APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Ethan Aw

APAC IPOs & Placements

IPOs and Placements coverage across Asia Pacific

Aequitas Research

We cover all listing across the Asia Pacific along with follow-up placements. As of Dec 2020, our team had covered 539 IPOs with a hit rate of 73.5% and 685 placements with a hit rate of 66.8%.

We combine fundamental bottom-up views with our proprietary quantitative framework to provide a holistic coverage across new listings and placements. Our coverage includes pre-IPO notes before the deal is launched, follow-up analysis once the deal is live and post-listing trading analysis as well.

Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/fadu-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:39896:1" rel="noopener">Fadu (440110 KS)</a> raised US$151m in its Korean IPO, after the deal was priced at KRW31,000/share, the top end of its IPO price range.</li>
<li>Fadu is a South Korean fabless semiconductor maker mainly engaged in flash storage technology innovation. Its core products are Enterprise Solid State Drive (SSD) and Enterprise SSDs. </li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the demand for the deal and other trading dynamics.</li>
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Fadu (440110 KS) raised US$151m in its Korean IPO, after the deal was priced at KRW31,000/share, the top end of its IPO price range.
Fadu is a South Korean fabless semiconductor maker mainly engaged in flash storage technology innovation. Its core products are Enterprise Solid State Drive (SSD) and Enterprise SSDs. 
In this note, we will talk about the demand for the deal and other trading dynamics.


Fadu IPO Trading - Strong Subscription Rates Compared to Recent Korean IPOs

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/fadu-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:39896:1" rel="noopener">Fadu (440110 KS)</a> is looking to raise up to US$147m in its Korean IPO.</li>
<li>Fadu is a South Korean fabless semiconductor maker mainly engaged in flash storage technology innovation. Its core products are Enterprise Solid State Drive (SSD) and Enterprise SSDs.</li>
<li>In our previous notes, we looked at the company’s past performance and undertook a peer comparison. In this note, we talk about valuation.</li>
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Fadu (440110 KS) is looking to raise up to US$147m in its Korean IPO.
Fadu is a South Korean fabless semiconductor maker mainly engaged in flash storage technology innovation. Its core products are Enterprise Solid State Drive (SSD) and Enterprise SSDs.
In our previous notes, we looked at the company’s past performance and undertook a peer comparison. In this note, we talk about valuation.


Independent research on the U.S. markets, Baptista Research

Baptista Research

Independent research on the U.S. markets

Baptista Research is an independent financial research house focused on the U.S. markets. We provide equity research as well as credit research reports on the top-listed U.S. companies with most of our focus on technology, consumer goods and services, automobiles, industrials, oil and gas, pharma, and healthcare. Our research has served more than 3000 institutional investors including mutual funds, hedge funds, banks, family offices, and various buy-side firms. We operate a research subscription service where institutions, as well as retail investors, can have priority access to all our research. We also have a wide distribution of our research reports across some of the top global financial platforms. Apart from equity research and credit research, we also provide advisory services with respect to mergers & acquisitions (M&A), private equity/ venture capital fundraising, valuation reports, and investment management services for corporates.
Baptista Research is owned and managed by Ishan Majumdar, an ex-Venture Capitalist/ Investment Banker, a Chartered Accountant, and a Masters’ degree holder in Management from HEC Paris. Ishan has nearly a decade of experience in Mergers and Acquisitions, Leveraged Buyouts (LBOs), Venture Capital Investing, Corporate Strategy, and Valuation in front-office roles at the likes of BNP Paribas CIB, Credit Agricole CIB, Groupe Danone, and TIW Private Equity. He has worked on and closed multiple acquisition deals, leveraged buyouts, and start-up investment transactions.

Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Marvell managed to exceed analyst expectations in terms of revenue as well as earnings.</li><li>The company sees significant opportunities in the AI sector, as AI data centers require high-capacity, low-latency connectivity, driving demand for Marvell's PAM4 optical DSP platform.</li><li>Marvell expects the AI trend to continue growing, with plans to double revenue in fiscal 2024 and at least double it again in fiscal 2025.</li></ul>

Marvell managed to exceed analyst expectations in terms of revenue as well as earnings.The company sees significant opportunities in the AI sector, as AI data centers require high-capacity, low-latency connectivity, driving demand for Marvell's PAM4 optical DSP platform.Marvell expects the AI trend to continue growing, with plans to double revenue in fiscal 2024 and at least double it again in fiscal 2025.

Marvell Technology Inc.: Launch Of Silicon Interconnects A Possible Game Changer? – Key Drivers

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One, Periscope Analytics

Brian Freitas

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One

Periscope Analytics

Periscope Analytics focuses on event-driven trades across Asia Pacific and provides comprehensive, timely and systematic coverage of index changes to major Asia Pacific indices in a structured manner.

The analysis includes forecasted inclusions and exclusions to all major Asian indices that have significant amount of tracking assets, including estimates of passive buy/sell flow on the stocks. The service also provides commentary and impact of market consultations, ground rule changes, and other events (IPOs, spin-offs, M&A) that could lead to index changes and passive flow.

Periscope Analytics works with multi-strategy hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, stat arb trading groups and long-only investors that invest and trade in the Asia Pacific region with the data being used to trade index rebalances, avoid pre-positioning and passive flow, and to time entry into and exit from stocks.

Event-Driven Trades Across Asia Pacific

Event-Driven

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<li>The upcoming rebalance of the MVIS US Listed Semiconductor 25 Index will be implemented on 16 June. There are no constituent changes, but there are float and capping changes.</li>
<li>The VanEck Vectors Semiconductor (SMH US) ETF tracks the index and has an AUM of US$9.26bn.</li>
<li>Estimated one-way turnover is 3.9% resulting in a one-way trade of US$358m. The stocks are extremely liquid, the impact on the stock in terms of ADV to trade is small.</li>
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The upcoming rebalance of the MVIS US Listed Semiconductor 25 Index will be implemented on 16 June. There are no constituent changes, but there are float and capping changes.
The VanEck Vectors Semiconductor (SMH US) ETF tracks the index and has an AUM of US$9.26bn.
Estimated one-way turnover is 3.9% resulting in a one-way trade of US$358m. The stocks are extremely liquid, the impact on the stock in terms of ADV to trade is small.


MVIS US Listed Semiconductor 25 Index Rebalance: Chipping Away

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<ul><li>Semiconductors- “Big Money” Rabid Buying Spree Continues NVIDIA’s (NVDA) and Marvell’s (MRVL) earnings calls and forward guidance delivered this week resulted in earthquake shock re-rating to all things semiconductors on Thursday and Friday.</li><li>On Thursday, NVIDIA’s $198B market cap gain was the largest market cap gain in market history.</li><li>In the first quarter of this year, Microsoft gave clues that artificial intelligence would emerge as the next great computing platform and then this quarter it appears that Wall St. has woken up to the degree of significant data center retooling and infrastructure spending which will be required to support emerging artificial intelligence computing demand.</li></ul>

Semiconductors- “Big Money” Rabid Buying Spree Continues NVIDIA’s (NVDA) and Marvell’s (MRVL) earnings calls and forward guidance delivered this week resulted in earthquake shock re-rating to all things semiconductors on Thursday and Friday.On Thursday, NVIDIA’s $198B market cap gain was the largest market cap gain in market history.In the first quarter of this year, Microsoft gave clues that artificial intelligence would emerge as the next great computing platform and then this quarter it appears that Wall St. has woken up to the degree of significant data center retooling and infrastructure spending which will be required to support emerging artificial intelligence computing demand.

United States

Marvell Technology, Inc. develops and produces semiconductors and related technology. The Company offers security and networking platform, secure data processing, networking, and storage solutions. Marvell Technology serves customers worldwide.

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Fadu IPO Trading - Strong Subscription Rates Compared to Recent Korean IPOs

Fadu (440110 KS) raised US$151m in its Korean IPO. In this note, we will talk about the demand for the deal and other trading dynamics.

Ethan Aw

Fadu IPO - Thoughts on Valuation

Fadu (440110 KS) is looking to raise up to US$147m in its Korean IPO. Previously, we looked at the company’s past performance and undertook a peer...

Ethan Aw

Marvell Technology Inc.: Launch Of Silicon Interconnects A Possible Game Changer? – Key Drivers

Marvell managed to exceed analyst expectations in terms of revenue as well as earnings. The company sees significant opportunities in the AI...

Baptista Research

MVIS US Listed Semiconductor 25 Index Rebalance: Chipping Away

No constituent changes, but there are float/capping changes. Estimated one-way turnover is 3.9% resulting in a one-way trade of US$358m. Stocks are...

Brian Freitas

Weekly Stock Bullfinder - Week of 5/29

Debate around whether artificial intelligence represents a “tech bubble” was seemingly squashed when both NVIDIA and Marvell put robust forward...

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