APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Ethan Aw

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.

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/fadu-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:39896:1" rel="noopener">Fadu (440110 KS)</a> is looking to raise up to US$147m in its Korean IPO.</li>
<li>Fadu is a South Korean fabless semiconductor maker mainly engaged in flash storage technology innovation. Its core products are Enterprise Solid State Drive (SSD) and Enterprise SSDs.</li>
<li>In our previous notes, we looked at the company’s past performance. In this note, we talk about peer comparison.</li>
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Fadu (440110 KS) is looking to raise up to US$147m in its Korean IPO.
Fadu is a South Korean fabless semiconductor maker mainly engaged in flash storage technology innovation. Its core products are Enterprise Solid State Drive (SSD) and Enterprise SSDs.
In our previous notes, we looked at the company’s past performance. In this note, we talk about peer comparison.


Fadu Pre-IPO - Peer Comparison - Hardly Comparable in Scale to Its Peers

Semiconductor & Technology Specialist, Ingenuity

William Keating

Semiconductor & Technology Specialist

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>Global semiconductor sales amounted to $40.7 billion in May'23. This represented an increase of 1.7% MoM and a 21.1% decline on a year-ago basis</li>
<li>Samsung pre-announces Q2'23 sales and operating profit slightly down sequentially</li>
<li>HMB3 standard launched. SK Hynix wins a critical HMB3 design win at NVIDIA</li>
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Global semiconductor sales amounted to $40.7 billion in May'23. This represented an increase of 1.7% MoM and a 21.1% decline on a year-ago basis
Samsung pre-announces Q2'23 sales and operating profit slightly down sequentially
HMB3 standard launched. SK Hynix wins a critical HMB3 design win at NVIDIA


Semiconductor Events Deserving Your Attention @ 9/7/23

Founder/CEO of ROK Advisory, ROK Advisory LLC

Ken S. Kim

Founder/CEO of ROK Advisory

ROK Advisory LLC

ROK is an independent research advisory firm. We guide you to minimize the information gap between foreign and local investors in Northeast Asia with a focus in Korea, Taiwan and Japan.

Independent Research Advisory Firm

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<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> has been a nice outperformer relative to <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/sk-hynix-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:16955:1" rel="noopener">SK Hynix (000660 KS)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/micron-technology-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:13382:1" rel="noopener">Micron Technology (MU US)</a> due to valuation, tech merit and exposure to AI</li>
<li>For cyclical stocks, no matter defensive vs. peers, does it make more sense to play the pure plays?</li>
<li>On the recent settlement between Elliott and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/samsung-c-t-corporation" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:481:1" rel="noopener">Samsung C&amp;T (028260 KS)</a> , there was a secret payment made to just Elliott. What about the other minority shareholders?!</li>
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Samsung Electronics (005930 KS) has been a nice outperformer relative to SK Hynix (000660 KS) and Micron Technology (MU US) due to valuation, tech merit and exposure to AI
For cyclical stocks, no matter defensive vs. peers, does it make more sense to play the pure plays?
On the recent settlement between Elliott and Samsung C&amp;T (028260 KS) , there was a secret payment made to just Elliott. What about the other minority shareholders?!


At the Core Lies Why Anything Named Samsung Deserves a Discount

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

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<li>Our base case valuation analysis suggests implied market cap of 2.2 trillion won or 43,676 won per share, representing 41% higher than the high end of the IPO price range. </li>
<li>At the high end of our valuation sensitivity analysis, it suggests implied price of 62,893 won per share, representing 103% higher than the high end of the IPO price range.</li>
<li>Fadu is a system semiconductor fabless company specializing in data centers, which is experiencing a strong growth due to higher data demand for cloud, AI/Big data, 5G, and autonomous driving.</li>
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Our base case valuation analysis suggests implied market cap of 2.2 trillion won or 43,676 won per share, representing 41% higher than the high end of the IPO price range. 
At the high end of our valuation sensitivity analysis, it suggests implied price of 62,893 won per share, representing 103% higher than the high end of the IPO price range.
Fadu is a system semiconductor fabless company specializing in data centers, which is experiencing a strong growth due to higher data demand for cloud, AI/Big data, 5G, and autonomous driving.


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<li>Fadu is getting ready to complete its IPO in Korea in August. Fadu is one of the most highly anticipated IPOs in Korea in 2023. </li>
<li>The expected market cap at the top end of the IPO price range is 1.6 trillion won. The IPO price range is from 26,000 won to 31,000 won.</li>
<li>Fadu is a system semiconductor fabless company specializing in data centers.</li>
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Fadu is getting ready to complete its IPO in Korea in August. Fadu is one of the most highly anticipated IPOs in Korea in 2023. 
The expected market cap at the top end of the IPO price range is 1.6 trillion won. The IPO price range is from 26,000 won to 31,000 won.
Fadu is a system semiconductor fabless company specializing in data centers.


South Korea

SK Hynix Inc. provides products and services for the electronic components industry. The Company manufactures semiconductors, such as dynamic random access memory (DRAM), NAND flash memory, and static random access memory (SRAM) chips.

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SK Hynix (000660 KS)

Fadu Pre-IPO - Peer Comparison - Hardly Comparable in Scale to Its Peers

Fadu (440110 KS) is looking to raise up to US$147m in its Korean IPO. In our previous notes, we looked at the company’s past performance. In this...

Ethan Aw

Semiconductor Events Deserving Your Attention @ 9/7/23

Global semi sales $40.7 billion in May'23, +1.7% MoM, -21.1% YoY. Samsung sales & op profit marginally down QoQ. HBM3 standard released, SK Hynix...

William Keating

At the Core Lies Why Anything Named Samsung Deserves a Discount

Why Samsung deserves a discount and the new 3 yr shareholder return plan nor M&A will fix this unless one or both of 2 things happen.

Ken S. Kim

Fadu IPO Valuation Analysis

Our base case valuation analysis of Fadu suggests implied market cap of 2.2 trillion won or 43,676 won per share, representing 41% higher than the...

Douglas Kim

Fadu IPO Preview

Fadu is a Korean system semiconductor fabless company specializing in data centers. It is getting ready to complete its IPO in August. Fadu is one...

Douglas Kim

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