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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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Pinduoduo (PDD US): Growth Cadence Matters

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<ul><li>PDD Holdings (PDD) announced (29 Aug) 2Q23 results: revenue was up 66.3% YoY to RMB52.3bn, 22/21% ahead of our/Bloomberg consensus estimates, which we attributable to robust GMV growth and continuous increase in monetization.</li><li>Non-GAAP net income increased by 42% YoY to RMB15.3bn, 41% ahead of consensus, due to operating leverage, sales and marketing spending geared at generating higher GMV from key consumer wallet-share gain categories.</li><li>The strong beat in results echoed our view that in the ecommerce sector PDD has relatively more proactive room to drive GMV growth through targeting bigger consumer wallet share, and further increasing monetization rate given its relatively better ROI compared with peers. </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>

PDD Holdings (PDD) announced (29 Aug) 2Q23 results: revenue was up 66.3% YoY to RMB52.3bn, 22/21% ahead of our/Bloomberg consensus estimates, which we attributable to robust GMV growth and continuous increase in monetization.Non-GAAP net income increased by 42% YoY to RMB15.3bn, 41% ahead of consensus, due to operating leverage, sales and marketing spending geared at generating higher GMV from key consumer wallet-share gain categories.The strong beat in results echoed our view that in the ecommerce sector PDD has relatively more proactive room to drive GMV growth through targeting bigger consumer wallet share, and further increasing monetization rate given its relatively better ROI compared with peers. 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.

PDD Holdings (PDD US) – Consumer Wallet Share Gain Strategy Boosted Revenue and Earnings Growth