Head of Research, IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Sumeet Singh

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements

IPOs and Placements coverage across Asia Pacific

Aequitas Research

We cover all listing across the Asia Pacific along with follow-up placements. As of Dec 2020, our team had covered 539 IPOs with a hit rate of 73.5% and 685 placements with a hit rate of 66.8%.

We combine fundamental bottom-up views with our proprietary quantitative framework to provide a holistic coverage across new listings and placements. Our coverage includes pre-IPO notes before the deal is launched, follow-up analysis once the deal is live and post-listing trading analysis as well.

Equity Capital Markets

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<li>Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.</li>
<li>On the IPO front, all of the listings this week ended up doing well.</li>
<li>On the placements front, given the holiday shortened week in Hong Kong and India, there were no major placements this week.</li>
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Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.
On the IPO front, all of the listings this week ended up doing well.
On the placements front, given the holiday shortened week in Hong Kong and India, there were no major placements this week.


ECM Weekly (6 October 2025)- Zijin, Myungin, Pateo,Tekscend, Tata Capital, LG India, WeWork, Impact

Head of Research, Krungthai XSpring

Waraporn Wiboonkanarak

Head of Research

A full service Thai brokerage

Krungthai XSpring

Krungthai XSpring is a full service broker. The company provides a wide range of investment services such as Securities Brokerage, Derivative Agent Business, Securities Borrowing and Lending, Securities Trading, Underwriting, Financial Advisory, Wealth Advisory, Private Fund Management and International Markets Securities Trading. 

In terms of credibility, Fitch Ratings has assigned Krunghtai XSpring a long-term rating of AA- and a national short-term rating of F1+ with stable outlook.

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul><li>The SET Index is expected to trade sideways today, with the support at 1,284/1,270 and the resistance at 1,300/1,316.</li><li>US equities closed higher (S&amp;P500 +0.26%, NASDAQ +0.48%), supported by the PCE Price Index coming in line with expectations.</li><li>Fitch Ratings has revised the outlook on the long-term foreign-currency issuer default ratings (IDRs) of five Thai banks—EXIM, KTB, TTB, Standard Chartered (Thai), and UOB (Thai)—to Negative from Stable.</li></ul>

The SET Index is expected to trade sideways today, with the support at 1,284/1,270 and the resistance at 1,300/1,316.US equities closed higher (S&amp;P500 +0.26%, NASDAQ +0.48%), supported by the PCE Price Index coming in line with expectations.Fitch Ratings has revised the outlook on the long-term foreign-currency issuer default ratings (IDRs) of five Thai banks—EXIM, KTB, TTB, Standard Chartered (Thai), and UOB (Thai)—to Negative from Stable.

Krungthai XSpring Zoom Eng. September 30, 2025

Centurion Accommodation REIT / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/centurion-accomodation-reit" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:45779:1" rel="noopener">Centurion Accomodation REIT (CAREIT SP)</a> (CAREIT) raised around US$600m in its Singapore IPO.</li>
<li>CAREIT plans to invest directly or indirectly, in a portfolio of purpose-built worker accommodation (PBWA), purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) or other accommodation, located globally (excluding Malaysia).</li>
<li>We have looked at the company’s past performance and valuations in our previous note. In this note, we will talk about the trading dynamics.</li>
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Centurion Accomodation REIT (CAREIT SP) (CAREIT) raised around US$600m in its Singapore IPO.
CAREIT plans to invest directly or indirectly, in a portfolio of purpose-built worker accommodation (PBWA), purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) or other accommodation, located globally (excluding Malaysia).
We have looked at the company’s past performance and valuations in our previous note. In this note, we will talk about the trading dynamics.


Centurion Accomodation REIT IPO Trading - Strong Institutional and Retail Demand

Mid-market focused investment bank within SE Asia, Evolve Capital Advisory Pte Ltd

Evolve Capital Research

Mid-market focused investment bank within SE Asia

Evolve Capital Advisory Pte Ltd

Equity Bottom-Up

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/dezign-format-group-limited" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:45666:1" rel="noopener">Dezign Format Group (DFG SP)</a> is a design-and-build specialist offering experiential marketing and events management solutions, with a key focus on the MICE industry.</li>
<li>It has worked with a variety of global luxury brands and integrated resorts, with many of its projects being directly sourced rather than through open tender.</li>
<li>We initiate rated coverage on DF with a DCF-based TP of S$0.40, implying a 14.4x FY25E P/E, representing an upside of approximately 33.3%.</li>
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Dezign Format Group (DFG SP) is a design-and-build specialist offering experiential marketing and events management solutions, with a key focus on the MICE industry.
It has worked with a variety of global luxury brands and integrated resorts, with many of its projects being directly sourced rather than through open tender.
We initiate rated coverage on DF with a DCF-based TP of S$0.40, implying a 14.4x FY25E P/E, representing an upside of approximately 33.3%.


Dezign Format Initiation - Scaling Within a Niche Space

SGX Market Strategist, Equity & Fixed Income, Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

Geoff Howie

SGX Market Strategist, Equity & Fixed Income

Asia’s leading multi-asset exchange

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

Singapore Exchange is Asia’s leading and trusted market infrastructure, facilitating the exchange of capital and ideas to create value for people, businesses and economies. As a multi-asset exchange operating equity, fixed income and derivatives markets to the highest regulatory standards, SGX is a vertically integrated business that provides listing, trading, clearing, settlement, depository and data services.

With about 40% of listed companies and over 80% of listed bonds originating outside of Singapore as well as established linkages across the region and in Europe, SGX is Asia’s most international and connected exchange. Offering a full suite of derivatives products across Asian equity indices, commodities and currencies, SGX is the world’s most liquid international market for the benchmark equity indices of China, India, Japan and ASEAN.

As Asia’s pioneering central counterparty, SGX is globally recognised for its risk management and clearing capabilities, and was one of the first globally to adopt the Principles for Financial Market Infrastructure.

Headquartered in AAA-rated Singapore, SGX has over 800 employees including offices in Beijing, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, New York, Mumbai, San Francisco, Shanghai and Tokyo.

Yangzijiang Shipbuilding / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>In 2025, 76 primary-listed companies in Singapore executed share buybacks totaling S$1.65 billion, an 80% increase from 2024.</li><li>UOB, DBS, and OCBC led buybacks with a combined S$1.28 billion, driven by capital management initiatives and dividends.</li><li>Secondary-listed Hongkong Land repurchased US$176 million shares, while City Developments completed an off-market buyback of preference shares.</li></ul>

In 2025, 76 primary-listed companies in Singapore executed share buybacks totaling S$1.65 billion, an 80% increase from 2024.UOB, DBS, and OCBC led buybacks with a combined S$1.28 billion, driven by capital management initiatives and dividends.Secondary-listed Hongkong Land repurchased US$176 million shares, while City Developments completed an off-market buyback of preference shares.

Buyback Consideration Surges 80% in 2025 to S$1.65B

Singapore

United Overseas Bank Limited provides a wide range of financial services including personal financial services, wealth management, private banking, commercial and corporate banking, transaction banking, investment banking, corporate finance, capital market activities, treasury services, futures broking, asset management, venture capital management and insurance.

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UOB (UOB SP)

ECM Weekly (6 October 2025)- Zijin, Myungin, Pateo,Tekscend, Tata Capital, LG India, WeWork, Impact

Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.

Sumeet Singh

Krungthai XSpring Zoom Eng. September 30, 2025

US equities closed higher (S&P500 +0.26%, NASDAQ +0.48%), supported by the PCE Price Index coming in line with expectations.

Krungthai XSpring

Centurion Accomodation REIT IPO Trading - Strong Institutional and Retail Demand

Centurion Accomodation REIT (CAREIT SP) (CAREIT) raised around US$600m in its Singapore IPO. In this note, we talk about the trading updates.

Sumeet Singh

Dezign Format Initiation - Scaling Within a Niche Space

Dezign Format Group (DFG SP) is a design-and-build specialist offering experiential marketing and events management solutions, with a key focus on...

Evolve Capital Advisory Pte Ltd

Buyback Consideration Surges 80% in 2025 to S$1.65B

In 2025, 76 primary-listed companies in Singapore executed share buybacks totaling S$1.65 billion, an 80% increase from 2024. UOB, DBS, and OCBC...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

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