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>Hon Hai (2317 TW, NR)'s 4Q24 revenue (+15% QoQ, +15% YoY) was in-line, but net profit (-6% QoQ, -13% YoY) missed consensus by -12% mainly due to non-op loss (FX &amp; investment loss).</li><li>For 2025, mgmt. guided 15%+ YoY sales growth, with Cloud/ Networking up 15%+, Components up 15%+, Consumer electronics flattish, and Computing down 5%+.</li><li>For AI server, mgmt. guided 1) 1Q25 sales to grow 100%+ QoQ/YoY, growing QoQ throughout in 2025, 2) GB200 rack yield reaching mass production level, and 3) CSP demand is not slowing down yet and capex will not peak in 2025. </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.

Hon Hai (2317 TW, NR)'s 4Q24 revenue (+15% QoQ, +15% YoY) was in-line, but net profit (-6% QoQ, -13% YoY) missed consensus by -12% mainly due to non-op loss (FX &amp; investment loss).For 2025, mgmt. guided 15%+ YoY sales growth, with Cloud/ Networking up 15%+, Components up 15%+, Consumer electronics flattish, and Computing down 5%+.For AI server, mgmt. guided 1) 1Q25 sales to grow 100%+ QoQ/YoY, growing QoQ throughout in 2025, 2) GB200 rack yield reaching mass production level, and 3) CSP demand is not slowing down yet and capex will not peak in 2025. 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.

Strong AI Server Outlook and Flattish Consumer Electronics in 2025

<ul><li>NVIDIA (NVDA US, NR) will host its annual GTC event in San Jose on 17-21 Mar (US time), and CEO Jensen Huang will give a keynote speech on 18 Mar.</li><li>Overall, we expect the major focus for tech investors will be the latest product/system roadmap (B300/GB300/Robin), interconnect solutions (CPO/switch), and key updates on autonomous cars/physical AI/humanoid robotics.</li><li>In our view, recent pullback of server supply chain reflected concerns on CSP CAPEX in 2026 on DeepSeek’s disruption, GPU vs. ASIC demand and recent order cut. </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.

NVIDIA (NVDA US, NR) will host its annual GTC event in San Jose on 17-21 Mar (US time), and CEO Jensen Huang will give a keynote speech on 18 Mar.Overall, we expect the major focus for tech investors will be the latest product/system roadmap (B300/GB300/Robin), interconnect solutions (CPO/switch), and key updates on autonomous cars/physical AI/humanoid robotics.In our view, recent pullback of server supply chain reflected concerns on CSP CAPEX in 2026 on DeepSeek’s disruption, GPU vs. ASIC demand and recent order cut. 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 - Implications to tech supply chain from upcoming NVDA GTC 2025

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, outflows, and holding by mainland investors.</li>
<li>We highlight inflows into Alibaba, Li Auto, China Mobile and outflows from Tencent.</li>
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We analyze the monthly Hong Kong Connect flows with our data engine.
We tabulate the top stocks by inflows, outflows, and holding by mainland investors.
We highlight inflows into Alibaba, Li Auto, China Mobile and outflows from Tencent.


Hong Kong Connect Flows (February): $6bn Inflows into Alibaba

Equity Derivatives and Volatility Specialist, Clifton Derivatives

John Ley

Equity Derivatives and Volatility Specialist

Clifton Derivatives

Independent derivative and volatility research firm focusing on events/catalysts, earnings, relative value and cross asset volatility strategies.

Equity Derivatives

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<li>Broad based weakness, less than ½ of optionable stocks were up on the week with the average size of losses larger than average size of gains.</li>
<li>Total single stock Put option volume the highest in the past 4 months pushing the Put/Call ratio to a local extreme. </li>
<li>Laggards from the rally holding on, rally leaders broadly weak.</li>
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Broad based weakness, less than ½ of optionable stocks were up on the week with the average size of losses larger than average size of gains.
Total single stock Put option volume the highest in the past 4 months pushing the Put/Call ratio to a local extreme. 
Laggards from the rally holding on, rally leaders broadly weak.


Hong Kong Single Stock Options Weekly (Feb 24 – 28): Broad Deterioration

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events, Quiddity Advisors

Travis Lundy

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Quiddity Advisors

Event-Driven

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<li>Gross SOUTHBOUND volumes cleared HK$800bn for the second week in a row. NET buying by SOUTHBOUND was HK$75bn which was perhaps a new record.</li>
<li>Notable again is the HUGE back-and-forth. If HK$865bn traded and SOUTHBOUND "only" bought HK$75bn, HK$395bn was round-tripped for short-term purposes.</li>
<li>Last week I flipped to short <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/alibaba-group-holding-ltd-d7b798e2-202d-4e01-9a1e-799e2ae8f0c7" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:28434:1" rel="noopener">Alibaba Group Holding (9988 HK)</a>. Sentiment may worsen and there's lots to sell later this week. Staying short Alibaba for now. </li>
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Gross SOUTHBOUND volumes cleared HK$800bn for the second week in a row. NET buying by SOUTHBOUND was HK$75bn which was perhaps a new record.
Notable again is the HUGE back-and-forth. If HK$865bn traded and SOUTHBOUND "only" bought HK$75bn, HK$395bn was round-tripped for short-term purposes.
Last week I flipped to short Alibaba Group Holding (9988 HK). Sentiment may worsen and there's lots to sell later this week. Staying short Alibaba for now. 


HK Connect SOUTHBOUND Flows (To 28 Feb 2025); Big Volumes, HUGE Net Buys on Blue Chips, Tech-Y Names

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BYD Electronic International Co., Ltd. researches, develops, manufactures handset components such as handset casings and handset keypads and modules for handset manufacturers.  The Company also provides assembly services comprising assembly service and PCB assembly service to global handset manufacturers.

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Strong AI Server Outlook and Flattish Consumer Electronics in 2025

Hon Hai (2317 TW, NR)'s 4Q24 revenue (+15% QoQ, +15% YoY) was in-line, but net profit (-6% QoQ, -13% YoY) missed consensus by -12% mainly due to...

CMB International

Technology - Implications to tech supply chain from upcoming NVDA GTC 2025

NVIDIA (NVDA US, NR) will host its annual GTC event in San Jose on 17-21 Mar (US time), and CEO Jensen Huang will give a keynote speech on 18 Mar.

CMB International

Hong Kong Connect Flows (February): $6bn Inflows into Alibaba

We analyzed the Hong Kong Connect Scheme for February and highlighted flows for Alibaba, Li Auto, China Mobile and outflows from Tencent.

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Hong Kong Single Stock Options Weekly (Feb 24 – 28): Broad Deterioration

The market saw broad weakness with less than half of optionable stocks up for the week. Put option volumes at 4-month high, pushing Put/Call ratio...

John Ley

HK Connect SOUTHBOUND Flows (To 28 Feb 2025); Big Volumes, HUGE Net Buys on Blue Chips, Tech-Y Names

HK SOUTHBOUND Connect flows were again huge, both short-term trading and actual net buying. Last week flipped to short Alibaba. This week stays...

Travis Lundy

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Strong AI Server Outlook and Flattish Consumer Electronics in 2025

Hon Hai (2317 TW, NR)'s 4Q24 revenue (+15% QoQ, +15% YoY) was in-line, but net profit (-6% QoQ, -13% YoY) missed consensus by -12% mainly due to...

CMB International

Technology - Implications to tech supply chain from upcoming NVDA GTC 2025

NVIDIA (NVDA US, NR) will host its annual GTC event in San Jose on 17-21 Mar (US time), and CEO Jensen Huang will give a keynote speech on 18 Mar.

CMB International

Hong Kong Connect Flows (February): $6bn Inflows into Alibaba

We analyzed the Hong Kong Connect Scheme for February and highlighted flows for Alibaba, Li Auto, China Mobile and outflows from Tencent.

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Hong Kong Single Stock Options Weekly (Feb 24 – 28): Broad Deterioration

​The market saw broad weakness with less than half of optionable stocks up for the week. Put option volumes at 4-month high, pushing Put/Call ratio...

John Ley

HK Connect SOUTHBOUND Flows (To 28 Feb 2025); Big Volumes, HUGE Net Buys on Blue Chips, Tech-Y Names

HK SOUTHBOUND Connect flows were again huge, both short-term trading and actual net buying. Last week flipped to short Alibaba. This week stays...

Travis Lundy

The market saw broad weakness with less than half of optionable stocks up for the week. Put option volumes at 4-month high, pushing Put/Call ratio...