VNET Group, Inc. Q3 FY2025 Earnings Call

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Overall Performance

  • Total net revenues reached RMB 2.58 billion, up 21.7% year over year (vs. Q3 2024).
  • Adjusted EBITDA was RMB 758 million, up 27.5% year over year.
  • Wholesale IDC remained the primary growth driver, while retail IDC sustained steady improvements.
  • Management raised full-year 2025 revenue and adjusted EBITDA guidance due to faster-than-expected wholesale move-ins and operational efficiency gains.

Operational Highlights

  • Wholesale capacity in service: 783 MW as of 09/30/2025, up 16.1% quarter over quarter (+109 MW).
  • Wholesale utilized capacity: 582 MW, up 13.8% quarter over quarter.
  • Wholesale capacity utilization rate: stable at 74.3%; mature capacity utilization at 94.7%.
  • Retail IDC:
    • Capacity in service: 52,288 cabinets.
    • Utilization rate: 64.8% (slight increase).
    • Retail MRR per cabinet: RMB 8,948, rising for six consecutive quarters.

Financial Highlights

  • Wholesale revenue: RMB 955.5 million, up 82.7% year over year (driven mainly by NOR Campus 01).
  • Retail revenue: RMB 999.1 million, up 2.4% year over year.
  • Non-IDC revenue: RMB 627.1 million, up 0.8% year over year.
  • Adjusted cash gross margin: 40.7% (vs. 40.6% last year).
  • Adjusted EBITDA margin: 29.4% (vs. 28% last year).

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Operator: Hello, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for standing by for the Third Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call for VNET Group, Inc. After the management's prepared remarks, there will be a question and answer session. Please note the Chinese line is in listen-only mode. If you wish to ask questions, please dial in through the English line. Participants from our management include Mr. Ju Ma, Rotating President, Mr. Qiyu Wang, Chief Financial Officer, and Ms. Xinyuan Liu, Head of Investor Relations of the company. Please note that today's conference call is being recorded. I will now turn the call over to the first speaker today, Ms. Xinyuan Liu. Please go ahead. Xinyuan Liu: Thank you, Operator. Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Third Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call. Our earnings release was distributed earlier today, and you can find a copy on our website as well as on newswire services. Please note that today's call will contain forward-looking statements made under the safe harbor provisions of The US Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from our current expectations. For detailed discussions of these risks and uncertainties, please refer to our latest annual report and other documents filed with the SEC. VNET does not undertake any obligations to update any forward-looking statements except as required under applicable laws. Please

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