Overseas Chinese Equities, Aequitas Research

Ming Lu

Overseas Chinese Equities

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 Bottom-Up

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<li>Great Wall revenue increased 19% YoY and net profit increased by 109% YoY in the first three quarters.</li>
<li>Seres revenue increased by 539% YoY in the first three quarters with sales volume up by 105% YoY.</li>
<li>JD cooperates with competitors, AliPay and Alibaba, in online payment and logistics.</li>
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Great Wall revenue increased 19% YoY and net profit increased by 109% YoY in the first three quarters.
Seres revenue increased by 539% YoY in the first three quarters with sales volume up by 105% YoY.
JD cooperates with competitors, AliPay and Alibaba, in online payment and logistics.


China Consumption Weekly (4 Oct 2024): Seres, Great Wall Motor, JD, Nongfu, Caocao, Hozon

Global Emerging Market Equities, Propitious Research

Wium Malan, CFA

Global Emerging Market Equities

Independent, Fundamental Quantitative Research

Propitious Research

Fully independent, fundamental and quantitative equity research, focused on companies in the Telecommunication, Media, Technology, Internet and Healthcare sectors in the Global Emerging Markets. Idea generation focused on Quality stocks, trading below their intrinsic Value, with sound Corporate Governance.

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<li>Despite a share price correction this month, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/jd-com-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:29043:1" rel="noopener">JD.com (9618 HK)</a> remains firmly amid an earnings upgrade cycle driven by improved profitability expectations.</li>
<li>Following significant share price volatility over the past 2 months, JD.com’s near-term momentum indicators currently display bullish signals.</li>
<li>JD.com still trades at more than one standard deviation below its 5-year historic average forward PE ratio, and near the lowest level it has ever been.</li>
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Despite a share price correction this month, JD.com (9618 HK) remains firmly amid an earnings upgrade cycle driven by improved profitability expectations.
Following significant share price volatility over the past 2 months, JD.com’s near-term momentum indicators currently display bullish signals.
JD.com still trades at more than one standard deviation below its 5-year historic average forward PE ratio, and near the lowest level it has ever been.


JD.com (9618-HK): Positive Technical Analysis Signals

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>The December rebalance for the HSIII Index only involves capping to limit stocks to 12% of the index weight. There will not be any constituent changes.</li>
<li>Estimated one-way turnover at the rebalance is 4.4% resulting in a round-trip trade of HK$2.9bn (US$378m).</li>
<li>The largest outflows are expected to be from <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/meituan" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:26970:1" rel="noopener">Meituan (3690 HK)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/jd-com-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:29043:1" rel="noopener">JD.com (9618 HK)</a> with inflows spread across the other index constituents.</li>
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The December rebalance for the HSIII Index only involves capping to limit stocks to 12% of the index weight. There will not be any constituent changes.
Estimated one-way turnover at the rebalance is 4.4% resulting in a round-trip trade of HK$2.9bn (US$378m).
The largest outflows are expected to be from Meituan (3690 HK) and JD.com (9618 HK) with inflows spread across the other index constituents.


Hang Seng Internet & IT Index (HSIII) Rebalance Preview: Capping Flows in December

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<li>On October 18, JD denies there is a run on JD Finance.</li>
<li>Many male users claimed they boycott JD for the invitation of Miss Yang, a talk show celebrity.</li>
<li>We believe the event will negatively impact JD and benefit Alibaba.</li>
</ul>


On October 18, JD denies there is a run on JD Finance.
Many male users claimed they boycott JD for the invitation of Miss Yang, a talk show celebrity.
We believe the event will negatively impact JD and benefit Alibaba.


JD.com (JD US): Boycotted by Male Users, Denies Run on JD Finance

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>We expect JD to deliver inline-with-Bloomberg consensus revenue growth and a better-than-expected non-GAAP net profit for 3Q24, aided by efficient cost control, and a YoY increase in revenue contribution from services revenue.</li><li>Amid improving consumption sentiment since September, and benefiting from the implementation of home appliance trade-in program nationwide, JD is marginally shifting its emphasis from ROI and cost control to more on GMV and revenue growth.</li><li>Post the recent market rally, quality and sustainable earnings growth of core business as well as enhancement of shareholder return remain key to driving further upside in JD’s stock price, in our view. </li></ul><p><em>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.</em></p>

We expect JD to deliver inline-with-Bloomberg consensus revenue growth and a better-than-expected non-GAAP net profit for 3Q24, aided by efficient cost control, and a YoY increase in revenue contribution from services revenue.Amid improving consumption sentiment since September, and benefiting from the implementation of home appliance trade-in program nationwide, JD is marginally shifting its emphasis from ROI and cost control to more on GMV and revenue growth.Post the recent market rally, quality and sustainable earnings growth of core business as well as enhancement of shareholder return remain key to driving further upside in JD’s stock price, in our view. 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.

JD.com (JD US) - Expecting Inline 3Q Revenue Growth with Upside Coming from Bottom Line

China

JD.com, Inc. is an online direct sales company in China. The Company offers a wide selection of products through its website and mobile applications. JD.com sells appliances, computers, digital products, communication products, garments, books, and household items to consumers and vendors.

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JD.com (9618 HK)

China Consumption Weekly (4 Oct 2024): Seres, Great Wall Motor, JD, Nongfu, Caocao, Hozon

Great Wall revenue increased 19% YoY in the first three quarters. Seres revenue increased by 539% YoY in the first three quarters with sales volume...

Ming Lu

JD.com (9618-HK): Positive Technical Analysis Signals

In this insight, we perform a technical analysis of JD.com by looking at earnings forecast revision trends, momentum indicators, and current...

Wium Malan, CFA

Hang Seng Internet & IT Index (HSIII) Rebalance Preview: Capping Flows in December

No constituent changes but there will be capping flows. Estimated one-way turnover at the rebalance is 4.4% resulting in a round-trip trade of...

Brian Freitas

JD.com (JD US): Boycotted by Male Users, Denies Run on JD Finance

JD denies there is a run on JD Finance. Many male users claimed they boycott JD for the invitation of Miss Yang, a talk show celebrity.

Ming Lu

JD.com (JD US) - Expecting Inline 3Q Revenue Growth with Upside Coming from Bottom Line

We expect JD to deliver inline-with-Bloomberg consensus revenue growth and a better-than-expected non-GAAP net profit for 3Q24, aided by efficient...

CMB International

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