Greater China Equity Long/Short Analyst

Eric Chen

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>We believe that Kuaishou’s outsized bottom-line beat for 1H23 was driven by stronger advertising and e-commerce business and cost reduction than the street expected.</li>
<li>However, the market’s muted response suggests that investors are looking beyond 1H23 or even FY23 to price in a mature growth outlook.</li>
<li>Kuaishou is trading at ~40x our FY23 estimate against 24% earnings CAGR from 2023 to 2025 which represents a hefty valuation premium over other China tech giants.</li>
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We believe that Kuaishou’s outsized bottom-line beat for 1H23 was driven by stronger advertising and e-commerce business and cost reduction than the street expected.
However, the market’s muted response suggests that investors are looking beyond 1H23 or even FY23 to price in a mature growth outlook.
Kuaishou is trading at ~40x our FY23 estimate against 24% earnings CAGR from 2023 to 2025 which represents a hefty valuation premium over other China tech giants.


Kuaishou (1024 HK): Why Did the Market React Mutedly to Its Strong Profit Alert?

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 analyze the monthly Hong Kong Connect flows with our data engine.</li>
<li>We tabulate the top stocks by inflows, outlfows, and holding by mainland investors.</li>
<li>We highlight flows for Meituan, Kuaishou, CNOOC, PetroChina, Tencent, BYD, HSBC, HKEx.</li>
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We analyze the monthly Hong Kong Connect flows with our data engine.
We tabulate the top stocks by inflows, outlfows, and holding by mainland investors.
We highlight flows for Meituan, Kuaishou, CNOOC, PetroChina, Tencent, BYD, HSBC, HKEx.


Hong Kong Connect Flows (July): Meituan, Kuaishou, CNOOC, PetroChina, Tencent, BYD, HSBC, HKEx

China/Asia TMT

Shawn Yang

China growth and global non-US Internet equities

Blue Lotus Research Institute

Blue Lotus Research is a Hong Kong Type 4 Licensed investment advisory firm focusing on Chinese growth equities and global non-US Internet equities

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>We updated our revenue forecasts for ByteDance (China domestic) , with the industry models. We estimate that ByteDance's domestic ad revenue/eCommerce GMV/local lifestyle GTV will grow by 17%/50%/134% this year.</li>
<li>In the advertising space, we recommend Tencent and iQIYI. Both Tencent and iQIYI experienced a decline in their advertising revenue market share in 2022, followed by a rebound in 2023.</li>
<li>In transactional GMV/GTV, we prefer Meituan and Pinduoduo. Meituan's market share experienced a significant decline in 2022, but the decline rate is expected to narrow significantly this year.</li>
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We updated our revenue forecasts for ByteDance (China domestic) , with the industry models. We estimate that ByteDance's domestic ad revenue/eCommerce GMV/local lifestyle GTV will grow by 17%/50%/134% this year.
In the advertising space, we recommend Tencent and iQIYI. Both Tencent and iQIYI experienced a decline in their advertising revenue market share in 2022, followed by a rebound in 2023.
In transactional GMV/GTV, we prefer Meituan and Pinduoduo. Meituan's market share experienced a significant decline in 2022, but the decline rate is expected to narrow significantly this year.


[Blue Lotus Multi-Platform Sector Update]: ByteDance Forecasts and Implications for China Internet

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<li>We analyze the weekly Hong Kong Connect flows with our data engine for holding position as of July 28th.</li>
<li>The top stocks by inflows and outflows were tabulated for all market, HSCEI, mid cap and s/mid cap groups.</li>
<li>We estimate the outflows to be USD 65.0 million and highlight flows for Kuaishou Technology, Tencent, HSBC.</li>
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We analyze the weekly Hong Kong Connect flows with our data engine for holding position as of July 28th.
The top stocks by inflows and outflows were tabulated for all market, HSCEI, mid cap and s/mid cap groups.
We estimate the outflows to be USD 65.0 million and highlight flows for Kuaishou Technology, Tencent, HSBC.


Hong Kong Connect Flows (Jul 28th): Kuaishou Technology, Tencent, HSBC

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<li>We analyzed the latest HK SFC report for aggregate short position as of Jul 21st.</li>
<li>Top short increases and decreases were tabulated for one week and four week period. </li>
<li>We highlight short changes in Byd Company, China Mobile, Wuxi Apptec, Bidu.</li>
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We analyzed the latest HK SFC report for aggregate short position as of Jul 21st.
Top short increases and decreases were tabulated for one week and four week period. 
We highlight short changes in Byd Company, China Mobile, Wuxi Apptec, Bidu.


HK Short Interest Weekly: Byd Company, China Mobile, Wuxi Apptec, Bidu

China

Kuaishou Technology operates as a content community and social platform. The Company helps users create, upload and watch short videos on mobile devices. Kuaishou Technology offers services worldwide.

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Kuaishou Technology (1024 HK)

Kuaishou (1024 HK): Why Did the Market React Mutedly to Its Strong Profit Alert?

The market's muted response to Kuaishou's outsized positive profit alert suggests investors are looking beyond FY23 to price in a mature growth...

Eric Chen

Hong Kong Connect Flows (July): Meituan, Kuaishou, CNOOC, PetroChina, Tencent, BYD, HSBC, HKEx

We analyzed the Hong Kong Connect Scheme for July and highlight flows for Meituan, Kuaishou, CNOOC, PetroChina, Tencent, BYD, HSBC, HKEx.

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

[Blue Lotus Multi-Platform Sector Update]: ByteDance Forecasts and Implications for China Internet

We estimate that ByteDance's domestic ad revenue/eCommerce GMV/local lifestyle GTV will grow by 17%/50%/134% this year. We prefer Tencent, iQiyi,...

Blue Lotus Research Institute

Hong Kong Connect Flows (Jul 28th): Kuaishou Technology, Tencent, HSBC

We analyzed southbound Hong Kong connect flows in the past week and highlight flows for Kuaishou Technology, Tencent, HSBC.

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

HK Short Interest Weekly: Byd Company, China Mobile, Wuxi Apptec, Bidu

We analyzed the latest HK SFC report for aggregate short position as of Jul 21st and highlight short interest changes in Byd Company, China Mobile,...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

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