{"id":57708,"date":"2026-05-26T08:10:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T01:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/?p=57708"},"modified":"2026-05-26T08:10:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T01:10:20","slug":"joyy-reports-first-quarter-2026-financial-results-total-revenue-yoy-growth-hits-multi-year-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/?p=57708","title":{"rendered":"JOYY Reports First Quarter 2026 Financial Results: Total Revenue YoY Growth Hits Multi-Year High"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>         SINGAPORE &#8211;          <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach Newswire<\/a> &#8211; 26 May 2026 &#8211; JOYY Inc. (NASDAQ: JOYY) (&#8220;JOYY&#8221; or the &#8220;Company&#8221;), a leading global technology company, today announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2026.         \n<p>         In the first quarter, JOYY&#8217;s total revenues reached US$555.7 million, up 12.4% year over year, representing the Company&#8217;s highest year-over-year growth rate in recent years. Social entertainment revenue increased 3.2% year over year to US$400.4 million. BIGO Ads ad tech and SHOPLINE e-commerce, the second growth engine of the Company, maintained strong growth momentum. BIGO Ads revenue reached US$124.8 million, up 55.6% year over year, while SHOPLINE contributed US$30.5 million, up 16.1% year over year.         <\/p>\n<p>         In the first quarter, the Company&#8217;s non-GAAP<sup>1<\/sup> operating income increased 22.5% year over year to US$38.0 million, while non-GAAP<sup>1<\/sup> EBITDA grew 13.2% year over year to US$45.7 million. Operating cash inflow for the quarter was US$46.0 million. Net cash as of March 31, 2026 stood at US$3.18 billion.         <\/p>\n<p>         Simultaneously, JOYY announced a new share repurchase program, under which the Company is authorized to repurchase up to US$600 million of its shares until the end of 2028, and a new quarterly dividend program, under which a total of approximately US$900 million in cash will be distributed on a quarterly basis between 2026 and 2028. The new shareholder return program amounts to approximately US$1.5 billion, underscoring JOYY&#8217;s confidence in its long-term growth potential.         <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>             This press release includes certain non-GAAP financial measures as additional clarifying items to aid investors in further understanding the Company&#8217;s performance and the impact that these items and events had on the financial results. The non-GAAP financial measures provided above should not be considered as a substitute for, or superior to, the measures of financial performance prepared in accordance with GAAP. For details of the non-GAAP measures, including the reconciliations of GAAP measures to non-GAAP measures, please refer to the press release titled &#8220;JOYY Reports First Quarter 2026 Unaudited Financial Results&#8221; issued by the Company on May 26, 2026.           <\/li>\n<\/ol><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hashtag: #JOYY<\/p>\n<p>The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/track.media-outreach.com\/index.php\/WebView\/466776\/118699\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>         SINGAPORE &#8211;          <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach Newswire<\/a> &#8211; 26 May 2026 &#8211; JOYY Inc. (NASDAQ: JOYY) (&#8220;JOYY&#8221; or the &#8220;Company&#8221;), a leading global technology company, today announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2026.         <\/p>\n<p>         In the first quarter, JOYY&#8217;s total revenues reached US$555.7 million, up 12.4% year over year, representing the Company&#8217;s highest year-over-year growth rate in recent years. Social entertainment revenue increased 3.2% year over year to US$400.4 million. BIGO Ads ad tech and SHOPLINE e-commerce, the second growth engine of the Company, maintained strong growth momentum. BIGO Ads revenue reached US$124.8 million, up 55.6% year over year, while SHOPLINE contributed US$30.5 million, up 16.1% year over year.         <\/p>\n<p>         In the first quarter, the Company&#8217;s non-GAAP<sup>1<\/sup> operating income increased 22.5% year over year to US$38.0 million, while non-GAAP<sup>1<\/sup> EBITDA grew 13.2% year over year to US$45.7 million. Operating cash inflow for the quarter was US$46.0 million. Net cash as of March 31, 2026 stood at US$3.18 billion.         <\/p>\n<p>         Simultaneously, JOYY announced a new share repurchase program, under which the Company is authorized to repurchase up to US$600 million of its shares until the end of 2028, and a new quarterly dividend program, under which a total of approximately US$900 million in cash will be distributed on a quarterly basis between 2026 and 2028. The new shareholder return program amounts to approximately US$1.5 billion, underscoring JOYY&#8217;s confidence in its long-term growth potential.         <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>             This press release includes certain non-GAAP financial measures as additional clarifying items to aid investors in further understanding the Company&#8217;s performance and the impact that these items and events had on the financial results. The non-GAAP financial measures provided above should not be considered as a substitute for, or superior to, the measures of financial performance prepared in accordance with GAAP. For details of the non-GAAP measures, including the reconciliations of GAAP measures to non-GAAP measures, please refer to the press release titled &#8220;JOYY Reports First Quarter 2026 Unaudited Financial Results&#8221; issued by the Company on May 26, 2026.           <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hashtag: #JOYY<\/p>\n<p>The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/track.media-outreach.com\/index.php\/WebView\/466776\/118699\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/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":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-outreach-newswire","category-media-outreach-newswire-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57708","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=57708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}