFO , and Mr. Zheng Yan, our CIO. Before we start, I would like to refer you to our Safe Harbor statement in the earnings press release, which applies to this call as we will make certain forward-looking statements.
Speaker 3: Also, this call includes discussions of certain non-GAAP financial measures.
Speaker 3: Please refer to our earnings release, which contains a reconciliation of the non-GAAP measures to GAAP measures. Also, please note that, unless otherwise stated, all figures mentioned in this call are in RMB terms.
Speaker 3: Now I will turn the call over to our CEO , Mr. Wu Haisheng. Please go ahead.
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Speaker 3: Hello, everyone. Thanks for joining our Q4 2022 earnings conference call.
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Speaker 3: On the macro environment front, we experienced a volatile culture in Q4, swimming from widespread bounce across China in October and November to the border reopening and the cancellation of almost all COVID-19 restrictions in December .
Speaker 3: This concluded nearly a three-year period of strict COVID control policies in China.
Speaker 3: Regulatory authorities also announced that the rectification of financial business within the major Internet platform companies has been mostly completed.
Speaker 3: At a meeting held on February 27, 2023, the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, CBIRC, called for proactive coordination between financial, physical, and social policies to provide greater support for the growth of private consumption and the domestic demand in China.
Speaker 3: The Financial Markets Department of the People's Bank of China, TBOOC, also pledged to facilitate the healthy development of the platform economy in three ways.
Speaker 3: including speeding up the rectification of the remaining minor issues with some internet platform companies.
Speaker 3: Improving standards for regular supervision and developing financial measures to support a sustainable, healthy development of the form economy.
Speaker 3: Our industry is therefore headed in a more positive direction.
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Speaker 3: As of the end of Q4, we have partnered with a total of 143 financial institutions for our loan facilitation business.
Speaker 3: Total loan origination and facilitation volume with RMB 104.6 billion up 8% year-over-year.
Speaker 3: As of the end of Q4, cumulative number of users with approved credit lines reached approximately 44.5 million and the cumulative borrowers with successful drawdowns reached approximately 27 million.
Speaker 3: up by 16% and 11% year-over-year, respectively.
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Speaker 3: In last Q4, China implemented its most extensive COVID control measures since 2020. While in December , the government adjusted its COVID policies and a massive wave of infections subsequently occurred across China. Given the uncertainty posed by both the COVID and the initial period of reopening, we tighten our customer acquisition and credit assessment policies in place.
Speaker 3: our overall risk performance remained stable.
Speaker 3: With our user base upgraded, our pricing also stabilized.
Speaker 3: The average IRR of the loans we originated and facilitated during this quarter was flat sequentially.
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Speaker 5: We scaled back our marketing efforts given our concerns about the credit risk associated with COVID.
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, we continue to upgrade our RTA model and improve our capabilities and efficiencies to acquire targeted users.
Speaker 3: In Q4, the acquisition cost per new user with the credit lines decreased by approximately 24% sequentially.
Speaker 3: We further expanded and diversified our customer acquisition channels by working with different types of traffic platforms.
Speaker 3: including short and long form videos.
Speaker 3: social media, search engines and food delivery platforms, etc.
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Speaker 3: In terms of cooperation with financial institutions, liquidity remains ample in the financial system during Q4, leading to strong demands for high quality assets by financial institutions and a further reduction in our funding costs.
Speaker 3: As of the end of Q4, we had established long-term partnerships with 143 financial institutions.
Speaker 3: including over 10 joint stock banks and a major urban and rural commercial banks with...
Speaker 3: join stock banks and major open and rural commercial banks with 8.4 billion RMB.
Speaker 3: allowing us to verify the funding sources.
Speaker 3: Our funding costs decreased by roughly 20 basis points sequentially.
Speaker 3: For APS issuance, we issued RMB 1.8 billion in Q4 at an average funding cost of 5.4%.
Speaker 3: For APS issues, we issued RMB 1.8 billion in Q4 as an average funding cost of 5.4%.
Speaker 3: There was some unusual level of volatility in the bond market in the culture. While some industry peers cancelled ABN issuance on a large scale.
Speaker 3: We continue to issue at a relatively stable price.
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Given the macro challenges and the COVID control measures, China's consumer finance and SME credit markets faced huddling down both the demand and risk front in 2022.
Against this backdrop, we stick to our present operating strategy and leverage technology to drive quality growth.
In 2022, total loan origination and the facilitation volume was RMP $412.4 billion, up to 15.5% year-over-year, and in line with our guidance at the beginning of the year. We made solid progress in optimizing our user base.
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In light of the volatile macro environment, we've kept the percentage of loans originated and facilitated under our capitalized model, ICE and other tech solutions relatively stable at roughly 56% in 2022.
These business models have provided us with more flexibility and a means to balance risks.
We also maintain disciplined cost control and optimize our operational efficiency during the year.
As such, we achieved our targeted net take rate for our baseline business despite the decline in loan pricing.
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We remain committed to fulfilling our social responsibilities as we operate our business. In 2022, we served a total of 910,000 self-employed individuals and 1.08 million business owners supporting about 6 million jobs.
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Given the gradual resumption of economic activity since the start of 2023, we have seen a modest recovery in credit needs and notable improvements in our asset quality.
Our day-one delinquency rate in February decreased further to 4.1%, while the 30-day collection rate quickly recovered to last Q3 level, showing a faster than expected improvement in our risk performance.
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First of all, the continued reduction in our credit costs and funding costs has created favorable conditions for us to better serve our users.
We have approximately 44.5 million cumulative users with approved credit lines. How to effectively convert them into borrowers and increase the credit utilization of our existing borrowers will be crucial to drive our overall growth.
To enhance our engagement with inactive users, we will step up our marketing and outreach efforts while optimizing our product mix and risk control strategies.
We will also seek to improve our user retention rate for existing BOP borrowers by refining our operations to offer them with the products and user experience that better serve their customer.
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We will continue to diversify our customer acquisition channels. We have already established a clear competitive edge in the customer segment with borrowing costs from 18% to 24%. Meanwhile, there are many traffic platforms that have large diverse user bases but lack the expertise.
to engage with users in our target segment.
As we adjust our overall loan pricing to below 24%, our embedded finance business will be able to cover more leading traffic platforms. We expect more strategic partnership to be launched later this year.
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We will explore market opportunities to serve a broadly defined SME segment, including SME, SME owners, entrepreneurs, self-employed individuals, etc. Public data shows consumer demand in certain sectors has recovered quickly since the Chinese New Year.
the recovery in private consumption will improve the credit demand and repayment ability of the broadly defined SME segments. To capitalize on these opportunities, we will develop targeted products to better serve their credit needs.
Approximately 30% of our current user base are broadly defined SMEs, whose outstanding loan balance only accounts for roughly a little bit higher than 30% of the total. This leaves substantial room for growth.
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In terms of the tech solution business, we have created a different network for operations with financial institutions through our end-to-end technology solutions. This will enable us to generate more risk-free revenue, serve a greater number of high quality users with lower pricing through our bank partners, and expand our total addressable market.
This year we will focus on extending the depth of our tech solution services to improve our take-rate.
With its services interest, we believe that our top solutions industry is in full in terms of both long-volume and revenue products.
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Finally, I would like to conclude my prepared remarks with a small thought. Our company is still very young, having only been around for over six years. The sector that we are in is also at the very early stage of its life cycle.
Our team is young and motivated and our initial entrepreneurial dream has just begun to materialize.
We desire to deliver far more brilliant results than what we have achieved today.
We believe that 2022 will be a good year for us, thanks to the supportive government policies and the recovering macro economy, combined with our sound strategies and unique positioning.
Although the macroeconomic rebound has not been very robust so far in the first quarter, we have great confidence that 2023 will be a year of growth.
As we continue to improve our risk performance, expand our customer acquisition channels, optimize our funding costs and improve our services to broadly define SMEs, we expect a fruitful year ahead.
With that I will now turn the call over to our CFO Alex Xu who will walk you through with our financial results for the quarter and four years. Thank you, Haechan. Good morning and good evening everyone. Welcome to our fourth quarter earnings call. As Haechan discussed earlier, we delivered another stock quarter in the past year.
in demand for consumer credit will as a quality noticeably improve it.
In true color, we continue to target higher quality and lower risk user base and drive further improvement in user quality, despite significant micro uncertainties.
Key leading indicators, day one delinquency has been on a steady declining trend throughout 2022. It was 4.3% in 2004 versus 4.5% in 2003. And further, it was not in the case of 4.1, February .
To this day, the declining trend continued on a gradually. Continued improvement if they want to influence a reflect the upgrade.
that the timing trend continued on the Friday. The continued improvement in day one delinquency reflects the Euro-based upgrade and micro-improvement in the new year.
30-day correction rate was 84.7% in 2004 versus 86.4% in Q3. This is due to the disruption of collection operations and the deterioration of consumer confidence.
following the timing COVID restriction in November and the surge in COVID cases in December .
As the COVID patients peak in late December and the reopening progress, by early February , 30-day fraction rate has quickly recovered to above the Q3 level.
Total net revenue for Q4 was $3.9 billion versus $4.1 billion in Q3 and $4.4 billion a year.
Revenue from credit-driven service, capital-heavy, was $2.8 billion in Q4 compared to $2.9 billion in Q3 and $2.7 billion a year ago. The slight year-on-year growth was mainly due to growth in the U.S. economy.
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This solid performance was more than enough to offset decline.
in average pricing of the loan and a decrease in off balance sheet facilitation volume. Off balance sheet facilitation revenue take rate declined sequentially due to an adjustment.
On a year-on-year basis, the takeaway declined slightly despite significant price cuts.
Revenue from platform service, Chapter Light, was $1.1 billion in Q4, compared to $1.2 billion in Q3 and $1.7 billion a year ago. The year-on-year decline was mainly due to decrease in volume and average prices.
of capitalized loan facilitation. Q4 and full year 2022, capitalized loan facilitation, ICE, and other technology solutions combined account for roughly 56% of total loan volume.
As micro-conditions gradually improve in 2023, we will try to strike an optimal balance between risk, growth, and profitability. As such, contribution from PEP-Lite, ICE, and other technology solutions will likely be range-bound in the near term.
In the long run, we'll continue to pursue tech-driven business model while seeking a balance among various forms of non-risk bearing solutions based on microenvironment and operational conditions. During the quarter, average IRR price of the loans was $60,000, and we were clear that it would have POPPEDI made more than 1 billion dollars.
we originated and are facilitated remain stable Q-on-Q well within the regulatory rate cap requirement.
Looking forward, we expect pricing to be rapidly stable for the coming quarters. Sales and marketing expenses decreased by approximately 34% sequentially in Q4. During the quarter, we lowered the pace of new user acquisition as we focused more on existing
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Unit cost to acquire a new credit line user declined approximately 24 percent sequentially.
The decline in consumer acquisition cost mainly reflects our continued efforts to drive efficiency in our operation as well as the soft demand in mutant economic activities.
As micro-conditions gradually improve in 2023, we may also adjust the pace of the new user acquisition along the way.
Meanwhile, re-energizing existing user base will continue to be a main driver for our growth.
As always, we will continue to use lifecycle ROI and LTV as key metrics to determine the pace and scope of our user acquisition strategy to ensure the sustainability and the profitability of our operations.
Overall, risk profile of our loan portfolio remains stable in Q4 as increased contribution from new loans from high-quality borrowers offsetting negative impacts on old loans by micro uncertainty.
Although micro-condition appears gradually improving, it may still take some time to be reflected in the consumer's behavior. As such, we continue to take a prudent approach in booking provisions against potential credit loss.
Total new provisions for risk-bearing loans in Q4 were approximately $1.7 billion, and the write-backs of previous provisions in the quarter were marginal.
Provision Coverage Ratio, which is defined as total outstanding provisions divided by total outstanding delinquent loan balance between 90 and 180 days, or 456 percent in Q4 compared to 406 percent in Q3.
With solid operating loss and stable contribution from capitalized models, our leverage ratio, which is defined as risk-bearing loan balance divided by shareholders' equity, was at a historically low of 3.5 times in Q4 compared to 4.3 times a year ago.
We expect to see rather stable leverage ratio for the time being until capitalized contribution resumes growth in the future.
We generate approximately 1.8 billion cash from operations in Q4, compared to 1.6 in Q3. The sequential increase in operating cash flow was mainly driven by better working capital management. Total cash and cash equivalents was 10.9 billion in Q4.
mainly due to micro uncertainties.
As economic conditions improve, we may look for opportunities to deploy resources to launch new initiatives, develop new technologies, and develop new technologies to help develop new technologies.
and expand service offerings. Non-gap net profit was $919 million.
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As we continue to generate healthy cash flow from operations, we believe our It's sufficient to support our business development and to return to our shareholders In accordance with the dividend policy approved by our board We declare another quarterly dividend of US dollar and 16 cents per ADS for Q4
Finally, regarding our outlook for 2023, 2022 was an extremely challenging year in terms of the micro-conditions. While we start to see tentative signs of economic recovery in the new year, the lingering economic impact from the past on consumer confidence and behavior may still last for a little bit.
At this junction, we see modest recovery in consumer credit demand, with growth rate potentially accelerating throughout this year. As such, we expect total loan volume for 2023 to be between RMB $455 billion and $495 billion, representing year-on-year growth of 10% to 20%.
As always, this forecast reflects the company's current and the preliminary view, which is subject to material change.
With that, I would like to conclude our prepared remarks. Operator, we can now take some questions.
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One moment for the first question. First question comes from the line of Judy Chung from Citi. Please go ahead.
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to have an immediate recovery for our credit needs. And although the recovery in credit needs is not so robust in the reason to mount in Q1, we believe the Q2 and Q3 will be better.
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the pace of our long-volume growth in this year. And we believe if the market situation, the macro economy, improves further later this year, we will also adjust our growth pace. And we believe this year will be for the long volume and the growth rate will be gradually ramping up in the year.
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I hope this answers your questions, Judy. Thank you for the questions. We will now move on to the next questions.
Next questions, we have the line from Yada Li from CICC. Please proceed.
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and what are the main factors that determine whether to increase the marketing budget. That's all. Thank you.
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In terms of new customers, actually, we have 3 to 4 million new customers acquired basically every year. So, it's very crucial for us to spend more time making more efforts in terms of engaging our existing users. And we believe this will be a major driver for the growth of our companies in the future.
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some better offers to call them back to and we will also improve the user experience of those broadly defined SME borrowers to keep them active on our platform. So we will keep our budget for the engagement of all the users.
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First, we will prioritize our work to increase the credit utilization for those new users first and then we will consider to expand our marketing spending to acquire new users.
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Yeah, I hope this answers your question, Thomas. Take care.
Thank you for the questions. Next question comes from the line of Hanh Tuan from CLSA. Please go ahead. Hi, everyone. I'm Hanh Tuan from CLSA. I'm a senior at CLSA. I'm a senior at CLSA.
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Capital Heavy and platform services, how do we think about the split this year? Do we have a target for the split in the long run? Thank you very much.
Platform Services, how do we think that they split this year? Do we have a target for the split in the long run? Thank you very much.
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from the SRI business model based on our assessment of the macro environment and the project risk associated with the macro. In terms of, and we want to, we will adjust the contribution to balance the risk.
Your contribution from the capital life business will remain stable in this year, but in the next step, we will develop further develop our tech solution business because it's a pure tech business model. So, as our customer base growth, our long volume will also increase and we.
we expect the contribution from the Capital Light or Platform service will further increase in the future. I just want to add a couple of points regarding the growth rate for this year. We noticed that in the recent few days, some of the companies related to consumer market report their earnings.
They gave a pretty somewhat disappointing outlook for the first quarter in terms of year-over-year growth. And we look at it, although last year Q1 was a relatively normal quarter, Q1 was a relatively
meaning there is not really much disruption in operations in last year's Q1. Those are the comps. It's not that easy. But even with that kind of not so easy comp, we are expecting year-over-year growth in terms of volume right off the plate of this year. So Router, fantastic stuff.
And then along the way, as we move forward for the remainder of the year, we, as I mentioned, we may see a gradual acceleration of growth quarter by quarter on the year over year basis.
And then along the way, as we move forward for the remainder of the year, we, as I mentioned, we may see a gradual acceleration of growth quarter by quarter on the year over year basis. That's the point I want to add. Thank you.
Thank you for the questions. In the interest of time, we will now take the last question. One moment for the last question. Lastly, we have the live from Alex Yeh from UPS. Please go ahead.
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I'll translate my question as a follow-up on your loan guidance for this year.
So if we look at the midpoint of your guidance of 15%, can I ask what are the underlying assumptions here? For example, would you still frame the consumer credit recovery as the modest one? And do you need to increase your risk appetite in order to achieve this midpoint target? And secondly, for the higher end of your target at 20%?
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the recovery of the macro environment will improve the outlook for the employment and the personal income and eventually benefit the credit needs recovery. And at the same time, we believe there is a function that our risk performance will continue to improve down the road.
So this year, if the things getting better, then hold the recovery of the credit needs and the risk performance accelerate in this year. We will also consider to adjust our growth pace.
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Thank you very much. With that, I'd like to hand the call back to the management for closing.
Okay, thank you again everyone for joining us for the meeting. And if you have additional questions, please feel free to contact us offline. Thank you. Bye bye. Thank you. That does conclude today's conference call. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect your lines.
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