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Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>The electric-vehicle unit of defaulted property developer China Evergrande Group reported that in the first half of 2023 it delivered 760 cars and its net loss narrowed by almost half from a year earlier to 6.87 billion yuan ($942 million).</li><li>China Evergrande New Energy Vehicle Group Ltd.’s revenue jumped more than fivefold to 155 million yuan, mainly from mass production and delivery of its flagship model, the Hengchi 5, starting last October.</li><li>The electric-car company has been plagued by production delays and setbacks since touting its first Hengchi model as early as 2019 and pledging to rival Tesla within three to five years.</li></ul>

The electric-vehicle unit of defaulted property developer China Evergrande Group reported that in the first half of 2023 it delivered 760 cars and its net loss narrowed by almost half from a year earlier to 6.87 billion yuan ($942 million).China Evergrande New Energy Vehicle Group Ltd.’s revenue jumped more than fivefold to 155 million yuan, mainly from mass production and delivery of its flagship model, the Hengchi 5, starting last October.The electric-car company has been plagued by production delays and setbacks since touting its first Hengchi model as early as 2019 and pledging to rival Tesla within three to five years.

Evergrande EV Unit Reports Vehicle Deliveries and Narrower Loss

Global Automotive Stocks/EV Focus/Event Driven, SC Capital

SC Capital

Global Automotive Stocks/EV Focus/Event Driven

Over 22 years covering Japanese equities on both the sell side and the buy side. 

Bottom-up Japan Equities Research

Faraday Future Intelligent Ele / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul>
<li>EV start-up Faraday Future (FF) will be de-listed by the Nasdaq if it fails to file its 2021 annual report &amp; Q1 2022 results by May 16th.   </li>
<li>FF has no revenues yet, but plans to start production in Q3. Cash as of March-end was only $273m vs cash burn of $181m &amp; payment obligations of $193m.</li>
<li>FF's growth strategy is risky &amp; relies on the ultra-luxury car market, which is peaking. Without financing, FF may struggle to survive this year.    </li>
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EV start-up Faraday Future (FF) will be de-listed by the Nasdaq if it fails to file its 2021 annual report &amp; Q1 2022 results by May 16th.   
FF has no revenues yet, but plans to start production in Q3. Cash as of March-end was only $273m vs cash burn of $181m &amp; payment obligations of $193m.
FF's growth strategy is risky &amp; relies on the ultra-luxury car market, which is peaking. Without financing, FF may struggle to survive this year.    


Faraday Future (FFIE): Not Looking So Bright

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events, Quiddity Advisors

David Blennerhassett

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Quiddity Advisors

Event-Driven

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<li>Colour me perplexed. Murakami Group ran up <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/mitsui-matsushima-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:13569:1" rel="noopener">Mitsui Matsushima (1518 JP)</a>'s share price in acquiring 29%. The pattern was clear, but one assumes everyone in-group was on the same page.</li>
<li>Two activist shareholders. And long only upping its stake. Heavily discounted <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/china-merchants-china-direct-investments" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:6862:1" rel="noopener">China Merchants China Direct Investments (133 HK)</a> is in play.</li>
<li>A HUGE new buyback for <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/kansai-paint-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:13340:1" rel="noopener">Kansai Paint (4613 JP)</a>. Really big. Buy Kansai Paint vs Nippon Paint. One can buy the pop. One can buy any dips after the pop. </li>
</ul>


Colour me perplexed. Murakami Group ran up Mitsui Matsushima (1518 JP)'s share price in acquiring 29%. The pattern was clear, but one assumes everyone in-group was on the same page.
Two activist shareholders. And long only upping its stake. Heavily discounted China Merchants China Direct Investments (133 HK) is in play.
A HUGE new buyback for Kansai Paint (4613 JP). Really big. Buy Kansai Paint vs Nippon Paint. One can buy the pop. One can buy any dips after the pop. 


Last Week in Event SPACE: Mitsui Matsushima, China Merchants,Kansai Paint, Teijin, Sciclone Pharma

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

Alibaba Group Holding  / Equity Capital Markets

<ul>
<li>In this note, we will take a look at the Asia Pacific IPO pipeline for 2024, starting with Hong Kong.</li>
<li>This list has been compiled on a best effort basis from tracking the company filings and through various other sources.</li>
<li>The deals you see in this note are only a part of our full IPO pipeline tracker. Feel free to drop us a message for additional information on these IPOs.</li>
</ul>


In this note, we will take a look at the Asia Pacific IPO pipeline for 2024, starting with Hong Kong.
This list has been compiled on a best effort basis from tracking the company filings and through various other sources.
The deals you see in this note are only a part of our full IPO pipeline tracker. Feel free to drop us a message for additional information on these IPOs.


Aequitas 2024 Asia IPO Pipeline - Hong Kong

Independent Asian Credit Research, Bondcritic

Warut Promboon

Independent Asian Credit Research

Asian Fixed Income/Frontier Market Research

Bondcritic

Bondcritic, established in 2009, is designed to be an independent credit research voice that helps investors gain insights and unbiased analyses on Asian fixed income market. Our mission is to discover deep-value Asian high-yield and distressed bonds with a bottom-up approach, together with the help of our proprietary ESG (Environmental, Social Development, and Governance) model. At the same time, we focus on bringing investment cases of unrated and unloved issuers to the general public.

Credit

<ul>
<li>Country Garden should not be a surprise. The bond price at 5 cents is based on much uncertainty.</li>
<li>We list a few caveats why the bonds at 5 cents are not investible.</li>
<li>The potential wind-up order by the Hong Kong court will be a big test of the rule of law in China.</li>
</ul>


Country Garden should not be a surprise. The bond price at 5 cents is based on much uncertainty.
We list a few caveats why the bonds at 5 cents are not investible.
The potential wind-up order by the Hong Kong court will be a big test of the rule of law in China.


China

Evergrande Auto researches, develops, and manufactures new energy vehicles. The Company engages in vehicle manufacturing, electric motor control, power batteries, vehicle sales, smart charging, shared mobility, and more. Evergrande Auto also operates health management businesses.

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David Blennerhassett

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Sumeet Singh

Country Garden : Not a Nickel Play

Country Garden defaulted on its USD bonds on 18-October. Its COGARD complex was offered c.5 cents on the dollar but we cannot recommend buying...

Bondcritic

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