Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

Douglas Research Advisory

Equity Capital Markets

Midea Group Co Ltd A / Equity Capital Markets

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<li>We would subscribe to the HK offering of Midea Group due to its attractive valuations, strong fundamentals, and meaningful price discount relative to the A shares. </li>
<li>We believe a premium valuation relative to the comps is appropriate for Midea Group due to its higher sales growth, EBIT margin, and ROE.</li>
<li>Pricing of this offering is expected to be completed on 13 September and listing on 17 September. </li>
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We would subscribe to the HK offering of Midea Group due to its attractive valuations, strong fundamentals, and meaningful price discount relative to the A shares. 
We believe a premium valuation relative to the comps is appropriate for Midea Group due to its higher sales growth, EBIT margin, and ROE.
Pricing of this offering is expected to be completed on 13 September and listing on 17 September. 


HK/China Equity Long-Short

Osbert Tang, CFA

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>
<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/haier-smart-home-co-ltd-b3ef445f-0f54-4586-8c58-9073de98d60e" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:31105:1" rel="noopener">Haier Smart Home (6690 HK)</a> is less exposed to China's real estate market than one would have thought. Despite poor property industry, HSH still generated 12.9% earnings growth in 3Q23.</li>
<li>We are delighted to see further margin pick-up in 2Q23-3Q23, thanks to digitalisation and better efficiency. We believe such a trend can be sustained over the next 12-18 months. </li>
<li>More innovative products will drive market share, and better margin can support a 13% 3-year earnings CAGR. ROE is high at 17-8% despite net cash (8.8% of share price).   </li>
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Haier Smart Home (6690 HK) is less exposed to China's real estate market than one would have thought. Despite poor property industry, HSH still generated 12.9% earnings growth in 3Q23.
We are delighted to see further margin pick-up in 2Q23-3Q23, thanks to digitalisation and better efficiency. We believe such a trend can be sustained over the next 12-18 months. 
More innovative products will drive market share, and better margin can support a 13% 3-year earnings CAGR. ROE is high at 17-8% despite net cash (8.8% of share price).   


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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<li>
<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/midea-group-co-ltd-a" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:16185:1" rel="noopener">Midea Group Co Ltd A (000333 CH)</a>, one of the world’s largest home appliance producers, aims to raise up to  US$5bn in its H-share listing.</li>
<li>Midea Group is one of the world’s largest home appliance manufacturing companies with a presence in over 200 countries. Its A-shares have been listed since 2013.</li>
<li>In this note, we look at its past performance and other deal dynamics that might impact the listing.</li>
</ul>



Midea Group Co Ltd A (000333 CH), one of the world’s largest home appliance producers, aims to raise up to  US$5bn in its H-share listing.
Midea Group is one of the world’s largest home appliance manufacturing companies with a presence in over 200 countries. Its A-shares have been listed since 2013.
In this note, we look at its past performance and other deal dynamics that might impact the listing.


Midea A/H Listing - Early Look - Probably Raising Acquisition Currency

<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/haier-smart-home-co-ltd-b3ef445f-0f54-4586-8c58-9073de98d60e" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:31105:1" rel="noopener">Haier Smart Home Co Ltd (6690 HK)</a> revealed that domestic sales are performing well in the "Double-11" festival and overseas sales have outperformed peers in Black Friday.</li>
<li>The high-end brand Casarte has maintained good market shares in refrigerators, drum washing machines and air-conditioners. Overseas market also saw positive upgrade demand. </li>
<li>Its digitalisation strategy has enhanced customers' shopping experience and increased repurchases. HSH has also achieved improvements in overall efficiency through such efforts.</li>
</ul>



Haier Smart Home Co Ltd (6690 HK) revealed that domestic sales are performing well in the "Double-11" festival and overseas sales have outperformed peers in Black Friday.
The high-end brand Casarte has maintained good market shares in refrigerators, drum washing machines and air-conditioners. Overseas market also saw positive upgrade demand. 
Its digitalisation strategy has enhanced customers' shopping experience and increased repurchases. HSH has also achieved improvements in overall efficiency through such efforts.


Haier Smart Home (6690 HK): Further Updates from Management

Event-Driven

<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/midea-group-co-ltd-a" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:16185:1" rel="noopener">Midea Group Co Ltd A (000333 CH)</a> raised around US$4.6bn in its H-share listing (including over-allocation), after the deal was upsized.</li>
<li>Midea Group is one of the world’s largest home appliance manufacturing companies with a presence in over 200 countries. Its A-shares have been listed since 2013.</li>
<li>We have covered the deal background in our previous notes. In this note, we talk about the trading dynamics.</li>
</ul>



Midea Group Co Ltd A (000333 CH) raised around US$4.6bn in its H-share listing (including over-allocation), after the deal was upsized.
Midea Group is one of the world’s largest home appliance manufacturing companies with a presence in over 200 countries. Its A-shares have been listed since 2013.
We have covered the deal background in our previous notes. In this note, we talk about the trading dynamics.


Midea A/H Listing - Strong Demand for Quality Asset, Index Flows Could Help in the near Term

China

Haier Smart Home Co. Ltd. manufactures and distributes appliances. The Company produces air conditioners, refrigerators, freezers, small household electrical appliances, and other related products. Haier Smart Home markets its products domestically and internationally.

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Midea officially filed for an H-share listing yesterday. As per media reports the company is looking to raise up to US$3bn in Hong Kong.

Sumeet Singh

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Sales have performed well in "Double-11" festival and Black Friday. Overseas markets have seen positive upgrade demand and digitalisation has...

Osbert Tang, CFA

Midea A/H Listing - Strong Demand for Quality Asset, Index Flows Could Help in the near Term

Midea Group Co Ltd A (000333 CH) raised around US$4.6bn in its H-share listing (including over-allocation), after the deal was upsized. In this...

Sumeet Singh

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Midea Group HK IPO Valuation Analysis

Midea Group's shares closed up 7.8% at HK$59.10 on Tuesday. This strong IPO performance in HK by the Midea Group is likely to set in motion a...

Douglas Kim

Haier Smart Home (6690 HK): Stays Smart

​Haier Smart Home is less exposed to real estate market than expected. Digitalisation and efficiency improvements are driving margin; and...

Osbert Tang, CFA

Midea A/H Listing - Early Look - Probably Raising Acquisition Currency

Midea officially filed for an H-share listing yesterday. As per media reports the company is looking to raise up to US$3bn in Hong Kong.

Sumeet Singh

Haier Smart Home (6690 HK): Further Updates from Management

Sales have performed well in "Double-11" festival and Black Friday. Overseas markets have seen positive upgrade demand and digitalisation has...

Osbert Tang, CFA

Midea A/H Listing - Strong Demand for Quality Asset, Index Flows Could Help in the near Term

Midea Group Co Ltd A (000333 CH) raised around US$4.6bn in its H-share listing (including over-allocation), after the deal was upsized. In this...

Sumeet Singh

Haier Smart Home is less exposed to real estate market than expected. Digitalisation and efficiency improvements are driving margin; and...