Head of Research, IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Sumeet Singh

Head of Research, 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

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/giant-biogene-holding-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:35950:1" rel="noopener">Giant Biogene Holding (GBH HK)</a>  aims to raise around US$500m in its Hong Kong IPO.</li>
<li>GB is a leader in the bioactive ingredient-based professional skin treatment product industry in China.</li>
<li>We had looked at the company’s past performance in our previous notes. In this note, we’ll undertake a peer comparison.</li>
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Giant Biogene Holding (GBH HK)  aims to raise around US$500m in its Hong Kong IPO.
GB is a leader in the bioactive ingredient-based professional skin treatment product industry in China.
We had looked at the company’s past performance in our previous notes. In this note, we’ll undertake a peer comparison.


Giant Biogene Pre-IPO - Peer Comparison - Might Need to Spend a Lot More Online

HK/China Healthcare Analyst (ex-Fosun Pharma)

Xinyao (Criss) Wang

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<li>The strength about Giant Biogene is that the founders have R&amp;D background, which helps build trust. Meanwhile, the financial performance was good, with three years of consistent high margins.</li>
<li>The sustainability of high-profit model will face pressure due to increasing competition. The establishment of long-term core competitiveness and second growth point is important. Complex related-party transaction is another concern.</li>
<li>Giant Biogene is in an industry that has a large potential for future growth in valuation. Its valuation should be lower than that of Bloomage and Imeik.</li>
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The strength about Giant Biogene is that the founders have R&amp;D background, which helps build trust. Meanwhile, the financial performance was good, with three years of consistent high margins.
The sustainability of high-profit model will face pressure due to increasing competition. The establishment of long-term core competitiveness and second growth point is important. Complex related-party transaction is another concern.
Giant Biogene is in an industry that has a large potential for future growth in valuation. Its valuation should be lower than that of Bloomage and Imeik.


Pre-IPO Giant Biogene - The Strength and the Concerns

IPOs and Catalysts/Events, Global Equity Research Ltd

Arun George

IPOs and Catalysts/Events

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/giant-biogene-holding-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:35950:1" rel="noopener">Giant Biogene Holding (GBH HK)</a>, a leading professional skin care product manufacturer, has started pre-marketing a US$500 million HKEx IPO.  </li>
<li>In <em><strong><a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/giant-biogene-ipo-the-bull-case" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="insights:81963" rel="noopener">Giant Biogene IPO: The Bull Case</a></strong></em>, we highlighted the key elements of the bull case. In this note, we outline the bear case.  </li>
<li>The key elements of the bear case rest on a worrying performance of Collgene (the second flagship brand), an inexorable rise in S&amp;M expenses and margins on a downward trajectory.</li>
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Giant Biogene Holding (GBH HK), a leading professional skin care product manufacturer, has started pre-marketing a US$500 million HKEx IPO.  
In Giant Biogene IPO: The Bull Case, we highlighted the key elements of the bull case. In this note, we outline the bear case.  
The key elements of the bear case rest on a worrying performance of Collgene (the second flagship brand), an inexorable rise in S&amp;M expenses and margins on a downward trajectory.


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<li>
<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/giant-biogene-holding-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:35950:1" rel="noopener">Giant Biogene Holding (GBH HK)</a>, a leading professional skin care product manufacturer, has started pre-marketing a US$500 million HKEx IPO.  </li>
<li>According to Frost &amp; Sullivan, Biogene was China's second-largest professional skin treatment product company by retail sales in 2021.  </li>
<li>The key elements of the bull case rest on a large and growing addressable market, regulatory tailwinds, the core brand’s stellar performance and high cash generation. </li>
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Giant Biogene Holding (GBH HK), a leading professional skin care product manufacturer, has started pre-marketing a US$500 million HKEx IPO.  
According to Frost &amp; Sullivan, Biogene was China's second-largest professional skin treatment product company by retail sales in 2021.  
The key elements of the bull case rest on a large and growing addressable market, regulatory tailwinds, the core brand’s stellar performance and high cash generation. 


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

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<li>Nearing the end of the review period for the December rebalance of the CSI500 Index, we forecast 50 changes (the maximum permitted) at the close on 9 December.</li>
<li>There is a big sector skew in the potential changes. We estimate a one-way turnover of 13.67% at the December rebalance leading to a one-way trade of CNY 7.53bn.</li>
<li>The potential adds have outperformed over the last 6 months but have given up some of the gains recently as market turned volatile. Expect outperformance as the review period ends.</li>
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Nearing the end of the review period for the December rebalance of the CSI500 Index, we forecast 50 changes (the maximum permitted) at the close on 9 December.
There is a big sector skew in the potential changes. We estimate a one-way turnover of 13.67% at the December rebalance leading to a one-way trade of CNY 7.53bn.
The potential adds have outperformed over the last 6 months but have given up some of the gains recently as market turned volatile. Expect outperformance as the review period ends.


CSI500 Index Rebalance Preview: Positioned for Outperformance

China

Guangdong Marubi Biotechnology Co., Ltd. manufactures cosmetics products. The Company produces water creams, clean creams, masks, eye creams, and other products. Guangdong Marubi Biotechnology markets its products throughout China.

Guangdong Marubi Biotechnology (603983 CH)

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Guangdong Marubi Biotechnology (603983 CH)

Giant Biogene Pre-IPO - Peer Comparison - Might Need to Spend a Lot More Online

Giant Biogene Holding aims to raise around US$500m in its Hong Kong IPO. In this note, we will undertake a peer comparison.

Sumeet Singh

Pre-IPO Giant Biogene - The Strength and the Concerns

Giant Biogene is in an industry that has big potential for growth in valuation. How to build long-term system advantage/core competitiveness is an...

Xinyao (Criss) Wang

Giant Biogene IPO: The Bear Case

The key elements of the bear case rest on a worrying performance of Collgene (the second flagship brand), an inexorable rise in S&M expenses and...

Arun George

Giant Biogene IPO: The Bull Case

The key elements of the bull case rest on a large and growing addressable market, regulatory tailwinds, the core brand’s stellar performance and...

Arun George

CSI500 Index Rebalance Preview: Positioned for Outperformance

There could be 50 changes to the index in December. We estimate a one-way turnover of 13.67% at the December rebalance leading to a one-way trade...

Brian Freitas

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