Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China biotech, Aequitas Research

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

An inquisitive investment analyst with background in both finance and computing. Covering ECM research, biotech, market data analytics.

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China biotech

Hong Kong Buybacks: Hengan, Want Want, MGM

Hong Kong Buybacks: Xiaomi Bought Back HK$500m in a Day

Hong Kong Buybacks: Xiaomi Bought Back $1.5bn in past Two Weeks

Hong Kong Buybacks League Table: Want Want Bought Back 6% of Free-Float in the past Year

Hong Kong Buybacks League Table: Fosun Intl Bought Back HK$142m Shares Last Week

Hong Kong Buybacks League Table: Fosun Intl, Want Want

IPOs and Placements coverage across Asia Pacific

Aequitas Research

We cover all listing across the Asia Pacific along with follow-up placements. As of Dec 2020, our team had covered 539 IPOs with a hit rate of 73.5% and 685 placements with a hit rate of 66.8%.

We combine fundamental bottom-up views with our proprietary quantitative framework to provide a holistic coverage across new listings and placements. Our coverage includes pre-IPO notes before the deal is launched, follow-up analysis once the deal is live and post-listing trading analysis as well.

Event-Driven

<p>Hong Kong Exchange publishes share repurchases by listed companies on a daily basis. In our weekly note, we will provide statistics on top repurchases over one week, one month, one quarter and one year periods ended on Mar 19.</p><p>In the past 7 days, the top 3 companies that repurchased the most shares from the market were <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/mgm-china-holdings-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:472:1" rel="noopener">MGM China Holdings (2282 HK)</a> (HKD 79.6 million worth of buybacks), <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/want-want-china-holdings-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:355:1" rel="noopener">Want Want (151 HK)</a> (HKD 66.0 million worth of buybacks), <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/easyknit-international-hldg" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:18880:1" rel="noopener">Easyknit International Hldg (1218 HK)</a> (HKD 21.6 million worth of buybacks).</p>

Hong Kong Exchange publishes share repurchases by listed companies on a daily basis. In our weekly note, we will provide statistics on top repurchases over one week, one month, one quarter and one year periods ended on Mar 19.In the past 7 days, the top 3 companies that repurchased the most shares from the market were MGM China Holdings (2282 HK) (HKD 79.6 million worth of buybacks), Want Want (151 HK) (HKD 66.0 million worth of buybacks), Easyknit International Hldg (1218 HK) (HKD 21.6 million worth of buybacks).

Hong Kong Buybacks: MGM Bought Back HKD 80m This Week