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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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Sunny Optical Technology Group / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Sunny Optical (Sunny)’s FY23 net profit was largely in-line with profit warning, but 2H23 GPM of 14.1% (vs 19% in 2H22) was below expectations due to more intense competition despite spec upgrade and more high-end models in 2H23.</li><li>For 2024 guidance, while mgmt. is conservative on HCM/HLS/VLS shipment, Sunny is positive on smartphone ASP, high-end HLS ramp-up, stable VLS/XR growth, and better GPM recovery in 2H24E.</li><li>We trimmed FY24/25E EPS by 35%/27% to factor in weak 2023 GPM and conservative guidance. </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>

Sunny Optical (Sunny)’s FY23 net profit was largely in-line with profit warning, but 2H23 GPM of 14.1% (vs 19% in 2H22) was below expectations due to more intense competition despite spec upgrade and more high-end models in 2H23.For 2024 guidance, while mgmt. is conservative on HCM/HLS/VLS shipment, Sunny is positive on smartphone ASP, high-end HLS ramp-up, stable VLS/XR growth, and better GPM recovery in 2H24E.We trimmed FY24/25E EPS by 35%/27% to factor in weak 2023 GPM and conservative guidance. 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.

Sunny Optical (2382 HK) - Expectations Reset on Conservative Guidance; Maintain HOLD