Technical Analyst, Vermilion Research

Joe Jasper

Technical Analyst

Technical and Quantitative Research

Vermilion Research

Vermilion’s objective is to deliver timely, actionable, and unique technical research to professional investors through the application of our various technical indicators.

Our research strategists seek to highlight securities which we believe are at major inflection points, based on our various technical and quantitative indicators, and offer asymmetric risk/return profiles. Our unique research methodology, centered on relative strength, enables our strategists to deliver superior investment recommendations.

Our process begins by organizing the universe of actively traded stocks into discrete sectors, then into industry groups. We then apply our technical and quantitative tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sector or group, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. We provide a historical perspective that often reveals, through our long-term charts, how price patterns often repeat themselves over time.

Technical Analysis

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<li>The MSCI EM vs.EAFE ratio (local currency) shows EM has outperformed relative to EAFE since the DXY peaked in November 2022, and also shows signs of reversing the 2-year downtrend.</li>
<li>As long as the DXY remains below $103.50-$106, we expect outperformance from EM to continue.</li>
<li>China/Hong Kong, Greece, South Africa, and Mexico stand out as attractive countries. Our top actionable Sectors include Communications, Consumer Discretionary, and Technology. We highlight 76 attractive EM stocks.</li>
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The MSCI EM vs.EAFE ratio (local currency) shows EM has outperformed relative to EAFE since the DXY peaked in November 2022, and also shows signs of reversing the 2-year downtrend.
As long as the DXY remains below $103.50-$106, we expect outperformance from EM to continue.
China/Hong Kong, Greece, South Africa, and Mexico stand out as attractive countries. Our top actionable Sectors include Communications, Consumer Discretionary, and Technology. We highlight 76 attractive EM stocks.


EM Outperformance to Continue (Vs. EAFE) -- Add on a Pullback; DXY Needs to Hold Below $106

HK/China Healthcare Analyst (ex-Fosun Pharma)

Xinyao (Criss) Wang

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>The 2022 NRDL negotiation results were released. We analyzed some points worth investor's attention.</li>
<li>The "safety pad" brought by medical insurance is difficult to ensure products future sales.Even after entering NRDL, how to improve patient/doctor coverage is an important problem for enterprises to consider.</li>
<li>Here are some companies that investors are interested in. We mainly analyzed some key points of them, including <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/sirnaomics-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:33804:1" rel="noopener">Sirnaomics (2257 HK)</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/jw-therapeutics" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:29679:1" rel="noopener">JW Therapeutics (2126 HK)</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/antengene-corp-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:29705:1" rel="noopener">Antengene (6996 HK)</a>. </li>
</ul>


The 2022 NRDL negotiation results were released. We analyzed some points worth investor's attention.
The "safety pad" brought by medical insurance is difficult to ensure products future sales.Even after entering NRDL, how to improve patient/doctor coverage is an important problem for enterprises to consider.
Here are some companies that investors are interested in. We mainly analyzed some key points of them, including Sirnaomics (2257 HK), JW Therapeutics (2126 HK), Antengene (6996 HK). 


China Healthcare Weekly (Jan.20) - NRDL Negotiation Results, JW Therapeutics, Sirnaomics, Antengene

Shanghai Junshi Biosciences  / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul>
<li>Junshi once generated sales and profits in scale, but lost money again. Its story suddenly changed from cancer drugs to COVID-19. We have lost sight of its development direction.</li>
<li>Junshi's commercialization history has lost its reference value for confirming the outlook. The calculation of peak sales doesn’t make much sense, because they cannot help Junshi turn losses into profits.</li>
<li>The current market value still has too much “bubble”, and COVID-19 drug is a major “interference” to the valuation. We analyzed our thoughts on future valuation by excluding COVID-19 projects.  </li>
</ul>


Junshi once generated sales and profits in scale, but lost money again. Its story suddenly changed from cancer drugs to COVID-19. We have lost sight of its development direction.
Junshi's commercialization history has lost its reference value for confirming the outlook. The calculation of peak sales doesn’t make much sense, because they cannot help Junshi turn losses into profits.
The current market value still has too much “bubble”, and COVID-19 drug is a major “interference” to the valuation. We analyzed our thoughts on future valuation by excluding COVID-19 projects.  


Shanghai Junshi Bioscience (1877.HK/688180.CH)- Junshi Has Changed Its Story from Tumor to COVID-19?

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>This year's NRDL negotiations could be a turnaround. If the final result really shows a moderate price decline, it will be “a landmark event” for the innovative drug industry.</li>
<li>Starting from 23Q2, with the peak of respiratory disease/COVID-19 outbreak past, the demand for related TCM would weaken. Then, the pullback of TCM would really begin.</li>
<li>Even if biotech initially tells the story of becoming a biopharma to obtain financing, it will not be realized in the end.</li>
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This year's NRDL negotiations could be a turnaround. If the final result really shows a moderate price decline, it will be “a landmark event” for the innovative drug industry.
Starting from 23Q2, with the peak of respiratory disease/COVID-19 outbreak past, the demand for related TCM would weaken. Then, the pullback of TCM would really begin.
Even if biotech initially tells the story of becoming a biopharma to obtain financing, it will not be realized in the end.


China Healthcare Weekly (Jan.1) - NRDL Negotiation Turnaround, Pullback of TCM, Biotech Sales System

Equity Capital Markets

Shandong BoAn Biotechnology  / Equity Capital Markets

<ul>
<li>Without the advantages in product efficacy, production capacity, clinical progress and speed of approval, Boan's products have lost their pricing power in both China and overseas markets.</li>
<li>Due to the lack of differentiation and frontier enough target layout, the product commercialization potential is bound to be more easily questioned, with limited value in the long term.</li>
<li>Even if Boan could go public successfully, investors may not be able to achieve the expected returns because of the unfriendly market sentiment and a lack of liquidity in HKEX. </li>
</ul>


Without the advantages in product efficacy, production capacity, clinical progress and speed of approval, Boan's products have lost their pricing power in both China and overseas markets.
Due to the lack of differentiation and frontier enough target layout, the product commercialization potential is bound to be more easily questioned, with limited value in the long term.
Even if Boan could go public successfully, investors may not be able to achieve the expected returns because of the unfriendly market sentiment and a lack of liquidity in HKEX. 


Pre-IPO Shandong Boan Biotechnology - Conservative About the Outlook

China

Innovent Biologics, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company. The Company develops, manufactures, and distributes monoclonal antibody drug candidates for the treatment of oncology, ophthalmology, autoimmune, cardiovascular, and other diseases. Innovent Biologics serves customers in China.

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Innovent Biologics Inc (1801 HK)

EM Outperformance to Continue (Vs. EAFE) -- Add on a Pullback; DXY Needs to Hold Below $106

EM vs. EAFE ratio (local currency) shows EM has outperformed relative to EAFE since the $DXY peaked in November 2022. If the DXY remains below...

Vermilion Research

China Healthcare Weekly (Jan.20) - NRDL Negotiation Results, JW Therapeutics, Sirnaomics, Antengene

We analyzed 2022 NRDL negotiation result - There're positive sides.The "safety pad" brought by medical insurance coverage may not be high.We...

Xinyao (Criss) Wang

Shanghai Junshi Bioscience (1877.HK/688180.CH)- Junshi Has Changed Its Story from Tumor to COVID-19?

After Junshi's story changed from tumor to COVID-19, we've lost sight of its future direction.The pipeline can't help Junshi turn loss into...

Xinyao (Criss) Wang

China Healthcare Weekly (Jan.1) - NRDL Negotiation Turnaround, Pullback of TCM, Biotech Sales System

This year's NRDL negotiation could be “a landmark event” for innovative drug industry.Pullback of TCM may really begin from 23Q2.We analyzed...

Xinyao (Criss) Wang

Pre-IPO Shandong Boan Biotechnology - Conservative About the Outlook

Due to lack of differentiated/frontier enough target layout and slow progress, Boan's product commercialization potential is highly uncertain....

Xinyao (Criss) Wang

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