{"id":35975,"date":"2025-10-14T21:48:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T14:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/?p=35975"},"modified":"2025-10-14T21:48:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T14:48:30","slug":"morgan-stanley-raises-joyy-joyy-us-target-price-from-us40-to-us62-on-signs-of-live-streaming-recovery-and-attractive-shareholder-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/?p=35975","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Stanley Raises JOYY (JOYY.US) Target Price from US$40 to US$62 on Signs of Live Streaming Recovery and Attractive Shareholder Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"10\" cellpadding=\"5\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/1887625\/1_Logo.jpg?p=medium600\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" title=\"logo\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"118\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-location\">SINGAPORE<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">Oct. 14, 2025<\/span><\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; <span>Morgan Stanley has raised its target price for JOYY (JOYY.US) to <span class=\"xn-money\">US$62<\/span> from <span class=\"xn-money\">US$40<\/span>, reflecting improving fundamentals in JOYY&#8217;s core business, accelerating advertising growth, and attractive shareholder returns. The firm also highlighted JOYY&#8217;s robust cash position and attractive shareholder return program as key factors offering downside protection.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"PRN_ImbeddedAssetReference\">\n<\/div>\n<p><b>Live-streaming business may have bottomed out: <\/b>Morgan Stanley thinks JOYY&#8217;s live steaming business may have bottomed out since 2Q25, after reporting 1% QoQ growth and positive management comments on revenue growth. The report expects further QoQ improvement in 2H25 and more growth in 2026-2027.<\/p>\n<p><b>Advertising business to be the main growth driver in 2026<\/b><b>\u20132027: <\/b>The report notes that JOYY&#8217;s advertising business continued its strong revenue momentum in the first half of 2025, following more than 175% year-over-year growth in 2024. Morgan Stanley expects this momentum to persist, forecasting 26% year-over-year growth in 2H25 and 20% in 2026.<\/p>\n<p><b>Attractive dividends and buybacks of <span class=\"xn-money\">US$300mn<\/span> annually in 2025-2027: <\/b>The company previously announced a three-year quarterly dividend policy totaling approximately <span class=\"xn-money\">US$600 million<\/span>, together with a share repurchase program of up to <span class=\"xn-money\">US$300 million<\/span> during 2025-2027. In 1H25, JOYY allocated <span class=\"xn-money\">US$135 million<\/span> to quarterly dividends and share buybacks. Morgan Stanley assumes <span class=\"xn-money\">US$300 million<\/span> in annual investor returns, including dividends and share buybacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"10\" cellpadding=\"5\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/1887625\/1_Logo.jpg?p=medium600\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" title=\"logo\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"118\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-location\">SINGAPORE<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">Oct. 14, 2025<\/span><\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; <span>Morgan Stanley has raised its target price for JOYY (JOYY.US) to <span class=\"xn-money\">US$62<\/span> from <span class=\"xn-money\">US$40<\/span>, reflecting improving fundamentals in JOYY&#8217;s core business, accelerating advertising growth, and attractive shareholder returns. The firm also highlighted JOYY&#8217;s robust cash position and attractive shareholder return program as key factors offering downside protection.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"PRN_ImbeddedAssetReference\">\n<\/div>\n<p><b>Live-streaming business may have bottomed out: <\/b>Morgan Stanley thinks JOYY&#8217;s live steaming business may have bottomed out since 2Q25, after reporting 1% QoQ growth and positive management comments on revenue growth. The report expects further QoQ improvement in 2H25 and more growth in 2026-2027.<\/p>\n<p><b>Advertising business to be the main growth driver in 2026<\/b><b>\u20132027: <\/b>The report notes that JOYY&#8217;s advertising business continued its strong revenue momentum in the first half of 2025, following more than 175% year-over-year growth in 2024. Morgan Stanley expects this momentum to persist, forecasting 26% year-over-year growth in 2H25 and 20% in 2026.<\/p>\n<p><b>Attractive dividends and buybacks of <span class=\"xn-money\">US$300mn<\/span> annually in 2025-2027: <\/b>The company previously announced a three-year quarterly dividend policy totaling approximately <span class=\"xn-money\">US$600 million<\/span>, together with a share repurchase program of up to <span class=\"xn-money\">US$300 million<\/span> during 2025-2027. In 1H25, JOYY allocated <span class=\"xn-money\">US$135 million<\/span> to quarterly dividends and share buybacks. Morgan Stanley assumes <span class=\"xn-money\">US$300 million<\/span> in annual investor returns, including dividends and share buybacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cision-pr-newswire","category-cision-pr-newswire-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}