Tracking developments across tech supply chains, Tech Supply Chain Tracker

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Tracking developments across tech supply chains

Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>China overtakes Japan in auto exports despite tariff hurdles, solidifying its dominance in the industry.</li><li>Samsung Display moves up 8.6G IT OLED mass production plan to 2025, aiming for quicker industry advancements.</li><li>Nvidia's Jensen Huang requests early HBM4 delivery from SK Hynix, signaling potential developments in the tech sector.</li></ul>

China overtakes Japan in auto exports despite tariff hurdles, solidifying its dominance in the industry.Samsung Display moves up 8.6G IT OLED mass production plan to 2025, aiming for quicker industry advancements.Nvidia's Jensen Huang requests early HBM4 delivery from SK Hynix, signaling potential developments in the tech sector.

Tech Supply Chain Tracker (06-Nov-2024): China leads in auto exports over Japan despite tariffs.

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

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China biotech

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.

Quantitative Analysis

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<li>We analyzed the changes in foreign holdings of KRX stocks as of Nov 1st which has an aggregated holding worth USD507.9bn.</li>
<li>We estimate that foreign flows to be outflows of USD1,513mln. 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 Apr, Korzinc, Samsung Electronics, Hyundai Motor.</li>
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We analyzed the changes in foreign holdings of KRX stocks as of Nov 1st which has an aggregated holding worth USD507.9bn.
We estimate that foreign flows to be outflows of USD1,513mln. 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 Apr, Korzinc, Samsung Electronics, Hyundai Motor.


KRX Foreign Holding Weekly (Nov 1st): Apr, Korzinc, Samsung Electronics, Hyundai Motor

External broker reports(aggregated public sources), Daishin Securities

Daishin Securities

External broker reports(aggregated public sources)

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<ul><li>SK hynix delivers strong performance for 3Q24, with revenue of W17.57tn, OP of W7.3tn, and an OPM of 40%</li><li>Portfolio concentrated on high value-added HBM/DDR5/LPDDR5 products, maximizes profitability</li><li>12H HBM3E mass production set to begin in 4Q24, with full-scale supply expansion likely in 2025</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>

SK hynix delivers strong performance for 3Q24, with revenue of W17.57tn, OP of W7.3tn, and an OPM of 40%Portfolio concentrated on high value-added HBM/DDR5/LPDDR5 products, maximizes profitability12H HBM3E mass production set to begin in 4Q24, with full-scale supply expansion likely in 2025Content 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.

Technology / Semiconductor / Internet Research

Nicolas Baratte

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<li>Companies exude confidence and unanimously explain that AI is the fastest growing revenue segment ever.  AI leads to revenue growth, increase in volume, higher pricing, higher engagement. </li>
<li>Companies also explain that AI today only reflects a small part of long-term planning. AI is a decade long transformation of how we work, search for information or buy products.  </li>
<li>Meta and Microsoft see equipment delays and are capacity constrained in 2024. Capex will increase in 2025. </li>
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Companies exude confidence and unanimously explain that AI is the fastest growing revenue segment ever.  AI leads to revenue growth, increase in volume, higher pricing, higher engagement. 
Companies also explain that AI today only reflects a small part of long-term planning. AI is a decade long transformation of how we work, search for information or buy products.  
Meta and Microsoft see equipment delays and are capacity constrained in 2024. Capex will increase in 2025. 


Google, Meta, Microsoft: What Did They Say About AI, Capex and Revenues?

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One, Periscope Analytics

Brian Freitas

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One

Periscope Analytics

Periscope Analytics focuses on event-driven trades across Asia Pacific and provides comprehensive, timely and systematic coverage of index changes to major Asia Pacific indices in a structured manner.

The analysis includes forecasted inclusions and exclusions to all major Asian indices that have significant amount of tracking assets, including estimates of passive buy/sell flow on the stocks. The service also provides commentary and impact of market consultations, ground rule changes, and other events (IPOs, spin-offs, M&A) that could lead to index changes and passive flow.

Periscope Analytics works with multi-strategy hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, stat arb trading groups and long-only investors that invest and trade in the Asia Pacific region with the data being used to trade index rebalances, avoid pre-positioning and passive flow, and to time entry into and exit from stocks.

Event-Driven Trades Across Asia Pacific

Event-Driven

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<li>12 ETFs (9 passive and 3 active) and 1 ETN tracking the Korea Value-Up Index will start trading on the KRX on 4 November.</li>
<li>At listing, the combined AUM across the 13 products is KRW 511bn (US$370m). So not a lot of impact on the stocks in the index.</li>
<li>The expectation is that there will be a lot of money that starts to track the index after the ETF listing. Looking at Japan, that is not a success story.</li>
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12 ETFs (9 passive and 3 active) and 1 ETN tracking the Korea Value-Up Index will start trading on the KRX on 4 November.
At listing, the combined AUM across the 13 products is KRW 511bn (US$370m). So not a lot of impact on the stocks in the index.
The expectation is that there will be a lot of money that starts to track the index after the ETF listing. Looking at Japan, that is not a success story.


Korea Value-Up ETFs: Listing on 4 Nov with US$370m AUM

South Korea

SK Hynix Inc. provides products and services for the electronic components industry. The Company manufactures semiconductors, such as dynamic random access memory (DRAM), NAND flash memory, and static random access memory (SRAM) chips.

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SK Hynix (000660 KS)

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KRX Foreign Holding Weekly (Nov 1st): Apr, Korzinc, Samsung Electronics, Hyundai Motor

We analyzed KRX foreign holding data for the past week and highlighted foreign holding changes in Apr, Korzinc, Samsung Electronics, Hyundai Motor.

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

SK Hynix - Solely Shining

SK hynix delivers strong performance for 3Q24, with revenue of W17.57tn, OP of W7.3tn, and an OPM of 40%. Portfolio concentrated on high value...

Daishin Securities

Google, Meta, Microsoft: What Did They Say About AI, Capex and Revenues?

Is AI really increasing revenues, profitability? There is still considerable doubt within the investors community on the "reality" of AI, or its...

Nicolas Baratte

Korea Value-Up ETFs: Listing on 4 Nov with US$370m AUM

12 ETFs (9 passive and 3 active) and 1 ETN tracking the Korea Value-Up Index will start trading on the KRX on 4 November. Total assets at launch...

Brian Freitas

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