Shao-Min Cheng
Analyst · Franklin Templeton. The question is on Middle East a lot. Is there any update on the partnership with a lot or the Middle East conflicts, do you see any impact in production and development plans, what's the CapEx outlook for the coming financial year I would like to it our Group CFO, Winston to address the question
Thank you, Yuanqing. I'm pleased to walk you through Lenovo's fourth fiscal quarter and full year results of '25, '26, a year that delivered record revenues with margin expansion and accelerating momentum in AI-driven growth across our entire product and services portfolio. We delivered record fourth quarter revenue of $21.6 billion, up 27% year-on-year, the highest year-on-year growth rate in the last 5 years. This exceptional performance with broad-based strength across all business groups was driven by the strong AI-driven demand and underpinned by our resilient and operational excellence despite rising component costs in the war in the Middle East. AI is at the heart of our multiyear growth trajectory. Our AI-related revenues grew 84% year-on-year, representing 38% of total group revenues for the quarter. This acceleration reflects strong demand across AI-enabled devices infrastructure solutions and enterprise services, underpinned by our global reach, scale, broad product portfolio and continuous innovation. Across our business groups, IDG achieved record global PC market share for the fourth fiscal quarter while maintaining stable operating margins with industry-leading profitability despite component cost pressures. Motorola smartphone delivered its highest quarterly shipment volume for the fourth fiscal quarter with operating margin expansion. ISG demonstrated solid transformation progress, etching record quarterly revenue and operating profit of $202 million. The business deliver full year profitability while establishing a clear sustainable road map to capture future AI infrastructure opportunities. SSG achieved revenues of $2.6 billion with a record 62% of revenues from Managed Services and Project and Solutions, reflecting continued portfolio shift toward higher-value recurring and solution-led offerings. These result and profitable growth across all business groups clearly demonstrate our operational excellence, enabling us to turn macroeconomic challenges into opportunities while further reinforcing our core competitiveness in the AI era. This has been a record year in our 40 years of history, and we will continue to drive higher revenues with profitability improvement. In a year of macro headwinds with tariffs, higher component prices and a war in the Middle East, we have delivered on what we promised leveraging the strength of our experience, global supply chain, manufacturing, strong execution and product innovation. We surpassed the $8 billion revenue against a challenging macro environment, and we have a clear ambition to become a $100 billion company in 2 years. In fiscal year '26, all business groups delivered solid double-digit year-on-year revenue growth and further expanded market share across PCs , smartphones, infrastructure services and solutions. AI-related revenues more than doubled, growing 105% year-on-year. In IDG, we strengthened our market leadership in all PC segments, while PC adjacencies continue to deliver double-digit year-on-year revenue growth with a clear uplift in margins. In smartphones, we achieved record shipments and activation for Motorola with the highest premium shipment mix of 19%. ISG is well positioned for future growth and accelerated profitability improvement. We are experiencing accelerating growth momentum from AI training to enterprise inferencing. This financial year, ISG achieved record revenues and profitability with a strong AI server pipeline for continued future expansion supported by an expanding global customer base who increasingly value Lenovo's ability to deliver an optimized AI portfolio. We continue to see strong demand across CSP and in SMB with AI infrastructure becoming a key growth engine for the year ahead. In SSG, we reached a revenue milestone of $10 billion and more than doubled operating profits over 5 years. We enter the next year with strong momentum driven by growing demand for TruScale as customers increasingly look for financial flexibility and services in accelerating enterprise adoption of hybrid AI solutions. In the fourth quarter, our adjusted operating income delivered 73% year-on-year growth and operating margins expanded to 3.9%. Our adjusted net income doubled during the quarter and grew to $559 million growing at nearly 4x the rate of top line, adjusted net margins increased to 2.6%. For the full financial year, we deliver both operating and net margin expansion driven by operating efficiency gains, higher scale and strategic revenue mix improvements across the group. Adjusted net income grew 43% year-on-year, more than doubling revenue growth. For fiscal year '25, '26, basic earnings per share reached USD 0.1563. The Board declared a final dividend of HKD 0.337 per share, combined with an interim dividend of HKD 0.085 per share. The total dividend for the fiscal year will be HKD 0.422 per share, our highest dividend ever. Now let me turn to IDG. In the fourth quarter, IDG delivered 24% year-on-year revenue growth to $14.6 billion. Operating margin was 6.9%, supported by disciplined execution, operational excellence and continued innovation. PC shipments delivered a record fourth quarter global market share of 24.4%, up 1.3 percentage points year-on-year. Premium PC shipment reached 50% in the fourth quarter, with shipments up 29% year-on-year, reflecting strong execution in the higher-value segment. In smartphones, we delivered double-digit revenue growth year-on-year in the fourth quarter, expanding the year with record revenue. Looking ahead, smartphone profitability expansion will continue to be driven by scale economics, premiumization, AI and software ecosystem integration and monetization opportunities. Our devices product road map continues to reflect focused innovation in areas where we see rising customer demand and market opportunities. In PCs, we launched our lightest ThinkPad T Series, designed for longer productivity with a high-density battery. We also enhanced the services offering to deliver greater life cycle value for enterprise deployments. On the gaming side, we introduced Lenovo's first Legion gaming laptop bolt-on a unified memory architecture, bringing unmatched battery life and performance featuring pure site OLED display for better visual experience. To capture demand from agentic AI, we launched a ThinkCentre Neo 50q with OpenClaw functionality designed for SMB customers seeking AI-driven productivity and enhanced performance for AI-assisted workloads. In PC adjacencies our signature ultra-wide ThinkVision P40WD monitor delivers 34% lower energy consumption. Its energy-efficient features enable a 3-year payback and 0 cost of ownership, demonstrating how innovation can drive both customer value and sustainability outcomes. In smartphones, the Razr family & Signature FIFA World Cup addition is titanium reinforced with exclusive tournament features, further strengthening our premium portfolio and brand appeal. In personal AI, Lenovo and Motorola officially announced the rollout of QIRA in April 2026, our personal ambient intelligence super agent that captures the industry's broadest cross ecosystem for spanning PCs, tablets, smartphones and wearables. And with privacy design hybrid AI architecture prioritizes on-device processing to keep personal data local, preserving personalized context aware assistance and connected user experiences across AI devices. Through a growing partner ecosystem, QIRA also creates ongoing opportunities for premiumization and monetization through value-added services on premium devices. Now moving on to ISG. Our hybrid AI strategy is providing a clear and differentiated path to capture both AI training and enterprise interesting opportunities. The strategy is now translating into the strongest performance in ISG history. ISG is positioned as a key player in the AI investment in super cycle reflected in record fourth quarter and full year results with hyper growth at a clear premium to the market. We continue to expand server market share, standing out as the only vendor ranked amongst the top 3 both globally and in China. In the fourth quarter, ISG delivered a record revenues of $5.6 billion, up 37% year-on-year while operating profit reached a record $202 million. We will continue to strive for further margin improvements, benchmarking against the industry. Full year revenue reached a record high of $19.2 billion, up 32% year-on-year and operating profit rose to $73 million. This is the major milestone for the business, marking not only the best revenue performance but also a clear proof that our transformation is driving sustainable profitability and long-term value creation for Lenovo shareholders. We are seeing strong demand across CSP and ESMB, and AI infrastructure is rapidly becoming a material growth engine for ISG. Our AI server revenue delivered high double-digit full year year-on-year growth, supported by a strong $21 billion pipeline and more than 5,800 AI customer deployment with demand continuing to outpace available supply. We are turning AI momentum into real customer value through faster time to first token scaled into rack shipments and continued innovation across our AI infrastructure road map. Last quarter, we shipped our first GB300 NVL72 racks, and we are preparing Rubin-based platforms for targeted time-to-market in the second half of this year. We believe this is just the beginning of a multiyear world cycle and Lenovo is well positioned to benefit. Our product innovation, customer-focused, resilient supply chain, operational excellence and expanding production capacity give us the ability to scale with customers and navigated dynamic AI data center environment. In early April, we completed the acquisition of Infinidat, a strategic step that strengthens Lenovo's position in high-end enterprise storage. This allows us to capture the $38 billion addressable enterprise storage market with critical IPs to capture full value across key verticals. Infinidat brings industry-leading innovation capability, while Lenovo brings global scale, competitive infrastructure portfolio and a proven execution engine. Together, we are expanding our reach to deliver high-end storage solutions worldwide and create a stronger path to higher margin growth over time. Turning now to SSG. SSG has continued to deliver consistent double-digit year-on-year revenue growth, growing significantly faster than the broader IT services industry. In fiscal year '25, '26 has reached a new revenue milestone of $10 billion and operating profit more than doubled in the last 5 years, reflecting the advantage of our tech-led labor-light delivery model. In the fourth quarter, SSG grew 19% year-on-year to $2.6 billion, while operating margin reached 22.4%. Demand for consumption-based solutions remains increasingly strong as customers navigate inflationary pressures in a more complex macroeconomic environment alongside a search in AI-driven compute demand. TruScale is a key to driver, enabling customers to move from infrastructure to AI in production through an end-to-end offering spanning design, build and operate. We're seeing strong DAS and infrastructure-as-a-service demand as enterprises and cloud providers look for greater cost predictability, supply assurance and more flexible ways to scale AI capabilities. As agentic AI drives exponential growth in inferencing demand, enterprises increasingly need validated hybrid AI platforms that can deliver superior economics at scale, one of the biggest barriers to AI adoption globally remains uncertain return on investment, and this is exactly where a hybrid AI advantage is differentiated. Combining private public environments to accelerate time to first token, improve token efficiency and maximize value per token, Lenovo hybrid AI helps enterprise customers shorten time to ROI to less than 6 months while delivering production-ready AI environment in as little as 90 days. The Rubin-based platforms deliver up to 10x lower cost per token versus previous generations helping customers bring AI workloads on premises with greater efficiency and stronger control over data and a clear repeatable business outcomes. With Lenovo's hybrid AI advantage I Score, our AI library now includes more than 60 enterprise-ready use cases across sectors such as manufacturing, retail and sports with repeatable and measurable outcomes. Our AI-driven Lights Out contact center improves customer experience and also enhances operational efficiency by 60%, built on our spans manufacturing footprint and partnership we have deployed AI-powered RoboDogs across more than 50 ability sites globally, improving detection accuracy, cost savings and safety. In sports, FIFA AI Pro demonstrates how our enterprise AI capabilities can scale across one of the world's most data-intensive environment. The solution analyzes more than 2,000 metrics to deliver real-time insights, supporting all 48 teams in the FIFA World Cup 2026 across 3 countries, delivering faster, more data-driven decision. The group's long-standing commitment to strong governance, sustainability and inclusion continues through a global recognition. In 2025, Lenovo was named to CDP's Corporate A-List for climate leadership, maintaining a AA+ rating in the Hang Seng Corporate Sustainability Index and retains the EcoVadis Platinum metal, placing the group amongst the top 1% globally for ESG performance. Building on this recognition, Lenovo continues to deliver concrete progress across operations and products. We remain on track to reach net zero emissions by 2050, have converted 90% of electricity used across global operations to renewable sources in the past 6 years and now include post-consumer recycled materials in 100% of our PC products. Smartphone packaging now uses 60% recycled materials and has reduced single-use plastics by 50%. Beyond environmental leadership, Lenovo's people first culture continues to be recognized by Forbes as one of the world's top companies for women and one of the world's best employers. Sustainability and responsible growth remain foundational to our long-term success and shareholder value creation. Looking ahead, our strategy remains focused and highly disciplined, with our proven operational excellence and agile supply chain, we continue to execute to outperform even in morale markets. As we enter the next fiscal year, we're confident in our ability to capture multiyear opportunities and to accelerate into an era of growth with profitability expansion, delivering greater value for our shareholders. Thank you. We will now answer any questions you may have.