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 monthly Hong Kong Connect flows with our data engine.</li>
<li>We tabulate the top stocks by inflows, outflows, and holding by mainland investors.</li>
<li>We highlight inflows into Meituan, CNOOC, PICC P&amp;C, China Mobile, and outflows from Tencent, Xiaomi, HKEx, Wuxi Biologics, CCB.</li>
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We analyze the monthly Hong Kong Connect flows with our data engine.
We tabulate the top stocks by inflows, outflows, and holding by mainland investors.
We highlight inflows into Meituan, CNOOC, PICC P&amp;C, China Mobile, and outflows from Tencent, Xiaomi, HKEx, Wuxi Biologics, CCB.


Hong Kong Connect Flows (December): Six Months of Inflows

Global Mobility/Transport, Equity Long-Short

Mohshin Aziz

Equity Bottom-Up

China Tourism Group Duty Free Corp Ltd / Equity Bottom-Up

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/china-tourism-group-duty-free-corp-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:12278:1" rel="noopener">China Tourism Group Duty Free Corp Ltd (601888 CH)</a> (CTG) announced last week a new supplementary contract for its duty-free airport businesses in Beijing and Shanghai airports</li>
<li>The new deal aims to promote collaborations between the airports and CTG, acting like true partners. However, we think it is more positive for airports and slight detriment to CTG</li>
<li>Maintain our Bullish call with an unchanged target price of CNY106 (+27% UPSIDE), based on the company's lowest recorded PE ratio in the past 10 years of 23.2x into FY24</li>
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China Tourism Group Duty Free Corp Ltd (601888 CH) (CTG) announced last week a new supplementary contract for its duty-free airport businesses in Beijing and Shanghai airports
The new deal aims to promote collaborations between the airports and CTG, acting like true partners. However, we think it is more positive for airports and slight detriment to CTG
Maintain our Bullish call with an unchanged target price of CNY106 (+27% UPSIDE), based on the company's lowest recorded PE ratio in the past 10 years of 23.2x into FY24


China Tourism Group (601888 CH | BUY | CNY): New Duty-Free Contracts with Airports, Slight Negative

<ul>
<li>We analyze the weekly Hong Kong Connect flows with our data engine for holding position as of December 29th.</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 flows for China Mobile, and Tencent Holdings Limited.</li>
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We analyze the weekly Hong Kong Connect flows with our data engine for holding position as of December 29th.
The top stocks by inflows and outflows were tabulated for all market, HSCEI, mid cap and s/mid cap groups.
We highlight flows for China Mobile, and Tencent Holdings Limited.


Hong Kong Connect Flows (Dec 29th): China Mobile, Tencent

HK/China Equity Long-Short

Osbert Tang, CFA

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul>
<li>Data from <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/trip-com-group-ltd-23a341d0-4f63-4175-a8c5-ee990906cacd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:36424:1" rel="noopener">Trip.com Group (9961 HK)</a> showed good improvement in travel demand for the 2024 New Year holidays. The volume of various orders has surged between 2x and 5x YoY. </li>
<li>Aggregate net profit for the tourism and hospitality sector has turned around to Rmb20.4bn in 3Q23, from losses of Rmb24.7bn a year ago, demonstrating solid profitability recovery.</li>
<li>An average of 32% drop in the sector's share price YTD is unjustified. We like <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/tongcheng-travel-holdings-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:27363:1" rel="noopener">Tongcheng Travel (780 HK)</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/air-china-ltd-h" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:8239:1" rel="noopener">Air China (H) (753 HK)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/fosun-tourism-group" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:27439:1" rel="noopener">Fosun Tourism (1992 HK)</a>.  </li>
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Data from Trip.com Group (9961 HK) showed good improvement in travel demand for the 2024 New Year holidays. The volume of various orders has surged between 2x and 5x YoY. 
Aggregate net profit for the tourism and hospitality sector has turned around to Rmb20.4bn in 3Q23, from losses of Rmb24.7bn a year ago, demonstrating solid profitability recovery.
An average of 32% drop in the sector's share price YTD is unjustified. We like Tongcheng Travel (780 HK), Air China (H) (753 HK) and Fosun Tourism (1992 HK).  


China Tourism and Hospitality Industry: Boom in 2024 New Year Travel Demand

Asian Equities Analyst, Logistics & Transport, Tracking Traffic

Daniel Hellberg

Asian Equities Analyst, Logistics & Transport

Tracking Traffic

Focusing on Asian logistics, transportation, and travel companies

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<li>"Pent-Up demand"? No signs of it anywhere in outbound or domestic metrics</li>
<li>Sluggish outbound demand, capacity trajectories continued to lag in November</li>
<li>YTD share performance weak, mirrors disappointing recovery in travel activity</li>
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"Pent-Up demand"? No signs of it anywhere in outbound or domestic metrics
Sluggish outbound demand, capacity trajectories continued to lag in November
YTD share performance weak, mirrors disappointing recovery in travel activity


Monthly Chinese Tourism Tracker | No "Pent-Up Demand"! | Weak YTD Returns, Too | (December 2023)

China

Beijing Capital International Airport Company Limited operates both aeronautical and non-aeronautical business in the Beijing airport.  The Company provides aircraft movement and passenger service facilities, safety and security services, fire-fighting services, and ground handling services.  In addition, Beijing Capital operates duty free and other retail shops and leases properties.

Beijing Capital International Airport (BCIA) (694 HK)

Beijing Capital International Airport (BCIA)

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Beijing Capital International Airport (BCIA) (694 HK)

Hong Kong Connect Flows (December): Six Months of Inflows

We analyzed the Hong Kong Connect Scheme for December and highlight flows for Meituan, CNOOC, PICC P&C, China Mobile, Tencent, Xiaomi, HKEx, Wuxi...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

China Tourism Group (601888 CH | BUY | CNY): New Duty-Free Contracts with Airports, Slight Negative

China Tourism Group has signed a new contract to promote collaborations with airports in Beijing and Shanghai. Market sees it as negative, but we...

Mohshin Aziz

Hong Kong Connect Flows (Dec 29th): China Mobile, Tencent

We analyzed the Hong Kong Connect Scheme for last week and highlight flows for China Mobile and Tencent Holdings Limited.

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

China Tourism and Hospitality Industry: Boom in 2024 New Year Travel Demand

China's National Immigration Administration estimates there will be 1.56m travelers passing through immigration during the 2024 Chinese New Year...

Osbert Tang, CFA

Monthly Chinese Tourism Tracker | No "Pent-Up Demand"! | Weak YTD Returns, Too | (December 2023)

November outbound data were disappointing, and even domestic travel activity metrics appeared to move in the wrong direction. Not surprisingly,...

Tracking Traffic

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Hong Kong Connect Flows (December): Six Months of Inflows

We analyzed the Hong Kong Connect Scheme for December and highlight flows for Meituan, CNOOC, PICC P&C, China Mobile, Tencent, Xiaomi, HKEx, Wuxi...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

China Tourism Group (601888 CH | BUY | CNY): New Duty-Free Contracts with Airports, Slight Negative

​China Tourism Group has signed a new contract to promote collaborations with airports in Beijing and Shanghai. Market sees it as negative, but we...

Mohshin Aziz

Hong Kong Connect Flows (Dec 29th): China Mobile, Tencent

We analyzed the Hong Kong Connect Scheme for last week and highlight flows for China Mobile and Tencent Holdings Limited.

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

China Tourism and Hospitality Industry: Boom in 2024 New Year Travel Demand

China's National Immigration Administration estimates there will be 1.56m travelers passing through immigration during the 2024 Chinese New Year...

Osbert Tang, CFA

Monthly Chinese Tourism Tracker | No "Pent-Up Demand"! | Weak YTD Returns, Too | (December 2023)

November outbound data were disappointing, and even domestic travel activity metrics appeared to move in the wrong direction. Not surprisingly,...

Tracking Traffic

China Tourism Group has signed a new contract to promote collaborations with airports in Beijing and Shanghai. Market sees it as negative, but we...