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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.

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AK Medical Holdings Limited / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>1H23 earnings was in line with CMBI and consensus estimates.</li><li>AK Medical reported 1H23 revenue of RMB648.7mn, up 22.1% YoY, primarily driven by the significant revenue growth of knee replacement implants and non-VBP products.</li><li>Gross profit was RMB338.5mn, up 9.8% YoY. Gross profit margin fell 1.8 ppts to 61.9% (vs. 63.7% in 1H22) due to the implementation of national VBP of joint implants since April 2022. </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>

1H23 earnings was in line with CMBI and consensus estimates.AK Medical reported 1H23 revenue of RMB648.7mn, up 22.1% YoY, primarily driven by the significant revenue growth of knee replacement implants and non-VBP products.Gross profit was RMB338.5mn, up 9.8% YoY. Gross profit margin fell 1.8 ppts to 61.9% (vs. 63.7% in 1H22) due to the implementation of national VBP of joint implants since April 2022. 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.

AK Medical (1789 HK) – Solid Growth Driven by Increasing Non-VBP Sales