Honglu Earns Buy Rating on Clear Volume and Price Uptrend
HEFEI, CHINA - July 17, 2026 - Guolian Minsheng Securities issued a fresh Buy rating on Honglu Steel Structure, saying the company’s operating trend is improving as steel-structure volume and pricing move upward and its smart-manufacturing capabilities begin to support a second growth curve.
The rating followed Honglu’s recent first-half profit forecast and contract updates. Unlike short-term trading reports, the July 17 coverage focused on the company’s business trajectory, including order execution, processing economics, and the potential value of intelligent manufacturing beyond internal factory upgrades.
Analysts Point to Stronger Core Operations
Guolian Minsheng framed Honglu’s steel-structure business as entering a clearer volume-and-price improvement cycle. The view reflects stronger demand visibility, a healthier order pipeline, and better operating leverage after the company’s sustained investment in large-scale automated production.
The report also linked the improving trend to Honglu’s ability to stabilize product quality, raise production efficiency, and control costs across a large manufacturing footprint. Those factors matter because steel-structure fabrication is highly sensitive to throughput, material management, and per-ton processing margins.
Smart Manufacturing Adds a Second Growth Curve
- Rating Action: Guolian Minsheng gave Honglu Steel Structure a Buy rating, without publishing a target price in the Baidu News result summary.
- Core Thesis: The brokerage highlighted a clearer upward trend in both production volume and pricing for Honglu’s main steel-structure business.
- Growth Driver: External sales or broader commercialization of smart-manufacturing capabilities were described as the beginning of a second growth curve.
- Operating Context: The report follows Honglu’s recent first-half guidance, which projected 50% to 70% year-over-year net-profit growth for the first half of 2026.
Focus Turns to Execution and Commercialization
For customers and industry observers, the rating reinforces the importance of Honglu’s production system rather than only its short-term share-price movement. If automated cutting, welding, assembly, and factory management keep improving consistency at scale, Honglu could strengthen both delivery reliability and profitability per ton.
The next checkpoints are the company’s 2026 interim report and any follow-up disclosures on smart-manufacturing commercialization. Those details will show whether the positive analyst view is supported by sustained order conversion, cash-flow quality, and repeatable factory-level efficiency gains.