Higher fiber volumes and prices supported product profitability
Glass-fiber and related-product revenue was CNY 17,844,653,072.20, up 61.55%, with cost of revenue of CNY 8,945,191,162.08, up 24.86%. Reported gross margin was 49.87%, up 14.73 percentage points. This is gross profitability for a product category, before group expenses, financing and tax. Management attributes improvement to product mix, growing sales and higher prices, including electronic-fabric demand linked to printed circuit boards and lightweighting applications. It also describes pandemic-related overseas supply-demand imbalances and export recovery from the second quarter; these are historical explanations, not a forecast that the same prices persist. Other main-business revenue of CNY 944,630,623.34 had a 1.10% margin. Together these categories total CNY 18,789,283,695.54 main-business revenue, distinct from CNY 19,706,882,079.97 consolidated total revenue. Fiber’s reported 94.97% share uses main-business revenue; its 90.55% share uses total revenue. Neither denominator is silently substituted, and higher gross margin is not presented as an equivalent increase in sustainable shareholder profit.
- Reported glass-fiber and related-product revenue / 2021 / annual glass fiber product revenue
- RMB 17,844,653,072.2
- Reported glass-fiber and related-product cost / 2021 / annual glass fiber product cost
- RMB 8,945,191,162.08
- Reported glass-fiber and related-product gross margin / 2021 / annual glass fiber product margin
- 49.87 percent
- Reported other main-business revenue / 2021 / annual other main business revenue
- RMB 944,630,623.34