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>Revenues of major express parcel companies grew rapidly in August.</li>
<li>JD logistics will provide logistics service to live streaming retailers on Douyin.</li>
<li>In 2Q22, revenue of Trip.com decreased by 32% YoY and operating profit turned negative.</li>
</ul>


Revenues of major express parcel companies grew rapidly in August.
JD logistics will provide logistics service to live streaming retailers on Douyin.
In 2Q22, revenue of Trip.com decreased by 32% YoY and operating profit turned negative.


China Internet Weekly (26Sep2022): S.F., STO, YTO, Yunda, JD Logistics, Alibaba, Baidu, Trip.com

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 September rebalance of the HSI, HSCEI and HSTECH indices will use today's closing prices to cap the index constituents at 8%. This will lead to large flows.</li>
<li>The largest inflows will be on <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/baidu-inc-a55ca720-5968-48f0-8194-ac94390d065c" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:32212:1" rel="noopener">Baidu (9888 HK)</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/sensetime-group-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:34319:1" rel="noopener">SenseTime Group (20 HK)</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/china-shenhua-energy-co-h" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:382:1" rel="noopener">China Shenhua Energy (1088 HK)</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/tencent-holdings-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:26:1" rel="noopener">Tencent (700 HK)</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/beijing-kuaishou-technology-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:29725:1" rel="noopener">Kuaishou Technology (1024 HK)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/anta-sports-products-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:10261:1" rel="noopener">Anta Sports (2020 HK)</a>.</li>
<li>The largest outflows will be on <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/meituan-dianping" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:26970:1" rel="noopener">Meituan (3690 HK)</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/aia-group-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:14895:1" rel="noopener">AIA Group (1299 HK)</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/sunny-optical-tech" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:13363:1" rel="noopener">Sunny Optical (2382 HK)</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/semiconductor-manufacturing-international-corp-smic" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:14231:1" rel="noopener">SMIC (981 HK)</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/china-pacific-insurance-group" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:6177:1" rel="noopener">China Pacific Insurance (2601 HK)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/china-construction-bank-h" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:45:1" rel="noopener">China Construction Bank (939)</a>.</li>
</ul>


The September rebalance of the HSI, HSCEI and HSTECH indices will use today's closing prices to cap the index constituents at 8%. This will lead to large flows.
The largest inflows will be on Baidu (9888 HK), SenseTime Group (20 HK), China Shenhua Energy (1088 HK), Tencent (700 HK), Kuaishou Technology (1024 HK) and Anta Sports (2020 HK).
The largest outflows will be on Meituan (3690 HK), AIA Group (1299 HK), Sunny Optical (2382 HK), SMIC (981 HK), China Pacific Insurance (2601 HK) and China Construction Bank (939).


HSI, HSCEI, HSTECH: September Rebalance Flows Post Capping

<ul>
<li>Revenue grew by 20% YoY in 2Q22 with supply chain revenue up by 11% YoY and other revenue up by 42% YoY.</li>
<li>The company was not impacted by lockdown, because the main business is to provide solution to delivery companies.</li>
<li>We still believe the stock will has an upside of 39% after the surge on the day next to the result day.</li>
</ul>


Revenue grew by 20% YoY in 2Q22 with supply chain revenue up by 11% YoY and other revenue up by 42% YoY.
The company was not impacted by lockdown, because the main business is to provide solution to delivery companies.
We still believe the stock will has an upside of 39% after the surge on the day next to the result day.


JD Logistics (2618 HK): Surged After 2Q22 Result, Still an Upside of 39%

<ul>
<li>Tencent and Huawei launched beta tests for car-hailing platform almost simultaneously.</li>
<li>Alibaba begins to disconnect Ant Group to avoid implicating each other.</li>
<li>Missfresh dismissed almost all employees in its headquarters in Beijing.</li>
</ul>


Tencent and Huawei launched beta tests for car-hailing platform almost simultaneously.
Alibaba begins to disconnect Ant Group to avoid implicating each other.
Missfresh dismissed almost all employees in its headquarters in Beijing.


China Internet Weekly (1Aug2022): Tencent, Alibaba, Meituan, JD Logistics, MissFresh

Index Rebalance

<ul>
<li>Currently at 69 constituents, it is unlikely that we reach 80 member by year end. Hang Seng Indexes is finding it tough to reach the target by excluding unprofitable companies.</li>
<li>We list 11 stocks that could be added to the index in September - with one-way turnover just over 5%, the actual number of inclusions will be lower.</li>
<li>There are a few potential inclusions where short interest is over 5% of the free float. These stocks could see short covering ahead of announcement of the changes.</li>
</ul>


Currently at 69 constituents, it is unlikely that we reach 80 member by year end. Hang Seng Indexes is finding it tough to reach the target by excluding unprofitable companies.
We list 11 stocks that could be added to the index in September - with one-way turnover just over 5%, the actual number of inclusions will be lower.
There are a few potential inclusions where short interest is over 5% of the free float. These stocks could see short covering ahead of announcement of the changes.


HSI Index Rebalance Preview: Finding the Balance

China

JD Logistics, Inc. offers logistics services. The Company provides cargo transportation, cargo distribution, warehousing, and other services. JD Logistics is located in China.

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JD Logistics (2618 HK)

China Internet Weekly (26Sep2022): S.F., STO, YTO, Yunda, JD Logistics, Alibaba, Baidu, Trip.com

Revenues of major express parcel companies grew rapidly in August. JD logistics will provide logistics service to Douyin. In 2Q22, Trip.com's...

Ming Lu

HSI, HSCEI, HSTECH: September Rebalance Flows Post Capping

The September rebalance of the HSI, HSCEI, HSTECH indices will use todays close prices for capping. The one-way trade across all stocks across the...

Brian Freitas