Anticipating Hub Construction and Growing Traffic
发布时间:2026-05-10 来源:华泰证券
Shanghai International Airport (SIA) announced its 1Q26 results: revenue reached RMB3,198mn (up 0.8% YoY), while attributable NP was RMB578mn (up 11.3% YoY), falling 11% short of our RMB650mn estimate, likely due to the transition period for duty-free operators in 1Q26, leading to weaker-than-we-expected duty-free operations. Additionally, SIA disclosed its 2025 annual results: revenue stood at RMB13,346mn (up 7.9% YoY), with attributable NP at RMB2,117mn (up 9.5% YoY). The company is currently in a phase of traffic growth and steady earnings expansion. Looking ahead, we believe it is poised to continue benefiting from robust air-travel demand in the Yangtze River Delta, while the new duty-free agreement shifting to a fixed-rent-plus-commission model should help secure non-aviation revenue. We are monitoring the pace of the AOV recovery and forecasting the timing of the next capacity expansion phase, along with its potential impact on profitability. Maintain OVERWEIGHT.
Duty-free business strained in 1Q26
SIA's 1Q26 passenger traffic grew steadily YoY, with combined Pudong and Hongqiao throughput reaching 34.35mn passengers (up 6.1% YoY). International traffic growth slowed to 4.8% YoY (slightly below domestic traffic growth of 5.9% YoY), likely due to a higher base and flight reductions on Japan routes, in our view. The company's 1Q26 revenue rose just 0.8% YoY, with duty-free agreement revenue at RMB176mn (down 48.7% YoY), possibly impacted by the operator transition period and lack of significant AOV recovery, in our view. Meanwhile, costs grew at a steady clip of 3.5% YoY, driving gross profit down 6.4% YoY to RMB797mn. On a positive note, investment income rose 37.7% YoY to RMB289mn while interest income surged 139.3% YoY to RMB120mn, supporting 1Q26 attributable NP growth of 11.3% YoY to RMB578mn.
2025 operating leverage drove higher profit
For full-year 2025, combined passenger throughput at Pudong and Hongqiao reached 135mn (up 8.3% YoY), with international traffic growing 20.5% YoY (significantly higher than domestic traffic growth of 4.5% YoY). The international traffic mix rose 2.6pp YoY to 25.3%, driving aviation revenue up 7.7% YoY to RMB5,989mn. Meanwhile, commercial and F&B revenue increased 7.3% YoY to RMB2,206mn, including RMB1,257mn from duty-free agreements (up 3.7% YoY), with no significant improvement in duty-free AOV. The company maintained effective cost control, with COGS up just 0.2% YoY to RMB9,674mn (well below revenue growth), leading to a 35.4% YoY increase in gross profit to RMB3,672mn under operating leverage. However, due to RMB655mn in asset disposal gains from housing expropriation compensation recorded in 2024, 2025 attributable NP rose by a modest 9.5% YoY to RMB2,117mn, while recurring attributable NP grew 45.8% YoY to RMB2,054mn.
Earnings forecasts and valuation
We lower our 2026/2027 attributable NP forecast by 4/4% to RMB2,599/2,968mn and forecast 2028 attributable NP of RMB3,134mn, with EPS of RMB1.04/1.19/ 1.26, mainly due to weaker-than-we-expected duty-free revenue in 1Q26. The lower commission rate in the new duty-free agreement may also reduce incremental earnings from duty-free sales growth in the medium-to-long term. In our DCF valuation, we cut our target price by 14% to RMB31.30 (WACC of 10.1% vs. prior 10.5%; perpetual growth of 2.0%; prior target price of RMB36.60). Maintain OVERWEIGHT.
Risks: Duty-free sales weaker than we expect, traffic recovery slower than we expect, peak-hour growth falling short of our expectation, capex above our expectation.