Despite posting some strong earnings, the market for Youngy Health Co., Ltd.'s (SZSE:300247) stock hasn't moved much. Our analysis suggests that shareholders have noticed something concerning in the numbers.

The Impact Of Unusual Items On Profit

To properly understand Youngy Health's profit results, we need to consider the CN¥16m gain attributed to unusual items. While it's always nice to have higher profit, a large contribution from unusual items sometimes dampens our enthusiasm. When we analysed the vast majority of listed companies worldwide, we found that significant unusual items are often not repeated. And that's as you'd expect, given these boosts are described as 'unusual'. We can see that Youngy Health's positive unusual items were quite significant relative to its profit in the year to June 2024. All else being equal, this would likely have the effect of making the statutory profit a poor guide to underlying earnings power.

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Our Take On Youngy Health's Profit Performance

As previously mentioned, Youngy Health's large boost from unusual items won't be there indefinitely, so its statutory earnings are probably a poor guide to its underlying profitability. For this reason, we think that Youngy Health's statutory profits may be a bad guide to its underlying earnings power, and might give investors an overly positive impression of the company. But the happy news is that, while acknowledging we have to look beyond the statutory numbers, those numbers are still improving, with EPS growing at a very high rate over the last year. The goal of this article has been to assess how well we can rely on the statutory earnings to reflect the company's potential, but there is plenty more to consider. So if you'd like to dive deeper into this stock, it's crucial to consider any risks it's facing. While conducting our analysis, we found that Youngy Health has 1 warning sign and it would be unwise to ignore it.

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