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<div><div><div><div><ul><li>Consumption sentiment and offline activities’ recovery pace continued to weigh on internet sector’s 3Q financials performance.</li><li>Looking into 4Q and 2023, business model robustness, operating leverage improvement, and ability to expand into new revenue streams will be the key stock alpha drivers, while the heavily under-owned China Internet sector will remain sensitive to policies and other sentiment related beta drivers.</li><li>We expect leading technology companies will play vital role in building digital infrastructure and empowering enterprise digital transformation. </li></ul></div></div></div></div><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>

Consumption sentiment and offline activities’ recovery pace continued to weigh on internet sector’s 3Q financials performance.Looking into 4Q and 2023, business model robustness, operating leverage improvement, and ability to expand into new revenue streams will be the key stock alpha drivers, while the heavily under-owned China Internet sector will remain sensitive to policies and other sentiment related beta drivers.We expect leading technology companies will play vital role in building digital infrastructure and empowering enterprise digital transformation. 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.

China Internet Sector – 3Q22 preview: near term bumpy recovery

<div><ul><li>Competition on user time spend intensified in 3Q22. Per MoonFox data, in 3Q22, average number of apps installed per capita was 74 in 3Q22, up from 71 in 2Q22 and 66 in 3Q21, while average user time spend per capita per day on apps was 5.4 hours, flat QoQ and declined 0.1 hour YoY, indicating an intensifying competition on user time spend.</li><li>Leading internet giants are enlarging their shares in user time spend: combined user time spend on apps related to Tencent, ByteDance, Alibaba and Baidu accounted for 69.3% of total user time spend in Sep 2022 (Sep 2021: 68.5%; Jun 2022: 68.4%).</li><li>Tencent related apps grew its share in user time spend to 28.3% in Sep 2022 (Sep 2021: 26.7%; June 2022: 27.5%), which in our view could be attributed to the robust ramp-up of Video Accounts, indicating additional monetization opportunities ahead.</li></ul></div><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>

Competition on user time spend intensified in 3Q22. Per MoonFox data, in 3Q22, average number of apps installed per capita was 74 in 3Q22, up from 71 in 2Q22 and 66 in 3Q21, while average user time spend per capita per day on apps was 5.4 hours, flat QoQ and declined 0.1 hour YoY, indicating an intensifying competition on user time spend.Leading internet giants are enlarging their shares in user time spend: combined user time spend on apps related to Tencent, ByteDance, Alibaba and Baidu accounted for 69.3% of total user time spend in Sep 2022 (Sep 2021: 68.5%; Jun 2022: 68.4%).Tencent related apps grew its share in user time spend to 28.3% in Sep 2022 (Sep 2021: 26.7%; June 2022: 27.5%), which in our view could be attributed to the robust ramp-up of Video Accounts, indicating additional monetization opportunities ahead.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.

China Internet Sector – 3Q22 industry data trend recap

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<ul><li>Baidu announced its 3Q23 results on 21 Nov: revenue was RMB34.4bn, up 6% YoY, 1% higher than Bloomberg consensus estimates.</li><li>Non-GAAP net income was RMB7.3bn, ahead of consensus estimates of RMB6.3bn, thanks to a beat in Baidu Core non-GAAP OP, aided by better-than-expected cost control in noncore business.</li><li>Management noted that generative AI related cloud revenue has contributed low single digit percentage of total cloud revenue in 3Q23, and expects generative AI empowered new initiatives to bring hundreds of millions of incremental ads revenue in 4Q23. </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>

Baidu announced its 3Q23 results on 21 Nov: revenue was RMB34.4bn, up 6% YoY, 1% higher than Bloomberg consensus estimates.Non-GAAP net income was RMB7.3bn, ahead of consensus estimates of RMB6.3bn, thanks to a beat in Baidu Core non-GAAP OP, aided by better-than-expected cost control in noncore business.Management noted that generative AI related cloud revenue has contributed low single digit percentage of total cloud revenue in 3Q23, and expects generative AI empowered new initiatives to bring hundreds of millions of incremental ads revenue in 4Q23. 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.

Baidu (BIDU US) – Generative AI Related Revenue Generation Ramping Up

<ul><li>We attended 2023 Baidu World Conference on 17 Oct. Our key takeaways are: 1) Baidu unveiled the 4.0 version of Ernie large language model (LLM) and is integrating generative AI across all products to enhance user experience, which shall enhance Baidu’s monetization capability over the long-run, in our view; 2) Baidu Cloud has accumulated strong AI infrastructure, which enables more cost-efficient solutions to ease computing power cost pressure.</li><li>Although macro headwinds may weigh on short-term revenue growth of both ads and cloud businesses, and additional investment to support large-scale use of LLM may squeeze margins, we are more positive on the long-term development prospects of Baidu aided by the on-track development of LLM.</li><li>To account for short-term macro headwinds on its business, we fine-tune our SOTP-based TP to US$199.4 (was US$201.0). Maintain BUY.</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>

We attended 2023 Baidu World Conference on 17 Oct. Our key takeaways are: 1) Baidu unveiled the 4.0 version of Ernie large language model (LLM) and is integrating generative AI across all products to enhance user experience, which shall enhance Baidu’s monetization capability over the long-run, in our view; 2) Baidu Cloud has accumulated strong AI infrastructure, which enables more cost-efficient solutions to ease computing power cost pressure.Although macro headwinds may weigh on short-term revenue growth of both ads and cloud businesses, and additional investment to support large-scale use of LLM may squeeze margins, we are more positive on the long-term development prospects of Baidu aided by the on-track development of LLM.To account for short-term macro headwinds on its business, we fine-tune our SOTP-based TP to US$199.4 (was US$201.0). Maintain BUY.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.

Baidu (BIDU US) – Takeaway from 2023 Baidu World Conference

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China Internet Sector – 3Q22 preview: near term bumpy recovery

We expect leading technology companies will play vital role in building digital infrastructure and empowering enterprise digital transformation.

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China Internet Sector – 3Q22 industry data trend recap

Combined user time spend on apps related to Tencent, ByteDance, Alibaba and Baidu accounted for 69.3% of total user time spend in Sep 2022 (Sep...

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CX Daily: Why Relocating Mainlanders See Singapore as a Safe Haven for Their Businesses and Property

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Baidu (BIDU US) – Takeaway from 2023 Baidu World Conference

To account for short-term macro headwinds on its business, we fine-tune our SOTP-based TP to US$199.4 (was US$201.0). Maintain BUY.

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