Smartkarma Daily Briefs

• Besides as nationalistic consumption play, Haier Smart Home (6690 HK) also offers attractive investment theses with bright growth prospects. Despite share price rebound, valuations are still not yet reflecting fundamentals.
• The surge in demand for refrigerators and freezers during the pandemic-led lockdowns has boosted HSH’s business in 4M22 while it will also reap benefits from Rmb depreciation.
• The government’s support of healthy development of residential real estate market will be positive towards smart home appliance demand which HSH is set to gain from its leadership position. 

• Yunkang Group (2325 HK) raised around US$139m in its Hong Kong IPO.
• On its bookbuild, subscription rates were lackluster and market sentiment hasn’t been the greatest.
• Similar recent deals with weak subscription rates had seen subdued listing performances by the end of their respective first weeks.

• JD will continue to close its unprofitable minor businesses in following quarters.
• The growth rate of total revenue slowed down in 1Q21 due to weak demand of home appliance.
• We believe JD has a significant upside despite that the revenue growth will continue to slow down.

• SMIC reported revenue/GM were US$1,869/40% for revenue/GM in 1Q22 respectively. The revenue matched to our expectation, but the GM was exceeding ~8% versus guidance.
• The outlook is a little bit lower than our expectation for revenue/GM to be US$1860-1,897/37-39% in 2Q22 guidance.
• The overall demand situation is growing up although inflation, Russia-Ukraine war, and other factors may affect. 

• Tencent Music (TME US) reported 1Q2022 results today. Revenue declined 15% YoY to RMB6.64bn (vs consensus RMB6.69n) while reported OP dropped 35.7% YoY to RMB749m (vs consensus RMB817m).
• Revenue from Online music services declined YoY for the first time since 2017 while revenue from Social Entertainment services further declined during the quarter.
• We expect TME’s earnings to remain under pressure with increased competition and regulatory restrictions on livestreaming sector.

• Aier’s private placement was approved by the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, but we don’t think it signals a complete policy shift that private medical institutions are welcomed by capital markets.
• The high goodwill impairment risk and medical disputes are great concerns. However, if Aier changes its development mode, its performance growth would probably slow down or becomes uncertain.
• Aier’s Q2 performance could be affected by pandemic/lockdown. Even after continuous corrections, Aier is still overvalued based on current valuation, which has not priced in all the concerns and risks.

• A50 faces key trendline sell/pivot resistance that will cap the rise with HSI nudging back to sell territory with fresh chart lows expected.
• A50 trendline resistance is the bull/bear inflection point. We look for a sell or rejection near 13,700 if not just under this level for  a test on the 12,400.
• HSI 21k sell barrier while watching for HK tech rise to run out of steam near 4,500 resistance.

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