Vietnam Tech unicorn VNG record a loss of over $56 mln in 2022

According to the financial report for the fourth quarter of 2022 from VNG Joint Stock Company (Code: VNZ), net sales climbed marginally by 6% to VND2,037 billion ($86.7 million) from the same quarter in 2021.

The gross profit margin increased to 45% in the fourth quarter of 2022 from 40% in the same quarter the previous year. 

This tech unicorn had a post-tax loss of over VND547 billion ($23.3 million) due to expenses depleting gross earnings, a substantial rise from the loss of VND267 billion ($11.3 million) during the same period. The fourth quarter of 2022 saw a VND435 billion ($18.5 million) net loss for VNG.

VNG's cumulative net revenue in 2022 was 7,801 billion ($332 million), an increase of 2% from 2021. Since disclosing the information, the corporation has experienced a record loss after taxes of more than VND1,315 trillion ($56 billion). 

However, VNG had more than VND5,311 billion ($226.4 million) in cumulative unremitted after-tax earnings by the end of 2022.

With the above statistics, VNG fell short of its loss goal of VND993 billion ($39 million) for 2022 and only achieved 77% of the revenue forecast.

The entire assets of VNG exceed VND9,092 billion ($387 million) by the end of 2022, a decrease of less than 2% from the year's commencement. Which accounts for one-third of total assets and is down VND2,000 billion ($85 million) from the start of the year. This technological group has VND3,079 billion ($131 million) in cash, cash equivalents, and bank deposits. VNG received interest on deposits totaling more than VND89 billion ($3.7 million) in 2022.

Besides, VNG also recorded VND1,484 billion ($63.2 million) of investment in affiliated companies and other units, 3.7 times higher than the first year. 

Only the investment in Dayone was profitable in the year, the rest of Rocketeer, Ecotruck, Beijing Youtu, Telio, and Funding Asia companies all lost, and VND1,000 billion  ($42.6 million) for the VNG Data Center project, this is the new data center with the largest rack scale in Vietnam, which has just been opened by VNG in mid-December, 2022.

By the end of 2022, the corporation had more than 7.1 treasury shares valued at more than VND1,264 billion ($53.9 million). All of these treasury shares will be offered by VNG to BigV Technology JSC for VND177,881 per share ($7.58).

Source: VietnamBiz