Thank you for joining us today, and welcome to China Yuchai International Limited's conference call and webcast for the 2026 first half year ended on June 30, 2026. Joining us today are Mr.

Weng Ming Hoh and Mr. Choon Sen Loo, the President and Chief Financial Officer of China Yuchai International, respectively.

In addition, we also have in attendance Mr. Kelvin Lai, General Manager of Operations of China Yuchai International.

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Mr. Hoh will provide a brief overview and summary.

Then Mr. Liew will provide the financial results for the first half year ended June 30, 2026.

Thereafter, we will conduct a question-and-answer session. For the purposes of today's call, the first half year numbers for 2026 and 2025 are unaudited.

Financial results are presented in RMB and U.S. dollars.

All the financial information presented is reported using IFRS accounting standards as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board. Mr.

Hoh, please begin your prepared remarks.

Thank you, Kevin. We are pleased to report continuing growth in sales and profits in the first half of 2026.

Revenue increased by 13.9% year-over-year, with a 10.9% year-over-year gain in engine unit sales. Our gross profit rose by 36.5% year-over-year to RMB 2.5 billion, or US$ 368.7 million, with gross profit margin increasing to 17.1%.

Operating profit was 58.9% higher at RMB 988.2 million, or US$ 145.1 million. Profit attributable to our shareholders rose by 53.2% year-over-year to RMB 560.6 million, or US$ 82.3 million, with diluted earnings per share of RMB 14.81, or US$ 2.17 in first half 2026.

Higher sales of our larger engines enhanced both our average selling price and profitability compared with the same period last year. Total truck engine unit sales were up 20.4% year-over-year, led by a heavy-duty truck engine unit sales increase of 47.3% year-over-year.

Engine unit sales to off-road markets increased by 7.7% year-over-year in first half 2026, primarily driven by strong demand in marine and power generation markets, where engine unit sales increased by 42% year-over-year. Our joint ventures and associates produced a 56.2% year-over-year growth in profits in first half 2026, propelled by higher sales and profits mainly from MTU Yuchai.

Order demand for high-horsepower engines continues to be strong. The combined production capacity for high-horsepower engines across the MTU JV and Yuchai currently stands at approximately 5,000 units.

Sales to AI data centers by MTU JV and Yuchai's own brand grew to approximately 1,800 units in first half 2026. With increased engine technology content advancing performance and environmental impacts, we increased total R&D expenditures, including capitalized costs, by almost 13% to RMB 622.5 million, or US$ 91.4 million in first half 2026.

In addition to enhancing the quality and performance of our current products, we've introduced new innovative products in first half 2026. Commercial minibuses equipped with Yuchai's YCY24-55kW flywheel range extender systems, or YC FRES, were launched in the heavily congested Hong Kong vehicle market.

This new technology reduces the need for fixed charging infrastructure. We also created a breakthrough in our alternative fuels program with our first high-pressure direct injection internal combustion engine capable of operating entirely on ammonia.

We acquired a 27.97% equity interest of Nanyue Fuel Injection System, or NYDK in short. It was previously known as Nanyue Tiankong Hengyang Industrial Technology Company Limited.

This transaction strengthens our technology capabilities, access to new powertrain products, and supply chain resilience. Since April 1, 2026, NYDK's financial results have been consolidated following Yuchai's acquisition of control over NYDK on March 31, 2026.

Our subsidiary, Guangxi Yuchai Marine and Genset Power Company Limited, continues the process for its IPO application with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Upon completion, the listing is expected to provide the subsidiary with more resources to accelerate its growth while we will remain the controlling shareholder of this subsidiary.

This will enable us to continue to benefit from the subsidiary's long-term development while focusing additional resources on our other operations. To further support our strategy of identifying and participating in emerging growth opportunities, we invested in and became a limited partner in Guangxi Yuchai Double Growth Fund, a private equity fund that invests in businesses focusing on innovative technologies.

At the end of June 2026, our cash management and cash flow from operations provided higher cash and bank balances totaling approximately 1.2 billion U.S. dollars, with lower borrowings.

Reflecting our commitment to delivering value to shareholders, a cash dividend of 87 U.S. cents per ordinary share for 2025 was paid in July 2026, compared with 53 U.S.

cents per ordinary share for 2024 paid in 2025. Our strong financial position empowers Yuchai's ongoing investment in product upgrades and new product development, which furthers the establishment of our growing presence in selected international markets to support future growth.

Our strategy remains to be sell into multiple and multiple end markets with a growing and diverse product portfolio. With that, I would now like to turn the call over to Mr.

Choon Sen Loo, our Chief Financial Officer, who will provide more details on the financial results. Choon Seng, you may begin your remarks.

Thank you, Weng Weng. Now let me review our unaudited 2026 first six months results ended June 30th, 2026.

Revenue was RMB 14.7 billion, or US$ 2.2 billion, compared with RMB 12.9 billion in first half 2025, a 13.9% year-over-year growth. Engine sales reached 277,684 units in first half 2026, an increase of 10.9% compared with 250,396 units in first half 2025.

This growth was driven by stronger performance in the truck segment as well as in off-road applications, particularly construction machinery and marine and power generation. Total truck engine unit sales were up 20.4% year-over-year in first half 2026, outperforming the 5.8% year-over-year growth in overall commercial truck, excluding gasoline and electric vehicles, sales reported by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, CAAM, in the same period.

Heavy-duty truck engine unit sales increased by 47.3% year-over-year, compared with the 13.1% year-over-year growth in heavy-duty truck sales reported by CAAM. Light-duty truck engine unit sales rose by 23.6%, contrasted with a decline in light-duty truck sales according to CAAM.

Medium-duty truck engine unit sales also grew 7.9% year-over-year. Engine unit sales to off-road markets increased by 7.7% year-over-year in first half 2026.

The growth was primarily driven by strong demand in the marine and power generation markets, where engine unit sales increased by 42% year-over-year. Sales for industrial applications rose by 15.8% year-over-year, while engine sales for agricultural machinery declined by 18.9% in the same period.

Gross profit increased by 36.5% to RMB 2.5 billion, or US$ 368.7 million, from RMB 1.8 billion in first half 2025. The increase was mainly due to higher sales volume, better sales mix, and reduced warranty expenses.

Overall gross margin was 17.1% in first half 2026, compared with 14.3% in first half 2025. Increased sales of larger engines enhanced the gross profit margin in first half 2026 year-over-year.

Other operating income net decreased by 32.2% to RMB 150.2 million, or US$ 22.1 million, compared with RMB 221.4 million in first half 2025. The decrease was mainly attributable to lower government grants and the absence of technology licensing fees income in first half 2026 as compared with that of first half 2025.

Research and development, R&D, expenses increased by 24.5% to RMB 593.4 million, or US$ 87.1 million, compared with RMB 476.7 million in first half 2025 due to higher experimental and personnel costs and the lower level of capitalized project costs. Total R&D expenditures including capitalized costs were RMB 622.5 million, or US$ 91.4 million, representing 4.2% of revenue in first half 2025 compared to Renminbi 551.7 million and 4.3% of revenue in first half 2025.

Selling, general, and administrative, SG&A, expenses increased by 12.2% to RMB 1.1 billion, or US$ 158.5 million, from RMB 962.5 million in first half 2025. This increase was driven by higher personnel expenses and legal, professional, and consultancy fees compared with first half 2025.

SG&A expenses represented 7.4% of revenue for first half 2025 compared with 7.5% of revenue in first half 2025. Operating profit increased by 58.9% to RMB 988.2 million, or US$ 145.1 million, compared to RMB 621.7 million in first half 2025.

The operating margin increased to 6.7% in contrast with 4.8% in first half 2025. Higher operating profit and operating margin were achieved by increased sales and gross margin combined with controlled growth in operating expenses.

Finance costs decreased by 16% to RMB 27 million, or US$ 4 million, compared with RMB 32.2 million in first half 2025, primarily due to reduced term loans during the period. The share of financial results of the associates and joint ventures grew by 56.2% to a profit of RMB 95.9 million, or US$ 14.1 million, compared with RMB 61.4 million in first half 2025.

The increase was mainly driven by higher profits at MTU Yuchai Power Company Limited. Income tax expense increased by 85.3% to RMB 215.3 million, or US$ 31.6 million, compared with RMB 116.2 million in first half 2025, primarily due to higher profits and the utilization of deferred tax assets.

The effective income tax rate increased to 20.4% compared with 17.8% in first half 2025. Net profit attributable to equity holders of the company increased by 53.2% to RMB 560.6 million, or US$ 82.3 million, compared with RMB 365.8 million in first half 2025.

Basic earnings per share were RMB 14.94, US$ 2.19, compared with RMB 9.75 in first half 2025, both based on a weighted average of 37,518,332 shares. Diluted earnings per share were RMB 14.80, or US$ 2.17, based on a weighted average of 37,845,508 shares, compared with RMB 9.75 based on a weighted average of 37,518,332 shares in first half 2025.

The company adopted the China Yuchai International Limited 2025 Equity Incentive Plan with a duration of 10 years and granted share options in August 2025 and December 2025 respectively, with a total of 820,000 share options granted as of December 31st, 2025. No comparable shares options were granted in first half 2025 and first half 2026.

Now we'll go through some balance sheet highlights as of June 30th, 2026. Cash and bank balances were RMB 8.1 billion, or US$ 1.2 billion, compared with Renminbi 7.9 billion at the end of 2025.

Trade and bills receivables were RMB 14.1 billion, or US$ 2.1 billion, compared with RMB 11 billion at the end of 2025. Inventories were RMB 5.8 billion, or US$ 854.5 million, compared with RMB 5.6 billion at the end of 2025.

Trade and bills payables were RMB 13.2 billion, or US$ 1.9 billion, compared with RMB 11.6 billion at the end of 2025. Short-term and long-term loans and borrowings were RMB 1.4 billion, or US$ 210.1 million, compared with RMB 2 billion at the end of 2025.

I will now turn the call over to Kevin for Q&A section. Kevin, please.

Okay.

Kevin Theiss?

Yes. All right, please note, some officers of China Yuchai are remotely calling in to the conference.

This may result in a slight delay in providing answers to some questions. We apologize for any inconvenience, and thank you for your patience.

If you would like to ask a question in Chinese, please kindly translate your own question to English before turning to the management for answers. Now, operator, we are ready for questions.

Thank you for taking my question. First, congratulation on strong results.

My question is about the AIDC kind of volume guidance. We have achieved 1,800, and I think at the beginning of the year, we are targeting 2,600.

Any color into the second half of this year? This is first question.

My second question is about the dividend. I noticed that the company announced 2025 dividend, but the payout ratio seems to be lower than 2024.

I'm wondering any color on this? Thank you.

I'll take that question on dividend and let Kelvin do the question on the AIDC. No, there's no particular reason.

I think the payout ratio, if you look at our payout ratios in the past 10 years, it ranges from about 30 to 40%. Sometimes a little bit higher, sometimes a little bit lower.

It's still within that range. That hasn't changed.

There's no anything untoward there.

Morning, Mr. Shen, and let me brief you regarding on the volume of the AIDC engine.

In the first half and then the total volume of the AIDC from both the Yuchai and plus the MTU joint venture is 1,800 units. That is for the AIDC only.

For the second half and then we will expect the whole year and then will be around about 3,500 and more. This is we had adjust the production and also the sales volume of the whole year of the 2026.

It means and then there will be quite a significant growth and then in compare to the year of 2025. Thank you, yeah.

Thank you. Very clear.

Hello, management. This is Fiona from Bank of America.

I have a question about our gross margin profile. In the first half, we see that the blended gross margin improved quite a lot.

Could you explain more about the factors behind, whether it is due to the product mix change or our improving cost efficiency? Lastly, I also want to ask the gross margin or the net margin on Yuchai MTU.

For the first half, our share of profit from associate and JV improved a lot. What's the margin profile for Yuchai MTU currently?

Okay. Hey, Fiona.

Hey. This is Chon Seng.

I will take the first question, all right, regarding the gross margin expansion or improvement, right, from 14-odd percent to 17.1%. I think you mentioned earlier on that the first thing first that the product mix actually drove the margin up, in particularly, in the large engine or horsepower engine, right?

That gives us a nice uptick for the margin, all right? That's number one.

Okay. Then we also mentioned that our heavy-duty engine unit sales has increased as well.

That also give us some favorable margin increase in that aspect. Okay?

Of course, the third point is that I think you also mentioned that we have continued to enhance our operational efficiency, all right? That is actually will help our cost rationalization, right, in the first half.

Of course, our first half, we also being affected by some unfavorable precious metal price increase. That's kind of being offset against what we have been doing for the cost improvements.

I hope that answers your first question, Fiona. Then the second question,

huh? I take the MTU question, say.

Actually, this year, then 2026, the GP of the MTU joint venture is a little bit reduced. Then mainly because of the cost of the engine and also there's some pricing pressure.

We had to offer further discount and then to OEM and also other partners. The overall sales of the first half and then increasing by over 40%.

The revenue and also the net profit is also increased. Net profit percentage is not as good as the revenue growth.

We are still maintaining about over 30% GP as a overall. This is still quite promising and then on the net profit, yeah.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Hi. Thank you very much for taking me.

Congratulations for your strong H1. I've got two questions.

Number one, could you describe any progress on your gas engine product? Is there any chance that they could be used in the data center business for prime power, especially in North America?

Another question on fuel cell. Could you describe any progress on your fuel cell business?

Is there any chance that they could be used in data center in the future? Thanks.

Let me take the first part, Yiming, and regarding on the gas engine. The gas engine actually is a traditional engine product and then is available in Yuchai for many years.

When we develop the diesel, and then the gas engines also available. It's a widely available product and then ready for the market.

You're mentioning about on the North American market, and then at the moment, our engine is still under the certification process. Now is awaiting and then for all the testing and then can be fully done and then before we can release the engine and then for any other region.

At this stage, we're still and then using our existing product, the VC engine. Then that's is up to 2.5 megawatt for diesel and about 3 megawatt for the common rail application.

We didn't have exact timing regarding when we can get into the US market. We're actually doing everything we can, yeah.

Thank you.

Can you repeat your second questions again on the fuel cell? Yeah.

Could you give us some introduction of your fuel cell business? Is there any chance that they could be used in the data center power generation in the future?

Thanks. Okay.

Our fuel cell unit is still sort of in progress. We have been developing products.

In the past, we have some products that's been installed in the buses, especially in Beijing. We have not started working on the power generation side of it.

I guess at some point in the future, it is a possibility, but definitely not in the short term. We do not have a product in the short term for power generation for fuel cells system as yet.

Okay?

Okay. I see.

Thank you very much.

Hi. Good evening, management.

Can you hear me?

Yes.

Hi. Hi, Weng Weng and team.

Congratulations on this good set of results. I have some questions regarding your AIDC capacity.

I'm not sure if I heard this wrongly earlier at the start of the call. You mentioned that your current capacity for high-horsepower engines/DC engines is currently 5,000 for 2026.

Is that correct?

Yes, that's right.

Does that mean that actually there has been an increase in capacity? Because I think previously you were guiding about 4,000 capacity for 2026.

Let me take this question. The last year, and then our capacity for the high-horsepower engine, and then combine the Yuchai local brand plus the MTU JV brand, and then all add together is about 3 3,000 last year.

We had had the capacity extension program at the end of the 2024, so that it was complete last year. We have about increasing about 700 unit capacity for the high horsepower.

At the beginning of this year, and then we also modify our internal process so that we have subcontract out some of our machining process and then to the external subcontractor. Through this practice, and then we can increasing another 1,000 unit capacity for machining.

Now we have all add together, and then total is about 5 5,000. This is our current capacity for the high-horsepower engine, including and then for those AIDC or non-AIDC application.

We are still and then in the planning and then to further increase the capacity for next year, but we are now not had a final decision regarding what's the volume we will be, and then we'll increasing the production volume and then for the next year and then the year on, yes. Thank you, yeah.

Thank you. My understanding is that the capacity has increased due to outsourcing of certain machining requirements, then.

Is that correct?

We subcontract out some of the machining process. In the past, and then we do all the machining in-house, but now and then we are using the external contractor and then to do some of the machining for us so that we can spare out and then further capacity and then to build more engine.

Okay. Does this mean that you're still guiding for 3,500 AI only AIDC, then, meaning excluding those sold to non-AI?

That's is a AI only, yeah. Yeah, 3,500, yeah.

That means you expect to sell all the capacity that we have, which is going to be 5,000 for the year?

Target is 5,000 for the year.

To be clear, right, the ASPs for high-horsepower engines, be it sold to AIDC customers or non-AIDC, the ASPs are actually similar?

Correct. Because the high-horsepower engine is not only for application of AIDC, it is only for using the engine and then for the power generation.

The power generation and then can be using in the factory, make be using in a commercial building. Then, there's quite a lot of the non-AIDC application and then using the high-horsepower engine as well.

Oh,

that's perfect. Can I also check I know some of your competitors have also been ramping up their manufacturing capacity.

How has that affected your ability to command, or maintain, increase your average selling prices for these high-horsepower/AIDC engines?

In fact, because of the surging demand of the AIDC engine in the high-horsepower engine market, not only Yuchai or MTU, but all other engine manufacturer, they also do the same thing, and then had the capacity extension program and then since the beginning of the 2024, 2025, and this year and then. The market is still very competitive, and every engine supplier and then they had to do whatever they can and then to win the orders.

Otherwise, and then their extension program then will have to be difficult and then to get the return. Pricing-wise and then we haven't real pricing increase and then in compare to the last year, except we had the cost increase and then from our supplier and then we pass by to the end user for all those additional costing.

Engine itself and then still to maintain quite stable pricing anyway, yeah. Thank you.

Thank you so much. Sorry, one last question.

I know you mentioned that you have not firmed up your available capacity for next year. Do you mean to say that you could try to outsource more of this machining and maybe increase capacity, or do you think that it will require expansion of lines and therefore more capex spending?

Actually, we will do in dual way. The one is and then we will further outsource some of the process, but we cannot outsource every process to the external supplier because we can do what we call the first machining, and then, but the fine machining, we need to do in-house anyway.

We still had to increasing some of the machinery and then for the fine machining process inside the factory. We will have to do it both way, and then first as I also and then try to increasing the subcontract processing, and secondly and then we still have to buy some more equipment and then for the internal process as well.

We will do the same, and we already had some kind of visual planning regarding on the capacity of next year, but we need to finalize and then before we actually put it in the action, yeah.

Thank you all for participating in our conference call. We wish all of you good health, and look forward to speaking with you again.

Thank you. Goodbye.