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 weekly Hong Kong Connect flows with our data engine for holding position as of March 10th.</li>
<li>The top stocks by inflows and outflows were tabulated for all market, HSCEI, mid cap and s/mid cap groups.</li>
<li>We highlight flows for China Mobile, Tencent, China Vanke, ICBC, CCB.</li>
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We analyze the weekly Hong Kong Connect flows with our data engine for holding position as of March 10th.
The top stocks by inflows and outflows were tabulated for all market, HSCEI, mid cap and s/mid cap groups.
We highlight flows for China Mobile, Tencent, China Vanke, ICBC, CCB.


Hong Kong Connect Flows (Mar 10th): China Mobile, Tencent, China Vanke, ICBC, CCB

HK/China Healthcare Analyst (ex-Fosun Pharma)

Xinyao (Criss) Wang

Equity Capital Markets

Shenzhen Edge Medical / Equity Capital Markets

<ul>
<li>MP1000 has strong technical strength, setting it apart from Toumai. SP1000’s advantages are more obvious and the competitive landscape is also better than multi-port surgical robots, indicating corner overtaking opportunity.</li>
<li>With favorable policy support, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/shenzhen-edge-medical-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:35912:1" rel="noopener">Shenzhen Edge Medical (SEM HK)</a> is embracing a golden opportunity. But the commercialization outlook of surgical robots in China is actually not optimistic.</li>
<li>As a later-comer in surgical robots industry, without the synergy from parent company, Edge’s future sales performance could be even weaker. So, its valuation should be lower than Medbot.</li>
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MP1000 has strong technical strength, setting it apart from Toumai. SP1000’s advantages are more obvious and the competitive landscape is also better than multi-port surgical robots, indicating corner overtaking opportunity.
With favorable policy support, Shenzhen Edge Medical (SEM HK) is embracing a golden opportunity. But the commercialization outlook of surgical robots in China is actually not optimistic.
As a later-comer in surgical robots industry, without the synergy from parent company, Edge’s future sales performance could be even weaker. So, its valuation should be lower than Medbot.


Pre-IPO Shenzhen Edge Medical - The Surgical Robot Business in China Is Proving Harder than Expected

Equity Bottom-Up

Shandong Weigao Group Medical Polymer Co / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul>
<li>Weigao formed a diversified product lines through a series of acquisitions and capital operation. Its performance is more driven by sales not R&amp;D, with limited core competitiveness.</li>
<li>Weigao’s orthopaedic products business is under pressure due to VBP, which would drag down the overall gross margin. The acquisition of Weigao New Life is hard to turn things around.</li>
<li>Weigao is a holding platform, which is worthless in secondary market.There could be some temporary rebounds but share price could still underperform or its valuation is lower than comparable companies.</li>
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Weigao formed a diversified product lines through a series of acquisitions and capital operation. Its performance is more driven by sales not R&amp;D, with limited core competitiveness.
Weigao’s orthopaedic products business is under pressure due to VBP, which would drag down the overall gross margin. The acquisition of Weigao New Life is hard to turn things around.
Weigao is a holding platform, which is worthless in secondary market.There could be some temporary rebounds but share price could still underperform or its valuation is lower than comparable companies.


Shandong Weigao Group Medical Polymer (1066.HK) - As a Holding Platform, Investment Value Is Limited

Technical Analyst, Vermilion Research

Joe Jasper

Technical Analyst

Technical and Quantitative Research

Vermilion Research

Vermilion’s objective is to deliver timely, actionable, and unique technical research to professional investors through the application of our various technical indicators.

Our research strategists seek to highlight securities which we believe are at major inflection points, based on our various technical and quantitative indicators, and offer asymmetric risk/return profiles. Our unique research methodology, centered on relative strength, enables our strategists to deliver superior investment recommendations.

Our process begins by organizing the universe of actively traded stocks into discrete sectors, then into industry groups. We then apply our technical and quantitative tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sector or group, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. We provide a historical perspective that often reveals, through our long-term charts, how price patterns often repeat themselves over time.

Technical Analysis

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<li>The MSCI EM vs.EAFE ratio (local currency) shows EM has outperformed relative to EAFE since the DXY peaked in November 2022, and also shows signs of reversing the 2-year downtrend.</li>
<li>As long as the DXY remains below $103.50-$106, we expect outperformance from EM to continue.</li>
<li>China/Hong Kong, Greece, South Africa, and Mexico stand out as attractive countries. Our top actionable Sectors include Communications, Consumer Discretionary, and Technology. We highlight 76 attractive EM stocks.</li>
</ul>


The MSCI EM vs.EAFE ratio (local currency) shows EM has outperformed relative to EAFE since the DXY peaked in November 2022, and also shows signs of reversing the 2-year downtrend.
As long as the DXY remains below $103.50-$106, we expect outperformance from EM to continue.
China/Hong Kong, Greece, South Africa, and Mexico stand out as attractive countries. Our top actionable Sectors include Communications, Consumer Discretionary, and Technology. We highlight 76 attractive EM stocks.


EM Outperformance to Continue (Vs. EAFE) -- Add on a Pullback; DXY Needs to Hold Below $106

Shanghai Bio-Heart Biological Technology / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul>
<li>Among innovative medical device companies in HKEX under Chapter 18A, Bio-heart is quite “special”- It is the only company without commercialized products but has higher market value than the peers.</li>
<li>The competitiveness of Bio-heart’s core products is not high. There are great uncertainties in terms of the commercialization outlook, because Bio-heart doesn’t have obvious advantages in development progress/sales capability.</li>
<li>Bio-Heart is overvalued. Its efforts to maintain high share price may be to pave the way for listing in A-share,but anything deviates from fundamentals would inevitably return to the origin. </li>
</ul>


Among innovative medical device companies in HKEX under Chapter 18A, Bio-heart is quite “special”- It is the only company without commercialized products but has higher market value than the peers.
The competitiveness of Bio-heart’s core products is not high. There are great uncertainties in terms of the commercialization outlook, because Bio-heart doesn’t have obvious advantages in development progress/sales capability.
Bio-Heart is overvalued. Its efforts to maintain high share price may be to pave the way for listing in A-share,but anything deviates from fundamentals would inevitably return to the origin. 


Shanghai Bio-Heart Biological Technology (2185.HK) - The Bubble Will Eventually Burst

China

Microport Scientific Corp. manufactures interventional and minimally invasive devices for keyhole surgery. The Company's products are used to treat vascular diseases and is developing devices to treat diabetes and orthopedic diseases.

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Microport Scientific (853 HK)

Hong Kong Connect Flows (Mar 10th): China Mobile, Tencent, China Vanke, ICBC, CCB

We analyzed southbound Hong Kong connect flows in the past week and highlight flows for China Mobile, Tencent, China Vanke, ICBC, CCB.

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Pre-IPO Shenzhen Edge Medical - The Surgical Robot Business in China Is Proving Harder than Expected

Surgical robots is always a hot field, but even with favorable policy, it’s difficult to make profits in China. Edge's commercialization outlook is...

Xinyao (Criss) Wang

Shandong Weigao Group Medical Polymer (1066.HK) - As a Holding Platform, Investment Value Is Limited

Weigao is lack of core competitiveness due to weak R&D. Its performance could improve after China reopens, but Weigao could still underperform its...

Xinyao (Criss) Wang

EM Outperformance to Continue (Vs. EAFE) -- Add on a Pullback; DXY Needs to Hold Below $106

EM vs. EAFE ratio (local currency) shows EM has outperformed relative to EAFE since the $DXY peaked in November 2022. If the DXY remains below...

Vermilion Research

Shanghai Bio-Heart Biological Technology (2185.HK) - The Bubble Will Eventually Burst

Bio-heart’s core products lack competitiveness, with high uncertainties in commercialization outlook. High valuation is maintained so as to get...

Xinyao (Criss) Wang

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