China Finance Online (JRJC) Reports Q4 Loss of $0.19 on Revenues of $10.7M

China Finance Online (NASDAQ: JRJC) reported Q4 EPS of ($0.19), versus ($0.37) reported last year. Revenue for the quarter came in at $10.7 million, versus $8.6 million reported last year.

Mr. Zhiwei Zhao, Chairman and CEO of China Finance Online, commented, "Our top line further improved from the third quarter while our net loss was narrowed. Through the efforts of controlling cost and improving efficiency, for 2018, our net revenue increased year-over-year and our bottom line losses were reduced by $16.8 million. With the priority of strengthening future growth potential, we will continue to improve efficiency.

While the stock market suffered major losses in China and Hong Kong during the fourth quarter, our equity-brokerage related business maintains a strong growth momentum and our intelligent-finance driven fintech business continued to lock in contracts with leading brokerage firms in China. We are pleased that we have established strategic partnerships with influential financial institutions in China and are developing systems to empower their wealth management services."

"Our other operations have also been making solid progress. Our website "JRJ.com.cn" remains a popular destination for news and analysis on the economy and capital markets, and its unique visitors all year in 2018 rose to 253 million from 236 million in 2017 and 169 million in 2016. The strong growth of traffic to our site was attributable to the improvement of our fact-based journalism, breaking news coverage and proprietary deep dive content," Mr. Zhao concluded.

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