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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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Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Maintain HOLD. Despite NIO’s 3Q23 earnings beat on R&amp;D and SG&amp;A, its 4Q23 sales guidance could imply a tough FY24, in our view.</li><li>We see little chance for NIO to achieve double-digit GPM in FY24E given the lingering drag from battery swap.</li><li>We believe the limited GPM lift from the completion of the NT2.0 shift and acquiring plants from JAC (600418 CH, NR) could not offset its heavy SG&amp;A and R&amp;D, even as it finally plans to cut non-core projects. </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>

Maintain HOLD. Despite NIO’s 3Q23 earnings beat on R&amp;D and SG&amp;A, its 4Q23 sales guidance could imply a tough FY24, in our view.We see little chance for NIO to achieve double-digit GPM in FY24E given the lingering drag from battery swap.We believe the limited GPM lift from the completion of the NT2.0 shift and acquiring plants from JAC (600418 CH, NR) could not offset its heavy SG&amp;A and R&amp;D, even as it finally plans to cut non-core projects. 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.

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