HK/China Healthcare Analyst (ex-Fosun Pharma)

Xinyao (Criss) Wang

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>The results of National TCM VBP were released, with average price reduction of 49.36%, involving multiple large varieties with sales over RMB1 billion and exclusive products from many listed companies.</li>
<li>CDE will move closer to the FDA's standard for approving new drugs. So, pharmaceutical companies need to update clinical strategies timely according to the situation, otherwise unexpected events may occur.</li>
<li>We analyzed some key points about <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/hua-medicine" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:27410:1" rel="noopener">Hua Medicine Ltd (2552 HK)</a>. We think its core drug Dorzagliatin still has many uncertainties that are worth investors' attention.</li>
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The results of National TCM VBP were released, with average price reduction of 49.36%, involving multiple large varieties with sales over RMB1 billion and exclusive products from many listed companies.
CDE will move closer to the FDA's standard for approving new drugs. So, pharmaceutical companies need to update clinical strategies timely according to the situation, otherwise unexpected events may occur.
We analyzed some key points about Hua Medicine Ltd (2552 HK). We think its core drug Dorzagliatin still has many uncertainties that are worth investors' attention.


China Healthcare Weekly (Jun.23) - National TCM VBP Results, CDE Changes Game Rule, Hua Medicine

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>Policies will determine the development direction of the industry, which would then determine the profit model of companies. Companies that align with policy direction would outperform in the coming cycle.</li>
<li>The prosperity of the industry would determine the development trend of companies. For China healthcare, without a significant policy shift, it would be difficult for industry beta to emerge.</li>
<li>Domestic companies cannot achieve successful commercialization/internationalization mainly because they don’t have excellent enough products. It must be innovation that keeps companies alive and then thrive, rather than relying on policy changes.</li>
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Policies will determine the development direction of the industry, which would then determine the profit model of companies. Companies that align with policy direction would outperform in the coming cycle.
The prosperity of the industry would determine the development trend of companies. For China healthcare, without a significant policy shift, it would be difficult for industry beta to emerge.
Domestic companies cannot achieve successful commercialization/internationalization mainly because they don’t have excellent enough products. It must be innovation that keeps companies alive and then thrive, rather than relying on policy changes.


The Cyclicality of China Healthcare - Policy Environment, the Industry, and Investment Opportunities

China Resources Pharmaceutical / Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>2022 was a turning point for China Resources Pharmaceutical (CRP), because performance of core subsidiaries saw a historic improvement.After China reopens, CRP is expected to achieve double-digit growth in 2023.</li>
<li>CRP’s development history indicates that its current scale/industry position are mainly due to continuous M&amp;A based on SOE resource advantages/background, but holding platform companies have valuation discounts in secondary market.</li>
<li>Different business models lead to different valuation logic. But Sinopharm/SH Pharma/CRP all enjoy SOE background dividends+valuation system with Chinese characteristics. If investors mainly focus on industry trend, they can all be invested.  </li>
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2022 was a turning point for China Resources Pharmaceutical (CRP), because performance of core subsidiaries saw a historic improvement.After China reopens, CRP is expected to achieve double-digit growth in 2023.
CRP’s development history indicates that its current scale/industry position are mainly due to continuous M&amp;A based on SOE resource advantages/background, but holding platform companies have valuation discounts in secondary market.
Different business models lead to different valuation logic. But Sinopharm/SH Pharma/CRP all enjoy SOE background dividends+valuation system with Chinese characteristics. If investors mainly focus on industry trend, they can all be invested.  


China Resources Pharmaceutical (3320.HK) - Growth Recovery and SOE Advantages Improve the Outlook

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 weekly Shanghai/Shenzhen northbound Connect flows with our data engine for holding position as of December 30th.</li>
<li>We estimate the weekly inflows to be US$457.7 million, led by financials, consumer staples, utilities sectors, and offset by industrials, materials.</li>
<li>We highlight flows for Ping An Insurance, Yibin Wuliangye, CATL. </li>
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We analyze the weekly Shanghai/Shenzhen northbound Connect flows with our data engine for holding position as of December 30th.
We estimate the weekly inflows to be US$457.7 million, led by financials, consumer staples, utilities sectors, and offset by industrials, materials.
We highlight flows for Ping An Insurance, Yibin Wuliangye, CATL. 


Northbound Flows (Dec 30th): Ping An, Wuliangye, CATL

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<li>The distribution business is stable, but it’s difficult to achieve high growth/profits due to industry trend. Therefore, the valuation of this business is hard to increase.</li>
<li>The performance of pharmaceutical manufacturing business is important, which largely determines the overall profit margin. But it actually depends on what the subsidiaries can contribute, who are facing different challenges.</li>
<li>China Resources Pharmaceutical may need to improve its vision of asset selection and its ability to judge and grasp the long-term trend of the industry. The current valuation isn’t attractive.</li>
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The distribution business is stable, but it’s difficult to achieve high growth/profits due to industry trend. Therefore, the valuation of this business is hard to increase.
The performance of pharmaceutical manufacturing business is important, which largely determines the overall profit margin. But it actually depends on what the subsidiaries can contribute, who are facing different challenges.
China Resources Pharmaceutical may need to improve its vision of asset selection and its ability to judge and grasp the long-term trend of the industry. The current valuation isn’t attractive.


China Resources Pharmaceutical (3320.HK) - Here Are the Concerns

China

CSPC Pharmaceutical Group Limited, through its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells pharmaceutical products.  The Company's products include vitamin C, antibiotics and common generic drugs. The Company is also engages in the development of innovative drugs and antibiotics.

Changchun High & New Technology Industry (Group) Inc. is an investment holding company.  Through its subsidiaries, the Company manufactures biopharmaceuticals and Chinese traditional medicines, constructs infrastructure facilities, manufactures electrolytic condensers, and develops and manages real estate.

Sichuan Kelun Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. manufactures pharmaceutical products. The Company's products include large infusion products, tablets, capsules, antibiotic injection, lyophilized powder for injection, and traditional Chinese medicine.

Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical (Group) Co., Ltd. is a pharmaceutical company. Through its subsidiaries, the Company manufactures genetic medicines, Chinese traditional medicines, diagnostic products, and medical instruments, provides technology, marketing, and advertising services, as well as invests in import and export trading.

Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical (Group) (600196 CH)

Beijing Tongrentang Co., Ltd. develops, manufactures, and markets Chinese traditional medicines and medicinal wines.  The Company also operates pharmaceutical retail businesses and provides consulting services.

Zhejiang NHU Co., Ltd. manufactures and markets organic chemical products and feed additive. The Company's products include EMME, Vitamin E and Vitamin A.

Guangzhou Baiyunshan Pharmaceutical Holdings Co., Ltd. manufactures and sells Chinese patent medicine. The Company also wholesales, retails, imports, and exports Western and Chinese pharmaceutical products and various medical apparatus.

Guangzhou Baiyunshan Pharmaceutical Holdings (874 HK)

Guangzhou Baiyunshan Pharmaceutical Holdings

Xizang Haisco Pharmaceutical Group Company Limited develops, manufactures and sells drug formulations and active pharmaceutical ingredients. The Company's main products include hepatobiliary disease medication, anti-infective drugs, parenteral nutrition drugs, invert sugar for injection, and other related products.

Xizang Haisco Pharmaceutical Group Co (002653 CH)

Shenzhen Salubris Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd. develops, manufactures, and distributes pharmaceutical and healthcare products such as tablets, capsules, injection formulations and active pharmaceutical ingredients.

Shenzhen Salubris Pharmaceuticals A (002294 CH)

Dong-E-E-Jiao Co., Ltd. primarily manufactures and sells traditional Chinese medicine, health care products, health foods, and bio-medicine. The company also engages in gelatin products manufacturing.

Sino Biopharmaceutical Limited, through its subsidiaries, researches, develops, produces, and sells biopharmaceutical products for the medical treatment of ophthalmia, as well as modernized Chinese medicine and chemical medicine for the treatment of hepatitis.

Intra-Cellular Therapies Inc. researches and develops biopharmaceutical drugs. The Company engages in the research and development of small molecule drugs to treat neuropsychiatric and neurological diseases and other disorders of the central nervous system. Intra-Cellular Therapies offers its products to the medical industry.

ONO PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD. manufactures and sells pharmaceuticals.  The Company mainly researches and develops prescription drugs.

Abbott India Limited manufactures a wide range of pharmaceutical and medical products, agrochemicals, and animal health products. The Company's medical and pharmaceutical products include insulin injections, anti-dysentery drugs, vitamin preparations, penicillin preparations, sulfonamide tablets, and a variety of household remedies.

Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc is a specialty biopharmaceutical company focused on improving patients' lives by identifying, developing and commercializing innovative products that address unmet medical needs. The company has a diverse portfolio of products in the areas of narcolepsy, oncology, pain and psychiatry.

Lupin Limited manufactures bulk actives and formulations. The principal bulk actives manufactured by it include Rifampicin, Pyrazinamide, Ethambutol (anti-TB), Cephalosporins (anti-infectives) and cardiovasculars. The company also possesses competencies in phytomedicines, in which medicines are made out of plant and herbal resources supported by the discipline of modern medicine.

Aurobindo Pharma Limited manufactures and markets oral and sterile antibiotics, antibacterials, anti-ulcerants and other generic basic drugs. Products include semi-synthetic penicillin drugs like ampicillin and amoxycillinas well as antibiotics, which include cloxacillin and dicloxacillin. The Company also manufactures formulations like astemizole, domeperidone and omeprazole.

Ipsen SA manufactures and markets a wide range of medical drugs for targeted disease areas including oncology, endocrinology, and neuromuscular disorders.

Orion Oyj develops and manufactures pharmaceuticals and diagnostic kits.  The Company produces hormone therapies and drugs to treat central nervous system disorders, cardiovascular diseases and urological disorders, and in vitro diagnostic kits used in doctor's offices and small laboratories.

Dechra Pharmaceuticals PLC is an international pharmaceutical business focused on the veterinary market, with its key area of specialisation being the development and marketing of companion animal products.  The Company Operates under four segments: European Pharmaceuticals; US Pharmaceuticals; Product Development and Services.

China Resources Sanjiu Medical & Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. manufactures and markets medicines, healthcare products, and medical instruments.  Through its subsidiaries, the Company also operates in pharmaceutical trading, printing, food manufacturing, real estate development, and provides medical services.

China Resources Sanjiu Medical & Pharma (000999 CH)

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China Resources Sanjiu Medical & Pharma (000999 CH)

China Healthcare Weekly (Jun.23) - National TCM VBP Results, CDE Changes Game Rule, Hua Medicine

Results of National TCM VBP were released, involving some big varieties. CDE changes game rule on drug approva. Companies has to change clinical...

Xinyao (Criss) Wang

The Cyclicality of China Healthcare - Policy Environment, the Industry, and Investment Opportunities

Without industry beta, China healthcare companies still have opportunity to achieve countercyclical breakthrough.Investors need to be in line with...

Xinyao (Criss) Wang

China Resources Pharmaceutical (3320.HK) - Growth Recovery and SOE Advantages Improve the Outlook

China Resources Pharmaceutical is expected to achieve double-digit growth in 2023. Its SOE resource advantage/background are in line with China's...

Xinyao (Criss) Wang

Northbound Flows (Dec 30th): Ping An, Wuliangye, CATL

We analyzed the Shanghai/Shenzhen Connect Scheme for last week and highlight flows for Ping An Insurance, Wuliangye, CATL.

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

China Resources Pharmaceutical (3320.HK) - Here Are the Concerns

Pharmaceutical manufacturing business is the key to drive valuation,but the subsidiaries face challenge.CR Pharma should improve its vision of...

Xinyao (Criss) Wang

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