Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One, Periscope Analytics

Brian Freitas

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One

Periscope Analytics

Periscope Analytics focuses on event-driven trades across Asia Pacific and provides comprehensive, timely and systematic coverage of index changes to major Asia Pacific indices in a structured manner.

The analysis includes forecasted inclusions and exclusions to all major Asian indices that have significant amount of tracking assets, including estimates of passive buy/sell flow on the stocks. The service also provides commentary and impact of market consultations, ground rule changes, and other events (IPOs, spin-offs, M&A) that could lead to index changes and passive flow.

Periscope Analytics works with multi-strategy hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, stat arb trading groups and long-only investors that invest and trade in the Asia Pacific region with the data being used to trade index rebalances, avoid pre-positioning and passive flow, and to time entry into and exit from stocks.

Event-Driven Trades Across Asia Pacific

Index Rebalance

Hubei Feilihua Quartz Glass  / Index Rebalance

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<li>At the end of the review period, we forecast 10 changes for the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/chinext-price-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:25483:1" rel="noopener">Chinext Price Index (SZ399006 INDEX)</a> and 5 changes for the ChiNext 50 Index in December.</li>
<li>Passive trackers will need to buy +/-0.5 days of ADV for most inclusions and exclusions from the indices. The impact on the potential deletions is higher on average.</li>
<li>The potential adds have outperformed the potential deletes over the last six months, though there has been a sharp narrowing of the gap over the last few weeks.</li>
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At the end of the review period, we forecast 10 changes for the Chinext Price Index (SZ399006 INDEX) and 5 changes for the ChiNext 50 Index in December.
Passive trackers will need to buy +/-0.5 days of ADV for most inclusions and exclusions from the indices. The impact on the potential deletions is higher on average.
The potential adds have outperformed the potential deletes over the last six months, though there has been a sharp narrowing of the gap over the last few weeks.


ChiNext/ChiNext50 Index Rebalance Preview: Overlapping Stocks & Mean Reversion

HK/China Healthcare Analyst (ex-Fosun Pharma)

Xinyao (Criss) Wang

Equity Capital Markets

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<li>AIM needs to rely on both human rabies vaccine and HBV vaccine to contribute majority revenue,but the outlook is challenging. Their revenue would decline due to competition and product upgrading.</li>
<li>Most of AIM’s vaccine candidates are in early development stages. There’re many competing candidates in more advanced development stages.The pipeline lacks competitiveness and it's hard to generate forecasted profits.</li>
<li>Although the issue price is discounted significantly, AIM is still overvalued. Reducing the size of IPO to maintain a good share price doesn’t work. When investors exit,accumulated pressure will explode.</li>
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AIM needs to rely on both human rabies vaccine and HBV vaccine to contribute majority revenue,but the outlook is challenging. Their revenue would decline due to competition and product upgrading.
Most of AIM’s vaccine candidates are in early development stages. There’re many competing candidates in more advanced development stages.The pipeline lacks competitiveness and it's hard to generate forecasted profits.
Although the issue price is discounted significantly, AIM is still overvalued. Reducing the size of IPO to maintain a good share price doesn’t work. When investors exit,accumulated pressure will explode.


Pre-IPO AIM Vaccine - AIM Is Overvalued, with Uncompetitive Pipeline and Challenging Outlook

Equity Bottom-Up

Chongqing Zhifei Biological Products / Equity Bottom-Up

Chongqing Zhifei Biological Products (300122 CH)

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<li>Under the current policy in China, any minor changes to vaccine doses require a series of clinical data support and registration changes. So, WHO’s recommendation won’t affect Zhifei’s short-term performance.</li>
<li>The increasing domestic competing HPV vaccines in the future would be a big threat to Zhifei’s agency business. Its self-developed products may not be strong enough to compensate. </li>
<li>The performance in 2022 is expected to be solid before real challenge comes in 2024. The valuation logic and outlook won’t be brighten unless there’s new breakthrough in agency business.</li>
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Under the current policy in China, any minor changes to vaccine doses require a series of clinical data support and registration changes. So, WHO’s recommendation won’t affect Zhifei’s short-term performance.
The increasing domestic competing HPV vaccines in the future would be a big threat to Zhifei’s agency business. Its self-developed products may not be strong enough to compensate. 
The performance in 2022 is expected to be solid before real challenge comes in 2024. The valuation logic and outlook won’t be brighten unless there’s new breakthrough in agency business.


Chongqing Zhifei Biological Products (300122.CH) - WHO's One-Dose HPV Vaccine Regimen & The Outlook

The global spread of COVID-19 has given the vaccine industry unprecedented attention. With the increasing prosperity of the industry, many vaccine companies are increasingly enthusiastic about going public. On Sep 12, 2021, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/aim-vaccine-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:33778:1" rel="noopener">AIM Vaccine (AIM HK)</a> submitted its listing application to the HKEX and officially started its IPO process. AIM is a leading vaccine company that covers the full value chain from R&amp;D to manufacturing and to commercialization. This insight mainly analyzed AIM in terms of the industry characteristics, the key vaccine products, the vaccine pipeline and related concerns of the Company.

The global spread of COVID-19 has given the vaccine industry unprecedented attention. With the increasing prosperity of the industry, many vaccine companies are increasingly enthusiastic about going public. On Sep 12, 2021, AIM Vaccine (AIM HK) submitted its listing application to the HKEX and officially started its IPO process. AIM is a leading vaccine company that covers the full value chain from R&amp;D to manufacturing and to commercialization. This insight mainly analyzed AIM in terms of the industry characteristics, the key vaccine products, the vaccine pipeline and related concerns of the Company.

Pre-IPO AIM Vaccine - Insights on Key Products, Pipeline and Concerns

On February 24th, 2021, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/yishengbio-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:32205:1" rel="noopener">YishengBio (1872307D HK)</a> announced the completion of a Series B financing of over $130 million, led by Oceanpine and OrbiMed. Soon after, on March 8th, Yisheng filed its IPO prospectus with the HKEX. Since the Changchun Changsheng vaccine scandal in 2018, rabies vaccines have been in short supply in China. Therefore, vaccine companies hope to seize this opportunity and develop vigorously with the help of the capital market. For example, last year, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/chengdu-kanghua-biological-a" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:29895:1" rel="noopener">Chengdu Kanghua Biological-A (300841 CH)</a> was listed on the A-share market successfully. This year, Yisheng also plans to raise funds, expand the business and fund the future operation in the public capital market.

On February 24th, 2021, YishengBio (1872307D HK) announced the completion of a Series B financing of over $130 million, led by Oceanpine and OrbiMed. Soon after, on March 8th, Yisheng filed its IPO prospectus with the HKEX. Since the Changchun Changsheng vaccine scandal in 2018, rabies vaccines have been in short supply in China. Therefore, vaccine companies hope to seize this opportunity and develop vigorously with the help of the capital market. For example, last year, Chengdu Kanghua Biological-A (300841 CH) was listed on the A-share market successfully. This year, Yisheng also plans to raise funds, expand the business and fund the future operation in the public capital market. 

Pre-IPO YishengBio Co., Ltd  - Here Are the Concerns Despite Solid Market Potential

China

Chengdu Kanghua Biological Products Co., Ltd. researches, manufactures, and distributes vaccines. The Company produces rabies vaccines, meningococcal poly saccharide vaccines, and other products. Chengdu Kanghua Biological Products sells its products mainly in China.

Chengdu Kanghua Biological Pro (300841 CH)

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Chengdu Kanghua Biological Pro (300841 CH)

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