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Incorporated in Hong Kong, supported by the mainland and targeting in global market, CMB International Capital Corporation Limited (“CMBI”) is an integrated financial institution providing comprehensive and professional services. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Merchants Bank ("CMB"), by leveraging on the Group’s synergy and coordination in domestic and overseas markets, as well as CMB’s strong resources and outstanding social reputation, CMBI and its subsidiaries have been actively implementing diversified business strategies and set up an overall layout of main business segments including Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Global Markets and Structured Finance, etc. Adhering to the philosophy of “being clients oriented and increasing our own values by the way of creating value for clients”, CMBI endeavors to provide quality and integrated financial services to institutional, corporate and individual customers both domestic and overseas including Hong Kong IPO sponsorship and underwriting, share placement and rights issue for listed companies, financial advisors, bonds issuance services, asset management, direct investment, wealth management, equity sales and trading, etc.

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<ul><li>Tencent will report 2Q26E results on 12 Aug: we expect total revenue to increase by 9% YoY to RMB201.3bn, driven by the solid growth of games and marketing businesses; we estimate non-IFRS net income to grow by 7% YoY to RMB67.3bn, with non-IFRS NPM down by 0.7ppts YoY mainly due to AI-related investment.</li><li>Overall, we slightly trim our FY26 non-IFRS net income forecast by 1% in view of the AI investment.</li><li>That said, we remain upbeat on the ROI of Tencent’s AI spend, proven by its enhancing HY model performance, accelerating cloud revenue growth and improving ad solutions. </li></ul><p><em>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.</em></p>

Tencent will report 2Q26E results on 12 Aug: we expect total revenue to increase by 9% YoY to RMB201.3bn, driven by the solid growth of games and marketing businesses; we estimate non-IFRS net income to grow by 7% YoY to RMB67.3bn, with non-IFRS NPM down by 0.7ppts YoY mainly due to AI-related investment.Overall, we slightly trim our FY26 non-IFRS net income forecast by 1% in view of the AI investment.That said, we remain upbeat on the ROI of Tencent’s AI spend, proven by its enhancing HY model performance, accelerating cloud revenue growth and improving ad solutions. Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Tencent (700 HK) - Solid Core Business Growth; Investing to Accelerate AI Development