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ProfileEarnings HistoryForecast Yuanbao EPS ResultsActual EPS$0.89Consensus EPS N/ABeat/MissN/AOne Year Ago EPSN/AYuanbao Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$133.68 millionExpected RevenueN/ABeat/MissN/AYoY Revenue GrowthN/AYuanbao Announcement DetailsQuarterQ1 2025Date6/5/2025TimeBefore Market OpensConference Call DateFriday, June 6, 2025Conference Call Time7:00AM ETConference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptPress Release (8-K)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfilePowered by Yuanbao Q1 2025 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrJune 6, 2025 ShareLink copied to clipboard.Key Takeaways Positive Sentiment: We reported total Q1 revenues of RMB 970.1 million, up 43.8% year-over-year, and net income of RMB 295.1 million, up 122.1%, with margin expanding to 30.4%. Positive Sentiment: Cash and equivalents, time deposits, restricted cash and short-term investments totaled RMB 2.77 billion as of March 31, 2025, providing a strong liquidity buffer. Positive Sentiment: Core operational metrics remained robust with new policies increasing 21.3% year-over-year to 6.8 million, marking the eleventh consecutive profitable quarter. Positive Sentiment: AI and technology initiatives advanced significantly, with over 10% of employees focused on AI, development of 4,700 models across 5,100 labels, and LLM‐based agents improving efficiency in consumer targeting, claims processing and quality inspection. Neutral Sentiment: The company was not named in a recent Shanghai consumer protection risk alert and emphasized a comprehensive compliance management system to align sales practices with regulatory requirements. AI Generated. May Contain Errors.Conference Call Audio Live Call not available Earnings Conference CallYuanbao Q1 202500:00 / 00:00Speed:1x1.25x1.5x2xTranscript SectionsPresentationParticipantsPresentationSkip to Participants Haiyang WangCFO at Yuanbao Inc.00:00:00Ladies and gentlemen, good day and welcome to Yuanbao Inc.'s first quarter 2025 earnings conference call. Today's conference is being recorded. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Cassie Nguyen, Investor Relations Manager. Please go ahead. Cassie NguyenInvestor Relations Manager at Yuanbao Inc.00:00:19Thank you, Operator. 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. Such statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, assumptions, and other factors. Some of these risks are beyond the company's control and could cause actual results to differ materially from those mentioned in today's press release and discussion. A general discussion of the risk factors that could affect Yuanbao's business and financial results is included in certain filings of the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company does not undertake any obligation to update its forward-looking information, except as required by law. During today's call, management will also discuss certain non-GAAP financial measures. Cassie NguyenInvestor Relations Manager at Yuanbao Inc.00:01:15For definition of non-GAAP financial measures and the reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial results, please see the earnings release issued earlier today. Joining us today on the call from Yuanbao's senior management are Mr. Rui Fang, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Mr. Ray Wang, our Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Fang will deliver his remarks in Chinese, followed by an English translation. We will conclude the call with a Q&A session. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. In addition, a webcast replay of this conference call will be available on Yuanbao's Investor Relations website. I will now turn the call over to our Chairman and CEO, Mr. Fang. Please go ahead, sir. 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On April 30, 2025, Yuanbao was successfully listed on the NASDAQ, marking the start of our new journey as a public company. On behalf of all our employees, I would like to extend my heartfelt gratitude to our shareholders, new and long-standing alike, for your trust and tremendous support. Next, I'm pleased to present our stellar first quarter financial and operational performance. In the first quarter of 2025, we achieved solid broad-based revenue growth, with total revenues increasing by 43.8% year over year to CNY 970 million. At the same time, our profitability expanded with strong momentum. Net income surged by 122.1% year over year to CNY 295 million, with a net income margin of 30.4%. Cassie NguyenInvestor Relations Manager at Yuanbao Inc.00:05:02This marks our 11th consecutive quarter of profitability, reflecting our continuous operational efficiency gains. In addition, as of the end of March, we held RMB 2.77 billion in cash reserves, serving as a robust financial foundation for ongoing business development. These impressive financial results were driven by robust growth in our operational metrics. In the first quarter, our core operational metrics maintained double-digit growth, with the number of new policies increasing by 21.3% year over year to 6.8 million. The dual improvement in operational and financial metrics once again demonstrates the resilience of Yuanbao's business model and our ability to sustain profitability. Rui FengChairman and CEO at Yuanbao Inc.00:05:53[Foreign Language]本å£åº¦ï¼Œæˆ‘们在业务å‘展和技术创新层é¢ä¹Ÿå–得了诸多进展。在消费者方é¢ï¼Œæˆ‘们通过自建的消费者全周期æœåŠ¡å¼•æ“ŽæŒç»æŽ¨åŠ¨èŽ·å®¢ï¼Œå‡å€Ÿæˆ‘们在ä¿é™©è¡Œä¸šçš„ç»éªŒä»¥åŠå¯¹æ¶ˆè´¹è€…å好的深刻ç†è§£ï¼Œä¸æ–积累用户特å¾ã€‚在广泛覆盖的互è”ç½‘æ¸ é“上,高效地触达潜在的消费者群体,为消费者æä¾›äº†å®šåˆ¶åŒ–的产å“åŠä¼˜è´¨çš„æœåŠ¡ã€‚æˆ‘ä»¬èšç„¦ä¼ 统ä¿é™©æœåŠ¡éš¾ä»¥è§¦è¾¾çš„ä¸ä½Žçº¿åŠåŸŽå¸‚åŠæ¬ å‘è¾¾åœ°åŒºï¼Œå¤§åŠ›æŽ¨åŠ¨æ™®æƒ åž‹å¥åº·é™©åœ¨æ›´å¹¿æ³›äººç¾¤ä¸çš„覆盖和渗é€ã€‚è¿™ä¸€æˆ˜ç•¥ç›®æ ‡çš„æœ‰æ•ˆå®žæ–½ä¸‹ï¼Œç¦»ä¸å¼€æˆ‘们引擎强有力的支撑。为æ¤ï¼Œæˆ‘们在æŒç»åŠ å¤§åœ¨AI技术方é¢çš„æŠ•入。截至一å£åº¦æœ«ï¼Œå…¬å¸AI团队人数已å 公叿€»å‘˜å·¥æ•°çš„10%以上,为我们引擎的è¿ä»£æä¾›äº†æ‰Žå®žçš„ä¿éšœã€‚互è”互通的模型网络是我们在引擎ä¸éžå¸¸é‡è¦çš„一环。基于该模型网络,我们能够è¿è¡Œä»Žæ¶ˆè´¹è€…定ä½å’ŒèŽ·å–到ç†èµ”å”®åŽæœåŠ¡ç‰å¤§é‡äº§å“ï¼Œç¡®å®šå¹¶ä¸æ–地优化针对æ¯ä¸ªæ½œåœ¨æ¶ˆè´¹è€…çš„æœåŠ¡è·¯å¾„ã€‚æˆªè‡³ä¸€å£åº¦æœ«ï¼Œæˆ‘们已ç»å¼€å‘了超过4,700个模型和超过5,100个特å¾ï¼Œè¾ƒä¸Šå¹´åŒæœŸåˆ†åˆ«å¢žé•¿äº†çº¦600个模型和1,000个特å¾ã€‚这些特å¾ä¼šè¾“入到æ¯ä¸ªæ¨¡åž‹ä¸ï¼ŒæŽ¨åŠ¨æ‰€æœ‰æ¨¡åž‹çš„è¿ä»£å’Œä¼˜åŒ–,帮助我们更深入地ç†è§£æ¶ˆè´¹è€…的风险特å¾ä¸Žä¿éšœéœ€æ±‚,从而高效地推动,从而高效地推é€ä¸ªæ€§åŒ–çš„ä¿é™©äº§å“,æå‡æ¶ˆè´¹è€…的满æ„度,并与ä¿å¸å…±åŒæ‰“é€ å®šåˆ¶åŒ–çš„äº§å“æ–¹æ¡ˆï¼Œè¿›ä¸€æ¥å¤¯å®žæˆ‘们在产业链ä¸çš„æ ¸å¿ƒåœ°ä½ã€‚ Cassie NguyenInvestor Relations Manager at Yuanbao Inc.00:08:19We also extensively advance business development and innovative technology this quarter. On the consumer front, we continue to enhance customer acquisition through our proprietary full consumer service cycle engine. Leveraging our deep insurance industry expertise and key insights into consumer preferences, we consistently refine and scale our user profiling. These capabilities allow us to efficiently expand our consumer reach across a wide range of digital channels and offer tailored products and premium services. We target mid and lower-tier cities and less developed regions underserved by traditional insurance services, actively promoting the accessibility and penetration of inclusive health insurance among broader populations. Our engine plays a critical role in the effective execution of this strategy. With these strategic goals in mind, we continue to ramp up our AI investments. Cassie NguyenInvestor Relations Manager at Yuanbao Inc.00:09:23As of the end of March, over 10% of our workforce is focused on AI innovation, laying a solid groundwork for the ongoing iteration of our engine. An interconnected network of models is a key pillar of our engine. These models enable us to operate across scenarios ranging from consumer targeting and acquisition to claim settlements and post-sale services, empowering us to identify and iteratively refine personalized service pathways for every potential consumer. As of the end of March, we had developed over 4,700 models capable of analysis across more than 5,100 labels, an increase of 600 models and 1,000 labels from a year ago. These labels are fed into each model to drive continuous iteration and optimization of all models, giving us deeper insights into consumers' risk profiles and protection needs. Cassie NguyenInvestor Relations Manager at Yuanbao Inc.00:10:25This allows us to efficiently offer personalized insurance products, enhance customer satisfaction, and jointly develop customized products and solutions with our partner insurance carriers, further reinforcing Yuanbao's leading position within the industry value chain. 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For example, we developed and implemented an intelligent quality inspection agent based on LLMs that can autonomously plan and coordinate multiple tasks, including keyword inspection, process inspection, and service attitude inspection. Expandability enables rapid deployment and reuse of complex inspection scenarios, significantly enhancing inspection efficiency. We are also developing agents to empower other operational areas, ultimately improving process efficiency. In addition, by integrating RAG, we have built an LLM service system enriched by a specialized insurance knowledge database, effectively addressing the limitations of generic LLMs in processing specialized insurance knowledge. Cassie NguyenInvestor Relations Manager at Yuanbao Inc.00:14:05For instance, while responding to user inquiries about insurance knowledge or products, RAG allows LLMs to retrieve and reference relevant content from the specialized database, substantially improving the resolution rate of user inquiries. We have also leveraged multimodal LLMs to integrate text, image, and other data types, enabling automated recognition of claims materials. This has comprehensively optimized the claim settlement process. With a single app flow, users' claims materials are automatically recognized, categorized, and reviewed by LLMs, greatly simplifying the workflow and substantially improving service efficiency over traditional OCR technologies. Internally, we have developed a systematic training framework to advance company-wide AI applications across all business lines. Furthermore, we have incorporated AI proficiency into employees' OKRs and KPIs, empowering every employee to adapt and grow amid this new wave of AI empowerment. 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In January this year, we jointly released the 2024 China Online Insurance Development Report with the Research Center for China Insurance and Pension Finance at Tsinghua University PBC School of Finance, as one of the few comprehensive and in-depth studies on the online insurance industry in recent years. This report offers critical strategic guidance and data-driven support for industry development, further strengthening Yuanbao's thought leadership and professional influence across the sector. From day one, Yuanbao has remained dedicated to a consumer-centric philosophy, striving to deliver high-quality insurance service experiences to a wide range of users. This ethos is more than just a core metric for measuring customer value creation. It is a cornerstone of our long-term sustainable business growth and a key expression of our commitment to actively fulfilling corporate social responsibility. Cassie NguyenInvestor Relations Manager at Yuanbao Inc.00:17:54Looking ahead, we will continue to advance AI innovation and consistently unlock our platform's potential to meet customers' evolving insurance needs. Meanwhile, we will consistently refine and enhance our full-cycle consumer service system and deepen synergies with insurance carriers, creating greater value for our shareholders. Now, I will turn the call over to our CFO, Ray Wang, to present our financial results. Thank you, everyone. Haiyang WangCFO at Yuanbao Inc.00:18:28Thank you, Mr. Fang. Thank you all for joining today's earnings conference call. I'm pleased to share our financial performance of the last quarter. We delivered a solid start to the year, characterized by resilient revenue growth, improving profitability, and significant enhancements in cash position. Total revenues for the first quarter reached 970.1 million CNY, representing a robust 43.8% year-over-year increase. This growth was primarily driven by continued momentum across both insurance distribution and system services businesses, reflecting the increasing demand and engagement from both consumers and insurance partners. Breaking this down, insurance distribution services revenues rose to 321.8 million CNY, up 45% year-over-year due to an increasing number of policies transacting on our platform, partly supported by enhanced targeted marketing efforts. Haiyang WangCFO at Yuanbao Inc.00:19:23System services revenues reached CNY 647 million, up 43.2% year-over-year, driven by constant improvements to our full consumer service cycle engine, which bolstered our enhanced marketing and precise analytics services, as well as strengthened system service offerings for both existing and new insurance carriers. Moving to expenses, total operating costs and expenses increased by 24.1% year-over-year to CNY 680.6 million. Operation and support expenses came in at CNY 44.8 million, up 16.8%, primarily due to business growth. Selling and marketing expenses grew 15% to CNY 493.2 million, as we enhanced our efforts to attract new consumers and retain existing customers. General and administrative expenses rose 50.7% to CNY 60.6 million, primarily due to higher salary and benefits expenses. Haiyang WangCFO at Yuanbao Inc.00:20:26R&D expenses more than doubled, increasing 104.5% to CNY 76.1 million, primarily due to intensified research and development efforts and the expansion of R&D personnel to enforce our leadership position as a technology-driven online insurance distributor. As a result of this strong top-line growth and disciplined cost management, our profitability improved significantly. Net income was CNY 295.1 million, an increase of 122.1% year-over-year, with a net income margin of 30.4%, compared to 19.7% in the same period last year. Non-GAAP adjusted net income rose 103.2% to CNY 312.2 million, representing a non-GAAP net income margin of 32.2%, up from 22.8%. We also maintain our strong cash flow and healthy cash position. Net operating cash inflow was CNY 425.1 million. As of March 31, 2025, our cash and cash equivalents, time deposits, restricted cash, and short-term investments totaled CNY 2.77 billion, compared with CNY 2.34 billion as of December 31, 2024. Haiyang WangCFO at Yuanbao Inc.00:21:46In closing, the early momentum we've achieved sets a positive tone for the year ahead. With a solid financial foundation and robust cash reserves, we are well positioned to drive our strategic initiatives and seize new opportunities for a sustainable future growth. Thank you, and I would like now to open the call to Q&A. Operator, please go ahead. Operator00:22:07Thank you. We will begin the question and answer session now. If you would like to ask a question, please press star 11 on your telephone and wait for your name to be announced. For the benefit of all participants on today's call, if you wish to ask your questions to management in Chinese, please immediately repeat your questions in English. One moment for the first question. Our first question comes from the line of Amy Chen from Citi. Please go ahead. Amy ChenAnalyst at Alicia Yap00:22:42Hi. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to ask questions. This is Amy from Citi Research. My first question is regarding your first-year premium growth. We noted that you booked quite robust total revenue growth, and we're just wondering how was your sales momentum in the first quarter, and has this momentum continued into the second quarter? The second question I have is that we noted a news reporting that the Shanghai Consumer Council in Shanghai actually raised a few alerts or comments regarding some less appropriate selling behaviors of internet insurance products, and a few brokers were named in this news, including Waterdrop, etc. Has this impacted your sales in the past few weeks, and what kind of measures would you take to ensure full compliance during sales process? Amy ChenAnalyst at Alicia Yap00:23:41And the third question is regarding your AI model efficiencies, as we noted that the percentage of marketing expenses out of total revenue actually declined year-over-year. But what I'm wondering is that do you expect to see continued efficiency improvements, or eventually there would be a ceiling at some point? Thank you. Haiyang WangCFO at Yuanbao Inc.00:24:06Thank you, Amy. This is Ray Wang. I'll take the Q&A session. So first question on FYP. As Mr. Fang mentioned in his remarks, our core operational metrics maintained double-digit growth in the first quarter. First-year premiums reached RMB 9.5 billion, up 35.3% year-over-year. Now, we didn't give second-quarter guidance, but we expect a double-digit growth in FYP for the full year of 2025. Next question regarding the issued risk alert. So we are fully aware of the recent risk alert issued by the Shanghai Consumer Council. Now, we have not been named in this report and has had no direct impact on our business. Compliance has always been a top priority for us. We built a full insurance sales management system that follows all regulatory requirements, so covering every step of the sale process. Haiyang WangCFO at Yuanbao Inc.00:25:02Our goal is to make sure that consumers' rights are fully respected and protected. In response to the risk alert, we've established and improved our compliance management system and related mechanisms to achieve comprehensive coverage and effective control of the associated risks. Additionally, and lastly, we will continue to conduct dynamic monitoring, evaluation, and optimization, iteratively upgrading our products and services to provide consumers with more reassuring and convenient insurance experiences. Your third question regarding AI model efficiency is whether there's going to be a ceiling at some point. The short answer is no. Our engine is composed of a deeply integrated and highly scalable model architecture, networks of interconnected models, and a suite of systems and tools. So in addition to that, every aspect of our operations can be made more efficient leveraging AI. We believe there's still considerable potential for optimization in our engine. Haiyang WangCFO at Yuanbao Inc.00:26:03We will continuously iterate the model, build more models, extract more data insights, and further improve the accuracy of the model's predictions. As we mentioned in the earnings release, in the first quarter, we also made a lot of optimization in systems and tools by applying LLMs. We're developing agent applications based on OpenAI Agent SDK released by OpenAI. It's open source, which enables us to quickly build and assemble agent workflows and complete business empowerment, and also, with the recent release of open-source LLMs, we follow up with adopting models such as DeepSeek R1, Qwen 3 Series, Qwen 2.5-VL, and CogV4, so internally, we've deployed multiple locally hosted LLMs and built an internal LLM API platform using LiteLLM, enabling our R&D teams to quickly access and develop with these LLMs. Haiyang WangCFO at Yuanbao Inc.00:27:00In the following quarters of this year, we'll also conduct more explorations and implementation in these aspects to enhance the efficiency of our operations as well as our engine. Thanks, Amy. Operator00:27:15Thank you for the questions. One moment for the next question. Our next question comes from Thomas Wang from Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead. Ronald KeungAnalyst at Goldman Sachs00:27:25Thank you. Congrats on the good results. A couple of questions. Firstly, maybe can you give some color on first-quarter take rate and commission rate? And then secondly, we've seen some of the platforms like Meituan and JD that provide social insurance for delivery personnel. Just want to check whether you see any impact from that on your business? Thank you. Haiyang WangCFO at Yuanbao Inc.00:27:58Thank you, Thomas. So the premium per policy in the first quarter increased because we made some product adjustments. We've always been trying to jointly customize insurance products with insurance carriers, making them more attractive to consumers. In the first quarter of this year, we promoted some products with lower deductibles and better protection. The premiums of these products, as a result, increased marginally as they offer more value to consumers. For the take rate, quarterly fluctuations are not meaningful due to many factors. However, from the perspective of this year, our take rate will remain relatively steady. I would also like to add that since we always focus on optimizing our ROI, balancing growth and profitability. Take rate is only one of the factors among many, such as price per policy, cross-selling, CAC, etc., that we need to consider in tandem. Haiyang WangCFO at Yuanbao Inc.00:28:52Now, with respect to CAC and ROI, from our financial performance, it can be seen that we've consistently maintained an ROI for at least over one for at least 11 quarters. In the first quarter of 2025, the proportion of our sales and marketing expenses to revenue was 50.8%, a decrease of 12.8% compared with 63.6% in the same period last year. This reflects efficiency improvement of our engine and the company's strategic goal of continuously pursuing a better ROI. Your last question regarding Meituan and JD providing social insurance for delivery personnel. So we don't see any negative impact from JD or Meituan providing social insurance to their delivery personnel. In fact, we think of it as a positive. What they're offering is government-provided social insurance, while we provide commercial insurance. The two are fundamentally different and complementary. Haiyang WangCFO at Yuanbao Inc.00:29:49Our commercial health insurance serves as an upgrade, primarily targeting those with social medical insurance, and for those without social medical insurance coverage, we offer our commercial health insurance for the different terms and pricing. Hence, providing social insurance for delivery personnel is beneficial to our overall business. Social insurance typically covers everyday lower-cost medical needs, like outpatient visits. Our products, by contrast, protect against major risks, serious illness, or accidents, helping individuals and families avoid financial hardship from unexpected high-cost events. What also sets us apart is our ability to provide tailored protection. For example, if the user is a delivery worker frequently on the road or away from home, we may recommend adding coverage for traffic accidents or out-of-town hospitalization to better match their real-world risks and needs. Haiyang WangCFO at Yuanbao Inc.00:30:43So overall, we see these developments as helping to raise insurance awareness, and we remain focused on delivering flexible, high-value protection that fills the gaps that social insurance doesn't cover. Thank you. Operator00:31:00Thank you for the questions. That concludes the Q&A session. So I'd like to turn the conference back over to Management for any additional closing or comments. Operator00:31:11Thank you once again for joining us today. If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us directly or Piacente Financial Communications. Our contact information for IR in both China and the US can be found in today's press release. 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As of December 31, 2024, we had approximately 4,700 models supporting our operations. Our engine offers significant value propositions for insurance consumers and insurance carriers. We act as a unique and efficient gateway to distribute customized insurance products underwritten by our partnered insurance carriers. We have robust collaboration with insurance carriers by empowering them to tailor a variety of flagship insurance products, which in turn enables us to attract and retain a vast consumer base and stimulate their demand for insurance products. By accumulating and analyzing more big data, we gain deeper and wider understanding of consumer demands and behavior. Through all this, we are able to fulfill consumers’ evolving needs and enhance insurance carriers’ sales at the same time. We believe there is substantial untapped market potential for online insurance distribution. 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PresentationSkip to Participants Haiyang WangCFO at Yuanbao Inc.00:00:00Ladies and gentlemen, good day and welcome to Yuanbao Inc.'s first quarter 2025 earnings conference call. Today's conference is being recorded. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Cassie Nguyen, Investor Relations Manager. Please go ahead. Cassie NguyenInvestor Relations Manager at Yuanbao Inc.00:00:19Thank you, Operator. 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. Such statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, assumptions, and other factors. Some of these risks are beyond the company's control and could cause actual results to differ materially from those mentioned in today's press release and discussion. A general discussion of the risk factors that could affect Yuanbao's business and financial results is included in certain filings of the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company does not undertake any obligation to update its forward-looking information, except as required by law. During today's call, management will also discuss certain non-GAAP financial measures. Cassie NguyenInvestor Relations Manager at Yuanbao Inc.00:01:15For definition of non-GAAP financial measures and the reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial results, please see the earnings release issued earlier today. Joining us today on the call from Yuanbao's senior management are Mr. Rui Fang, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Mr. Ray Wang, our Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Fang will deliver his remarks in Chinese, followed by an English translation. We will conclude the call with a Q&A session. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. In addition, a webcast replay of this conference call will be available on Yuanbao's Investor Relations website. I will now turn the call over to our Chairman and CEO, Mr. Fang. Please go ahead, sir. Rui FengChairman and CEO at Yuanbao Inc.00:02:05[Foreign Language]大家好,欢迎å‚åŠ å…ƒå®2025年第一å£åº¦è´¢æŠ¥ç”µè¯ä¼šã€‚这也是元å®å…¬å¸ä¸Šå¸‚åŽçš„首次业绩报告会。2025å¹´4月30å·ï¼Œå…ƒå®æˆåŠŸåœ¨çº³æ–¯è¾¾å…‹æŒ‚ç‰Œä¸Šå¸‚ï¼Œè¿™æ ‡å¿—ç€æˆ‘们开å¯äº†ä½œä¸ºä¸Šå¸‚å…¬å¸çš„æ–°å¾ç¨‹ã€‚在æ¤ï¼Œæˆ‘谨代表元å®çš„全体员工,å‘一直给予我们大力支æŒå’Œå¸®åŠ©çš„æ–°è€è‚¡ä¸œä»¬è¡¨ç¤ºè¡·å¿ƒçš„æ„Ÿè°¢ã€‚接下æ¥ï¼Œæˆ‘很高兴与å„ä½åˆ†äº«å…ƒå®ç¬¬ä¸€å£åº¦å‡ºè‰²çš„财务与è¿è¥ä¸šç»©ã€‚第一å£åº¦ï¼Œå…¬å¸çš„æ€»æ”¶å…¥å®žçŽ°äº†å…¨é¢ç¨³å¥çš„å¢žé•¿ï¼ŒåŒæ¯”增长了43.8%,达到人民å¸9.7亿元。与æ¤åŒæ—¶ï¼Œæˆ‘们的盈利能力增长势头迅猛,ç»è¥åˆ©æ¶¦åŒæ¯”增长了122.1%,达到人民å¸2.95亿元。对应的净利润率为30.4%。这是我们连ç»ç¬¬11个å£åº¦å®žçŽ°ç›ˆåˆ©ï¼Œå……åˆ†ä½“çŽ°äº†å…¬å¸åœ¨è¿è¥æ•ˆçŽ‡ä¸Šçš„ä¸æ–æå‡ã€‚æ¤å¤–,截至一å£åº¦æœ«ï¼Œå…¬å¸çŽ°é‡‘å‚¨å¤‡è¾¾äººæ°‘å¸27.7亿元,为åŽç»ä¸šåŠ¡çš„å‘å±•å¥ å®šäº†åšå®žçš„财务基础。这些亮眼的财务表现得益于è¿è¥æ•°æ®çš„强劲增长。一å£åº¦ï¼Œæˆ‘ä»¬çš„æ ¸å¿ƒä¸šåŠ¡æŒ‡æ ‡ä¿æŒåŒä½æ•°å¢žé•¿ï¼Œæ–°ä¿å•æ•°é‡åŒæ¯”增长21.3%至680万份。è¿è¥å’Œè´¢åŠ¡æŒ‡æ ‡çš„åŒé‡è·ƒå‡å†æ¬¡è¯æ˜Žäº†å…ƒå®å•†ä¸šæ¨¡å¼çš„韧性和æŒç»çš„盈利能力。 Cassie NguyenInvestor Relations Manager at Yuanbao Inc.00:03:55Hello everyone, thank you for joining our First Quarter 2025 earnings conference call, our first earnings call since the company's IPO. On April 30, 2025, Yuanbao was successfully listed on the NASDAQ, marking the start of our new journey as a public company. On behalf of all our employees, I would like to extend my heartfelt gratitude to our shareholders, new and long-standing alike, for your trust and tremendous support. Next, I'm pleased to present our stellar first quarter financial and operational performance. In the first quarter of 2025, we achieved solid broad-based revenue growth, with total revenues increasing by 43.8% year over year to CNY 970 million. At the same time, our profitability expanded with strong momentum. Net income surged by 122.1% year over year to CNY 295 million, with a net income margin of 30.4%. Cassie NguyenInvestor Relations Manager at Yuanbao Inc.00:05:02This marks our 11th consecutive quarter of profitability, reflecting our continuous operational efficiency gains. In addition, as of the end of March, we held RMB 2.77 billion in cash reserves, serving as a robust financial foundation for ongoing business development. These impressive financial results were driven by robust growth in our operational metrics. In the first quarter, our core operational metrics maintained double-digit growth, with the number of new policies increasing by 21.3% year over year to 6.8 million. The dual improvement in operational and financial metrics once again demonstrates the resilience of Yuanbao's business model and our ability to sustain profitability. 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On the consumer front, we continue to enhance customer acquisition through our proprietary full consumer service cycle engine. Leveraging our deep insurance industry expertise and key insights into consumer preferences, we consistently refine and scale our user profiling. These capabilities allow us to efficiently expand our consumer reach across a wide range of digital channels and offer tailored products and premium services. We target mid and lower-tier cities and less developed regions underserved by traditional insurance services, actively promoting the accessibility and penetration of inclusive health insurance among broader populations. Our engine plays a critical role in the effective execution of this strategy. With these strategic goals in mind, we continue to ramp up our AI investments. Cassie NguyenInvestor Relations Manager at Yuanbao Inc.00:09:23As of the end of March, over 10% of our workforce is focused on AI innovation, laying a solid groundwork for the ongoing iteration of our engine. An interconnected network of models is a key pillar of our engine. These models enable us to operate across scenarios ranging from consumer targeting and acquisition to claim settlements and post-sale services, empowering us to identify and iteratively refine personalized service pathways for every potential consumer. As of the end of March, we had developed over 4,700 models capable of analysis across more than 5,100 labels, an increase of 600 models and 1,000 labels from a year ago. These labels are fed into each model to drive continuous iteration and optimization of all models, giving us deeper insights into consumers' risk profiles and protection needs. Cassie NguyenInvestor Relations Manager at Yuanbao Inc.00:10:25This allows us to efficiently offer personalized insurance products, enhance customer satisfaction, and jointly develop customized products and solutions with our partner insurance carriers, further reinforcing Yuanbao's leading position within the industry value chain. 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For example, we developed and implemented an intelligent quality inspection agent based on LLMs that can autonomously plan and coordinate multiple tasks, including keyword inspection, process inspection, and service attitude inspection. Expandability enables rapid deployment and reuse of complex inspection scenarios, significantly enhancing inspection efficiency. We are also developing agents to empower other operational areas, ultimately improving process efficiency. In addition, by integrating RAG, we have built an LLM service system enriched by a specialized insurance knowledge database, effectively addressing the limitations of generic LLMs in processing specialized insurance knowledge. Cassie NguyenInvestor Relations Manager at Yuanbao Inc.00:14:05For instance, while responding to user inquiries about insurance knowledge or products, RAG allows LLMs to retrieve and reference relevant content from the specialized database, substantially improving the resolution rate of user inquiries. We have also leveraged multimodal LLMs to integrate text, image, and other data types, enabling automated recognition of claims materials. This has comprehensively optimized the claim settlement process. With a single app flow, users' claims materials are automatically recognized, categorized, and reviewed by LLMs, greatly simplifying the workflow and substantially improving service efficiency over traditional OCR technologies. Internally, we have developed a systematic training framework to advance company-wide AI applications across all business lines. 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In January this year, we jointly released the 2024 China Online Insurance Development Report with the Research Center for China Insurance and Pension Finance at Tsinghua University PBC School of Finance, as one of the few comprehensive and in-depth studies on the online insurance industry in recent years. This report offers critical strategic guidance and data-driven support for industry development, further strengthening Yuanbao's thought leadership and professional influence across the sector. From day one, Yuanbao has remained dedicated to a consumer-centric philosophy, striving to deliver high-quality insurance service experiences to a wide range of users. This ethos is more than just a core metric for measuring customer value creation. It is a cornerstone of our long-term sustainable business growth and a key expression of our commitment to actively fulfilling corporate social responsibility. Cassie NguyenInvestor Relations Manager at Yuanbao Inc.00:17:54Looking ahead, we will continue to advance AI innovation and consistently unlock our platform's potential to meet customers' evolving insurance needs. Meanwhile, we will consistently refine and enhance our full-cycle consumer service system and deepen synergies with insurance carriers, creating greater value for our shareholders. Now, I will turn the call over to our CFO, Ray Wang, to present our financial results. Thank you, everyone. Haiyang WangCFO at Yuanbao Inc.00:18:28Thank you, Mr. Fang. Thank you all for joining today's earnings conference call. I'm pleased to share our financial performance of the last quarter. We delivered a solid start to the year, characterized by resilient revenue growth, improving profitability, and significant enhancements in cash position. Total revenues for the first quarter reached 970.1 million CNY, representing a robust 43.8% year-over-year increase. This growth was primarily driven by continued momentum across both insurance distribution and system services businesses, reflecting the increasing demand and engagement from both consumers and insurance partners. Breaking this down, insurance distribution services revenues rose to 321.8 million CNY, up 45% year-over-year due to an increasing number of policies transacting on our platform, partly supported by enhanced targeted marketing efforts. Haiyang WangCFO at Yuanbao Inc.00:19:23System services revenues reached CNY 647 million, up 43.2% year-over-year, driven by constant improvements to our full consumer service cycle engine, which bolstered our enhanced marketing and precise analytics services, as well as strengthened system service offerings for both existing and new insurance carriers. Moving to expenses, total operating costs and expenses increased by 24.1% year-over-year to CNY 680.6 million. Operation and support expenses came in at CNY 44.8 million, up 16.8%, primarily due to business growth. Selling and marketing expenses grew 15% to CNY 493.2 million, as we enhanced our efforts to attract new consumers and retain existing customers. General and administrative expenses rose 50.7% to CNY 60.6 million, primarily due to higher salary and benefits expenses. Haiyang WangCFO at Yuanbao Inc.00:20:26R&D expenses more than doubled, increasing 104.5% to CNY 76.1 million, primarily due to intensified research and development efforts and the expansion of R&D personnel to enforce our leadership position as a technology-driven online insurance distributor. As a result of this strong top-line growth and disciplined cost management, our profitability improved significantly. Net income was CNY 295.1 million, an increase of 122.1% year-over-year, with a net income margin of 30.4%, compared to 19.7% in the same period last year. Non-GAAP adjusted net income rose 103.2% to CNY 312.2 million, representing a non-GAAP net income margin of 32.2%, up from 22.8%. We also maintain our strong cash flow and healthy cash position. Net operating cash inflow was CNY 425.1 million. As of March 31, 2025, our cash and cash equivalents, time deposits, restricted cash, and short-term investments totaled CNY 2.77 billion, compared with CNY 2.34 billion as of December 31, 2024. Haiyang WangCFO at Yuanbao Inc.00:21:46In closing, the early momentum we've achieved sets a positive tone for the year ahead. With a solid financial foundation and robust cash reserves, we are well positioned to drive our strategic initiatives and seize new opportunities for a sustainable future growth. Thank you, and I would like now to open the call to Q&A. Operator, please go ahead. Operator00:22:07Thank you. We will begin the question and answer session now. If you would like to ask a question, please press star 11 on your telephone and wait for your name to be announced. For the benefit of all participants on today's call, if you wish to ask your questions to management in Chinese, please immediately repeat your questions in English. One moment for the first question. Our first question comes from the line of Amy Chen from Citi. Please go ahead. Amy ChenAnalyst at Alicia Yap00:22:42Hi. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to ask questions. This is Amy from Citi Research. My first question is regarding your first-year premium growth. We noted that you booked quite robust total revenue growth, and we're just wondering how was your sales momentum in the first quarter, and has this momentum continued into the second quarter? The second question I have is that we noted a news reporting that the Shanghai Consumer Council in Shanghai actually raised a few alerts or comments regarding some less appropriate selling behaviors of internet insurance products, and a few brokers were named in this news, including Waterdrop, etc. Has this impacted your sales in the past few weeks, and what kind of measures would you take to ensure full compliance during sales process? Amy ChenAnalyst at Alicia Yap00:23:41And the third question is regarding your AI model efficiencies, as we noted that the percentage of marketing expenses out of total revenue actually declined year-over-year. But what I'm wondering is that do you expect to see continued efficiency improvements, or eventually there would be a ceiling at some point? Thank you. Haiyang WangCFO at Yuanbao Inc.00:24:06Thank you, Amy. This is Ray Wang. I'll take the Q&A session. So first question on FYP. As Mr. Fang mentioned in his remarks, our core operational metrics maintained double-digit growth in the first quarter. First-year premiums reached RMB 9.5 billion, up 35.3% year-over-year. Now, we didn't give second-quarter guidance, but we expect a double-digit growth in FYP for the full year of 2025. Next question regarding the issued risk alert. So we are fully aware of the recent risk alert issued by the Shanghai Consumer Council. Now, we have not been named in this report and has had no direct impact on our business. Compliance has always been a top priority for us. We built a full insurance sales management system that follows all regulatory requirements, so covering every step of the sale process. Haiyang WangCFO at Yuanbao Inc.00:25:02Our goal is to make sure that consumers' rights are fully respected and protected. In response to the risk alert, we've established and improved our compliance management system and related mechanisms to achieve comprehensive coverage and effective control of the associated risks. Additionally, and lastly, we will continue to conduct dynamic monitoring, evaluation, and optimization, iteratively upgrading our products and services to provide consumers with more reassuring and convenient insurance experiences. Your third question regarding AI model efficiency is whether there's going to be a ceiling at some point. The short answer is no. Our engine is composed of a deeply integrated and highly scalable model architecture, networks of interconnected models, and a suite of systems and tools. So in addition to that, every aspect of our operations can be made more efficient leveraging AI. We believe there's still considerable potential for optimization in our engine. Haiyang WangCFO at Yuanbao Inc.00:26:03We will continuously iterate the model, build more models, extract more data insights, and further improve the accuracy of the model's predictions. As we mentioned in the earnings release, in the first quarter, we also made a lot of optimization in systems and tools by applying LLMs. We're developing agent applications based on OpenAI Agent SDK released by OpenAI. It's open source, which enables us to quickly build and assemble agent workflows and complete business empowerment, and also, with the recent release of open-source LLMs, we follow up with adopting models such as DeepSeek R1, Qwen 3 Series, Qwen 2.5-VL, and CogV4, so internally, we've deployed multiple locally hosted LLMs and built an internal LLM API platform using LiteLLM, enabling our R&D teams to quickly access and develop with these LLMs. Haiyang WangCFO at Yuanbao Inc.00:27:00In the following quarters of this year, we'll also conduct more explorations and implementation in these aspects to enhance the efficiency of our operations as well as our engine. Thanks, Amy. Operator00:27:15Thank you for the questions. One moment for the next question. Our next question comes from Thomas Wang from Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead. Ronald KeungAnalyst at Goldman Sachs00:27:25Thank you. Congrats on the good results. A couple of questions. Firstly, maybe can you give some color on first-quarter take rate and commission rate? And then secondly, we've seen some of the platforms like Meituan and JD that provide social insurance for delivery personnel. Just want to check whether you see any impact from that on your business? Thank you. Haiyang WangCFO at Yuanbao Inc.00:27:58Thank you, Thomas. So the premium per policy in the first quarter increased because we made some product adjustments. We've always been trying to jointly customize insurance products with insurance carriers, making them more attractive to consumers. In the first quarter of this year, we promoted some products with lower deductibles and better protection. The premiums of these products, as a result, increased marginally as they offer more value to consumers. For the take rate, quarterly fluctuations are not meaningful due to many factors. However, from the perspective of this year, our take rate will remain relatively steady. I would also like to add that since we always focus on optimizing our ROI, balancing growth and profitability. Take rate is only one of the factors among many, such as price per policy, cross-selling, CAC, etc., that we need to consider in tandem. Haiyang WangCFO at Yuanbao Inc.00:28:52Now, with respect to CAC and ROI, from our financial performance, it can be seen that we've consistently maintained an ROI for at least over one for at least 11 quarters. In the first quarter of 2025, the proportion of our sales and marketing expenses to revenue was 50.8%, a decrease of 12.8% compared with 63.6% in the same period last year. This reflects efficiency improvement of our engine and the company's strategic goal of continuously pursuing a better ROI. Your last question regarding Meituan and JD providing social insurance for delivery personnel. So we don't see any negative impact from JD or Meituan providing social insurance to their delivery personnel. In fact, we think of it as a positive. What they're offering is government-provided social insurance, while we provide commercial insurance. The two are fundamentally different and complementary. Haiyang WangCFO at Yuanbao Inc.00:29:49Our commercial health insurance serves as an upgrade, primarily targeting those with social medical insurance, and for those without social medical insurance coverage, we offer our commercial health insurance for the different terms and pricing. Hence, providing social insurance for delivery personnel is beneficial to our overall business. Social insurance typically covers everyday lower-cost medical needs, like outpatient visits. Our products, by contrast, protect against major risks, serious illness, or accidents, helping individuals and families avoid financial hardship from unexpected high-cost events. What also sets us apart is our ability to provide tailored protection. For example, if the user is a delivery worker frequently on the road or away from home, we may recommend adding coverage for traffic accidents or out-of-town hospitalization to better match their real-world risks and needs. Haiyang WangCFO at Yuanbao Inc.00:30:43So overall, we see these developments as helping to raise insurance awareness, and we remain focused on delivering flexible, high-value protection that fills the gaps that social insurance doesn't cover. Thank you. Operator00:31:00Thank you for the questions. That concludes the Q&A session. So I'd like to turn the conference back over to Management for any additional closing or comments. Operator00:31:11Thank you once again for joining us today. If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us directly or Piacente Financial Communications. Our contact information for IR in both China and the US can be found in today's press release. Have a great day.Read moreParticipantsExecutivesHaiyang WangCFOCassie NguyenInvestor Relations ManagerRui FengChairman and CEOCompany RepresentativeAnalystsAmy ChenAnalyst at Alicia YapRonald KeungAnalyst at Goldman SachsPowered by