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Financial profile · Q3 FY2026

A project-led engineering contractor with thin margins and working-capital-sensitive cash generation

Its multi-year history pairs engineering-contracting revenue with narrow operating margins, while cash generation swings with project settlements and receivable collection more than with fixed-asset spending. Property losses and asset impairments have also shown that reported profit can diverge from underlying project operations.

What is developing

Trailing-year revenue continued to contract and operating income remained negative, although the latest quarter produced positive operating profit and free cash flow. This is a recent improvement, not yet a demonstrated reset in the weaker trailing-year profile.

What matters next

Whether new contract awards stabilize while positive quarterly operating profit and operating cash flow persist as the portfolio shifts toward core, cash-generative work.

CNY
Metric FY2016 FY2017 FY2018 FY2019 FY2020 FY2021 FY2022 FY2023 FY2024 FY2025
219.6B 244B 289.5B 338.6B 400.1B 500.6B 592.7B 633.9B 552B 455.4B
(194.3B) (213.5B) (254.7B) (300.3B) (355.4B) (448.5B) (535.7B) (573.9B) (500.6B) (425.3B)
25.2B 30.5B 34.8B 38.4B 44.7B 52B 57B 60B 51.4B 30.1B
(16.8B) (19.4B) (22B) (26.7B) (31.6B) (37.9B) (39.3B) (44.5B) (41B) (39.1B)
(12.3B) (13.1B) (13.8B) (14.7B) (17.2B) (19B) (19.1B) (23.7B) (23.9B) (24.4B)
R&D
(3.3B) (5.3B) (7.1B) (9.8B) (12.2B) (15.8B) (18.6B) (19.6B) (16.3B) (13.8B)
(811m) (699m) (777m) (813m) (821m) (846.8m) (860.7m) (799.4m) (878.8m) (1B)
(354m) (278m) (352m) (1.4B) (1.4B) (2.2B) (825.2m) (423.7m) 49.2m 141.3m
8.5B 11.1B 12.8B 11.7B 13.1B 14.2B 17.6B 15.5B 10.4B (9B)
(1.9B) (2.5B) (2.4B) (2B) (1.3B) (167.4m) (1.7B) (2.2B) (2.3B) (1.9B)
3.5B 3.2B 4.5B 4.2B 2.5B 2.2B 2.7B 2.7B 3.4B 3.7B
545m 203m (615m) (370m) (5m) 162.6m (686m) 341.4m 913.5m 16B
569m 199m (308m) 440m 104m (150.3m) 183m 157.6m 221.5m (87.1m)
7.6B 9B 9.5B 9.8B 11.9B 14B 15.4B 13.8B 9.3B 5B
(1.7B) (2.3B) (2B) (2.2B) (2.5B) (2.4B) (2.5B) (2.4B) (1.4B) (2.5B)
6B 6.7B 7.6B 7.6B 9.4B 11.6B 12.9B 11.4B 7.9B 2.5B
(594m) (650m) (1.2B) (977m) (1.5B) (3.2B) (2.7B) (2.7B) (1.2B) (1.2B)
5.4B 6.1B 5.5B 5.6B 6.7B 7.3B 9.2B 6.9B 4.9B 46.3m
0.25 0.29 0.26 0.27 0.32 0.35 0.45 0.33 0.24 0.00