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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

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

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
3B6B
2018202120242025
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 the five years to FY2025.

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%
201820212025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 5.8%
50%-5%-10%-15%
201820212025
Three returns, three denominators.

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
1B2B
201820212025
Net buybacks CNY M Dividends CNY M
FY2025 · Dividends 91.5 · Net buybacks 182.8
500M1000MDividendsNet buybacks
201920212022202320242025

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—not applicable◌not available in our data
RLX, 8-year financial record
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◌

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 1 failure · 4 divergences in 38 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 4 of the 8 fiscal years we could check. 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. 24 checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2019. 11 checks were skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2018. 11 checks were skipped: revenue is not tagged before 2018.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency1 failure4 divergent
ActivityCigarettes
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inoutside the United States — SEC code E9
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2018

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