Asian Insight Provider - Actionable ideas, CrossASEAN Research

Henry Soediarko

A Long & Short Investment Ideas generator for Asian Equities with 10 years experience in a Hedge fund focused on bottom-up ideas, searching out mispriced ideas and misunderstood investment thesis. Provides on-the-ground insights in various Asian markets with a sway towards ASEAN. Experienced and survived the Asian Financial Crisis in a family business, as well as the Global Financial Crisis in financial markets where lessons learned. It's all about understanding business drivers and navigating business cycles, which has high applicability in generating investment ideas. 

Investment horizon: Mid to Long term

Asian Insight Provider - Actionable ideas

Bluebird (BIRD): Back to Profit, Big Data and BCA

The Week That Was in ASEAN@Smartkarma - Astra International, Bluebird Taxi, and Keppel Restructuring

Bluebird (BIRD): Correlated with PSBB, Beneficiary of WFH to WFO Switch

Comfort Delgro (CD): Undervalued and Recovery in Ridership

CrossASEAN Research

At CrossASEAN Research we strive to produce unbiased and differentiated on the ground insights on companies across South East Asia. Our Research is produced for the most part after face to face meetings and conversations with company management to dig deep into the long term vision and strategy of the companies we cover. We seek to deliver investable and actionable themes on sectors and markets across SE Asia, often in collaboration with other Insight Providers across the region, pooling the vast experience of the analysts within the Smartkarma Ecosystem. We also offer bespoke work and tailor made trips for our clients. 

Insights across South East Asia

Equity Bottom-Up

Indonesia's recovery from the COVID-19 induced pandemic is within a few months away as the inoculation rate in Jakarta has reached 57%, although the rest of the nation's inoculation rate is still at 15%.  
While <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/blue-bird-tbk-pt" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:19482:1" rel="noopener">Blue Bird (BIRD IJ)</a> previously suffered from the Airport Express that took the former's market share in that route, the recent collaboration with PT KAI (National Train of Indonesia) allows Bluebird taxis to be included when customers are booking train tickets, creating a new distribution channel for Bluebird besides its existing partnership with Gojek. 
The downside of owning Bluebird's share right now is quite limited as the mobility lockdown is only months from over thus owning Bluebird right now can be likened to have a long position on a call option. Its share price should trade at least at book value or even higher at 1.2x PBR, implying a potential return of between 76% to 126%.

Indonesia's recovery from the COVID-19 induced pandemic is within a few months away as the inoculation rate in Jakarta has reached 57%, although the rest of the nation's inoculation rate is still at 15%.  
While Blue Bird (BIRD IJ) previously suffered from the Airport Express that took the former's market share in that route, the recent collaboration with PT KAI (National Train of Indonesia) allows Bluebird taxis to be included when customers are booking train tickets, creating a new distribution channel for Bluebird besides its existing partnership with Gojek. 
The downside of owning Bluebird's share right now is quite limited as the mobility lockdown is only months from over thus owning Bluebird right now can be likened to have a long position on a call option. Its share price should trade at least at book value or even higher at 1.2x PBR, implying a potential return of between 76% to 126%. 

Blue Bird (BIRD): New Distribution Channel and Limited Downside.