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

SBI Shinsei Bank / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/sbi-shinsei-bank-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:16897:1" rel="noopener">SBI Shinsei Bank (8303 JP)</a>, a Japanese financial institution, aims to raise around US$2bn in its Japan listing.</li>
<li>SBI Shinsei Bank (SBISB) is a Japanese financial institution providing a range of financial products and services to both individual and institutional customers.</li>
<li>We have looked at past performance in our earlier notes. In this note, we undertake a peer comparison</li>
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SBI Shinsei Bank (8303 JP), a Japanese financial institution, aims to raise around US$2bn in its Japan listing.
SBI Shinsei Bank (SBISB) is a Japanese financial institution providing a range of financial products and services to both individual and institutional customers.
We have looked at past performance in our earlier notes. In this note, we undertake a peer comparison


SBI Shinsei Bank Pre-IPO - Peer Comparison

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/jd-industrial-technology-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:36875:1" rel="noopener">JD Industrial</a> is now looking to raise about US$500m, down from earlier reported US$1bn, in its upcoming HK IPO.</li>
<li>JDI is a leading industrial supply chain technology and service provider in China in terms of GMV in each year during the Track Record Period, according to CIC.</li>
<li>We have looked at the company background and provided our initial thoughts on valuations in our previous notes. In this note, we will talk about the refiling updates.</li>
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JD Industrial is now looking to raise about US$500m, down from earlier reported US$1bn, in its upcoming HK IPO.
JDI is a leading industrial supply chain technology and service provider in China in terms of GMV in each year during the Track Record Period, according to CIC.
We have looked at the company background and provided our initial thoughts on valuations in our previous notes. In this note, we will talk about the refiling updates.


JD Industrials Pre-IPO - Re-Refiling Updates - More Hits than Misses

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China biotech, Aequitas Research

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China biotech

Quantitative Analysis

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<li>We analyzed the changes in foreign holdings of KRX stocks as of Nov 21st. The aggregated holding was USD776.5bn.</li>
<li>We estimate that foreign flows to be outflows of USD3,001mln. We tabulate the league table for top changes by value for 1W/4W/1Y and top stocks held by foreign institutions.</li>
<li>We highlight changes of foreign holdings in SK Hynix, Doosan Enerbility, HD HYUNDAI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, KB Financial, Samsung Elec (PREF).</li>
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We analyzed the changes in foreign holdings of KRX stocks as of Nov 21st. The aggregated holding was USD776.5bn.
We estimate that foreign flows to be outflows of USD3,001mln. We tabulate the league table for top changes by value for 1W/4W/1Y and top stocks held by foreign institutions.
We highlight changes of foreign holdings in SK Hynix, Doosan Enerbility, HD HYUNDAI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, KB Financial, Samsung Elec (PREF).


KRX Foreign Holding Weekly (Nov 21st): SK Hynix, Doosan Enerbility, HD HYUNDAI HEAVY INDUSTRIES

<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/sbi-shinsei-bank-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:16897:1" rel="noopener">SBI Shinsei Bank (8303 JP)</a>, a Japanese financial institution, aims to raise around US$2bn in its Japan listing.</li>
<li>SBI Shinsei Bank (SBISB) is a Japanese financial institution providing a range of financial products and services to both individual and institutional customers.</li>
<li>In this note we talk about the not-so-positive aspects of the deal.</li>
</ul>



SBI Shinsei Bank (8303 JP), a Japanese financial institution, aims to raise around US$2bn in its Japan listing.
SBI Shinsei Bank (SBISB) is a Japanese financial institution providing a range of financial products and services to both individual and institutional customers.
In this note we talk about the not-so-positive aspects of the deal.


SBI Shinsei Bank Pre-IPO - The Negatives - PAT Growth Aided by One-Offs, Margins Under Pressure

External broker reports(aggregated public sources), Mirae Asset Securities

Mirae Asset Securities

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Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul><li>Contrary to earlier concerns that the spread of generative AI would reduce both query volumes and user time spent on traditional search engines, the data actually show a meaningful increase in time spent on incumbent platforms.</li><li>Indeed, despite downward pressure on query volume, Google’s aggregate user time has increased sharply, with YoY growth exceeding 10% since June and accelerating past 20% since September (Sensor Tower estimates).</li><li>We believe this trend reflects the growing impact of Google’s AI Overviews (formerly SGE) feature, which provides AI-generated summaries and direct answers within search results. </li></ul><p><em>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.</em></p>

Contrary to earlier concerns that the spread of generative AI would reduce both query volumes and user time spent on traditional search engines, the data actually show a meaningful increase in time spent on incumbent platforms.Indeed, despite downward pressure on query volume, Google’s aggregate user time has increased sharply, with YoY growth exceeding 10% since June and accelerating past 20% since September (Sensor Tower estimates).We believe this trend reflects the growing impact of Google’s AI Overviews (formerly SGE) feature, which provides AI-generated summaries and direct answers within search results. Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Internet (Overweight/Maintain)Momentum set to pick up in 2026

South Korea

Kakao Corp. provides Internet portal services such as news, free e-mail, and leisure information.  The Company also offers cross-platform mobile messaging application that allows users to exchange messages.

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Kakao Corp (035720 KS)

SBI Shinsei Bank Pre-IPO - Peer Comparison

SBI Shinsei Bank (8303 JP), aims to raise around US$2bn in its Japan listing. We have looked at past performance in our earlier notes. In this...

Sumeet Singh

JD Industrials Pre-IPO - Re-Refiling Updates - More Hits than Misses

JD Industrial has now filed its PHIP and could look to launch its planned US$500m IPO within the next week or two. We will take a re-look at...

Sumeet Singh

KRX Foreign Holding Weekly (Nov 21st): SK Hynix, Doosan Enerbility, HD HYUNDAI HEAVY INDUSTRIES

We analyzed KRX foreign holding data for the past week and highlighted foreign holding changes in SK Hynix, Doosan Enerbility, HD HYUNDAI HEAVY...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

SBI Shinsei Bank Pre-IPO - The Negatives - PAT Growth Aided by One-Offs, Margins Under Pressure

SBI Shinsei Bank (8303 JP), a Japanese financial institution, aims to raise around US$2bn in its Japan listing. In this note, we talk about the not...

Sumeet Singh

Internet (Overweight/Maintain)Momentum set to pick up in 2026

Indeed, despite downward pressure on query volume, Google’s aggregate user time has increased sharply, with YoY growth exceeding 10% since June and...

Mirae Asset Securities

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