APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Ethan Aw

APAC IPOs & Placements

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.

Equity Capital Markets

Jana Small Finance Bank / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/jana-small-finance-bank" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:40026:1" rel="noopener">Jana Small Finance Bank (3667144Z IN)</a> is looking to raise up to US$100m in its upcoming India IPO. The deal will be run by Axis Capital, ICICI-Sec and SBI Capital.</li>
<li>Jana Small Finance Bank (JSFB) is the fourth largest small finance bank in India in terms of AUM and deposit size as of FY23 (Year ended 31st Mar 2023). </li>
<li>The firm has served nearly 12m customers since 2008, including 4.57m active customers as of FY23.</li>
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Jana Small Finance Bank (3667144Z IN) is looking to raise up to US$100m in its upcoming India IPO. The deal will be run by Axis Capital, ICICI-Sec and SBI Capital.
Jana Small Finance Bank (JSFB) is the fourth largest small finance bank in India in terms of AUM and deposit size as of FY23 (Year ended 31st Mar 2023). 
The firm has served nearly 12m customers since 2008, including 4.57m active customers as of FY23.


Jana Small Finance Bank Pre-IPO Tearsheet

India Shelter Finance / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/india-shelter-finance" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:40025:1" rel="noopener">India Shelter Finance (0570670D IN)</a> is looking to raise up to US$217m in its upcoming India IPO. The deal will be run by Ambit, Citigroup, ICICI Securities and Kotak Mahindra.</li>
<li>India Shelter Finance (ISF) is a retail focused affordable housing finance company. Between FY21-23, the firm registered a two-year CAGR growth of 40.8% in terms of AUM, according to CRISIL. </li>
<li>Its target segment comprises self-employed customers, focusing on first time home loan takers in the low and middle income group in Tier II and Tier III cities in India. </li>
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India Shelter Finance (0570670D IN) is looking to raise up to US$217m in its upcoming India IPO. The deal will be run by Ambit, Citigroup, ICICI Securities and Kotak Mahindra.
India Shelter Finance (ISF) is a retail focused affordable housing finance company. Between FY21-23, the firm registered a two-year CAGR growth of 40.8% in terms of AUM, according to CRISIL. 
Its target segment comprises self-employed customers, focusing on first time home loan takers in the low and middle income group in Tier II and Tier III cities in India. 


Head of Research, IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Sumeet Singh

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/bikaji-foods-international-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:36502:1" rel="noopener">Bikaji Foods (BIKAJI IN)</a>, an ethnic snacks company, raised approximately US$107m in its India IPO. The stock was listed on 16th Nov 2022, its six-month lockup will expire soon.</li>
<li>Bikaji was the third largest ethnic snacks company in India and the second fastest growing company in the Indian organized snacks market in FY22, as per Frost &amp; Sullivan (F&amp;S).</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the lock-up dynamics and updates since our last note.</li>
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Bikaji Foods (BIKAJI IN), an ethnic snacks company, raised approximately US$107m in its India IPO. The stock was listed on 16th Nov 2022, its six-month lockup will expire soon.
Bikaji was the third largest ethnic snacks company in India and the second fastest growing company in the Indian organized snacks market in FY22, as per Frost &amp; Sullivan (F&amp;S).
In this note, we will talk about the lock-up dynamics and updates since our last note.


Bikaji Foods IPO Lock-Up - Small Expiry with a Chance to Lift the Overhang

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

Event-Driven

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<li>Near the end of the review period, we see 7 stocks moving from MidCap to LargeCap, 6 from LargeCap to MidCap, 8 from SmallCap to MidCap and vice versa.</li>
<li>One spin-off should be added to the MidCap segment, while a bunch of recent listings will be added to the SmallCap segment.</li>
<li>Stock migrating upwards have outperformed stocks migrating downwards and we expect there could be some mean reversion from the middle of January.</li>
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Near the end of the review period, we see 7 stocks moving from MidCap to LargeCap, 6 from LargeCap to MidCap, 8 from SmallCap to MidCap and vice versa.
One spin-off should be added to the MidCap segment, while a bunch of recent listings will be added to the SmallCap segment.
Stock migrating upwards have outperformed stocks migrating downwards and we expect there could be some mean reversion from the middle of January.


AMFI Stock Reclassification Preview (Dec 2022): A Bunch of Migrations

Growatt Technology / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/growatt-new-energy-technology" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:36103:1" rel="noopener">Growatt Technology (1833969D CH)</a> is looking to raise about US$1bn in its upcoming Hong Kong IPO. </li>
<li>Growatt Technology is a global distributed energy solution provider, specializing in sustainable energy generation, storage and consumption, as well as energy digitalization. </li>
<li>In our previous notes, we looked at various aspects of the company’s performance. In this note, we’ll provide our updated thoughts on the company’s valuation. </li>
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Growatt Technology (1833969D CH) is looking to raise about US$1bn in its upcoming Hong Kong IPO. 
Growatt Technology is a global distributed energy solution provider, specializing in sustainable energy generation, storage and consumption, as well as energy digitalization. 
In our previous notes, we looked at various aspects of the company’s performance. In this note, we’ll provide our updated thoughts on the company’s valuation. 


Growatt Technology Pre-IPO - Still Looks Good, Updated Thoughts on Valuation

India

Fusion Micro Finance Limited operates as a non-banking financial company. The Company provides financial services to women entrepreneurs. Fusion Micro Finance serves customers in India.

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Jana Small Finance Bank Pre-IPO Tearsheet

Jana Small Finance Bank (3667144Z IN) is looking to raise up to US$100m in its upcoming India IPO. The deal will be run by Axis Capital, ICICI-Sec...

Ethan Aw

India Shelter Finance Pre-IPO Tearsheet

India Shelter Finance (0570670D IN) is looking to raise up to US$217m in its upcoming India IPO. The deal will be run by Ambit, Citigroup, ICICI...

Ethan Aw

Bikaji Foods IPO Lock-Up - Small Expiry with a Chance to Lift the Overhang

Bikaji Foods (BIKAJI IN), an ethnic snacks company, raised approximately US$107m in its India IPO. The stock was listed on 16th Nov 2022, its six...

Sumeet Singh

AMFI Stock Reclassification Preview (Dec 2022): A Bunch of Migrations

Near the end of the review period, we see 7 stocks moving from MidCap to LargeCap, 6 from LargeCap to MidCap, 8 from SmallCap to MidCap and vice...

Brian Freitas

Growatt Technology Pre-IPO - Still Looks Good, Updated Thoughts on Valuation

Growatt Technology (1833969D CH) is looking to raise about US$1bn in its upcoming Hong Kong IPO. In this note, we’ll provide our updated thoughts...

Ethan Aw

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