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

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/li-ning-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:6047:1" rel="noopener">Li Ning (2331 HK)</a> announced yesterday that the company has acquired a HK office project, the Harbour East, from Henderson Land, for a total consideration of HKD2.2bn. </li>
<li>The acquisition is quite unexpected given that Li Ning has had a clean corporate governance track record.</li>
<li>The company now trades at 11x foward PE, assuming no growth in 2023 and 2024 earnings.  It is now a value stock, though the visibility is very low. </li>
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Li Ning (2331 HK) announced yesterday that the company has acquired a HK office project, the Harbour East, from Henderson Land, for a total consideration of HKD2.2bn. 
The acquisition is quite unexpected given that Li Ning has had a clean corporate governance track record.
The company now trades at 11x foward PE, assuming no growth in 2023 and 2024 earnings.  It is now a value stock, though the visibility is very low. 


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