Equity Analyst

Steve Zhou, CFA

Over 13 years of professional experience covering mainly Asian consumer companies in sell-side and buy-side.

Equity Bottom-Up

China Overseas Property / Equity Bottom-Up

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/china-overseas-property-holdings-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:22794:1" rel="noopener">China Overseas Property (2669 HK)</a> announced an acquisition on October 11 of a technical consultancy business from China State Construction Development (830 HK), a sister company. </li>
<li>The deal consideration will be not higher than HKD950m, which amounts to a PE ratio of 17.5x based on estimated 2023 earnings of the acquired business.</li>
<li>In the current extremely shaky market, this kind of deal is very damaging to the market confidence of the stock.  Further derating is likely. </li>
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China Overseas Property (2669 HK) announced an acquisition on October 11 of a technical consultancy business from China State Construction Development (830 HK), a sister company. 
The deal consideration will be not higher than HKD950m, which amounts to a PE ratio of 17.5x based on estimated 2023 earnings of the acquired business.
In the current extremely shaky market, this kind of deal is very damaging to the market confidence of the stock.  Further derating is likely. 


China State Construction Development (830 HK)

China Overseas Property (2669 HK):  Questionable Acquisition From Sister Company