Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China biotech, Aequitas Research

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China biotech

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.

Quantitative Analysis

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<li>We analyzed the changes in foreign holdings of KRX Stocks as of Jun 7th which has an aggregated holding worth USD542.4bn.</li>
<li>We estimate that foreign flows to be outflows of USD266mln. We tabulate the league table for top changes by value for 1W/4W/1Y and top stocks held by foreign institutions.</li>
<li>We highlight foreign changes in Alteogen Inc (196170 KS), Naver Corp (035420 KS).</li>
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We analyzed the changes in foreign holdings of KRX Stocks as of Jun 7th which has an aggregated holding worth USD542.4bn.
We estimate that foreign flows to be outflows of USD266mln. We tabulate the league table for top changes by value for 1W/4W/1Y and top stocks held by foreign institutions.
We highlight foreign changes in Alteogen Inc (196170 KS), Naver Corp (035420 KS).


KRX Foreign Holding Weekly (Jun 7th): Alteogen, Naver

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

Event-Driven

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<li>The review period for the September rebalance of the KOSPI Size Indices will run from 1 June to 31 August.</li>
<li>We see 6 migrations from MidCap to LargeCap, 1 new addition to LargeCap, 6 stocks moving from SmallCap to MidCap and 3 new additions to MidCap.</li>
<li>Stocks migrating upward have outperformed stocks migrating lower. But there are still stocks trading at a Price to Book of less than 1.</li>
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The review period for the September rebalance of the KOSPI Size Indices will run from 1 June to 31 August.
We see 6 migrations from MidCap to LargeCap, 1 new addition to LargeCap, 6 stocks moving from SmallCap to MidCap and 3 new additions to MidCap.
Stocks migrating upward have outperformed stocks migrating lower. But there are still stocks trading at a Price to Book of less than 1.


KOSPI Size Indices: Potential Migrations in September Are Moving

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

Equity Bottom-Up

Mirae Asset Securities / Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>It has been reported in numerous local media outlets that WeBull is discussing with the local financial authorities to enter the Korean retail stock brokerage market.</li>
<li>If the Korean financial authorities provide a license to WeBull to directly provide stock brokerage services to the Korean retail market, this would be the first case ever.</li>
<li>If FSC grants a full license to WeBull to operate stock brokerage services to retail investors in Korea, this could result in the local brokerages losing market shares to WeBull</li>
</ul>


It has been reported in numerous local media outlets that WeBull is discussing with the local financial authorities to enter the Korean retail stock brokerage market.
If the Korean financial authorities provide a license to WeBull to directly provide stock brokerage services to the Korean retail market, this would be the first case ever.
If FSC grants a full license to WeBull to operate stock brokerage services to retail investors in Korea, this could result in the local brokerages losing market shares to WeBull


WeBull In Discussions With Financial Authorities to Enter the Korean Retail Stock Brokerage Market

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<li>The local media have started to provide some concrete figures of the amount of losses related to HSCEI related ELS products sold by major Korean banks and securities firms.</li>
<li>If HSCEI continues to remain at about 5,450 to the end of March 2024, the total losses could rise to nearly 1.6 trillion won, impacting more than 45,000 investors. </li>
<li>Concerns about HSCEI index related ELS losses have negatively impacted both the major Korean banks and securities companies in Korea in the past 1-2 months. </li>
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The local media have started to provide some concrete figures of the amount of losses related to HSCEI related ELS products sold by major Korean banks and securities firms.
If HSCEI continues to remain at about 5,450 to the end of March 2024, the total losses could rise to nearly 1.6 trillion won, impacting more than 45,000 investors. 
Concerns about HSCEI index related ELS losses have negatively impacted both the major Korean banks and securities companies in Korea in the past 1-2 months. 


An Update on HSCEI Index Related ELS Losses for Korean Financials + BOK's Pivot in 2024

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Sumeet Singh

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements

Equity Capital Markets

Samsung Electronics / Equity Capital Markets

<ul>
<li>KEB Hana Bank, on behalf of the Lee family, is looking to raise up to US$1.6bn via selling 0.5% of <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/samsung-electronics-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:191:1" rel="noopener">Samsung Electronics (005930 KS)</a> </li>
<li>The deal appears to be somewhat well flagged, however, the timing could have been much better.</li>
<li>In this note, we will run the deal through our ECM framework and talk about the recent updates.</li>
</ul>


KEB Hana Bank, on behalf of the Lee family, is looking to raise up to US$1.6bn via selling 0.5% of Samsung Electronics (005930 KS) 
The deal appears to be somewhat well flagged, however, the timing could have been much better.
In this note, we will run the deal through our ECM framework and talk about the recent updates.


Samsung Electronics Placement - Somewhat Well Flagged but Could Have Timed It Better

South Korea

Samsung Securities Co.,Ltd. provides personalized asset management services. The Company provides brokerage, investment trust, underwriting services, and other services. Samsung Securities also provides cyber trading, mutual funds, asset backed securities issuing, municipal bonds trading services.

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KRX Foreign Holding Weekly (Jun 7th): Alteogen, Naver

We analyzed KRX foreign holding data for the past week and highlighted foreign holding changes in Alteogen (196170 KS), Naver (035420 KS).

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

KOSPI Size Indices: Potential Migrations in September Are Moving

There are many changes expected for the KOSPI size indices in September. The potential upward migrations have outperformed the potential downward...

Brian Freitas

WeBull In Discussions With Financial Authorities to Enter the Korean Retail Stock Brokerage Market

If the Korean financial authorities provide a license to WeBull to directly provide stock brokerage services to the Korean retail market, this...

Douglas Kim

Samsung Electronics Placement - Somewhat Well Flagged but Could Have Timed It Better

KEB Hana Bank, on behalf of the Lee family, is looking to raise up to US$1.6bn via selling 0.5% of Samsung Electronics (005930 KS)

Sumeet Singh

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KRX Foreign Holding Weekly (Jun 7th): Alteogen, Naver

We analyzed KRX foreign holding data for the past week and highlighted foreign holding changes in Alteogen (196170 KS), Naver (035420 KS).

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

KOSPI Size Indices: Potential Migrations in September Are Moving

There are many changes expected for the KOSPI size indices in September. The potential upward migrations have outperformed the potential downward...

Brian Freitas

WeBull In Discussions With Financial Authorities to Enter the Korean Retail Stock Brokerage Market

If the Korean financial authorities provide a license to WeBull to directly provide stock brokerage services to the Korean retail market, this...

Douglas Kim

An Update on HSCEI Index Related ELS Losses for Korean Financials + BOK's Pivot in 2024

If HSCEI continues to remain at about 5,450 to the end of March 2024, the total losses could rise to nearly 1.6 trillion won, impacting more than...

Douglas Kim

Samsung Electronics Placement - Somewhat Well Flagged but Could Have Timed It Better

KEB Hana Bank, on behalf of the Lee family, is looking to raise up to US$1.6bn via selling 0.5% of Samsung Electronics (005930 KS)

Sumeet Singh