Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing : ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE RESULTS FOR THE THREE AND SIX MONTHS ENDED 30 JUNE 2019

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ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE RESULTS

FOR THE THREE AND SIX MONTHS ENDED 30 JUNE 2019

The Board is pleased to announce the unaudited consolidated results of the Group for the three and six months ended 30 June 2019. These interim results have been reviewed by the Auditor in accordance with International Standard on Review Engagements 2410 "Review of interim financial information performed by the independent auditor of the entity" issued by the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board, and by the Audit Committee.

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS

			Unaudited
		Three months ended
			Year-		Quarter-
	30 June	30 June	on-year	31 March	on-quarter
	2019	2018	change	2019	change
		(RMB in millions, unless specified)
Revenues	88,821	73,675	21%	85,465	4%
Gross profit	39,126	34,446	14%	39,820	-2%
Operating profit	27,521	21,807	26%	36,742	-25%
Profit for the period	24,684	18,580	33%	27,856	-11%
Profit attributable to equity
holders of the Company	24,136	17,867	35%	27,210	-11%
Non-GAAP profit
attributable to equity
holders of the Company	23,525	19,716	19%	20,930	12%
EPS (RMB per share)
- basic	2.550	1.893	35%	2.877	-11%
- diluted	2.520	1.868	35%	2.844	-11%
Non-GAAP EPS
(RMB per share)
- basic	2.486	2.089	19%	2.213	12%
- diluted	2.456	2.062	19%	2.187	12%

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		Unaudited
	Six months ended
			Year-
	30 June	30 June	on-year
	2019	2018	change
	(RMB in millions, unless specified)
Revenues	174,286	147,203	18%
Gross profit	78,946	71,488	10%
Operating profit	64,263	52,499	22%
Profit for the period	52,540	42,553	23%
Profit attributable to equity holders
of the Company	51,346	41,157	25%
Non-GAAP profit attributable to equity
holders of the Company	44,455	38,029	17%
EPS (RMB per share)
- basic	5.427	4.363	24%
- diluted	5.362	4.303	25%
Non-GAAP EPS (RMB per share)
- basic	4.699	4.031	17%
- diluted	4.643	3.976	17%

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BUSINESS REVIEW AND OUTLOOK

1. Company Strategic Highlights

During the second quarter, we sustained solid user, revenue, and profit growth, and executed on key initiatives amid the challenging business environment. In recent months, we enhanced our products, extended our key platforms, and deepened our relationships with large and small partners. For example:

• We accelerated our rate of innovation in games, successfully releasing new games in several different genres, introducing new modes within some of our key titles, and extending our season passes. Meanwhile, we continue to strengthen the Healthy Gameplay System for promoting balanced gameplay for young users.
• We widened merchant acceptance for our mobile payment services, contributing to rapid growth in average transaction volume and in total payment volume, as well as ongoing growth in commercial payment users.
• We extended and deepened our exclusive relationship with the National Basketball Association ("NBA"), the most-watched professional sports league in China, reinforcing our position as a leading digital entertainment platform.

Amid the evolving macro-economic and competitive challenges, we continue to invest in enhancing our platforms, services and technologies, for better supporting our users and enterprise customers.

2. Company Financial Performance

In the second quarter of 2019

Revenue increased by 21% year-on-year, primarily driven by commercial payment services and other FinTech services, smart phone games, and other digital content sales.

Operating profit increased by 26% year-on-year.Non-GAAP operating profit increased by 23% year-on-year.

Profit attributable to equity holders of the Company increased by 35% year-on-year.Non-GAAP profit attributable to equity holders of the Company increased by 19% year-on-year.

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3. Company Business Highlights

Operating Information

	As at	As at	Year-	As at	Quarter-
	30 June	30 June	on-year	31 March	on-quarter
	2019	2018	change	2019	change
		(in millions, unless specified)
MAU of QQ	807.9	803.2	0.6%	823.0	-1.8%
Smart device MAU of QQ	706.7	708.6	-0.3%	700.4	0.9%
Combined MAU of Weixin
and WeChat	1,132.7	1,057.7	7.1%	1,111.7	1.9%
Smart device MAU of Qzone	553.5	542.7	2.0%	571.9	-3.2%
Fee-based VAS registered
subscriptions	168.9	153.9	9.7%	165.5	2.1%

Communication and Social

During the second quarter of 2019, combined MAU of Weixin and WeChat was 1,133 million, up 7% year-on-year. Smart device MAU of QQ was 707 million, broadly stable year-on-year.

Weixin Mini Programs ecosystem has become more vibrant, attracting more developers and service providers. The number of medium-to-long-tail Mini Programs has more than doubled year-on-year while the nature of Mini Programs has become more diversified. For example, content Mini Programs allow users to conveniently create, upload and share interesting videos, music and news within Weixin. More than a dozen content Mini Programs have attained over 1 million DAU. Key user metrics including time spent per user, daily messages and video uploads sustained solid year-on-year growth during the second quarter.

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We launched a major version upgrade for Mobile QQ, which contributed to an increase in the number of daily messages and strengthened user engagement. To enrich the core chat experience, we enhanced functionalities for messages in different forms such as voice and video. To broaden user connections, we upgraded algorithms to recommend new friends based on common interests and shared contacts. We introduced QQ Mini Programs, with entertainment and games-related Mini Programs attaining particular popularity among QQ users.

Online Games

Total online games revenues increased 8% year-on-year to RMB27.3 billion.

Smart phone games revenues (including smart phone games revenues attributable to our social networks business) amounted to RMB22.2 billion, up 26% year-on-year due to the popularity of existing key titles and recent releases. Sequentially, smart phone games revenues were up 5% quarter-on-quarter as we launched more games following monetisation licence approval resumption, offsetting weak seasonality. During the quarter, we released 10 games including an in-house AR game, Catchya, and in-house RPGs, Fairy Tail and Raziel, compared with only one game in the first quarter. Honour of Kings revenue increased year-on-year. Perfect World Mobile, a licensed RPG that we launched in March, contributed substantially to our second quarter revenue. Our in-house tactical tournament game, Peacekeeper Elite, has exceeded 50 million DAU since its launch in May and begun monetisation with a successful season pass offering, although reported revenue was limited in the second quarter due to the deferral impact.

We are in the early stages of implementing season passes for several of our key titles, contributing to paying propensity within those games. Our data suggest that season pass spending is largely complementary to the existing item sales model, and also enhances player activity. In July, we released three smart phone games in different game genres, including racing game KartRider Rush, strategy game Game of Thrones: Winter is Coming, and RPG Dragon Raja. All three have achieved top 10 positions in the iOS Grossing Chart for games in China. Internationally, we expanded our user base via our hit title PUBG MOBILE (which has exceeded 50 million DAU) and new games such as Speed Drifter (the international version of QQ Speed) and Chess Rush.

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