Tencent Music Reports Q1 Miss, Revenues Down 15.1%

Tencent Music (NYSE: TME) reported its Q1 results, with EPS of $0.06 coming in worse than the consensus estimate of $0.07. Total revenues declined 15.1% year-over-year to $1.05 billion, missing the consensus estimate of $1.23 billion, due to the headwinds in an evolving market landscape.

Revenues from online music services in Q1 were down 4.8% to $413 million. Revenues from music subscriptions grew 17.8% year-over-year to $314 million, with online music paying users reaching 80.2 million (up 31.7% year-over-year) and paying ratio increasing to 13.3% from 12.4% and 9.9% in Q4 and Q1/21, respectively.

Revenues from social entertainment services and others in Q1 were down 20.6% to $635 million.

Shares of Tencent Music were down 40% year-to-date into the results.

By Davit Kirakosyan

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