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.

Event-Driven

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<li>Multiple new agencies have been reporting that <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/tencent-holdings-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:26:1" rel="noopener">Tencent (700 HK)</a> plans to trim its investment portfolio over the remainder of the year. </li>
<li>The reports have been coming in since the second half of the year and the company has been duly denying these rumors.</li>
<li>In this note, we look at Tencent’s shareholding in various companies to try and gauge which ones it could sell out of and how.</li>
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Multiple new agencies have been reporting that Tencent (700 HK) plans to trim its investment portfolio over the remainder of the year. 
The reports have been coming in since the second half of the year and the company has been duly denying these rumors.
In this note, we look at Tencent’s shareholding in various companies to try and gauge which ones it could sell out of and how.


Tencent Investee Selldown - The US$120bn Global Overhang

Overseas Chinese Equities, Aequitas Research

Ming Lu

Overseas Chinese Equities

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>The stock price has fallen below the first trading day after IPO.</li>
<li>The new property policy looks harsh but not fatal.</li>
<li>Most municipal governments use price cap, but it is easily bypassed.</li>
<li>The policy aims at existing home transaction, but not new home sales or home rental.</li>
<li>It is ironic that Anjuke, which is significantly larger than BEKE, criticized BEKE for monopoly.</li>
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The stock price has fallen below the first trading day after IPO.
The new property policy looks harsh but not fatal.
Most municipal governments use price cap, but it is easily bypassed.
The policy aims at existing home transaction, but not new home sales or home rental.
It is ironic that Anjuke, which is significantly larger than BEKE, criticized BEKE for monopoly.


KE (BEKE): New Policy Not Fatal at All, Time to Accumulate

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>According to Beijing Daily, Beijing Lianjia has lowered commission rate for existing home transactions (EHT) in Beijing, from previous nominal rate of 2.7% to 2.0%, and will start to charge 1.0% each on both home sellers and buyers, instead of only from the buyer side.</li><li>In the prudent scenario, we estimate a 1.5/6.3% negative impact on Ke Holdings (Beike)’s group-level contribution profit (CP) in 2023/2024E.</li><li>However, we expect limited long-term impact on Beike’s earnings from the adjustment of commission rate, as: 1) current commission rate for EHT in Beijing could be lower than 2.7%; 2) Lianjia in cities other than Beijing may have limited room to cut rates given actual rates could be lower than 2%. Maintain BUY with SOTP-based TP unchanged at US$24.5.</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>

According to Beijing Daily, Beijing Lianjia has lowered commission rate for existing home transactions (EHT) in Beijing, from previous nominal rate of 2.7% to 2.0%, and will start to charge 1.0% each on both home sellers and buyers, instead of only from the buyer side.In the prudent scenario, we estimate a 1.5/6.3% negative impact on Ke Holdings (Beike)’s group-level contribution profit (CP) in 2023/2024E.However, we expect limited long-term impact on Beike’s earnings from the adjustment of commission rate, as: 1) current commission rate for EHT in Beijing could be lower than 2.7%; 2) Lianjia in cities other than Beijing may have limited room to cut rates given actual rates could be lower than 2%. Maintain BUY with SOTP-based TP unchanged at US$24.5.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.

China/Asia TMT

Shawn Yang

China growth and global non-US Internet equities

Blue Lotus Research Institute

Blue Lotus Research is a Hong Kong Type 4 Licensed investment advisory firm focusing on Chinese growth equities and global non-US Internet equities

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<li>We think the mild recovery is driven by the delayed orders in Jul. and Aug, thus expect transaction volume to be flattish MoM in Sep.</li>
<li>We think the recovery is on-track and expect Oct. volume to begin recovery and expect more meaningful rebound in Mar.-Apr. 2024, supported by 1) strong leading indicators from property agents, </li>
<li>2) refer to the recover trajectory in 2014-2015.  We maintain the stock as BUY rating and maintain TP at US$24/ADS.</li>
</ul>


We think the mild recovery is driven by the delayed orders in Jul. and Aug, thus expect transaction volume to be flattish MoM in Sep.
We think the recovery is on-track and expect Oct. volume to begin recovery and expect more meaningful rebound in Mar.-Apr. 2024, supported by 1) strong leading indicators from property agents, 
2) refer to the recover trajectory in 2014-2015.  We maintain the stock as BUY rating and maintain TP at US$24/ADS.


[KE Holdings (BEKE US, BUY, TP US$24) Update]: Our View of Gradual Property Recovery into 2024

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<li>KE Holdings (Beike) reported 2Q23 GTV 5.6% lower than our estimate, revenue (2.6%)/0.4% vs. our estimate/consensus, and non-GAAP NI 21.8%/42.9% higher than our estimate/consensus. </li>
<li>We think 3Q23 is the trough and expect a rebound in 4Q23 as more substantial supportive policies laying out in China. </li>
<li>We maintain the stock as BUY rating and raised TP by US$2 to US$24/ADS</li>
</ul>


KE Holdings (Beike) reported 2Q23 GTV 5.6% lower than our estimate, revenue (2.6%)/0.4% vs. our estimate/consensus, and non-GAAP NI 21.8%/42.9% higher than our estimate/consensus. 
We think 3Q23 is the trough and expect a rebound in 4Q23 as more substantial supportive policies laying out in China. 
We maintain the stock as BUY rating and raised TP by US$2 to US$24/ADS


[KE (BEKE US, BUY, TP US$24) TP Change]: Silver Lining Appear in Industry Cycle, Maintain BUY

China

KE Holdings Inc. operates as an integrated online and offline platform for housing transactions and services. The Company offers existing and new home sales, home rentals, home renovation, real estate financial solutions, and other services. KE Holdings conducts businesses in China.

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