Li Auto Inc. (LI) annual results, year to 31 December 2023: revenue CNY 123,851 million, from the 20-F
Li Auto Inc. files a 20-F with the SEC once a year, in renminbi. In the year to 31 December 2023 it reported revenue of CNY 123,851 million ($17.5 billion at the year's average rate), up 173.5% on the year before. Its profit attributable to shareholders was CNY 11,704 million, and diluted earnings per share CNY 5.55.
The year to 31 December 2023, against the year before
| Year to | Dec 2022 | Dec 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 45,287 | 123,851 |
| Cost of sales | 36,496 | 96,355 |
| Gross profit | 8,790 | 27,497 |
| Research and development | 6,780 | 10,586 |
| Selling, general and administrative | 5,665 | 9,768 |
| Operating profit | -3,655 | 7,407 |
| Profit before tax | -2,159 | 10,452 |
| Income tax | -127 | -1,357 |
| Profit for the year | -2,032 | 11,809 |
| Profit attributable to shareholders | -2,012 | 11,704 |
| Filing | 20-F | 20-F |
CNY million, from the 20-F on the SEC's EDGAR, linked in the last row, on the US GAAP tags the company filed. A line the company does not file under the standard tag is left out rather than estimated.
CNY per ordinary share, as filed.
Cash flow
| Year to | Dec 2022 | Dec 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash from operations | 7,380 | 50,694 |
| Purchase of property, plant and equipment | 5,128 | 6,507 |
| Free cash flow | 2,252 | 44,186 |
| Filing | 20-F | 20-F |
CNY million. Free cash flow is cash from operations less the purchase of property, plant and equipment, arithmetic on the two filed lines.
Balance sheet at year end
| Year to | Dec 2022 | Dec 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 86,538 | 143,467 |
| Equity attributable to shareholders | 44,859 | 60,143 |
| Cash and cash equivalents | 38,478 | 91,329 |
| Borrowings, as filed | 9,622 | 8,722 |
| Trade and other receivables | 48.4 | 144 |
| Inventories | 6,805 | 6,872 |
| Goodwill | 5.5 | 5.5 |
| Filing | 20-F | 20-F |
CNY million, at each fiscal year end.
Ratios on the filed lines
| Year to | Dec 2022 | Dec 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | 19.4% | 22.2% |
| Operating margin | -8.1% | 6.0% |
| Net margin | -4.4% | 9.5% |
| Free cash flow margin | 5.0% | 35.7% |
| Return on year-end equity | -4.5% | 19.5% |
| Effective tax rate | n/a | -13.0% |
| Filing | 20-F | 20-F |
Arithmetic on the filed lines of the same year.
The exchange rates used
| Year to | Average over the year CNY per US dollar | At the year end CNY per US dollar |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 2018 | 6.60 | 6.88 |
| Dec 2019 | 6.90 | 6.96 |
| Dec 2020 | 6.90 | 6.53 |
| Dec 2021 | 6.45 | 6.37 |
| Dec 2022 | 6.72 | 6.90 |
| Dec 2023 | 7.08 | 7.10 |
| Dec 2024 | 7.20 | 7.30 |
| Dec 2025 | 7.19 | 6.99 |
Converted by us, not by the company: the Federal Reserve's daily noon buying rates in New York (H.10), FRED series DEXCHUS. Profit and loss, cash flow and EPS use the average of the daily rates over each fiscal year; the balance sheet uses the rate on the year end, or the last one before it. Ratios are the same in either currency. The filed figures are the ones in renminbi.
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Source
20-F for the year to 31 December 2023, filed 10 April 2026, accession 0001104659-26-041705: the filing on EDGAR. All of Li Auto Inc.'s filings: EDGAR company page. The figures are in renminbi as filed.
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