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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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/kioxia-holdings-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:29243:1" rel="noopener">Kioxia Holdings (285A JP)</a> is aiming to raise around US$840m (including over-allocation) in its Japan IPO.</li>
<li>It was the world’s largest pure-play NAND flash memory supplier, in terms of both revenue and unit shipments in 2023, according to TechInsights.</li>
<li>We have looked at the company’s past performance in our previous notes. In this note, we will talk about the IPO valuations.</li>
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Kioxia Holdings (285A JP) is aiming to raise around US$840m (including over-allocation) in its Japan IPO.
It was the world’s largest pure-play NAND flash memory supplier, in terms of both revenue and unit shipments in 2023, according to TechInsights.
We have looked at the company’s past performance in our previous notes. In this note, we will talk about the IPO valuations.


Kioxia IPO - Should Price at the Top, Though Peers Are Still Correcting

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<li>
<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/kioxia-holdings-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:29243:1" rel="noopener">Kioxia Holdings (285A JP)</a> is aiming to raise around US$700m (including over-allocation) from its Japan IPO.</li>
<li>It was the world’s largest pure-play NAND flash memory supplier, in terms of both revenue and unit shipments in 2023, according to TechInsights.</li>
<li>We have looked at the company's past performance in our earlier notes. In this note we talk about valuations.</li>
</ul>



Kioxia Holdings (285A JP) is aiming to raise around US$700m (including over-allocation) from its Japan IPO.
It was the world’s largest pure-play NAND flash memory supplier, in terms of both revenue and unit shipments in 2023, according to TechInsights.
We have looked at the company's past performance in our earlier notes. In this note we talk about valuations.


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<li>Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.</li>
<li>On the IPOs front, listing in the past week didn't do much, while a number of comapnies are still looking to beat the year end deadline.</li>
<li>On the placements front, there were a number of secondary selldowns in Japan.</li>
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Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.
On the IPOs front, listing in the past week didn't do much, while a number of comapnies are still looking to beat the year end deadline.
On the placements front, there were a number of secondary selldowns in Japan.


ECM Weekly (2nd Dec 2024) - Kioxia, FineToday, MNC Solutions, JST, Pateo, Carraro, Hulic, Sanrio

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Kioxia IPO - Should Price at the Top, Though Peers Are Still Correcting

Kioxia Holdings (285A JP) is aiming to raise around US$840m (including over-allocation) in its Japan IPO. In this note, we talk about the IPO pricing.

Sumeet Singh

Kioxia Pre-IPO - Thoughts on Valuations

At the final price range kioxia still offers enough upside even from the top-end, even after we apply a discount to its valuation versus its listed...

Sumeet Singh

AI's Three Investing Phases

The article discusses how AI is revolutionizing industries globally, with investors strategizing on how to capitalize on the technology's evolution...

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ECM Weekly (2nd Dec 2024) - Kioxia, FineToday, MNC Solutions, JST, Pateo, Carraro, Hulic, Sanrio

Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.

Sumeet Singh

Taiwan Tech Weekly: Taiwan's Space Tech Conference This Week; AI Driving New Humanoid Robot Industry

Taiwan's space tech conference features Hon Hai's satellites; TSMC's 2nm breakthrough with Apple and AMD; AI driving $2bn humanoid robot market by...

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Kioxia IPO - Should Price at the Top, Though Peers Are Still Correcting

Kioxia Holdings (285A JP) is aiming to raise around US$840m (including over-allocation) in its Japan IPO. In this note, we talk about the IPO pricing.

Sumeet Singh

Kioxia Pre-IPO - Thoughts on Valuations

At the final price range kioxia still offers enough upside even from the top-end, even after we apply a discount to its valuation versus its listed...

Sumeet Singh

AI's Three Investing Phases

The article discusses how AI is revolutionizing industries globally, with investors strategizing on how to capitalize on the technology's evolution...

The Bid

ECM Weekly (2nd Dec 2024) - Kioxia, FineToday, MNC Solutions, JST, Pateo, Carraro, Hulic, Sanrio

Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.

Sumeet Singh

Taiwan Tech Weekly: Taiwan's Space Tech Conference This Week; AI Driving New Humanoid Robot Industry

​Taiwan's space tech conference features Hon Hai's satellites; TSMC's 2nm breakthrough with Apple and AMD; AI driving $2bn humanoid robot market by...

Vincent Fernando, CFA

Taiwan's space tech conference features Hon Hai's satellites; TSMC's 2nm breakthrough with Apple and AMD; AI driving $2bn humanoid robot market by...