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Blue Lotus Research Institute

Blue Lotus Research is a Hong Kong Type 4 Licensed investment advisory firm focusing on Chinese growth equities and global non-US Internet equities

[Kanzhun Ltd. (BZ US, SELL) Earnings Review]: Weak Labour Market Adds Uncertainty to Recovery

[Kanzhun Ltd. (BZ US, BUY, TP US$22) Rating Change]: Market Share Gain Ahead of Purported Recovery

[Kanzhun Ltd.(BZ US, SELL, TP US$14.5) TP Change]: Growth Target Cannot Justify High Valuation

Blue Lotus China New Economy Research, Blue Lotus Research Institute

Eric Wen

Blue Lotus China New Economy Research

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Due to weakening hiring demand from both manufacturing and service, we expect BZ’s cash billing to decline 5% QoQ in 2Q24, 9% below consensus. </li>
<li>We believe BZ’s user matrices still growing and leading. The weakness is mainly attributable to the employer/hiring side;</li>
<li>We cut TP by US$3 to US$19/ADS while keep the BUY rating.</li>
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Due to weakening hiring demand from both manufacturing and service, we expect BZ’s cash billing to decline 5% QoQ in 2Q24, 9% below consensus. 
We believe BZ’s user matrices still growing and leading. The weakness is mainly attributable to the employer/hiring side;
We cut TP by US$3 to US$19/ADS while keep the BUY rating.


[Kanzhun (BZ US, BUY, TP US$19) TP Change]: Impacted by Poor Macro but Still on Top of Competition