VNET Group (VNET) Soars on Strong Revenues

We recently published 10 Stocks With Eye-Popping Gains Amid Wall Street Cheer. VNET Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:VNET) is one of the top performers on Friday.

VNET Group surged by 12.94 percent on Friday to close at $8.29 apiece after posting a strong revenue performance that beat analyst expectations in the second quarter of the year.

In its updated report, VNET Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:VNET) said that net revenues increased by 22.1 percent to 2.43 billion yuan from 1.99 billion yuan in the same period last year, on the back of a strong internet data center business.

However, VNET Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:VNET) swung to a net loss attributable to shareholders of $11.98 million from a $63.67 million attributable net profit in the same period last year.

In the first half, revenues grew by 20 percent to 4.68 billion yuan from 3.89 billion yuan year-on-year. Net loss widened by 102 percent to 249 million yuan from 123 million yuan in the same period.

“Looking ahead, we will sharpen our competitive advantages with faster deliveries and consistently reliable IDC services as we embark on our ambitious Hyperscale 2.0 framework for building greener, more intelligent data centers for the AI era,” said VNET Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:VNET) founder and Executive Chairman Josh Sheng Chen.

For full-year 2025, the company maintained its revenue target of 9.15 billion yuan to 9.35 billion yuan, representing a year-on-year growth of 11 to 13 percent.

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