Temu Owner PDD Posts Slowest Revenue Growth Since Early 2022
Fourth-quarter revenue climbed 24% to 110.61 billion yuan, equivalent to $15.30 billion, but missed estimates.
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The Chinese owner of bargain app Temu reported slower quarterly profit and revenue growth, capping a turbulent year for the e-commerce giant as it faced stiff competition at home, geopolitical tensions abroad and U.S. tariff uncertainties.
PDD Holdings on Thursday said fourth-quarter revenue climbed 24% to 110.61 billion yuan, equivalent to $15.30 billion, missing a Visible Alpha estimate of 117.83 billion yuan. It was the slowest pace of growth since the first quarter of 2022.
Net profit rose 18% from a year earlier to 27.45 billion yuan, topping analysts’ expectations of 27.00 billion yuan. However, the growth was slower than the 61% rise in the third quarter and the more than twofold increase a year earlier.
“Looking ahead, we will continue to prioritize investments in the platform ecosystem as the cornerstone of our long-term value creation strategy,” said Jun Liu, PDD’s vice president of finance.
Jefferies analysts in a note said PDD’s top-line miss was due to slower-than-expected revenue growth from transaction services, while revenue from online marketing services and others was in line with consensus.
The easing momentum contrasted sharply with the stunning growth rates the company delivered in past years. PDD last year repeatedly warned of a slowdown, pointing to intensifying competition and external challenges.
Pinduoduo, the company’s discount platform in China, has grown rapidly since it launched nearly a decade ago, taking market share from e-commerce stalwarts Alibaba and JD.com . Its sister platform Temu burst onto the international scene in 2022 and swiftly gained attention in the U.S., attracting customers with low prices.
However, Temu has also encountered regulatory scrutiny as it expands overseas. U.S. President Trump in February delayed his plan to end a provision for China imports that lets platforms avoid paying import duties and customs inspections on low-value packages, offering the likes of Temu a brief reprieve.
For the full year, PDD’s total revenue rose 59% to 393.84 billion yuan and net profit climbed 87% to 60.03 billion yuan.
Last month, rival Alibaba posted its fastest pace of revenue growth since late 2023, with revenue for the latest quarter rising 7.6% to 280 billion yuan. Online retailer JD.com earlier this month nearly tripled its quarterly net profit as revenue climbed 13% to 346.99 billion yuan.
U.S.-listed PDD was recently 6.5% lower in premarket trading after the results.
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Negative gearing now restricted to new residential builds, the CGT discount gone and on paper, the numbers look different.
And many investors are responding by pivoting toward yield, prioritising cash flow over capital growth in a way that property strategists say misses the point entirely.
“The debate has shifted to yield versus growth as if they are opposing forces,” says Abdullah Nouh, founder of Melbourne-based buyers’ agency Mecca Property Group. “But that framing is itself the mistake.”
Nouh, who works with high-net-worth families and investors on long-term acquisition strategy, argues that capital growth remains the primary driver of genuine wealth creation and that the post-budget environment has made quality assets more important, not less.
The numbers make his case plainly. An additional $500 per week in rental income is welcome. A prestige asset appreciating by $1 million over a market cycle is transformative.
These are not equivalent outcomes, and portfolios built around yield at the expense of location and land value tend to generate income while wealth stands largely still.
The more nuanced shift Nouh is seeing among sophisticated investors is a move toward assets where both outcomes can be engineered simultaneously – established homes on substantial land in quality locations, where the existing dwelling can be repositioned, rental returns improved, and the underlying land value compounds independent of what sits on it.
For investors with existing equity, commercial property is also entering the conversation in a more serious way.
Prestige industrial assets, medical centres and long-leased essential retail offer income profiles that residential property in most capital city markets cannot currently match: longer lease terms, tenants covering outgoings, and greater predictability than the residential tenancy cycle.
“The investors who build lasting wealth are rarely the ones who chased yield or growth exclusively,” says Nouh.
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