APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Akshat Shah

APAC 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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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/meesho-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:35872:1" rel="noopener">Meesho (1546271D IN) </a>is looking to raise around US$607m in its upcoming India IPO.</li>
<li>Meesho is an e-commerce marketplace, offering a wide assortment of products ranging from low cost unbranded products, regional and national brands at affordable prices to consumers.</li>
<li>In our earlier notes, we have looked at the company’s past performance earlier. In this note, we talk about the implied valuations in the price range.</li>
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Meesho (1546271D IN) is looking to raise around US$607m in its upcoming India IPO.
Meesho is an e-commerce marketplace, offering a wide assortment of products ranging from low cost unbranded products, regional and national brands at affordable prices to consumers.
In our earlier notes, we have looked at the company’s past performance earlier. In this note, we talk about the implied valuations in the price range.


Meesho Ltd IPO - Value-Led Play, Moderately Priced

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Sumeet Singh

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/pine-labs-pvt-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:33472:1" rel="noopener">Pine Labs</a> is looking to raise up to US$1bn in its upcoming India IPO.</li>
<li>Pine Labs (PL) is a fintech firm focused on digitizing commerce through digital payments and issuing solutions for merchants, consumer brands and enterprises, and financial institutions.</li>
<li>In this note, we talk about the not-so-positive aspects of the deal.</li>
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Pine Labs is looking to raise up to US$1bn in its upcoming India IPO.
Pine Labs (PL) is a fintech firm focused on digitizing commerce through digital payments and issuing solutions for merchants, consumer brands and enterprises, and financial institutions.
In this note, we talk about the not-so-positive aspects of the deal.


Pine Labs Pre-IPO - The Negatives - ...some Segments Slowing, Lots Unexplained

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/pine-labs-pvt-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:33472:1" rel="noopener">Pine Labs</a> is looking to raise up to US$1bn in its upcoming India IPO.</li>
<li>Pine Labs (PL) is a fintech firm focused on digitizing commerce through digital payments and issuing solutions for merchants, consumer brands and enterprises, and financial institutions.</li>
<li>In this note, we talk about the positive aspects of the deal.</li>
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Pine Labs is looking to raise up to US$1bn in its upcoming India IPO.
Pine Labs (PL) is a fintech firm focused on digitizing commerce through digital payments and issuing solutions for merchants, consumer brands and enterprises, and financial institutions.
In this note, we talk about the positive aspects of the deal.


Pine Labs Pre-IPO - The Positives - Some Segments Growing..

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/pine-labs-pvt-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:33472:1" rel="noopener">Pine Labs (0568874D IN)</a> is looking to raise up to US$1bn in its upcoming India IPO. The deal will be run by Axis, Citi, MS, JPM and Jefferies.</li>
<li>Pine Labs (PL) is a fintech firm focused on digitizing commerce through digital payments and issuing solutions for merchants, consumer brands and enterprises, and financial institutions.</li>
<li>According to a Redseer Report, PL was the largest player in issuances of closed and semi-closed loop gift cards by transaction value in India in FY24.</li>
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Pine Labs (0568874D IN) is looking to raise up to US$1bn in its upcoming India IPO. The deal will be run by Axis, Citi, MS, JPM and Jefferies.
Pine Labs (PL) is a fintech firm focused on digitizing commerce through digital payments and issuing solutions for merchants, consumer brands and enterprises, and financial institutions.
According to a Redseer Report, PL was the largest player in issuances of closed and semi-closed loop gift cards by transaction value in India in FY24.


Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One, Periscope Analytics

Brian Freitas

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One

Periscope Analytics

Periscope Analytics focuses on event-driven trades across Asia Pacific and provides comprehensive, timely and systematic coverage of index changes to major Asia Pacific indices in a structured manner.

The analysis includes forecasted inclusions and exclusions to all major Asian indices that have significant amount of tracking assets, including estimates of passive buy/sell flow on the stocks. The service also provides commentary and impact of market consultations, ground rule changes, and other events (IPOs, spin-offs, M&A) that could lead to index changes and passive flow.

Periscope Analytics works with multi-strategy hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, stat arb trading groups and long-only investors that invest and trade in the Asia Pacific region with the data being used to trade index rebalances, avoid pre-positioning and passive flow, and to time entry into and exit from stocks.

Event-Driven Trades Across Asia Pacific

Index Rebalance

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<li>We forecast 7 stocks moving from MidCap to LargeCap, 10 stocks moving from LargeCap to MidCap, 3 stocks from SmallCap to MidCap, and 11 stocks from MidCap to SmallCap.</li>
<li>From the new listings, 13 stocks are expected to be added to Large Cap, 5 stocks are expected to be added to Mid Cap, and multiple stocks to Small Cap.</li>
<li>With the review period nearing completion, there could still be more outperformance given the momentum, but we would look to take profit on the stocks as the divergence gets wider.</li>
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We forecast 7 stocks moving from MidCap to LargeCap, 10 stocks moving from LargeCap to MidCap, 3 stocks from SmallCap to MidCap, and 11 stocks from MidCap to SmallCap.
From the new listings, 13 stocks are expected to be added to Large Cap, 5 stocks are expected to be added to Mid Cap, and multiple stocks to Small Cap.
With the review period nearing completion, there could still be more outperformance given the momentum, but we would look to take profit on the stocks as the divergence gets wider.


AMFI Stock Reclassification Preview (Dec 2025): New Listings Shaking Up the Rankings

India

Pine Labs Limited. designs and develops software solutions. The Company offers digital infrastructure and transaction platform that allows merchants to accept a wide range of payment methods for in-store and online purchases and simplifies the checkout process across various payment form factors. Pine Labs serves customers globally.

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Pine Labs (PINELABS IN)

Meesho Ltd IPO - Value-Led Play, Moderately Priced

Meesho Ltd (ML) is looking to raise around US$607m in its upcoming India IPO. In this note, we talk about the company’s implied valuations in the...

Akshat Shah

Pine Labs Pre-IPO - The Negatives - ...some Segments Slowing, Lots Unexplained

Pine Labs is looking to raise up to US$1bn in its upcoming India IPO. In this note, we talk about the not-so-positive aspects of the deal.

Sumeet Singh

Pine Labs Pre-IPO - The Positives - Some Segments Growing..

Pine Labs is looking to raise up to US$1bn in its upcoming India IPO. In this note, we talk about the positive aspects of the deal.

Sumeet Singh

Pine Labs Pre-IPO Tearsheet

Pine Labs is looking to raise up to US$1bn in its upcoming India IPO. The deal will be run by Axis, Citi, MS, JPM and Jefferies.

Akshat Shah

AMFI Stock Reclassification Preview (Dec 2025): New Listings Shaking Up the Rankings

We currently forecast 31 migrations for the AMFI December reclassification. Many IPOs could be added to Large/Mid cap. The forecast upward...

Brian Freitas

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