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China Tourism Group Duty Free Corp Ltd / Equity Capital Markets

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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>/CTGDF, the largest travel retail operator in the world, aims to launch an H Share listing to raise US$2-3 billion on Friday.</li>
<li>CTGDF is a play on the normalization of domestic travel. However, the H Share listing timing is not ideal as a vital summer travel market, Sanya, is under renewed lockdown. </li>
<li>The recovery timing has again shifted, with expectations of a 4Q recovery, but 2022 consensus expectations look slightly optimistic. We prefer to remain on the sidelines.</li>
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China Tourism Group Duty Free Corp Ltd (601888 CH)/CTGDF, the largest travel retail operator in the world, aims to launch an H Share listing to raise US$2-3 billion on Friday.
CTGDF is a play on the normalization of domestic travel. However, the H Share listing timing is not ideal as a vital summer travel market, Sanya, is under renewed lockdown. 
The recovery timing has again shifted, with expectations of a 4Q recovery, but 2022 consensus expectations look slightly optimistic. We prefer to remain on the sidelines.


CTG Duty Free H Share Listing: Another False Dawn?

European Event-Driven Analyst

Jesus Rodriguez Aguilar

Event-Driven

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<li>Dufry and Autogrill agree an all-stock deal (0.158 DUFN SW x 1 AGL IM) to create a travel-related concession giant. The Benettons will become the largest shareholders (c.25%).</li>
<li>The deal should bolster Dufry's balance sheet and add scale, helpful in tenders. Shareholders of Autogrill seem to be the main beneficiaries of the deal.</li>
<li>As per the terms, spread on all-share is 14% premium, while that on cash alternative is 0.2% premium. Only a recovery of Dufry's share price would justify opening a position.</li>
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Dufry and Autogrill agree an all-stock deal (0.158 DUFN SW x 1 AGL IM) to create a travel-related concession giant. The Benettons will become the largest shareholders (c.25%).
The deal should bolster Dufry's balance sheet and add scale, helpful in tenders. Shareholders of Autogrill seem to be the main beneficiaries of the deal.
As per the terms, spread on all-share is 14% premium, while that on cash alternative is 0.2% premium. Only a recovery of Dufry's share price would justify opening a position.


Dufry/Autogrill: Another Attempt to Create a Travel-Concession Giant

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Sumeet Singh

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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> (CDF) aims to raise around US$5-10bn in its H-share listing in Hong Kong. CDF is the largest travel retail operator in the world primarily focusing on sales of high-quality duty-free and duty-paid merchandise to domestic and international travelers. As per Frost &amp; Sullivan, it had 92.3% market share by retail revenue in China duty-free merchandise sales in 2020.As the A-shares are already listed and well covered, we will treat this listing more like a placement rather than an IPO. However, given the large potential size of the listing, we will go into more details than we would for a regular placement. Hence, in this note we will briefly cover the company’s background and recent performance before touching upon the deal dynamics.

China Tourism Group Duty Free Corp Ltd (601888 CH) (CDF) aims to raise around US$5-10bn in its H-share listing in Hong Kong. CDF is the largest travel retail operator in the world primarily focusing on sales of high-quality duty-free and duty-paid merchandise to domestic and international travelers. As per Frost &amp; Sullivan, it had 92.3% market share by retail revenue in China duty-free merchandise sales in 2020.As the A-shares are already listed and well covered, we will treat this listing more like a placement rather than an IPO. However, given the large potential size of the listing, we will go into more details than we would for a regular placement. Hence, in this note we will briefly cover the company’s background and recent performance before touching upon the deal dynamics.

China Tourism Group A/H Listing Early Look - Over US$5bn Raising for a Monopoly on Chinese Tourists

HK/China Equity Long-Short

Osbert Tang, CFA

Equity Bottom-Up

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

We have expressed our positive view on <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> in various Insights previously. In this Insight, we look at the proposed H-share IPO from the perspective of investors who do not know it well. For seasoned investors in this name, this Insight serves as a summary of our views and provides background details on the proposed IPO.Fundamentally speaking, the key positives for CTG Duty Free are: 1.) absolute leadership in China's duty free market, 2.) encouraging growth outlook, and 3.) solid profitability and financial position. Key negatives are: 1.) policy risk and rising competition, 2.) concern on payback of new projects, and 3.) risk of overseas expansion. If the IPO is being priced at the current average H-A discount, it will be on 32.7x FY21F PER, we see this not expensive relative to the premium retailers listed in Hong Kong.

We have expressed our positive view on China Tourism Group Duty Free Corp Ltd (601888 CH) in various Insights previously. In this Insight, we look at the proposed H-share IPO from the perspective of investors who do not know it well. For seasoned investors in this name, this Insight serves as a summary of our views and provides background details on the proposed IPO.Fundamentally speaking, the key positives for CTG Duty Free are: 1.) absolute leadership in China's duty free market, 2.) encouraging growth outlook, and 3.) solid profitability and financial position. Key negatives are: 1.) policy risk and rising competition, 2.) concern on payback of new projects, and 3.) risk of overseas expansion. If the IPO is being priced at the current average H-A discount, it will be on 32.7x FY21F PER, we see this not expensive relative to the premium retailers listed in Hong Kong. 

CTG Duty Free (601888 CH) H-Share Pre-IPO: Fundamentally Speaking

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Oshadhi Kumarasiri

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Easyhome New Retail Group / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li><a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/alibaba-group" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:28434:1" rel="noopener">Alibaba Group (9988 HK)</a> formed a JV and a capital tie-up with <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/dufry-ag" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:22344:1" rel="noopener">Dufry AG (DUFN SW)</a> (an operator of more than 2,400 travel retail stores globally under several famous brands including Dufry and World Duty Free) in October last year. It shows that Alibaba is quite eager to capture a significant portion of the Chinese travel retail market.  Please refer: <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/alibaba-to-buy-10-of-dufry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alibaba to Buy 10% of Dufry</a> for details.</li></ul><ul>
<li><a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/easyhome-new-retail-group-corporation-limited" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:15290:1" rel="noopener">Easyhome New Retail Group (000785 CH)</a> is a small Hypermarket chain in the home improvement, home furnishing, smart home and household products businesses and operates 416 chain stores and 706 franchised stores in 272 Chinese cities. Additionally, Easyhome operates a small finance business, which provides factoring, microfinance and financing guarantees mainly to its Hypermarket customers.</li>
<li>Alibaba is already the second-largest shareholder of Easyhome with 14.73% ownership share. Alibaba acquired Easyhome shares in February 2018 in a private market transaction. Easyhome was later listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange through a reverse merger with Wuhan Zhongnan Commercial Group.</li>
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Alibaba Group (9988 HK) formed a JV and a capital tie-up with Dufry AG (DUFN SW) (an operator of more than 2,400 travel retail stores globally under several famous brands including Dufry and World Duty Free) in October last year. It shows that Alibaba is quite eager to capture a significant portion of the Chinese travel retail market.  Please refer: Alibaba to Buy 10% of Dufry for details.
Easyhome New Retail Group (000785 CH) is a small Hypermarket chain in the home improvement, home furnishing, smart home and household products businesses and operates 416 chain stores and 706 franchised stores in 272 Chinese cities. Additionally, Easyhome operates a small finance business, which provides factoring, microfinance and financing guarantees mainly to its Hypermarket customers.
Alibaba is already the second-largest shareholder of Easyhome with 14.73% ownership share. Alibaba acquired Easyhome shares in February 2018 in a private market transaction. Easyhome was later listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange through a reverse merger with Wuhan Zhongnan Commercial Group.


Easyhome New Retail Group: Could Become a Key Piece of Alibaba’s Chinese Travel Retail Puzzle

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Dufry AG operates duty-free shops in countries such as Tunisia, Italy, Mexico, France, Russia, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore, the Caribbean and the United States.

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Jesus Rodriguez Aguilar

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Sumeet Singh

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Osbert Tang, CFA

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Oshadhi Kumarasiri