Coal-Power Integration to Deepen Operational Resilience
发布时间:2026-04-28 来源:华泰证券
Shaanxi Coal has posted its 2025 annual report and 1Q26 report. For 2025, revenue/attributable net profit (NP)/recurring NP were RMB158,179/16,765/15,345mn (-14.10/-25.02/-27.49% YoY). The attributable NP fell short of our estimate of RMB18,885mn, mainly because revenue was more sensitive to falling coal prices, which dented coal profit. For 1Q26, revenue/attributable NP were RMB38,950/4,210mn (-3.0/-12.4% YoY). Looking ahead, we remain optimistic about the company’s robust profitability driven by integrated coal-power operations and location advantages. Meanwhile, the company’s 2026 planned capex is up by 75.4% YoY to RMB16,760mn, including around RMB15,200-15,700mn to be allocated to power generation capacity, which we expect to further scale its power generation business and deepen the advantage of integrated coal-power operations. Maintain BUY.
Coal: scale-driven cost savings helped mitigate cost declines
For 2025, the company’s 2025 commercial coal output/sales volume were 175/252mn tonnes (+2.58/-2.53% YoY). Specifically, trading coal/washed coal sales volumes were 92/52mn tonnes (-6.34/+2.28% YoY). For 1Q26, self-produced coal output/sales volume were 45.34/41.92mn tonnes (+3.19/+6.00% YoY). For 2025, the company’s average selling price (ASP) of coal was RMB459.27/tonne (-18.18% YoY), and the ASPs of self-produced coal/trading coal were RMB443.78/486.16 per tonne (-16.59/-20.17% YoY). For 2025, the unit cost of raw and washed coal fell by 0.46% YoY to RMB288.58/tonne, mainly because related taxes & expenses declined by RMB6.28/tonne (or 10.46% YoY). In terms of resources, at end-2025, the company had coal reserves of 20,752mn tonnes, recoverable reserves of 11,511mn tonnes, and an approved capacity of 164mn tonnes. Over 90% of the coal reserves in coal-producing regions are high-quality coal, indicating high-quality coal assets.
Integrated power-coal operations enabled resilient profit
For 2025, total power output/sales volume were 41,845/39,296mn kWh (+11.25/+11.87% YoY). For 1Q26, power output/sales volume were 10,478/9,904mn kWh (+19.91/+21.60% YoY). Since 1Q26, both power output and sales have seen accelerated YoY growth. In 2025, while the company’s electricity price edged down by RMB3.63/MWh YoY to RMB395.6/MWh, costs declined by RMB5.81/MWh to RMB335.6/MWh along with coal price drops. The further widened gross profit per MWh mitigated the profit contraction in the coal segment, which reflected the earnings resilience backed by integrated coal-power operations. At end-2025, the total installed capacity of coal-fired power units controlled by the company was 20,180MW, of which the total installed capacity of coal-fired power generation units in operation/under construction were 10,860/9,320MW. Capacity still has room to nearly double, which we expect to deepen the advantage of integrated coal-power operations.
Earnings forecasts and valuation
Based on 2025 production data and market price transmission, we lower our assumptions for 2026/2027 self-produced coal ASP and power output/sales volume. Thus, we cut our 2026/2027 attributable NP forecasts by 7.09/5.19% to RMB20,229/20,945mn and add our 2028 forecast of RMB21,570mn, for a 2026-2028 CAGR of 8.76% and 2026/2027/2028 EPS of RMB2.09/2.16/2.22. As Shaanxi Coal has consolidated power plant assets, Shanxi Coal International Energy Group is no longer comparable enough in terms of business mix and scale. We thus remove Shanxi Coal International Energy Group from its peer group and value the stock at 14.76x 2026E PE, on par with its peers’ average on iFind consensus. We trim our target price to RMB30.80 (previous: RMB33.11, based on 17x 2025E PE). Maintain BUY.
Risks: supply disruptions exceeding our expectations and weaker power demand growth than we expect.