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Equity Bottom-Up

<ul>
 <li>iFlytek is a leading Chinese AI company specializing in voice recognition and natural language processing, with a strategic focus on its 'Spark' large language model to drive growth across key sectors.</li>
 <li>The company faces a dual challenge of intense competition from domestic tech giants like Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent, and significant geopolitical headwinds from US sanctions that restrict access to critical hardware.</li>
 <li>Financial performance shows strong revenue growth but is hampered by volatile profitability and negative free cash flow, reflecting heavy R&amp;D investment and the high costs of competing in the AI arms race.</li>
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  iFlytek is a leading Chinese AI company specializing in voice recognition and natural language processing, with a strategic focus on its 'Spark' large language model to drive growth across key sectors.
  The company faces a dual challenge of intense competition from domestic tech giants like Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent, and significant geopolitical headwinds from US sanctions that restrict access to critical hardware.
  Financial performance shows strong revenue growth but is hampered by volatile profitability and negative free cash flow, reflecting heavy R&amp;D investment and the high costs of competing in the AI arms race.
This content is AI-generated and displayed for general informational purposes only. Please verify independently before use.

Primer: IFlytek Co Ltd A (002230 CH) - Sep 2025

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events, Quiddity Advisors

David Blennerhassett

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Quiddity Advisors

Event-Driven

China Merchants China Direct Investments / Event-Driven

<ul>
<li>Activist Argyle Street's approach to closed-end investment company <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> (CMCDI) has a certain David Webb-like quality.</li>
<li>Apart from the deep value angle, the analysis of director Elizabeth Kan's potential conflict of interest is particularly insightful. Argle will vote against Kan's re-election at the 20th June AGM</li>
<li>Given this upcoming vote, as I've done with <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/giordano-international-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:13899:1" rel="noopener">Giordano (709 HK)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/l-occitane-international-sa" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:6772:1" rel="noopener">L'Occitane (973 HK)</a> previously, it's useful to investigate the lesser-known shareholder register, a byproduct of investigative disclosure reports.</li>
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Activist Argyle Street's approach to closed-end investment company China Merchants China Direct Investments (133 HK) (CMCDI) has a certain David Webb-like quality.
Apart from the deep value angle, the analysis of director Elizabeth Kan's potential conflict of interest is particularly insightful. Argle will vote against Kan's re-election at the 20th June AGM
Given this upcoming vote, as I've done with Giordano (709 HK) and L'Occitane (973 HK) previously, it's useful to investigate the lesser-known shareholder register, a byproduct of investigative disclosure reports.


CMCDI (133 HK): AGM Outcome May Provide Another Leg-Up

Covering IPOs, Healthcare and Technology Stocks

Andrei Zakharov

Unisound AI Technology / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul>
<li>Unisound AI Technology, a founder-led AI solution provider with focus on conversational AI products and speech recognition technologies, completed its IPO in Hong Kong in June.</li>
<li>Beijing based AI company priced an initial public offering at HK$205.00/share, raising ~HK$251M of net proceeds. The stock is up ~248% from its IPO price at Monday’s close.  </li>
<li>Unisound AI’s market cap today is on a par with market cap of SenseTime and 2x bigger than Beijing Fourth Paradigm. All these companies have the similar growth profiles.</li>
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Unisound AI Technology, a founder-led AI solution provider with focus on conversational AI products and speech recognition technologies, completed its IPO in Hong Kong in June.
Beijing based AI company priced an initial public offering at HK$205.00/share, raising ~HK$251M of net proceeds. The stock is up ~248% from its IPO price at Monday’s close.  
Unisound AI’s market cap today is on a par with market cap of SenseTime and 2x bigger than Beijing Fourth Paradigm. All these companies have the similar growth profiles.


Unisound AI (9678.HK): ~US$6.5B Market Cap, ADTV ~US$6M, Is Secondary Share Sale On The Deck?

Equity Capital Markets

Unisound AI Technology / Equity Capital Markets

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<li>Unisound AI Technology, a Beijing-based AI solution provider with focus on conversational AI products, healthcare and daily life related application scenarios, is expected to IPO next week.</li>
<li>The offering is expected to be between HK$165.00 and HK$205.00, implying a market cap of ~HK$13B or ~$1.7B at the midpoint of price range.  </li>
<li>Unisound AI Technology IPO valuation implies a premium relative to SenseTime, iFlytek and 4Paradigm. I would consider becoming more constructive on the name if its valuation came down.</li>
</ul>


Unisound AI Technology, a Beijing-based AI solution provider with focus on conversational AI products, healthcare and daily life related application scenarios, is expected to IPO next week.
The offering is expected to be between HK$165.00 and HK$205.00, implying a market cap of ~HK$13B or ~$1.7B at the midpoint of price range.  
Unisound AI Technology IPO valuation implies a premium relative to SenseTime, iFlytek and 4Paradigm. I would consider becoming more constructive on the name if its valuation came down.


Unisound AI IPO (9678.HK): Premium Multiple Is Not Justified, Small Scale and High Cash Burn

Technical Analyst, Vermilion Research

Joe Jasper

Technical Analyst

Technical and Quantitative Research

Vermilion Research

Vermilion’s objective is to deliver timely, actionable, and unique technical research to professional investors through the application of our various technical indicators.

Our research strategists seek to highlight securities which we believe are at major inflection points, based on our various technical and quantitative indicators, and offer asymmetric risk/return profiles. Our unique research methodology, centered on relative strength, enables our strategists to deliver superior investment recommendations.

Our process begins by organizing the universe of actively traded stocks into discrete sectors, then into industry groups. We then apply our technical and quantitative tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sector or group, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. We provide a historical perspective that often reveals, through our long-term charts, how price patterns often repeat themselves over time.

Technical Analysis

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<li>Our bullish outlook on global equities (MSCI ACWI) remains intact with ACWI-US and the S&amp;P 500 firmly trending higher. Our recommendation since mid-October to use any pre-election pullback in..</li>
<li>... the ACWI or the SPX as an opportunity to add exposure continues to pay off, and there is not much left to do except ride the trend higher.</li>
<li>Additionally, we still see a high probability of significant upside going into year-end and the early part of 2025 -- and likely beyond</li>
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Our bullish outlook on global equities (MSCI ACWI) remains intact with ACWI-US and the S&amp;P 500 firmly trending higher. Our recommendation since mid-October to use any pre-election pullback in..
... the ACWI or the SPX as an opportunity to add exposure continues to pay off, and there is not much left to do except ride the trend higher.
Additionally, we still see a high probability of significant upside going into year-end and the early part of 2025 -- and likely beyond


Ride the Trend Higher in MSCI ACWI and S&P 500; Buy/Stay Long Global Discretionary, Services, Tech

China

IFLYTEK Co., Ltd. specializes in speech intelligence and artificial intelligence technology.  The company also develops chip product, voice messaging software and e-government system integration software.

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IFlytek Co Ltd A (002230 CH)

Primer: IFlytek Co Ltd A (002230 CH) - Sep 2025

iFlytek is a leading Chinese AI company specializing in voice recognition and natural language processing, with a strategic focus on its 'Spark'...

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CMCDI (133 HK): AGM Outcome May Provide Another Leg-Up

CMCDI is cheap. If small, illiquid names, with a activism angle are your thing, pick up shares here. Keep an eye on the AGM. If Kan is booted, this...

David Blennerhassett

Unisound AI IPO (9678.HK): Premium Multiple Is Not Justified, Small Scale and High Cash Burn

I remain cautious on upcoming Unisound AI IPO in Hong Kong. The company will report net losses and operating cash outflows in 2025.

Andrei Zakharov

Ride the Trend Higher in MSCI ACWI and S&P 500; Buy/Stay Long Global Discretionary, Services, Tech

Ride the Trend Higher in MSCI $ACWI and $SPX; We are still bullish as Risk-On Signals Dominate. Ideas to buy/stay long in global Discretionary,...

Vermilion Research

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Primer: IFlytek Co Ltd A (002230 CH) - Sep 2025

iFlytek is a leading Chinese AI company specializing in voice recognition and natural language processing, with a strategic focus on its 'Spark'...

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CMCDI (133 HK): AGM Outcome May Provide Another Leg-Up

CMCDI is cheap. If small, illiquid names, with a activism angle are your thing, pick up shares here. Keep an eye on the AGM. If Kan is booted, this...

David Blennerhassett

Unisound AI (9678.HK): ~US$6.5B Market Cap, ADTV ~US$6M, Is Secondary Share Sale On The Deck?

In my another insight about Unisound AI Technology, I discuss post-listing trading dynamics, relative valuation and lock-up expiry

Andrei Zakharov

Unisound AI IPO (9678.HK): Premium Multiple Is Not Justified, Small Scale and High Cash Burn

I remain cautious on upcoming Unisound AI IPO in Hong Kong. The company will report net losses and operating cash outflows in 2025.

Andrei Zakharov

Ride the Trend Higher in MSCI ACWI and S&P 500; Buy/Stay Long Global Discretionary, Services, Tech

Ride the Trend Higher in MSCI $ACWI and $SPX; We are still bullish as Risk-On Signals Dominate. Ideas to buy/stay long in global Discretionary,...

Vermilion Research