Tencent (HKEX: 0700) 2Q19 Results: Mixed Results, Growth in FinTech and Business Services in Challenging Ad Environment

Executive Summary

• Tencent reported 2Q19 revenues of ¥88.82 billion (US$12.9 billion), up 20.6% year over year and below the ¥92.93 billion consensus estimate. Adjusted EPS was ¥2.46 (US$0.35), up 19.1% year over year and beating the ¥2.23 consensus estimate.
• Combined Weixin and WeChat monthly average users (MAU) were 1.1 billion, up 7.1% year over year and fee-based registered value-added service (VAS) subscriptions were 168.9 million, up 9.7% year over year.
• The new FinTech and Business services segment reported revenues of ¥22.9 billion (US$3.3 billion), up 37.3% year over year, driven by commercial payments and the cloud business.