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Waterdrop Q4 and FY2024 Financial Results: Annual Net profit rises 119.8% YoY, and declared a cash dividend

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2 years ago

March 12, 2025

BEIJING, March 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — On March 12, 2025, Waterdrop Inc. (NYSE: WDH), a leading technology platform dedicated to insurance and healthcare services with a positive social impact, unveiled its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and Fiscal Year ended December 31, 2024.

During the fourth quarter, Waterdrop reported net operating revenue of RMB 686.8 million. Net profit attributable to ordinary shareholders totaled RMB 99.6 million, up 68.5% from the same quarter of previous year, sustaining profitability for the twelfth consecutive quarter. Operating expenses, including sales and marketing expenses, general and administrative expenses, research and development expenses, accounted for 45.1% of revenue.

For the year of 2024, Waterdrop reported net operating revenue increased by 5.4% year over year to RMB 2,771.8 million. Net profit attributable to ordinary shareholders totaled RMB 367.5 million, up 119.8% from the previous year. Operating expenses, including sales and marketing expenses, general and administrative expenses, research and development expenses, accounted for 46.1% of revenue, a decrease of 8.7 percentage points year-on-year.

In recognition of the invaluable support from shareholders, Waterdrop declared another cash dividend. The cash dividend of US$0.02 per ADS or US$0.002 per ordinary share, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on April 11, 2025. The payment date is expected to be on or around April 30, 2025 for holders of ordinary shares and on or around May 2, 2025 for holders of ADSs.

Since announcing its first share repurchase program in September 2021, as of February 28, 2025, Waterdrop has repurchased approximately 52.1 million American Depositary Shares (ADSs) from the open market with cash for a total consideration of approximately US$103.7 million.

As of December 31, 2024, cash position of the Company was RMB3,670.3 million (US$502.8 million), as compared with RMB3,571.6 million as of December 31, 2023.

Insurance Business Operating Profit Totaled RMB 477.2 Million in 2024

In the fourth quarter of 2024, Waterdrop’s insurance-related revenue amounted to RMB 582.4 million. The first-year premiums (“FYP”) generated through the insurance business amounted to RMB1,897.9 million, representing an increase of 24.5% year over year. For the year of 2024, Waterdrop’s insurance-related income amounted to RMB2,363.8 million. Annual operating profit totaled RMB 477.2 million.

Mr. Peng Shen, Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Waterdrop, commented, “Our insurance business capped off the year with an annual FYP of RMB7,472.8 million, marking a 5.1% year-over-year growth. Throughout the fourth quarter, we honed our focus on optimizing customer acquisition channels and diversifying product offerings, which yielded robust outcomes. Our targeted acquisition strategies spurred a 14.9% year-over-year surge in new user acquired.”

Waterdrop recently announced the strategic integration and local deployment of DeepSeek models, which marks a significant step forward in the AI-driven insurance ecosystem. Utilizing advanced AI models, Waterdrop’s AI Insurance Expert now supports multi-modal interactions, including voice and text. The system excels in managing complex dialogues and assisting with sales strategies, autonomously handling voice communications and consultations for medical insurance products.

Waterdrop Medical Crowdfunding Raised RMB 67.5 Billion for 3.40 Million Patients

During the quarter, Waterdrop Medical Crowdfunding upheld its mission of “emergency rescue” with remarkable success. As of December 31, 2024, around 470 million people cumulatively had donated an aggregate of RMB 67.5 billion to 3.40 million patients through Waterdrop Medical Crowdfunding.

As a milestone, Waterdrop Medical Crowdfunding has been officially recognized as a pioneer in China’s standardized medical crowdfunding sector. Following new legislation changes, the platform secured designation from the Ministry of Civil Affairs on December 25, 2024, becoming one of the first batch of state-endorsed “Online Service Platforms for Individuals Seeking Financial Help”.

Waterdrop’s Digital Clinical Trial Solution has maintained its growth in the fourth quarter of 2024, generating revenues of approximately RMB 25.5 million, representing an increase of 22.9% YoY. And the income amounted to RMB91.1 million in 2024. As of December 31, 2024, the Company had cumulatively enrolled 10,395 patients into 1,212 clinical trial programs through the E-Find Platform.

Mr. Peng Shen, said, “In 2024, Waterdrop delivered solid performance across all business units, driven by its integrated scenario ecosystem and sustained AI investments. By fully upgrading products and services through these strategic advantages, the company has established new benchmarks for Al implementation in the industry. Amid accelerating technologies advance in 2025, Waterdrop remains committed to “Tech for Good”, strategically leveraging resilience to capture emerging opportunities while fostering inclusive growth through accessible AI solutions.”

Waterdrop Announces Appointment of New Independent Director

Waterdrop today announced the appointment of Mr. Chen Lin as an independent director and a member of the audit committee of the Company’s board of directors, effective March 11, 2025.

Mr. Chen Lin has served at various positions at The University of Hong Kong, including as the Chair of Finance and Stelux Professor in Finance since August 2013, and Associate Vice President since January 2023. In addition, Mr. Lin has served as an independent non-executive director for several companies, including Artificial Intelligent Interconnection Technology Co., Ltd. since December 2024, Beijing 51WORLD Digital Twin Technology Co., Ltd. since September 2024, Shiyue Daotian Group Co., Limited (HKEX: 09676) since October 2023, Allianz Global Investors Fund Management Co., Ltd. since September 2023, CNCB (Hong Kong) Investment Limited since January 2022, and China Merchants Land Asset Management Co., Limited (the manager of China Merchants Commercial REIT (HKEX: 01503)) since December 2019.

Mr. Lin is a non-official member of the Task Force on Promoting Web3 Development of the Government of Hong Kong since July 2023, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, UK since March 2023, a Member of the Academia Europaea since June 2022, a member of the Hang Seng Index Advisory Committee since August 2021, a member of the Fintech Advisory Group of the Securities and Futures Commission since March 2021 and an advisory member of the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority since June 2019. Mr. Lin also served as a member of the Currency Board Sub-Committee of the Exchange Fund Advisory Committee of Hong Kong from January 2017 to December 2022.

Mr. Lin obtained his PhD degree in economics in August 2006, master of arts degree in economics in August 2005 and master of business administration degree (MBA) in May 2004 from University of Florida in the United States. He received his bachelor’s degree in engineering from South China University of Technology in July 2000.

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Shenzhen Unveils APEC China 2026 Host-City Theme Song and Music Video

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November 1, 2026

SHENZHEN, China, Nov. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The host-city theme song for APEC China 2026, Meet You Where Wonders Bloom (在奇迹之城遇见你), was produced by the Publicity Department of the CPC Shenzhen Municipal Committee and created by Shenzhen Media Group. Written and composed by He Muyang, Vice Chairman of the Chinese Musicians Association and a Shenzhen-based musician, the song is performed by popular singers Jane Zhang and Joseph Zeng. With its fresh, youthful pop sound, the song tells the stories of ordinary dreamers, weaving together personal aspirations, Shenzhen’s remarkable development, and the broader vision of Asia-Pacific cooperation.

Released alongside the song, the music video goes beyond showcasing Shenzhen’s cityscape to put people at the heart of the story. Through the experiences of people from all walks of life, particularly young people and those from overseas, it captures the energy and appeal of Shenzhen, the City of Miracles, and its warm welcome to the world. Running 4 minutes and 45 seconds, the video features 176 shots filmed across Shenzhen, with more than 100 residents appearing on screen. From location coordination and filming support to bringing participants together, the production was a citywide effort. More than just a music video, it became a shared expression of Shenzhen’s enthusiasm as APEC host city.

From a refreshing melody to a city ready to welcome the world, Shenzhen is embracing its role as APEC host with openness and inclusiveness, extending a warm invitation to guests from near and far to gather in Shenzhen.

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Shenzhen Unveils APEC China 2026 Host-City Theme Song and Music Video

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November 1, 2026

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Context Labs AI Distillery™ Lets Enterprises Run Sovereign AI on Data They Own

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5 hours ago

November 1, 2026

Company launches the Context Engine for trusted sovereign AI, which packages an enterprise’s own data with verified lineage for use with the frontier or open-weight model the enterprise chooses.

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, Nov. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Context Labs B.V. (“Context Labs”), the AI Data Infrastructure company, today launched the Context Labs AI Distillery™, the Context Engine for trusted sovereign AI. The AI Distillery converts an enterprise’s operational and business data into a governed Context Package that the enterprise owns, creating their own protected competitive moat. Every answer an AI model draws from the package is traced to its source records, and the package works with the frontier or open weight model the customer chooses, inside the customer’s own environment.

Analysts have quantified the obstacle to scaling enterprise AI. Gartner predicts that through 2026 organizations will abandon 60% of AI projects unsupported by AI-ready data, and that over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by the end of 2027. McKinsey reports that eight in ten companies name data limitations as the barrier to scaling AI agents. Gartner has also described what enterprises now need: software that lets teams construct, govern and deliver semantically organized knowledge to AI agents, built on ontologies and knowledge graphs.

The Context Labs AI Distillery™ is designed around six outcomes:

Own your IP. An enterprise’s knowledge, know-how and operating context stay inside a Context Package that only it controls and are not used to train third-party AI models.

Own your AI. The intelligence employees create in everyday use accrues to the enterprise, not to a model provider, and grows with every interaction.

Trusted, provable answers. Every output carries its data lineage and decision provenance, so answers can be verified, audited, and defended.

Build, protect and scale a proprietary competitive asset. The Context Package captures how the enterprise describes and runs its operations, starting with one facility and extending to others without rebuilding.

Sovereign by design. The AI Distillery runs inside the customer’s own data center or chosen cloud, so data stays where the customer decides.

Freedom of model choice, at lower cost. Customers can use any frontier or open-weight model and switch models without rebuilding the Context Package. Precise, verified context reduces the tokens each query uses.

The AI Distillery works in three steps: distill, package, and prove. It maps an enterprise’s structured and unstructured data to industry-specific ontologies, stores the result in a Context Package with cryptographic provenance, and checks answers against the company’s own records before any model goes into production. Work that has typically required teams of specialist engineers becomes a guided, governed workflow.

Context Agents and the Semantic Context Tunnel. Context Agents answer operational, commercial and compliance questions from the enterprise’s Context Package, with every figure traced to its source. The Semantic Context Tunnel brings the same context into the AI assistant employees already use. Both work within the access controls the enterprise sets.

“Models come and go. An enterprise’s context should not,” said Dan Harple, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Context Labs. “Frontier models will keep improving, but they do not supply governance, provenance or trust, and they should not absorb the knowledge that makes a company competitive. The AI Distillery gives enterprises a moat they own: their own context, proven and protected, working with whichever model they choose. That is how our customers own their IP and own their AI.”

At ADIPEC 2026, Context Labs is demonstrating the AI Distillery on energy-sector use cases, in which a Context Agent answers operational questions with every figure traced to the underlying plant records. Context Labs is located Arab Development Group stand, Stand #5240, Hall 5 and in the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, AI Zone, Hall 13.

Availability. The Context Labs AI Distillery™ is available now through the Microsoft Marketplace. Each enterprise license includes an industry starter kit to accelerate time to value. Companies can request a briefing or technical working session at contextlabs.com/distillery.

About Context Labs B.V.

Context Labs is an AI Data Infrastructure company delivering the Context Engine for Trusted and Secure Sovereign AI. Its platform turns complex, fragmented operational, engineering and enterprise data into continuously verified, auditable information that AI systems, people and markets can trust. Built on an extensible library of industry-specific ontologies that map to established standards published by ISO and other standards bodies, the platform is deployable across sectors, with use-case applications delivering decision-ready intelligence on a common foundation. The Context Labs AI Distillery™ lets enterprises run sovereign AI inside their own data centers, so they own their IP and own their AI. Formed out of MIT research and led by a team that helped drive the at-scale growth of the Internet, Context Labs has offices in Amsterdam, Cambridge (Mass.), Houston and Abu Dhabi. Learn more at www.contextlabs.com.

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