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.

Equity Capital Markets

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<li>Star Health and Allied Insurance (SHAI), the largest private health and retail health insurance company in India, plans to raise up to  US$979m in its India IPO.</li>
<li>It is backed by Westbridge and Rakesh Jhunjhunwala. Owing to the latter, it will draw ample retail interest. </li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the IPO valuations.</li>
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Star Health and Allied Insurance (SHAI), the largest private health and retail health insurance company in India, plans to raise up to  US$979m in its India IPO.
It is backed by Westbridge and Rakesh Jhunjhunwala. Owing to the latter, it will draw ample retail interest. 
In this note, we will talk about the IPO valuations.


Star Health Insurance IPO - Mixed Updates. Good but Expensive

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<li>PB Fintech, India’s largest online platform for insurance and lending products, raised  US$793m via selling a mix of primary and secondary shares in its India IPO.</li>
<li>The company is backed by a strong set of investors including Info Edge, Tencent, Temasek, Tiger Global and Softbank.</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the updates since our last note.</li>
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PB Fintech, India’s largest online platform for insurance and lending products, raised  US$793m via selling a mix of primary and secondary shares in its India IPO.
The company is backed by a strong set of investors including Info Edge, Tencent, Temasek, Tiger Global and Softbank.
In this note, we will talk about the updates since our last note.


PB Fintech (Policybazaar) IPO Trading - Mixed Bag Demand

Healthium Medtech / Equity Capital Markets

Healthium Medtech (HM) is looking to raise up to US$500m in its upcoming India IPO. Healthium Medtech is a global medtech company that manufactures products used in surgical, post-surgical and chronic care. It operates in three key markets namely, India, UK and the Rest of the World and currently has eight manufacturing facilities, seven in India and one in China. The firm has a diverse suite of offerings with over 52,000 SKUs and as of Mar 21, one in five surgeries conducted globally had used a Healthium Medtech product, as per Frost &amp; Sullivan (F&amp;S).While the company started off by manufacturing surgical consumables, it has since then expanded into other segments, mostly via acquisitions. Now the company primarily sells products pertaining to surgical consumables, urology and arthroscopy. HM revenue has been growing steadily over the past few years, while its margins have been expanding, resulting in bottom-line growth comfortably outpacing sales growth. In addition, HM has undertaken three acquisitions in FY22 which will increase its earnings by 40-50%. Although, the company hasn’t been very forthcoming with data and it didn’t pay a whole lot for the companies that it recently acquired.We have covered the company background in our earlier note, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/healthium-medtech-pre-ipo-tearsheet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Healthium Medtech Pre-IPO Tearsheet.</a>

Healthium Medtech (HM) is looking to raise up to US$500m in its upcoming India IPO. Healthium Medtech is a global medtech company that manufactures products used in surgical, post-surgical and chronic care. It operates in three key markets namely, India, UK and the Rest of the World and currently has eight manufacturing facilities, seven in India and one in China. The firm has a diverse suite of offerings with over 52,000 SKUs and as of Mar 21, one in five surgeries conducted globally had used a Healthium Medtech product, as per Frost &amp; Sullivan (F&amp;S).While the company started off by manufacturing surgical consumables, it has since then expanded into other segments, mostly via acquisitions. Now the company primarily sells products pertaining to surgical consumables, urology and arthroscopy. HM revenue has been growing steadily over the past few years, while its margins have been expanding, resulting in bottom-line growth comfortably outpacing sales growth. In addition, HM has undertaken three acquisitions in FY22 which will increase its earnings by 40-50%. Although, the company hasn’t been very forthcoming with data and it didn’t pay a whole lot for the companies that it recently acquired.We have covered the company background in our earlier note, Healthium Medtech Pre-IPO Tearsheet.

Healthium Medtech Pre-IPO - Steady Earnings, Creating a Niche

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Sapphire Foods Limited (SFL), one of Yum Brand’s franchisee in the Indian subcontinent, aims to raise around US$280m via its Indian IPO. Its core business is to operate KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell in the Indian subcontinent.
We covered most aspects of the deal in our earlier note, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/sapphire-foods-ipo-delivery-growing-stores-shrinking" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sapphire Foods IPO - Delivery Growing, Stores Shrinking.</a>
</div><div>In this note we will talk under take a peer comparison and talk about valuations.</div>


Sapphire Foods Limited (SFL), one of Yum Brand’s franchisee in the Indian subcontinent, aims to raise around US$280m via its Indian IPO. Its core business is to operate KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell in the Indian subcontinent.
We covered most aspects of the deal in our earlier note, Sapphire Foods IPO - Delivery Growing, Stores Shrinking.
In this note we will talk under take a peer comparison and talk about valuations.

Sapphire Foods IPO - Peer Comp and Valuation

Sapphire Foods Limited (SFL), one of Yum Brand’s franchisee in the Indian subcontinent, aims to raise around US$280m via its Indian IPO. Its core business is to operate KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell in the Indian subcontinent.In this note we will talk about the company's background and past performance

Sapphire Foods Limited (SFL), one of Yum Brand’s franchisee in the Indian subcontinent, aims to raise around US$280m via its Indian IPO. Its core business is to operate KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell in the Indian subcontinent.In this note we will talk about the company's background and past performance

Sapphire Foods IPO - Delivery Growing, Stores Shrinking

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Star Health Insurance IPO - Mixed Updates. Good but Expensive

Star Health and Allied Insurance (SHAI), the largest private health and retail health insurance company in India, plans to raise up to US$979m in...

Sumeet Singh

PB Fintech (Policybazaar) IPO Trading - Mixed Bag Demand

PB Fintech, India’s largest online platform for insurance and lending products, raised US$793m via selling a mix of primary and secondary shares...

Sumeet Singh

Healthium Medtech Pre-IPO - Steady Earnings, Creating a Niche

Healthium Medtech is looking to raise up to US$500m in its upcoming India IPO. Healthium Medtech is a medtech company that manufactures products...

Sumeet Singh

Sapphire Foods IPO - Peer Comp and Valuation

Sapphire Foods Limited, one of Yum Brand’s franchisee in the Indian subcontinent, aims to raise around US$280m via its Indian IPO. Its core...

Sumeet Singh

Sapphire Foods IPO - Delivery Growing, Stores Shrinking

Sapphire Foods Limited, one of Yum Brand’s franchisee in the Indian subcontinent, aims to raise around US$280m in its Indian IPO. It operates KFC,...

Sumeet Singh

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