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Jennifer Song
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Datang’s 2018 Result Slightly Missed; Our FVE Remains Intact on Bearish Coal Price Outlook.

In line with industrywide deteriorating profitability, Datang’s full-year 2018 result missed our expectations, due to higher-than-expected fuel cost. Net profit fall 18% year over year to CNY 1.2 billion, with unit fuel cost rising 4% year over year. We think this, compared with only 1% growth in QHD 5,500kcal spot coal price, indicates that coal-fired IPPs have little flexibility to pass on the higher coal costs. Although Datang’s full-year result implies a net loss in the fourth quarter, we th...
Underlying
Datang International Power Generation Co. Ltd. Class H

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Morningstar
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Jennifer Song

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