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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.

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Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>3Q25 retail sales growth was all inline, in our view, but that was partially due to CMBI and investors’ low expectation (as industry and macro conditions got worse lately).</li><li>While management highlighted that Oct 2025 sales trend is under pressure with guidance cut for Anta brand, we are also concerned about retail discounts for FILA brand, as its inventories continue to climb, esp. under such a weak macro backdrop.</li><li>We still maintain BUY with a long-run positive view, but we are more cautious in the short run (inline with our decision to downgrade sportswear sector’s rating to MARKET-PERFORM in early Oct 2025).</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>

3Q25 retail sales growth was all inline, in our view, but that was partially due to CMBI and investors’ low expectation (as industry and macro conditions got worse lately).While management highlighted that Oct 2025 sales trend is under pressure with guidance cut for Anta brand, we are also concerned about retail discounts for FILA brand, as its inventories continue to climb, esp. under such a weak macro backdrop.We still maintain BUY with a long-run positive view, but we are more cautious in the short run (inline with our decision to downgrade sportswear sector’s rating to MARKET-PERFORM in early Oct 2025).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.

Anta Sports (2020 HK) - Staying Cautious Even After Guidance Cut

Anta Sports Products

Anta Sports (2020 HK) - Staying Cautious Even After Guidance Cut