GET Holdings Limited provided Group earnings guidance for the nine months ended 30 September 2018. For the period, the Group is expected to record a net loss of not more than HKD 186 million for the nine months ended 30 September 2018 as compared to the net loss of approximately HKD 450 million for the nine months ended 30 September 2017. Based on the information currently available to the Board, such decrease in loss for the 2018 third quarter Period was mainly attributable to the combined effects of (i) the decrease in the segment loss of the securities investment business of the Group from approximately HKD 292.5 million for the 2017 third quarter Period to approximately HKD 2.0 million for the 2018 third quarter Period; (ii) the decrease in the segment loss of the software business of the Group from approximately HKD 150.7 million for the 2017 third quarter Period to approximately HKD 139.4 million for the 2018 third quarter Period; (iii) the change from a segment profit of the corporate management solutions and I.T. contract services business of the Group of approximately HKD 1.9 million for the 2017 third quarter Period to a segment loss of approximately HKD 5.2 million for the 2018 third quarter Period; (iv) the absence of finance costs in the 2018 third quarter Period, while the Group recorded finance costs incurred from the convertible notes and loan notes issued by the Company of approximately HKD 12.9 million in the 2017 third quarter Period; and (v) the change from share of profit of an associate company of the Group of approximately HKD 8.2 million for the 2017 third quarter Period to share of loss of the associate company of the Group of approximately HKD 11.8 million for the 2018 third quarter Period.