HK/China Equity Long-Short

Osbert Tang, CFA

Osbert Tang is an equity analyst with over 20 years of experience with focuses on China transport, infrastructure, industrials and utilities sectors. He has been based in Shanghai since 2003, accumulated nearly 20 years of on-ground knowledge on the Chinese economy and financial markets, and has a wealth of contacts with China corporates and government entities. 

Osbert has received votes from top-tier institutional investors and has been a highly-ranked transport and infrastructure analyst in the Asiamoney, Institutional Investors and Greenwich surveys. In addition to his extensive experience with international investment banks including RBS, ABN AMRO (both served as Shanghai Chief Representative), Paribas Asia Equity, Maybank Kim Eng and DBS Securities, he has been a senior analyst with Moody’s Investors Service with focus on ratings of China infrastructure and related LGFV issuers. He has also worked in the area of strategic development at Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited. 

Osbert holds a BBA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and a MSSc in Applied Psychology from the City University of Hong Kong. He was accredited with the CFA charter in 1997, and is a member of both British Psychological Society and Hong Kong Psychological Society.

Equity Bottom-Up

Singamas Container Holdings / Equity Bottom-Up

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/singamas-container-holdings" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:13602:1" rel="noopener">Singamas Container Holdings (716 HK)</a> is interesting in that it has a net cash of US$300m (HK$2.35bn), but its market capitalisation is only HK$1.5bn. </li>
<li>This is a possible privatisation candidate given the steep discount to cash. The thin trading volume made it difficult to function as a financing platform.</li>
<li>Business-Wise, it should have passed the trough as global container box plant utilisation is expected to improve in the next two years, driving profitability recovery.</li>
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Singamas Container Holdings (716 HK) is interesting in that it has a net cash of US$300m (HK$2.35bn), but its market capitalisation is only HK$1.5bn. 
This is a possible privatisation candidate given the steep discount to cash. The thin trading volume made it difficult to function as a financing platform.
Business-Wise, it should have passed the trough as global container box plant utilisation is expected to improve in the next two years, driving profitability recovery.


China International Marine Cntnrs Gp (2039 HK)

China International Marine Containers A (000039 CH)

Singamas (716 HK): Net Cash 1.6x of Market Cap, Why Not Privatise?