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Incorporated in Hong Kong, supported by the mainland and targeting in global market, CMB International Capital Corporation Limited (“CMBI”) is an integrated financial institution providing comprehensive and professional services. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Merchants Bank ("CMB"), by leveraging on the Group’s synergy and coordination in domestic and overseas markets, as well as CMB’s strong resources and outstanding social reputation, CMBI and its subsidiaries have been actively implementing diversified business strategies and set up an overall layout of main business segments including Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Global Markets and Structured Finance, etc. Adhering to the philosophy of “being clients oriented and increasing our own values by the way of creating value for clients”, CMBI endeavors to provide quality and integrated financial services to institutional, corporate and individual customers both domestic and overseas including Hong Kong IPO sponsorship and underwriting, share placement and rights issue for listed companies, financial advisors, bonds issuance services, asset management, direct investment, wealth management, equity sales and trading, etc.

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<ul><li>Continue to support digital economy development </li><li>Encouraging technology breakthroughs, innovations, and overseas expansion. </li><li>Business model robustness, operating leveraging improvement, and ability to expand to new revenue streams will be the key stock alpha drivers.</li></ul>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Continue to support digital economy development Encouraging technology breakthroughs, innovations, and overseas expansion. Business model robustness, operating leveraging improvement, and ability to expand to new revenue streams will be the key stock alpha drivers.Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

China Internet – Quality growth and further digitization penetration provide growth support

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.

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<li>Today PCAOB announced that they had secured complete access to inspect and investigate Chinese Firms for the first time in history.</li>
<li>This was on back of the Aug 2022 agreement between PCAOB, CSRC and MOF, which was followed up with a Hong Kong visit by PCAOB officials over Sep-Nov 2022.</li>
<li>We wrote about this on 14th Dec 2022 and expected the results to be out on Friday (16th Dec), they have come out a day earlier than we expected.</li>
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Today PCAOB announced that they had secured complete access to inspect and investigate Chinese Firms for the first time in history.
This was on back of the Aug 2022 agreement between PCAOB, CSRC and MOF, which was followed up with a Hong Kong visit by PCAOB officials over Sep-Nov 2022.
We wrote about this on 14th Dec 2022 and expected the results to be out on Friday (16th Dec), they have come out a day earlier than we expected.


China ADRs Delisting - Christmas Came a Day Earlier than We Expected - No Delisting Risk for Now

Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/vinfast" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:36550:1" rel="noopener">VinFast (1905332D VN)</a>  is looking to raise up to US$1bn in its upcoming US IPO.</li>
<li>VinFast is a full-scale mobility platform focused primarily on designing and manufacturing premium EVs, electric scooters and electric buses.</li>
<li>In this note, we talk about the not-so-positive aspects of the deal.</li>
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VinFast (1905332D VN)  is looking to raise up to US$1bn in its upcoming US IPO.
VinFast is a full-scale mobility platform focused primarily on designing and manufacturing premium EVs, electric scooters and electric buses.
In this note, we talk about the not-so-positive aspects of the deal.


VinFast Auto Pre-IPO - The Negatives - ... But Starting Low

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/vinfast" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:36550:1" rel="noopener">VinFast Auto (1905332D VN)</a>  is looking to raise up to US$1bn in its upcoming US IPO.</li>
<li>VinFast is a full-scale mobility platform focused primarily on designing and manufacturing premium EVs, electric scooters and electric buses.</li>
<li>In this note, we talk about the positive aspects of the deal.</li>
</ul>



VinFast Auto (1905332D VN)  is looking to raise up to US$1bn in its upcoming US IPO.
VinFast is a full-scale mobility platform focused primarily on designing and manufacturing premium EVs, electric scooters and electric buses.
In this note, we talk about the positive aspects of the deal.


VinFast Auto Pre-IPO - The Positives - Aiming High...

Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Baidu reported (22 Nov) its 3Q22 results: revenue was up 1.9% YoY to RMB32.5bn, 2% higher than both our forecast and Bloomberg-consensus estimates; non-GAAP net income was RMB5.9bn, beating our/consensus estimates of RMB5.6/5.5bn, due to stringent cost control.</li><li>Non-ad revenue grew 25% YoY in 3Q22 and accounted for 26% of Baidu Core revenue (3Q21: 21%), driven by Baidu Cloud and AI-powered businesses.</li><li>The results demonstrated a continuously enhanced mobile ecosystem and solid progress on new AI and autonomous driving business, in our view. </li></ul>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Baidu reported (22 Nov) its 3Q22 results: revenue was up 1.9% YoY to RMB32.5bn, 2% higher than both our forecast and Bloomberg-consensus estimates; non-GAAP net income was RMB5.9bn, beating our/consensus estimates of RMB5.6/5.5bn, due to stringent cost control.Non-ad revenue grew 25% YoY in 3Q22 and accounted for 26% of Baidu Core revenue (3Q21: 21%), driven by Baidu Cloud and AI-powered businesses.The results demonstrated a continuously enhanced mobile ecosystem and solid progress on new AI and autonomous driving business, in our view. Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Baidu (BIDU US) – Earnings beat on stringent cost control

China

Baidu, Inc. operates an Internet search engine. The Company offers algorithmic search, enterprise search, news, MP3, and image searches, voice assistance, online storage, and navigation services. Baidu serves clients globally.

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China Internet – Quality growth and further digitization penetration provide growth support

Continue to support digital economy development. Encouraging technology breakthroughs, innovations, and overseas expansion.

CMB International

China ADRs Delisting - Christmas Came a Day Earlier than We Expected - No Delisting Risk for Now

Today PCAOB announced that they had secured complete access to inspect and investigate Chinese Firms for the first time in history. This removes...

Sumeet Singh

VinFast Auto Pre-IPO - The Negatives - ... But Starting Low

VinFast is looking to raise up to US$1bn in its upcoming US IPO. In this note, we talk about the not-so-positive aspects of the deal.

Sumeet Singh

VinFast Auto Pre-IPO - The Positives - Aiming High...

VinFast Auto (1905332D VN) is looking to raise up to US$1bn in its upcoming US IPO. In this note, we talk about the positive aspects of the deal.

Sumeet Singh

Baidu (BIDU US) – Earnings beat on stringent cost control

Baidu reported (22 Nov) its 3Q22 results: revenue was up 1.9% YoY to RMB32.5bn, 2% higher than both our forecast and Bloomberg-consensus estimates

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