External broker reports(aggregated public sources), CMB International

CMB International

External broker reports(aggregated public sources)

Incorporated in Hong Kong, supported by the mainland and targeting in global market, CMB International Capital Corporation Limited (“CMBI”) is an integrated financial institution providing comprehensive and professional services. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Merchants Bank ("CMB"), by leveraging on the Group’s synergy and coordination in domestic and overseas markets, as well as CMB’s strong resources and outstanding social reputation, CMBI and its subsidiaries have been actively implementing diversified business strategies and set up an overall layout of main business segments including Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Global Markets and Structured Finance, etc. Adhering to the philosophy of “being clients oriented and increasing our own values by the way of creating value for clients”, CMBI endeavors to provide quality and integrated financial services to institutional, corporate and individual customers both domestic and overseas including Hong Kong IPO sponsorship and underwriting, share placement and rights issue for listed companies, financial advisors, bonds issuance services, asset management, direct investment, wealth management, equity sales and trading, etc.

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<ul><li>The US President Trump announced plans (link) on a 100% tariff on semi imports, but companies that pledged large investments in the US manufacturing will be exempt.</li><li>Trump indicated that Apple would be exempt from proposed tariffs given its commitment to increase US investments to US$600bn over the next 4 years.</li><li>Several tech companies (e.g. Samsung, SK Hynix) also announced their tariff exemptions due to their committed investments in the US. </li></ul>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.

The US President Trump announced plans (link) on a 100% tariff on semi imports, but companies that pledged large investments in the US manufacturing will be exempt.Trump indicated that Apple would be exempt from proposed tariffs given its commitment to increase US investments to US$600bn over the next 4 years.Several tech companies (e.g. Samsung, SK Hynix) also announced their tariff exemptions due to their committed investments in the US. 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.

Technology - US New Sectoral Tariffs Better than Feared...

<ul><li>2Q25 results were largely in-line with market expectations, but 3Q25E guidance is mixed with strength in premium smartphones and sluggish mainstream demand post order pull-in and China subsidies in 1H25.</li><li>Qualcomm (QCOM US, NR) guided 15% YoY growth in non-Apple QCT revenue in FY25, while MediaTek (2454 TT, NR) expected 40% YoY growth in flagship revenue in FY25.</li><li>New form factors (XR, Trifold, AI glasses) have become emerging growth drivers. </li></ul>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.

2Q25 results were largely in-line with market expectations, but 3Q25E guidance is mixed with strength in premium smartphones and sluggish mainstream demand post order pull-in and China subsidies in 1H25.Qualcomm (QCOM US, NR) guided 15% YoY growth in non-Apple QCT revenue in FY25, while MediaTek (2454 TT, NR) expected 40% YoY growth in flagship revenue in FY25.New form factors (XR, Trifold, AI glasses) have become emerging growth drivers. 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.

Technology - Smartphone: Samsung/MTK/QCOM Results Takeaways

<ul><li>We reiterate our positive view on the booming AI glasses cycle, and we believe ongoing strength of Ray-Ban Meta glasses (+200% in 1H25), Xiaomi AI glasses’ bullish shipment target of 500k, strong product pipeline (Meta/Xiaomi/Rokid/ RayNeo/Quark) and improving ecosystem with more AI features/use cases will continue to pave wave for the AI glasses supply chain into 2H25E.</li><li>Looking ahead, global/China smart glasses market is set to continue robust growth of 43%/121% YoY in 2025, based on IDC.</li><li>As more tech players are entering the AI smart glass market, we expect cost optimization and more gen-AI use cases will continue to drive demand in the next few years. </li></ul>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.

We reiterate our positive view on the booming AI glasses cycle, and we believe ongoing strength of Ray-Ban Meta glasses (+200% in 1H25), Xiaomi AI glasses’ bullish shipment target of 500k, strong product pipeline (Meta/Xiaomi/Rokid/ RayNeo/Quark) and improving ecosystem with more AI features/use cases will continue to pave wave for the AI glasses supply chain into 2H25E.Looking ahead, global/China smart glasses market is set to continue robust growth of 43%/121% YoY in 2025, based on IDC.As more tech players are entering the AI smart glass market, we expect cost optimization and more gen-AI use cases will continue to drive demand in the next few years. 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.

Technology -  Ray-Ban Meta Upbeat in 1H25, Xiaomi 500k Target and Quark Glasses Launch

Senior Credit Analyst, Lucror Analytics

Leonard Law, CFA

Senior Credit Analyst

High Yield Experts

Lucror Analytics

Lucror Analytics is a leading credit and ESG research specialist and a provider of technology solutions for differentiated fixed income strategies. Our roots are in bottom-up fundamental credit analysis with a specialization in high yield corporate credits from Europe, Asia and Latin America. We are one of few research specialists integrating ESG considerations with fundamental credit research through a dedicated ESG platform. Our ESG assessment covers five key criteria: Disclosure, E,S, & G Pillars, Controversies, ESG Impact on Credit and ESG Momentum.

Recognizing the importance and value-add of Factor Investing in fixed income, Lucror developed the Smart Quant Navigator (SQN), an intuitive platform that helps clients devise and implement factor-based strategies ranging from pure quant to active fundamental, with integrated ESG.

Our company has been at the forefront of developments in the fixed income markets, identifying opportunities and consistently delivering new products and value-adding solutions to clients. Lucror has close relationships with the largest and most reputable asset managers, family offices, hedge funds, investment and wealth managers globally.

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Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone / Credit

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<li>In today's Morning Views publication we comment on developments of the following high yield issuers: Adani Ports, AAC Technologies, Tata Motors</li>
<li>UST yields rose yesterday, as the market priced in lower rate cuts for 2025, following the strong Q2 GDP numbers and after Fed Chair Jerome Powell said no decision has been made on a September rate cut. The UST curve bear flattened, with the yield on the 2Y UST rising 7 bps to 3.94%, while that on the 10Y UST was up 5 bps at 4.37%.</li>
<li>Equity movements were mixed, as tech stocks were supported by solid earnings from Microsoft and Meta Platforms.</li>
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In today's Morning Views publication we comment on developments of the following high yield issuers: Adani Ports, AAC Technologies, Tata Motors
UST yields rose yesterday, as the market priced in lower rate cuts for 2025, following the strong Q2 GDP numbers and after Fed Chair Jerome Powell said no decision has been made on a September rate cut. The UST curve bear flattened, with the yield on the 2Y UST rising 7 bps to 3.94%, while that on the 10Y UST was up 5 bps at 4.37%.
Equity movements were mixed, as tech stocks were supported by solid earnings from Microsoft and Meta Platforms.


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

Lens Technology   / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/lens-technology-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:24231:1" rel="noopener">Lens Technology (300433 CH)</a>, a precision manufacturing solution provider, raised around US$700m in its H-share listing.</li>
<li>Lens Technology (LT) is one of the leading players in precision structural parts and modules integrated solutions for both consumer electronics and smart vehicles interaction systems.</li>
<li>We have looked at the past performance and likely A/H premium in our previous note. In this note, we talk about the trading dynamics.</li>
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Lens Technology (300433 CH), a precision manufacturing solution provider, raised around US$700m in its H-share listing.
Lens Technology (LT) is one of the leading players in precision structural parts and modules integrated solutions for both consumer electronics and smart vehicles interaction systems.
We have looked at the past performance and likely A/H premium in our previous note. In this note, we talk about the trading dynamics.


Lens Technology A/H Trading - Decent Demand, Helped by A-Share Rally

China

AAC Technologies Holdings Inc designs, develops and manufactures a broad range of miniaturized components that include speakers, receivers and microphones in the acoustic segment and others such as haptics vibrators, RF and antennas, and optical lenses. AAC's products are found in mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, wearables, ultrabooks, notebooks and electronic book-readers.

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Technology - US New Sectoral Tariffs Better than Feared...

The US President Trump announced plans (link) on a 100% tariff on semi imports, but companies that pledged large investments in the US...

CMB International

Technology - Smartphone: Samsung/MTK/QCOM Results Takeaways

2Q25 results were largely in-line with market expectations, but 3Q25E guidance is mixed with strength in premium smartphones and sluggish...

CMB International

Technology - Ray-Ban Meta Upbeat in 1H25, Xiaomi 500k Target and Quark Glasses Launch

We reiterate our positive view on the booming AI glasses cycle, and we believe ongoing strength of Ray-Ban Meta glasses (+200% in 1H25), Xiaomi AI...

CMB International

Lucror Analytics - Morning Views Asia

In today's Morning Views publication we comment on developments of the following high yield issuers: Adani Ports, AAC Technologies, Tata Motors

Lucror Analytics

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Technology - US New Sectoral Tariffs Better than Feared...

The US President Trump announced plans (link) on a 100% tariff on semi imports, but companies that pledged large investments in the US...

CMB International

Technology - Smartphone: Samsung/MTK/QCOM Results Takeaways

2Q25 results were largely in-line with market expectations, but 3Q25E guidance is mixed with strength in premium smartphones and sluggish...

CMB International

Technology - Ray-Ban Meta Upbeat in 1H25, Xiaomi 500k Target and Quark Glasses Launch

We reiterate our positive view on the booming AI glasses cycle, and we believe ongoing strength of Ray-Ban Meta glasses (+200% in 1H25), Xiaomi AI...

CMB International

Lucror Analytics - Morning Views Asia

In today's Morning Views publication we comment on developments of the following high yield issuers: Adani Ports, AAC Technologies, Tata Motors

Lucror Analytics

Lens Technology A/H Trading - Decent Demand, Helped by A-Share Rally

Lens Technology (300433 CH), a precision manufacturing solution provider, raised around US$700m in its H-share listing. In this note, we talk about...

Sumeet Singh