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.

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<li>WCP aims to raise around US$690m via selling a mix of primary and secondary shares in its Korean IPO.</li>
<li>WCP designs, manufactures, and sells separators, which are one of the four core materials for secondary Lithium-ion batteries</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the positive aspects of the deal.</li>
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WCP aims to raise around US$690m via selling a mix of primary and secondary shares in its Korean IPO.
WCP designs, manufactures, and sells separators, which are one of the four core materials for secondary Lithium-ion batteries
In this note, we will talk about the positive aspects of the deal.


WCP IPO - The Positives - Past Sales Have Been Very Strong

Korea / Special Situations, Clepsydra Capital

Sanghyun Park

Korea / Special Situations

Korea / Special Sits, Pairs, Index Rebalancing

Clepsydra Capital

Investigate special situations, pairs, and index rebalancing trades in Korea.

Event-Driven

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<li>The price diversion between LG Chem and LG Energy has deepened considerably over the past two days. The sigma is currently -2.35. It is virtually the most extreme level year-to-date.</li>
<li>LG Energy's immediate-term overhang risk will likely offset the upcoming passive inflow event. In addition, the intensity of their price cointegration has not been weakened in recent months.</li>
<li>Therefore, we should consider setting up reversion trading from this point on, aimed at the lockup release on July 27.</li>
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The price diversion between LG Chem and LG Energy has deepened considerably over the past two days. The sigma is currently -2.35. It is virtually the most extreme level year-to-date.
LG Energy's immediate-term overhang risk will likely offset the upcoming passive inflow event. In addition, the intensity of their price cointegration has not been weakened in recent months.
Therefore, we should consider setting up reversion trading from this point on, aimed at the lockup release on July 27.


Reversion Trading on a Massive Price Diversion of LG Chem & LG Energy Solution

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<li>Tianqi Lithium (TL) raised around US$2bn via its H-shares listing. It undertakes mining of lithium ore and manufacturing of lithium concentrate, lithium compounds and derivatives.</li>
<li>TL was the largest producer of mined lithium globally in terms of output in 2020 and ranked third in terms of revenue generated from lithium in 2020.</li>
<li>In this note, we talk about the updates since our last note, along with the trading dynamics.</li>
</ul>


Tianqi Lithium (TL) raised around US$2bn via its H-shares listing. It undertakes mining of lithium ore and manufacturing of lithium concentrate, lithium compounds and derivatives.
TL was the largest producer of mined lithium globally in terms of output in 2020 and ranked third in terms of revenue generated from lithium in 2020.
In this note, we talk about the updates since our last note, along with the trading dynamics.


Tianqi Lithium A/H Trading - A-Shares Have Done Relatively Well, H-Shares Should Follow

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

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<li>After the market close today, Seoul Economic Daily reported that Socar is likely to delay its IPO to later on. </li>
<li>Although Socar has not formally announced that it will delay the IPO, we believe that there is a high probability that the IPO will be postponed. </li>
<li>The overall sentiment on the Socar IPO appears to be negative by many institutional investors, unless the company reduces the IPO price range substantially. </li>
</ul>


After the market close today, Seoul Economic Daily reported that Socar is likely to delay its IPO to later on. 
Although Socar has not formally announced that it will delay the IPO, we believe that there is a high probability that the IPO will be postponed. 
The overall sentiment on the Socar IPO appears to be negative by many institutional investors, unless the company reduces the IPO price range substantially. 


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<li>Our base case valuation of WCP is EV of 2.4 trillion won, implied market cap of 3.0 trillion won and target price of 87,805 won per share. </li>
<li>Given the lack of upside relative to the IPO price range (80,000 won to 100,000 won), we would PASS on this IPO deal.</li>
<li>We forecast the company to generate revenue of 229.1 billion won (up 23.5% YoY) in 2022. We estimate operating margin of 14.8% in 2022, lower than 21.8% in 2021.</li>
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Our base case valuation of WCP is EV of 2.4 trillion won, implied market cap of 3.0 trillion won and target price of 87,805 won per share. 
Given the lack of upside relative to the IPO price range (80,000 won to 100,000 won), we would PASS on this IPO deal.
We forecast the company to generate revenue of 229.1 billion won (up 23.5% YoY) in 2022. We estimate operating margin of 14.8% in 2022, lower than 21.8% in 2021.


South Korea

LG Energy Solution produces and sells batteries. The Company manufactures and sells automobile batteries, small batteries, energy storage system batteries, and other products. LG Energy Solution markets its products worldwide.

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