Strong 2025 results driven by overseas expansion and domestic share gains

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United Imaging (UIH) reported strong 2025 results. Revenue rose 34.0% YoY toRMB13.8bn, 4% above our estimate, while attributable net profit increased 48.1%YoY to RMB1.9bn. In 1Q26, revenue grew 17.3% YoY to RMB2.9bn, slightlymissing our expectation, accounting for 17% of our full-year forecast (vs. thehistorical average of ~20%). We therefore lower our 2026E revenue growthforecast from 25.7% to 22.5% YoY, although our absolute revenue estimateincreases by 1.4% on a higher base in 2025.
Overseas expansion remains the key growth driver. Overseas revenuerose 51.4% YoY to RMB3.4bn in 2025, driven by strong growth across majorregions, including North America (+56% YoY), Europe (+50% YoY), and APAC(+41% YoY). Momentum remained solid in 1Q26, with overseas revenue up~27% YoY to approximately RMB710mn. In our view, the strong performancewas driven by continued progress in high-end products such as PET/CTs andMRs, as well as improving global sales and service network. Overseas servicerevenue grew ~53% YoY in 2025. With rising brand recognition and increasingpenetration into high-end customers, we expect overseas revenue to maintainrobust growth in 2026E.
Domestic growth was driven by market share gains. Domestic revenuegrew 29.1% YoY to RMB10.4bn in 2025, with UIH ranking No.1 in newinstallations across multiple products, including CT, MR, MI and RT. Sharegains were particularly notable in MR (+6.4ppts), RT (+18.1ppts), and PET/CT(+13.5ppts). Looking ahead, equipment renewal projects are continuing to rollout. With the implementation experience in 2025, we expect the execution toaccelerate and continue to support hospital procurement demand. However,the domestic market for medical imaging equipment declined 21.1% YoY in1Q26, according to MDDi. Therefore, we believe that UIH’s revenue growth willface tougher comparisons in 2H26E given the lags between tender wins andrevenue recognition.
Near-term GPM headwinds partially offset by favorable product mix. GPMdeclined 1.5ppts/2.8ppts YoY to 47.0%/47.2% in 2025/1Q26, respectively,mainly due to domestic VBPs, tariffs and higher liquid helium costs.Encouragingly, blended ASP increased by more than 20% YoY in 2025, drivenby a richer mix of high-end systems. For example, revenue from 3.0T-andabove MR systems grew over 60% YoY and accounted for over two thirds oftotal MR revenue in 2025. Service revenue, which carries higher GPM thanequipment sales, rose 26% YoY and accounted for 12.4% of total revenue in2025. We believe that the mix shift toward high-end systems and servicesshould help partially offset pressure from VBPs, tariffs, and elevated liquidhelium costs. More diversified helium sourcing and greater in-house productionof key components should also support margin improvement.
Maintain BUY. We remain positive on UIH’s long-term growth. However, welower our 2026-28E earnings forecasts to factor in VBP pressure and elevatedliquid helium costs in the near term. We therefore lower TP to RMB161.04based on a 9-year DCF model (WACC: 8.1%, terminal growth: 4.0%)