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Zepp Health Corporation (ZEPP)

Q2 2019 Earnings Call· Mon, Aug 19, 2019

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Operator

Operator

Hello, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for standing by for Huami Corporation’s Second Quarter 2019 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in listen-only mode. Today’s conference call is being recorded. [Operator Instructions] I will now turn the call over to your host, Ms. Grace Zhang, Director of Investor Relations for the company. Please go ahead, Grace.

Grace Zhang

Analyst

Hello, everyone. And welcome to Huami Corporation’s second quarter 2019 earnings conference call. The company’s financial and operating results were issued in a press release via newswire services earlier today and are posted online. You can also view the earnings press release and the slides to which we will refer on this call by visiting the IR section of the company’s website at, www.huami.com/investor. Participating in today’s call are Mr. Wang Huang, our Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer; and Mr. David Cui, our Chief Financial Officer. The company’s management will begin with prepared remarks and the call will conclude with a Q&A session. Mr. Mike Yeung, our Chief Operating Officer, will join us for the Q&A session. Before we continue, please note that today’s discussion 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, the company’s actual results may be materially different from the views expressed today. Further information regarding these and other risks and uncertainties is included in the company’s annual report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2018 and other filings as filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The company does not assume any obligation to update any forward-looking statements except as required under applicable law. Please also note that Huami’s earnings press release and this conference call include discussions of unaudited GAAP financial information, as well as unaudited non-GAAP financial measures. Huami’s press release contains a reconciliation of the unaudited non-GAAP measures to the unaudited most directly comparable GAAP measures. I will now turn the call over to our CEO, Mr. Wang Huang, please go ahead.

Huang Wang

Analyst

Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining our earnings conference call today. Solid topline revenue growth and strong profitability continued in the second quarter, as our brand, product lines, footprint and strategic initiatives, all continued to develop and expand globally. Our second quarter revenue was RMB1.0 billion, which represents a 36.6% increase compared to second quarter 2018. Our revenue performance was driven by the extremely successful second quarter launch of the Mi-Band 4. In addition, sales of Amazfit branded smartwatches continued to perform well with our self-branded line now ranking fifth globally in shipments, according to a recent public research report. Furthermore, our overseas expansion is in line with our strategy and expectations. Approximately half of our products were shipped overseas, during the first half of 2019. Mi-Band 4 was launched in the second quarter and it quickly became a blockbuster, with the best sales momentum among all generations of the Mi-Bands. Its global shipment volume exceeded one million units within eight days. The features of Mi-Band 4 are improved significantly from previous versions. The NFC version of Mi-Band 4 is the first version of Mi-Bands to have Xiao’ai, the intelligent voice assistant of Xiaomi IoT ecosystem, installed. We will continue to work closely with Xiaomi on new product releases, to replicate the success we have had with each version of the Mi-Bands. We are confident in the strong market appeal of the Mi-Bands going forward. Our long-term plans with Xiaomi and the popular Mi-Band product line remain unchanged. We look forward to developing and producing future generations of the Mi-Band, including variants targeting different global market segments and customer profiles. In the second quarter, we continued to expand and diversify our Amazfit product lines. In late June and July, we launched multiple smartwatch products with various functionalities designed for different…

David Cui

Analyst

Thank you, Wang. Robust revenue growth momentum continued in the second quarter, increasing 36.6% year-over-year, as the company benefitted from strong global unit sales, particularly with the newly launched Mi-Band 4. During the quarter, we shipped 8.3 million total units, up 53.7% from the same period last year. We believe this topline growth momentum is sustainable and has the potential to continue improving. In addition to the products which we already launched earlier this year, we will soon launch more Amazfit new products with various functionalities in the next quarters. These new product releases demonstrate Huami’s commitment to the needs of global smart wearable consumers and give us the confidence to continue delivering value to our shareholders in the second half of 2019, as Wang mentioned earlier. We will continue to benefit from our expanding overall brand recognition as we enhance our products and services, and continue to penetrate global markets. Also during the second quarter, we continued to make strategic investments in our R&D capabilities, including strengthening our algorithm and cloud services capabilities, in addition to streamlining product development, testing and supply chain management for new launches, all in an effort to ensure we remain on the cutting edge of smart wearable technology. We also continued to make investments to our brand value, by increasing our marketing efforts to promote broader awareness and adoption of our self-branded products. We are confident these investments, along with strong alliances, operational efficiency and a growing global footprint, will help ensure our healthy growth and solid financial performance in both the short- and long-term. Mindful of the length of this call, I will highlight the key financial measures for the second quarter 2019 and encourage you to refer to our earnings press release for further details regarding our financial results. Now, here are…

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions] The first question comes from Kyna Wong of Credit Suisse. Please go ahead.

Kyna Wong

Analyst

Hello. Good evening, management. Thanks for taking my questions. I have two questions. The first question is about the ASP trends. Because in the second quarter we see the ASPs actually declined due to the mix. And it is because Mi-Band for that they ramping the shipment and also some of the product adjustments in the second quarter. But along with the new product launch like in the June and also July, what should we expect in the ASP trend in the second half? That is first questions. The second question is about the gross margin, I think, David, actually mentioned about a life supply chain management, but given the ASP decline, but we see a gross margin indeed improved in the second quarter. What should we expect in the coming quarters with the new product launch, because initially the volume for the smartwatches may not be light, so, I mean, in the scale. So should we expect like the margin to be more stable or trending down? Thank you.

Huang Wang

Analyst

Thank you for the question. With respect to your first question, regarding ASP, in second quarter we continue to sell Mi-Band 3 while we launched our Mi-Band 4 in June. So a large number of Mi-Bands were sold. So before launching Mi-Band 4, we did provided promotions to the users of Mi-Band 3. That may impact the ASP. In Q2 and earlier, in July, we did launch a new Amazfit product. But in Q2 we did not benefit much from the sales of this Amazfit new products. But the new product launches will set up the foundation for Q3 and the quarters after. So this explains the fluctuation of our ASP in Q2. With respect to the ASP trend in Q3, we believe that given the expected increase of the sales of Amazfit products, the revenue mix should change. That should rebalance in the ASP trend. Also that should offset potential margin losses on Mi-Band given the Amazfit products has higher margin. So, with respect to your second question, GP margin, we believe that margin should remain stable in the third quarter because we do have to balance between the Mi-Band margin and the Amazfit margin.

Kyna Wong

Analyst

Thank you.

Huang Wang

Analyst

Yeah.

Operator

Operator

The next question comes from Xudong Chen of CICC. Please go ahead.

Xudong Chen

Analyst

[Foreign Language] Thank you for taking my questions and congratulations on the strong results. According to the third-party statistics, the shipment of the Mi-Band 4 reached to 1 million in seven days after it launched in June, which is amazing. My question is, will the company continue to cooperate with Xiaomi in the future, and will the company still produce Mi-Band 5 in the next-generation? Thank you.

Huang Wang

Analyst

The answer is yes. We are actually developing Mi-Band 5 with Xiaomi

Operator

Operator

Okay. And…

Xudong Chen

Analyst

Okay. Thanks.

Huang Wang

Analyst

Thanks.

Operator

Operator

Okay. The next question comes from Arthur Lai of Citi. Please go ahead.

Arthur Lai

Analyst

Thank you, management team. And yeah, we saw that revenue results were quite good up to 36% and can you give us more color on the oversea shipments? And also how do you think of the shipment from the Northern country? Will we rule out more countries in the future? Thank you.

Huang Wang

Analyst

Thank you, Arthur. More than just a little bit over half of our total shipments were actually overseas shipments. This is in line with our historical records. That means the overseas sales also increased when our overall revenue increase. And in terms of the country penetration, we are still covering the European market and the Southeast Asia market. We are also working on the U.S. market. We did make some progress, but it’s going to take time. But our focus, we did make a significant progress in the European market. And in the one half, we spent a lot of effort in those regions and later in the year, it will intensify our efforts in those regions.

Huang Wang

Analyst

Yeah.

Arthur Lai

Analyst

I think the one small follow up is in Europe and the U.S. market, will the product carry the higher AP and margins? Thank you.

Huang Wang

Analyst

Actually, no, so the domestic sales and overseas sales carry similar margin, because we do leverage some overseas sales channels. So we allow more profit to those channel players, but the retail price should be higher in those overseas markets.

Arthur Lai

Analyst

Okay. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

The next question…

Huang Wang

Analyst

Thanks, Arthur.

Operator

Operator

The next question comes from Yee Ian Lau [ph] of Industrial Securities. Please go ahead.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

Hi, management. Thanks for taking my question. Truly have two questions. The first one is about your marketing strategy. I know that Huami has released many products since the second quarter, which is very attractive to large consumers. But actually we haven’t seen the large scales on advertising. So can you introduce the marketing strategy for the new products? So this is my first question. And the second question is about your overseas sales team. I wonder how many people are currently in your overseas sales team and how we can expect the number of team member increase in the future? Thank you.

Huang Wang

Analyst

To answer your second question first, our sales team is about 100 people right now, our total number of employees just exceeded 800. And among the -- roughly about 100 sales force and we should say half of them are focusing on overseas sales is in line with our revenue distribution. And we do have sales staff in the key regions, key markets, in Europe, in Southeast Asia and also in the U.S. And when our revenue continues to grow, we may have to add more sales staff. That’s our plan. And then in terms of our marketing strategy, yes, you are right. We do not spend a lot of advertisement dollars yet. And this is because our strategy is to rely on the channel players, the distributors in each country and then we also rely on our online channels. So we do pay channel fees to the e-commerce players in China and also in certain overseas markets. And the reason we are doing that is advertisement could cost too much and since our total number of shipments are still low at this moment to most effectively use our marketing dollars. We adopt business strategy. So we let distributors in the channel to make money and rely on the distributors spread to the market and to build our brand recognition in this way. And then in future, we may do some a targeted advertisement. But it’s not in a very heavy scale.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

Okay. Thanks.

Huang Wang

Analyst

Thanks.

Operator

Operator

The next question comes from Joy Wei of 86 Research. Please go ahead.

Joy Wei

Analyst

Congratulations to these astonishing results. Can you give us a breakdown between Xiaomi and self-branded products, including metrics like shipment, revenue and gross profit? And the second question is, can you share with us [about] [ph] the future product pipeline, for example, are we launching the Mi-Band 5 next year or the year after next year? Thank you.

Huang Wang

Analyst

In terms of breakdown, I will say about 70%/30% split, and given that our new unmeasured products, they are all launched towards the end of the quarter. So we didn’t really benefits that much in Q2. So in Q2 majorly, we still primarily sell our old Amazfit products. So this is a 70%/30% split. And then, again, our Amazfit products enjoyed much higher gross profit margin as compared to Xiaomi’s products. So the spread is about 10%, let’s says about 10%. So you could do the breakdown calculation on the gross profit. And in terms of Mi-Band 5, we do not have a fixed time when we are going to launch Mi-Band 5. But I would say that we have already started working on Mi-Band 5 with Xiaomi and it is not going to take that long. So we just launched Mi-Band 4, but potentially towards the end of next year, we may launch Mi-Band 5.

Joy Wei

Analyst

Thank you.

Huang Wang

Analyst

Thanks, Joy.

Operator

Operator

As there are no further questions now, I’d like to turn the call back over to the company for closing remarks.

Grace Zhang

Analyst

Thank you once again for joining us today. If you have further questions, please feel free to contact Huami’s Investor Relations Department through the contact information provided on our website or The Piacente Group, the company’s investor relations consultant.

Operator

Operator

This concludes this conference call. You may now disconnect your lines. Thank you.