Global Emerging Market Equities, Propitious Research

Wium Malan, CFA

Global Emerging Market Equities

Independent, Fundamental Quantitative Research

Propitious Research

Fully independent, fundamental and quantitative equity research, focused on companies in the Telecommunication, Media, Technology, Internet and Healthcare sectors in the Global Emerging Markets. Idea generation focused on Quality stocks, trading below their intrinsic Value, with sound Corporate Governance.

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Following several years of sustained revenue share loss, Search’s digital advertising revenue market share has stabilised, having seemingly retained its core advertising customers.</li>
<li>With China’s economic growth recovery, Baidu is perfectly positioned to accelerate its core marketing revenue growth, which is also a high-margin operation.</li>
<li>Baidu is set up for significant group margin expansion as the higher-margin core marketing business returns to positive annualised growth and it continues to expand AI Cloud margins.</li>
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Following several years of sustained revenue share loss, Search’s digital advertising revenue market share has stabilised, having seemingly retained its core advertising customers.
With China’s economic growth recovery, Baidu is perfectly positioned to accelerate its core marketing revenue growth, which is also a high-margin operation.
Baidu is set up for significant group margin expansion as the higher-margin core marketing business returns to positive annualised growth and it continues to expand AI Cloud margins.


Baidu: Undervalued Cyclical Revenue Growth Acceleration and Margin Expansion Story

APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Clarence Chu

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.

Equity Capital Markets

Jiangsu Fangzhou Chemical / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/fangzhou-group" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:36560:1" rel="noopener">Fangzhou Group (FANGZHOU HK)</a> is looking to raise about US$300m in its upcoming Hong Kong IPO.</li>
<li>Fangzhou (FZ) is an online chronic disease management (CDM) service provider in China.</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the not-so-positive aspects of the deal.</li>
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Fangzhou Group (FANGZHOU HK) is looking to raise about US$300m in its upcoming Hong Kong IPO.
Fangzhou (FZ) is an online chronic disease management (CDM) service provider in China.
In this note, we will talk about the not-so-positive aspects of the deal.


Fangzhou Pre-IPO - The Negatives - Hard to Shake off Loss-Making Tendencies

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/fangzhou-group" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:36560:1" rel="noopener">Fangzhou Group (FANGZHOU HK)</a> is looking to raise about US$300m in its upcoming Hong Kong IPO.</li>
<li>Fangzhou (FZ) is an online chronic disease management (CDM) service provider in China.</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the positive aspects of the deal.</li>
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Fangzhou Group (FANGZHOU HK) is looking to raise about US$300m in its upcoming Hong Kong IPO.
Fangzhou (FZ) is an online chronic disease management (CDM) service provider in China.
In this note, we will talk about the positive aspects of the deal.


Fangzhou Pre-IPO - The Positives - Regulatory Changes and COVID Spurred Growth

Overseas Chinese Equities, Aequitas Research

Ming Lu

Overseas Chinese Equities

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<li>The Chinese online game market shrank for the first time in 2022.</li>
<li>Tencent's WeChat plans to launch a cooked food delivery platform.</li>
<li>Douyin dismissed 15% employees in PICO, which is Douyin's virtual reality team.</li>
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The Chinese online game market shrank for the first time in 2022.
Tencent's WeChat plans to launch a cooked food delivery platform.
Douyin dismissed 15% employees in PICO, which is Douyin's virtual reality team.


China Internet Weekly (20Feb2023): Tencent, Douyin, Yunda, Dingdong

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<li>Chinese online game revenue decreased year over year for the first time since the statistic started.</li>
<li>From 2018, the Press and Publishing Administration had significantly reduced the number of new game license.</li>
<li>Short video has been gradually taking time on site from online game.</li>
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Chinese online game revenue decreased year over year for the first time since the statistic started.
From 2018, the Press and Publishing Administration had significantly reduced the number of new game license.
Short video has been gradually taking time on site from online game.


Tencent (700 HK): Game Market Shrinks for the First Time

China

Tencent Holdings Limited operates as an investment holding company. The Company, through its subsidiaries, provides Internet and mobile value-added services (VAS), online advertising, and e-commerce transactions. Tencent Holdings offers services to users worldwide.

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Baidu: Undervalued Cyclical Revenue Growth Acceleration and Margin Expansion Story

In this insight, we analyse Baidu’s search query and digital advertising revenue market share trends, revenue growth outlook, margin expansion...

Wium Malan, CFA

Fangzhou Pre-IPO - The Negatives - Hard to Shake off Loss-Making Tendencies

Fangzhou Group (FANGZHOU HK) is looking to raise about US$300m in its upcoming Hong Kong IPO. In this note, we will talk about the not-so-positive...

Clarence Chu

Fangzhou Pre-IPO - The Positives - Regulatory Changes and COVID Spurred Growth

Fangzhou Group (FANGZHOU HK) is looking to raise about US$300m in its upcoming Hong Kong IPO. In this note, we will talk about the positive aspects...

Clarence Chu

China Internet Weekly (20Feb2023): Tencent, Douyin, Yunda, Dingdong

The Chinese online game market shrank for the first time in 2022. Tencent WeChat plans to launch a food delivery platform. Douyin dismissed 15%...

Ming Lu

Tencent (700 HK): Game Market Shrinks for the First Time

Chinese game revenue decreased for the first time since the statistic started. From 2018, the authorities had significantly reduced the number of...

Ming Lu

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