Huize Holding Ltd (NAS:HUIZ)
$ 0.75 0.04 (5.63%) Market Cap: 37.20 Mil Enterprise Value: 29.29 Mil PE Ratio: 4.49 PB Ratio: 0.69 GF Score: 62/100

Q2 2024 Huize Holding Ltd Earnings Call Transcript

Sep 25, 2024 / 12:00PM GMT
Release Date Price: $0.7086 (-14.38%)

Key Points

Positve
  • Huize Holding Ltd (HUIZ) achieved a total gross written premium (GWP) of RMB1.34 billion in Q2 2024.
  • The company saw a 42.8% year-over-year increase in renewal premiums, reaching RMB690 million.
  • Huize Holding Ltd (HUIZ) added 240,000 new customers in Q2 2024, bringing the total to 9.8 million.
  • International business contributed 11% of total revenue in Q2 2024, hitting the company's initial double-digit target.
  • The company successfully launched several customized insurance products, including a participating whole life insurance product with Aviva-COFCO and a child critical illness insurance product with China Merchants Life Insurance.
Negative
  • There was a year-over-year increase in G&A expenses and share-based compensation in Q2 2024.
  • The company experienced a deceleration in first-year premium (FYP) growth, attributed to regulatory changes and shifting customer demand.
  • The rationalization of brokerage commissions impacted overall customer demand and FYP trends.
  • Despite the positive international revenue contribution, the company faces challenges in navigating different regulatory environments in new markets.
  • The economic climate in China remains challenging, affecting consumer propensity to purchase insurance products.
Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to Huize second-quarter 2024 earnings conference call. (Operator Instructions)

Today's conference call is being recorded, and a webcast replay will be available on Huize's website at ir.huize.com, under the Events and Webcast section.

I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker host today, Mr. Kenny Lo, Huize's Investor Relations Manager. Please go ahead, Kenny.

Kenny Lo
Huize Holding Ltd - Corporate Development and Investor Relations Manager

Thank you, operator. Hello, everyone, and welcome to our second-quarter 2024 earnings conference call. Our financial and operational results were released earlier today and are currently available on both our IR website and Global Newswire services.

Before we continue, I would like to refer you to the Safe Harbor statement in our earnings press release, which also applies to this call as we will be making forward-looking statements. Please also note that we will discuss non-GAAP measures today, which are more correctly

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