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南山智尚(300918):2025Q1传统主业显韧性 期待新材料业务利润拐点

Core Viewpoint - The company demonstrates resilience in its operations, with a positive outlook on revenue and profit growth in the new materials sector, maintaining a "Buy" rating. Group 1: Financial Performance - In Q1 2025, the company achieved revenue of 362 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 0.7%, and a net profit attributable to shareholders of 37 million yuan, up 0.9% year-on-year [1] - The company's gross profit margin for Q1 2025 was 32.5%, a decrease of 0.4 percentage points year-on-year, while the net profit margin was 10.3%, an increase of 0.01 percentage points year-on-year [3] - The company expects net profits for 2025-2027 to be 273 million, 336 million, and 409 million yuan, respectively, with corresponding EPS of 0.66, 0.81, and 0.99 yuan [1] Group 2: Business Segments - The fine woolen fabric and apparel segments generated revenues of 175 million and 131 million yuan, respectively, with the fine woolen fabric segment down 7% and the apparel segment up 19% year-on-year [2] - The UHMWPE segment achieved a net profit of over 7 million yuan in Q1 2025, significantly up from about 1 million yuan in Q1 2024, driven by higher export revenues due to better price-performance ratios compared to overseas products [2] - The company has made technological breakthroughs in UHMWPE, making it an ideal material for robotic tendons, and is collaborating with several well-known robotics companies for various applications [2] Group 3: Production Capacity and Outlook - The company’s nylon production lines began operations in Q1 2025, with sales exceeding 500 tons, and expects to reach a production capacity of approximately 5,000 tons for nylon 66 and 20,000 tons for nylon 6 by mid-2025 [2] - The company anticipates that increasing capacity utilization of the new nylon production lines will dilute costs and enhance overall profitability [3] - Inventory at the end of Q1 2025 was 708 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9.3%, with inventory turnover days at 257.4 days, up 9 days year-on-year [3]