Kun Dai
Analyst · Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead
Thank you, Nancy. Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining our second quarter 2019 earnings conference call. As you may already know, we announced proposed transaction with Golden Pacer to divest our loan facilitation related business this July. As a result, going forward, we will completely divest our 2C intra-regional business, no longer provide a guarantee services for the 2C cross-regional business, divest the corresponding assets and liability, and therefore, significantly relieve ourself of guarantee obligation for the existing loan balance of the loan previously facilitated by us. Our 2C business now solely consisted of online used car transactions, which previously were recorded as 2C cross-regional transactions. The corresponding revenue streams are now commission revenue and value-added service revenue. Before we dive into more details of the proposed transaction, let me first give a quick recap of our second quarter performance. It is important to note that the financial impact of the proposed transaction has already been reflected in our second quarter results, as required by the accounting policy. With relevant revenue costs and operating expenses of discontinued operations excluded from our financial results. We are pleased to report another strong quarter with 58% year-over-year increase in total revenue to RMB439 million. In particular, our 2C business continued a strong growth path. In the second quarter, our 2C revenue substantially increased 11 times year-over-year to RMB322 million, contributing 73% of total revenues. Looking at our 2C business in more detail, we continued to see robust momentum in our online used car transaction volume during the quarter. We completed over 24,500 unit of transactions in our online shopping mall, up 500% year-over-year. This not only reflects the growing traction of our one stop online used car buying products and services but also demonstrated consumers increase acceptance of buying used cars online from us without actually seeing the car when making the purchase decision. As we create the sales opportunity and control the entire shopping progress coupled with our comprehensive product and the service offerings, we have maintained our strong ability to monetize online used car transaction and record a total 2C take rate of 11.2% per unit in the quarter equivalent to a per unit revenue of over RMB13,000. We have also made a notable progress on penetrating low tier city, our nearly 800 new franchisee contributor over 30% of total 2C transaction volume in the quarter, significantly up from a low teen percentage in first quarter. More on to our 2C business because of our change of approach in serving consumers, we have cost selling needs, as well as dealers growing preference to value used car on our 2C platform. As expected, our 2B transaction volume declined by 57% year-over-year to 39,500 units. But always take rate slightly increase to 3.7% in the quarter from 3.5% a year ago period. Even though 2B revenue decreased to RMB68 million, 2B business continues to serve as a complementary pillar of our business as it strengthens our relationship with dealers by offering them our high efficient auction channel to improve inventory turnover. We may also continue to provide a favorable terms to our dealer customers and to 2B platform. So as to maintain customer stickiness and encourage them to expand a collaboration on our 2C platform at the same time. With that, let me now share more color on the proposed transaction with Golden Pacer. As we divest our loan facilitation related business, we will only provide a financing product to referral services, going forward for those customers who want to finance their car purchased from our online shopping mall, and we no longer need to provide any guarantee services. Accordingly, we will be freed from putting down restricted cash as deposit at a bank escrow accounts. This will greatly lower our capital needs, improve cash flow and therefore create a more favorable operating environment for our long-term development. In addition, the divestiture with allow us - will allow us to fully focus on fulfilling online used car transactions, which is exactly our growth priority and strategy. We have always been a transaction center platform since day one. Now, with our evolved model of national online used car dealer, we are even better positioned to make the most of our strong suit in executing online transactions. More importantly, we firmly believe that to purchase a used car online is a clear and accelerating trend in China used car market. Mirroring exactly what has happened in the mature market overseas. Our strategy to focus all our resources on the online transaction area will enable us to better capture the massive market opportunities followed by this trend. With our 2C business becoming a pure player, we will be better suited to utilize our innovative supply chain and infrastructure to provide consumer with full core value through our one-stop online used car product and the service offerings. First, a national wide selection of used cars. As updated to limited local selection, we are able to expand our inventory from local to national reach by operating a virtual national inventory system with over 18,000 offline dealers being our inventory suppliers. In the second quarter, we provide a real time selection of over 110,000 used car in our online shopping mall. More importantly, under our national online used car dealer model, we'd only take our actual inventory risk only when we receive a 100% of certain purchase order from the consumer who pay a 10% deposit for the purchase in advance, so we start to procure the inventory from the supplier. Second, online standardization for unstandardized products. Our standardized video inspection reports and VR display for used car create a high transparency on car condition. In addition, our sales consultant will also visit a customer in person and help them interpret video inspection reports, introduce car specifics, assist them in selecting the car they prefer and help them and queued the purchase. All of this will give consumer great peace of mind in buying a big ticket item online. Third, a one stop online purchasing experiments. In addition to selling a used car, we also provide a financing and insurers product to referrals and a comprehensive warranty program as value-added service, plus comprehensive return policy to better meet consumers various needs and offer overall solutions. Fourth, national fulfillment services. We have built up a national logistic network to make sure every used car will sell online - we sell online can be delivered to the consumer on time. We also provide offline title transfer assistant to ensure a seamless and hassle-free ownership transfer between cities. Our real run data fulfillment services, make online shopping for a used car finally as convenience as buying any other standardized product online. Looking ahead, we are excited about our growth potential in the year to come. We believe our new more focused business structure will boost our core value, and more importantly, enable us to leverage the market trend and a growth opportunity in online used car transaction in China. That said, the headwinds that China overall auto market has been facing since last year, we believe the used car market is more refinanced in a down cycle because of used car, better price to performance. There is a great growth potential in the coming year. Given the size of the China market, it is off - it is, of course, important to note that with early adoption of China 6, the new emission standard, several regions experienced a drag in used car sales to some extent, and we have felt a certain effect as well. However, we believe the used car market will gradually take us to the effort - effect and the macro environment will improve after short term adjustments. According to this environment, we have completed 38,000 online used car transaction on our platform in full year 2018 and aim to complete over 100,000 units this year. We are excited about the achievement to-date and the target that we set for 2019. It's demonstrated we have been winning our trust from a faster growing group of consumers who have accepted the revolutionary way of purchasing used car online from us without seeing the actual car when they make the purchase decision. This is particularly encouraging that our online used car transaction model has not only proved, proven, well accepted, but also have led us into a whole new chapter in China used car sector. We are confident that as we continue to enhance our value proposition to consumers and consistently execute our growth strategy to expand online used car transaction business. We can maintain a strong momentum in the transaction volume for the increase of our market share and build a more sustainable business over the long term. With that, I would like to turn the call over to our CFO, Zhen Zeng to talk through our financials. Zhen, please go ahead.