Abstract:At present, digital transformation is an unsolved "black box". This paper uses the listed manufacturing enterprises from 2010 to 2020 as the research sample, and uses DuPont analysis method to analyze the impact of digital transformation on corporate profitability from a financial perspective. The results show that digital transformation can improve the profitability of manufacturing enterprises; Mechanism research shows that digital transformation can improve asset turnover and reduce financial leverage, but the intermediary effect of sales profit margin is not significant; The heterogeneity analysis results show that the application of digital technology can promote the profitability of enterprises, but artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, and block chain technologies cannot improve the profitability of enterprises; Digital transformation promotes the profitability of large and private enterprises, inhibits the profitability of small and foreign enterprises, but has no significant impact on the capacity of medium-sized and state-owned enterprises; Further analysis found that the rise in operating costs and administrative expenses was the main reason for the decline in corporate profitability caused by digital transformation.