Changes in Hong Kong stocks | The pot circle (02517) rose more than 6% today, and the expansion of the trial business scenario is expected to drive growth

The Zhitong Finance App learned that the pot circle (02517) rose by more than 6%. As of press release, it had risen 6.02% to HK$3.7, with a turnover of HK$64.572,900.

According to the news, on January 6, 2026, the first fried pot will be open for trial operation. According to reports, the project uses an intelligent frying machine as the core carrier, combined with the core advantages of the cooking industry in the field of compound seasoning and food supply chains, and strives to provide ordinary people with ready-made Chinese food with both efficiency and taste in a community scenario. Huaxi Securities believes that the new business format “small stir-fry” uses intelligent cooking machines to optimize human efficiency to achieve standardization, and multi-faceted data analysis is the most popular product menu among consumers. It is expected to become a new profit growth point for the company after the model is successfully implemented.

According to Zhongtai Securities, the company is deeply involved in the food and beverage retail business. Its moat is a sales network with a deeply integrated supply chain to ensure quality and cost leadership, and a high-stickiness membership operation system with over 10,000 community store layouts. The company has benefited from short-term growth brought about by same-store upgrades and cost efficiency optimization, and long-term benefit from store expansion and large-scale profit growth brought about by the opening of new scenarios, new business models, and increased factory self-production ratio.