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Aurora Mobile Limited (JG)

Q4 2025 Earnings Call· Thu, Mar 12, 2026

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Operator

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Aurora Mobile Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2025 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your host today, Christian Arnell. Please go ahead, sir.

Christian Arnell

Analyst

Thank you. Hello, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. Aurora Mobile's earnings release was distributed earlier today and is available on the IR website at ir.jiguang.cn. On the call today are Mr. Weidong Luo, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; Mr. Shan-Nen Bong, Chief Financial Officer; and Mr. Guangyan Chen, General Manager. Following their prepared remarks, they will be available to take your questions and give you answers during the Q&A session that follows. Before we begin, I'd like to remind you that this conference call contains forward-looking statements made within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as amended and as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are based upon management's current expectations and current market and operating conditions, which are difficult to predict and may cause the company's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Further information regarding these and other risks, uncertainties and/or factors are included in the company's filings with the U.S. SEC. The company does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required under applicable law. With that, I'd now like to turn the conference over to Mr. Luo. Please go ahead.

Weidong Luo

Analyst

Thanks, Christian. Hi, everyone. Welcome to Aurora Mobile's 2025 Fourth Quarter Earnings Call. Before I comment on our Q4 results, I would like to remind everyone that we have uploaded the quarterly earnings day on our IR website. You may reference the deck as we proceed with the call today. I'm truly excited about the various things that are going here at Aurora Mobile. Revenue is surging and our financials are as strong as ever. By the end of this call, I trust you will agree with me, our 2025 and Q4 numbers are truly exceptional. As we have done in the past, when looking at the fourth quarter and the year as a whole, a single phase comes to mind a year of pure brilliance. Why? Because we recorded first ever full year net GAAP profit in our history. Not only that, but we achieved 3 consecutive quarters of non-GAAP profit leading to this quarter, which just as importantly achieved quarterly revenue exceeding RMB 100 million mark. It's been a truly historic year. Let me now dive deeper into the outstanding work and numbers that make this success possible. Firstly, the group's revenue this quarter surged to RMB 105.2 million, representing a remarkable double-digit 13% year-over-year and 16% sequential growth. This performance brought through the guidance we shared in our Q3 earnings call. Secondly, our global flagship product, EngageLab continued to fire on all cylinders, winning new customers across the globe. This momentum drove EngageLab's ARR for December 2025 to a record high of USD 10 million, representing 186% year-over-year growth. Further, gross profit grew by 23% year-over-year and by 9% quarter-over-quarter. This is the highest gross profit we have seen over the past 16 quarters. Last but not least, we delivered another standout quarter on cash management. Net…

Shan-Nen Bong

Analyst

Thanks, Chris. And next, I'll go over the revenue for vertical application that includes financial risk management and market intelligence. Overall, Vertical Applications had a good quarter where revenue grew both year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter. And within vertical application, financial risk management recorded a strong 43% growth in revenue year-over-year and 12% quarter-over-quarter. Financial Risk Management delivered another excellent performance. We recorded robust revenue growth of 43% year-over-year and 11% quarter-over-quarter. Notably, this segment achieved revenue of more than RMB 22 million in each of the 4 quarters in 2025. In particular, the strong year-over-year performance was driven by impressive 20% in customer number growth and a 20% increase in ARPU. The customers that we signed up or renewed in Q4 include, but not limited to ChongXiing, Xiao, Chengduinhang and many more licensed credit or financial institutions throughout China. Market Intelligence revenue, on the other hand, decreased by 24% year-over-year and 3% quarter-over-quarter due to the continued weak market demand for Chinese APP data. This result is in line with our expectation. Next, I'll go over some of the profit and loss items. Our gross profit delivered another exceptional quarter, growing 23% year-over-year and 9% quarter-over-quarter. The RMB 69.7 million gross profit we had also was the highest gross profit recorded among any of the past 16 quarters. In this quarter, our revenue grew 13% year-over-year, yet our gross profit grew by 23% year-over-year. Notably, we saw this trend in Q3 as well. This tells a clear story. We are strengthening our ability to generate high-quality revenue with higher margins. Our strong gross profit number has proven instrumental in bringing us to a full year profitability in 2025. On net profit, after 3 consecutive profitable quarters, we have landed ourselves in a new territory, our first ever full year GAAP net…

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions] And our first question is going to come from Calvin Wong with Spica Capital.

Calvin Wong

Analyst

First of all, congrats to you guys for delivering a year of pure brilliant financials today. Both the Q4 and the full year 2025 numbers have been very, very impressive. One question for me, if I may. Can the management shed some light on the top 3 things that you have done well to deliver this set of such good financials.

Shan-Nen Bong

Analyst

Calvin, good to hear from you, and thanks for the kind words. Let me take this question. Yes, we are very proud of ourselves to be able to share such a wonderful set of financials earlier on during the call. And to get to where we are, it is by no means easy, and we work very hard and smart to navigate the volatile business environment globally. As on the 3 things that we have done well, let me have a go. First, it has to be the courage to venture outside our comfort zone. And looking back in 2022, when the idea of going overseas was first brought up by Chris as the next important strategic initiative for Aurora Mobile. At that time, I think we didn't have any single overseas employees nor did we have any partners outside of China. But then forward-looking vision was a brief one. So making -- I think making the right decision to go overseas would be my #1 thing that we have done right. If we did not make such brave or bold decision, we will not have this conversation today. And secondly, making the monumental shift of the product service offering outside of China is another game changer. We will not be as successful as we are today if we're simply making slip service of going overseas. Over the course of the past, I think, 2 to 3 or 3 to 4 years, we have made considerable amount of investment and resources to actually having a brand-new EngageLab product, specifically for our overseas market with its own distinct spec and features for global customers, along with the overseas data centers catering for the needs of our global customers. If you were lazy or took a shortcut of simply using what we had before in China for overseas market, it will not work. The third factor would be the commitment to excel throughout the organization to support this going overseas initiative that Chris brought up. When we started, there was no how to go overseas guide book to show us the way. We took the hard way by figuring out all ourselves and doing it all ourselves. I still remember at the early stage when we started EngageLab, Chris and I were standing at our booth in Singapore Tech Expo to introduce EngageLab and to answer questions from potential customers, and we have since come a long way. Just to recap, looking back, one, we made the right decision to venture overseas. Two, we make serious commitment in terms of investment in the right product offering. Third, the entire organization was in sync and aligned to this strategic initiative. And this took us back a little bit to the memory lane. I hope I answered your question, Calvin.

Operator

Operator

And our next question will come from Jack Sun with Gelonghui Research.

Jack Sun

Analyst

I'm Jack Sun from Gelonghui Research. Congratulations to the management team on another quarter with good numbers. in particular, a full year GAAP net profit is a really great turning point. My question for the management is, how should we look at Aurora's financials for the first quarter of 2026 and beyond?

Shan-Nen Bong

Analyst

Jack, thanks for the question. And you're right, we have a great 2025 when we achieved our very first GAAP profit for the year. And equally important was the spectacular Q4 numbers that we have presented earlier today. And in Q4, our total revenue exceeded RMB 100 million and go through the revenue guidance we have provided in Q3 and marking the best quarter revenue in our history. And of course, you heard about the fact that our global flagship product, EngageLab continues its great acceleration path. All the KPIs we have achieved has done through meaningful and significant growth year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter, be it ARR, customer numbers, total contract value signed or revenue recognized, they just exceeded all our internal targets. And of course, all these were the fruit of a hard labor that we started 3 years back. Results like this will not happen overnight or over 1 quarter. And we sowed the seeds of EngageLab growth when we committed to venture overseas in late 2022. We invested the appropriate resources in terms of capital and infrastructure with a balance of ensuring expansion without blinding spending for sake of spending. And now that we have laid a solid foundation for EngageLab, the growth prospect is very certain. We have presented and delivered such sequential growth without fear in the past. If I may summarize on how one should view Aurora Mobile, you can think of our business as, one, we have proven to be able to achieve full year net profit with positive cash inflow. Two, domestic business continued its solid and relatively stable growth. Three, our global flagship product, EngageLab will provide the lion's share of the growth momentum for the next 3 years. Four, our AI strategy will provide the next phase of growth momentum. And thus, we -- management as a whole are very confident on the business prospects in 2026 and beyond. And I hope this answers your question, Jack.

Operator

Operator

And I'm showing no further questions at this time. I would now like to turn the call back over to Christian for closing remarks.

Christian Arnell

Analyst

Thank you, everyone, for joining the call tonight. If you have any further questions or comments, please don't hesitate to reach out to the Jiguang IR team. This concludes the call. Have a great evening or morning. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

This does conclude the conference call. Thank you for participating, and you may now disconnect.