Anticipate Price Hikes to Drive Profitability Recovery
发布时间:2026-05-21 来源:华泰证券
Jack Technology has reported 1Q26 results,including revenue of RMB2,023mn(+12.86%YoY,+24.87%QoQ),attributable net profit of RMB257mn(+4.47%YoY,+47.31%QoQ),and recurring net profit of RMB231mn(+2.59%YoY).Persistent RMB appreciation led to FX losses and weighed on gross margin.Stripping out the FX impact,1Q profit growth was~18%YoY,reflecting solid resilience.The company recently launched its first AI-powered digital turnkey production line equipped with Aitu humanoid robots,and we see promising AI applications ahead in intelligent garment manufacturing.Maintain BUY.
1Q revenue likely rose in both domestic and overseas markets
For 1Q26,revenue grew 13%YoY.We estimate both domestic and overseas revenue expanded,with overseas growth slightly outpacing domestic growth,driving an overall market share gain.Domestically,downstream sentiment showed signs of stabilization:1Q26 domestic apparel retail sales rose 9%YoY,while apparel exports dipped 0.4%YoY,narrowing from the 3%decline in full-year 2025.This points to low-single-digit YoY growth in domestic sewing machine sales on our estimate.On the export side,GACC data show China’s industrial sewing machine export value edged up 0.8%YoY in 1Q26.Given the low base from 2025,when tariff shocks disrupted overseas procurement,we believe aglobal demand recovery in sewing machines remains aplausible scenario.
Ex-FX profit growth near 20%
For 1Q26,gross margin was 32.41%and net margin 12.94%,down 0.38pp and 1.06pp YoY respectively.The gross margin contraction largely reflected RMB appreciation.Per Jack’s official WeChat account,it implemented a10%price increase across overseas products on 15 March,pointing to amargin recovery from 2Q onwards.For 1Q26,the selling/administrative/R&D/financial expense ratios shifted+0.93/-1.01/+0.6/+1.88pp YoY.The jump in financial expenses stemmed from FX losses of nearly RMB20mn on RMB appreciation,versus an FX gain of RMB14mn in 1Q25;excluding this swing,profit growth was~18%.
Promising AI applications in smart garment manufacturing
Per Jack’s official WeChat account,on 22 April,Jack and Sunrise Garment Group established an AI Digital Turnkey Intelligent Manufacturing Research Institute and unveiled the Aitu AI digital turnkey production line,which spans cutting,cut-piece sorting,and sewing.The line integrates automatic feeding,intelligent fabric inspection with dynamic defect-avoidance nesting,parallel cutting,intelligent gripping,intelligent dispatching,digital sewing and hanging,mobile logistics,and auxiliary-material CTU modules,achieving"feeding-cutting-sewing connectivity".This eliminates inter-process transfer waste and links up full-process data.It reduces headcount while lowering skill requirements,enhancing quality and flexible rapid-response capability.Aitu humanoid robots also feature in this application,equipped with an embodied large model for the sewing domain and working in tandem with the V6 rapid-response pocket-setting machine to mimic human techniques—smoothing and aligning flexible fabrics and precisely executing fabric placement.
Earnings forecasts and valuation
We maintain our earnings forecasts,projecting 2026/2027/2028 attributable net profit of RMB1,096/1,341/1,668mn(3Y CAGR of 25%).Peers trade at a2026E PE of~20x on Wind consensus.Given Jack Technology’s substantial growth runway in digital turnkey production lines,we assign a23x 2026E PE,maintaining our target price of RMB52.90(unchanged,also based on 23x 2026E PE).
Risks:Slower-than-we-expected new product rollouts,slower-than-we-expected deployment of embodied AI applications,and FX volatility.