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Eva Precision Industrial Holdings / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul>
 <li>Eva Precision is a vertically integrated manufacturing service provider with a strategic focus on the Automotive Components and Office Automation Equipment sectors, operating primarily in China, Vietnam, and Mexico.</li>
 <li>The company is demonstrating improving profitability, with consistent growth in revenue, net income, and margins over the past three years, complemented by a strong rebound in cash flow generation in the most recent fiscal year.</li>
 <li>While the company's valuation appears attractive based on key metrics, it faces risks from its exposure to cyclical end-markets, intense industry competition, and potential dependency on major clients.</li>
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  Eva Precision is a vertically integrated manufacturing service provider with a strategic focus on the Automotive Components and Office Automation Equipment sectors, operating primarily in China, Vietnam, and Mexico.
  The company is demonstrating improving profitability, with consistent growth in revenue, net income, and margins over the past three years, complemented by a strong rebound in cash flow generation in the most recent fiscal year.
  While the company's valuation appears attractive based on key metrics, it faces risks from its exposure to cyclical end-markets, intense industry competition, and potential dependency on major clients.
This content is AI-generated and displayed for general informational purposes only. Please verify independently before use.

Primer: Eva Precision Industrial Holdings (838 HK) - Oct 2025

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Sameer Taneja

Equity, Bottom-up Analyst

Investics Research

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<li>After rallying a fair bit at the beginning of 2023, we have seen sharp pullbacks in <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/eva-precision-industrial-holdings-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:17511:1" rel="noopener">Eva Precision Industrial Holdings (838 HK)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/china-meidong-auto-holdings-limited" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:10795:1" rel="noopener">China MeiDong Auto (1268 HK)</a> share prices.</li>
<li>We believe the price cuts highlighted by <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/profiles/victoria-li-37be10a4-61ab-4f2c-8657-201b7837050d" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="accounts:780" rel="noopener">Victoria Li</a> in her insight <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/china-auto-ice-price-war-triggered-by-dongfeng-jv-players-under-pressure" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="insights:97517" rel="noopener">China Auto: ICE Price War Triggered by Dongfeng, JV Players Under Pressure</a> are a significant cause. </li>
<li>While we like both stocks and they are cheap, we feel both companies will face short to medium-term pain in their businesses and share prices as the saga unfolds.</li>
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After rallying a fair bit at the beginning of 2023, we have seen sharp pullbacks in Eva Precision Industrial Holdings (838 HK) and China MeiDong Auto (1268 HK) share prices.
We believe the price cuts highlighted by Victoria Li in her insight China Auto: ICE Price War Triggered by Dongfeng, JV Players Under Pressure are a significant cause. 
While we like both stocks and they are cheap, we feel both companies will face short to medium-term pain in their businesses and share prices as the saga unfolds.


Thoughts On The Recent Pullbacks in Meidong and EVA

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.

<ul><li>Maintain BUY. We believe that EVA is well positioned for higher growth in revenue and profit in the next two years, aided by more higher-margin tier-1 business in both China and Mexico, new businesses including AI server control box components and robot assembly, as well as improving operational efficiency.</li><li>EVA’s current dividend yield is about 5.4%.</li><li>On track to tier-1 transformation. EVA’s auto component revenue rose 4% YoY to HK$1,955mn in FY24, with its tier-1 business making up about 40%. </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.

Maintain BUY. We believe that EVA is well positioned for higher growth in revenue and profit in the next two years, aided by more higher-margin tier-1 business in both China and Mexico, new businesses including AI server control box components and robot assembly, as well as improving operational efficiency.EVA’s current dividend yield is about 5.4%.On track to tier-1 transformation. EVA’s auto component revenue rose 4% YoY to HK$1,955mn in FY24, with its tier-1 business making up about 40%. 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.

EVA Holdings (838 HK) - Poised to Grow Faster in FY25-26E

<ul><li>Maintain BUY. We project EVA’s 2H24E revenue to rise 1% YoY and net profit to increase 2% YoY. We expect auto component revenue to grow faster in FY25E, as new business ramps up.</li><li>We also expect its office automation (OA) business to remain stable with slight increase in gross margin.</li><li>We estimate EVA’s net profit to rise 18% YoY to HK$289mn in FY25E.</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.

Maintain BUY. We project EVA’s 2H24E revenue to rise 1% YoY and net profit to increase 2% YoY. We expect auto component revenue to grow faster in FY25E, as new business ramps up.We also expect its office automation (OA) business to remain stable with slight increase in gross margin.We estimate EVA’s net profit to rise 18% YoY to HK$289mn in FY25E.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.

EVA Holdings (838 HK) - 2H24 Preview: Both Revenue, NP Stable HoH

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<ul><li>China’s passenger-vehicle (PV) retail sales volume fell 1% YoY in first four months of 2023, 2% higher than our forecast made in Dec 2022.</li><li>Wholesale volume also rose 7% YoY YTD, 3% higher than our prior forecast, largely due to doubled PV exports in the first four months of 2023.</li><li>Automakers in China started to cut inventories in Apr 2023, as we had expected.</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’s passenger-vehicle (PV) retail sales volume fell 1% YoY in first four months of 2023, 2% higher than our forecast made in Dec 2022.Wholesale volume also rose 7% YoY YTD, 3% higher than our prior forecast, largely due to doubled PV exports in the first four months of 2023.Automakers in China started to cut inventories in Apr 2023, as we had expected.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 Auto Sector – Mixed picture ahead as inventory risk lingers

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EVA Precision Industrial Holdings Limited, through its subsidiaries, designs and fabricates metal stamping moulds, manufactures metal stamping components, and provides assembly services in the Peoples Republic of China.

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Eva Precision Industrial Holdings (838 HK)

Primer: Eva Precision Industrial Holdings (838 HK) - Oct 2025

Eva Precision is a vertically integrated manufacturing service provider with a strategic focus on the Automotive Components and Office...

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Thoughts On The Recent Pullbacks in Meidong and EVA

Price cuts in the China auto sector are forcing downgrades and share prices to retrace. We understand there will be short/medium-term pain but EVA...

Sameer Taneja

EVA Holdings (838 HK) - Poised to Grow Faster in FY25-26E

Maintain BUY. We believe that EVA is well positioned for higher growth in revenue and profit in the next two years, aided by more higher-margin...

CMB International

EVA Holdings (838 HK) - 2H24 Preview: Both Revenue, NP Stable HoH

Maintain BUY. We project EVA’s 2H24E revenue to rise 1% YoY and net profit to increase 2% YoY. We expect auto component revenue to grow faster in...

CMB International

China Auto Sector – Mixed picture ahead as inventory risk lingers

China’s passenger-vehicle (PV) retail sales volume fell 1% YoY in first four months of 2023, 2% higher than our forecast made in Dec 2022.

CMB International

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