HK/China Equity Long-Short

Osbert Tang, CFA

Equity Bottom-Up

China Everbright Water / Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Full-Year earnings growth of 17% suggested a slowdown in 2H21, but this is mostly a result of higher base. A 3pp increase in dividend payout ratio also demonstrated management's confidence.</li>
<li>Focus should be on the positive new project momentum - 10 secured in 2H21, versus only 4 in 1H21. More special purpose bonds issuance should drive project pipeline.</li>
<li>CE Water's valuations are cheap at 0.43x P/B and 3.8x PER for FY22F. Its prospective dividend yield of 7.9% also provides an appealing income component. </li>
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Full-Year earnings growth of 17% suggested a slowdown in 2H21, but this is mostly a result of higher base. A 3pp increase in dividend payout ratio also demonstrated management's confidence.
Focus should be on the positive new project momentum - 10 secured in 2H21, versus only 4 in 1H21. More special purpose bonds issuance should drive project pipeline.
CE Water's valuations are cheap at 0.43x P/B and 3.8x PER for FY22F. Its prospective dividend yield of 7.9% also provides an appealing income component. 


China Everbright Water (1857 HK): Good New Project Flow Is the Key

China Everbright Environment / Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>China's special purpose bonds (SPB) issuance by local governments stayed high for 4Q21; but as from NDRC, proceeds of these bonds will be used in 1Q22 to boost economic growth.</li>
<li>NDRC has already made early release of Rmb1.46trn SPB quota for 2022 to local governments, and provided guidance and supervision to ensure speedy and targeted use of proceeds in early-2022.</li>
<li>Both <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/china-everbright-environment-group-limited" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:15946:1" rel="noopener">China Everbright Environment (257 HK)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/china-communications-construction-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:265:1" rel="noopener">China Communications Construction (1800 HK)</a> are well placed to capture SPB-funded projects. Yet their valuations are still very appealing despite good YTD performance.</li>
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China's special purpose bonds (SPB) issuance by local governments stayed high for 4Q21; but as from NDRC, proceeds of these bonds will be used in 1Q22 to boost economic growth.
NDRC has already made early release of Rmb1.46trn SPB quota for 2022 to local governments, and provided guidance and supervision to ensure speedy and targeted use of proceeds in early-2022.
Both China Everbright Environment (257 HK) and China Communications Construction (1800 HK) are well placed to capture SPB-funded projects. Yet their valuations are still very appealing despite good YTD performance.


Special Purpose Bonds in 2022: Benefiting China Everbright Env (257 HK) & China Comm Const (1800 HK)

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.

Equity Capital Markets

China Power International / Equity Capital Markets

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<li>China Power International is looking to raise up to US$436m via a top-up placement.</li>
<li>The stock is up more than 274% over the past year, with most of the gains having come over the past few months.</li>
<li>In this note, will we talk about deal dynamics and run the deal through our ECM framework. </li>
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China Power International is looking to raise up to US$436m via a top-up placement.
The stock is up more than 274% over the past year, with most of the gains having come over the past few months.
In this note, will we talk about deal dynamics and run the deal through our ECM framework. 


China Power International Placement - Won't Do Much for Funding Capacity Expansion

In the latest update by <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/china-everbright-environment-group-limited" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:15946:1" rel="noopener">China Everbright Environment (257 HK)</a>, the tone is generally bullish for the outlook in the next two years. We think the key drivers include the growth from operational projects, good capacity expansion potential, positive track of receivable collections, upside on waste treatment tariffs and manageable capex to support new projects. We see it to achieve resilient EPS CAGR of 20% but trading on just 4.8x PER and 0.67x P/B, the stock remains deeply undervalued. CEE believes that the efficiency of its waste-to-energy projects can improve as electricity generated per tonne still has good room to rise and it will also look into more M&amp;A opportunities under the 14th 5-year Plan. Meanwhile, CEE seeks to increase the waste treatment tariffs following the central government's policy to increase the share of subsidy responsibility of the local governments. All these should point to better profitability going forward, in our view.

In the latest update by China Everbright Environment (257 HK), the tone is generally bullish for the outlook in the next two years. We think the key drivers include the growth from operational projects, good capacity expansion potential, positive track of receivable collections, upside on waste treatment tariffs and manageable capex to support new projects. We see it to achieve resilient EPS CAGR of 20% but trading on just 4.8x PER and 0.67x P/B, the stock remains deeply undervalued. CEE believes that the efficiency of its waste-to-energy projects can improve as electricity generated per tonne still has good room to rise and it will also look into more M&amp;A opportunities under the 14th 5-year Plan. Meanwhile, CEE seeks to increase the waste treatment tariffs following the central government's policy to increase the share of subsidy responsibility of the local governments. All these should point to better profitability going forward, in our view.

China Everbright Environment (257 HK): Management Updates Suggest Resilience

China Conch Venture Holdings / Equity Bottom-Up

We think that after the spin-off of <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/china-conch-environment-protection-holdings-limited" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:34405:1" rel="noopener">China Conch Environment Protection Holdings (CEP HK)</a>, the businesses being left with <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/china-conch-venture-holdings-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:19943:1" rel="noopener">China Conch Venture Holdings (586 HK)</a> will be even smaller and render it more like a holding company. We think such development is not positive to Conch Venture, and also, based on our sum-of-the-parts valuation; it is trading on 4% premium, suggesting that there is minimal upside from here, in our view.What's left with Conch Venture will mainly be the waste incineration solution business, or waste-to-energy, but its capacity is significantly behind that for <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/china-everbright-environment-group-limited" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:15946:1" rel="noopener">China Everbright Environment (257 HK)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/canvest-environmental-protection-group-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:100:1" rel="noopener">Canvest Environmental Protection Group (1381 HK)</a>. Also, the remaining assets (excluding <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/anhui-conch-cement-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:159:1" rel="noopener">Anhui Conch Cement (914 HK)</a>) will see slower earnings growth than with CEP.  The 16% rally in share price since Sep should have reflected most of the news. We have also provided in this Insight a matrix table indicating the SOTP value for different levels of CEP's PER and A-share price of Conch Cement.

We think that after the spin-off of China Conch Environment Protection Holdings (CEP HK), the businesses being left with China Conch Venture Holdings (586 HK) will be even smaller and render it more like a holding company. We think such development is not positive to Conch Venture, and also, based on our sum-of-the-parts valuation; it is trading on 4% premium, suggesting that there is minimal upside from here, in our view.What's left with Conch Venture will mainly be the waste incineration solution business, or waste-to-energy, but its capacity is significantly behind that for China Everbright Environment (257 HK) and Canvest Environmental Protection Group (1381 HK). Also, the remaining assets (excluding Anhui Conch Cement (914 HK)) will see slower earnings growth than with CEP.  The 16% rally in share price since Sep should have reflected most of the news. We have also provided in this Insight a matrix table indicating the SOTP value for different levels of CEP's PER and A-share price of Conch Cement. 

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China Everbright International Limited provides environmental protection project management and consultancy services. The Company's operations are broken up into environmental energy, environmental water, environmental construction and environmental technology.

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