Newborn Town Inc. (09911) said it is expected that the group will record the profit attributable to owners of the company of approximately RMB33 million to RMB47 million for the year ended 31 December 2020, representing a decrease of approximately 30% to 50% as compared with the corresponding period in 2019.
Such expected decrease is mainly attributable to (i) the share-based compensation expenses of the company incurred by the completion of the grant of restricted share units in the first half of 2020 for the purpose of better attracting and incentivising employees in the long-term; the company's increased efforts in research and development and promotion on its social networking apps and game apps; and (iii) the company scaled down the development of programmatic advertising platform business in view of the outbreak of novel coronavirus epidemic and economic downturn.