Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

Equity Capital Markets

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<li>VinFast Auto ("VinFast") is getting ready to complete its IPO on Nasdaq in January 2023.</li>
<li>We are cautious on the IPO of VinFast. Timing is awful and investors have slashed share prices of the company's comps in the past year. </li>
<li>The fact that the company is trying to hurry up to complete this IPO in early 2023 suggests that there could be some bigger concerns about long-term financing of VinFast.</li>
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VinFast Auto ("VinFast") is getting ready to complete its IPO on Nasdaq in January 2023.
We are cautious on the IPO of VinFast. Timing is awful and investors have slashed share prices of the company's comps in the past year. 
The fact that the company is trying to hurry up to complete this IPO in early 2023 suggests that there could be some bigger concerns about long-term financing of VinFast.


VinFast IPO Preview - Too Big to Fail In Vietnam

Managing Director, Zero One, Zero One

Vincent Fernando, CFA

Managing Director, Zero One

Equity Bottom-Up

Hon Hai Precision Industry / Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Hon Hai's Zhengzhou iPhone plant to return to full production? Shares pop</li>
<li>Nanya Tech shares worst performers last week - We remain near-term negative</li>
<li>Intel &amp; TSMC trade flattish last week -- Intel currently at UBS's TMT conference</li>
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Hon Hai's Zhengzhou iPhone plant to return to full production? Shares pop
Nanya Tech shares worst performers last week - We remain near-term negative
Intel &amp; TSMC trade flattish last week -- Intel currently at UBS's TMT conference


Taiwan Tech Weekly: Hon Hai IPhone Plant Recovery, Nanya Slumps, Intel Foundry Potential in 2023

Semiconductors, Memory and SSDs Specialist, Objective Analysis

Jim Handy

Semiconductors, Memory and SSDs Specialist

Objective Analysis

Objective Analysis offers third-party independent market research and data for the semiconductor industry and investors in the semiconductor industry.

Semiconductors, Memory and SSDs

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>The current semiconductor market meltdown can be expected to continue through the end of 2024</li>
<li>This will reduce 2022 market growth to 5%, and will drive a decline of 19% in 2023</li>
<li>Stocks will be unevenly influenced by this, with the most dramatic declines hitting makers of volume commodities, smaller declines in differentiated products, and a weak impact on older technology products.</li>
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The current semiconductor market meltdown can be expected to continue through the end of 2024
This will reduce 2022 market growth to 5%, and will drive a decline of 19% in 2023
Stocks will be unevenly influenced by this, with the most dramatic declines hitting makers of volume commodities, smaller declines in differentiated products, and a weak impact on older technology products.


2023 High Conviction: Semiconductor Down Market

Independent research on the U.S. markets, Baptista Research

Baptista Research

Independent research on the U.S. markets

Baptista Research is an independent financial research house focused on the U.S. markets. We provide equity research as well as credit research reports on the top-listed U.S. companies with most of our focus on technology, consumer goods and services, automobiles, industrials, oil and gas, pharma, and healthcare. Our research has served more than 3000 institutional investors including mutual funds, hedge funds, banks, family offices, and various buy-side firms. We operate a research subscription service where institutions, as well as retail investors, can have priority access to all our research. We also have a wide distribution of our research reports across some of the top global financial platforms. Apart from equity research and credit research, we also provide advisory services with respect to mergers & acquisitions (M&A), private equity/ venture capital fundraising, valuation reports, and investment management services for corporates.
Baptista Research is owned and managed by Ishan Majumdar, an ex-Venture Capitalist/ Investment Banker, a Chartered Accountant, and a Masters’ degree holder in Management from HEC Paris. Ishan has nearly a decade of experience in Mergers and Acquisitions, Leveraged Buyouts (LBOs), Venture Capital Investing, Corporate Strategy, and Valuation in front-office roles at the likes of BNP Paribas CIB, Credit Agricole CIB, Groupe Danone, and TIW Private Equity. He has worked on and closed multiple acquisition deals, leveraged buyouts, and start-up investment transactions.

<ul><li>NVIDIA Corp delivered a mixed performance as the company’s revenues exceeded the analyst consensus estimate.</li><li>However, its earnings were below par given the persistent supply chain interruptions, increased export bans, and macroeconomic challenges.</li><li>Leading U.S. cloud providers and a growing number of consumer Internet companies were the main drivers of year-over-year increases for workloads like big language models, recommendation systems, and generative AI.</li></ul>

NVIDIA Corp delivered a mixed performance as the company’s revenues exceeded the analyst consensus estimate.However, its earnings were below par given the persistent supply chain interruptions, increased export bans, and macroeconomic challenges.Leading U.S. cloud providers and a growing number of consumer Internet companies were the main drivers of year-over-year increases for workloads like big language models, recommendation systems, and generative AI.

NVIDIA Corp: New Product Launches & Other Drivers

Fundamental Short Selling Research

Eric Fernandez, CFA

TwoRiversAnalytics

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<li>This model looks for slowing growth, margin declines, sales and/or earnings disappointments, troubling working capital trends, poor estimate trends or lowered guidance, among other characteristics.</li>
<li>The key judgement is whether a slowdown is temporary or the beginning of a trend.  These shorts tend to have high valuations and betas.  Multiple compression accelerates the stock’s decline.</li>
<li>Today we are flagging Plug Power, Nvidia, Palantir, and Roblox</li>
</ul>


This model looks for slowing growth, margin declines, sales and/or earnings disappointments, troubling working capital trends, poor estimate trends or lowered guidance, among other characteristics.
The key judgement is whether a slowdown is temporary or the beginning of a trend.  These shorts tend to have high valuations and betas.  Multiple compression accelerates the stock’s decline.
Today we are flagging Plug Power, Nvidia, Palantir, and Roblox


Breaking Growth Short Candidates: Plug Power, Nvidia, Palantir, Roblox

United States

NVIDIA Corporation designs, develops, and markets three dimensional (3D) graphics processors and related software.  The Company's products provide interactive 3D graphics to the mainstream personal computer market.

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VinFast IPO Preview - Too Big to Fail In Vietnam

We are cautious on the IPO of VinFast. Timing is awful and investors have slashed share prices of the company's comps in the past year.

Douglas Kim

Taiwan Tech Weekly: Hon Hai IPhone Plant Recovery, Nanya Slumps, Intel Foundry Potential in 2023

Intel & TSMC trade flattish last week -- Intel currently at UBS's TMT conference. Reuters reports that Hon Hai's Zhengzhou facility is recovering.

Vincent Fernando, CFA

2023 High Conviction: Semiconductor Down Market

What's happening in semiconductors? When will the downturn end? What does this mean to chip stock prices? This Insight provides some concrete...

Jim Handy

NVIDIA Corp: New Product Launches & Other Drivers

NVIDIA Corp delivered a mixed performance as the company’s revenues exceeded the analyst consensus estimate. However, its earnings were below par...

Baptista Research

Breaking Growth Short Candidates: Plug Power, Nvidia, Palantir, Roblox

Breaking Growth stocks combine declining fundamentals with a multiple compression. This week we flag: Plug Power, Nvidia, Palantir, Roblox

Eric Fernandez, CFA

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