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RLX Technology Inc. RLX

8 fiscal years on record · CNY · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
CNY 4.0B
▲ 44.0% YoY
CNY 921.9M
▲ 67.1% YoY
CNY 986.8M
▲ 16.9% YoY
In brief

What this company does

RLX Technology Inc. develops closed-system rechargeable, disposable, and open-system e-vapor products. A significant portion of its products is produced at an exclusive production plant in China that it operates in cooperation with a third-party partner, while it outsources production to a growing number of third-party manufacturers, particularly for its overseas business. That plant has a gross area of over 23,575 square meters. As of December 31, 2025, it held or otherwise had legal rights to use 463 patents, 1,008 trademarks, 37 software copyrights, 97 artwork copyrights, and 112 domain names in China and overseas. In China, it distributes its e-vapor products to qualified wholesale distributors via the National Transaction Platform. It also operates offline stores in China that source e-vapor products from those same distributors. In international markets, it offers modern oral products in addition to its other e-vapor product categories.

Written from the business description in RLX Technology Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 23 April 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
CNY 4.0B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 8-year series below
Revenue CNY B Net income CNY B
FY2025 · Revenue 4.0 · Net income 0.9
4B8B20182019202020212022202320242025
Compound annual growth
−9.5%
+0.7%
−13.8%
−13.7%
−16.8%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +0.7% a year over five years.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability
24 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 8.3% · Net 23.6%
10%20%30%-10%-20%-30%20182019202020212022202320242025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 5.8%
50%-5%-10%-15%20182019202020212022202320242025

Each CNY of equity produced 6 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders
CNY 274.2M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow CNY B
FY2025 · FCF 1.0
1B2B20182019202020212022202320242025
Net buybacks CNY M Dividends CNY M
FY2025 · Dividends 91.5 · Net buybacks 182.8
400M800MDividendsNet buybacks201920212022202320242025

CNY 91.5M in dividends and CNY 182.8M in buybacks — 30% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsCNY 17.9B
EquityCNY 15.6B
CashCNY 5.4B
Gross debtCNY 92.1M
Net debtCNY -5.3B
Current ratio5.70×

The company holds more cash than debt.

The 8-year record
8 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · CNY
row low → row highnegative
Metric 20252024202320222021202020192018
Revenue CNY B4.02.71.65.38.53.81.50.1
Operating income CNY B0.3−0.1−0.51.12.30.00.10.0
EBITDA CNY B0.4−0.1−0.51.12.30.00.10.0
Income tax CNY B0.10.10.10.40.60.20.00.0
Net income CNY B0.90.60.51.42.0−0.10.0−0.0
Free cash flow CNY B1.00.80.20.41.72.60.3−0.0
EPS, diluted CNY 0.700.430.401.081.44−0.090.03−0.00
Dividend / sh $0.11·······
Payout %101617···75·
ROE %5.83.53.49.927.0−15.984.6−4.3
Shares out B···1.531.571.441.44·

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 1 failures · 4 divergences in 38 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 4 of 19 fiscal years. 4 of those reconciliations are divergences — the figures exist but don't fit the formula this check expects; that isn't the same as an error. 57 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente1 failures4 divergent
ActivityCigarettes
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inoutside the United States — SEC code E9
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2018

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