China Merchants Securities (600999.SH) issued first-half results, with net profit of 4.748 billion yuan, an increase of 0.44% over the previous year

According to Zhitong Finance App, China Merchants Securities (600999.SH) released its 2024 semi-annual report. During the reporting period, the company achieved operating income of 9.595 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 11.11%; net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies was 4.748 billion yuan, an increase of 0.44% year on year; net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies deducted non-recurring profit and loss of 4.750 billion yuan, an increase of 1.04% year on year; basic earnings per share were 0.51 yuan/share.

In mid-2024, the company will not accrue the statutory surplus fund. Based on the total share capital registered on the share registration date of equity distribution, a cash dividend of 1.01 yuan (tax included) will be distributed to all shareholders for every 10 shares. No bonus shares will be given, and the share capital will not be transferred from the capital reserve fund.

During the reporting period, the company focused on customers and continued to deepen the transformation of its wealth management business. Coordinate incremental customer development and customer inventory discovery, actively carry out online and offline integrated management, continuously improve service efficiency and customer experience through digitalization of service content, service processes, and management mechanisms; at the same time, continue to strengthen the professional capacity building of the wealth advisory team, optimize the wealth advisor empowerment system, and comprehensively improve the quality and efficiency of customer service. As of the end of June 2024, the number of regular trading customers of the company was 18.4306 million, an increase of 7.53% over the previous year; the asset size of custodial customers was 3.60 trillion yuan, down 3.23% from the end of 2023. According to Yiguan Qianfan's statistics, in the first half of 2024, the average number of monthly active users (MAU) of the China Merchants Securities app increased 6.25% year-on-year, ranking 5th in the securities industry, and ranked 1st in the securities industry in terms of the length of time per app user per day.