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

OmniVision Integrated Circuits Group / Equity Capital Markets

OmniVision Integrated Circuits Group (603501 CH)

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/will-semiconductor-co-ltd-shan" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:28274:1" rel="noopener">Omnivision Intgrated Circuit (603501 CH, </a>OVIC), a semiconductor company, aims to raise around US$1bn in its H-share listing.</li>
<li>OVIC, is the world’s third largest smartphone CIS and the largest automotive CIS provider with a market share of 32.9% based on revenue in 2024, according to Frost &amp; Sullivan</li>
<li>We have looked at the company’s past performance in our previous note. In this note, we talk about the recent updates and likely A/H premium.</li>
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Omnivision Intgrated Circuit (603501 CH, OVIC), a semiconductor company, aims to raise around US$1bn in its H-share listing.
OVIC, is the world’s third largest smartphone CIS and the largest automotive CIS provider with a market share of 32.9% based on revenue in 2024, according to Frost &amp; Sullivan
We have looked at the company’s past performance in our previous note. In this note, we talk about the recent updates and likely A/H premium.


OmniVision Integrated Circuits Group A/H Listing - PHIP Updates and Thoughts on A/H Premium

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Omnivision (<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/will-semiconductor-co-ltd-shan" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:28274:1" rel="noopener">Will Semiconductor 603501 CH)</a>  (OVIC, 603501 CH), a semiconductor company, aims to raise around US$1bn in its H-share listing.</li>
<li>OVIC, is the world’s third largest smartphone CIS and the largest automotive CIS provider with a market share of 32.9% based on revenue in 2024, according to Frost &amp; Sullivan</li>
<li>In this note, we look at its past performance and other deal dynamics that might impact the listing.</li>
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Omnivision (Will Semiconductor 603501 CH)  (OVIC, 603501 CH), a semiconductor company, aims to raise around US$1bn in its H-share listing.
OVIC, is the world’s third largest smartphone CIS and the largest automotive CIS provider with a market share of 32.9% based on revenue in 2024, according to Frost &amp; Sullivan
In this note, we look at its past performance and other deal dynamics that might impact the listing.


OmniVision Integrated Circuits Group (Will Semicon) A/H Listing - Earnings Have Been Recovering

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<a href="https://smartkarma.com/entities/will-semiconductor-co-ltd-shan">Will Semiconductor</a> has established itself as a global top-three supplier of CMOS Image Sensors (CIS) following its strategic acquisition of OmniVision, with a particularly dominant position in the automotive sector.</li>
 <li>The company is experiencing a significant financial turnaround, with strong revenue and net profit growth in 2024 and the first half of 2025, recovering from a cyclical downturn in 2023. This recovery is primarily driven by the automotive and emerging IoT segments.</li>
 <li>Future growth is contingent on continued expansion in the automotive ADAS and smart cockpit markets, successful penetration of new IoT applications, and navigating the cyclical and highly competitive smartphone market, which remains a key exposure.</li>
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Will Semiconductor has established itself as a global top-three supplier of CMOS Image Sensors (CIS) following its strategic acquisition of OmniVision, with a particularly dominant position in the automotive sector.
  The company is experiencing a significant financial turnaround, with strong revenue and net profit growth in 2024 and the first half of 2025, recovering from a cyclical downturn in 2023. This recovery is primarily driven by the automotive and emerging IoT segments.
  Future growth is contingent on continued expansion in the automotive ADAS and smart cockpit markets, successful penetration of new IoT applications, and navigating the cyclical and highly competitive smartphone market, which remains a key exposure.
This content is AI-generated and displayed for general informational purposes only. Please verify independently before use.

Primer: Will Semiconductor (603501 CH) - Oct 2025

Technical Analyst, Vermilion Research

Joe Jasper

Technical Analyst

Technical and Quantitative Research

Vermilion Research

Vermilion’s objective is to deliver timely, actionable, and unique technical research to professional investors through the application of our various technical indicators.

Our research strategists seek to highlight securities which we believe are at major inflection points, based on our various technical and quantitative indicators, and offer asymmetric risk/return profiles. Our unique research methodology, centered on relative strength, enables our strategists to deliver superior investment recommendations.

Our process begins by organizing the universe of actively traded stocks into discrete sectors, then into industry groups. We then apply our technical and quantitative tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sector or group, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. We provide a historical perspective that often reveals, through our long-term charts, how price patterns often repeat themselves over time.

Technical Analysis

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<li>Our outlook remains bullish on global equities (MSCI ACWI). We've been bullish since early-November 2023, save for a two month period from late-July to late-September 2024 when we were neutral.</li>
<li>We also believe the U.S. dollar (DXY) and Treasury yields have put in major tops, which is a crucial risk-on signal for global equities.</li>
<li>With more and more countries breaking out, we remain bullish as long as ACWI-US is above $116, S&amp;P 500 is above 5770-5850, and EURO STOXX 50 is above 5030.</li>
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Our outlook remains bullish on global equities (MSCI ACWI). We've been bullish since early-November 2023, save for a two month period from late-July to late-September 2024 when we were neutral.
We also believe the U.S. dollar (DXY) and Treasury yields have put in major tops, which is a crucial risk-on signal for global equities.
With more and more countries breaking out, we remain bullish as long as ACWI-US is above $116, S&amp;P 500 is above 5770-5850, and EURO STOXX 50 is above 5030.


Major Top for the U.S. Dollar (DXY) = Risk-On; Bullish Outlook Despite Near-Term Downside Risk

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.

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul><li>On 10 Nov, AI Start up Humane, founded by ex-Apple engineers, has officially launched the AI Pin, an OpenAI-powered wearable.</li><li>We believe this is a promising catalyst for the imminent surge in AI-driven consumer products.</li><li>Tech giants are increasingly positioned to discover new revenue streams through integrating AI tech into consumer products, services, or in any financially sustainable manner. </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.

On 10 Nov, AI Start up Humane, founded by ex-Apple engineers, has officially launched the AI Pin, an OpenAI-powered wearable.We believe this is a promising catalyst for the imminent surge in AI-driven consumer products.Tech giants are increasingly positioned to discover new revenue streams through integrating AI tech into consumer products, services, or in any financially sustainable manner. 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.

Will Humane’s AI-Powered Screenless Device Become the Successor to Smartphones?

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OmniVision Integrated Circuits Group, Inc. manufactures image sensor and semiconductor products. The Company produces and sells complementary metal oxide semiconductors, protecting devices, power devices, power management integrated circuits, radio frequency devices, microphone sensors, and more. OmniVision Integrated Circuits Group markets its products worldwide.

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OmniVision Integrated Circuits Group A/H Listing - PHIP Updates and Thoughts on A/H Premium

Omnivision Intgrated Circuit (603501 CH, OVIC), a semiconductor company, aims to raise around US$1bn in its H-share listing. In this note, we talk...

Sumeet Singh

OmniVision Integrated Circuits Group (Will Semicon) A/H Listing - Earnings Have Been Recovering

Omnivision (603501 CH), a semiconductor company, aims to raise around US$1bn in its H-share listing. It has filed its PHIP, we had looked at its...

Sumeet Singh

Primer: Will Semiconductor (603501 CH) - Oct 2025

Will Semiconductor has established itself as a global top-three supplier of CMOS Image Sensors (CIS) following its strategic acquisition of...

αSK Primers

Major Top for the U.S. Dollar (DXY) = Risk-On; Bullish Outlook Despite Near-Term Downside Risk

Major Top for the U.S. Dollar $DXY = Risk-On; Bullish Outlook Intact on $ACWI despite near-term downside risk. We remain bullish if $ACWI > $116,...

Vermilion Research

Will Humane’s AI-Powered Screenless Device Become the Successor to Smartphones?

On 10 Nov, AI Start up Humane, founded by ex-Apple engineers, has officially launched the AI Pin, an OpenAI-powered wearable.

CMB International

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