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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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China Tourism Group Duty Free Corp Ltd (601888 CH)

<ul><li>1H results were reportedly in line with preannouncement, with 1H/2Q revenue growing +29.7%/+38.8% YoY to RMB35.9bn/15.1bn and net profits changing by -1.9%/+13.8% YoY to RMB3.9bn/1.6bn, respectively.</li><li>We hold our view that near-term earnings expectation is settling, and we assert a symmetric earnings outlook for 2H, when visitation momentum to Hainan (7M23: +38% YoY) is likely to hold into the remainder of the year.</li><li>Meanwhile, efforts in upholding a disciplined pricing promotion is bearing fruit, in our view, with 2Q GPM improving 3.8pp QoQ to 32.8%. </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>

1H results were reportedly in line with preannouncement, with 1H/2Q revenue growing +29.7%/+38.8% YoY to RMB35.9bn/15.1bn and net profits changing by -1.9%/+13.8% YoY to RMB3.9bn/1.6bn, respectively.We hold our view that near-term earnings expectation is settling, and we assert a symmetric earnings outlook for 2H, when visitation momentum to Hainan (7M23: +38% YoY) is likely to hold into the remainder of the year.Meanwhile, efforts in upholding a disciplined pricing promotion is bearing fruit, in our view, with 2Q GPM improving 3.8pp QoQ to 32.8%. 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.

CTGDF (601888 CH) – 2Q in Line with Profit Alert; Subtle Recovery Ahead