Specialty Gas Value to Emerge
发布时间:2026-04-29 来源:华泰证券
Jovo Energy reported its 2025 and 1Q26 results. In 2025, revenue reached RMB20.27bn (YoY -8%), attributable NP was RMB1.48bn (YoY -12%), and recurring NP came in at RMB1,362mn (YoY +0.9%). Attributable NP was slightly below our forecast of RMB1,553mn, mainly due to lower-than-we-expected natural gas sales volume. In 1Q26, revenue was RMB4,498mn (YoY -18%), attributable NP stood at RMB434mn (YoY -14%), and recurring NP was RMB393mn (YoY -16%). Attributable NP fell short of our forecast range of RMB480-510mn, primarily due to higher-than-we-expected administrative expenses, FX losses, and income tax. The company's core business maintained stable gross margins, demonstrating operational resilience. The Hainan Commercial Aerospace Special Fuel & Gas Supporting Project (Phase I) was put into operation, with Phase II progressing steadily. The company proposed a year-end dividend of RMB0.25/share, bringing total annual cash dividends to RMB440mn, representing a payout ratio of 29.74%. Maintain BUY.
Natural gas: per-tonne gross profit up
In 2025, the company's natural gas business generated revenue of RMB6,906mn (YoY -21%) with a gross margin of 14.60% (YoY +4.16pp), while its LNG production and services business recorded revenue of RMB2,623mn (YoY -0.3%), with a gross margin of 11.28% (YoY -2.07pp). Total natural gas sales volume reached 2.29mn tonnes, with gross profit per tonne of RMB590 (YoY +21%). The company achieved clear positioning in the transportation fuel market with growing demand, while steadily advancing its industrial segment through a strategy of "optimizing existing assets + expanding new business." However, gas power market sales declined YoY due to temporarily high international LNG spot prices and price inversion between domestic and international markets. The company continues to advance its "offshore + onshore gas" strategy, with the Phase II project of Xinjiang Qinghua (entitling to 2bn cbm/year of natural gas production capacity) likely in our view to commence operations by end-2027 or early-2028, forming a complete upstream resource chain encompassing "equity gas + long-term contract gas + spot gas".
Trim earnings forecasts and lift TP
We expect the company's attributable NP for 2026-2028 to be RMB1,517/1,718/ 1,997mn (adjusted by -15%/-16%/- vs. prior estimates, with a 3-year CAGR of 10.5%), translating to EPS of RMB2.15/2.43/2.83. The downward revision mainly reflects lower natural gas sales volume and higher income tax rates. Under Wind consensus, the average 2026 PE for gas distribution/specialty gases is 12.6/67.8x. Considering emerging earnings upside from the specialty fuel and gas business and the significant increase in the specialty gas comparable average PE (33.0x previously), we assign a 2026 PE of 24x and raise our target price to RMB51.60 (previous: RMB43.90, implying 17x 2026 PE).
Risks: LNG/LPG volumes miss, slower commercial space progress than we expect, lower specialty gas margins than we expect, significant volatility in international energy prices.