Overseas Chinese Equities, Aequitas Research

Ming Lu

Overseas Chinese Equities

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 Bottom-Up

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<li>Alibaba CEO’s article appeared on a government journal, which can be a positive signal to non-state-owned companies.</li>
<li>Prosus sells shareholdings in Tencent and JD.com to repurchase its own shares.</li>
<li>Tencent is trying to use game technologies in other fields.</li>
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Alibaba CEO’s article appeared on a government journal, which can be a positive signal to non-state-owned companies.
Prosus sells shareholdings in Tencent and JD.com to repurchase its own shares.
Tencent is trying to use game technologies in other fields.


China Internet Weekly (4Jul2022): Tencent, Alibaba, NetEase, JD.com, Trip.com

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Sumeet Singh

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements

Equity Capital Markets

<ul>
<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>There was a marked pickup in IPO activity with a number of smaller deals, along with two large deals being launched.</li>
<li>There were no major placements last week. In addition, Prosus single handedly took out two prospective large placements.</li>
</ul>


Aequitas Research puts out a weekly update on the deals that were covered by the team recently along with updates for upcoming IPOs.
There was a marked pickup in IPO activity with a number of smaller deals, along with two large deals being launched.
There were no major placements last week. In addition, Prosus single handedly took out two prospective large placements.


ECM Weekly (3rd Jul 2022) - Tianqi, Thai Life, Prosus/Naspers, Tencent, SEA, Soosan, SoCar, Carsales

President, Vision Research

Robert C Prather Jr

President

Vision Research

Vision Research was formed in 2004 with the vision of generating the best possible fundamental analysis and investment research for smid cap US equities. In 2008, we broadened our coverage to include mid/large cap US stocks.  After researching a  few ideas outside the US each year for a number of years, we launched a dedicated non-US equity product at the end of 2015.  This was followed by the introduction of a product focused on IPOs in mid-2017.

Fundamental Insight

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<li>Enterprise storage hardware market faces numerous headwinds and increasing commoditization</li>
<li>STaaS is cannibalistic, facing increasing competition, and decelerated in the MRQ</li>
<li>Each of the last 2 quarters have seen some meaningful, non-recurring revenues lead to PSTG beating estimates</li>
</ul>


Enterprise storage hardware market faces numerous headwinds and increasing commoditization
STaaS is cannibalistic, facing increasing competition, and decelerated in the MRQ
Each of the last 2 quarters have seen some meaningful, non-recurring revenues lead to PSTG beating estimates


Pure Storage (PSTG): Market Leader Facing Commoditization of Its Products

Alpha-Centric ESG Research

Kyle Rudden

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<li>Notwithstanding bright spots and positive long-term outlook, the ESG gold rush has created an acute state of chaos. Regulatory flux. Rampant greenwashing. ESG litigation. Elon and S&amp;P.</li>
<li>The silver lining? New ESG-<em>related</em> investing opportunities emerging from all the chaos; stocks poised to benefit, regardless of who else wins or losses. The new shovel-sellers, as it were.</li>
<li>One large opportunity is driven by new greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting regulations, specifcally leading GHG emissions software-as-a-service (SaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) stocks.</li>
</ul>


Notwithstanding bright spots and positive long-term outlook, the ESG gold rush has created an acute state of chaos. Regulatory flux. Rampant greenwashing. ESG litigation. Elon and S&amp;P.
The silver lining? New ESG-related investing opportunities emerging from all the chaos; stocks poised to benefit, regardless of who else wins or losses. The new shovel-sellers, as it were.
One large opportunity is driven by new greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting regulations, specifcally leading GHG emissions software-as-a-service (SaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) stocks.


Selling Shovels in a Gold Rush: SaaS Stocks Cashing in on Emissions Reporting Rules

Asia biased macro & technical analysis, Untying The Gordian Knot

Untying The Gordian Knot

Asia biased macro & technical analysis

A differentiated process with a primary focus on Asia. Technical Analysis as core and Macro drivers that could bring the view to fruition & changes that could make the idea fall apart. The objective is to be the best in class, hence corner shop.

Technical Analysis

<ul><li>Hong Kong Stocks are more excited than the mainland about cutting the Quarantine period from 14 to 7 days.</li><li>The 25th Anniversary of the Hong Kong handover means more stability ahead of celebrations and trading dominated by position squaring.</li><li>Only Xiaomi shows signs of a breakout. It broke the downtrend from August 2021 with the inside days in the last two trading sessions. It looks like it will test the breakout and cover it next week.</li></ul>

Hong Kong Stocks are more excited than the mainland about cutting the Quarantine period from 14 to 7 days.The 25th Anniversary of the Hong Kong handover means more stability ahead of celebrations and trading dominated by position squaring.Only Xiaomi shows signs of a breakout. It broke the downtrend from August 2021 with the inside days in the last two trading sessions. It looks like it will test the breakout and cover it next week.

Hang Seng Index Constituents 30th June 2022

China

Alibaba Group Holding Limited provides online sales services. The Company provides internet infrastructure, electronic commerce, online financial, and internet content services through its subsidiaries. Alibaba Group Holding offers its products and services worldwide.

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Alibaba Group Holding (BABA US)

China Internet Weekly (4Jul2022): Tencent, Alibaba, NetEase, JD.com, Trip.com

Alibaba CEO’s article appeared on a governmental journal. Prosus sells shareholdings in Tencent and JD.com. Tencent is trying to use game...

Ming Lu

ECM Weekly (3rd Jul 2022) - Tianqi, Thai Life, Prosus/Naspers, Tencent, SEA, Soosan, SoCar, Carsales

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

Pure Storage (PSTG): Market Leader Facing Commoditization of Its Products

Market share losses are likely occurring and the "recurring revenue STaaS" story may be decelerating amidst competition, pricing pressure, and...

Robert C Prather Jr

Selling Shovels in a Gold Rush: SaaS Stocks Cashing in on Emissions Reporting Rules

ESG investing has been complicated by evolving emissions reporting regulations. With the chaos, comes new investment opportunities. Such as in...

Kyle Rudden

Hang Seng Index Constituents 30th June 2022

Mainland opening, but not really. Hong Kong Stocks are more excited than the mainland about cutting the Quarantine period from 14 to 7 days. The...

Untying The Gordian Knot

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