Overseas Chinese Equities, Aequitas Research

Ming Lu

Overseas Chinese Equities

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.

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Chinese online game market size decreased by 19.1% YoY and 12.6% QoQ in 3Q22.</li>
<li>Tmall, Alibaba’s direct sales app, started a mini-program in Tencent’s WeChat.</li>
<li>State Post Bureau announced that it would revise the express delivery rules, especially for green packaging.</li>
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Chinese online game market size decreased by 19.1% YoY and 12.6% QoQ in 3Q22.
Tmall, Alibaba’s direct sales app, started a mini-program in Tencent’s WeChat.
State Post Bureau announced that it would revise the express delivery rules, especially for green packaging.


China Internet Weekly (24Oct2022): Tencent, Alibaba, Kuaishou, JD.com, NetEase, Zhihu

Articles from Caixin Global, Caixin Global

Caixin Global

Articles from Caixin Global

Caixin is a media group dedicated to providing financial and business news through periodicals, online content, mobile apps, conferences, books and TV/video programs. Caixin aims to blaze a trail that helps traditional media prosper in the new media age through integrated multimedia platforms.

News from Caixin

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul><li>Chinese video game companies led by Tencent and NetEase are turning to global business expansion in search of fresh revenue sources as domestic growth plateaus and regulatory scrutiny tightens. </li><li>They’re joining e-commerce platforms and online tutors as China’s internet businesses look beyond China for differing reasons.</li><li>While weakening consumption at home is driving e-commerce platforms, video game developers are pushing out their business boundaries and creating more jobs abroad chiefly out of concerns over tightening domestic regulations.</li></ul>

Chinese video game companies led by Tencent and NetEase are turning to global business expansion in search of fresh revenue sources as domestic growth plateaus and regulatory scrutiny tightens. They’re joining e-commerce platforms and online tutors as China’s internet businesses look beyond China for differing reasons.While weakening consumption at home is driving e-commerce platforms, video game developers are pushing out their business boundaries and creating more jobs abroad chiefly out of concerns over tightening domestic regulations.

Chinese Video Game Developers Take On the World

Cross Asset Strategy

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Chinese video game developers take on the world
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China’s graft watchdog says 4.6 million investigated for corruption since 2012
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Chinese airlines to add international routes in wake of eased Covid rules
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Chinese video game developers take on the world


China’s graft watchdog says 4.6 million investigated for corruption since 2012


Chinese airlines to add international routes in wake of eased Covid rules



CX Daily: Chinese Video Game Developers Take On the World

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Sumeet Singh

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements

Equity Capital Markets

Lionheart Studio  / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/lionheart-studio-corporation" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:36417:1" rel="noopener">Lionheart Studio (426630 KS)</a>, a game development studio based in South Korea,  aims to raise around US$420m via its South Korean IPO.</li>
<li>The company is majority owned by <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/kakao-games-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:26730:1" rel="noopener">Kakao Games Corp (293490 KS)</a>, which after having recently hiked its stake, owned 54.94% of the company prior to listing.  </li>
<li>We spoke about the company’s past performance and undertook a peer comparison in our previous note. In this note, we’ll talk about our earnings estimates and valuation.</li>
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Lionheart Studio (426630 KS), a game development studio based in South Korea,  aims to raise around US$420m via its South Korean IPO.
The company is majority owned by Kakao Games Corp (293490 KS), which after having recently hiked its stake, owned 54.94% of the company prior to listing.  
We spoke about the company’s past performance and undertook a peer comparison in our previous note. In this note, we’ll talk about our earnings estimates and valuation.


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>Meta hosted the Meta Connect 2022 on 11 Oct, launching its first high-end VR headset Meta Quest Pro.</li><li>The new VR headset will begin shipping on 25 October for US$1,499.99.</li><li>With innovative features like pancake lenses, eye tracking, natural facial expressions and colour passthrough, Meta Quest Pro will meaningfully enhance the social/gaming/work VR experience in our view.</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.

Meta hosted the Meta Connect 2022 on 11 Oct, launching its first high-end VR headset Meta Quest Pro.The new VR headset will begin shipping on 25 October for US$1,499.99.With innovative features like pancake lenses, eye tracking, natural facial expressions and colour passthrough, Meta Quest Pro will meaningfully enhance the social/gaming/work VR experience in our view.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 Internet Sector – Meta Connect 2022: bridging the gap towards metaverse

China

NetEase, Inc. is an Internet technology company that develops applications, services and other Internet technologies in China. The Company's core businesses consist of email service, web portal and online entertainment, including online gaming services. NetEase also offers online advertising, search, mobile applications and e-commerce.

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China Internet Weekly (24Oct2022): Tencent, Alibaba, Kuaishou, JD.com, NetEase, Zhihu

Chinese online game market size decreased by 19.1% YoY and 12.6% QoQ in 3Q22. Tmall started a mini-program in WeChat. State Post Bureau revised...

Ming Lu

Chinese Video Game Developers Take On the World

Chinese video game companies led by Tencent and NetEase are turning to global business expansion in search of fresh revenue sources

Caixin Global

CX Daily: Chinese Video Game Developers Take On the World

Chinese video game developers take on the world. China’s graft watchdog says 4.6 million investigated for corruption since 2012.

Caixin Global

Lionheart IPO - Thoughts on Valuation

Lionheart Studio (426630 KS), a game development studio based in South Korea, aims to raise around US$420m via its South Korean IPO. In this note,...

Sumeet Singh

China Internet Sector – Meta Connect 2022: bridging the gap towards metaverse

With innovative features like pancake lenses, eye tracking, natural facial expressions and colour passthrough, Meta Quest Pro will meaningfully...

CMB International

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