China Aluminum: Expected net profit for the first quarter of 2026 to be between 5.3B yuan and 5.59B yuan, an increase of 50% to 58% year-on-year

China Aluminum Corporation announced that it expects to achieve a net profit of 5.3B to 5.59B yuan in the first quarter of 2026, an increase of 50% to 58% year-on-year. It is also projected that the net profit attributable to shareholders of the listed company, excluding non-recurring gains and losses, will be between 5.14B and 5.42 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 49% to 58%. Facing market fluctuations, opportunities, and challenges, the company focuses on extreme operational management, deeply explores cost reduction and efficiency enhancement, further increases the self-mining ratio at the resource end, maintains full capacity and stable production of all finished product capacities, continuously optimizes various production and operation indicators, and steadily improves market realization ability and overall competitiveness. The advantages of the entire industry chain are fully leveraged, achieving significant improvements in operating performance and reaching the best level in the same period in history.