Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China biotech, Aequitas Research

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China biotech

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.

Quantitative Analysis

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<li>We analyze the monthly Hong Kong Connect flows with our data engine.</li>
<li>We tabulate the top stocks by inflows, outlfows, and holding by mainland investors.</li>
<li>We highlight flows of China Mobile, BYD, Simcere, ICBC, CNOOC, Meituan, Geely, CCB, Country Garden Services, Anta. </li>
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We analyze the monthly Hong Kong Connect flows with our data engine.
We tabulate the top stocks by inflows, outlfows, and holding by mainland investors.
We highlight flows of China Mobile, BYD, Simcere, ICBC, CNOOC, Meituan, Geely, CCB, Country Garden Services, Anta. 


Hong Kong Connect Flows Monthly: Health Care Led Inflows in Jan

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<li>We analyzed the latest HK SFC report for aggregate short position as of Jan 20th.</li>
<li>Top short increases and decreases were tabulated for one week and four week period. </li>
<li>We highlight short changes in Cm Bank, Baba, Wuxi Apptec.</li>
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We analyzed the latest HK SFC report for aggregate short position as of Jan 20th.
Top short increases and decreases were tabulated for one week and four week period. 
We highlight short changes in Cm Bank, Baba, Wuxi Apptec.


HK Short Interest Weekly: CMB, Baba, Wuxi Apptec

APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Ethan Aw

APAC IPOs & Placements

Equity Capital Markets

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<li>In this note, we will take a look at the performance of bookrunners for Korean placements from 2019-2022. </li>
<li>The following dataset includes all Korean placements above US$100m for the period of Calendar Years 2019-2022, which amounted to a total of 29 deals.</li>
<li>The deals you see in this note are based on our historical placements tracker. Feel free to drop us a message for additional information on any of these placements.</li>
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In this note, we will take a look at the performance of bookrunners for Korean placements from 2019-2022. 
The following dataset includes all Korean placements above US$100m for the period of Calendar Years 2019-2022, which amounted to a total of 29 deals.
The deals you see in this note are based on our historical placements tracker. Feel free to drop us a message for additional information on any of these placements.


Aequitas Korea Placements Bookrunner Performance (2019-2022)

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

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>We expect online gaming has a better performance: 1) improved content supply and 2) strong user demand for social interactions in top games like Tencent’s HOK and NetEase’s Egg Party.</li>
<li>We suggest that eCommerce and advertising have relatively weak performances in January because offline consumption enjoyed faster rebound and attracted users away from online platforms.</li>
<li>We are more positive about Tencent in C1Q23, and we expect that major ads platforms like Kuaishou, Baidu, Bili, iQIYI, and Weibo will have the fastest YoY growth in C2Q23.</li>
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We expect online gaming has a better performance: 1) improved content supply and 2) strong user demand for social interactions in top games like Tencent’s HOK and NetEase’s Egg Party.
We suggest that eCommerce and advertising have relatively weak performances in January because offline consumption enjoyed faster rebound and attracted users away from online platforms.
We are more positive about Tencent in C1Q23, and we expect that major ads platforms like Kuaishou, Baidu, Bili, iQIYI, and Weibo will have the fastest YoY growth in C2Q23.


China Internet CNY Holiday Update: Gaming Performed Better than Ads and ECom

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.

Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>We expect Kuaishou to deliver resilient 4Q22E, with upbeat ads &amp; livestreaming and better margin (overseas narrowing loss to offset lower GPM and higher S&amp;M).</li><li>Rising COVID cases after China reopening dampened ecommerce take rate (on higher returns with logistics disruptions), but GMV trend remained intact (also supporting internal ads performance).</li><li>Looking ahead, we see high visibility for KS to embrace ads recovery from 2Q23E, and group breakeven is in sight. </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.

We expect Kuaishou to deliver resilient 4Q22E, with upbeat ads &amp; livestreaming and better margin (overseas narrowing loss to offset lower GPM and higher S&amp;M).Rising COVID cases after China reopening dampened ecommerce take rate (on higher returns with logistics disruptions), but GMV trend remained intact (also supporting internal ads performance).Looking ahead, we see high visibility for KS to embrace ads recovery from 2Q23E, and group breakeven is in sight. 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.

Kuaishou (1024 HK) – Solid 4Q22E with better margin outlook

China

Kuaishou Technology operates as a content community and social platform. The Company helps users create, upload and watch short videos on mobile devices. Kuaishou Technology offers services worldwide.

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Hong Kong Connect Flows Monthly: Health Care Led Inflows in Jan

We analyzed the Hong Kong Connect Scheme for January and highlight flows for China Mobile, BYD, Simcere, ICBC, CNOOC, Meituan, Geely, CCB, Country...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

HK Short Interest Weekly: CMB, Baba, Wuxi Apptec

We analyzed the latest HK SFC report for aggregate short position as of Jan 20th and highlight short interest changes in CMB, Baba, Wuxi Apptec.

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Aequitas Korea Placements Bookrunner Performance (2019-2022)

In this note, we will take a look at the performance of bookrunners for Korean placements from 2019-2022, which includes all Korean placements...

Ethan Aw

China Internet CNY Holiday Update: Gaming Performed Better than Ads and ECom

Our recent channel check indicates that online gaming has a better performance than online ads and eCommerce during the Chinese New Year holiday....

Blue Lotus Research Institute

Kuaishou (1024 HK) – Solid 4Q22E with better margin outlook

We expect Kuaishou to deliver resilient 4Q22E, with upbeat ads & livestreaming and better margin (overseas narrowing loss to offset lower GPM and...

CMB International

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