Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Konan Technology is one of the competitors to Open AI (Chat GPT) in Korea. </li>
<li>Konan Technology's share price is up more than 4x this year. We would not chase the stock at current levels. We provide a framework of valuing Konan Technology. </li>
<li>Four large Korean companies that could be long-term winners in AI space in Korea include Naver, Kakao Corp, SK Telecom, and KT Corp. SK Telecom owns 20.8% of Konan Technology. </li>
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Konan Technology is one of the competitors to Open AI (Chat GPT) in Korea. 
Konan Technology's share price is up more than 4x this year. We would not chase the stock at current levels. We provide a framework of valuing Konan Technology. 
Four large Korean companies that could be long-term winners in AI space in Korea include Naver, Kakao Corp, SK Telecom, and KT Corp. SK Telecom owns 20.8% of Konan Technology. 


Konan Technology: Surging Share Price Due to Global Interest in Chat GPT AI

APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Ethan Aw

APAC 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

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<li>In this note, we will take a look at the performance of bookrunners for ASEAN placements from 2019-2022.</li>
<li>The following dataset includes all ASEAN placements above US$100m for the period of Calendar Years 2019-2022, which amounted to a total of 54 deals.</li>
<li>The deals you see in this note are based on our historical placements tracker. Feel free to drop us a message for additional information on any of these placements.</li>
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In this note, we will take a look at the performance of bookrunners for ASEAN placements from 2019-2022.
The following dataset includes all ASEAN placements above US$100m for the period of Calendar Years 2019-2022, which amounted to a total of 54 deals.
The deals you see in this note are based on our historical placements tracker. Feel free to drop us a message for additional information on any of these placements.


Aequitas ASEAN Placements Bookrunner Performance (2019-2022)

Research from Water Tower Research, Water Tower Research

Water Tower Research

Research from Water Tower Research

Water Tower Research is a leading equity research firm that provides research on micro, small and mid cap companies.

Water Tower Research was founded by Wall Street veterans after witnessing a fundamental shift in the investment research industry with the result being a declining knowledge base among investors, a lack of awareness and a shrinking pool of fundamental research being conducted on companies across the small-cap and micro-cap spectrum. The same issues are now increasingly occurring in the mid-cap space. This sea change within the investment community is impacting not only the companies themselves but also current shareholders and potential investors. With significantly less active sell-side sponsorship by Wall Street, a substantial information gap has developed between companies and various constituents in the financial community. The net result is fewer channels for insight and information to flow between companies and investors.

Equity Research Firm

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul><li>Despite the tough macroeconomic backdrop, digital advertising spend will continue to rise in 2023, largely driven by programmatic spend.</li><li>Connected TV (CTV) continues to surge and is expected to be the fastest-growing channel in 2023, growing at nearly 15% Y/Y, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB).</li><li>Social media advertising spend will decrease in 2023, according to eMarketer’s ad spending forecast, with a reduction of $16.21 billion due largely to a rising focus on privacy and transparency.</li></ul>

Despite the tough macroeconomic backdrop, digital advertising spend will continue to rise in 2023, largely driven by programmatic spend.Connected TV (CTV) continues to surge and is expected to be the fastest-growing channel in 2023, growing at nearly 15% Y/Y, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB).Social media advertising spend will decrease in 2023, according to eMarketer’s ad spending forecast, with a reduction of $16.21 billion due largely to a rising focus on privacy and transparency.

Greater China Equity Long/Short Analyst

Eric Chen

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<li>Recent developments highlighted the strategic significance of Wechat Channels (微信视频号) that Tencent’s management attached to the company’s future.</li>
<li>Counter-Intuitively, while backing of the social giant saves Wechat Channels’ efforts for traffic acquisition, it also limits the product's potential to develop into a content ecosystem rivaling Douyin.</li>
<li>Our base case values the product at $29 billion, or 6% of Tencent’s market cap as of January 20th.</li>
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Recent developments highlighted the strategic significance of Wechat Channels (微信视频号) that Tencent’s management attached to the company’s future.
Counter-Intuitively, while backing of the social giant saves Wechat Channels’ efforts for traffic acquisition, it also limits the product's potential to develop into a content ecosystem rivaling Douyin.
Our base case values the product at $29 billion, or 6% of Tencent’s market cap as of January 20th.


Tencent (700.HK): Valuing Wechat Channels

Analysis on GARP with strong economic moats, Moat Investing

Moat Investing

Analysis on GARP with strong economic moats

We are a group of experienced investors that like to dig deeper into stocks to find growth stories at a reasonable price with strong economic moats. We also aim to conduct high-quality analysis by doing deep dive on valuations, key business drivers, risk/reward, and different future scenarios.

GARP with strong economic moats

Meta Platforms (Facebook) / Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>META’s sustainable earnings come up with at least 30% to 35% upside potential.</li>
<li>There is a huge margin of safety at the current price, and multiple should expand from now forward.</li>
<li>Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/search?q=META" target="_blank" rel="noopener">META</a>) is one of the most beaten-up stories among the FAANG, the storytelling around the Metaverse has failed to be understood by the market, and a great deal of pessimism and future catastrophic scenarios have been priced into the stock.
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META’s sustainable earnings come up with at least 30% to 35% upside potential.
There is a huge margin of safety at the current price, and multiple should expand from now forward.
Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) is one of the most beaten-up stories among the FAANG, the storytelling around the Metaverse has failed to be understood by the market, and a great deal of pessimism and future catastrophic scenarios have been priced into the stock.



Meta Platforms: A Value Opportunity In The Tech Environment

United States

Meta Platforms Inc. operates as a social technology company. The Company builds applications and technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. meta Platform is also involved in advertisements, augmented and virtual reality.

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WTR Tech Talks: Adtech 101

Despite the tough macroeconomic backdrop, digital advertising spend will continue to rise in 2023, largely driven by programmatic spend.

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Konan Technology: Surging Share Price Due to Global Interest in Chat GPT AI

Konan Technology is one of the competitors to Open AI (Chat GPT) in Korea. We provide a framework of valuing Konan Technology. We would not chase...

Douglas Kim

Aequitas ASEAN Placements Bookrunner Performance (2019-2022)

In this note, we will take a look at the performance of bookrunners for ASEAN placements from 2019-2022, which includes all ASEAN placements above...

Ethan Aw

WTR Tech Talks: Adtech 101

Despite the tough macroeconomic backdrop, digital advertising spend will continue to rise in 2023, largely driven by programmatic spend.

Water Tower Research

Tencent (700.HK): Valuing Wechat Channels

We value Wechat Channels at $29 billion, roughly 6% of Tencent's market cap. The social graph underpinning the product is a double-edge sword -...

Eric Chen

Meta Platforms: A Value Opportunity In The Tech Environment

META’s sustainable earnings come up with at least 30% to 35% upside potential. There is a huge margin of safety at the current price, and multiple...

Moat Investing