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New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. (EDU)

Q4 2014 Earnings Call· Tue, Jul 22, 2014

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Operator

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, good evening. And thank you for standing by for New Oriental Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2014 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in listen-only mode. After management’s prepared remarks, there will be a question-and-answer session. Today’s conference is being recorded. If you have any objections, you may disconnect at this time. I would now like to turn the call over to your host for today’s conference, Ms. Sisi Zhao, New Oriental’s Investor Relations Director. Ms. Zhao, please proceed.

Sisi Zhao

Management

[Thank you]. Hello, everyone. And welcome to New Oriental’s fourth fiscal quarter and fiscal year 2014 earnings conference call. Our financial results for the periods were released earlier today and are available on the company’s website, as well as on Newswire services. Today, you will hear from Louis Hsieh, New Oriental’s President and Chief Financial Officer and Stephen Yang, New Oriental’s Vice President of Finance. After their prepared remarks, Louis and Stephen will be available to answer your questions. Before we continue, please note that the discussion today will contain forward-looking statements made under the Safe Harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties, as such, our results maybe materially different from the views expressed today. A number of potential risks and uncertainties are outlined in our public filings with the SEC. New Oriental does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement except as required under applicable law. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. In addition, a webcast of this conference call will be available on New Oriental's Investor Relations website at investor.neworiental.org. I'll now turn the call over to New Oriental's President and CFO Mr. Louis Hsieh. Louis, please?

Louis Hsieh

Management

Thank you, Sisi. Hello, everyone, and thanks for joining us today. I am pleased to report that we are closing on our fiscal year 2014 with a good set of results which underlines very strong performance in fiscal year 2014. Last fiscal year has been an important one for New Oriental as we completed our (inaudible) in the harvest the market strategy. And I'm delighted to the success of the strategy shift is clear to see. Specifically in 2014, we exceeded $1 billion in revenue for the first time through the major milestone from New Oriental and just as importantly, we recorded a new record high of more than $200 million in net income for the full fiscal year up over 58% over fiscal year 2013. Our fiscal year 2014 GAAP operating income increased by 61% to over U.S.$197 million and our GAAP operating margin improved by 450 basis points to 17.3%, easily beating our original target of 15% to 16%. Looking at the fourth quarter our performance was solid. On the top-line we recorded respectable revenue growth of 20% driven primarily by 4% year-over-year increase in senior enrollment and academic subject tutoring and test preparation courses as well as increase in average selling price. The top-line increase is healthy particularly when we actually ended the year with 703 schools and learning centers, 23 fewer than a year ago period. Starting in the fourth fiscal quarter 2014 we again began to expand our network by adding a net of 3 learning centers and also adding more than 9,300 square meters of additional classroom area by adding 10 of our existing learning centers. Moving into fiscal year 2015 we plan to expand our penetration rate into existing markets by adding capacity incentives where we are experiencing rapid growth and strong profitability.…

Stephen Yang

Management

Thank you, Louis. Hello everyone. Our K-12 all subjects after school tutoring business achieved gross revenue of 15% year-over-year for the fourth fiscal quarter and 20% for the full fiscal year 2014. Breaking this down further, our U-Can middle and high school all subjects after-school tutoring business performed extremely well with gross revenue rose of above 19% year-over-year for the fourth fiscal quarter and 23% for the full fiscal year. These very impressive results for U-Can were dampened somewhat by slower growth in our POP Kids offering. While we are continuing to roll out a completely revamped program across our network, as we expected initiative has resulted in slightly slower enrollment growth as school hold out marketing and promotion along this business line until we complete the roll out of the new program. The roll out should be completed by the second fiscal quarter and we are very excited about the new program. In particular, we think that the integrated online, offline learning capabilities and we're building to the new version which I will talk about shortly, a completely unique. So, we are very confident that POP Kids performance will improve again from the second half of fiscal year 2015, once this new product is out in the market. Overall, the K-12 after-school tutoring segment is now our fastest growing segment which is very encouraging. This is [roughly] growing segment in terms of education sector and New Oriental has been very successful in capturing huge share of the important market. However, bear in mind of this sheet in our business mix will have some effect on the seasonality of our business. And I will discuss this in few minutes when I address our outlook.0 Our oversea test prep and our overseas study consulting business continue to perform well. We reported…

Operator

Operator

Thank you. (Operator Instructions). Your first question comes from the line of Jiong Shao from Macquarie. Please ask your question.

Jiong Shao - Macquarie

Analyst · Macquarie. Please ask your question

Hi. Can you hear me okay?

Louis Hsieh

Management

Yes, go ahead Jiong.

Jiong Shao - Macquarie

Analyst · Macquarie. Please ask your question

Okay, sorry. Thank you for taking my question. Your result on the enrollment of first quarter, sorry if I missed it and for the whole year you talked about the guidance and revenue in Q1 and I was hoping you can comment on (inaudible) revenues for the whole year after the more of a challenging first half. And related to that (inaudible) senior managing departure in the Beijing I was hoping you can comment on that as well. Thank you.

Louis Hsieh

Management

I don’t think I heard it all clearly Jiong. But I think you related to the revenue. One thing I want to make clear to the investors on the call and the analyst is that if you look at our numbers in April we did a very good April month as far as cash revenues were up 26%. May was actually not too bad. It was up 13%. What happened in June is what caused the guidance to be adjusted for this quarter is that in June we saw a 7% decline in revenues we’ve never seen that before. So, and also we saw a 10% decline in enrollment during the June month last month. July was getting to do a little bit better so things are picking up again. So, that’s why the guidance was revised down. Now if you look at last year, we grew 15.7% during the summer quarter but in RMB terms we only grew about 12.7%, so with a 3% bump from the RMB. This year is going to be the opposite, we will lose 1% or 2% from decline in the strength of the RMB. So that's why, that factor is in there. Yet another change in our business that we, so once we saw the slowdown in June we immediately start (inaudible) all the score head to find out why there is a decline in our enrollments. What we could come up with so far we are trying to fix this, one of the big changes is the fact that the new Gaokao exam, the rumor is that the Gaokao exam is that they are making the English section much easier. And so parents aren't so impressed to get their children into summer English bootcamps anymore. And so we've seen a huge dropoff…

Jiong Shao - Macquarie

Analyst · Macquarie. Please ask your question

Okay, sorry Louis, thanks. I was also hoping you can comment on your guidance for the enrollment growth for the first quarter and for the whole fiscal year next year and your revenue…

Louis Hsieh

Management

Yeah, I think originally…

Jiong Shao - Macquarie

Analyst · Macquarie. Please ask your question

For the full fiscal year.

Louis Hsieh

Management

Okay, originally we wanted we were talking about 20%, 18, 22, 23% in revenue growth in the whole year well, obviously Q1 we didn’t get off to a good start in June with revenues down 7%, enrollments were down 10%. So we are revisiting our guidance now and wanted to see how the launch of the Kids English program goes off. Right now our growth is going to be driven by U-Can and by overseas test prep, and so those two. So we are hopeful that second half will be much better than the first half of this fiscal year. Because of the slack in June we are not going to be as aggressive in enrolling out new learning centers. So had 24 learning centers during the quarter, last quarter but we ended up moving nine of them so there were relocations and 12 we actually closed 12 which we didn’t expect to close out many. So we would expect we are revisiting the whole budget for the learning center openings depending on demand. So I don’t want to give a concrete forecast. We expect Q2, Q3 and Q4 revenue growth are definitely better than Q1. So I would think this will be the low and this is sort of what happened last year as well. Q1 was 15.7%, Q2 was 26%, Q3 was, I think 16%, 17%, Q4 was 20% last year. So, I think that trend as Stephen mentioned the K-12 is our fastest growing business, it's 44% of our business now. Overseas test prep and study consulting is 39%, together 83%. I think as we have been saying for couple of years as adult English becomes less important it will have a less of the impacts on the summer quarter, but we didn't expect like I said…

Jiong Shao - Macquarie

Analyst · Macquarie. Please ask your question

Okay. No, that's okay. Thanks.

Louis Hsieh

Management

Okay. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. And your next question comes from the line of Philip Wan from Morgan Stanley. Please ask your question.

Philip Wan - Morgan Stanley

Analyst · Philip Wan from Morgan Stanley. Please ask your question

Hi, Louis, Stephen and Sisi. Thanks for taking my question. My question is about your margin. Given a soft top line growth in Q1 how should we look at the margin for Q1 as far as the full year trend? Thank you.

Louis Hsieh

Management

Yes I was hoping to get slight margin improvement originally in the budget for fiscal year 2015. But obviously you are correct to look at the slow revenue in Q1 will hurt our margin. So I would -- I am going to differ for one quarter at the margin question until I see how things shape out over the next several of weeks. We're going to become more aggressive on the marketing side to try to establish this quarter as well as also the future quarters to come. Also we're investing heavily in the online business that you heard from our call tonight. In addition we're beginning with the partnership with ATA we're going to enter the professional training side on the online basis. We're entering obviously a partnership with Tencent, we expect worldwide a number of new products that will require lot of investment in the online side. So looking at that heavily online both R&D and marketing. I think if there is -- we expected sort of market margin neutral to have slight increase in the core business but that's now in jeopardy obviously because the revenues are going to come in short on the first quarter.

Philip Wan - Morgan Stanley

Analyst · Philip Wan from Morgan Stanley. Please ask your question

A follow on your online strategy. Since like there are lots of different things going on at the same time, would you share with us which one or two initiatives are mission critical that you must accomplish? And also if you can add some color on the financial budget obviously related to online that would be great. Thank you.

Louis Hsieh

Management

Okay. The most mission critical part of the online strategy is the O2O integration. So that’s the roll out of the new POP program which also a similar roll outs for UK and obviously tests across our whole network. And that’s the whole online offline integration where a student can learn on the mobile devices, can take their exams to interact with teachers and social network with their peers. So that’s the key rollout. The other ones are all more long-term initiatives. So what an ATA we expect that they have a wealth of knowledge about the professional test takers. And we’re an expert in contact. So we want to leverage together our partnership to develop sort of professional training testing materials in the finance and accounting area and law in civil service exams and other IT and professional capacities. So that’s the more longer-term initiative. Same thing with Tencent; our partnership there we’re going to roll out new technology products and courses and so that’s going to be done in a collaborative time, which will take some time. So we’re setting up teams to do that as well. We also believe this year in DONUT and Koolearn are probably the second most important as we want to get more classes and more of our ecosystem up and running. So O2O in the ecosystem where we allow students to learn in the new environment as long as also the young kids the DONUT and those are the ones that have immediate mission critical impact over the next year, they are the ones more long-term. As far as [spend] goes we’re looking at probably $20 million to $30 million was original budget for online spending this year both in IT and R&D which is certainly more than last year, it’s as Michael said it was 15% or 17% more than last year?

Michael Yu

Analyst · Philip Wan from Morgan Stanley. Please ask your question

Yes, 16%.

Louis Hsieh

Management

Yes, 16% more than last year, so it’s a significant bump. And that will also obviously be margin dilutive. But like I said we’re not going to go back to the rapid expansion days where margin falls 200, 300 basis points a year. That's why we're going to spend our forecast of number of learning centers until we get to figure out, how we drive up to demand get this kids program rolled out quicker.

Philip Wan - Morgan Stanley

Analyst · Philip Wan from Morgan Stanley. Please ask your question

Right.

Louis Hsieh

Management

As you guy know we let go or POP school head. So there is a way to not even change as well as a launch of a new program. So it wasn't executed obviously as well as [into the life].

Philip Wan - Morgan Stanley

Analyst · Philip Wan from Morgan Stanley. Please ask your question

Alright. Thanks Louis.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. And your next question comes from the line of Trace Urdan from Wells Fargo. Please ask your question.

Trace Urdan - Wells Fargo

Analyst · Trace Urdan from Wells Fargo. Please ask your question

Thank you. I wonder if you could describe the economic impact of O2O. What that, just what the economics involved at the top-line and the margin line. And then maybe related to that, Louis if you could just comment on, you’ve got all these different online initiatives going on five years from now what implication does this have for revenue and margins the online activity that you're seeing, at what point does it become kind of relevant to the P&L and how should we think about that?

Louis Hsieh

Management

Thanks Trance. Yes, I think we have a lot of initiatives going on now. I don't know what happens five years from now, but onlines are up 3% to 4% of our revenue today, but we expect obviously rapid growth from the online initiatives that we're undertaking today. So I think that we would like to get it probably at least 15% to 20% of revenue in five to seven years. Now as far as the, sorry what was the first part of your question, I'm sorry I missed that I had to start…

Trace Urdan - Wells Fargo

Analyst · Trace Urdan from Wells Fargo. Please ask your question

I am trying to understand what the economic impact of that is. So specifically with O2O since that’s something that that is just immediately relevant, but than even more broadly, if you're talking 15% to 20% of revenue, how much of that is replacing revenue and how much of it is incremental revenue, and what kind of margins you expect to have on that revenue?

Louis Hsieh

Management

Well, the O2O is not part of online revenue, so it’s mission critical because it sets our programs well above other competitors’ programs. So the ability O2O will be integrated into the offline business, but not a significant online component. It won’t be -- the revenue won’t broken out separately Trace. So for instance, like a POP Kids class today will cost $180, $200; we expect at least a 30% to 40% premium when we roll out the O2O program, the new program that has online, offline features. So it will be much more expensive offering because it’s much more effective in teaching kids and helping kids to learn. It may actually end up having a negative impact on enrollments because of the cost but it will have a positive impact as far as margins and as far as revenue in the kids sector. So it’s hard for us to make forecast given the program is delayed by a few months. So I want to suspend that forecast until we get the program rolled out in the big cities.

Trace Urdan - Wells Fargo

Analyst · Trace Urdan from Wells Fargo. Please ask your question

Okay, thank you.

Louis Hsieh

Management

Thanks. But the most important one is O2O for us and ecosystem because from those platforms a lot of offline, online revenue will be combined together and they will give us higher margin as well as higher revenue even if it needs not as rapid enrollment increase.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. And your next question comes from the line of Fei Fang from Goldman Sachs. Please ask your question.

Fei Fang - Goldman Sachs

Analyst · Fei Fang from Goldman Sachs. Please ask your question

Hi Louis, Stephen and Sisi thanks for taking the question. Can you talk a little bit about the share buyback how would you plan to finance the repurchase and how much of your current net cash is parked onshore versus offshore and also should we bake in, I mean withholding tax to our numbers? Thank you.

Louis Hsieh

Management

Right now, we have probably one-third or one -- little bit may be more is offshore cash. And the rest will be done in sort of onshore, offshore loan. So, we will-- so right now we're not required to book the 10% withholding.

Fei Fang - Goldman Sachs

Analyst · Fei Fang from Goldman Sachs. Please ask your question

Great. Also full of question here on the POP Kids program and also the difference between POP Kids, old POP Kids program and the new kind of Shuang You program. What exactly is the upgrade here? What's the difference in terms of user functionality and should we expect the meaningful pick up in the segment’s revenue contribution after the second quarter? Thank you.

Louis Hsieh

Management

I mean, we're certainly hopeful that it will -- the pickup will be quite rapid beginning in the second and third quarter of this year. The difference is that the old program was more paper and pen with blackboard, the old way of learning. The new program has a lot of interactive blackboards; has allowed the students to do their work from tablet devices and mobile phones and PCs. And the teachers will -- why don’t you answer, you know the program obviously.

Sisi Zhao

Management

Yes. The new POP program, actually the teachers can use software to teach students in class and also in the classroom they have interactive whiteboard to be more interactive and more interesting learning process and also have a platform integrates the communication between teacher and students and parents and also encourage to -- recommend homework and also after school practice and prepare with students and more interesting.

Louis Hsieh

Management

Yes, it's what we've been saying over the last two quarters. We allow parents to more closely monitor the children’s progress. And that certainly will be much more effective in working because it can work from any device anywhere and also the classroom the environment will be much more fun. Because it won't be just boring, listening to your teacher pronounce words but you will be listening characters and watching the interaction between the students and teacher and the programs. So they’re being rolled out now. We expect to charge obviously premium for this. And so we would expect higher margins from this product assuming that the consumers adopt it in a big way.

Fei Fang - Goldman Sachs

Analyst · Fei Fang from Goldman Sachs. Please ask your question

Got it. Thanks very much.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. And your next question comes from the line of Tian Hou from TH Capital. Please ask your question.

Tian Hou - TH Capital

Analyst · Tian Hou from TH Capital. Please ask your question

Hi Louis, Steve and Sisi. I have a question related to your Internet education. So you've mentioned, you guys (inaudible) mentioned Tencent. So I wonder if you could give us some details. I guess I would like to know what kind of course are you going to put online and when are you going to launch it and how you plant to target and how many additional students do you think those online classes will reach and what's the relationship of online course with your existing offline course. So all those details; I would like to have as many details as possible. Thank you.

Louis Hsieh

Management

I think yes, I mean we said in the press release what we can on a competitive basis say. The idea is to form a long-term partnership that will launch many programs. The beginning ones, what I can tell you will be applications. There won't be full courses initially -- there will be more application base. So the new ways of -- new sort of applications that will draw students and I can't tell you what they will be specifically for competitive reasons. As far as launch date, we are targeting late this year, early next year for the first programs to come out. And then we like I said, both sides have invested significant amount of money into this cooperation. And so we have the team is working seriously to develop these programs. So, this is a long-term initiative; it’s not going to have any short-term impact on our revenues. But I think it’s part of the things we need to do to get our technicals into all of online education, so that we’re everywhere. So, the same way is the partnership with ATA to get professional training. It is an area I think is perfect for online and we want to be the leader in the space. And so we will leverage their knowledge and their day-to-day of professional test takers and our content strength. We invested in [Terina] for that reason as well to get active and professional content of professional training. So you’ll see that’s similar to what Tencent and Alibaba have been doing in the internet world to see us reach our technicals into many areas of online education and find out the ones that we can make difference and grow our online business, so we are by far the market leader. But don’t expect any short-term results.

Tian Hou - TH Capital

Analyst · Tian Hou from TH Capital. Please ask your question

Okay. So, one more question related to expansion and the competition. So as the company’s expansion like a new learning center slowdown and I would imagine the demand for the children service is not slowed down. So, in the lower tier cities if EDU are not going there yet, I would imagine a lot of local vendors are going to start their own tutorial service, so how do we deal with that? So, on one hand, we can’t expand too much and but the other hand if we don’t expand, we’re going to have some new smaller competitors here and there. So how do we win such kind of competition going forward? How do we deal with that?

Louis Hsieh

Management

Yes, that’s a great question Tian. I think our strategy in the kids sector is to be at the high-end. So I think that we always stay in competition in every market we enter into, city, geography or product. Our strategy has always been to be at the high-end. So I think the competitors come into lower tier cities and other areas and they will be, they will pick most of the lower end of the market and the mid end of the market and we'll play at the high-end. So that's all, we still want to grow, if the city is doing well and the product, we will add learning tests. The 9,300 square meters capacity is equivalent to 7 million centers. So actually we added 10 million centers for the quarter in Q4. The reason I'm slowing down in Q1 is because, we didn't expect a huge drop off in enrollments in June. I mean so we're beginning to rethink it because I don't want to get driven, our capacity and the margins have to fall then. And its partly because of the delay in the rollout of the kids program. Not integration, we have a lot of IT that these go into this we're going to 50 cities. The other problem we have honestly, it's a demit is that there is a lot of PE money flying into in the online education sector. And so beginning to trying to hire away a lot of our people and so it's a problem that I know it's been demit in here and not expected for a long time and now the education sector, I mean online education sector as well. So we are struggling to find in that qualified IT people to help us with these rollouts. Give you away by PE, by huge valuations for PE, from Private Equity Funds.

Tian Hou - TH Capital

Analyst · Tian Hou from TH Capital. Please ask your question

Okay. So that is tough situation. At least…

Louis Hsieh

Management

We will play, we will go after the kids market, but we'll go after the high-end, then we have middle of the high-end.

Tian Hou - TH Capital

Analyst · Tian Hou from TH Capital. Please ask your question

Okay. That's very help Louis. So that's all my questions.

Operator

Operator

Thank you very much. (Operator Instructions). Next moving on to the next question coming from the line of Leon Chik from J.P. Morgan. Please ask your question.

Leon Chik - J.P. Morgan

Analyst · J.P. Morgan. Please ask your question

Hi, thanks for taking my question. My question is you mentioned the changing - is taking money or parents taking money away from the English classes are there any other courses that benefit from parents allocating their money maybe K-12 or math or physics? Yes that’s my question thanks.

Louis Hsieh

Management

Well I think what’s happening is that they are not, we used to get a lot of students in U-Can to come to our summer camps middle and high schools kids have started English camps, we saw like a 25% drop off this summer which is unexpected and when we asked these school heads what’s going on with the summer camp, the answers came back to what we said is that a lot of parents are uncertain because the Gaokao is being rumored to be easier in English the future one, also if you are allowed to take multiple administration in the English they are not so impressed to do English boot camp in one quarter, you get more than one chance at it. And so those are I think who will benefit from that will be obviously the science and math classes if they are going to allocate the money anyway for the quarter even Chinese as well but Chinese have been reemphasized right on the Gaokao we’re the leader in Chinese prep but we were famous for the English summer camps and we have seen a huge dropoff there as well as in the adult English as well. So those are the two biggest impacts to our business along with the POP Kids the revamp. So it’s something on the Gaokao where we don’t know until the provinces come out with their concrete rules, we are currently in the state of flex. We think long-term, it will help us, because book for multiple administrations for the Gaokao, but in the short term because of uncertainty parents don't want to spend a lot of money to send their kids to Beijing and Shanghai for starting this boot camp. And I think it's, I also believe that if you read the all the local press is that the economy is slowing in China, real estate debt prices are falling. So you don't have it much discretionary income as they may have had in the past couple of years.

Leon Chik - J.P. Morgan

Analyst · J.P. Morgan. Please ask your question

So, potentially if you do have a benefit in these Science, Math or Chinese classes, I mean that's like second and third quarter right?

Louis Hsieh

Management

Yes, I think the students still have to do the studying. So, they will come back, but the parents don't want to spend the money, when there is a lot of uncertainty. As what happens to us whenever there is a new SAT coming out or a new GRE or something. When there is uncertainty at the beginning, people wait until there is more it's crystallized. And I think is that, and New Oriental doesn't have the most sensitive offers, because everyone knows they are going through a product refresh. So, there is a lot of reasons why parents they want to wait a quarter or so. It's not depressing as where it was English was such a important, if the government is been effective in trying to downplay the importance of English over the last six months it's in all over the press.

Leon Chik - J.P. Morgan

Analyst · J.P. Morgan. Please ask your question

Okay. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. And your next question comes from the line of Clara Fan from Jefferies. Please ask your question.

Clara Fan - Jefferies

Analyst · Clara Fan from Jefferies. Please ask your question

Hi, thank you for taking my question. I got a question on the ASP growth for first quarter of fiscal year '15, previously we mentioned about 10% to 15% ASP growth, but with a lot of O2O investment that we are doing on top of, in addition to POP kids that you raised the price by 30% to 40% I guess the order one is U-Can were also increasing in the same O2O business. So would we be raising ASP by not more than before as well, that’s my question. Thank you.

Louis Hsieh

Management

Yeah I mean I think at this point our budget is still to raise prices about 10% to 12% on an apples-to-apples basis. As the new products come out if they are adapted well the price will go up there, probably at a rate of 10% to 12%. Like the all-in-all English program is starting out at a much higher price point.

Clara Fan - Jefferies

Analyst · Clara Fan from Jefferies. Please ask your question

Okay. Thank you.

Louis Hsieh

Management

Obviously demand is now -- demand is now strong as we expected it to be we won't raise price as much.

Clara Fan - Jefferies

Analyst · Clara Fan from Jefferies. Please ask your question

And just one follow up question on us investing on so many online initiatives would that potentially kind of (inaudible) offline business? Thank you.

Louis Hsieh

Management

I think it will and we fully expect it to and we're ready for it. That’s exactly what we expect to happen and like I said we would rather capitalize our own business than have somebody else do it to us. So but it wont effect as much the kids business. I don't think it would actually affect the SAT business that much either the overdue test prep where it will be, it will be in new areas. I think it will effect the professional services area which we want to go into. We believe it will, it will affect mostly professional education and adult education and our ability with business is slowing anyway. So we would rather cannibalize it ourselves than have somebody else do it. So we're very poised and we expect it to happen.

Clara Fan - Jefferies

Analyst · Clara Fan from Jefferies. Please ask your question

Thank you.

Louis Hsieh

Management

Yeah, the trade off is a bigger reach, right? You reach a lot more students and at also higher margins because online business cost is much to deliver the services.

Operator

Operator

Okay. And your next question comes from the line of Kenny Lou from Flowering Tree. Please ask your question.

Kenny Lou - Flowering Tree

Analyst · Kenny Lou from Flowering Tree. Please ask your question

Hi Louis. Thanks for taking my question. Hello? Can you hear?

Sisi Zhao

Management

Please go ahead.

Louis Hsieh

Management

Yes. Go ahead.

Kenny Lou - Flowering Tree

Analyst · Kenny Lou from Flowering Tree. Please ask your question

Yes. So, actually the follow-up question on previous question about the ASP. So just now you mentioned about the competition in the second and third tier cities from the local territory centers, so can you just give us like breakdown on like so far what you see in terms of the enrollment in ASP for the three tier business segment the overseas test, prep, U-Can and POP Kids for the fiscal year so far?

Louis Hsieh

Management

Yes. For the overseas test prep we expect that the year continue by zero to 5% growth and (inaudible) 10% to 12%. So I think it’s going pretty standard for overseas test prep. U-can probably similar although Stephen did mention we had a one-time promotion, 10% price get market share in Beijing and that was very effective. So, we do have vacation promotions there, but I think U-Can price to continue to rise 10% to 12% next year. Now one thing we didn't mention in the call earlier, what we decided that New Oriental students again outperformed everybody on the Gaopao as far as award wins. We had 12 Gaopao students who scored 1, 2, or 3 in the Provincial city that means 37% for the last four years and I think our competitors want to matched up. So, the results sort of speak for themselves. On the Kids side as where we obviously have the issue right now. So, enrollments are down in the first quarter pricing is up about 5% so far this first quarter. But we’re not spending a lot of money marketing it, because it's not a -- that's a big program. So we are marketing the new program as it rolls up. So it's not going as top, yeah. Okay.

Kenny Lou - Flowering Tree

Analyst · Kenny Lou from Flowering Tree. Please ask your question

How much U-Can went down in the Q1 so far?

Louis Hsieh

Management

Well U-Can is not down Kids is down.

Kenny Lou - Flowering Tree

Analyst · Kenny Lou from Flowering Tree. Please ask your question

Okay, Kids is down

Louis Hsieh

Management

So Kids is down, U-Can should not be down, I don't have a number for Q1 yet.

Kenny Lou - Flowering Tree

Analyst · Kenny Lou from Flowering Tree. Please ask your question

Okay. Because you mentioned that the U-Can English camp...

Louis Hsieh

Management

It was down by 10% for the month of June, but we have never seen that before.

Kenny Lou - Flowering Tree

Analyst · Kenny Lou from Flowering Tree. Please ask your question

Okay.

Louis Hsieh

Management

But mostly, it's in the Kids, in the adult English. So the adult English, we expected but not a 29% decrease in the revenues. So mostly in adult English in Kids, it's not in U-Can and overseas test prep. So if we can fix Kids and go back to same old part of adult English which is fine, so we need to get Kids right and then I think it'll be fine.

Kenny Lou - Flowering Tree

Analyst · Kenny Lou from Flowering Tree. Please ask your question

So the so called semi-English U-Can business that you are talking about is in Kids segment or the U-Can segment?

Louis Hsieh

Management

It is a Kids and yeah, it's boot camp for kids and middle school kids. So yeah it does over a little bit in U-Can. The day school U-Can is doing fine, it is just a summer camps for students travel in there. So the broadbased classes for U-Can English are down 28% of revenue for the first seven weeks of the quarter that’s your answer. But the day school class for U-Can is up 22%. And the overall revenue for U-Can is up 10% for the first six weeks and its beginning to pick up in July as well. So this is weekend in May, we have 14% backlog in deferred revenue, June was down that July is backup. So that's why we're guiding 6% to 10% for the quarter, don’t forget we lose 1 to 2 percentage points because RMB depreciation as well. So it’s not as dramatic of slowdown as on RMB terms as it is on U.S. dollar terms.

Kenny Lou - Flowering Tree

Analyst · Kenny Lou from Flowering Tree. Please ask your question

Sure.

Louis Hsieh

Management

Okay. So Q1 has been the last three or four years always been slower revenue because of the slowdown; that’s a big quarter for adult English. Adult English means CT4 and college level English. That’s always been declining and we have been telling you for years it’s going to decline because of the as we teach kids English, they don’t need to learn as adult anymore. We cannibalized our own business for the last 10 years.

Kenny Lou - Flowering Tree

Analyst · Kenny Lou from Flowering Tree. Please ask your question

Yes, but adult English in terms of percentage of revenue is lower right, even though…

Louis Hsieh

Management

Seven or eight years ago, or seven years ago when IPOed, it was 25%-30% of revenue, now it’s down to 10%-12% of revenue. So like you said, at some point it won’t matter but this year for some reason in June it was down 28% which is a lot, it is 15% and that’s partly we think -- 28%, that’s partly because we think it’s the fact that this whole thing of English being the emphasize and especially this like the CT4 as that isn’t important exam anymore. So the college kids aren’t taking English during the summer. They have been learning it for 10 years as kids, so they don’t need to learn it as adults anymore.

Kenny Lou - Flowering Tree

Analyst · Kenny Lou from Flowering Tree. Please ask your question

Okay, got you. Thank you.

Louis Hsieh

Management

Okay. So our future going forward, the one we have to think is kids, overseas test prep remains healthy, U-Can remains healthy. If we get kids going that’s 83% of our revenue. And those get over 20%, so we need to get the kids rolled out correctly. And as long-term we are -- we want to add growth drivers like online and also professional training, online professional training.

Operator

Operator

Okay. Thank you very much. We are now approaching the end of the conference call. I will now turn the call over to New Oriental President and CFO, Louis Hsieh for his closing remarks.

Louis Hsieh

Management

Again, thank you everyone for joining us today. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact me or any of our Investor Relations representatives. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen that does conclude the conference for today. Thank you for participation. You may now disconnect. Have a nice day.