Improved Operational Quality to Drive Profit Growth
发布时间:2026-04-17 来源:华泰证券
Sinopharm Accord has reported 2025 revenue/attributable net profit/recurring net profit of RMB73.42/1.14/1.10bn, YoY changes of -1.3/+76.8/+88.5%, in line with its preliminary earnings guidance. The strong YoY profit growth reflects a low base effect from 2024, when earnings were depressed by impairment provisions. For 4Q25, revenue was RMB18.29bn (+2.1% YoY), with the attributable/recurring net profit reaching RMB179/173mn, marking a turnaround from losses in 4Q24. Maintain BUY, anticipating continued earnings improvement as the company’s strategic shift toward high-quality development gains traction.
Distribution: revenue rose steadily, margin improved
The distribution business generated revenue of RMB53.32bn for 2025 (+0.64% YoY) with a net profit of RMB949mn (+2.94% YoY). The company strengthened its core operations through optimized resource allocation and product mix while expanding its market presence, lifting the distribution net margin by 0.04pp YoY for the year. Among key subsidiaries, Sinopharm Guangzhou reported revenue growth of 0.56% YoY and net profit growth of 4.54% YoY; Sinopharm Guangxi delivered 2.80% YoY revenue growth with its net profit up by 3.87% YoY.
Retail: net profit decline narrowed YoY
For 2025, Guoda Drugstore recorded revenue/net profit of RMB20.98/-217mn, with a 6.16% YoY revenue decline but an 80.36% YoY reduction in loss. Excluding goodwill and intangible asset impairments, the drugstore chain achieved RMB60mn in net profit, up by 139.28% YoY. The company enhanced its operational quality through strengthened procurement systems, proprietary brand development, product-mix optimization, and strategic store network adjustments.
Guoda Drugstore closed 1,140 directly operated stores in 2025 while implementing loss reduction measures including store structure optimization, core product focus, and cost control. As of end-2025, the chain operated 8,221 stores (6,691 directly operated). The business saw its centralized procurement sales grow by 7.8% YoY through effective cost optimization via bulk negotiations and source control. Proprietary brands delivered robust 48.3% YoY sales growth, emerging as a new profit driver. These initiatives collectively drove a 0.6pp YoY gross margin improvement for directly operated stores’ regular business.
Expense ratios fell YoY alongside a gross margin contraction
The sales/administrative/R&D/financial expense ratios were 6.60/1.36/0.03/0.25% for 2025, down by 0.60/0.08/0.01/0.07pp YoY, reflecting continued cost control efforts. The gross margin decreased by 0.41pp YoY to 10.68%, which we attribute primarily to intensified market competition and margin compression on certain products affected by the volume-based procurement program.
High-quality growth strategy to drive earnings improvement
Based on the 2025 results, we lower our revenue forecasts for the wholesale and retail businesses. We project attributable net profits of RMB1.16/1.19/1.23bn for 2026/2027/2028 (-16%/-15% vs our prior estimates for 2026/2027), with YoY growth of +2.2%/+2.8%/+2.8%, and EPS of RMB2.09/2.14/2.21. Given pharmaceutical retail’s net loss for 2025 and a potential small profit scale in 2026, we apply a PS valuation for this segment. Considering the ongoing impact of loss-making stores, we assign a discounted valuation of 0.3x PS (vs its peers’ average 2026E PS of 0.6x on Wind consensus). For pharmaceutical wholesale/investment income, we apply 2026E PEs of 10x/17x (aligned with their peers’ averages of 10x/17x on Wind consensus). Our target price is RMB36.33 (previous: RMB31.31, based on 2025E PEs for retail/wholesale/pharmaceutical manufacturing of 17x/10x/18x).
Risks: greater VBP impact than we expect; underperformance in M&A/earnings improvement for pharmaceutical retail M&A; lower return on pharmaceutical investment income than we expect.