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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Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>The privatisation proposal for <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/enn-energy-holdings-limited" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:316:1" rel="noopener">ENN Energy (2688 HK)</a> has lapsed with the parties not extending the Long Stop Date. Hence, the focus will return to fundamentals. </li>
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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/enn-energy-holdings-limited" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:316:1" rel="noopener">ENN Energy (2688 HK)</a> has underperformed the gas utility peers lately, and we do not expect a significant negative reaction. Instead, the removal of overhang should be positive. </li>
<li>It is now the cheapest one in the sector, trading on 7.5x FY26 PER. Its P/B of 0.92x is also the lowest in the last five years.</li>
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The privatisation proposal for ENN Energy (2688 HK) has lapsed with the parties not extending the Long Stop Date. Hence, the focus will return to fundamentals. 

ENN Energy (2688 HK) has underperformed the gas utility peers lately, and we do not expect a significant negative reaction. Instead, the removal of overhang should be positive. 
It is now the cheapest one in the sector, trading on 7.5x FY26 PER. Its P/B of 0.92x is also the lowest in the last five years.


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