Head of Research, IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Sumeet Singh

Head of Research, 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/trial-holdings-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:36821:1" rel="noopener">Trial Holdings (5882 JP)</a> (TH) raised around US$259m after pricing its IPO at the top-end in its Japan IPO.</li>
<li>TH operates a network of retail stores that offer one-stop shopping under its everyday low price model, across a variety of daily necessities, food items and other products.</li>
<li>We have looked at the company’s past performance in our previous notes. In this note, we talk about the trading dynamics.</li>
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Trial Holdings (5882 JP) (TH) raised around US$259m after pricing its IPO at the top-end in its Japan IPO.
TH operates a network of retail stores that offer one-stop shopping under its everyday low price model, across a variety of daily necessities, food items and other products.
We have looked at the company’s past performance in our previous notes. In this note, we talk about the trading dynamics.


Trial Holdings IPO Trading - Demand and Valuation Are Towards the Higher Side

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<li>Aequitas Research puts out a weekly update on the deals that were covered by the team recently along with updates for upcoming IPOs.</li>
<li>On the IPO front, Hong Kong appears to be heading towards its first US$100m+ IPO for the year.</li>
<li>For placements, after a flurry of placements in the prior week, past week was relatively quiet with only the US$2bn <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/itc-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:327:1" rel="noopener">ITC Ltd (ITC IN)</a> block.</li>
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Aequitas Research puts out a weekly update on the deals that were covered by the team recently along with updates for upcoming IPOs.
On the IPO front, Hong Kong appears to be heading towards its first US$100m+ IPO for the year.
For placements, after a flurry of placements in the prior week, past week was relatively quiet with only the US$2bn ITC Ltd (ITC IN) block.


ECM Weekly (18th Mar 2024) - ITC, Interglobe (Indigo), MS&AD, GlobalWafer, Belle, Auntea, Trial

Asia L/S Equity PM/Macro/Thematic Idea Generation

Rikki Malik

Macroeconomics

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<li>US economic data while surprising on the upside fails to buoy the USD vs the JPY</li>
<li>BOJ awaiting shunto talks for more evidence of a sustained move out of deflation</li>
<li>What are the implications for global markets if mass repatriation of Japanese capital</li>
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US economic data while surprising on the upside fails to buoy the USD vs the JPY
BOJ awaiting shunto talks for more evidence of a sustained move out of deflation
What are the implications for global markets if mass repatriation of Japanese capital


The Bank of Japan Plays Footsie with the Market-Will They or Won’t They?

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Equity Bottom-Up

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/idec-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:19312:1" rel="noopener">IDEC Corp (6652 JP)</a> is a comprehensive manufacturer and vendor of control equipment, especially human-machine interface (HMI) devices such as switches.</li>
<li>For FY03/23, the company reported revenue of JPY83.9bn, operating profit of JPY14.0bn, recurring profit of JPY14.4bn, and net income of JPY10.1bn, with EPS of JPY348.4.</li>
<li>The company achieved its FY03/25 targets two years ahead of schedule, prompting management to announce upwardly revised targets for the same year in May 2023.</li>
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IDEC Corp (6652 JP) is a comprehensive manufacturer and vendor of control equipment, especially human-machine interface (HMI) devices such as switches.
For FY03/23, the company reported revenue of JPY83.9bn, operating profit of JPY14.0bn, recurring profit of JPY14.4bn, and net income of JPY10.1bn, with EPS of JPY348.4.
The company achieved its FY03/25 targets two years ahead of schedule, prompting management to announce upwardly revised targets for the same year in May 2023.


Shanghai REFIRE Group / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/shanghai-refire-group" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:40952:1" rel="noopener">Shanghai REFIRE Group</a> (SRG) is looking to raise around US$100m in its upcoming Hong Kong IPO. The bookrunner for the deal is CICC.</li>
<li>SRG designs, develops, manufactures, and sells hydrogen fuel cell systems, hydrogen production systems, and related components, as well as provides fuel cell engineering and technical services.</li>
<li>According to Frost &amp; Sullivan (F&amp;S), it ranked first in the hydrogen fuel cell system market in China, with a market share of 25.9%.</li>
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Shanghai REFIRE Group (SRG) is looking to raise around US$100m in its upcoming Hong Kong IPO. The bookrunner for the deal is CICC.
SRG designs, develops, manufactures, and sells hydrogen fuel cell systems, hydrogen production systems, and related components, as well as provides fuel cell engineering and technical services.
According to Frost &amp; Sullivan (F&amp;S), it ranked first in the hydrogen fuel cell system market in China, with a market share of 25.9%.


Japan

Toyota Motor Corporation manufactures, sells, leases, and repairs passenger cars, trucks, buses, and their related parts worldwide. The Company also operates financing services through their subsidiaries. Toyota Motor builds homes, produces pleasure boats, and develops intelligent transportation systems including radar cruise control and electronic toll collection systems.

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Toyota Motor (7203 JP)

Trial Holdings IPO Trading - Demand and Valuation Are Towards the Higher Side

Trial Holdings (5882 JP) (TH) raised around US$259m after pricing its IPO at the top-end in its Japan IPO. In this note, we talk about the trading...

Sumeet Singh

ECM Weekly (18th Mar 2024) - ITC, Interglobe (Indigo), MS&AD, GlobalWafer, Belle, Auntea, Trial

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

Sumeet Singh

The Bank of Japan Plays Footsie with the Market-Will They or Won’t They?

Potential impact on global markets from Japanese capital repatriation. Despite positive US economic data, the USD is no longer strengthening...

Rikki Malik

IDEC (6652): Q3 FY03/24 Update

IDEC Corp is a leading manufacturer of control equipment, surpassing FY03/25 targets ahead of schedule and revising them upwards.

Shared Research

Shanghai REFIRE Group Pre-IPO Tearsheet

Shanghai REFIRE Group (SRG) is looking to raise around US$100m in its upcoming Hong Kong IPO. The bookrunner for the deal is CICC.

Sumeet Singh

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Trial Holdings IPO Trading - Demand and Valuation Are Towards the Higher Side

Trial Holdings (5882 JP) (TH) raised around US$259m after pricing its IPO at the top-end in its Japan IPO. In this note, we talk about the trading...

Sumeet Singh

ECM Weekly (18th Mar 2024) - ITC, Interglobe (Indigo), MS&AD, GlobalWafer, Belle, Auntea, Trial

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

Sumeet Singh

The Bank of Japan Plays Footsie with the Market-Will They or Won’t They?

Potential impact on global markets from Japanese capital repatriation. ​Despite positive US economic data, the USD is no longer strengthening...

Rikki Malik

IDEC (6652): Q3 FY03/24 Update

​IDEC Corp is a leading manufacturer of control equipment, surpassing FY03/25 targets ahead of schedule and revising them upwards.

Shared Research

Shanghai REFIRE Group Pre-IPO Tearsheet

Shanghai REFIRE Group (SRG) is looking to raise around US$100m in its upcoming Hong Kong IPO. The bookrunner for the deal is CICC.

Sumeet Singh

Potential impact on global markets from Japanese capital repatriation. Despite positive US economic data, the USD is no longer strengthening...

IDEC Corp is a leading manufacturer of control equipment, surpassing FY03/25 targets ahead of schedule and revising them upwards.