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SPAC Deep Dive

Each week we’ll identify and break down for you SPACs that are capturing market share and making an impact.

Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Over a dozen companies focused on building out Electric Vehicles have gone public through a SPAC merger in the past two years, albeit with mixed results.</li><li>Legendary Motorcycle Maker Harley Davidson shocked the public markets in 2021 when it announced that it was spinning off its EV segment LiveWire through a $1.8 billion SPAC merger.</li><li>The move came as the legacy bike maker has faced a period of slowing sales, losing market share to competitors, and failing to reach younger first-time riders.</li></ul>

Over a dozen companies focused on building out Electric Vehicles have gone public through a SPAC merger in the past two years, albeit with mixed results.Legendary Motorcycle Maker Harley Davidson shocked the public markets in 2021 when it announced that it was spinning off its EV segment LiveWire through a $1.8 billion SPAC merger.The move came as the legacy bike maker has faced a period of slowing sales, losing market share to competitors, and failing to reach younger first-time riders.

Technical Analyst, Vermilion Research

Joe Jasper

Technical Analyst

Technical and Quantitative Research

Vermilion Research

Vermilion’s objective is to deliver timely, actionable, and unique technical research to professional investors through the application of our various technical indicators.

Our research strategists seek to highlight securities which we believe are at major inflection points, based on our various technical and quantitative indicators, and offer asymmetric risk/return profiles. Our unique research methodology, centered on relative strength, enables our strategists to deliver superior investment recommendations.

Our process begins by organizing the universe of actively traded stocks into discrete sectors, then into industry groups. We then apply our technical and quantitative tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sector or group, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. We provide a historical perspective that often reveals, through our long-term charts, how price patterns often repeat themselves over time.

Technical Analysis

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<li>2023 gameplan remains unchanged; we see limited upside from here for ACWI-US, and we expect a rangebound year of trading on ACWI-US with $93 capping upside and $75-77 capping downside</li>
<li>We also remain overweight Europe/UK, we want to add exposure on pullbacks to China/Hong Kong/EM, and overweight non-U.S. equities (MSCI ACWI ex-US) relative to MSCI ACWI</li>
<li>We highlight buy ideas within Technology, Communications, and Consumer Discretionary. The UK/Europe and Hong Kong/China continue to make up the majority of our buy recommendations</li>
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2023 gameplan remains unchanged; we see limited upside from here for ACWI-US, and we expect a rangebound year of trading on ACWI-US with $93 capping upside and $75-77 capping downside
We also remain overweight Europe/UK, we want to add exposure on pullbacks to China/Hong Kong/EM, and overweight non-U.S. equities (MSCI ACWI ex-US) relative to MSCI ACWI
We highlight buy ideas within Technology, Communications, and Consumer Discretionary. The UK/Europe and Hong Kong/China continue to make up the majority of our buy recommendations


Major Top on U.S. Dollar; Overweight Non-U.S. And Europe/UK; Buys in Tech, Comm., Discretionary

Research from Water Tower Research, Water Tower Research

Water Tower Research

Research from Water Tower Research

Water Tower Research is a leading equity research firm that provides research on micro, small and mid cap companies.

Water Tower Research was founded by Wall Street veterans after witnessing a fundamental shift in the investment research industry with the result being a declining knowledge base among investors, a lack of awareness and a shrinking pool of fundamental research being conducted on companies across the small-cap and micro-cap spectrum. The same issues are now increasingly occurring in the mid-cap space. This sea change within the investment community is impacting not only the companies themselves but also current shareholders and potential investors. With significantly less active sell-side sponsorship by Wall Street, a substantial information gap has developed between companies and various constituents in the financial community. The net result is fewer channels for insight and information to flow between companies and investors.

Equity Research Firm

<ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li>META Materials had a large presence at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) earlier this month, with a booth in the North Hall, in the APMA booth in the West Hall, and in the Innovation Awards Showcase at the Venetian.</li><li>It also participated in the ShowStoppers @ CES 2023 technology showcase for the media.</li><li>META among the most talked about companies at CES. According to BuzzRadar, META was the #1 most talked about brand on Day 2 of CES, surpassing well-known companies such as Lenovo, BMW, and Sony.</li></ul>

META Materials had a large presence at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) earlier this month, with a booth in the North Hall, in the APMA booth in the West Hall, and in the Innovation Awards Showcase at the Venetian.It also participated in the ShowStoppers @ CES 2023 technology showcase for the media.META among the most talked about companies at CES. According to BuzzRadar, META was the #1 most talked about brand on Day 2 of CES, surpassing well-known companies such as Lenovo, BMW, and Sony.

Meta Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ: MMAT) - CES Highlights Product Offerings

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.

Event-Driven

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/lg-energy-solution" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:33464:1" rel="noopener">LG Energy Solution (373220 KS)</a> (LGES) raised US$10.8bn in its South Korea IPO, after pricing at the top-end of the IPO price range.</li>
<li>The stock was listed on 27th Jan 22. Its one-year lockup is set to expire soon.</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the lock-up dynamics and updates since our last note</li>
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LG Energy Solution (373220 KS) (LGES) raised US$10.8bn in its South Korea IPO, after pricing at the top-end of the IPO price range.
The stock was listed on 27th Jan 22. Its one-year lockup is set to expire soon.
In this note, we will talk about the lock-up dynamics and updates since our last note


LG Energy IPO Lock-Up - Last of the Lockups at US$3bn

European Event-Driven Analyst

Jesus Rodriguez Aguilar

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<li>Since mid-December, spreads have shown a mixed performance across our liquid universe (9 have widened, 9 tightened, 1 at same level).</li>
<li>Trade recommendations long ords / short prefs: Fuchs Petrolub, Henkel, Handelsbanken, SSAB Svenska Stal.</li>
<li>Trade recommendations long prefs / short ords: Sixt, VW, Danieli, MFE-Media for Europe, Grifols, Atlas Copco, Ericsson.</li>
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Since mid-December, spreads have shown a mixed performance across our liquid universe (9 have widened, 9 tightened, 1 at same level).
Trade recommendations long ords / short prefs: Fuchs Petrolub, Henkel, Handelsbanken, SSAB Svenska Stal.
Trade recommendations long prefs / short ords: Sixt, VW, Danieli, MFE-Media for Europe, Grifols, Atlas Copco, Ericsson.


Liquid Universe of European Ordinary and Preferred Shares: January ‘23 Report

Germany

Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft (BMW) manufactures and sells cars and motorcycles. The Company offers convertible sports cars, sedans, and touring motorcycles with large displacement engines. BMW serves customers worldwide.

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Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW) (BMW GR)

The Electric Dream

Over a dozen companies focused on building out Electric Vehicles have gone public through a SPAC merger in the past two years, albeit with mixed...

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Major Top on U.S. Dollar; Overweight Non-U.S. And Europe/UK; Buys in Tech, Comm., Discretionary

The $DXY broke below 5-year support at $103, signaling a major top in place. This is bullish for risk assets, and is another sign suggesting the...

Vermilion Research

Meta Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ: MMAT) - CES Highlights Product Offerings

META Materials had a large presence at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) earlier this month, with a booth in the North Hall, in the APMA booth in...

Water Tower Research

LG Energy IPO Lock-Up - Last of the Lockups at US$3bn

LG Energy Solution (373220 KS) raised US$10.8bn in its South Korea IPO, after pricing at the top-end of the IPO price range. Its one-year lockup...

Sumeet Singh

Liquid Universe of European Ordinary and Preferred Shares: January ‘23 Report

Since mid-December, spreads have shown a mixed performance across our liquid universe (9 have widened, 9 tightened, 1 at same level).

Jesus Rodriguez Aguilar

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