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

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/doms-industries" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:40059:1" rel="noopener">Doms (DOMS IN)</a> is looking to raise around US$140m (estimated) in its upcoming India IPO. The deal will be run by JM Financial, BNP, ICICI Securities and IIFL Securities.</li>
<li>DOMS is a leading player and brand in India’s stationery and art products market. It designs,  manufactures, and sells a wide range of products, primarily under its flagship brand ‘DOMS’.</li>
<li>Its core products such as pencils and mathematical instrument boxes had market shares of 29% and 30% by value in FY23, respectively, as per Technopak.</li>
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Doms (DOMS IN) is looking to raise around US$140m (estimated) in its upcoming India IPO. The deal will be run by JM Financial, BNP, ICICI Securities and IIFL Securities.
DOMS is a leading player and brand in India’s stationery and art products market. It designs,  manufactures, and sells a wide range of products, primarily under its flagship brand ‘DOMS’.
Its core products such as pencils and mathematical instrument boxes had market shares of 29% and 30% by value in FY23, respectively, as per Technopak.


Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One, Periscope Analytics

Brian Freitas

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One

Periscope Analytics

Periscope Analytics focuses on event-driven trades across Asia Pacific and provides comprehensive, timely and systematic coverage of index changes to major Asia Pacific indices in a structured manner.

The analysis includes forecasted inclusions and exclusions to all major Asian indices that have significant amount of tracking assets, including estimates of passive buy/sell flow on the stocks. The service also provides commentary and impact of market consultations, ground rule changes, and other events (IPOs, spin-offs, M&A) that could lead to index changes and passive flow.

Periscope Analytics works with multi-strategy hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, stat arb trading groups and long-only investors that invest and trade in the Asia Pacific region with the data being used to trade index rebalances, avoid pre-positioning and passive flow, and to time entry into and exit from stocks.

Event-Driven Trades Across Asia Pacific

Event-Driven

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<li>We see 8 stocks moving from MidCap to LargeCap, 8 stocks moving from LargeCap to MidCap, 13 stocks from SmallCap to MidCap, and 13 stocks from MidCap to SmallCap.</li>
<li>The expected migrations from SmallCap to MidCap have outperformed the other potential migrations with all stocks moving higher over the last six month.</li>
<li>Active managers could continue to realign their portfolios. Some of the upward migrations will have passive flows in the next few days and over the next few months.</li>
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We see 8 stocks moving from MidCap to LargeCap, 8 stocks moving from LargeCap to MidCap, 13 stocks from SmallCap to MidCap, and 13 stocks from MidCap to SmallCap.
The expected migrations from SmallCap to MidCap have outperformed the other potential migrations with all stocks moving higher over the last six month.
Active managers could continue to realign their portfolios. Some of the upward migrations will have passive flows in the next few days and over the next few months.


AMFI Stock Reclassification Preview (Dec 2023): Overlap Between Active & Passive Flows

External broker reports(aggregated public sources), Axis Direct

Axis Direct

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Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul><li>Healthy AUM growth: The NBFCs under our coverage reported healthy AUM growth led by strong demand across segments.</li><li>Owing to seasonal weakness, disbursements for most financiers (ex-Vehicle financiers) moderated on a QoQ basis.</li><li>Management commentary on growth momentum sustaining is reassuring.</li></ul><p><em>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.</em></p>

Healthy AUM growth: The NBFCs under our coverage reported healthy AUM growth led by strong demand across segments.Owing to seasonal weakness, disbursements for most financiers (ex-Vehicle financiers) moderated on a QoQ basis.Management commentary on growth momentum sustaining is reassuring.Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Top Sector Ideas - Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI)

APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Ethan Aw

APAC IPOs & Placements

Jana Small Finance Bank / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/jana-small-finance-bank" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:40026:1" rel="noopener">Jana Small Finance Bank (3667144Z IN)</a> is looking to raise up to US$100m in its upcoming India IPO. The deal will be run by Axis Capital, ICICI-Sec and SBI Capital.</li>
<li>Jana Small Finance Bank (JSFB) is the fourth largest small finance bank in India in terms of AUM and deposit size as of FY23 (Year ended 31st Mar 2023). </li>
<li>The firm has served nearly 12m customers since 2008, including 4.57m active customers as of FY23.</li>
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Jana Small Finance Bank (3667144Z IN) is looking to raise up to US$100m in its upcoming India IPO. The deal will be run by Axis Capital, ICICI-Sec and SBI Capital.
Jana Small Finance Bank (JSFB) is the fourth largest small finance bank in India in terms of AUM and deposit size as of FY23 (Year ended 31st Mar 2023). 
The firm has served nearly 12m customers since 2008, including 4.57m active customers as of FY23.


Jana Small Finance Bank Pre-IPO Tearsheet

India Shelter Finance / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/india-shelter-finance" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:40025:1" rel="noopener">India Shelter Finance (0570670D IN)</a> is looking to raise up to US$217m in its upcoming India IPO. The deal will be run by Ambit, Citigroup, ICICI Securities and Kotak Mahindra.</li>
<li>India Shelter Finance (ISF) is a retail focused affordable housing finance company. Between FY21-23, the firm registered a two-year CAGR growth of 40.8% in terms of AUM, according to CRISIL. </li>
<li>Its target segment comprises self-employed customers, focusing on first time home loan takers in the low and middle income group in Tier II and Tier III cities in India. </li>
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India Shelter Finance (0570670D IN) is looking to raise up to US$217m in its upcoming India IPO. The deal will be run by Ambit, Citigroup, ICICI Securities and Kotak Mahindra.
India Shelter Finance (ISF) is a retail focused affordable housing finance company. Between FY21-23, the firm registered a two-year CAGR growth of 40.8% in terms of AUM, according to CRISIL. 
Its target segment comprises self-employed customers, focusing on first time home loan takers in the low and middle income group in Tier II and Tier III cities in India. 


India

HDFC Bank Ltd. offers a wide range of services to the global corporate sector. The Bank provides corporate banking and custodial services and is active in the treasury and capital markets. HDFC also markets project advisory services and capital market products such as Global Deposit Receipts, Euro currency loans, and Euro currency bonds.

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HDFC Bank (HDFCB IN)

DOMS Industries Pre-IPO Tearsheet

Doms (DOMS IN) is looking to raise around US$140m (estimated) in its upcoming India IPO. The deal will be run by JM Financial, BNP, ICICI...

Sumeet Singh

AMFI Stock Reclassification Preview (Dec 2023): Overlap Between Active & Passive Flows

We see 42 potential migrations between the size categories. The small to mid migrations have outperformed. There will be a lot of overlap between...

Brian Freitas

Top Sector Ideas - Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI)

The NBFCs under our coverage reported healthy AUM growth led by strong demand across segments .Owing to seasonal weakness, disbursements for most...

Axis Direct

Jana Small Finance Bank Pre-IPO Tearsheet

Jana Small Finance Bank (3667144Z IN) is looking to raise up to US$100m in its upcoming India IPO. The deal will be run by Axis Capital, ICICI-Sec...

Ethan Aw

India Shelter Finance Pre-IPO Tearsheet

India Shelter Finance (0570670D IN) is looking to raise up to US$217m in its upcoming India IPO. The deal will be run by Ambit, Citigroup, ICICI...

Ethan Aw

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