Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China biotech, Aequitas Research

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China biotech

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17 Education & Technology Grou / Equity Capital Markets

<p>17 Education is a leading online tuition provider in China. The company was founded by former regional head of New Oriental Education and launched book building to raise up to USD 315m to list in the US.</p><p>In our previous note we discussed that 17 Education has a unique business model whereby it provides a free in-school solution to teachers, students and parents and upsells after-school paid tuition. On one hand, it has a large pool of verified students to upsell its paid after-school tuition. On the other hand, its conversion and market share is low, relative to its addressable market. While a majority of the paid-enrollment came from the in-school pools of students, it still needs to spend the majority of its gross profit as the promotional course expenses. We think it is so far a hard business. Our preliminary assessment suggests that it could take the company until the end of 2022 to reach breakeven. The company had a negative newsflow of administrative warning for its collection of personal data as well as unauthorized in-app purchases for homework related online games. </p><p>In this note, we compared the company's financial performance with its peers. We think the deal is overvalued for its operation, though its business model of user acquisition by providing free in-school solutions is interesting.</p><h2>Our previous coverage on 17 Edu &amp; Tech</h2><ul><li dir="ltr"><p><a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/17-edu-tech-pre-ipo-far-from-profitability" target="_blank" rel="noopener">17 Edu &amp; Tech (一起教育) Pre-IPO: Far from profitability</a></p></li></ul>

17 Education is a leading online tuition provider in China. The company was founded by former regional head of New Oriental Education and launched book building to raise up to USD 315m to list in the US.In our previous note we discussed that 17 Education has a unique business model whereby it provides a free in-school solution to teachers, students and parents and upsells after-school paid tuition. On one hand, it has a large pool of verified students to upsell its paid after-school tuition. On the other hand, its conversion and market share is low, relative to its addressable market. While a majority of the paid-enrollment came from the in-school pools of students, it still needs to spend the majority of its gross profit as the promotional course expenses. We think it is so far a hard business. Our preliminary assessment suggests that it could take the company until the end of 2022 to reach breakeven. The company had a negative newsflow of administrative warning for its collection of personal data as well as unauthorized in-app purchases for homework related online games. In this note, we compared the company's financial performance with its peers. We think the deal is overvalued for its operation, though its business model of user acquisition by providing free in-school solutions is interesting.Our previous coverage on 17 Edu &amp; Tech17 Edu &amp; Tech (一起教育) Pre-IPO: Far from profitability

17 Edu & Tech (一起教育) IPO: Inferior Cost Structure, Overvalued Deal

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Shifara Samsudeen, ACMA, CGMA

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<p><a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/17-education-and-technology-group-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:31033:1" rel="noopener">17 Education and Technology (YQ US)</a>  is a leading education technology company in China with an “in-school + after-school” integrated model which provides offline and online K-12 education products and services in China. The company has set the terms for its IPO and plans to raise net proceeds of US$265.2m at the midpoint of the IPO pricing of US$10.5 per ADS.</p><p>The company plans to use the proceeds from the IPO on improving the operation of after-school tutoring services and student learning experience, enhancing the product offerings and educational content, investing on technology infrastructure, marketing and other related activities.</p><p>In our previous insight on the company’s IPO, we examine the company’s business model and its financials. Find below an extract from our previous insight:</p><div class="content-highlight"><p>It seems that the company does not have a clear path to profitability, and we remain concerned about the growing losses for the business. Given the intense competition in China’s online education market, the companies are forced to spend aggressively on selling and marketing to attract students for their courses/programs. The large growth in the company’s top line during the pandemic had been common across all online education players in China, however, the top line growth comes at the expense of margins. Moreover, with Covid-19 conditions subsiding and the country returning to normalcy, we expect the company’s top line growth to decline over the next few quarters</p></div>

17 Education and Technology (YQ US)  is a leading education technology company in China with an “in-school + after-school” integrated model which provides offline and online K-12 education products and services in China. The company has set the terms for its IPO and plans to raise net proceeds of US$265.2m at the midpoint of the IPO pricing of US$10.5 per ADS.The company plans to use the proceeds from the IPO on improving the operation of after-school tutoring services and student learning experience, enhancing the product offerings and educational content, investing on technology infrastructure, marketing and other related activities.In our previous insight on the company’s IPO, we examine the company’s business model and its financials. Find below an extract from our previous insight:It seems that the company does not have a clear path to profitability, and we remain concerned about the growing losses for the business. Given the intense competition in China’s online education market, the companies are forced to spend aggressively on selling and marketing to attract students for their courses/programs. The large growth in the company’s top line during the pandemic had been common across all online education players in China, however, the top line growth comes at the expense of margins. Moreover, with Covid-19 conditions subsiding and the country returning to normalcy, we expect the company’s top line growth to decline over the next few quarters

17 Edu & Tech IPO Valuation: Fairly Valued at the Lower End of the IPO Pricing

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<p><a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/17-education-and-technology-group-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:31033:1" rel="noopener">17 Education and Technology (YQ US)</a> is an online leading education technology company in China. It ranked fifth in online K-12 large-class after-school tutoring market as measured by gross billing and paid course enrolments in 2019 and 1H20, according to Frost &amp; Sullivan. 17 Education is backed by Shunwei Capital (20.2% shareholder), CITIC Securities (11.6%) and Temasek (11.2%). 17 Education aims to raise net proceeds of $265.2 million through a Nasdaq IPO. </p><p>The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the acceptance of K-12 online after-school tutoring in China. This effect is also expected to extend into the post-pandemic period due to parents’ and students’ increased awareness of the efficiency and effectiveness of online after-school tutoring. However, Chinese online education, particularly K-12 tutoring, is at an early stage of development and greatly relies on large marketing budgets and low-price promotions to drive growth.</p><div class="content-highlight"><p>Within this fierce competitive setting 17 Education cleverly differentiates through its razor-razorblade pricing model that offers offline in-school products free to cross-sell the lucrative online after-school products. Investing in this sector requires acceptance that the high upfront losses are a necessary evil which should generate returns through the lifetime value of K-12 students. For investors comfortable with this dynamic, we believe that 17 Education has attractive fundamentals. </p></div>

17 Education and Technology (YQ US) is an online leading education technology company in China. It ranked fifth in online K-12 large-class after-school tutoring market as measured by gross billing and paid course enrolments in 2019 and 1H20, according to Frost &amp; Sullivan. 17 Education is backed by Shunwei Capital (20.2% shareholder), CITIC Securities (11.6%) and Temasek (11.2%). 17 Education aims to raise net proceeds of $265.2 million through a Nasdaq IPO. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the acceptance of K-12 online after-school tutoring in China. This effect is also expected to extend into the post-pandemic period due to parents’ and students’ increased awareness of the efficiency and effectiveness of online after-school tutoring. However, Chinese online education, particularly K-12 tutoring, is at an early stage of development and greatly relies on large marketing budgets and low-price promotions to drive growth.Within this fierce competitive setting 17 Education cleverly differentiates through its razor-razorblade pricing model that offers offline in-school products free to cross-sell the lucrative online after-school products. Investing in this sector requires acceptance that the high upfront losses are a necessary evil which should generate returns through the lifetime value of K-12 students. For investors comfortable with this dynamic, we believe that 17 Education has attractive fundamentals. 

17 Education & Technology IPO Initiation: Acquired Taste

APAC IPOs & Placements

Zhen Zhou, Toh

JD Health International  / Equity Capital Markets


Aequitas Research puts out a weekly update on the deals that have been covered by the team recently along with updates for upcoming IPOs.




It has been another busy week in the ECM space. There were a few big launches in Hong Kong. Evergrande Property Services (6666 HK) and China Resources Mixc Lifestyle Services (1209 HK) are the two latest property services companies to come to market with deal sizes of US$2bn and US$1.5bn. Both IPOs had substantial support from cornerstone investors. Evergrande Svcs's support came from a long list of China investors whereas CR Mixc pulled in reputable institutional heavy weights such as GIC, Hillhouse, Matthews Funds, CDH and etc.


CR Mixc Lifestyle Services (华润万象生活) IPO - Needs Time to Prove Itself 

Evergrande Services (恒大物业) IPO - Overhang Issues 

Then there was JD Health (6618 HK) US$3.5bn bookbuild launch which also drew interests from a few familiar names, GIC, Tiger Global, BlackRock, Hillhouse and etc. We discussed valuation, updates post Ali Health's results, and index implications in our notes:


JD Health (京东健康) IPO - Ali Health 1H Results Read Through and Index Inclusions 

JD Health (京东健康) IPO - Paying to Ride the Early Innings of Healthcare Transformation 

Other upcoming Hong Kong IPOs that will likely launch in the coming week includes POP MART (POP HK), Harbour Biomed (HMD HK), Sino-Ocean Service (1827597D HK) and Blue Moon Group Holdings (BMG HK) which we have covered them over the past few weeks, including updates from PHIP filing. 


Pop Mart Pre-IPO - PHIP Updates - Still Riding on past Expansion 
Pop Mart Pre-IPO - PHIP - Valuation Updates

Sino-Ocean Services (远洋服务) Pre-IPO - Nothing Stands Out 

Blue Moon Group Pre-IPO - Valuation Updates 

HBM (和珀医药) Pre-IPO: Thoughts on Valuation 

Last but not least, New Horizon Health (NHH HK), which Ke Yan, CFA, FRM has covered this week, will probably list some time next year and expecting to raise up to US$300m


New Horizon Health (诺辉健康) Pre-IPO: A Hot Medical Device Deal in Making 

In Australia, Nuix (NXL AU) will debut this coming Friday while Dalrymple Bay Infrastructure (DBI AT) is expected trade on the Tuesday the week after. We covered them in the two notes:


Nuix Limited IPO -  A Stable and Predictable Niche 

Dalrymple Bay Infrastructure - Highly Curious Timing 

In India, sentiment is gearing to be ready for more IPOs, especially after the strong performance of Gland Pharma (7172753Z IN) last Friday. Burger King India (BKI IN) revealed its bookbuild details and anchor book will open on the 2nd of December. Aside form that, Sumeet Singh also covered Brookfield India REIT's fundamental, positives, and negatives in two notes.


Brookfields India Real Estate Trust Pre-IPO - The Positives- Provides Different Geographic Exposure 
Brookfields India Real Estate Trust Pre-IPO- The Negatives- Asset Details Leave Questions Unanswered
Burger King India Pre-IPO - Has Been Growing Fast and Plans to Grow Even Faster
Burger King India Pre-IPO - Peer Comparison Yields Interesting Nuggets on Profitability and Capex

In the U.S, aside from the incredible rally of recently listed China EVs, there hasn't been much activity. 17 Education and Technology (YQ US) is the latest online tuition provider that is looking to raise up to US$300m. But a major decision will be made next week to decide whether Chinese firms need to comply with audit-oversight rules.


17 Edu &amp; Tech (一起教育) Pre-IPO: Far from Profitability 

Placements this week:


China Hongqiao Placement - Deep Discount for a Big Deal 

ESR Cayman Placement - Back to Sell Again 

Bega Cheese Placement + Entitlement Offer - A Sensible Acquisition 





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Below is a snippet of our IPO tool showing upcoming events for the next week. The IPO tool is designed to provide readers with timely information on all IPO related events (Book open/closing, listing, initiation, lock-up expiry, etc) for all the deals that we have worked on. You can access the tool here or through the tools menu.







News on Upcoming IPOs  





JD Health IPO helps cure Hong Kong market blues after Ant
Large listings poised to push Hong Kong’s funds raised via IPO to 10-year high
Burger King India IPO to open on December 2
House to Vote on Booting Chinese Stocks From U.S. Over Audit Rules




Analysis on Upcoming IPOs






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Blue Moon

Blue Moon Group Pre-IPO - The Positives - Dominant Market Share, Strong Online Sales 



Blue Moon

Blue Moon Group Pre-IPO - The Negatives - Flagging Offline Sales, Not Really a Primary Raising 



Blue Moon

Blue Moon: No. 1 But No Exclusive Advantage, Observation on the Ground 



Blue Moon

Blue Moon Group Pre-IPO - Online Reviews and Peer Comparison 



ByteDance

ByteDance (字节跳动) IPO: How Jinri Toutiao Paves The Way for a Bigger Empire (Part 1)



ByteDance

ByteDance (字节跳动) Pre-IPO: Why Facebook Should Worry About TikTok 



ByteDance

ByteDance (字节跳动) IPO: Tiktok the No.1 Short Video App for a Good Reason (Part 2)



ByteDance

ByteDance (字节跳动) Pre-IPO: How Has It Done in 1H? 



ByteDance

ByteDance: The Unlisted Company’s Video Apps Leading the Market and Threatening Internet Giants 



ByteDance

ByteDance (字节跳动) Pre-IPO: Why Facebook Should Worry About TikTok 



ByteDance

ByteDance (字节跳动) Pre-IPO - Globally the Most Downloaded App for Jan 2020 Driven by India 



ByteDance

ByteDance (字节跳动) Pre-IPO: Global Ambition Meets Regulatory Challenges 



Dida

Dida Pre-IPO - Making Hay While Big Brother Retreats 



E-Star Comm

E-Star Commercial Management Pre-IPO - Better Disclosure in New Prospectus 



E-Star Comm

E-Star Commercial Management Pre-IPO - Still Largely Reliant on Galaxy, Poor Disclosure Doesn’t Help 



Kilcoy

Kilcoy Global Foods Pre-IPO - Rapid Earnings Growth on the Back of Margin Improvement 



Kilcoy

Kilcoy Global Foods Pre-IPO - A Lot of Things Still Remain Unexplained 



Kuaishou

Kuaishou Technology Pre-IPO - The Positives - Hot Segment, Fast Growth 



Kuaishou

Kuaishou Technology Pre-IPO - The Negatives - Ample Doubts Remain 



Megvii

Megvii (旷视) Pre-IPO - Remarkable Growth (Part 1) 


Megvii

Megvii (旷视) Pre-IPO - A Bet on the Future - Segments, Revenue Drivers and Growth Potential 


Megvii

Megvii (旷视) Pre-IPO - The Real Race Is in Research - Founders' Profile and Talent 


Megvii

Megvii (旷视) Pre-IPO - Competitive Landscape and Peer Analysis 


Megvii

Megvii (旷视) Pre-IPO -  Initial Thoughts on Valuation 


Ocumension

Ocumension (欧康维视) Pre-IPO: All Ready for a Great Listing Except a Block Buster 


Pop Mart

Pop Mart Pre-IPO - The Negatives - Is It a Brand Owner or Just a Retailer? 


Pop Mart

Pop Mart Pre-IPO - The Positives - Expanding Portfolio+Wider Distribution= Explosive Earnings Growth 


Pop Mart

Pop Mart Pre-IPO - Peer Set and Valuation 


Pop Mart

Pop Mart Pre-IPO Quick Note - On the Ground - Pop-Up Stores Are Effective 


RemeGen

RemeGen (荣昌生物) Pre-IPO: Thoughts on Valuation of RC18 and RC48 


Toplist

Toplist China Pre-IPO - Overwhelmingly More Negatives than Positives 


Tasly

Tasly Biopharm (天士力生物) IPO: Visible Growth from Approved Drug but Lacks Blockbusters 


WeDoctor

WeDoctor (微医) Pre-IPO -App Walk Through - The Online Medical Directory and More 


WeDoctor

WeDoctor (微医) Pre-IPO - A More Focused Online Medical Svc Provider than Ping An Good Doctor 


India


ASK

ASK Investment Managers Pre-IPO - Riding on a Wave of Wealth 


Anmol Ind
Anmol Industries Pre-IPO Quick Take - No Growth, Generous Payments to Founders


Bharat Hotel

Bharat Hotels Pre-IPO - Catching up with Peers 



Burger King

Burger King India Pre-IPO - Has Been Growing Fast and Plans to Grow Even Faster 



Burger King

Burger King India Pre-IPO - Peer Comparison Yields Interesting Nuggets on Profitability and Capex 



Brookfields REIT

Brookfields India Real Estate Trust Pre-IPO - The Positives- Provides Different Geographic Exposure 



Brookfields REIT

Brookfields India Real Estate Trust Pre-IPO- The Negatives- Asset Details Leave Questions Unanswered 



Bajaj En

Bajaj Energy Pre-IPO - Supposed to Deliver Steady Performance if Only Its Sole Client Would Let It 



CMS Info
CMS Info Systems Pre-IPO - When a PE Sells to Another PE... Only One Gets the Timing Right


Crystal Crop
Crystal Crop Protection Pre-IPO - DRHP Raises More Questions than in Answers


ESAF SFB

ESAF Small Finance Bank Pre-IPO - Growing Fast but Remains Highly Dependant on a Related Party 


Flemingo 
Flemingo Travel Retail Pre-IPO - Its a Different Business in Every Country


Emami Cem

Emami Cement Pre-IPO - Still in Ramp Up Phase but Shares Pledge Might Lead to an Early IPO 


IRFC

Indian Railway Finance Pre-IPO - Low Risk, Low Margin Business 


NSE
NSE IPO Preview- Not Only Fast..its Risky and Expensive


NSE
National Stock Exchange Pre-IPO Review - Bigger, Better, Stronger but a Little Too Fast for Some


Mrs. Bector
Mrs. Bectors Food Specialities Pre-IPO Quick Take - Sales for Its Main Segment Have Been Sta



LIC


Life Insurance Corporation of India Pre-IPO - Early Take on India's Largest IPO 



Lodha

Lodha Developers Pre-IPO - Second Time Lucky but Not Really that Much Affordable


Lodha
Lodha Developers IPO: Presence in Affordable Segment Saves Lodha the Blushes in a Sluggish Mkt


Penna Cem

Penna Cement - Aggressive Expansion Plans Even Though Past Performance Has Been Tepid 


PNB Met
PNB Metlife Pre-IPO Quick Take - Doesn't Stack up Well Versus Its Larger Peers


Samhi Hotels

Samhi Hotels Pre-IPO - Assets and Borrowings Are Growing, but Earnings Haven’t Kept Pace 


Malaysia


QSR
QSR Brands Pre-IPO - As Healthy as Fast Food


Thailand


PTTOR

PTT Oil and Retail IPO - F&amp;B Business Is the Profit Driver 


The U.S


CDP

CDP Holdings Pre-IPO Review - Highly Reliant on Best Inc. 


CloudMinds
CloudMinds Inc Early Thoughts - Still Nascent





ECM Weekly (29 November 2020) - JD Health, Evergrande Svcs, CR Svcs, Pop Mart, Nuix and More

<p><a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/17-education-and-technology-group-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:31033:1" rel="noopener">17 Education and Technology (YQ US)</a>  is a leading education technology company in China with an “in-school + after-school” integrated model which provides offline and online K-12 education products and services in China. Online K-12 tutoring service accounted for more than 90% of the company’s revenues in 9M20.</p><p>The company has filed for an IPO to list its shares in the US and has a placeholder indication to raise about US$100m. In this insight, we examine the company’s business model, its segments, revenues and margins.</p>

17 Education and Technology (YQ US)  is a leading education technology company in China with an “in-school + after-school” integrated model which provides offline and online K-12 education products and services in China. Online K-12 tutoring service accounted for more than 90% of the company’s revenues in 9M20.The company has filed for an IPO to list its shares in the US and has a placeholder indication to raise about US$100m. In this insight, we examine the company’s business model, its segments, revenues and margins.

17 Education & Tech IPO: Another Online Education Provider with No Clear Path to Profitability

China

17 Education & Technology Group Inc. operates as a education technology company. The Company offers data-driven teaching, learning, and assessment products to teachers, students, and parents with online tutoring courses and in-school classroom solutions. 17 Education & Technology Group serves customers in China.

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17 Education & Technology Grou (YQ US)

17 Edu & Tech (一起教育) IPO: Inferior Cost Structure, Overvalued Deal

We think the deal is overvalued for its operation, though its business model of user acquisition by providing free in-school solutions is interesting.

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

17 Edu & Tech IPO Valuation: Fairly Valued at the Lower End of the IPO Pricing

17 Education and Technology has set the terms for its IPO and plans to raise net proceeds of US$265.2m at the midpoint of the IPO pricing of...

Shifara Samsudeen, ACMA, CGMA

17 Education & Technology IPO Initiation: Acquired Taste

17 Education aims to raise net proceeds of $265.2 million through a Nasdaq IPO. In a fiercely competitive market, 17 Education has a unique...

Arun George

ECM Weekly (29 November 2020) - JD Health, Evergrande Svcs, CR Svcs, Pop Mart, Nuix and More

A few big IPOs launched in Hong Kong this week, namely, JD Health, Evergrande Services, and CR Mixc Services. Interestingly, the trio drew strong...

Zhen Zhou, Toh

17 Education & Tech IPO: Another Online Education Provider with No Clear Path to Profitability

17 Education & Technology is a leading education technology company in China with an “in-school + after-school” integrated model which provides...

Shifara Samsudeen, ACMA, CGMA

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