Commercialization Advancing as AI Full-stack Presence Deepens
发布时间:2026-09-09 来源:华泰证券
Beijing Kunlun Tech (Kunlun Tech) continues to advance its core AGI and AIGC strategy, having established a diversified layout spanning foundational models, AI applications, and overseas content businesses. The company reported 1H26 revenue of RMB5,359mn (+43.6% YoY), attributable NP of RMB1,088mn (+227.2% YoY), and recurring attributable NP of -RMB458mn (+46.7% YoY). In 2Q26, revenue was RMB2,789mn (+41.6% YoY, +8.5% QoQ); attributable NP was RMB1,975mn, turning profitable both YoY and QoQ; recurring NP was RMB434mn (+594.3% YoY, turning positive QoQ). The high revenue growth was driven by the short drama business, while the significant increase in attributable NP primarily came from a RMB1,479mn non-recurring investment gain following the equity financing of subsidiary Aijie Kexin. We believe the company's short drama business will likely sustain high growth, and the commercialization of AI models and applications continues to advance. Maintain BUY.
FreeReels leading overseas market
Kunlun Tech's overseas short drama business maintained rapid growth, becoming an important pillar of its business growth. According to SensorTower, in 1H26, the company's FreeReels ranked first in downloads among overseas short drama apps, with estimated cumulative downloads exceeding 200mn and average daily usage time per user exceeding 60 minutes. As of end-June, the company's AI short drama platform achieved monthly gross billings of over USD65mn, with commercialization scale continuing to expand. Meanwhile, the company continues to advance the integration of short drama content production with AI technology. In July, over 90% of DramaWeave's newly released episodes were AI-generated.
Compute chips synergize with model capabilities
Kunlun Tech continues to refine its full-stack AI layout, progressively building an AI application system covering underlying compute power, foundational models, and upper-level applications. At the infrastructure level, subsidiary Aijie Kexin completed a new round of capital increase in April 2026, introducing external investors including the National AI Industry Investment Fund and Changxin Xinju, with total investment of RMB450mn at a valuation exceeding RMB4bn. After the capital increase, the company's stake is c. 48.6%. At the model level, the company continues to iterate its LLM capabilities, intensifying efforts in frontier areas such as video generation, music generation, world models, and intelligent agents. During the year, it released SkyReels-V4, Mureka V9.5, the Matrix-Game 3.5 world model, and the SkyClaw-v1.0 Agent model, enriching its AI model capability matrix. These models have repeatedly ranked among the top in authoritative international benchmark evaluation.
Earnings forecasts and valuation
The deepening commercialization of the company's AI product matrix, coupled with rising economies of scale from the AI short drama platform and optimization of marketing efficiency, could drive profit up. We raise our 2026-2028 revenue forecasts to RMB10,480/12,120/12,760mn (previous: RMB8,480/8,920/8,860mn, +23.6%/+35.9%/+44.0%). Taking into account the timing of investment income recognition and marketing expense pacing, we raise our attributable NP forecasts for the same period to RMB1,660/840/1,520mn (previous: RMB450/720/1,090mn, +264.9%/+16.7%/+39.3%). Based on our SOTP valuation, we derive a target market cap of RMB82,310mn (applying 9.0x 2026E PS to Opera, 6.3x PS to short dramas, RMB17,210mn valuation for foundational models, and RMB9,540mn for investments), implying a target price of RMB64.05 (previous: RMB67.59).
Risks: Slower AI monetization than we expect, model development delays, regulatory changes.