SGX Market Strategist, Equity & Fixed Income, Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

Geoff Howie

SGX Market Strategist, Equity & Fixed Income

Asia’s leading multi-asset exchange

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

Singapore Exchange is Asia’s leading and trusted market infrastructure, facilitating the exchange of capital and ideas to create value for people, businesses and economies. As a multi-asset exchange operating equity, fixed income and derivatives markets to the highest regulatory standards, SGX is a vertically integrated business that provides listing, trading, clearing, settlement, depository and data services.

With about 40% of listed companies and over 80% of listed bonds originating outside of Singapore as well as established linkages across the region and in Europe, SGX is Asia’s most international and connected exchange. Offering a full suite of derivatives products across Asian equity indices, commodities and currencies, SGX is the world’s most liquid international market for the benchmark equity indices of China, India, Japan and ASEAN.

As Asia’s pioneering central counterparty, SGX is globally recognised for its risk management and clearing capabilities, and was one of the first globally to adopt the Principles for Financial Market Infrastructure.

Headquartered in AAA-rated Singapore, SGX has over 800 employees including offices in Beijing, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, New York, Mumbai, San Francisco, Shanghai and Tokyo.

Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Singtel, NetLink NBN Trust and StarHub represent the most traded stocks of Singapore’s Telecommunication Sector, and have averaged 2.6% YTD total returns, after averaging 7.0% total returns in 2023.</li><li>StarHub has led the trio over the past 14 weeks, and last week returned to Sep 2022 levels.</li><li>Singapore’s most traded stocks of the Telecommunications Sector, Singtel, NetLink NBN Trust and StarHub, have averaged 2.6% total returns in the 2024 year to 5 April, on S$46 million of combined net institutional inflow.</li></ul>

Singtel, NetLink NBN Trust and StarHub represent the most traded stocks of Singapore’s Telecommunication Sector, and have averaged 2.6% YTD total returns, after averaging 7.0% total returns in 2023.StarHub has led the trio over the past 14 weeks, and last week returned to Sep 2022 levels.Singapore’s most traded stocks of the Telecommunications Sector, Singtel, NetLink NBN Trust and StarHub, have averaged 2.6% total returns in the 2024 year to 5 April, on S$46 million of combined net institutional inflow.

StarHub Leads Telco-to-Digital Sector in 2024 YTD, with 8% Gain

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.

Equity Capital Markets

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<li>
<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/bharti-hexacom" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:40858:1" rel="noopener">Bharti Hexacom</a> is looking to raise up to US$513m in its upcoming India IPO.</li>
<li>Bharti Hexacom (BH) is a communications solutions provider offering consumer mobile services, fixed-line telephone and broadband services to customers in the Rajasthan and the North East telecommunication circles in India.</li>
<li>We have looked at the company's past performance in our earlier notes. In this note, we talk about valutions.</li>
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Bharti Hexacom is looking to raise up to US$513m in its upcoming India IPO.
Bharti Hexacom (BH) is a communications solutions provider offering consumer mobile services, fixed-line telephone and broadband services to customers in the Rajasthan and the North East telecommunication circles in India.
We have looked at the company's past performance in our earlier notes. In this note, we talk about valutions.


Bharti Hexacom IPO - Unexciting and at a Half-Decent Discount

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<li>
<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/bharti-hexacom" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:40858:1" rel="noopener">Bharti Hexacom</a> is looking to raise up to US$1bn in its upcoming India IPO.</li>
<li>Bharti Hexacom (BH) is a communications solutions provider offering consumer mobile services, fixed-line telephone and broadband services to customers in the Rajasthan and the North East telecommunication circles in India.</li>
<li>In this note, we talk about the not-so-positive aspects of the deal.</li>
</ul>



Bharti Hexacom is looking to raise up to US$1bn in its upcoming India IPO.
Bharti Hexacom (BH) is a communications solutions provider offering consumer mobile services, fixed-line telephone and broadband services to customers in the Rajasthan and the North East telecommunication circles in India.
In this note, we talk about the not-so-positive aspects of the deal.


Bharti Hexacom Pre-IPO - The Negatives - No Clear Rationale for Listing

IPOs and Catalysts/Events, Global Equity Research Ltd

Arun George

IPOs and Catalysts/Events

Uncompromised, Independent, Conflict-Free Research

Global Equity Research Ltd

Global Equity Research was started in 2017 by a group of experienced research professionals. It was founded on a passionate belief in the importance and the need for uncompromised, independent, conflict-free research. We aim to provide differentiated and actionable primary and bottom up fundamental research.

Event-Driven

<ul>
<li>On 21 March, Bloomberg reported that TPG and MBK had restarted a strategic review to reduce their <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/hkbn-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:289:1" rel="noopener">HKBN Ltd (1310 HK)</a> shareholdings. Previous privatisation rumours have fizzled out.</li>
<li>The options include going private, attracting new investors, or raising cash through some of HKBN’s assets. Infrastructure-focused funds and one Chinese telco (likely <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/china-mobile-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:27:1" rel="noopener">China Mobile (941 HK)</a>) were approached.</li>
<li>The probability of an offer is low as TPG and MBK will need to accept a material discount on their cost per share and financing challenges due to high leverage. </li>
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On 21 March, Bloomberg reported that TPG and MBK had restarted a strategic review to reduce their HKBN Ltd (1310 HK) shareholdings. Previous privatisation rumours have fizzled out.
The options include going private, attracting new investors, or raising cash through some of HKBN’s assets. Infrastructure-focused funds and one Chinese telco (likely China Mobile (941 HK)) were approached.
The probability of an offer is low as TPG and MBK will need to accept a material discount on their cost per share and financing challenges due to high leverage. 


HKBN (1310 HK): Déjà Vu as Privatisation Rumours Resurface

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<li>
<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/bharti-hexacom" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:40858:1" rel="noopener">Bharti Hexacom</a> is looking to raise up to US$1bn in its upcoming India IPO. </li>
<li>Bharti Hexacom (BH) is a communications solutions provider offering consumer mobile services, fixed-line telephone and broadband services to customers in the Rajasthan and the North East telecommunication circles in India.</li>
<li>In this note, we talk about the positive aspects of the deal.</li>
</ul>



Bharti Hexacom is looking to raise up to US$1bn in its upcoming India IPO. 
Bharti Hexacom (BH) is a communications solutions provider offering consumer mobile services, fixed-line telephone and broadband services to customers in the Rajasthan and the North East telecommunication circles in India.
In this note, we talk about the positive aspects of the deal.


Bharti Hexacom Pre-IPO - The Positives - Earnings Have Been Recovering Well

Singapore

StarHub is a Singaporean multinational telecommunications conglomerate that provides mobile, broadband internet, pay TV, and enterprise solutions including cybersecurity, cloud services, data analytics, IoT, and robotics. Headquartered in Singapore, the company was founded on May 7, 1998.

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StarHub (STH SP)

StarHub Leads Telco-to-Digital Sector in 2024 YTD, with 8% Gain

Singtel, NetLink NBN Trust and StarHub represent the most traded stocks of Singapore’s Telecommunication Sector, and have averaged 2.6% YTD total...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

Bharti Hexacom IPO - Unexciting and at a Half-Decent Discount

Bharti Hexacom is looking to raise up to US$513m in its upcoming India IPO. We have looked at the past performance in our earlier note, in this...

Sumeet Singh

Bharti Hexacom Pre-IPO - The Negatives - No Clear Rationale for Listing

The company is said to be looking to launch its IPO next week, which will entirely comprise of an offer for sale of half of the stake of Government...

Sumeet Singh

HKBN (1310 HK): Déjà Vu as Privatisation Rumours Resurface

The probability of a takeover offer is low, which explains TPG/MBK's exploration of other options. An attractive dividend yield continues to...

Arun George

Bharti Hexacom Pre-IPO - The Positives - Earnings Have Been Recovering Well

Bharti Hexacom 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

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