What changed between FY2025 and now
The squeeze
FY2025 was the best year in Xiaomi's history: revenue RMB 457.3bn, adjusted net profit
RMB 39.2bn, 410,000 cars against a 300,000 target, and the EV segment's first annual
operating profit. Three things then went wrong at once, and none of them is about demand
for the brand.
8.5%
Memory ate the phone margin
Smartphone gross margin, Q2 2026 — against roughly 11–12% through 2024.
Phones are 39% of revenue. Xiaomi pushed ASP to a record high and deliberately let units
fall, and it still landed here. Lu Weibing: the cost increase "exceeded our expectation…
there is no way for us to just pass on the whole cost increase."
+2.7%
The car stopped compounding
July 2026 deliveries grew 2.68% year-on-year, to 31,267. After nearly
doubling every year since launch, the EV run-rate has been flat near 31,000/month since
April. From August, Xiaomi stopped publishing an exact monthly figure at all.
−2.6bn
The segment went back into loss
Smart EV / AI operating loss, Q2 2026 (RMB), after RMB 3.1bn in Q1 —
two consecutive quarters, reversing the milestone set in Q3 2025. Segment gross margin
fell from 26.4% to 19.2% in a year.
2026 delivery pace against target
216,322 / 550,000
39.3% of the target delivered
│ 58.3% of the year elapsed (end of July)
H2 would need ~333,700 units — about 66,700/month