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.

Equity Capital Markets

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<li>Lepu Biopharma is a biotech spin-off of A-share listed Lepu Medical. The company launched book building to raise up to USD 120m via a Hong Kong listing.</li>
<li>In our previous note, we look at the company's core products, including HX008, LP002, MRG003 and MRG002. The products have their own differentiating factors to tackle the intense competition.</li>
<li>In this note, we provide an update for the book building. We will run the deal through our ECM framework and provide an update on the deal.</li>
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Lepu Biopharma is a biotech spin-off of A-share listed Lepu Medical. The company launched book building to raise up to USD 120m via a Hong Kong listing.
In our previous note, we look at the company's core products, including HX008, LP002, MRG003 and MRG002. The products have their own differentiating factors to tackle the intense competition.
In this note, we provide an update for the book building. We will run the deal through our ECM framework and provide an update on the deal.


Lepu Biopharma (乐普生物科技) IPO: Sentiment Cooled Down

HK/China Healthcare Analyst (ex-Fosun Pharma)

Xinyao (Criss) Wang

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>The expansion of the scope of positioning directly reflects the change in the importance of pharmaceutical industry in the minds of the top level, which is very pivotal.</li>
<li>The determination to abandon old development mode, and promote real innovation and high-quality internationalization remains unchanged. So, companies need to develop at a higher level and a larger stage.</li>
<li>Once achieved, it means that China's pharmaceutical industry will have another radical change after 2015, leading the industry to another new phase of growth.</li>
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The expansion of the scope of positioning directly reflects the change in the importance of pharmaceutical industry in the minds of the top level, which is very pivotal.
The determination to abandon old development mode, and promote real innovation and high-quality internationalization remains unchanged. So, companies need to develop at a higher level and a larger stage.
Once achieved, it means that China's pharmaceutical industry will have another radical change after 2015, leading the industry to another new phase of growth.


Interpretation of The "14th Five-Year Plan" For the Development of China Pharmaceutical Industry

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<li>The "14th Five-year Plan" for the development of pharmaceutical industry was released. China's attention to the internationalization development of the pharmaceutical industry has risen to a new height.</li>
<li>There are still many real clinical needs that need to be addressed through innovation. So, this requires a change in thinking and a broadening of cognitive boundaries.</li>
<li>For some biotech, it is very difficult to have successful commercialization without differentiating products. Companies have to know how to “define” a good product,which is the right way to innovate.</li>
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The "14th Five-year Plan" for the development of pharmaceutical industry was released. China's attention to the internationalization development of the pharmaceutical industry has risen to a new height.
There are still many real clinical needs that need to be addressed through innovation. So, this requires a change in thinking and a broadening of cognitive boundaries.
For some biotech, it is very difficult to have successful commercialization without differentiating products. Companies have to know how to “define” a good product,which is the right way to innovate.


China Healthcare Weekly (Feb.4)- "14th Five-Year Plan" Of Pharmaceuticals, the Right Way to Innovate

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>For development strategy, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/alphamab-oncology" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:28213:1" rel="noopener">Alphamab Co Ltd (9966 HK) </a>may lack the foundation of strategic certainty of expectation. It is also not sure about the commercialization performance of KN035 brought by Simcere.</li>
<li>Although the management’s thinking mode of business operation has improved, it still cannot dispel the doubts about whether the Company can catch up with top-level biopharmaceutical enterprises in the future.</li>
<li>Even with the concerns, it does not rule out that investors can long this stock at an undervalued or a reasonable price to get a good return.</li>
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For development strategy, Alphamab Co Ltd (9966 HK) may lack the foundation of strategic certainty of expectation. It is also not sure about the commercialization performance of KN035 brought by Simcere.
Although the management’s thinking mode of business operation has improved, it still cannot dispel the doubts about whether the Company can catch up with top-level biopharmaceutical enterprises in the future.
Even with the concerns, it does not rule out that investors can long this stock at an undervalued or a reasonable price to get a good return.


Alphamab Co Ltd (9966.HK) - Some Points Worth the Attention

Sino Biopharmaceutical / Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>We analyzed the business performance and short-term catalyst for <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/sino-biopharmaceutical" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:230:1" rel="noopener">Sino Biopharmaceutical (1177 HK),</a> and investors could decide whether to take advantage of it or not.</li>
<li>We also analyzed the concerns about the Company as well as our insights on the valuation of biopharmaceutical companies.</li>
<li>Based on our analysis, we are conservative about the Company’s outlook at the current stage.</li>
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We analyzed the business performance and short-term catalyst for Sino Biopharmaceutical (1177 HK), and investors could decide whether to take advantage of it or not.
We also analyzed the concerns about the Company as well as our insights on the valuation of biopharmaceutical companies.
Based on our analysis, we are conservative about the Company’s outlook at the current stage.


Sino Biopharmaceutical (1177.HK) - The Business, The Concerns, The Insights on Biopharma Valuation

China

Akeso Inc. operates operatesa s a biotech company. The compnay develops treatments and therapies for various types of diseases. Akeso serves cutomers worldwide

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Lepu Biopharma (乐普生物科技) IPO: Sentiment Cooled Down

Downsized deal amid cooled sentiment for Chapter 18A, we think the valuation of Lepu Biopharm is not attractive for investors.

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Interpretation of The "14th Five-Year Plan" For the Development of China Pharmaceutical Industry

For the newly released "14th Five-year Plan" of China pharmaceutical industry, we analyzed key points and our interpretation. Once achieved, it...

Xinyao (Criss) Wang

China Healthcare Weekly (Feb.4)- "14th Five-Year Plan" Of Pharmaceuticals, the Right Way to Innovate

We analyzed important points of the "14th Five-year Plan" for pharmaceutical industry. Meanwhile, the right way to innovate requires a broadening...

Xinyao (Criss) Wang

Alphamab Co Ltd (9966.HK) - Some Points Worth the Attention

The article analyzed Alphamab Oncology in terms of its conservativeness on business operation and decision making in early stages, the concerns on...

Xinyao (Criss) Wang

Sino Biopharmaceutical (1177.HK) - The Business, The Concerns, The Insights on Biopharma Valuation

This article analyzed Sino Biopharmaceutical in terms of the business performance, short-term catalyst, concerns about the outlook, and insights on...

Xinyao (Criss) Wang

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