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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National Storage REIT / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/national-storage-reit" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:13762:1" rel="noopener">National Storage REIT (NSR AU)</a> (NSREIT) aims to raise around US$200m (A$300m) via an institutional placement.</li>
<li>Past deals have ended up doing well, however, the stock now appears toppish and it's unclear if the deal was well flagged.</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the placement and run the deal through our ECM framework.</li>
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National Storage REIT (NSR AU) (NSREIT) aims to raise around US$200m (A$300m) via an institutional placement.
Past deals have ended up doing well, however, the stock now appears toppish and it's unclear if the deal was well flagged.
In this note, we will talk about the placement and run the deal through our ECM framework.


National Storage REIT Placement - Past Deals Have Done Well but Stock Looks Toppish

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<li>Abacus aims to raise around US$146m (A$200m) via issuing new shares worth 7.1% of issued shares.</li>
<li>The company will use the proceeds from the placement to pay down debt that it has accumulated from earlier acquisition/construction.</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the recent developments and run the deal through our ECM framework.</li>
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Abacus aims to raise around US$146m (A$200m) via issuing new shares worth 7.1% of issued shares.
The company will use the proceeds from the placement to pay down debt that it has accumulated from earlier acquisition/construction.
In this note, we will talk about the recent developments and run the deal through our ECM framework.


Abacus Property Group Placement - Previous Deal Did Well, This One Won’t Be Accretive

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events, Quiddity Advisors

Travis Lundy

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Quiddity Advisors

Event-Driven

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<li>The S&amp;P DJI Index team announced the replacement for <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/ausnet-services" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:10293:1" rel="noopener">Ausnet Services (AST AU)</a> when it is deleted from the S&amp;P/ASX200 Friday at the close: <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/arena-reit" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:12209:1" rel="noopener">Arena Reit (ARF AU)</a> </li>
<li>There are other changes to sub-indices which are not publicly announced but which should align with previous analysis</li>
<li>This insight provides estimates for the index events Friday and ways to play them.</li>
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The S&amp;P DJI Index team announced the replacement for Ausnet Services (AST AU) when it is deleted from the S&amp;P/ASX200 Friday at the close: Arena Reit (ARF AU) 
There are other changes to sub-indices which are not publicly announced but which should align with previous analysis
This insight provides estimates for the index events Friday and ways to play them.


IPOs and Catalysts/Events, Global Equity Research Ltd

Arun George

IPOs and Catalysts/Events

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Global Equity Research was started in 2017 by a group of experienced research professionals. It was founded on a passionate belief in the importance and the need for uncompromised, independent, conflict-free research. We aim to provide differentiated and actionable primary and bottom up fundamental research.

<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/aventus-group" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:25897:1" rel="noopener">Aventus Group (AVN AU)</a> is Australia’s largest fully integrated owner, manager and developer of large format retail centres in Australia. Aventus entered a scheme implementation deed to implement a merger with <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/homeco-daily-needs-reit" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:33526:1" rel="noopener">HomeCo Daily Needs REIT (HDN AU)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/home-consortium-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:29082:1" rel="noopener">Home Consortium Ltd (HMC AU)</a>. Aventus securityholders will be offered 2.200 HDN units for every 1 unit in Aventus Retail Property Fund (93% of transaction value) and A$0.285 cash or 0.038 HMC securities for every 1 share in Aventus Holdings Limited (7% of transaction value). The implied offer price of A$3.82 per Aventus share is a 15.3% premium to the unaffected price of A$3.31 (15 October). The offer price will not be reduced for any distributions announced by Aventus, HDN and HMC prior to the implementation. Post-merger, Aventus securityholders will own 47.1% of the merged group.The scheme is conditional on AVN securityholder approval by at least 75% of the votes cast and 50% securityholders voting. Brett Blundy Retail Capital (BBRC) and the Aventus Board which represents 22.6% and 6.7% of AVN securities, respectively, intend to vote in favour of the merger. The scheme is also conditional on HDN unitholder approval by at least 50% of votes cast (HMC cannot vote). <div class="content-highlight">We think that recommended offer is attractive both in terms of historical multiples and share prices for Aventus securityholders. The merger is also FFO and NTA accretive to Aventus securityholders. While the merger is FFO accretive, it is NTA dilutive to HDN unitholders. Nevertheless, the strong strategic rationale for the merger should gain support from HDN unitholders. At the last close prices of Aventus and HDN, Aventus’ shares are trading at 3.6% gross spread to the indicative offer.</div>

Aventus Group (AVN AU) is Australia’s largest fully integrated owner, manager and developer of large format retail centres in Australia. Aventus entered a scheme implementation deed to implement a merger with HomeCo Daily Needs REIT (HDN AU) and Home Consortium Ltd (HMC AU). Aventus securityholders will be offered 2.200 HDN units for every 1 unit in Aventus Retail Property Fund (93% of transaction value) and A$0.285 cash or 0.038 HMC securities for every 1 share in Aventus Holdings Limited (7% of transaction value). The implied offer price of A$3.82 per Aventus share is a 15.3% premium to the unaffected price of A$3.31 (15 October). The offer price will not be reduced for any distributions announced by Aventus, HDN and HMC prior to the implementation. Post-merger, Aventus securityholders will own 47.1% of the merged group.The scheme is conditional on AVN securityholder approval by at least 75% of the votes cast and 50% securityholders voting. Brett Blundy Retail Capital (BBRC) and the Aventus Board which represents 22.6% and 6.7% of AVN securities, respectively, intend to vote in favour of the merger. The scheme is also conditional on HDN unitholder approval by at least 50% of votes cast (HMC cannot vote). We think that recommended offer is attractive both in terms of historical multiples and share prices for Aventus securityholders. The merger is also FFO and NTA accretive to Aventus securityholders. While the merger is FFO accretive, it is NTA dilutive to HDN unitholders. Nevertheless, the strong strategic rationale for the merger should gain support from HDN unitholders. At the last close prices of Aventus and HDN, Aventus’ shares are trading at 3.6% gross spread to the indicative offer.

Aventus Recommended Merger with HomeCo Daily Needs REIT

Vicinity Centres / Equity Capital Markets

<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/federation-centres" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:335:1" rel="noopener">Vicinity Centres (VCX AU)</a> aims to raise around US$800m (A$1.2bn) in order to shore up its balance sheet. The company has just announced that it won't pay any dividend for 2H20 (half year ending Jun 20), and that its portfolio valuation might be down 11-13%. While the placement itself is highly dilutive. However, the offer price is at multi-year lows and the stock appears to be already trading at a substantial discount to some of its peers.

Vicinity Centres (VCX AU) aims to raise around US$800m (A$1.2bn) in order to shore up its balance sheet. The company has just announced that it won't pay any dividend for 2H20 (half year ending Jun 20), and that its portfolio valuation might be down 11-13%. While the placement itself is highly dilutive. However, the offer price is at multi-year lows and the stock appears to be already trading at a substantial discount to some of its peers. 

Vicinity Centres Placement - Not Black and White but It Could Have Excess Stock

Australia

Charter Hall Retail REIT owns a portfolio of supermarkets and shopping centers located in non-metropolitan areas throughout Australia, New Zealand and the United States.

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Charter Hall Retail Reit (CQR AU)

National Storage REIT Placement - Past Deals Have Done Well but Stock Looks Toppish

National Storage REIT (NSR AU) (NSREIT) aims to raise around US$200m (A$300m) via an institutional placement. In this note, we run the deal through...

Sumeet Singh

Abacus Property Group Placement - Previous Deal Did Well, This One Won’t Be Accretive

Abacus aims to raise around US$146m (A$200m) via issuing new shares worth 7.1% of issued shares. In this note, we will run the deal through our ECM...

Sumeet Singh

S&P/ASX200 - Ausnet OUT, Arena REIT IN

The S&P/ASX 200 will see Ausnet replaced by Arena REIT on 4 Feb. This is widely expected/predicted and Arena has outperformed, but it is a lot of...

Travis Lundy

Aventus Recommended Merger with HomeCo Daily Needs REIT

The offer is attractive in terms of P/NTA and share prices for AVN. The merger is also FFO and NTA accretive to AVN. The strong strategic rationale...

Arun George

Vicinity Centres Placement - Not Black and White but It Could Have Excess Stock

Vicinity Centres (VCX AU) aims to raise around US$800m (A$1.2bn) in order to shore up its balance sheet. The company has just announced that it...

Sumeet Singh

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