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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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Equity Bottom-Up

Maxscend Microelectronics  L / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Maxscend released its FY24 results. Revenue went up by 2.5% YoY to RMB4.5bn, missing CMBI estimates/BBG consensus by 2%/1%.</li><li>NP declined significantly by 64.2% YoY to RMB402mn, missing CMBI estimates/BBG consensus by 28%/21%.</li><li>GPM/NPM declined by 7.0ppt/16.7ppt to 39.5%/9.0% in FY24 (vs. 46.4%/25.6% in FY23) due to margin pressure from subsidiary Xinzhuo’s ramp-up as the company transitions from a fabless model to a fab-lite strategy. </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>

Maxscend released its FY24 results. Revenue went up by 2.5% YoY to RMB4.5bn, missing CMBI estimates/BBG consensus by 2%/1%.NP declined significantly by 64.2% YoY to RMB402mn, missing CMBI estimates/BBG consensus by 28%/21%.GPM/NPM declined by 7.0ppt/16.7ppt to 39.5%/9.0% in FY24 (vs. 46.4%/25.6% in FY23) due to margin pressure from subsidiary Xinzhuo’s ramp-up as the company transitions from a fabless model to a fab-lite strategy. 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.

Maxscend (300782 CH) - LT Prospects Intact; Maintain HOLD on Continued Margin Pressure