Q4 2023 ATRenew Inc Earnings Call
Operator: Good morning and good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for standing by, and welcome to AT Renew, Inc.'s 4th Quarter and Full Year 2023 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode.
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At this time all participants are in a listen only mode. We will be hosting a question and answer session. After management's prepared remarks. Please don't today's event is being recorded.
Operator: We will be hosting a question and answer session after management's prepared remarks. Please note, today's event is being recorded. I will now turn the call over to the first speaker today, Mr. Jeremy Ji, Director of Corporate Development and Investor Relations of the company. Please go ahead, sir.
I will now turn the call over to your to the first speaker today, Mr. Jeremy G director of corporate development and Investor Relations of the company. Please go ahead Sir.
Jeremy Ji: Thank you. Hello, everyone. Welcome to AT Renews' fourth quarter and full year 2023 earnings conference call. Speaking first today is Kerry Chen, our founder, chairman, and CEO. And he'll be followed by Rex Chen, our CFO.
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Speaking first state is carry Chen our founder Chairman and CEO.
And he'll be followed by Rex Chen our CFO after that we'll open the call to questions from analysts.
Jeremy Ji: After that, we'll open the call to questions from analysts. The fourth quarter and full year 2023 financial results were released earlier today. The earnings release and investor slides accompanying this call are available on our IR website, ir.atrenew.com. There will also be a transcript following this call for your convenience. For today's agenda, Kerry will share his thoughts on our quarterly performance and business strategy, followed by Rex, who will address the financial highlights. Both Kerry and Rex will participate in the Q&A session.
The fourth quarter and full year 2023 financial results were released earlier today.
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For today's agenda Cary will share his thoughts about the quarterly performance and business strategy, followed by Rex who will address the financial highlights.
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Jeremy Ji: Let me cover the state power statement. Some of the information you will hear during our discussion today will consist of forward-looking statements, and I refer you to our safe harbor statements in the earnings price report. Any forward-looking statement that management makes on this call is based on assumptions as of today, and AT Renewal does not have any obligation to upgrade our assumptions on these statements. Also, this call includes discussion of certain non-GAAP financial measures. Please refer to our earnings price release, which contains a reconciliation of non-GAAP measures to GAAP measures. Finally, please note that, as I said, all figures mentioned during this conference call are in RMB, and all comparisons are on a year-over-year basis. I now like to turn the call over to Kerry for business and strategy.
Let me cover the Safe Harbor statements.
Some of the information you'll hear during our discussion today will consist of forward looking statements and I refer you to our safe Harbor statement in the earnings press release.
Any forward looking statements that management makes on this call are based on assumptions as of today and that if you weren't even does not take any obligation to upgrade our assumptions of these statements.
Also this call includes discussion of certain non-GAAP financial measures. Please refer to our earnings press release, which contains a reconciliation of non-GAAP measures to GAAP measures.
Finally, please note that our lifestyle otherwise stated all figures mentioned during this conference call are you RMB and all comparisons on a year over year basis.
I would like to turn the call over to Kerry <unk> business and strategy update.
Xiaoxin Chen: Hello, investors and translators. 2023 Welcome to the fourth quarter of the year and the full year of WanWuXinZheng Group's 2023 sales phone conference. Hello everyone, and welcome to AT Rainier's fourth quarter and full year 2023 earnings conference call.
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Xiaoxin Chen: In 2023, WanWu Xinsheng Group's income and profits skyrocketed, and its second-hand supply chain capacity continued to soar. The quality of the brand has continued to improve over the past year. In terms of income, the total annual income is nearly 1.3 billion yuan, and the growth rate is 31.4%, significantly exceeding the competition of the second-hand industry and the consumer market. Judging from the number of transactions, the total number of transactions in the group will be 32.3 million in 2023.
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Xiaoxin Chen: We adhere to the strategy of self-management, focusing on the better service and user experience of self-management businesses. 5% , We are actively adjusting development strategies to better develop the business ecosystem and service capabilities. 3P platform revenue has increased by 92% to 5.3% Tai Pi 59.659.6, compared to 46.2% year-on-year growth, is a solid foundation for future development. While maintaining a high-speed network, 2023 is also a year of efficiency. Wang WuXinZheng, ZhaGeng ErShou, and GuiYinLianLengLi to provide a more valuable platform. In terms of profit, Nangab's net profit of 2.52 billion yuan was achieved.
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Xiaoxin Chen: The net profit rate of 1.9% of Nangab's net profit was significantly higher than that of early last year. In 2023, AT Renew achieved record-breaking revenues and profits with a continuously strengthened pre-owned supply chain capability and an ongoing increase in brand recognition. Our total revenues reached 13 billion RMB, representing a year-over-year increase of 31.4%, significantly outpacing the growth rates of the second-hand industry and the consumer sector as a whole. I would like to express my gratitude to our colleagues on the front line and in all departments for their hard work.
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Xiaoxin Chen: Our total transaction volume in 2023 was 32.3 million units. We adhere to the strategy of prioritizing self-operated businesses that provide better services and user experience. This focus has yielded significant results, with our 1P transaction volume increasing by 50% year-over-year in 2023. Regarding third-party platform businesses, we actively adjusted our development strategy and made efforts to develop the merchant ecosystem and service capabilities. The overall platform take rate increased by 92 basis points to 5.39% in 2023.
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Xiaoxin Chen: The number of registered merchants on PJT Marketplace reached 596,000, a strong growth of 46.2% compared to the previous year, which laid solid foundations for future development. 2023 was also a year of consolidation and efficiency. We further solidified our second-hand supply chain capabilities, providing more valuable services on our platforms. At the same time, we were also more disciplined in the pace of our expansion and investment in new initiatives. At the profit level, we achieved a solid non-gap operating profit of 252 million RMB, with a non-gap operating profit margin of 1.9%, exceeding our target for the year. This achievement is the basis to demonstrate our company's stability. We should continue to improve and recover for a long time. Second, stick to the foundation of supply chain capability. 3.
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Xiaoxin Chen: Increase efficiency of battery and technology drive 4. Maintain the level of attention to new traffic, new opportunities, and consumer demand. Those achievements are firmly grounded in our strategic focus. Firstly, we adhere to effective customer acquisition scenarios on the research front, and secondly, we strengthen robots' supply chain capabilities as a foundation. Thirdly, driving efficiency improvement through technology. And fourthly, being agile in seizing new traffic opportunities and capturing new customer demands. , First, in terms of the coverage of the recycling scene, 2023, 1819AiHuiShou268 At the end of 2023, we covered 268 cities through 1819 AiHuiShou stores., , Increased user penetration; over the past year, AiHuiShou's brand is constantly improving its popularity and credibility among consumers. In particular, the recovery rate in the first and second-tier cities has improved further because of the high-quality brands and retail scenarios of AiHuiShou Intl. and our services, we have accurately locked the mainstream recovery scenarios of users.
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Xiaoxin Chen: With competitive prices and higher efficiency, we have obtained high-quality first-hand resources and consolidated the supply chain capability of the Group's second-hand mobile phone 3C business. Now, I will walk you through these four strategic perspectives. First, on the recycling front, we continue to successfully execute our customer acquisition strategy by leveraging our precise recycling scenarios. By the end of 2023, we will have a presence in 268 cities in China, reaching consumers through 1,819 AHS stores offline. We have constantly enhanced our service accessibility in high-quality business districts and communities. We further penetrated the market by combining offline stores with online platforms.
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Xiaoxin Chen: Over the past year, consumer awareness and trust in our AHS recycling brand have steadily increased, especially in big cities where recycling rates are improving. By leveraging our physical stores, premium service reputation, and retail partner teams, we precisely target users' mainstream recycling scenarios. With competitive prices and higher efficiency, we obtain high-quality sources of trade-on-goods, further strengthening the group's supply chain capability in the main business line. In June 2023, we announced that we had reached an agreement with Apple on China's recycling and exchange of new products. Apple trading's official cooperation.
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Xiaoxin Chen: This strategic cooperation aims to meet the needs of users in terms of convenient recycling and lower-cost replacement of new Apple products. Now, this service is already covered by Apple's official website and QiXia flagship store, and it has contributed more than 300 million yuan in revenue to AiHuiShou in the relatively slow fourth quarter of sales. ,, 3C,,,,, 100% June 2023, we were pleased to announce the official collaboration with Apple for its recycling and trading services in mainland China. Our partnership is designed to meet user demands for convenient recycling and low-cost upgrades to brand new iPhone products. This service is now available on the brand's official websites and offline flagship stores.
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Xiaoxin Chen: In the future, we will also expand the recovery service of low-value goods to promote a second flow of more limited goods. We mainly upgrade through our store experience and IT system to build up the ability to make appointments with platform and professional service providers and to build up the ability to recover on multi-platform. , by taking different routes which are coming from a different place or from home, so that customers' favorite items, which have different tastes and brands, can be revitalized. By extending our multi-category recycling efforts, we have further strengthened the appeal of our recycling scenarios for users. The updated slogan, AiHuiShou – Recycling More for You, reflects our commitment to expanding into additional categories beyond our core focus on consumer electronics.
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Xiaoxin Chen: We are dedicated to fulfilling the growing demand for recycling and cash-back for high-value categories such as luxury goods, gold, and vintage wines. Looking ahead, we aim to expand to lower-value item recycling while promoting the recycling and reuse of more idle goods. Building multi-category recycling capabilities primarily involves, and permanently involves upgrading store experiences and IT systems while co-establishing fulfillment capabilities with professional service providers. Our fulfillment strategies vary with the residual value of goods. With in-store drop-off and doorstep pickup options, users could circulate more used products with ease.
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Xiaoxin Chen: 2023,252 202311,, AiHuiShou's brand is moving into the community, closer to the daily life of users and the cross-border communities and business circles. With the increase in the density of stores with multi-category capacity, we encourage users to cross-recycle between different categories. By the end of 2023, we will have introduced multi-category recycling services in 252 AHS stores. During the year, the GMV for non-electronic products at the recycling front exceeded 1 billion RMB.
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Xiaoxin Chen: At the same time, we bring AHS recycling brands closer to communities and users' daily lives. Our extended presence in communities and commercial areas, coupled with an increasing density of multi-category recycling stores, encourages customers to reuse our services more often. Secondly, at the supply chain management level, we will manage the supply chain with high efficiency to ensure that the recycled goods will be reduced at a lower cost and achieve more accurate pricing and pricing in order to provide products to the demand level in a sustainable and stable way., Chinese language Business revenue reached RMB8.1 billion, 9.4% of the main bank's revenue Business contribution accounted for, Among them, in the fourth quarter of 20 This is mainly due to the smart supply chain system, which more accurately selects machines that are suitable for renovation.
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Xiaoxin Chen: Moving on to our supply chain processing capability, our highly efficient supply chain management ensures recycled goods are inspected at a lower cost while achieving accurate grading and pricing results. This allows a consistent and stable supply of goods.
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Xiaoxin Chen: We have also improved our operation centers' shipping and receiving capacity and enhanced their space utilization efficiency. Furthermore, our main operation centers are equipped with compliant refurbishment capabilities. The annual revenue from our self-operated compliant refurbishment business reached 810 million RMB, accounting for 9.4% of the core 1P recycling business segment revenue. Notably, in the fourth quarter of 2023, revenue from the refurbishment business increased by 41.5% compared with the previous year, while the gross profit margin was 1.6 percentage points higher. This is mainly attributable to our intelligent supply chain system, which enables more accurate identification of devices suitable for refurbishment, resulting in a higher number of devices in various conditions being selected for the process., to actively participate in the development and improvement of standards to promote industrial prosperity. In 2023, at the Shenzhen Electronics Industry Association-launched Electronics Product Innovation Industry Professional Committee, WanWuXinSheng, as the main draft unit, participated in the development of electronic products, communication requirements, labels, and information disclosure, quality management, technical specifications, and other group standards. It provides brand manufacturers with knowledge, property rights protection, product information security quality, user rights protection, and other industry references.
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Xiaoxin Chen: We actively participated in the formulation of industry standards while leveraging our supply chain advantages to drive industry prosperity. In 2023, as a major drafting party, IT Renew played a key role in establishing the Electronic Product Refurbishment Industry Committee initiated by the Shenzhen Electronics Industry Association. We contributed to various group standards, including general requirements for refurbishment, labeling, and information disclosure, quality management, and technical specifications. These standards serve as industry references for intellectual property protection, product data security quality, as well as user rights protection.
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Xiaoxin Chen: Merchants now only need to list their products and confirm pricing, while the platform takes care of store operations, sales, customer services, and after-sales support. This initiative significantly lowers the entry barriers for B2C merchants, enriches the platform's supply sources, and ensures a seamless purchasing experience for users. GME for the consignment business sounded up to 70 million RMB in 2023.
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Xiaoxin Chen: In the 4th quarter of 2023, the business of the Tai Chi party's B2B platform went into a rebound, mainly due to the warm-up of trading activities. The number of trading companies has increased by 35.3% In addition, we have also adjusted the low-paid back-up warehouse business in history to further reduce costs and improve the comprehensive cost-performance ratio of B2B platforms. Therefore, the annual income of the Pajitang B2B platform has increased by 14.9% The overall cost-performance ratio has increased by 69 points to 6.02% The overall cost-performance ratio has reached 6.17% and significantly increased to 189 base Therefore, we can be proud to say that the business model of Tai Chi Tang's B6B platform has been fully verified. It is an indispensable basic facility in the second-hand industry.
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Xiaoxin Chen: In the fourth quarter of 2023, the overall business of PJT marketplace rebounded, primarily due to a recovery in trading activities and a 35.3% yield increase in the number of active merchant users. Additionally, we took the strategic decision to restructure the low commission rate for their stock business, and this reduced our cost and optimized the overall take rate of the B2B platform. As a result, in the fourth quarter of 2023, service revenues from PJT Marketplace increased by 14.9% year-on-year, and the overall take rate rose by 69 basis points to 6.02%. On an annual basis, its overall take rate reached 6.17%, a significant improvement of 189 basis points compared to the 2022 level.
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As a result in the fourth quarter of 2023 service revenues from P. J T marketplace increased by 14, 9% year on year and the overall take rate rose by 69 basis points to 6.0% to 2% on an annual basis, It's all I'll take rate reached 617%.
And if he can't improvement of 489 basis points compared to the 'twenty to 'twenty. Two level. We are proud of the proven business model P. J T marketplace athletes and indispensable him for a structure of the industry.
Xiaoxin Chen: We are proud of the proven business model of PJT Marketplace as it's an indispensable infrastructure of the industry. In the future, we will further develop the ability to open up the supply chain and become the best second-hand supplier in the industry. At the same time, we will provide a platform that is suitable for 2C retail and provide it to our customers in a stable manner.
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Xiaoxin Chen: In an environment where consumers are more cautious with their expenses, H-Renew aims to leverage its competitive pricing and quality assurance of pre-owned products to foster mutual success with our partners. Third, in terms of technology and efficiency, we continue to promote the application of automated technology. First, we continue to improve the automation accuracy rate and use Matrix 3.0 as a representative automation automation system, which, in the whole year, reduced by 19% their loss in self-caterialization and others. Moreover, the productivity of the two automated warehouses in Huanan and Huadong has been further improved. That's the third point.
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Xiaoxin Chen: Secondly, with our focus on one-piece business, we improved capacity utilization in our automated operation centers in South and East China. Thirdly, by optimizing supply chain management for receiving and delivering goods in different locations, we reduced logistics costs. As a result of these initiatives, our net gap fulfillment expense as a percentage of total revenue has continued its downward trend, reaching 8.5% for the full year 2023, significantly down from 10.9% in 2022, and this underscores our dedication to achieving further cost reduction at scale. Besides, we are very happy to see that 3C, In addition to the domestic market, Hong Kong and Japan are also starting to use our self-reliant In October 2023, we further explored overseas cooperation and reached agreement with European partners.
As a result of these initiatives our knockout fulfillment expense as a percentage of total revenue has continued its downward trend, reaching eight 5% for the full year of 2023.
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Xiaoxin Chen: We promoted our self-recycling machine in the Swedish market. This plan meets the needs of international partners in the recycling business of CQB's second-hand electronic products. In the future, we will continue to maintain an exploratory pace and make valuable changes to the world's second-hand electronic products. In the overseas market, we are delighted to see strong interest in our automated technology for Korean-owned consumer electronics. Beyond the mainland China market, our quality inspection technology has been successfully deployed in Hong Kong and Japan. In October 2023, we expanded our global footprint by collaborating with a European partner to bring our one-stop recycling kiosk solution to Sweden. Our one-stop solution effectively addresses the international demand for C2B recycling services.
In the overseas market, we are delighted to see strong interest in our automated technology for Crinone consumer electronics B all.
The mainland China market, our quality inspection technology has been successfully deployed in Hong Kong and Japan.
In November 2023, excuse me October 'twenty to 'twenty, three we expanded our global footprint by collaborating with our European partner to bring our one stop one stop recycling kiln.
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The one stop solution effectively addresses the international demand for CECO be recycling services moving forward, we remain committed to our growth trajectory will continue to explore the global circulation offering your own product.
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Xiaoxin Chen: Moving forward, we remain committed to our growth trajectory and will continue to explore the global circulation of pre-owned products. Looking ahead to the first quarter of 2024 and the whole year, we believe that the circular economy industry, where everything is new, will continue to grow steadily as time goes by. It is not affected by economic fluctuations and technological changes.
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Xiaoxin Chen: We can see that the demand for convenient, high-priced, and trustworthy recycling at the recycling end has been confirmed. At the purchasing end, users will be more considerate of their budget for spending, and the demand for commodity goods will be strengthened. At the end of the transaction, it is not uncommon for a second-hand trader to successfully achieve the transaction demand for a provincial business. At the fourth meeting of the Central Financial Commission in the second half of February this year, the Secretary-General emphasized the promotion of a new round of large-scale equipment updates and consumer goods renewal.
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Xiaoxin Chen: As the leading enterprise in the field, WanWuXinsheng has the opportunity to benefit from this trend and better serve the renewal project of JD and its brands. , We will build a solid business model based on a long-term core strategy to improve the brand user mentality of AiHuiShou and solve the most essential pain points of the user, and jointly explore the business ability of high-quality second-hand products with industry partners. We will gradually realize profits and achieve steady growth in the long-term patient process. Looking ahead to the first quarter and the full year of 2024, we believe that We identified several key trends in the sector. On the recycling front, we see a definite demand for convenient, high-priced, and trustworthy recycling services.
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Xiaoxin Chen: On the purchasing end, we see a stronger demand for value-for-money goods from savvy consumers. On the fulfillment end, we see an unchanging need from second-hand merchants for efficient and hassle-free trading and logistics solutions. In late February this year, President Xi emphasized the promotion of a new round of large-scale equipment upgrading and consumer goods trade-in. As a leading company in this field, we are strategically positioned to capitalize on this upward trend and better facilitate JD and brand owners' trade-in programs. Once again, it demonstrates that recycling and trade-in are encouraged by national policies as a long-term stable industry with high certainty and low policy risks.
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Once again, it demonstrates that recycling and trading are encouraged find national policy as a long term stable industry with high certainty and low policy risks going forward well appear to our long term core strategy and fortify our business Foundation well in housing brand awareness for Asia recycled we aim to have.
Xiaoxin Chen: Going forward, we will adhere to our long-term core strategy and fortify our business foundations while enhancing brand awareness for AHS Recycle. We aim to address users' fundamental pain points and collaborate with industry partners to explore the untapped potential of high-quality second-hand products. We will maintain patience in the long run while steadily releasing profits and achieving growth. Last but not least, I would like to add a state-of-the-art honor. In November 2023, Wanwu Xinsheng won the Lutu Society's Global Business Award of 2023, and this voting will determine if the jury will forward a majority or a negative vote.
Rescue is a fundamental pain points and collaborate with industry partners to explore the untapped potential of high quality secondhand products well maintained patients in the long run while steadily releasing profits and we're achieving growth.
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Xiaoxin Chen: This is Wanwu Xinsheng Group's first international stage performance with Archaeology, Schneider Electric, and Baishi Energy. It is also an important recognition by Reuters and professional judges on the innovation and technological development of everything new. We will continue to deepen the circular economy track and drive innovation with technology., Finally, I am delighted to announce an international accolade.
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Xiaoxin Chen: In November 2023, AT Rainier was commended by the judging panel at the Reuters Global Business Responsibility Awards in the Circular Transition category. This marks a milestone for AT Rainier, as it is the first time we have stood shoulder to shoulder with global multinational companies such as Oracle, Schneider Electric, and PepsiCo. The recognition from Reuters and the expert panel is a testament to our innovation and our technological achievements. Moving forward, we will continue to deepen our commitment to the circular economy, driving sustainable industry development through technological innovation. CFO Rex Now I'd like to turn the call over to our CFO Rex for financial updates. Okay, hello everyone.
With global multinational companies, such as Oracle Schneider electric and Pepsico the recognition from Reuters and the expert panel is a testament to our innovation and our technological achievements moving forward, we will continue to deepen our commitment to the circular economy driving sustainable industry development.
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Okay, Hello, everyone I'm pleased to report September 10th Street was a year of significant achievements for our company.
Xiaoxin Chen: I'm pleased to report that 2023 was a year of significant achievement for our company. Both revenue and operating income saw better than expected results. Total net revenue increased by 31.4% to $13 billion. Adjusted operating income of 2023 totaled $251.7 million, a remarkable 36.5 times the number of 2022. Cash inflow from operating activities was healthy, totaling $236 million.
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Xiaoxin Chen: As Kerry said, 2023 was our year of consolidation and efficiency. Moving on to the fourth quarter of 2023, we are pleased to announce another profitable quarter as we recorded another new record in GAAP operating income on revenues that once again exceeded the top end of our guidance. Now, let's take a detailed look at the financials. Please note that all amounts are in IMB and our comparisons are on a year-over-year basis unless otherwise stated.
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We exceeded the top end of our guidance now, let's take a detailed look at your financials. Please note that all amounts are in RMB and all comparisons are year over year basis, unless otherwise stated in the fourth quarter total revenues decreased 29, 9% to three solid $873 six.
Xiaoxin Chen: In the fourth quarter, total revenues increased by 29.9% to $3,873.6 million, driven by strong growth in net gross revenues and rebounding service revenues. Net product revenues increased by 31.1% to 3,522.5 million, while net service revenues were 351.1 million, representing an increase of 19.7%. Growth in net product revenues was primarily driven by an increase in the sales of pre-owned consumer electronics through both PJT and pipeline marketplaces, as well as offline channels, of which sales of 1P refurbished devices totaled 278.2 million, which increased by 41.5% sequentially. The increase in service revenue was primarily due to the recovery of PaiPai and the PJT marketplace, with efficient online and offline customer acquisition and better execution. The overall ticker rate of our marketplaces went up 56 basis points from the fourth quarter of 2022 to 5.36% in the fourth quarter of 2023.
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Xiaoxin Chen: Now, let's discuss our operating expenses to provide greater clarity on the trends in our actual operating-based expenses. We will also discuss our NGAP operating expenses, which better reflect how management views our results of operations. The reconciliations of the GAAP Addend and GAAP Results are available in our earnest release and the corresponding Form 6K furnished with the SEC.
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Xiaoxin Chen: Merchandise costs increased by 32.9% to 3,150 million yuan. The increase was in line with the growth in product sales. Growth margin at the group level was 18.7% in the fourth quarter, and growth margin for our 1P business was 10.6%. In the fourth quarter, AHS Recycle provided its official trading services for Apple. With the release of the iPhone 15, we implemented a proactive approach to attract customers with aggressive pricing strategies, causing gross margin compression. We believe that as our market share within these channels grows, gross profit will gradually return to normal levels. Fulfillment expenses increased by 9.5% to 301.1 million, excluding share-based compensation expenses, which we will refer to as SBC from PR. Nangap fulfillment expenses increased by 14% to 295.6 million.
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Xiaoxin Chen: Under the Nangap measures, the increase was primarily due to an increase in personnel and logistic costs as we conducted more recycling and transaction activities year-on-year. Nangap fulfillment expenses as a percentage of total revenues decreased to 7.6% from 8.7%. So the overall decrease in the rate of fulfillment expenses reflects the impact of economies of scale and efficiency improvements through automated operations. Specifically, as the number of WMC orders grew, the average performance cost per order was reduced. Selling and marketing expenses decreased by 46.6% to $317 million, excluding SPC expenses and amortization and impairment losses of goodwill and intangible assets, and gapped selling and marketing expenses increased by 11.5%. It is reported that China's GDP has fallen 11.3 percent to 246.6 million yuan, primarily due to an increase in expenses related to marketing activities. The gap selling and marketing expenses as a percentage of total revenues decreased to 6.4% from 7.5%. General and Administrative expenses decreased by 18.8% to 62.2 million, excluding SBC expenses.
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Xiaoxin Chen: Gap G&A expenses decreased by 17.4% to 45.2 million, primarily due to a decrease in headquarter office expenses and fees related to professional services. Nangab GNA expenses as a percentage of total revenues decreased to 1.2% from 1.8%. Technology and content expenses increased by 17.1% to $63.8 million, excluding SBC expenses and amortization and impairment losses of goodwill and intangible assets, and Gap Technology and Content Expansion, increased by 50.6% to 58.3 million. The increase was primarily due to an increase in personnel costs in connection with the upgrades of the company's operations center and systems. NGAP technology and content expenses as a percentage of total revenues increased to 1.5% from 1.3%. As a result, our NGAP operating income was 81.6 million in the fourth quarter of 2023, representing a significant increase of 135.8% year-on-year. NGAP's operating profit margin was 2.1%, compared to 1.2% in 4Q2022, to provide some content regarding our balance sheet.
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Xiaoxin Chen: Our inventories amounted to $1 billion at the end of the fourth quarter of 2023, representing a sequential increase of $344.8 million compared with the end of the third quarter of 2023. This increase was primarily due to a surge in recycling volume generated from Apple's official trading program. However, it had a limited impact on our operating cash flow since we had a payment term of $1.2 billion. This is a story that can't be told with just a few words.
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As of December 31st two consensus free cash in a country of covenants restricted cash short term investments in the funds receivable from so the party payment of service provide us totaled $2 90. It is our strong cash position <unk> got a sustainable gross outlook.
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We purchased a full $4 5 million a DSS in the open market for a total consideration of 801 million your stores by December 31st to punt on the Street, we had repurchased a total of 18 point of Fort Meade introduces for $56 5 million in your stores and our share repurchase programs.
Xiaoxin Chen: 45 days and effectively manage relevant payables through bank guarantees. As of December 31, 2013, cash-in-the-cash requirements, restricted cash, short-term investments, and funds receivable from third-party payment service providers totaled $2.9 billion. Our strong cash position safeguards are sustainable, close to all terms. During the fourth quarter of 2023, we repurchased 4.5 million ADSes in the open market for a total consideration of 8.1 million US dollars. By December 31, 2023, we had repurchased a total of 18.4 million ADSes for 56.5 million US dollars under our share repurchase program. Today, we are delighted to announce a new share buyback program that allows us to repurchase up to 20 million US dollars worth of our shares over the next 12 months based on our confidence in our value creation, business growth, momentum, and strong cash flow. Now turning to the business outlook, for the first quarter of 2024, we anticipate total revenues to be between 3,550 million and 3,650 million, representing an increase of 23.6% to 27.1% year-over-year. Please note that this forecast only reflects our current and preliminary views on the market and operational conditions, which are subject to change. This concludes our prepared remarks.
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Delighted to announce a new share buyback program, so that allow us to repurchase up to 20 minutes, you'll start us what's off hour shifts over the next 12 months is based on our competency overdue creation fitness gross momentum and strong cash flow now turning to the Finnish ultra <unk> for the first quarter of 274.
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Please note this forecast reflects our current and preliminary views on the market and operational conditions, which are subject to change. This concludes our prepared remarks.
Operator, we are now ready to take questions.
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Operator: Operator, we are now ready to take questions. We will now begin the question and answer session. To ask a question, you may press star, then 1 on your telephone keypad. If you are using a speakerphone, please pick up your handset before pressing the keys.
At this time, we will pause momentarily to assemble our roster.
Lixin Ju: If at any time your question has been addressed and you would like to withdraw your question, please press star then 2. When asking a question, please state your question in Chinese first, then repeat your question in English for the convenience of everyone on the call. At this time, we will pause momentarily to assemble our roster. The first question comes from Joyce Ju with Bank of America. Please go ahead.
The first question comes from Joyce Ju with Bank of America.
Please go ahead.
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Lixin Ju: Thank you for accepting our questions and congratulating the company on its breakthrough performance. I would like to know what you think about the growth of this year and what are the growth goals for our multi-product business. I will translate my question myself. Additionally, I also want to have some color on what the growth targets are for the multi-category recycling business. Thanks a lot.
Thank you for taking my questions and congratulations on the very solid this quarter am I wanted to ask about your overall growth.
Guidance for 2024.
Additionally, also once you have some colors on what is a growth target for the Moe M O take critically recycling business. Thanks a lot.
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Xiaoxin Chen: Thank you very much for the question. In 2022 and 2023, we have seen users' consumption habits change from being eager to upgrade their quality to pursuing cost-effectiveness. At the same time, we have also seen users' desire to recover and change and the need to exchange for new ones continue to grow. This reflects that in 2023, Zhiyin's annual income reached a 34.4% growth rate. The global exchange rate of JD's channels exceeded a 100% growth rate.
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Xiaoxin Chen: We will continue to promote the main growth wheel of self-sustaining recycling through a larger business scale, a more extensive industrial chain, higher efficiency, achieve more operating profits, and firmly invest in the brand construction of AiHuiShou, so as to further realize the growth of traffic and the scale-up effect. In terms of platform business, we will continue to strengthen the coordination between PaiqiTang and PaiPai. We will expand the supply of 2C products by upgrading B2C PaiPai JiMai services to small and medium-sized stores to satisfy the consumer's purchasing needs to a greater extent, so that the options for purchasing second-hand goods are more abundant. ,,?? We believe the central government's support for the new large-scale consumer goods and E-JiuHuanXin will be beneficial to the development of the JD brand and the manufacturer brands we cooperate with. We will jointly improve the consumer mentality of E-JiuHuanXin and cultivate E-JiuHuanXin as a more mainstream consumption option. We are confident that we will continue to achieve 30% or more share price growth. Thank you for your questions.
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Xiaoxin Chen: During 2022 and 2023, we saw a shift in consumer behavior. Our users' focus transitioned from consumption upgrades to an emphasis on value for money. During this transformation, we noticed a swift rise in user demand for trade-ins and recycling in exchange for cash.
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Xiaoxin Chen: As we mentioned, our 1-year revenue grew 34.4% year-over-year in 2023, with trade-ins through JD more than doubling compared to the previous year. We will continue to drive the core growth flywheel of the 1B Recycling business and to extend our industry value chain through the economy of scale. We aim to expand our operating profit margin further by bringing our operational efficiency to the next level. We are steadfast in investing in the brand of NHS Recycle to unleash the growth of traffic and the economy of scale further.
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Xiaoxin Chen: In terms of our platform business, we strengthened the synergies between TJP Marketplace and Taipei Marketplace and provided small merchants with upgraded consignment services. This helped us build up a more robust 2C supply and meant we could offer a more diverse selection of high-quality second-hand products for our users. Looking ahead to 2024, we place user experience as our top priority while providing the utmost support to the recycling and trading offerings of JD.com and Apple's official trading program. We believe that support from the central government for large-scale trading policies on consumer goods will benefit our collaborations with JD and brand partners. Together, we elevate consumer awareness of trading and cost-weighted burden-saving consumption choice. Because of this, we are confident in achieving a 30% year-over-year revenue growth for our one-tiered business. By 2023, Europe, the exchange amount between international Germany and China had already exceeded RMB11 billion.
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Xiaoxin Chen: We are at a high-speed growth stage. In 2024, we will further enhance users' awareness of AiHuiShou as the number one recycling brand in China by providing more in-product services and opening more AiHuiShou stores. We will continue to enhance user experience, increase price competitiveness, encourage more users to use multi-product recycling, and improve the conversion of 1P mobile phone 3C recycling. By 2023, GMV for our multi-category recycling business will surpass 1 billion RMB. This business has grown rapidly in scale. We set a mild take rate for this business segment in 2023. We trust there is ample growth potential in the take rate.
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Xiaoxin Chen: In 2024, our focus is enhancing user awareness of AHS Recycle as a leading national recycling brand. Our core strategy is to build an even better user experience. To achieve this, we will provide more structured product data on our platform and improve our pricing capabilities. This will drive more recycling transactions across a wider range of categories.
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Xiaoxin Chen: Thank you for the question. The next question comes from Jiang Jin Chen with CICC. Please go ahead.
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Xiaoxin Chen: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for taking my question, and congratulations on the good results. I have two questions.
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And congratulations on the good results I have two questions first could you provide more color on the higher than expected the profitability this year and what's your profitability targets for 2024.
Xiaoxin Chen: First, could you provide more color on the higher-than-expected profitability this year, and what's your profitability target for 2024 and for the medium to long term? Second, in late 2023 and early 2024, the iPhone 15 series faced some challenges from Huawei. Third, how does management view the challenging competitive landscape among mobile phone manufacturers, and how did your Apple trade-in business perform in Q4 2023, and what are your scale and profit targets for 2024? Thank you. Thanks for taking my question, and congratulations on the good results. I have two questions.
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Xiaoxin Chen: So I will take your first question, and Kerry, our CEO, will take your second question. Okay, so first the question. In 2023, we once again achieved breakthroughs in terms of cost efficiencies, other than capital measures, fulfillment, selling and marketing, G&A, and administrative, and technology and content expenses as a percentage of revenues for 8.5%, 7.3%, 1.5%, and 1.3%, respectively. These figures correspond to year-over-year decreases of 2.4%, 1.6%, 0.1%, and 0.6%, respectively. In terms of fulfillment, we achieved a remarkable efficiency improvement. Our efficient system of regional operating centers and centralized self-operated operating stations has further improved our inspection quality and cost controls. The skill effect created by the use of automation technology at operating centers has also had a positive impact.
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Xiaoxin Chen: We are now seeing lower costs related to sorting, quality inspection, and warehouse. When compared to our previous approach of using decentralized, jointly-operated stations, we have also leveraged big data to optimize small-item delivery with low-cost shipping. This has driven down shipping and receiving costs. Overall, our operating center expenses and logistics costs decreased by 9% and 8%, respectively, during 2023. This resulted in a net gap of 1.1 billion, a year-over-year increase of over 2%.
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Xiaoxin Chen: Our total net gap selling and marketing expenses in 2023 were 940 million. This was a year-over-year increase of 7.8%, but a lot lower than our revenue growth rate over the same period. This was mainly driven by HR efficiency improvements from deploying advanced digital CIM tools for the B2B sales team. The result was a 19% cost reduction compared to the previous year. In 2023, net gap general and administrative expenses were 190 million, a year-over-year increase of 21.9%. This was mainly due to office rent and various other administrative costs, including employee travel, training, and benefits.
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Xiaoxin Chen: OpenGAP technology and content expenses were $170 million in 2023. Thanks to the gradual maturation of our platform's technology and the official launch of our South China Automation Operating Center, we did not see significant cost growth in this category. In addition, the cloud migration initiative we launched in 2022 was completed in 2023. This contributed to an overall decrease in technology and content expenses as a percentage of revenue, representing an improvement in scale. The breakdown above highlights the enhancements that led to the increase in our NGAP operating profit in 2023. For path to profitability growth, our primary focus is 1P gross margin and operating efficiency. Our long-term goal is to improve our net-gap operating profit margin by 1% every year. In terms of our 1P business, we prioritize the ability to control our first-hand supply while also enhancing user awareness of our C2B brand, AHS Recycle. We source first-hand supplies at a competitive recycling price.
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Xiaoxin Chen: Going forward, we plan to optimize our pricing mechanism to strike a balance between profitability and growth. In terms of operating efficiency, we are constantly optimizing our cost-to-revenue ratios. Our automation capabilities will continue to improve our fulfillment efficiency. The inspection cost per device was diluted due to an increase in ASD.
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Xiaoxin Chen: In terms of setting and the market, we try to maximize the effectiveness of our P2P sales. At the same time, we plan to strategically leverage social media traffic to attract customers. The algorithms and location-based service capabilities of short video platforms such as Douyin will help us target potential users with great accuracy.
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Xiaoxin Chen: This approach has added benefits to further strengthen our sourcing capabilities and market position. We recognize that the key to building a successful second-hand business also lies in our ability to acquire supplies through brand power. As such, our AHS Recycle brand.
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Xiaoxin Chen: Pivotal for our long-term development path. At this stage, we believe strategically allocating appropriate resources to social media traffic will solidify our long-term competitive position in this dynamic market. OK. I will answer the second question. Apple's official website and 47 offline flagship stores in China have successfully reopened.
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Xiaoxin Chen: With the large-scale sales of the 4th quarter and the retail price that users love, we have received a lot of positive feedback from users on social media. We think that the retail price and user service have improved a lot. At the same time, we have a lot of first-hand, high-quality resources.
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Xiaoxin Chen: The business contributed RMB3 billion in sales revenue in the fourth quarter. In the third quarter, the number of users increased by ninefold when the app was first launched. In fact, the number of users is much larger than the number of sales. This shows that users' acceptance of Apple's old and new devices is increasing. The penetration rate of the old and new devices still has a lot of room for improvement. In terms of profit, we will keep the price strategy flexible according to the feedback of the market so that we can continue to optimize. ,,, I will answer the second question.
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Xiaoxin Chen: We have systematically rolled out our recycling and trading services on Apple's official website and at 47 flagship stores. The service and pricing were highly commended by users on social media front pages. In terms of scale, we secured a significant amount of first-hand supply by leveraging the substantial volume of new iPhone shipments in the fourth quarter and by maintaining competitive recycling prices. The business contributed RMB300 million in product sales revenue during the fourth quarter. This was a slight increase compared to the third quarter.
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Xiaoxin Chen: Our reselling volume is greater than our sales volume, which proves that users' acceptance of Apple's trading for new products is increasing, and there is still much room for improvement in the penetration rate of trading products. We will maintain flexible adjustments to our pricing strategy based on market feedback to optimize our gross profit margin. Importantly, we do not handle front-end fulfillment and marketing for the Apple video. As a result, even though this business segment has a narrow gross profit margin, it has the potential to contribute a relatively higher operating profit margin.
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