HK Stock Market Move | DUIBA (01753) rose over 15% in late trading; its AI short drama business has been profitable for consecutive months, with equity incentive resources concentrated on this business.

DUIBA (01753) rose over 15% in late trading. As of press time, it was up 15.43% at HK$0.935, with a turnover of HK$17.736 million. On the news front, DUIBA announced that its AI short drama business has continued to grow rapidly since its launch in January 2026, and the AI short drama business is expected to achieve profitability for three consecutive months in July, August, and September 2026, a significant improvement compared with the first half of the year. Data shows that in the first half of the year, the total new across-the-board viewership of the company's AI short dramas exceeded 5 billion views, while in July 2026 alone it exceeded 6.8 billion views, in August it exceeded 12.6 billion views, and in September it exceeded 26.4 billion views. It is worth noting that DUIBA's founder donated 11% of shares for equity incentives, and XL Holding transferred 121 million shares to the employee platform Kewei Holding free of charge, to be used in the future for talent incentives required for the development of AI businesses such as AI short dramas. According to publicly available information, this donation may be the largest founder donation to an ESOP as a proportion of total share capital in the Hong Kong stock market to date.