ZKH Group Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

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Key Takeaways

  • Positive Sentiment: Q2 growth accelerated: GMV rose 18.9% year over year to RMB 2.9 billion and revenue increased 12.8% to RMB 2.4 billion, the fastest growth pace in recent quarters. SME GMV grew 30%, while steel and nonferrous metals, communications and electronics, and utilities also posted particularly strong growth.
  • Positive Sentiment: Profitability turned positive for the first time: Gross profit grew 20.3% and gross margin as a percentage of GMV improved to 14.9%, while operating expenses declined 0.8% and fell to 17.4% of revenue. Non-GAAP EBITDA reached RMB 42 million and adjusted net income reached RMB 39 million, reversing losses in the prior-year quarter.
  • Positive Sentiment: Management expects GMV growth to accelerate further in the third quarter and is targeting full-year GMV growth of 15% to 20%, supported by continued SME momentum, higher-margin private-label products, and recovering state-owned enterprise demand.
  • Positive Sentiment: International GMV exceeded RMB 95 million in the first half, up more than tenfold year over year, and management expects the overseas business to become profitable in the second half. The company is expanding through support for Chinese manufacturers abroad, localized U.S. operations, and Amazon sales of Northsky private-label products.
  • Neutral Sentiment: ZKH continues to invest in AI, including its Domino industrial data engine and AI Materials Manager, which has served more than 8,600 customers and generated commercial revenue. Management is progressing with plans for an independent AI subsidiary, while also intending to accelerate share repurchases under its existing $50 million authorization and potentially initiate dividends as profits scale.
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ZKH Group Q2 2026
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Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, good day and welcome to ZKH Group Limited second quarter 2026 earnings conference call. Today's conference is being recorded. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Daecy Xu, Head of Investor Relations. Please go ahead, ma'am.

Company Representative at ZKH Group

Good morning and welcome to ZKH second quarter 2026 earnings conference call. With me are Mr. Eric Chen, our founder, Chairman and CEO, Mr. Jerry Wang, our CFO, and Mr. David Liu, our CTO. Eric will begin with an overview of our quarterly performance and business strategy, followed by Jerry, who will review our financial highlights. After the prepared remarks, we will open the call for Q&A, and David will join us for the Q&A session. Today's discussion may include forward-looking statements. Related factors are described in our today's press release, and we will also discuss certain non-GAAP financial measures for comparison purposes only. Please refer to the earning release for definitions of these measures and a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP results. With that, I will turn the call over to Eric. Eric, please go ahead.

Eric Chen
Eric Chen
Founder, Chairman, and CEO at ZKH Group

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Translator

Hello everyone, thank you for joining ZKH's second quarter 2026 earnings call. Building on the strong start to the year, our business gained further momentum in the second quarter, extending the growth trajectory that we returned to in the fourth quarter of last year. Both GMV and revenue grew year-over-year for a third consecutive quarter, hosting their fastest growth in recent quarters. Growth was brought by pace with our key industries and core customer segments, further reinforcing our foundation for sustained growth.

Translator

As our business continued to scale, the quality of growth and profitability improved in tandem. Growth profit grew faster than GMV in the quarter, lifting growth margin both year-over-year and sequentially. Supported by greater economies of scale, a more favorable customer and product mix, and steady gains in operating efficiency, we achieved quarterly operating profitability for the first time. Adjusted net income also delivered a significant turnaround, reversing from a loss in the same period last year.

Eric Chen
Eric Chen
Founder, Chairman, and CEO at ZKH Group

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Translator

These results reinforce the steady improvement in our fundamentals and demonstrate that our strategic initiatives and capability building efforts are translating more quickly into operating results. Based on current business trends, we expect GMV growth to accelerate further in the second half of the year, with profitability improving more meaningfully.

Eric Chen
Eric Chen
Founder, Chairman, and CEO at ZKH Group

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Translator

Next, let me walk you through some of the business highlights in the quarter. Starting with GMV. Second quarter GMV grew by 19% year-over-year, while GMV on the ZKH platform increased by 23%, accelerating further from the first quarter. Based on current trends, we expect GMV growth to pick up further in the third quarter. Multiple customer segments drove growth in tandem this quarter, creating a more balanced growth profile. Regional SME customers maintained the strong momentum that began in the fourth quarter of last year, with GMV up 30% year-over-year, reflecting continued improvements in our coverage of and service capabilities for the SME market. The SME market offers significant growth potential. Demand is fragmented, procurement needs are diverse, and gross margins are higher. Rapid expansion in this segment not only adds momentum to our overall growth, but also improves our customer mix and overall gross margin.

Eric Chen
Eric Chen
Founder, Chairman, and CEO at ZKH Group

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Translator

Meanwhile, our business with central SOEs and industry key accounts remained solid, delivering double-digit GMV growth year-over-year. Notably, following adjustments last year, GMV from state-owned enterprises, including centrally administered SOEs, returned to growth of more than 20% year-over-year this quarter. Performance was also strong across key industries. Our specialized product and service capabilities, built over years of serving a wide range of industrial use cases, are increasingly translating into strong results. Steel and ferrous metals led the way, with GMV doubling year-over-year. Communications and electronics, fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals and utilities also delivered strong growth, with GMV in each sector increasing by more than 30% year-over-year.

Eric Chen
Eric Chen
Founder, Chairman, and CEO at ZKH Group

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Translator

While we continued to deepen our domestic business, our overseas expansion accelerated further from the first quarter, with first half GMV increasing more than tenfold year-over-year. During the quarter, we continued to advance our international business on two fronts: supporting Chinese manufacturers as they expand globally and deepening localized operations in key overseas markets. On the first front, we provide Chinese manufacturers expanding overseas with one-stop MRO solutions spanning coordinated product sourcing in China and abroad, compliance support and local fulfillment. On the second front, we continued to build out our localized operations, starting with MRO use cases in warehousing and supply chains, where our business model has been validated. Our Northsky private label products also gained traction through online channels, primarily Amazon, with categories such as material handling forklifts and industrial fans delivering encouraging sales and earning strong customer recognition.

Translator

We also established a dual sourcing system for key product categories with sources in China and overseas, further strengthening the resilience of our international supply chain. As these initiatives take hold, our overseas business is moving beyond early market exploration into a new stage in which capability building and business expansion are advancing in parallel with an increasingly clear path forward.

Eric Chen
Eric Chen
Founder, Chairman, and CEO at ZKH Group

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Translator

The progress we achieved across our businesses was underpinned by the continued strengthening of our core capabilities. During the quarter, we remained focused on three areas central to our long-term competitiveness: products, fulfillment and AIs. Starting with products, we continue to deepen our presence in specialized high-barrier MRO categories and strengthen collaborations with leading manufacturers. These efforts enhanced the depth of our services in specialized categories and further differentiated our offerings. During the quarter, GMV from electrical automation customers grew 160% year-over-year, driven by our strategy of focusing on key product categories and high-potential industries. To address customers' end-to-end needs across control, safety, sensing, and connectivity for intelligent production lines, we deepened our offerings in sensors, PLCs, industrial safety, industrial IoT, and robotics, forming a comprehensive automation product portfolio.

Translator

At the industry level, we positioned ourselves early in three sectors with high automation intensity: new energy, semiconductors, and communications and electronics. This enabled us to capture growing demand arising from capacity expansion and intelligent product line upgrades. Growth among semiconductor customers was particularly strong, with GMV up more than 100-fold year-over-year. We also expanded our collaboration with Intel in edge control, jointly advancing visual inspection and industrial control product solutions as we cultivate our next growth curve beyond control, safety, and sensing.

Eric Chen
Eric Chen
Founder, Chairman, and CEO at ZKH Group

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Translator

Meanwhile, our private label business is an important driver of both competitive differentiation and profitability. During the quarter, we added more than 700 private label SKUs, driving private label GMV growth up more than 25% year-over-year, and lifting private label products' share of total GMV to approximately 10%. In addition to contributing incremental revenue, this also improved our overall gross margin. As we broaden the portfolio, we are also building out end-to-end capabilities from product development through testing and validation. Our in-house testing system now covers multiple core product lines with rigorous validation across performance, safety, compliance, and reliability. These capabilities further improve product development efficiencies and quality consistency, providing strong support for scaling our private label business.

Eric Chen
Eric Chen
Founder, Chairman, and CEO at ZKH Group

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Translator

Turning to fulfillment. We continue to optimize our multi-tiered warehousing and distribution network while enhancing supply capabilities and customer experience in specialized MRO categories. During the quarter, we completed the build out of a dedicated hazardous materials warehouse in Cangzhou, Hebei Province, further strengthening our compliance, storage and supply assurance capabilities for hazardous chemicals. As of quarter end, our nationwide fulfillment network comprised more than 30 distribution centers, 109 transit warehouses, more than 200 company-operated delivery vehicles, and more than 6,000 EVM smart vending machines deployed at customer production sites. This integrated network strengthens our end-to-end fulfillment capabilities for regional inventory deployment and last mile delivery to on-site, on-demand product access. As we expanded our network coverage, we also improved warehouse operations and transportation scheduling, further improving operating leverage. In the quarter, fulfillment expenses as a percentage of net revenues declined to 3.7% from 4.2% a year ago.

Eric Chen
Eric Chen
Founder, Chairman, and CEO at ZKH Group

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Translator

We also made solid progress on the AI and digitalization front, guided by our goal of building industry leading full stack AI capabilities for industrial supplies. We continue to strengthen our technology stack and expand AI adoption across customer facing and internal use cases. These efforts are accelerating the conversion of our extensive industry data and technological expertise into tangible customer value and operating results. A key milestone this quarter was the June launch of Domino, our industrial supplies big data engine. Powered by more than 1 billion product parameters, Domino features automated data labeling, self-learning, and end-to-end traceability. This provides customers with a high quality data foundation for MRO data governance, model training, and intelligent applications. Through this platform, we are further unlocking the value of MRO data and enabling it to evolve from an internal resource to industry infrastructure that can be offered externally.

Eric Chen
Eric Chen
Founder, Chairman, and CEO at ZKH Group

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Translator

Building on this foundation, we continued to expand the use cases for our Linglong MRO industry specific foundation model and its suite of AI agents, integrating AI more deeply into customers' business processes. Today, solutions such as AI Materials Manager, Linglong Huisou, Linglong Huiyan, and AI Marketplace are already deployed across manufacturing, chemicals, ports, and automotive, covering key workflows such as materials data governance, product search and selection, enterprise knowledge management and collaboration, and warehouse item recognition. Notably, AI Materials Manager has served more than 8,600 customers and has been implemented in more than 15 cases involving state-owned enterprises, including centrally administered SOEs. To date, it has processed more than 24 million rows of materials data, helping customers streamline materials management and reduce inventory costs. Internally, we continue to scale AI adoption across our organization and business processes to improve operating efficiency.

Translator

During the quarter, internal AI applications saved more than 12,000 employee hours, and AI-assisted coding accounted for over 70% of our coding activity. We also continue to encourage business teams to participate in AI innovation and the co-development of new use cases. More than 200 employees across 22 departments are now actively involved, bringing AI capabilities into a growing range of new business processes.

Eric Chen
Eric Chen
Founder, Chairman, and CEO at ZKH Group

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Translator

Beyond strengthening our own capabilities, we are also actively contributing to the broader industry ecosystem. In June, we co-hosted the inaugural China Industrial Supplies Summit, or CISS, with several national trade associations and industry organizations. As China's first MRO industry summit focused on collaboration and value creation, the event brought together more than 2,000 attendees from over 1,000 companies, including many industry leaders, senior executives, and experts from across the value chain. The event set industry records for both attendance and the seniority of its guests. Its success further enhanced ZKH's influence within the industry and provided an important platform for deeper engagement with key stakeholders. Going forward, we will continue to leverage our platform strengths to promote knowledge sharing and coordination across the value chain, creating greater long-term value for the industry as a whole.

Eric Chen
Eric Chen
Founder, Chairman, and CEO at ZKH Group

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Translator

Looking ahead to the second half, we will remain focused on strengthening our core competencies, including enhancing product supply capabilities, improving fulfillment efficiency, and building greater organizational strengths. These are the cornerstones of our long-term competitiveness and will lay a solid foundation for sustained growth in business scale and further improvements in profitability. With that, I will turn the call over to our CFO, Jerry Wang, to walk you through our financial results. Thank you.

Jerry Wang
Jerry Wang
CFO at ZKH Group

Okay. Thank you, Eric, and thank you everyone for joining our earnings conference call today. Now let me walk you through our financial performance for the second quarter of 2026. Building on a strong start to the year, we delivered continued improvement across key financial metrics in the second quarter. GMV growth accelerated to its fastest pace in the past few quarters, while our gross profit margin expanded even further. As operating leverage became increasingly evident, our profitability also improved significantly. Notably, we achieved operating profitability for the first time, marking an important financial milestone for the company. Together, these results demonstrate our ability to maintain growth momentum while improving operational quality, supported by the increasing benefits of scale and the disciplined execution of our strategic priorities. Let's now take a closer look at the second quarter financial performance, starting with GMV and revenue.

Jerry Wang
Jerry Wang
CFO at ZKH Group

The growth recoveries that began in the second half of last year gained further momentum in the second quarter, with GMV and revenue posting accelerated year-over-year growth. GMV increased 18.9% year-over-year to CNY 2.9 billion, while net revenues grew 12.8% to CNY 2.4 billion, representing the fastest growth for both metrics in recent quarters. This strong performance was primarily driven by robust growth among SME customers and key accounts across our core industries, along with a continued recovery in business with central SOEs. As GMV growth accelerated, gross profit grew even faster, increasing 20.3% year-over-year from CNY 357 million to CNY 430 million. As a result, gross profit as a percentage of GMV edged up to 14.9%, compared with 14.8% in the same period last year and 14.4% in the first quarter of 2026.

Jerry Wang
Jerry Wang
CFO at ZKH Group

This improvement reflected the continued optimization of our customer and product mix, as well as the increasing GMV contribution from private label offerings. Driven by improved operating leverage and operating efficiency, total operating expenses decreased 0.8% year-over-year to RMB 425 million in the quarter. Operating expenses as a percentage of net revenues improved notably, declining from 19.8% in the same period last year to 17.4%. Breaking it down, fulfillment expenses were RMB 90 million, representing 3.7% of net revenues, down from 4.2% in the same period last year. Sales and marketing expenses were RMB 151 million, representing 6.2% of net revenues, down from 6.9% in the same period last year. R&D expenses were RMB 35 million, representing 1.4% of net revenues, down from 1.9% in the same period last year.

Jerry Wang
Jerry Wang
CFO at ZKH Group

General and administrative expenses were RMB 150 million, representing 6.1% of net revenues, down from 6.8% in the same period last year. Looking ahead, we expect GMV and revenue growth to accelerate further in the second half of the year. Combined with our continued focus on operating efficiency, this should drive further improvements in our operating expense ratios and strengthen our operating leverage. On the international front, as we noted previously, overseas expansion remains an important long-term strategic priority for the company. In the first half of this year, international GMV exceeded RMB 95 million, marking a significant step up in scale. As we continue to grow this business, we remain disciplined in managing expenses and focused on return on investment. Going forward, we expect our international business to turn profitable in the second half of this year.

Jerry Wang
Jerry Wang
CFO at ZKH Group

Our faster GMV growth, improving operating efficiency, and a greater operating leverage drove a significant year-over-year improvement in profitability. In the second quarter, our operating profit, non-GAAP EBITDA, and non-GAAP adjusted net profit all turned positive. In particular, non-GAAP EBITDA reached RMB 42 million, compared with negative RMB 39 million in the same period last year. While non-GAAP adjusted net profit reached RMB 39 million, compared with negative RMB 37 million a year ago. Turning to our balance sheet, we continued to maintain a solid liquidity position. As of June 30th, 2026, cash and cash equivalents, restricted cash, and short-term investments totaled RMB 1.7 billion, providing ample financial flexibility to support our day-to-day operations and strategic priorities.

Jerry Wang
Jerry Wang
CFO at ZKH Group

Operating cash flow followed a seasonal pattern that is similar to last year, with net outflows in the first half and net inflows in the second half as customer collections accelerate. For the first half of 2026, net cash used in operating activities decreased to RMB 156 million from RMB 208 million in the first half of 2025, reflecting continued improvement in our working capital management.

Jerry Wang
Jerry Wang
CFO at ZKH Group

To conclude, the second quarter of 2026 marked an important financial milestone for the company as we achieved positive operating profit for the first time and delivered a significant improvement in non-GAAP adjusted net profit. Based on current trends, we expect to maintain heightened GMV growth in the second half of the year, while continuing to improve profitability. This should put us in a solid position to achieve our full year business and profitability targets, and lay a solid foundation for even stronger performance in 2027. Okay, this concludes our prepared remarks. Thank you. We can now open for Q&A.

Operator

Thank you. We will now begin the question and answer session. To ask a question, you may press star then one on your telephone keypad. If you are using a speakerphone, please pick up your handset before pressing the keys. If at any time your question has been addressed and you would like to withdraw your question, please press star then two. For the benefit of all participants on today's call, if you wish to ask your question to management in Chinese, please immediately repeat your question in English. The first question comes from Jing Wan with CICC. Please go ahead.

Jing Wan
Jing Wan
Analyst at CICC

[Non-English content] Good evening management. We noticed that the company's GMV growth accelerated to around 80% this quarter year-over-year. Could management walk us through the key drivers behind this acceleration and which subsectors, customer segments or product line are seeing stronger momentum? What is your outlook for GMV growth in the second half and full year? Thanks.

Eric Chen
Eric Chen
Founder, Chairman, and CEO at ZKH Group

[Non-English content]

Translator

Thank you very much for that question. Indeed, we achieved acceleration in terms of our GMV growth in the second quarter 2026, and it is faster than any past quarters. This goes to show how we are gaining share in this highly fragmented MRO market in China. We can approach this question from three perspectives, namely industries, customers and private labels. Firstly, let us talk about industries. We have been continually investing in high growth industries. The following are some of the industries that have been growing over 30% in Q2 this year from a GMV perspective. They are steel and non-ferric metals, primarily non-ferric metals are growing at over 103%. Utilities grew 57%, fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals grew 37%, food and agricultural products 37%, communication and electronics 35%.

Translator

And we have also been consistently gaining customers from emerging and strategic industries such as semiconductors, robotics and optical communications. [Foreign language].

Eric Chen
Eric Chen
Founder, Chairman, and CEO at ZKH Group

[Non-English content]

Translator

Secondly, in terms of our customer mix, I would like to talk about how we perform on the SME customers front. Just to clarify the definition of what we mean by an SME customer. We are talking about a customer with a revenue of over CNY 1 billion. So it is not technically a small customer or a small company, right? But relatively speaking, it is small compared to some of the large guys or central and local SOEs. A big highlight of Q2 is that the GMV for these SMEs have reached 30%. The GMV growth for this segment is outperforming the company's overall GMV growth.

Translator

Like discussed earlier, we believe this type of customers can reflect the improvement of the product and service capabilities of ZKH more than any other types of customers, because these customers are getting increasingly demanding in terms of their requirements for services. As a result, traditional and conventional trading companies are being eliminated. Secondly, our business is evolving from sales-driven to supply-driven or supply chain-driven. I will explain what I mean by this. Before we were basically selling whatever the customers wanted and demanded, right? But now, with the capabilities of our product improving, we are more in a position to sell what we recommend and what is available on our part. That is definitely a huge increase in terms of efficiency and productivity. At the same time, the gross margins on the part of the SMEs are higher than large customers.

Translator

The growth of SMEs outstripping the overall company is definitely conducive to the improvement of our overall gross margins. These SMEs are usually located in the outskirts of cities, which means delivery and fulfillment for them is easier. GMV wise, these SME customers are accounting for about 30% of total GMV, while large customers, and by large customers, I mean key accounts or leading companies of various sectors and those SOEs. These larger customers account for 60% GMV wise, and we expect SME GMV share to continue to rise in the future. [Foreign language].

Eric Chen
Eric Chen
Founder, Chairman, and CEO at ZKH Group

[Non-English content]

Translator

Thirdly, my last point is on private labels. For Q2, private labels achieved a growth of over 25%, outstripping overall growth. Its GMV share has reached 10%, marching towards our long term goal of 30% for it. The gross margins for private labels are higher than non-private labels. It is usually 10% higher. This trend of private labels as a share of overall GMV increasing will also be conducive to the overall gross margins improving. [Foreign language].

Eric Chen
Eric Chen
Founder, Chairman, and CEO at ZKH Group

[Non-English content]

Translator

Looking out to the second half of this year and the entire year's GMV. If you look at the order trend, July, August this year, we expect GMV growth for Q3 is going to be higher than Q2's 18.9%, so it is going to continue to accelerate. Q4, especially the month of December, is a peak month or peak quarter for orders throughout the year. We are confident that we are able to sustain this growth and be able to achieve our overall growth of 15%-20% of growth for GMV this year. That was my answer to your question. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you.

Jing Wan
Jing Wan
Analyst at CICC

[Foreign language], thank you.

Operator

Thank you. The next question comes from Yuming Zhao, with Huatai Securities. Please go ahead.

Yuming Zhao
Yuming Zhao
Analyst at Huatai Securities

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Translator

Question, against the backdrop of ongoing AI wave, have you observed any incremental changes in purchasing behavior and habits of different customer groups? How will ZKH capture the opportunities? Have AI applications launched previously, such as the AI Materials Manager, made further progress recently? In addition, what is the latest progress on establishing the AI subsidiary as alluded to earlier?

David Liu
David Liu
CTO at ZKH Group

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Translator

This is the CTO of the company, and I will take this question. Indeed, we have observed some incremental changes in customer purchasing behavior as AI applications gradually mature. We observed three trends that are quite notable. First, customers are changing how they express their needs and access procurement services. In the past, MRO products procurement relied primarily on keyword searches, catalog filters, or manual requests for quotations. Increasingly, customers are becoming accustomed to describing their requirements directly in a natural language. Some provide AI systems with equipment models, use cases, and technical specifications, and expect the systems to clarify their needs, select suitable product models, or recommend the right products to them. The second trend we observe is that the demand for high-quality data is increasing.

Translator

For AI to participate meaningfully in procurement decisions, data such as product parameters, specifications, product alternatives, brands, and materials, these things must be sufficiently accurate. We therefore believe that high-quality, structured, and specialized data will become even more important in the era of AI. Third, SMEs are becoming more receptive to self-service and smart procurement. In the past, many procurement services required repeated communication between our sales representatives and the customer's procurement people. In the future, AI may be able to handle a significant portion of this standardized work, reducing service costs while improving the customer service, or rather customer service experience. [Foreign language].

David Liu
David Liu
CTO at ZKH Group

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Translator

As regards to AI Materials Manager, which we launched previously, it continues to evolve. It has now served more than 8,600 customers, representing a year-over-year growth of 93% in terms of customer count, and has begun generating revenue. We are also continuing to build a competitive mode around our full stack AI capabilities for MRO products. In September or rather October this year, we plan to work with Intel, a leading global chip maker, to launch our Linglong Huiyan, which is an industry leading edge model and solution for industrial vision. We also intend to establish deeper collaboration with leading domestic chip makers, integrating AI Materials Manager and the Linglong model with their technologies at both the model and agent layers. [Foreign language].

David Liu
David Liu
CTO at ZKH Group

[Non-English content]

Translator

Regarding the AI subsidiary you were asking about, we are proceeding with this establishment according to plan. The primary reason for setting up an independent company is to give the business a more independent and flexible organizational structure, talent model, and greater flexibility for future capital activities. At the same time, the subsidiary will maintain deep synergy with ZKH in industrial data, customer use cases and supply chain resources. Our goal is to develop it into an smart infrastructure company serving the industrial sector. That was my answer to your question. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. The next question comes from Leo Chiang with Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead.

Leo Chiang
Leo Chiang
Analyst at Deutsche Bank

[Foreign language] Good evening management, thanks for taking my question and congrats on the strong results. I have two questions. The first one is regarding our international business. Could management update us on the company's internationalization progress, including GMV contribution, customer expansion, and your outlook for future international markets? The second question is could management provide an update on the shareholder return plan such as share repurchase program or other related initiatives? Thank you.

Eric Chen
Eric Chen
Founder, Chairman, and CEO at ZKH Group

[Non-English content]

Translator

In terms of our international business, growth wise, revenue has been growing very strongly, a tenfold increase compared to the same period last year. For the first half of this year, GMV was CNY 95 million, and we expect the second half to continue this strong growth. Secondly, international business has always been part of our long-term strategy, and we will continue to make investments into it. There's two parts to our international business. Part one is we will continue to support Chinese businesses as they expand their business in overseas markets. Based on existing customer relations, we will leverage more overseas orders and at the same time strengthen our last mile fulfillment capabilities in different locales, geographies, and regions. The second part to our international business is localized business, which is happening primarily in the U.S. and Texas specifically as we speak.

Translator

At the same time, as was talked about in the prepared remarks, our online sales by way of Amazon is also increasing greatly. Overall, we are valuing efficiency more when it comes to making investments in our overseas business. We will avoid front-loading expenses ahead of business needs, and we will try to turn a profit sometime in the second half of this year for our international business. Continue. When it comes to shareholder returns, in June 2025, the company authorized a $50 million USD worth of share buyback program, which remains valid through June of 2027. As of the end of the Q2 this year, the company had accumulatively repurchased approximately 2.49 million ADSs, which translates into about $7.67 million USD.

Translator

We intend to step up the pace of share buybacks, and once our profits begin to scale more meaningfully, we will also consider starting to pay dividends to our shareholders. That was my answer to your question. Thank you.

Operator

That concludes the question and answer session. I would like to turn the conference back over to management for closing remarks.

Company Representative at ZKH Group

Thank you once again for joining us today. You can find a webcast of today's call on ir.zkh.com. If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us. Our contact information can be found in today's press release. Thank you and have a great day.

Operator

The conference has now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect.

Executives
    • Company Representative
    • Eric Chen
      Eric Chen
      Founder, Chairman, and CEO
    • Jerry Wang
      Jerry Wang
      CFO
    • David Liu
      David Liu
      CTO
Analysts
    • Translator
    • Jing Wan
      Analyst at CICC
    • Yuming Zhao
      Analyst at Huatai Securities
    • Leo Chiang
      Analyst at Deutsche Bank
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