In today’s briefing:
- Xiaomi (1810 HK) – Riding the Wave. How Option Traders Navigate. Top Trades Analyzed.
- China Retail Weekly (24 Feb 2025): BILI, SAIC, NIO, Mengniu, JD, IQiyi
- Applied Materials (AMAT): Is It The Ultimate Winner in Gate-All-Around Transistor Innovations?
- Hong Kong Single Stock Options Weekly (February 17 – 21): Option Volumes Surge as Rally Narrows
- Tencent/Netease: One Game Approval for Netease in Feb
- CyberArk Software Inc.: How Privileged Access Management Is Becoming a Cybersecurity Goldmine!
- Palo Alto Networks: Why Zero-Trust and Cloud Security Will Drive Massive Growth!
- Waystar Holding: EQT, CPPIB and Bain Capital Cut Their Stakes After Record Year of Growth
- Datadog Inc.: Product Innovations For Sustained Expansion Across Diverse Deployment Scenarios!
- Global Payments: Expansion of Issuer Business with Modernization Efforts to Support Long-Term Growth & Profitability!
Xiaomi (1810 HK) – Riding the Wave. How Option Traders Navigate. Top Trades Analyzed.
- This Insight analyses Xiaomi Corp (1810 HK) tailor-made option strategies traded over the last five trading days on the Hong Kong Exchange. Strategy highlights and volatility context are provided.
- These traders tailor structures to risk budgets and take calculated bets. Strategies are mostly bullish, and exclusively long volatility despite implied volatility in its 98th percentile.
- Call spreads can indicate where bullish traders expect the rally, driven by its own momentum, to peak. One trade suggests a ceiling of 70 by mid-year.
China Retail Weekly (24 Feb 2025): BILI, SAIC, NIO, Mengniu, JD, IQiyi
- In 4Q24, Bilibili’s total revenue increased by 22% YoY and its largest business, value-added services, increased by 24% YoY.
- SAIC president, Mr. Jia, removed 63 mid-level managers in the passenger car department.
- Mengniu raised a profit warning that net profit will plunge by 95% – 99% in 2024.
Applied Materials (AMAT): Is It The Ultimate Winner in Gate-All-Around Transistor Innovations?
- In the first quarter of fiscal year 2025, Applied Materials demonstrated strong performance, achieving record revenue levels that surpassed previous highs.
- The company announced that advanced semiconductors are a significant driver of this growth, supported by trends in technology such as artificial intelligence (AI), which are reshaping the global economy.
- AI, identified as a major transformative technology, has supported approximately a 20% year-over-year growth in global semiconductor sales in 2024, with projections suggesting this market could exceed $1 trillion in annual revenue by 2030.
Hong Kong Single Stock Options Weekly (February 17 – 21): Option Volumes Surge as Rally Narrows
- Mixed bag with narrowing participation, widening distribution of returns but with the highest total option volume since November.
- Option volumes over the past 2 weeks are 80% higher than the prior 3-month average.
- Implied vols weaker across the board with 9 of 11 sectors seeing softer implieds.
Tencent/Netease: One Game Approval for Netease in Feb
- China announced game approval for the February batch. The number of games approved remained at a higher level than 2023.
- The pace of China game approval appears to have accelerated to the same level as pre-tightening.
- Of the companies that we are monitoring, Netease, Zengame got one approval each.
CyberArk Software Inc.: How Privileged Access Management Is Becoming a Cybersecurity Goldmine!
- CyberArk’s 2024 financial performance and strategic initiatives demonstrate a mix of robust growth and cautious optimism for the future.
- The company achieved significant milestones, notably surpassing $1 billion in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and total revenue for the first time.
- This growth was fueled in part by successful integration and performance of recent acquisitions, Venafi and Zilla Security, which expanded CyberArk’s footprint in the identity security market.
Palo Alto Networks: Why Zero-Trust and Cloud Security Will Drive Massive Growth!
- Palo Alto Networks’ performance in the second quarter of fiscal year 2025 highlights both ongoing strengths and emerging challenges intrinsic to its market position and operating landscape.
- The company reported total revenue of $2.26 billion, marking a 14% year-over-year increase, outperforming its top-line expectations.
- This growth was evenly distributed across multiple sectors, with particular strength in subscription services, which saw a 20% rise, underscoring the firm’s robust service-driven revenue stream.
Waystar Holding: EQT, CPPIB and Bain Capital Cut Their Stakes After Record Year of Growth
- Waystar Holding, a provider of mission-critical cloud software for healthcare organizations, priced its public offering of 20M shares of common stock.
- Key selling stockholders, including EQT, CPPIB and Bain Capital offered 20M shares at $40.00 per share and cut their Waystar Holding stakes.
- Waystar Holding will not receive any proceeds from the sale of the shares by the selling stockholders. The company reported revenue growth of ~19% in FY24.
Datadog Inc.: Product Innovations For Sustained Expansion Across Diverse Deployment Scenarios!
- Datadog reported its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2024, revealing a strong performance characterized by a 25% year-over-year revenue increase to $738 million, surpassing the high end of its guidance range.
- The company highlighted robust growth in customer adoption, reporting a rise in its total customer base to approximately 30,000, with significant contributions from customers generating over $100,000 in annual recurring revenue (ARR).
- Notably, Datadog marked the expansion of its key products with infrastructure monitoring contributing over $1.25 billion in ARR and both log management and end-to-end application performance management (APM) exceeding $750 million each.
Global Payments: Expansion of Issuer Business with Modernization Efforts to Support Long-Term Growth & Profitability!
- Global Payments Inc.’s recent earnings call highlighted both the opportunities and challenges the company faces as it seeks to reposition itself in the competitive landscape of commerce solutions.
- During the fourth quarter and throughout 2024, the company reported solid financial and operational outcomes, underscoring a strategic transformation aimed at long-term growth and efficiency.
- From a performance perspective, Global Payments delivered adjusted net revenue growth of 6% for the full year and achieved a record adjusted operating margin, with earnings per share rising by 11%.
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