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Sumeet Singh
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Dida Pre-IPO

Dida, a technology driven mobility platform in China, aims to raise around US$400m in its Hong Kong IPO. The company is backed by JD.com, Hillhouse, Ctrip, Bitauto and a host of other investors.

Dida claims to operate the largest carpooling marketplace in China with a market share of 66.5% in terms of the number of carpooling rides in 2019, as per Frost & Sullivan (F&S) report. As of Jun 2020, it offered its carpooling marketplace in 366 cities in China, with approximately 19.2m registered private car owners. Since inception, it has served 36.7m carpooling riders and approximately 60.9m taxi riders.

Over 2017-19, Dida’s total revenue increased by 11.87x. Revenue was up another 66% over 6M20. Revenue coming from carpooling has grown 19x over 2017 to 2019 and was up another 66% over 6M20.

The rapid increase in revenue over the past few years, has aided gross profit growth, with gross profit margins expanding from 49.5% in 2017 to 79.5% by 2019. At the same time, Dida has also cut down on its user incentives as well. This enabled Dida to turn a profit in 2019 and remain profitable over 1H20.

However, a closer look at the operations shows that Dida only started growing once the market leader, Didi, exited the space. Didi is now planning to re-enter the market, given its larger scale it could possibly lead to subsidy wars in the near term and to Dida eventually losing market share.
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