- Revenues up 16.9% year-over-year to RMB 1,854.3 million
- Employee management services revenue increased by 24.4% over last year
- Net Profit of RMB 42.7 million in fiscal 2025 vs a net loss in 2024
- Cash and cash equivalents increased 14.0% in the year compared to the prior period
SHANGHAI, April 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Youlife Group Inc. ("Youlife," "we" or "our") (NASDAQ: YOUL), a leading blue-collar lifetime service provider in China, today announced its financial results for the fiscal year of 2025 ended December 31, 2025.
Financial Highlights for the Fiscal Year 2025
- Total revenues increased by 16.9% from RMB1,585.6 million for fiscal year 2024 to RMB1,854.3 million (US$265.2 million) in fiscal year 2025.
- Gross margin was 10.4% in fiscal year 2025 vs. 14.5% in 2024.
- Operating income was RMB6.8 million (US$0.9 million) for 2025 vs. RMB40.5 million for fiscal 2024.
- Net profit was RMB42.7. million (US$6.1 million) for fiscal year 2025 vs. a net loss of RMB52.4 million for the prior fiscal year.
Recent Developments
Strategic cooperation with Innova Tree:
On February 3, 2026, Youlife announced that it entered into a non-binding memorandum of understanding ("MOU") for strategic cooperation with Innova Tree, a Kazakhstan-based limited liability company with strong local capabilities in vocational education operations and government coordination.
Under the MOU, Youlife and Innova Tree will pursue comprehensive collaboration across vocational education, skills training, workforce and talent services, and selected cultural tourism-related labor programs. This partnership aims to drive the bilateral mobility of professional talents between China and Kazakhstan, while facilitating a cross-border "training-certification-internship-employment" closed-loop to establish a new paradigm for Youlife's international vocational education ecosystem.
Intention to joint develop Waas platform with VCI:
On January 28, 2026, Youlife announced that it entered into a non-binding letter of intent, expressing the intention to jointly develop, deploy, and commercialize a robotics-enabled workforce-as-a-service ("WaaS") platform in strategic collaboration with VCI Global Limited ("VCIG").
The platform will integrate robotics, artificial intelligence and human workforce management to deliver a guaranteed productivity capacity to enterprises and industrial clients across ASEAN and selected international markets.
Intention to acquire Anlian HR:
On January 23, 2026, Youlife announced that it entered into a non-binding letter of intent, setting forth the parties' preliminary intention for Youlife to acquire Anlian HR Limited ("Anlian HR"), a well-established OMO (Online-Merge-Offline) blue-collar recruitment platform provider in China.
This potential combination could support Youlife's long-term strategy to build a comprehensive, full-cycle blue-collar talent services ecosystem by enhancing recruitment delivery capabilities, strengthening offline service execution, and advancing lifecycle workforce management.
Aquisition of Youhe HR:
On January 22, 2026, Youlife, YouheHR Group Inc., a company organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands ("YouheHR"), and Lightred Investment Co., Ltd., a company organized under the laws of British Virgin Islands (the "Seller") entered into a share exchange agreement (the "Agreement"). Upon closing, YouheHR will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Youlife.
Pursuant to the Agreement, Youlife has agreed to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of YouheHR from the Seller, in exchange for certain newly issued 4,967,810 Class A ordinary shares of Youlife. The transaction under the Agreement is expected to consummate in May 2026.
Strategic Partnership with Sealand:
On January 9, 2026, Youlife announced a strategic partnership with Sealand Maritime Service Co., Ltd. ("Sealand") to build a new talent ecosystem for high-end cruise tourism services. Sealand is a leading cruise crew recruitment and dispatch company in China. The two parties have jointly established Xiamen Youlife Sealand International Cultural Tourism Development Co., Ltd., a joint venture dedicated to building an integrated talent development and placement platform for the global cruise and cultural tourism industries. The platform aims to align vocational training, certification, and international employment resources to meet the rapidly expanding demand for cruise service professionals.
Changes in Board of Directors and Management
On April 13, 2026, the board of directors of Youlife (the "Board") appointed Mr. Tianshi Yang as the Chief Strategy Officer, immediately effective.
The Board nominated and appointed Ms. Liqun Yao as a Director on November 21, 2025, and Mr. Lidong Zhu resigned from the Board, effective from November 21, 2025. Ms. Yao was appointed as Youlife's acting Chief Financial Officer to replace Mr. Zhu.
The Board also nominated and appointed Mr. Jianming Yan as an independent Director of the Board, a member and the chairman of the audit committee of the Board, a member of the compensation committee of the Board, and a member of the nominating and corporate governance committee of the Board, which took effect on November 21, 2025.
With these changes, the Board now consists of seven directors, including three independent directors.
Management Remarks
Mr. Yunlei Wang, Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Youlife, commented on Youlife's recent performance, "In fiscal 2025, we built a solid foundation and strategically positioned our business to help us achieve our expansion and growth strategy of our products and services throughout international markets. We advanced our discussions with future acquisition targets and continued our evaluation of how these target companies will benefit our business goals and initiatives. Additionally, we advanced our transition from a focus on organic growth to a dual-engine strategy that balances internal expansion with strategic acquisitions. In December, we announced our intention to acquire four regional human resources service companies, which we expect to broaden our geographic reach, enhance network density, and create opportunities for future operational synergies. Furthermore, during the latter half of fiscal year 2025, we made key changes to our management team and board of directors to put a team in place that best aligns with Youlife's strategy and plans for future success."
"As we look to fiscal 2026, we have continued to build on our momentum, with our January announcement of a joint venture agreement with Sealand, a leading cruise crew recruitment and dispatch company in China. The collaboration with Sealand represents a significant step forward in Youlife's strategy to deepen its presence in specialized service sectors and to expand its global talent supply chain. We expect that this partnership will create a comprehensive, closed-loop model for talent development in the cruise and cultural tourism industries, spanning training, certification, international placement, and long-term service support. Later in the month, we entered into a letter of intention to acquire Anlian HR, a well-established Online-Merge-Offline blue-collar recruitment platform provider in China. Further, we expressed interest to jointly develop, deploy, and commercialize a robotics-enabled workforce-as-a-service platform in strategic collaboration with VCI Global Limited. The initiative will position us at the forefront of industrial automation and workforce transformation across ASEAN and emerging markets. The platform will integrate robotics, artificial intelligence and human workforce management to deliver a guaranteed productivity capacity to enterprises and industrial clients across ASEAN and selected international markets. I am excited about the opportunities that lie ahead for our business. We have an exciting pipeline of new acquisition targets that will give us the opportunity to expand our product and services to new overseas markets and allow us to diversify our revenue base and maximize market share penetration. We continue to focus on executing on our acquisitions and scaling the business efficiently to drive value for our shareholders," Mr. Wang concluded.
Mr. Tianshi Yang, Chief Strategy Officer of Youlife, added, "We are pleased with our financial performance in fiscal year 2025. Revenues grew by 16.9% year-over-year and reported a net profit of RMB42.7 million or US$6.1 million compared to a net loss in the prior year period, and cash and cash equivalent increased by about 14.0% compared to last year. Looking ahead, we will be focused on executing our acquisition and integration strategy while emphasizing capital discipline and alignment, to allow Youlife to pursue expansion while preserving financial flexibility. In fiscal year 2026, we have found several acquisition targets that will be instrumental to maximizing revenue growth, margins, and profitability. By structuring the coming deals through an equity-based acquisition model with performance alignment, it will provide us the opportunity to aim to balance growth objectives with prudent financial management, while keeping our focus on long-term value creation."
Financial Results for Fiscal Year 2025
Total revenues increased by 16.9% from RMB1,585.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, to RMB1,854.3 million (US$265.2 million) for the year ended December 31, 2025, due to increases in revenues generated from employee management services.
- Vocational educational services. Revenues generated from vocational education services decreased by 9.8% from RMB50.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, to RMB45.1 million (US$6.5 million) for the year ended December 31, 2025, primarily due to termination of some education services which had long-term payback periods.
- Employee management services. Revenues generated from employee management services increased by 24.4% from RMB1,382.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2024 to RMB1,719.6 million (US$245.9 million) for the year ended December 31, 2025. This growth was driven by an expanding corporate client base and rising demand for blue-collar labor. We captured this through optimized business controls and our integrated lifecycle value chain model. Furthermore, we successfully shifted our focus toward acquiring high-value clients in new industries and economies with significant outsourcing needs.
- HR recruitment services. Revenues generated from HR recruitment services decreased by 27% from RMB24.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2024 to RMB17.7 million (US$2.5 million) for the year ended December 31, 2025. The decrease was primarily driven by a lower average service fee, as large-scale corporate clients opted for multi-settlement structures for high-fluidity roles. Additionally, a portion of our HR recruitment services was divested following the discontinuation of certain operations.
- Marketing services and solutions. Revenues generated from marketing services decreased by 44.2% from RMB128.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, to RMB71.9 million (US$10.3 million) for the year ended December 31, 2025, primarily due the determination of selling goods through the online platform.
Cost of revenues increased by 22.5% from RMB1,356.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, to RMB1,662.2 million (US$237.7 million) for the year ended December 31, 2025, in line with the growth of the business scale.
Gross Margin
Gross margin decreased from 14.5% for the year ended December 31, 2024, to 10.4% for the year ended December 31, 2025, primarily due to the larger proportion of employee management service.
Total operating expenses decreased from RMB188.59 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, to RMB185.3 million (US$26.50 million) for the year ended December 31, 2025, representing a decrease of 1.7%.
- Selling and marketing expenses increased by 53.8% from RMB51.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, to RMB79.7 million (US$11.4 million) for the year ended December 31, 2025, primarily because we developed a number of strategic clients.
- Administrative expenses decreased by 30.0% from RMB126.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, to RMB88.7 million (US$12.7 million) for the year ended December 31, 2025. This was primarily driven by management's decision to streamline specific departments and reduce rental overhead.
- Research and development expenses increased by 68.4% from RMB10.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, to RMB16.9 million (US$2.4 million) for the year ended December 31, 2025, primarily because we boosted R&D investment in innovative fields, such as industrial robotics.
Operating income was RMB6.8 million (US$0.9 million) for the year ended December 31, 2025, compared with profits from operation of RMB40.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, primarily due to business development and increased efficiency.
Net profit was RMB42.7 million (US$6.1 million) for the year ended December 31, 2025, compared to net loss of RMB52.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2024.
Balance sheet
Cash and cash equivalents were RMB144.2 million (US$20.6 million) as of December 31, 2025.
About Youlife Group Inc.
Youlife is a leading global provider of blue-collar lifecycle services, dedicated to modernizing blue-collar employment through data, training, and AI-driven workforce solutions. In the talent services sector, Youlife operates 180 domestic branches and over 10 overseas offices. By partnering with more than 10,000 renowned enterprises worldwide, Youlife provides stable and future-ready workforce infrastructure at scale. Under its "School-Enterprise Cooperation" model, Youlife maintains a nationwide network of vocational schools, including 37 schools and 146 curriculum development programs, covering 37 cities and counties across 16 provinces in China. For more information, please visit: https://ir.youlife.cn/.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of words such as "estimate," "plan," "project," "forecast," "intend," "will," "expect," "anticipate," "believe," "seek," "target" or other similar expressions that predict or indicate future events or trends or that are not statements of historical matters. These forward-looking statements also include, but are not limited to, statements regarding future events and the future results of Youlife current expectations, estimates, forecasts, and projections about the industry in which Youlife operates, as well as the beliefs and assumptions of Youlife's management. These statements are based on various assumptions, whether or not identified in this press release, and on the current expectations of Youlife's management and are not predictions of actual performance. These statements involve risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause Youlife's actual results, levels of activity, performance, or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements.
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UNAUDITED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS | ||||||||||||
(Amount in thousands of Renminbi ("RMB") and U.S. dollars ("USD"), except for share and per share data, | ||||||||||||
As of December 31, | ||||||||||||
2024 | 2025 | |||||||||||
RMB | RMB | USD | ||||||||||
ASSETS | ||||||||||||
Current assets | ||||||||||||
Cash and cash equivalents | 126,531 | 144,219 | 20,623 | |||||||||
Accounts receivables, net | 287,860 | 342,783 | 49,017 | |||||||||
Prepayments and other receivables, net | 248,494 | 448,083 | 64,075 | |||||||||
Inventories, net | 3,704 | 2,086 | 298 | |||||||||
Total current assets | 666,589 | 937,171 | 134,013 | |||||||||
Property and equipment | 147,303 | 61,864 | 8,846 | |||||||||
Right-of-use assets | 43,156 | 37,048 | 5,298 | |||||||||
Intangible assets | 9,986 | 8,361 | 1,196 | |||||||||
Long-term investment | - | 96,738 | 13,833 | |||||||||
Deferred tax assets | 28,147 | 23,369 | 3,342 | |||||||||
Other non-current assets | 13,182 | 78,305 | 11,198 | |||||||||
Total non-current assets | 241,774 | 305,685 | 43,713 | |||||||||
Total assets | 908,363 | 1,242,856 | 177,726 | |||||||||
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' DEFICIT | ||||||||||||
Current liabilities | ||||||||||||
Contract liabilities | 19,991 | 34,640 | 4,953 | |||||||||
Trade payables | 70,690 | 74,485 | 10,651 | |||||||||
Other payables and accruals | 141,888 | 212,849 | 30,437 | |||||||||
Short-term borrowings | 45,893 | 126,054 | 18,025 | |||||||||
Lease liabilities | 9,401 | 6,793 | 971 | |||||||||
Tax payable | 2,182 | 9,300 | 1,330 | |||||||||
Total current liabilities | 290,045 | 464,121 | 66,367 | |||||||||
Lease liabilities-non current | 27,902 | 25,491 | 3,645 | |||||||||
Long-term borrowings | 1,474 | - | - | |||||||||
Total non-current liabilities | 29,376 | 25,491 | 3,645 | |||||||||
Total liabilities | 319,421 | 489,612 | 70,012 | |||||||||
Commitments and Contingencies | ||||||||||||
SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY | ||||||||||||
Ordinary shares (US$0.0001 par value; 500,000,000 shares | 51 | 55 | 8 | |||||||||
Treasury shares | (31) | (31) | (4) | |||||||||
Additional paid-in capital | 1,181,993 | 1,303,581 | 186,410 | |||||||||
Statutory surplus reserve | 9,367 | 10,531 | 1,506 | |||||||||
Accumulated losses | (621,794) | (579,876) | (82,921) | |||||||||
Total Youlife Group Inc. shareholders' equity | 569,586 | 734,260 | 104,999 | |||||||||
Non-controlling interests | 19,356 | 18,984 | 2,715 | |||||||||
Total shareholders' equity | 588,942 | 753,244 | 107,714 | |||||||||
Total liabilities, mezzanine equity and shareholders' equity | 908,363 | 1,242,856 | 177,726 | |||||||||
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UNAUDITED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND COMPREHENSIVE INCOME | |||||||||||||||
(Amount in thousands of Renminbi ("RMB") and U.S. dollars ("USD"), except for share and per share data, | |||||||||||||||
For the Year Ended December 31, | |||||||||||||||
2023 | 2024 | 2025 | |||||||||||||
RMB | RMB | RMB | USD | ||||||||||||
Revenue | 1,365,865 | 1,585,640 | 1,854,302 | 265,162 | |||||||||||
Cost of revenue | (1,165,446) | (1,356,511) | (1,662,236) | (237,697 | |||||||||||
Gross profit | 200,419 | 229,129 | 192,066 | 27,465 | |||||||||||
Operating expenses | |||||||||||||||
Selling and distribution expenses | (91,688) | (51,867) | (79,749) | (11,404 | |||||||||||
Administrative expenses | (115,367) | (126,705) | (88,683) | (12,682 | |||||||||||
Research and development expenses | (12,285) | (10,017) | (16,869) | (2,412 | |||||||||||
Total operating expenses | (219,340) | (188,589) | (185,301) | (26,498 | |||||||||||
(Loss)/income from operations | (18,921) | 40,540 | 6,765 | 967 | |||||||||||
Other income/(expense) | |||||||||||||||
Fair value gains/(losses) | 36,500 | (21,248) | 3,524 | 504 | |||||||||||
Other incomes | 2,815 | 11,611 | 50,270 | 7,188 | |||||||||||
Other expenses | (2,220) | (422) | (4,913) | (703 | |||||||||||
Gain/(loss) on dissolution of subsidiaries and branches | 29,312 | (8,820) | 4,844 | 693 | |||||||||||
Loss from disposal of equity investment | - | (59,018) | - | - | |||||||||||
Financial income/(expenses), net | 1,530 | (3,941) | (10,033) | (1,435 | |||||||||||
Total other income/(expense), net | 67,937 | (81,838) | 43,692 | 6,247 | |||||||||||
(LOSS)/PROFIT BEFORE TAX | 49,016 | (41,298) | 50,457 | 7,214 | |||||||||||
Income tax (expenses)/benefits | 30,256 | (11,090) | (7,747) | (1,108 | |||||||||||
Net profit/(loss) for the year from continuing operations | 79,272 | (52,388) | 42,710 | 6,106 | |||||||||||
Net profit from discontinued operations | 17,774 | - | - | - | |||||||||||
Net loss attribute to non-controlling interests | (2,217) | (12) | (372) | (53 | |||||||||||
Net profit/(loss) attribute to ordinary shareholders | 99,263 | (52,376) | 43,082 | 6,159 | |||||||||||
Net earnings/(loss) per share: | |||||||||||||||
Basic and diluted | |||||||||||||||
Continuing operations | 1.13 | (0.75) | 0.59 | 0.08 | |||||||||||
Discontinued operations | 0.29 | - | - | - | |||||||||||
Basic net earnings/(loss) per share | 1.42 | (0.75) | 0.59 | 0.08 | |||||||||||
Continuing operations | 1.13 | (0.75) | 0.59 | 0.08 | |||||||||||
Discontinued operations | 0.29 | - | - | - | |||||||||||
Diluted net earnings/(loss) per share | 1.42 | (0.75) | 0.59 | 0.08 | |||||||||||
Shares used in net earnings per share computation | |||||||||||||||
Basic | 70,000,000 | 70,000,000 | 72,899,967 | 72,899,967 | |||||||||||
Diluted | 70,000,000 | 70,000,000 | 72,899,967 | 72,899,967 | |||||||||||
TOTAL COMPREHENSIVE (LOSS)/INCOME FOR THE YEAR | 97,046 | (52,388) | 42,710 | 6,106 | |||||||||||
Comprehensive loss attribute to non-controlling interest | (2,217) | (12) | (372) | (53 | |||||||||||
Comprehensive (loss)/income attribute to ordinary shareholders | 99,263 | (52,376) | 43,082 | 6,159 | |||||||||||
SOURCE Youlife Group Inc.
