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<ul><li>Electric-vehicle maker Nio Inc. ended its holdout in China’s car price war and slashed base prices on all of its vehicles by 30,000 yuan ($4,200) in hopes of bolstering sales amid escalating competition in China, the world’s largest auto market.</li><li>Nio also pulled the plug on its free battery-exchange service for car buyers and introduced a pay-as-you-go system and a 30,000 yuan lifetime swap service.</li><li>The vehicle price cuts announced Monday will reduce the starting price of Nio’s new electric SUV ES6 to 338,000 yuan. The price of the mid-size electric sedan model ET5 will be lowered to 298,000 yuan. The changes take effect immediately, Nio said.</li></ul>

Electric-vehicle maker Nio Inc. ended its holdout in China’s car price war and slashed base prices on all of its vehicles by 30,000 yuan ($4,200) in hopes of bolstering sales amid escalating competition in China, the world’s largest auto market.Nio also pulled the plug on its free battery-exchange service for car buyers and introduced a pay-as-you-go system and a 30,000 yuan lifetime swap service.The vehicle price cuts announced Monday will reduce the starting price of Nio’s new electric SUV ES6 to 338,000 yuan. The price of the mid-size electric sedan model ET5 will be lowered to 298,000 yuan. The changes take effect immediately, Nio said.

Nio Ends Holdout in China’s Auto Price War

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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Tata Technologies / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/tata-technologies" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:23700:1" rel="noopener">Tata Technologies (TATATECH IN)</a>  (TT) is looking to raise around US$600m in its upcoming India IPO.</li>
<li>Tata Technologies is a global engineering services company offering product development and digital solutions, including turnkey solutions, to global original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and their tier 1 suppliers. </li>
<li>We have looked at the company’s past performance in our earlier notes, in this note we will undertake a peer comparison.</li>
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Tata Technologies (TATATECH IN)  (TT) is looking to raise around US$600m in its upcoming India IPO.
Tata Technologies is a global engineering services company offering product development and digital solutions, including turnkey solutions, to global original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and their tier 1 suppliers. 
We have looked at the company’s past performance in our earlier notes, in this note we will undertake a peer comparison.


Tata Technologies Pre-IPO - Peer Comparison - Middling

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

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<li>We think by adopting the new strategy to unbind vehicle sales with battery swapping, NIO could broaden its customer base to non-Yangtze-Delta regions and regain price competitiveness.</li>
<li>We upgrade to BUY and raise TP to US$ 10.5, due to 1) recovered growth outlook brought by widened customer base, more competitive pricing and intact model cycle</li>
<li>And 2) smaller-than-feared margin pressure. Our TP implies 2x PS. </li>
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We think by adopting the new strategy to unbind vehicle sales with battery swapping, NIO could broaden its customer base to non-Yangtze-Delta regions and regain price competitiveness.
We upgrade to BUY and raise TP to US$ 10.5, due to 1) recovered growth outlook brought by widened customer base, more competitive pricing and intact model cycle
And 2) smaller-than-feared margin pressure. Our TP implies 2x PS. 


NIO Inc. (NIO US, BUY, TP US$10.5) Rating Change: Witnessing a Turning Point…UG to BUY

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>3690.HK: Douyin gives up on its food delivery GTV target for 2023 (+)</li>
<li>XPEV: XPeng G6 gets over 25k orders 72 hours after pre-sale starts (+)</li>
<li>Nio: NIO cuts car prices by RMB 30k for all models by making battery swapping benefits optional</li>
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3690.HK: Douyin gives up on its food delivery GTV target for 2023 (+)
XPEV: XPeng G6 gets over 25k orders 72 hours after pre-sale starts (+)
Nio: NIO cuts car prices by RMB 30k for all models by making battery swapping benefits optional


China TMT Update June 13-3690.HK/XPEV/NIO-Douyin Gives up Food Delivery Target,NIO Cut Price,G6 Sale

External broker reports(aggregated public sources), CMB International

CMB International

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<ul><li>We downgrade NIO’s rating to HOLD from Buy as heightened competition drags its sales growth more severely than expected.</li><li>NIO could face more challenges than its peers when its sales growth slows, amid its heavy investments, including battery swap, chips, mobile phones etc.</li><li>We are of the view that its decision making to cut non-core projects is too slow. </li></ul><p><em>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.</em></p>

We downgrade NIO’s rating to HOLD from Buy as heightened competition drags its sales growth more severely than expected.NIO could face more challenges than its peers when its sales growth slows, amid its heavy investments, including battery swap, chips, mobile phones etc.We are of the view that its decision making to cut non-core projects is too slow. 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.

NIO Inc. (NIO US) – Premiumization No Longer Stands for High Margin

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NIO Inc. manufactures and sells automobiles. The Company offers electric vehicles and parts, as well as provides battery charging services. NIO serves customers worldwide.

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NIO (NIO US)

Nio Ends Holdout in China’s Auto Price War

Electric-vehicle maker Nio Inc. ended its holdout in China’s car price war and slashed base prices on all of its vehicles by 30,000 yuan ($4,200)...

Caixin Global

Tata Technologies Pre-IPO - Peer Comparison - Middling

Tata Technologies (TATATECH IN) (TT) is looking to raise around US$600m in its upcoming India IPO. In this note, we undertake a peer comparison.

Sumeet Singh

NIO Inc. (NIO US, BUY, TP US$10.5) Rating Change: Witnessing a Turning Point…UG to BUY

We upgrade to BUY and raise TP to US$ 10.5, due to 1) recovered growth outlook brought by widened customer base; and 2) smaller-than-feared margin...

Blue Lotus Research Institute

China TMT Update June 13-3690.HK/XPEV/NIO-Douyin Gives up Food Delivery Target,NIO Cut Price,G6 Sale

3690.HK: Douyin gives up on its food delivery GTV target for 2023 (+)；XPEV: XPeng G6 gets over 25k orders (+)；Nio: NIO cuts car prices by RMB 30k...

Blue Lotus Research Institute

NIO Inc. (NIO US) – Premiumization No Longer Stands for High Margin

We downgrade NIO’s rating to HOLD from Buy as heightened competition drags its sales growth more severely than expected.

CMB International

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