On April 18th, Raycus released its 2018 annual report. According to the report, in 2018, Raycus achieved revenue of 1.462 billion yuan, and the net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies was 433 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 53.63% and 56.05% respectively.

For the driver of performance growth, Raycus said:

In 2018, the overall development trend of the global laser industry has not changed. The Chinese laser industry has also shown a steady growth trend. As the largest demand market for industrial lasers in the world, the proportion of the Chinese market is increasing. about one-half of the world's industrial lasers (mainly fiber lasers) are used in China. China is a big manufacturing country. With the growing demand for automated and intelligent production models in the manufacturing industry, the demand for lasers has soared. Demand for laser equipment in emerging industries such as semiconductors, panels, and new energy vehicles is also growing.

In 2018, high-power laser cutting and laser welding equipment continued to maintain the largest contribution to the Chinese laser processing market. According to the market and customer needs, the company increased R&D investment and enriched product types; carried out special projects for quality improvement, improved product quality and reliability; increased production line construction, greatly improved production capacity and supply capacity; continued to improve after-sales service system and upgrade Customer service satisfaction; Through the above effective measures, the brand influence and market competitiveness of Raycus have been significantly improved, which provides a strong guarantee for the company's 2018 performance to maintain continuous growth. Among them, the sales volume of high-power products increased rapidly, 6kW achieved mass sales, and the proportion of sales of high-power products further increased; the company's higher-power 10,000-watt products also achieved a small amount of shipments.

At the same time, the company released the first quarter of 2019 performance forecast, the net profit of 2019-01-01 to 2019-03-31 is expected to be 87.5 million yuan to 112.5 million yuan, a decrease of 22.35% to 0.17%. The net profit for the same period last year was 112.6912 million yuan;

Regarding the reasons for the change in the first quarter of 2019, the company said: The growth rate of the fiber laser market has slowed sharply compared with the first quarter of last year. Raycus has taken active market response measures and the sales volume has risen sharply. However, the unit price of the product was significantly reduced, resulting in a decrease in gross profit margin. Therefore, it is expected that the net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies will decline compared with the same period of the previous year.