Perfect World Announces Revenue of 3.667 billion RMB in the First Half of 2018

On August 20, Perfect World (002624) released its first-half report for 2018, with operating revenues of nearly 3.667 billion yuan, an increase of 2.20 percent over the same period of the previous year. The net profit attributed to shareholders of listed companies reached 781.8 million yuan, up 16.46 percent over the same period last year. 

It is noteworthy that in June the Perfect World made a major adjustment to its performance in the first half of 2018. Increase the initial expected "net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies" from "$67.5 million-$765 million" to "$720 million-$830 million". Actual results now exceed the initial upper limit, in line with adjusted performance expectations, demonstrating the predictability of the perfect world to the market and good control of its own development. 

According to the analysis, in the period of the perfect world, it is the main reason that the performance of the perfect world continues to be good to insist on the endogenous growth as the foundation, take the extension development as the important means, under the guidance of the globalization and the fine product strategy, accelerate the industrial diversification distribution through the strategic cooperation and so on. 

The report shows: in the first half of 2018, the perfect world in the game business, the market segmentation strategy effect first appeared, the younger strategy effect is remarkable, end-swimming, mobile games, host game troika continued to develop well; In addition, the company and Valve Corporation (hereinafter referred to as "Valve") reached a strategic partnership to establish Steam China, in order to further improve the layout of the company's game industry chain on the basis of adhering to high-quality content production. In the film and television business, the continued introduction of high-quality products as the company won a good ratings and word of mouth, TV drama, film business flourishing, further consolidating the status of domestic first-class content production companies. 

Another point that deserves special attention is that in the first half of 2018, the Perfect World film and television business continued to grow rapidly. In the first half of this year, the film and television revenues reached nearly 104 million yuan, an increase of 93.85% over the same period of the previous year. The share of total income in the perfect world has also risen from 14.43% to 27.38%. This also "further consolidates the advantage of the perfect world as the" domestic leading film travel complex ".