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.

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul><li>We recently talked to some software and IT services companies regarding FY23E business outlook.</li><li>While most companies are encouraged by China reopening and lifting of COVID restrictions, the pace of business recovery is likely to be slow.</li><li>We suggest investors to focus on the localization theme. Horizontal SaaS and IT services companies with government/ telecom/ financial customer exposure are likely to benefit.</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.

We recently talked to some software and IT services companies regarding FY23E business outlook.While most companies are encouraged by China reopening and lifting of COVID restrictions, the pace of business recovery is likely to be slow.We suggest investors to focus on the localization theme. Horizontal SaaS and IT services companies with government/ telecom/ financial customer exposure are likely to benefit.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.

China Software & IT Services – Year of rabbit: still about localization

Equity Bottom-Up

Chinasoft International / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Chinasoft hosted an investor call on 11 Jan to discuss the latest updates regarding KaihongOS development.</li><li>We believe the key takeaways is that Chinasoft is benefiting from the localization trend in a broader sense, from KaihongOS, Kunpeng (ARM) cloud migration, ERP application software and IoT products.</li><li>After a year of workforce restructuring, we expect Chinasoft revenue growth to accelerate in FY23E as enterprise digitalization and IT spending will pick up with loosened COVID restrictions in China. </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.

Chinasoft hosted an investor call on 11 Jan to discuss the latest updates regarding KaihongOS development.We believe the key takeaways is that Chinasoft is benefiting from the localization trend in a broader sense, from KaihongOS, Kunpeng (ARM) cloud migration, ERP application software and IoT products.After a year of workforce restructuring, we expect Chinasoft revenue growth to accelerate in FY23E as enterprise digitalization and IT spending will pick up with loosened COVID restrictions in China. 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.

Chinasoft (354 HK) – Benefiting from localization trend with KaihongOS

<ul><li>China IaaS + PaaS market grew 30.7% YoY in 1H22, according to IDC data.</li><li>However, this may have slowed to 10-20% YoY in 3Q22, reflected by China Telecom/ China Mobile sluggish cloud revenue growth. </li><li>China cloud spending in 2023E could remain conservative with structural changes</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.

China IaaS + PaaS market grew 30.7% YoY in 1H22, according to IDC data.However, this may have slowed to 10-20% YoY in 3Q22, reflected by China Telecom/ China Mobile sluggish cloud revenue growth. China cloud spending in 2023E could remain conservative with structural changesContent 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.

China Software & IT Services – China IaaS + PaaS growth slowed further in 3Q22

<div><ul><li>Structural changes in China cloud market. There are three structural changes in China cloud market since the internet sector crackdown in 2021.</li><li>China cloud development roadmap is different compared to the US</li><li>Cloud supply chain turmoil amid rising geopolitical tension.</li></ul></div>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.

Structural changes in China cloud market. There are three structural changes in China cloud market since the internet sector crackdown in 2021.China cloud development roadmap is different compared to the USCloud supply chain turmoil amid rising geopolitical tension.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.

China Software & IT Services – A mixed outlook for China cloud amid rising China-US tension

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 statistics on top repurchases over one week, one month, one quarter and one year periods ended on Apr 15th based on HKEx daily reports.</li>
<li>In the past 7 days, the top 3 companies that repurchased the most shares from the market were Tencent (700 HK), Aia (1299 HK), Xiaomi (1810 HK).</li>
<li>In addition, we note that China Soft International started buyback activity last week. </li>
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We analyze statistics on top repurchases over one week, one month, one quarter and one year periods ended on Apr 15th based on HKEx daily reports.
In the past 7 days, the top 3 companies that repurchased the most shares from the market were Tencent (700 HK), Aia (1299 HK), Xiaomi (1810 HK).
In addition, we note that China Soft International started buyback activity last week. 


Hong Kong Buybacks: Tencent, AIA, and Xiaomi

China

Chinasoft International Limited develops and provides solutions in China to government authorities and its IT (Information Technology) service providers. The Company also provides IT consulting and training services, IT outsourcing services and standalone software products.

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Chinasoft International (354 HK)

China Software & IT Services – Year of rabbit: still about localization

While most companies are encouraged by China reopening and lifting of COVID restrictions, the pace of business recovery is likely to be slow.

CMB International

Chinasoft (354 HK) – Benefiting from localization trend with KaihongOS

We believe the key takeaways is that Chinasoft is benefiting from the localization trend in a broader sense, from KaihongOS, Kunpeng (ARM) cloud...

CMB International

China Software & IT Services – China IaaS + PaaS growth slowed further in 3Q22

China IaaS + PaaS market grew 30.7% YoY in 1H22, according to IDC data. However, this may have slowed to 10-20% YoY in 3Q22, reflected by China...

CMB International

China Software & IT Services – A mixed outlook for China cloud amid rising China-US tension

Structural changes in China cloud market. There are three structural changes in China cloud market since the internet sector crackdown in 2021.

CMB International

Hong Kong Buybacks: Tencent, AIA, and Xiaomi

We highlight the top 3 companies that repurchased the most shares from the Hong Kong market were Tencent (700 HK), Aia (1299 HK), Xiaomi (1810 HK).

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

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