news flash·2025-06-16 06:01Group 1 - Huatai Securities upgraded Chow Tai Fook's rating to "Buy" due to expected narrowing of gold lending losses [1] - Chow Tai Fook reported a 17.5% year-on-year decline in revenue to 89.66 billion HKD and a 9% drop in net profit to 5.92 billion HKD, which was still above Huatai's forecast of 5.69 billion HKD [1] - The improvement in product mix and rising gold prices contributed to a gross margin that exceeded expectations [1] Group 2 - Management indicated that same-store sales in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and other markets fell by 2.7% and rose by 1.3% year-on-year for April and May, with a significant narrowing of the decline in mainland business by over 10 percentage points compared to January to March [1] - The sales outlook for Chow Tai Fook is positive, with a reduction in the proportion of sales from priced products driving continuous improvement in product mix [1] - The target price for Chow Tai Fook was raised from 8.5 HKD to 16 HKD [1]