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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Monde Nissin (MNC), a food manufacturer in the Philippines, aims to raise around US$1bn in its Philippines IPO.It primarily has two main businesses: Asia-Pacific Branded Food and Beverage Business, which sells instant noodles, biscuits and other products, and meat alternative business which includes Quorn and Cauldron meat alternatives brands.MNC has a high market share in the Philippines in the instant noodles and biscuits segment along with a few other categories as well. Quorn as well has a strong lead over its next largest peers in the Chicken alternative meat segment in the grocery channel. In this note, I'll talk about the positive aspects of the deal.

Monde Nissin (MNC), a food manufacturer in the Philippines, aims to raise around US$1bn in its Philippines IPO.It primarily has two main businesses: Asia-Pacific Branded Food and Beverage Business, which sells instant noodles, biscuits and other products, and meat alternative business which includes Quorn and Cauldron meat alternatives brands.MNC has a high market share in the Philippines in the instant noodles and biscuits segment along with a few other categories as well. Quorn as well has a strong lead over its next largest peers in the Chicken alternative meat segment in the grocery channel. In this note, I'll talk about the positive aspects of the deal.

Monde Nissin Pre-IPO - The Positives - High Market Share

Equity Analyst, LightStream Research

Oshadhi Kumarasiri

Equity Analyst

Long-Short Analysis on Japan, Asia and the World

LightStream Research

LightStream conducts quantitatively rigorous and data-driven analysis with a focus on Japan and Asia.

We consistently cover the Tech, Consumer and Industrial sectors, and provide ECM and Events coverage more broadly.

We supplement traditional qualitative insights from company relationships with a robust quantitative foundation that examines as much historical data as is available.
We further refine the accuracy of our insights and calls through the use of alternative data to flesh out current trends, and through a valuation framework that emphasises non-superficial peer group selection and a proper attempt to understand the metrics and changes that have driven security valuations in the past.

<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/monde-nissin-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:32188:1" rel="noopener">Monde Nissin Corp (0191881D PM)</a> offers an interesting opportunity for investors given the company’s exposure to the fast-growing alternative meat market in Europe and the US. While alternative meat names are popular thematically, we believe Monde Nissin’s exposure and technological focus on being an alternative to regular Chicken makes the company avoid most of the competition within a highly competitive industry and makes Monde Nissin, one of the most attractive companies within the alternative meat space.Moreover, at 4.13x trailing EV/Sales, the IPO valuation seems to ignore the company’s alternative meat exposure and appears even compelling to the value investors who would otherwise avoid these high growth industries due to concerns over valuation multiples.

Monde Nissin Corp (0191881D PM) offers an interesting opportunity for investors given the company’s exposure to the fast-growing alternative meat market in Europe and the US. While alternative meat names are popular thematically, we believe Monde Nissin’s exposure and technological focus on being an alternative to regular Chicken makes the company avoid most of the competition within a highly competitive industry and makes Monde Nissin, one of the most attractive companies within the alternative meat space.Moreover, at 4.13x trailing EV/Sales, the IPO valuation seems to ignore the company’s alternative meat exposure and appears even compelling to the value investors who would otherwise avoid these high growth industries due to concerns over valuation multiples.

Monde Nissin IPO: Likely to Pop Like Beyond Meat

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/monde-nissin-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:32188:1" rel="noopener">Monde Nissin Corp (0191881D PM)</a>, the market leader in instant noodles, biscuits, oyster sauce and drinking yogurt in Philippines, filled for an IPO on The Philippine Stock Exchange on 2nd March 2021. The company will issue 3.6bn new shares at an offer price of ₱17.50 per share to raise to raise about ₱63.0bn ($1.3bn), making Monde Nissin the largest ever listing on The Philippine Stock Exchange.</li>
<li>The company has two business lines, The APAC Food &amp; Beverages segment, which sells the market leading instant noodle brand Lucky Me!, biscuits brands, SkyFlakes, Fita, Nissin, M.Y. San Grahams, the drinking yogurt brand Dutch Mill and the oyster sauce brand Mama Sita’s, had stable revenue and OP growth over the years.</li>
<li>However, the hidden gem is the relatively small alternative meat business, that competes with the likes <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/beyond-meat-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:28065:1" rel="noopener">Beyond Meat (BYND US)</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/impossible-foods-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:28361:1" rel="noopener">Impossible Foods Inc (1249597D US)</a> and other major alternative meat companies.</li>
<li>Our early thoughts on the Monde Nissin IPO is mostly positive as the company provides a discounted way into the high growth meat alternatives market.</li>
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Monde Nissin Corp (0191881D PM), the market leader in instant noodles, biscuits, oyster sauce and drinking yogurt in Philippines, filled for an IPO on The Philippine Stock Exchange on 2nd March 2021. The company will issue 3.6bn new shares at an offer price of ₱17.50 per share to raise to raise about ₱63.0bn ($1.3bn), making Monde Nissin the largest ever listing on The Philippine Stock Exchange.
The company has two business lines, The APAC Food &amp; Beverages segment, which sells the market leading instant noodle brand Lucky Me!, biscuits brands, SkyFlakes, Fita, Nissin, M.Y. San Grahams, the drinking yogurt brand Dutch Mill and the oyster sauce brand Mama Sita’s, had stable revenue and OP growth over the years.
However, the hidden gem is the relatively small alternative meat business, that competes with the likes Beyond Meat (BYND US), Impossible Foods Inc (1249597D US) and other major alternative meat companies.
Our early thoughts on the Monde Nissin IPO is mostly positive as the company provides a discounted way into the high growth meat alternatives market.


Monde Nissin IPO: A Discounted Way Into Fast Growing Alternative Meat

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Monde Nissin Corp. manufactures and distributes prepared food products. The Company markets its products such as noodles and biscuits through retail food outlets. Monde Nissin serves customers worldwide.

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