Value Investing

Vladimir Dimitrov, CFA

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Investors tend to fight the last war when it comes to recessions and this often has bad consequences on returns.</li>
<li>Bank of America appears to be in a very good position to improve its return on equity, without taking too much risk, according to a report by the bank of America.</li>
<li>Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) and the banking sector more broadly have been getting more cautionary ratings as the risk of recession in the coming months is getting priced in.</li>
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Investors tend to fight the last war when it comes to recessions and this often has bad consequences on returns.
Bank of America appears to be in a very good position to improve its return on equity, without taking too much risk, according to a report by the bank of America.
Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) and the banking sector more broadly have been getting more cautionary ratings as the risk of recession in the coming months is getting priced in.


Bank of America: Why Fearmongering From Latest Earnings Is Likely Exaggerated

APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Ethan Aw

APAC 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

Alibaba Group Holding  / Equity Capital Markets

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<li>In this note, we will take a look at bookrunner performance for Indian IPOs from 2019-2022. </li>
<li>The following dataset includes all Indian IPOs above US$100m for the period of Calendar Years 2019-2022, which amounted to a total of 49 deals.</li>
<li>The deals you see in this note are based on our historical IPO tracker. Feel free to drop us a message for additional information on any of these IPOs.</li>
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In this note, we will take a look at bookrunner performance for Indian IPOs from 2019-2022. 
The following dataset includes all Indian IPOs above US$100m for the period of Calendar Years 2019-2022, which amounted to a total of 49 deals.
The deals you see in this note are based on our historical IPO tracker. Feel free to drop us a message for additional information on any of these IPOs.


Aequitas India IPOs Bookrunner Performance (2019-2022)

Equity Long-Short Analyst

Pyari Menon

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>The three companies we write about this week are ASML Holding NV (ASML US) , Bayer AG (BAYN GY)  and Gentex Corp (GNTX US)</li>
<li>We included ChatGPT's innovation assessment for the three companies in the report. The qualitative commentary of ChatGPT though fluffy does somewhat reflect our quantitative assessment from technical literature.</li>
<li>For the nine weeks since inception ended 20 Jan the combined innovation portfolio was +3.5%, versus DJIA -1.1%, S&amp;P500 +0.2%, Nasdaq -0.1%, Russell2000 +1.0%, MSCI-ACWI-ETF +3.1%, all in US$ terms</li>
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The three companies we write about this week are ASML Holding NV (ASML US) , Bayer AG (BAYN GY)  and Gentex Corp (GNTX US)
We included ChatGPT's innovation assessment for the three companies in the report. The qualitative commentary of ChatGPT though fluffy does somewhat reflect our quantitative assessment from technical literature.
For the nine weeks since inception ended 20 Jan the combined innovation portfolio was +3.5%, versus DJIA -1.1%, S&amp;P500 +0.2%, Nasdaq -0.1%, Russell2000 +1.0%, MSCI-ACWI-ETF +3.1%, all in US$ terms


Research and consultancy, Tabbush Report

Daniel Tabbush

Research and consultancy

Tabbush Report

We provide research and consultancy on Asian banks. Our focus is on what we call “Asian bank research, without the noise.” We are interested in the most critical swing-factors for banks, the NPL and credit cycle, and where we believe there is a gap between perception and reality. We often focus on the less studied components of bank financial statements.  Our research is highly thematic, sometimes examining unlisted banks and companies as a window on mainstream banks. 

Being independent allows us to look at smaller banks, often overlooked by others. Analysis of BIS bank guidelines in the context of Asia, is also a focal point, while we also analyze global banks operating in the region. We use what we believe is the most comprehensive, reliable financials database, SNL Financial. S&P Capital IQ augments our database, with corporate data and CEIC, with economics. 

Asian bank research, without the noise.

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<li>Two US banks saw more than 80% of their net interest income delta erased by credit costs</li>
<li>Many US banks are seeing sharply higher credit costs in 4Q22 from reversals a year ago</li>
<li>Loan growth is decelerating in 4Q22 compared with 3Q22, not a positive outlook</li>
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Two US banks saw more than 80% of their net interest income delta erased by credit costs
Many US banks are seeing sharply higher credit costs in 4Q22 from reversals a year ago
Loan growth is decelerating in 4Q22 compared with 3Q22, not a positive outlook


<ul>
<li>We again write about one stock each from the large, mid and small cap portfolios, briefly giving the reasons for their inclusion.</li>
<li>The three companies we write about this week are <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/bank-of-america-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:278:1" rel="noopener">Bank Of America (BAC US)</a><a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/3-m-co" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:14866:1" rel="noopener">3M Co (MMM US)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/skf-ab" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:22485:1" rel="noopener">SKF AB (SKFB SS)</a>   </li>
<li>For the eight weeks since inception ended 13 Jan the combined innovation portfolio was +4.2%, versus DJIA +1.7%, S&amp;P500 +0.9%, Nasdaq -0.6%, Russell2000 +2%, MSCI-ACWI-ETF +3.2%, all in US$ terms</li>
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We again write about one stock each from the large, mid and small cap portfolios, briefly giving the reasons for their inclusion.
The three companies we write about this week are Bank Of America (BAC US)3M Co (MMM US) and SKF AB (SKFB SS)   
For the eight weeks since inception ended 13 Jan the combined innovation portfolio was +4.2%, versus DJIA +1.7%, S&amp;P500 +0.9%, Nasdaq -0.6%, Russell2000 +2%, MSCI-ACWI-ETF +3.2%, all in US$ terms


United States

Bank of America Corporation accepts deposits and offers banking, investing, asset management, and other financial and risk-management products and services.  The Company has a mortgage lending subsidiary, and an investment banking and securities brokerage subsidiary.

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Bank Of America (BAC US)

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