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>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 IPO front, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/foshan-haitian-flavouring-food-company" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:44279:1" rel="noopener">Foshan Haitian (3288 HK)</a> failed to perform at listing marking a turnaround for recent A/H listing. <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/zhejiang-sanhua-intelligent-controls" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:45277:1" rel="noopener">Sanhua Intelligent (2050 HK)</a> will be next in line. </li>
<li>On the placements front, deals continued to flow across the region, with blocks in India showing no signs of abating.</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 IPO front, Foshan Haitian (3288 HK) failed to perform at listing marking a turnaround for recent A/H listing. Sanhua Intelligent (2050 HK) will be next in line. 
On the placements front, deals continued to flow across the region, with blocks in India showing no signs of abating.


ECM Weekly (23 June 2025) - Foshan Haitian, Sanhua, Anjoy, Sany, CaoCao, Eternal, Zhou Liu, HDB Fin

HK/China Equity Long-Short

Osbert Tang, CFA

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>The 6 H-share IPOs of the listed A-share companies YTD have seen their H-A discount narrowing from an average of 31% during IPO to 15.5% currently.  </li>
<li>Larger-Cap ones tend to be priced and traded at a smaller discount to their A-shares. However, they are not necessarily those seeing the most significant narrowing in discount. </li>
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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/foshan-haitian-flavouring-food-company" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:44279:1" rel="noopener">Foshan Haitian Flavouring &amp; Food Company (3288 HK)</a> may further narrow its discount, while <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/zhejiang-sanhua-intelligent-controls" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:45277:1" rel="noopener">Zhejiang Sanhua Intelligent Controls (2050 HK)</a> also sees upside from such a perspective. </li>
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The 6 H-share IPOs of the listed A-share companies YTD have seen their H-A discount narrowing from an average of 31% during IPO to 15.5% currently.  
Larger-Cap ones tend to be priced and traded at a smaller discount to their A-shares. However, they are not necessarily those seeing the most significant narrowing in discount. 

Foshan Haitian Flavouring &amp; Food Company (3288 HK) may further narrow its discount, while Zhejiang Sanhua Intelligent Controls (2050 HK) also sees upside from such a perspective. 


HK Strategy: Trend of Narrowing H-A IPO Discount

External broker reports(aggregated public sources), CMB International

CMB International

External broker reports(aggregated public sources)

Incorporated in Hong Kong, supported by the mainland and targeting in global market, CMB International Capital Corporation Limited (“CMBI”) is an integrated financial institution providing comprehensive and professional services. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Merchants Bank ("CMB"), by leveraging on the Group’s synergy and coordination in domestic and overseas markets, as well as CMB’s strong resources and outstanding social reputation, CMBI and its subsidiaries have been actively implementing diversified business strategies and set up an overall layout of main business segments including Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Global Markets and Structured Finance, etc. Adhering to the philosophy of “being clients oriented and increasing our own values by the way of creating value for clients”, CMBI endeavors to provide quality and integrated financial services to institutional, corporate and individual customers both domestic and overseas including Hong Kong IPO sponsorship and underwriting, share placement and rights issue for listed companies, financial advisors, bonds issuance services, asset management, direct investment, wealth management, equity sales and trading, etc.

<ul><li>China Construction Machinery Association (CCMA) released a full set of construction machinery sales data for Apr.</li><li>Similar to the previous month, sales of non-earth-moving machinery were mixed in Apr (vs the strong earth-moving machinery data that was published last week.</li><li>Forklift sales were resilient in general, while tower cranes continued to see a big divergence in domestic sales (-61% YoY) and exports (+49% YoY). </li></ul>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

China Construction Machinery Association (CCMA) released a full set of construction machinery sales data for Apr.Similar to the previous month, sales of non-earth-moving machinery were mixed in Apr (vs the strong earth-moving machinery data that was published last week.Forklift sales were resilient in general, while tower cranes continued to see a big divergence in domestic sales (-61% YoY) and exports (+49% YoY). Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Capital Goods - Still a Mixed Picture for Non-Earth-Moving Machinery Sales in Apr

<ul><li>China Construction Machinery Association (CCMA) released the earth-moving machinery sales data for Apr.</li><li>Domestic sales of excavators / wheel loaders grew 16%/35% YoY, which we believe were driven by municipal and rural construction projects.</li><li>Meanwhile, export growth of excavator sales accelerated to 19% YoY in Apr, the highest over the past two years, though we are unsure if the sales were boosted by any tariff-related factors.Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.</li></ul>

China Construction Machinery Association (CCMA) released the earth-moving machinery sales data for Apr.Domestic sales of excavators / wheel loaders grew 16%/35% YoY, which we believe were driven by municipal and rural construction projects.Meanwhile, export growth of excavator sales accelerated to 19% YoY in Apr, the highest over the past two years, though we are unsure if the sales were boosted by any tariff-related factors.Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Capital Goods - Solid Growth of Earth-Moving Machinery Sales in Apr

<ul><li>We have summarized the selected global machinery manufacturers’ estimates about the impact of US tariffs.</li><li>Most players expect the impact will materialize starting from 3Q should the tariffs be in place.</li><li>Based on the numbers provided, Komatsu (6301 JP, NR) seems to be taking a relatively large hit among the major names. </li></ul>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

We have summarized the selected global machinery manufacturers’ estimates about the impact of US tariffs.Most players expect the impact will materialize starting from 3Q should the tariffs be in place.Based on the numbers provided, Komatsu (6301 JP, NR) seems to be taking a relatively large hit among the major names. Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Capital Goods - Major global players’ forecast about tariff impact

China

SANY Heavy Industry Co., Ltd manufactures and markets construction and engineering machinery and related parts. The Company produces and sells concrete pumps, concrete pump vehicles, road rollers, pavers, and other related products. Sany Heavy Industry markets its products worldwide.

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Sany Heavy Industry (600031 CH)

ECM Weekly (23 June 2025) - Foshan Haitian, Sanhua, Anjoy, Sany, CaoCao, Eternal, Zhou Liu, HDB Fin

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

HK Strategy: Trend of Narrowing H-A IPO Discount

H-share IPOs of A-shares have seen narrowing discounts, with larger-caps trading at smaller discounts, but not the ones with the largest...

Osbert Tang, CFA

Capital Goods - Still a Mixed Picture for Non-Earth-Moving Machinery Sales in Apr

Similar to the previous month, sales of non-earth-moving machinery were mixed in Apr (vs the strong earth-moving machinery data that was published...

CMB International

Capital Goods - Solid Growth of Earth-Moving Machinery Sales in Apr

China Construction Machinery Association (CCMA) released the earth-moving machinery sales data for Apr. Domestic sales of excavators / wheel...

CMB International

Capital Goods - Major global players’ forecast about tariff impact

We have summarized the selected global machinery manufacturers’ estimates about the impact of US tariffs. Most players expect the impact will...

CMB International

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ECM Weekly (23 June 2025) - Foshan Haitian, Sanhua, Anjoy, Sany, CaoCao, Eternal, Zhou Liu, HDB Fin

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

HK Strategy: Trend of Narrowing H-A IPO Discount

​H-share IPOs of A-shares have seen narrowing discounts, with larger-caps trading at smaller discounts, but not the ones with the largest...

Osbert Tang, CFA

Capital Goods - Still a Mixed Picture for Non-Earth-Moving Machinery Sales in Apr

Similar to the previous month, sales of non-earth-moving machinery were mixed in Apr (vs the strong earth-moving machinery data that was published...

CMB International

Capital Goods - Solid Growth of Earth-Moving Machinery Sales in Apr

China Construction Machinery Association (CCMA) released the earth-moving machinery sales data for Apr. Domestic sales of excavators / wheel...

CMB International

Capital Goods - Major global players’ forecast about tariff impact

We have summarized the selected global machinery manufacturers’ estimates about the impact of US tariffs. Most players expect the impact will...

CMB International

H-share IPOs of A-shares have seen narrowing discounts, with larger-caps trading at smaller discounts, but not the ones with the largest...