Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME) annual results, year to 31 December 2023: revenue CNY 27,752 million, from the 20-F
Tencent Music Entertainment Group files a 20-F with the SEC once a year, in renminbi. In the year to 31 December 2023 it reported revenue of CNY 27,752 million ($3.9 billion at the year's average rate), down 2.1% on the year before. Its profit attributable to shareholders was CNY 4,920 million, up 33.8%.
The year to 31 December 2023, against the year before
| Year to | Dec 2022 | Dec 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 28,339 | 27,752 |
| Cost of sales | 19,566 | 17,957 |
| Gross profit | 8,773 | 9,795 |
| Research and development | 2,580 | 2,525 |
| Operating profit | 4,443 | 6,059 |
| Finance costs | 108 | 141 |
| Profit before tax | 4,373 | 6,045 |
| Income tax | 534 | 825 |
| Profit for the year | 3,839 | 5,220 |
| Profit attributable to shareholders | 3,677 | 4,920 |
| Filing | 20-F | 20-F |
CNY million, from the 20-F on the SEC's EDGAR, linked in the last row, on the IFRS tags the company filed. A line the company does not file under the standard tag is left out rather than estimated.
Cash flow
| Year to | Dec 2022 | Dec 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash from operations | 7,481 | 7,337 |
| Purchase of property, plant and equipment | 85.0 | 165 |
| Free cash flow | 7,396 | 7,172 |
| Dividends paid | 0.0 | n/a |
| 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 | 67,009 | 75,536 |
| Equity attributable to shareholders | 48,099 | 55,907 |
| Cash and cash equivalents | 9,555 | 13,567 |
| Borrowings, as filed | 5,536 | 5,636 |
| Inventories | 14.0 | 8.0 |
| Goodwill | 19,493 | 19,542 |
| 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 | 31.0% | 35.3% |
| Operating margin | 15.7% | 21.8% |
| Net margin | 13.0% | 17.7% |
| Free cash flow margin | 26.1% | 25.8% |
| Return on year-end equity | 7.6% | 8.8% |
| Effective tax rate | 12.2% | 13.6% |
| 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 2016 | 6.64 | 6.94 |
| Dec 2017 | 6.75 | 6.51 |
| 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 17 April 2026, accession 0001193125-26-160257: the filing on EDGAR. All of Tencent Music Entertainment Group's filings: EDGAR company page. The figures are in renminbi as filed.
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