HK/China Equity Long-Short

Osbert Tang, CFA

Osbert Tang is an equity analyst with over 20 years of experience with focuses on China transport, infrastructure, industrials and utilities sectors. He has been based in Shanghai since 2003, accumulated nearly 20 years of on-ground knowledge on the Chinese economy and financial markets, and has a wealth of contacts with China corporates and government entities. 

Osbert has received votes from top-tier institutional investors and has been a highly-ranked transport and infrastructure analyst in the Asiamoney, Institutional Investors and Greenwich surveys. In addition to his extensive experience with international investment banks including RBS, ABN AMRO (both served as Shanghai Chief Representative), Paribas Asia Equity, Maybank Kim Eng and DBS Securities, he has been a senior analyst with Moody’s Investors Service with focus on ratings of China infrastructure and related LGFV issuers. He has also worked in the area of strategic development at Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited. 

Osbert holds a BBA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and a MSSc in Applied Psychology from the City University of Hong Kong. He was accredited with the CFA charter in 1997, and is a member of both British Psychological Society and Hong Kong Psychological Society.

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China Tourism Group Duty Free Corp Ltd / Equity Bottom-Up

China Tourism Group Duty Free Corp Ltd (601888 CH)

<p>We believe <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/china-tourism-group-duty-free-corp-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:12278:1" rel="noopener">China Tourism Group Duty Free Corp Ltd (601888 CH)</a> (CTG Duty Free) will maintain its solid sales momentum in 2Q21, given the positive Hainan duty free sales figures (estimated monthly average of Rmb5bn in Apr and May) as released by the Department of Commerce and good tourist arrival trend in Apr (-1.3% MoM, vs. -13.1% MoM in Apr 2019). We also project an EPS CAGR of 49.2% between FY20 and FY23 with ROE of over 40% consistently.</p><p>CTG Duty Free's Board has approved its proposed H-share issue, with new shares to be issued amounting to 9.2% of existing capital (including greenshoe). We estimate that the issue may raise HK$47-66bn, making it one of the largest IPOs in Hong Kong in this year.  In our view, the stock should attract good interests given its unique consumption exposure, leadership position and sizeable market capitalisation. </p>

We believe China Tourism Group Duty Free Corp Ltd (601888 CH) (CTG Duty Free) will maintain its solid sales momentum in 2Q21, given the positive Hainan duty free sales figures (estimated monthly average of Rmb5bn in Apr and May) as released by the Department of Commerce and good tourist arrival trend in Apr (-1.3% MoM, vs. -13.1% MoM in Apr 2019). We also project an EPS CAGR of 49.2% between FY20 and FY23 with ROE of over 40% consistently.CTG Duty Free's Board has approved its proposed H-share issue, with new shares to be issued amounting to 9.2% of existing capital (including greenshoe). We estimate that the issue may raise HK$47-66bn, making it one of the largest IPOs in Hong Kong in this year.  In our view, the stock should attract good interests given its unique consumption exposure, leadership position and sizeable market capitalisation. 

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