HK/China Healthcare Analyst (ex-Fosun Pharma)

Xinyao (Criss) Wang

Equity Bottom-Up

Alibaba Health Information Tec / Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Although Alibaba Health turned loss into profit in FY23H1, it was mainly benefited from the obvious effect of expenses control,which isn’t a long-term solution to achieve the goal of profit. </li>
<li>Alibaba Health has a more difficult problem. The logic of relying on multiple entrances to obtain customers to drive online drug sales has failed to bring higher revenue growth.</li>
<li>In other to keep sustainable growth, it’s important for Alibaba Health to further improve user conversion rate. It is also urgent to actively expand new business growth points.</li>
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Although Alibaba Health turned loss into profit in FY23H1, it was mainly benefited from the obvious effect of expenses control,which isn’t a long-term solution to achieve the goal of profit. 
Alibaba Health has a more difficult problem. The logic of relying on multiple entrances to obtain customers to drive online drug sales has failed to bring higher revenue growth.
In other to keep sustainable growth, it’s important for Alibaba Health to further improve user conversion rate. It is also urgent to actively expand new business growth points.


Alibaba Health Information Technology (241.HK) FY23H1 - Concerns Behind the Performance Turnaround

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

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China biotech

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.

Quantitative Analysis

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<li>We analyze the weekly Hong Kong Connect flows with our data engine for holding position as of December 9th.</li>
<li>The top stocks by inflows and outflows were tabulated for all market, HSCEI, mid cap and s/mid cap groups.</li>
<li>We highlight inflows into HKEx, Ping An H&amp;T, and outflows from Tencent, Xiaomi, Li Ning, Meituan, Country Garden Service.</li>
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We analyze the weekly Hong Kong Connect flows with our data engine for holding position as of December 9th.
The top stocks by inflows and outflows were tabulated for all market, HSCEI, mid cap and s/mid cap groups.
We highlight inflows into HKEx, Ping An H&amp;T, and outflows from Tencent, Xiaomi, Li Ning, Meituan, Country Garden Service.


Hong Kong Connect Flows (Dec 9th): HKEx, Ping An H&T, Tencent, Xiaomi, Li Ning, Meituan

Equity Capital Markets

Medbanks Network Technology / Equity Capital Markets

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<li>Specialty Pharmacy Business is the main revenue contributor,but it’s hard for Medbanks to achieve breakeven or turn loss into profits by relying on this business due to its low margin.</li>
<li>Physician Research Assistance and Health Insurance Services have higher margin, but they have to face different challenges based on our analysis. They are hard to turn things around.</li>
<li>In fact, Medbanks does not control the core resources or establish high barriers in front of competition. Whether its ecological story would finally work still needs time to verify. </li>
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Specialty Pharmacy Business is the main revenue contributor,but it’s hard for Medbanks to achieve breakeven or turn loss into profits by relying on this business due to its low margin.
Physician Research Assistance and Health Insurance Services have higher margin, but they have to face different challenges based on our analysis. They are hard to turn things around.
In fact, Medbanks does not control the core resources or establish high barriers in front of competition. Whether its ecological story would finally work still needs time to verify. 


Pre-IPO Medbanks Network Technology - PHIP Updates: The Business Model Has yet to Be Verified

Overseas Chinese Equities, Aequitas Research

Ming Lu

Overseas Chinese Equities

<ul>
<li>Richard Liu came back to manage JD.com after he resigned half a year ago.</li>
<li>Alibaba Health revenue increased 23% YoY in 1H23, which benefited from hospitals being closed.</li>
<li>Pinduoduo revenue increased by 65% YoY and operating profit increased 388% YoY in 3Q22.</li>
</ul>


Richard Liu came back to manage JD.com after he resigned half a year ago.
Alibaba Health revenue increased 23% YoY in 1H23, which benefited from hospitals being closed.
Pinduoduo revenue increased by 65% YoY and operating profit increased 388% YoY in 3Q22.


China Internet Weekly (5Dec2022): JD.com, Baidu, IQiyi, Alibaba Health, ZTO, Pinduoduo, KE

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>The latest press conference has many statements that appeared publicly for the first time or were rarely used before,which reflected the intention to pave the way for the tone change.</li>
<li>We don't expect there would be an official announcement stating clearly "ending the Zero COVID policy", but policy adjustments would be made accordingly. The reopening timeline could be brought forward.</li>
<li>The economic problem is not simply caused by the pandemic, which is just the last straw to topple the dominoes. We analyzed the impact of reopening and investment opportunities. </li>
</ul>


The latest press conference has many statements that appeared publicly for the first time or were rarely used before,which reflected the intention to pave the way for the tone change.
We don't expect there would be an official announcement stating clearly "ending the Zero COVID policy", but policy adjustments would be made accordingly. The reopening timeline could be brought forward.
The economic problem is not simply caused by the pandemic, which is just the last straw to topple the dominoes. We analyzed the impact of reopening and investment opportunities. 


China to End Zero COVID Policy? - Reexamine the Reopening Timeline and Potential Impact

China

Alibaba Health Information Technology Limited is an integrated healthcare information and content service provider. The Company uses product identification, authentication, and tracking system data for its healthcare information.

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Alibaba Health Information Technology (241.HK) FY23H1 - Concerns Behind the Performance Turnaround

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Hong Kong Connect Flows (Dec 9th): HKEx, Ping An H&T, Tencent, Xiaomi, Li Ning, Meituan

We analyzed southbound Hong Kong connect flows in the past week and highlight flows for HKEx, Ping An H&T, Tencent, Xiaomi, Li Ning, Meituan,...

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Pre-IPO Medbanks Network Technology - PHIP Updates: The Business Model Has yet to Be Verified

Medbanks can't turn loss into profit by relying on Specialty Pharmacy Business due to its low margin.Without core resource/high barrier, whether...

Xinyao (Criss) Wang

China Internet Weekly (5Dec2022): JD.com, Baidu, IQiyi, Alibaba Health, ZTO, Pinduoduo, KE

Richard Liu came back to manage JD.com after he resigned half a year ago. Alibaba Health revenue increased 23% YoY in 1H23, which benefited from...

Ming Lu

China to End Zero COVID Policy? - Reexamine the Reopening Timeline and Potential Impact

Recent conference reflect the intention to pave the way for tone change. Reopen timeline may be brought forward though it's still possible to “step...

Xinyao (Criss) Wang

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