Perfect Corp (STU:SZ9)
€ 1.79 -0.01 (-0.56%) Market Cap: 180.61 Mil Enterprise Value: 28.93 Mil PE Ratio: 32.20 PB Ratio: 1.33 GF Score: 44/100

Q2 2024 Perfect Corp Earnings Call Transcript

Jul 25, 2024 / 12:00AM GMT
Release Date Price: €1.98

Key Points

Positve
  • Revenue grew by 13.5% year over year to $28.2 million in the first half of 2024.
  • Net income increased by 185% year over year to $1.4 million.
  • Adjusted net income rose by 26.2% to $2.8 million compared to the first half of last year.
  • Strong growth in AI-AR cloud solutions and mobile beauty app subscriptions.
  • Operating cash flow generated a net inflow of $5.5 million in the first half of 2024.
Negative
  • Licensing revenue decreased by 49.8% in the second quarter of 2024.
  • Gross margin decreased from 80.6% to 79.3% due to higher third-party payment processing fees.
  • Total operating expenses increased by 0.7% to $12.4 million.
  • Sales and marketing expenses rose by 7% due to increased marketing events and advertising costs.
  • Research and development expenses increased by 7.5% due to additional headcounts and related personnel costs.
Operator

Good morning and good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for standing by and welcome to Perfect Corps' second-quarter 2024 earnings conference call. (Operator Instructions) Please note that today's event is being recorded. I will now turn the conference over to the first speaker today, Mr. Jimmy Shu, Director, IR Director of the company, please go ahead.

Jimmy Shu
Perfect Corp - Director of IR

Thank you. And hello, everyone. Welcome to Perfect Corp's second-quarter 2024 call. With us today are Ms. Alice Chang, our Founder, Chairwoman, and Chief Executive Officer; Mr. Louis Chen, our Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer; and Ms. Iris Chen, Vice President of Finance and Accounting. You can refer to our second-quarter 2024 financial results on our ION website or in the form 6-K we filed with SEC earlier.

A replay of this call will also be available on our website shortly after its conclusion. For today's call, management will provide our prepared remarks, followed by a Q&A session.

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