APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Ethan Aw

APAC IPOs & Placements

IPOs and Placements coverage across Asia Pacific

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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.

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Lianlian DigiTech / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/lianlian-digitech" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:39940:1" rel="noopener">Lianlian DigiTech (2104619D CH)</a> is looking to raise up to US$500m in its upcoming HK IPO.</li>
<li>LianLian DigiTech is a digital technology company that provides a range of digital payment services and value-added services to customers in China and around the world.</li>
<li>Lianlian’s digital payments segment has historically been its largest revenue contributor. However, profitability has been declining on the back of lower gross margins and mounting losses from its Liantong JV.</li>
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Lianlian DigiTech (2104619D CH) is looking to raise up to US$500m in its upcoming HK IPO.
LianLian DigiTech is a digital technology company that provides a range of digital payment services and value-added services to customers in China and around the world.
Lianlian’s digital payments segment has historically been its largest revenue contributor. However, profitability has been declining on the back of lower gross margins and mounting losses from its Liantong JV.


LianLian Digitech Pre-IPO - Declining Profitability with No End in Sight Just Yet

External broker reports(aggregated public sources), CMB International

CMB International

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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.

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul><li>The current market expectation of 800G transceivers shipment to reach 12mn in 2024 seems too optimistic.</li><li>Optical transceiver manufacturers are in the spotlight this year. As key beneficiaries of Generative AI enthusiasm, Innolight/Eoptolink grew 354.6%/200.2% YTD.</li><li>Admittedly, the surging demand for Nvidia (Not Rated) GPU will bring increasing orders for 800G transceivers in 2023/24. </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 current market expectation of 800G transceivers shipment to reach 12mn in 2024 seems too optimistic.Optical transceiver manufacturers are in the spotlight this year. As key beneficiaries of Generative AI enthusiasm, Innolight/Eoptolink grew 354.6%/200.2% YTD.Admittedly, the surging demand for Nvidia (Not Rated) GPU will bring increasing orders for 800G transceivers in 2023/24. 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.

Hardware – Investors Expect Spectacular Results in the AI Infrastructure Arms Race

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Caixin Global

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E-commerce platforms worldwide, including Chinese-owned fast-fashion rivals Shein and Temu, are embracing a novel business model that offers merchants the advantages of selling their goods overseas at a lower cost and higher convenience.
And mainland-based companies stand to benefit as the platforms come in search of reliable suppliers in China’s manufacturing hubs.
The model, known in China as the “full-service consignment model,” (全托管模式) sees online platforms take care of nearly all aspects of the selling process from setting the price of products and storing them to marketing, processing orders, and delivery.

E-commerce platforms worldwide, including Chinese-owned fast-fashion rivals Shein and Temu, are embracing a novel business model that offers merchants the advantages of selling their goods overseas at a lower cost and higher convenience.
And mainland-based companies stand to benefit as the platforms come in search of reliable suppliers in China’s manufacturing hubs.
The model, known in China as the “full-service consignment model,” (全托管模式) sees online platforms take care of nearly all aspects of the selling process from setting the price of products and storing them to marketing, processing orders, and delivery.

E-Commerce Giants Rush to Roll Out ‘Full-Service’ Business Model

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<ul><li>The re-emergence of AI as a topic of hype, caution and investment contains, in equal parts, the re-discovery of a pre-existing technology, but now on steroids, plus all the excitement of the race among the top 5 techs to invest enough in order to dominate the field .</li><li>The 2000 Dot.com boom involved hundreds of IPOs of start-ups, all with the word “internet” in their names, except now the AI boom involves mostly buying up existing startups by the big Techs.</li><li>The re emergence of AI will undoubtedly change a lot of the ways in which data are used and monetized, it will make Google search far more client-friendly and it will step up the capacity of software to program themselves. </li></ul>

The re-emergence of AI as a topic of hype, caution and investment contains, in equal parts, the re-discovery of a pre-existing technology, but now on steroids, plus all the excitement of the race among the top 5 techs to invest enough in order to dominate the field .The 2000 Dot.com boom involved hundreds of IPOs of start-ups, all with the word “internet” in their names, except now the AI boom involves mostly buying up existing startups by the big Techs.The re emergence of AI will undoubtedly change a lot of the ways in which data are used and monetized, it will make Google search far more client-friendly and it will step up the capacity of software to program themselves. 

The “ AI Revolution” : A Cautionary Tale and Its Investment Consequences

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Jeroen Blokland

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<li>Unlike many suggest, the downgrade of the US credit rating by Fitch, resulting in the US losing its Triple-A status, will have significant impact on markets.</li>
<li>The disappointing ISM Manufacturing Index comes with massive downside for Equities in all regions.</li>
<li>While the Big Tech earnings dream get to live another day, the risks of a further and more significant slowdown in company earnings remain abundant.</li>
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Unlike many suggest, the downgrade of the US credit rating by Fitch, resulting in the US losing its Triple-A status, will have significant impact on markets.
The disappointing ISM Manufacturing Index comes with massive downside for Equities in all regions.
While the Big Tech earnings dream get to live another day, the risks of a further and more significant slowdown in company earnings remain abundant.


The Weekly Market Monitor (31) – Bye, Bye, Triple-A

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LianLian Digitech Pre-IPO - Declining Profitability with No End in Sight Just Yet

Lianlian DigiTech (2104619D CH) is looking to raise up to US$500m in its upcoming HK IPO. Lianlian’s digital payments segment has historically been...

Ethan Aw

Hardware – Investors Expect Spectacular Results in the AI Infrastructure Arms Race

Optical transceiver manufacturers are in the spotlight this year. As key beneficiaries of Generative AI enthusiasm, Innolight/Eoptolink grew 354.6%...

CMB International

E-Commerce Giants Rush to Roll Out ‘Full-Service’ Business Model

E-commerce platforms worldwide, including Chinese-owned fast-fashion rivals Shein and Temu, are embracing a novel business model that offers...

Caixin Global

The “ AI Revolution” : A Cautionary Tale and Its Investment Consequences

The re-emergence of AI as a topic of hype, caution and investment contains, in equal parts, the re-discovery of a pre-existing technology, but now...

VRS (Valuation & Research Specialists)

The Weekly Market Monitor (31) – Bye, Bye, Triple-A

The US has lost the Triple A-rating, which, unlike many suggest, will have major implications. If not in the short run, then definitely in the long...

Jeroen Blokland

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