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

National Stock Exchange of India / Equity Capital Markets

National Stock Exchange of India (NSE IN)

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/national-stock-exchange" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:23751:1" rel="noopener">National Stock Exchange (NSEIN IN)</a> is looking to raise about US$2.4bn in its upcoming India IPO.</li>
<li>NSE operates electronic platforms for trading equities, derivatives, currencies, and debt securities, also earning revenue from clearing and settlement services, market data, index licensing, listing fees, connectivity, and technology services.</li>
<li>We have looked at the company’s past performance in our previous note. In this note, we will talk about valuations.</li>
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National Stock Exchange (NSEIN IN) is looking to raise about US$2.4bn in its upcoming India IPO.
NSE operates electronic platforms for trading equities, derivatives, currencies, and debt securities, also earning revenue from clearing and settlement services, market data, index licensing, listing fees, connectivity, and technology services.
We have looked at the company’s past performance in our previous note. In this note, we will talk about valuations.


Aequitas: NSE IPO - Digestible Valuation, Given Its Dominance

External broker reports(aggregated public sources), Axis Direct

Axis Direct

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Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul><li>Axis Top Picks Basket delivered excellent returns of 12% in the last year against an 8.2% return posted by Nifty 50 over the same period, beating the benchmark by a wide margin of 3.8%.</li><li>The previous four months were highly volatile for the market, and a notable mixed performance was seen across sectors, market caps, and style indices.</li><li>The Axis Top Picks basket declined by 6.5% in the last three months, led by volatility, while the Nifty 50 was down by 3.4% during the same period. </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.

Axis Top Picks Basket delivered excellent returns of 12% in the last year against an 8.2% return posted by Nifty 50 over the same period, beating the benchmark by a wide margin of 3.8%.The previous four months were highly volatile for the market, and a notable mixed performance was seen across sectors, market caps, and style indices.The Axis Top Picks basket declined by 6.5% in the last three months, led by volatility, while the Nifty 50 was down by 3.4% during the same period. 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.

Axis Top Picks for the month of February 2025

<ul><li>Axis Top Picks: We are proud to share that our Axis Top Picks basket delivered impressive returns of 47% over the last one year, beating the benchmark Nifty 50 index (25.1% return over the same period) by a wide margin.</li><li>A few picks that reported excellent returns included Cholamandalam Investment &amp; Finance Company (14.7%), Varun Beverages (14.2%), J.Kumar Infraprojects (9.9%), Federal Bank (9.4%) and TVS Motor Company (8.5%). </li><li>Pick of the Week (PoW): POW calls delivered an astounding monthly strike rate of 85% in Jun’24.</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.

Axis Top Picks: We are proud to share that our Axis Top Picks basket delivered impressive returns of 47% over the last one year, beating the benchmark Nifty 50 index (25.1% return over the same period) by a wide margin.A few picks that reported excellent returns included Cholamandalam Investment &amp; Finance Company (14.7%), Varun Beverages (14.2%), J.Kumar Infraprojects (9.9%), Federal Bank (9.4%) and TVS Motor Company (8.5%). Pick of the Week (PoW): POW calls delivered an astounding monthly strike rate of 85% in Jun’24.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.

Axis Research Scorecard Report for June 2024

Product Marketing Manager, Criat

Raghav Chandra Mathur

Product Marketing Manager

Next-Generation Credit Analytics Provider

Criat

Criat specializes in new-generation data-driven credit analytics. Leveraging our industry-leading DeepCredit analytical technologies, we produce daily-updated forward-looking credit assessment and valuation to help financial institutions stay ahead of risks. Coupled with use-case-driven applications, we extract insights, answer questions and enable smarter credit decisions.

<ul><li>Indian credit markets have been growing rapidly, with banks and non-bank financial institutions increasingly lending and servicing retail clients to meet the growing demand for retail loans from a population that has recovered strongly post Covid-19 pandemic.</li><li>Indian financial institutions are filling the retail financing gap so fast that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), India’s central bank, has had to introduce new regulation to maintain financial stability in the Indian banking system. However, improvement in underlying fundamentals and roaring capital markets are driving large increases in bank balance sheets and valuations respectively.</li><li>Criat’s Credit Cycle Index (Criat CCI) for Indian banks has steadily improved more than 15bps since the middle of 2023, as the NIFTY Bank index reached new highs of INR 49,000.</li></ul>

Indian credit markets have been growing rapidly, with banks and non-bank financial institutions increasingly lending and servicing retail clients to meet the growing demand for retail loans from a population that has recovered strongly post Covid-19 pandemic.Indian financial institutions are filling the retail financing gap so fast that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), India’s central bank, has had to introduce new regulation to maintain financial stability in the Indian banking system. However, improvement in underlying fundamentals and roaring capital markets are driving large increases in bank balance sheets and valuations respectively.Criat’s Credit Cycle Index (Criat CCI) for Indian banks has steadily improved more than 15bps since the middle of 2023, as the NIFTY Bank index reached new highs of INR 49,000.

Rampant Credit Growth Drives Recovery in Indian Banks Despite Lagging Deposit Growth

Research and consultancy, Tabbush Report

Daniel Tabbush

Research and consultancy

Tabbush Report

We provide research and consultancy on Asian banks. Our focus is on what we call “Asian bank research, without the noise.” We are interested in the most critical swing-factors for banks, the NPL and credit cycle, and where we believe there is a gap between perception and reality. We often focus on the less studied components of bank financial statements.  Our research is highly thematic, sometimes examining unlisted banks and companies as a window on mainstream banks. 

Being independent allows us to look at smaller banks, often overlooked by others. Analysis of BIS bank guidelines in the context of Asia, is also a focal point, while we also analyze global banks operating in the region. We use what we believe is the most comprehensive, reliable financials database, SNL Financial. S&P Capital IQ augments our database, with corporate data and CEIC, with economics. 

Asian bank research, without the noise.

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<li>New HDFC Bank appears to have far better returns and credit metrics that large Asian peers</li>
<li>Pro-Forma amalgamation puts HDFC Bank as 2nd largest bank in Asia Pacific in market cap </li>
<li>Comparably large banks in Asia are concentrated in China, where credit metrics are opaque</li>
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New HDFC Bank appears to have far better returns and credit metrics that large Asian peers
Pro-Forma amalgamation puts HDFC Bank as 2nd largest bank in Asia Pacific in market cap 
Comparably large banks in Asia are concentrated in China, where credit metrics are opaque


HDFC Bank - Ranks 2nd After Merger Compared With Asia Pacific Banks

India

Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC) was an Indian private-sector mortgage lender, widely recognized as the largest housing finance company in India, offering long-term home loans to individuals and corporations for housing purposes. It also provided construction finance to housing development businesses. The company had diversified interests through its associate and subsidiary companies in banking, life and general insurance, asset management, venture capital, and deposit services. HDFC was incorporated in 1977 and headquartered in Mumbai, India. On July 1, 2023, HDFC merged with HDFC Bank, its subsidiary.

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Aequitas: NSE IPO - Digestible Valuation, Given Its Dominance

National Stock Exchange (NSEIN IN) is looking to raise about US$2.4bn in its upcoming India IPO. In this note, we talk about valuations.

Sumeet Singh

Axis Top Picks for the month of February 2025

Axis Top Picks Basket delivered excellent returns of 12% in the last year against an 8.2% return posted by Nifty 50 over the same period, beating...

Axis Direct

Axis Research Scorecard Report for June 2024

We are proud to share that our Axis Top Picks basket delivered impressive returns of 47% over the last one year, beating the benchmark Nifty 50...

Axis Direct

Rampant Credit Growth Drives Recovery in Indian Banks Despite Lagging Deposit Growth

Indian credit markets have been growing rapidly, with banks and non-bank financial institutions increasingly lending and servicing retail clients...

Criat

HDFC Bank - Ranks 2nd After Merger Compared With Asia Pacific Banks

The merger is now done, and this is more relevant, highlighting now large HDFC Bank is now in Asia Pacific, not only in India.

Daniel Tabbush

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