Globalization Continues With Strong Core Business Momentum
发布时间:2026-04-22 来源:华泰证券
Shanghai Huace Navigation Technology (Huace) has reported 2025 revenue of RMB3.7bn (+13.78% YoY), an attributable NP of RMB685mn (+17.49% YoY), and a recurring NP of RMB605mn (+20.09% YoY), in line with the company’s preliminary results. For 4Q25, revenue reached RMB1.1bn (+9.90% YoY, +37.71% QoQ), while the attributable NP was RMB193mn (-0.46% YoY, +16.06% QoQ). The company’s profitability continued to improve, mainly driven by comprehensive cost reduction measures in procurement and R&D, as well as rapid growth in higher-margin overseas business. The company guides for 2026 attributable NP of RMB788mn (+15% YoY). This target already includes about RMB160mn of share-based payment expenses. Excluding this impact, profit from the company’s core businesses is likely to deliver even faster growth, and underlying momentum remains strong. Maintain BUY.
Sales growth diverged across segments with improving mix
Revenue from the agricultural navigation and robotics segment increased by 41.49% YoY, mainly supported by the company’s leading position in the domestic market and continued market share gains overseas. Revenue from the spatiotemporal sensing and positioning services segment rose by 22.02% YoY, benefiting from smooth mass-production delivery of designated autonomous driving projects for passenger vehicles. Revenue from the geospatial information and spatiotemporal intelligence segment decreased by 10.03% YoY, mainly owing to the timing of domestic fiscal spending, which temporarily pressured businesses such as displacement monitoring. Revenue from the intelligent construction and digital construction segment increased by 25.89% YoY, with overseas expansion progressing smoothly. Full-year overseas revenue rose by 35.16% YoY, and its share of total revenue increased to 34.26%.
Profitability further improved, R&D strengthening the barrier
The blended gross margin reached 60.98%, increasing by 2.85pp YoY, mainly because higher-margin products such as overseas business accounted for a larger share. The attributable net margin was 18.53%, rising by 0.58pp YoY. Expense control remained solid, with the selling expense ratio and G&A expense ratio falling by 0.11pp and 0.90pp YoY, respectively, in 2025. The company continues to maintain high R&D spending and uses core technologies to build long-term competitive barriers. In 2025, R&D spending reached RMB558mn, increasing by 18.97% YoY, while the R&D expense ratio was 15.08%, rising by 0.66pp YoY, providing support for continued technology innovation.
Earnings forecasts and valuation
We think that the company is likely to maintain rapid business growth, mainly for two reasons. 1) Horizontal expansion: it is extending from traditional applications such as construction and geospatial information into emerging fields such as precision agriculture, autonomous driving, and the low-altitude economy, while accelerating global expansion. 2) Vertical integration: it is strengthening its business footprint in upstream chips and algorithms, as well as downstream operation services, to enhance profitability. Given the YoY pressure on the displacement monitoring business, we revise down our earnings estimates. We estimate attributable NP at RMB798mn, RMB1.1bn, and RMB1.3bn for 2026, 2027, and 2028. Our previous estimates for 2026 and 2027 were RMB927mn and RMB1.2bn; our revisions are -13.85% and -2.10%, respectively. Based on 38x 2026E PE, which is in line with its peers’ average on Wind and Bloomberg consensus, our target price is RMB38.56 (previously RMB38.95, on 33x 2026E PE). Maintain BUY.
Risks: macroeconomic volatility; international political uncertainty; and slower application expansion than we expect.