External broker reports(aggregated public sources), CMB International

CMB International

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.

External broker reports(aggregated public sources)

Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>AIA delivered broadly in-line FY25 results with VONB growing 15% CER (or 17% AER) to US$5,516mn, while the new US$1.7bn share buyback for FY26 was a positive surprise in addition to US$2.6bn total dividends (+10% YoY).</li><li>4Q VONB moderated to US$1.2bn, up 9.7% YoY, slower than a 27% rise in 3Q25 (US$1.48bn).</li><li>Margin saw a broad-based expansion except in SG (-3.4pct), at 58.5% in the Group level, up 3.6pct YoY, a slight beat vs our estimate (Table), thanks to a favourable product mix in HK (+3.0pct) and TH (+11.4pct) alongside the repricing benefit from mainland China market in 3Q25 (+1.4pct). </li></ul><p><em>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.</em></p>

AIA delivered broadly in-line FY25 results with VONB growing 15% CER (or 17% AER) to US$5,516mn, while the new US$1.7bn share buyback for FY26 was a positive surprise in addition to US$2.6bn total dividends (+10% YoY).4Q VONB moderated to US$1.2bn, up 9.7% YoY, slower than a 27% rise in 3Q25 (US$1.48bn).Margin saw a broad-based expansion except in SG (-3.4pct), at 58.5% in the Group level, up 3.6pct YoY, a slight beat vs our estimate (Table), thanks to a favourable product mix in HK (+3.0pct) and TH (+11.4pct) alongside the repricing benefit from mainland China market in 3Q25 (+1.4pct). 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.

AIA Group Ltd. (1299 HK) - US$1.7bn buyback a +VE surprise; lift TP to HK$112