Daily Brief Credit: Meituan - Earnings Flash - Q2 FY 2025 Results and more

In today’s briefing:

Meituan – Earnings Flash – Q2 FY 2025 Results

Meituan’s Q2/25 performance was weaker than we had expected, with profitability plunging as irrational price competition in food delivery eroded margins (due to heightened courier incentives and aggressive marketing spend).
The Q2 performance was also a stark contrast to the stronger than anticipated Q1 results, which included robust revenue growth (+18.1%) and a surge in profitability (operating profit: +102.8%) on the back of enhanced operational efficiency and operating leverage.
While the Q2/25 development is of some concern, Meituan is clearly making strategic moves by absorbing short-term pain (through material investments in subsidies, marketing and incentives) to protect its commanding 60-70% share in the food delivery market.

In today’s Morning Views publication we comment on developments of the following high yield issuers: China Oil & Gas
UST yields fell yesterday, led by the front end, despite a soft auction of 5Y notes (which tailed by 0.7 bps). The UST curve bullsteepened, with the yield on the 2Y UST falling 7 bps to 3.61%, while the yield on the 10Y UST declined 3 bps to 4.24%. Equities ended higher, ahead of Nvidia’s Q2/25 results release (out after the market closed). The S&P 500 and Nasdaq were both up 0.2% at 6,481 and 21,590, respectively.
New York Fed President John Williams said that the current rates are “modestly restrictive”, which means the US central bank could “reduce interest rates and still be somewhat restrictive going forward, but again, we’re going to have to figure out exactly what’s happening in the economy”.

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