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 Hong Kong Connect flows with our data engine for holding position as of April 14th.</li>
<li>The top stocks by inflows and outflows were tabulated for all market, HSCEI, mid cap and s/mid cap groups.</li>
<li>We highlight flows for Sensetime, Semiconductor Manufacturing International, Cnooc, China Mobile, Tencent, Meituan, Kuaishou Technology.</li>
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We analyze the weekly Hong Kong Connect flows with our data engine for holding position as of April 14th.
The top stocks by inflows and outflows were tabulated for all market, HSCEI, mid cap and s/mid cap groups.
We highlight flows for Sensetime, Semiconductor Manufacturing International, Cnooc, China Mobile, Tencent, Meituan, Kuaishou Technology.


Hong Kong Connect Flows (Apr 14th): Sensetime, SMIC, Cnooc, China Mobile, Tencent, Meituan, Kuaishou

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>With no changes made at the March rebalance, we are still stuck at 76 index constituents. And it's been a year later than originally planned to reach 80 index constituents.</li>
<li>We list 10 potential inclusions in June. Adding all 10 stocks will lead to around 5% one-way turnover, so there could be a mix of larger and smaller stocks added.</li>
<li>There will be at least 1x ADV to trade on nearly all inclusions. Short interest is over 4% of float on some stocks and there has been a recent jump.</li>
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With no changes made at the March rebalance, we are still stuck at 76 index constituents. And it's been a year later than originally planned to reach 80 index constituents.
We list 10 potential inclusions in June. Adding all 10 stocks will lead to around 5% one-way turnover, so there could be a mix of larger and smaller stocks added.
There will be at least 1x ADV to trade on nearly all inclusions. Short interest is over 4% of float on some stocks and there has been a recent jump.


Hang Seng Index Rebalance Preview: A Year Later Than Planned - 80 Members at Last?

HK/China Healthcare Analyst (ex-Fosun Pharma)

Xinyao (Criss) Wang

Equity Bottom-Up

JD Health International  / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul>
<li>JD Health’s 2022 results were more optimistic than expected. We think the past three-year pandemic as well as the broadening of service scenarios are main drivers for rapid performance/user growth.</li>
<li>If turning losses into profits is “a phased victory”,striving for higher profit margins and healthier revenue structure is the key task in next stage,but JD Health may fail this transformation. </li>
<li>After China reopens, JD Health's user scale could be difficult to maintain such rapid growth in 2023 and onwards. Without breakthrough in service revenue, its valuation expansion potential could be limited. </li>
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JD Health’s 2022 results were more optimistic than expected. We think the past three-year pandemic as well as the broadening of service scenarios are main drivers for rapid performance/user growth.
If turning losses into profits is “a phased victory”,striving for higher profit margins and healthier revenue structure is the key task in next stage,but JD Health may fail this transformation. 
After China reopens, JD Health's user scale could be difficult to maintain such rapid growth in 2023 and onwards. Without breakthrough in service revenue, its valuation expansion potential could be limited. 


JD Health (6618.HK) - Business Transformation Is Still Difficult

Pan-Asia Index Flows & Special Situations, Quiddity Advisors

Janaghan Jeyakumar, CFA

Pan-Asia Index Flows & Special Situations

Quiddity Advisors

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

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<li>The June 2023 index review results for the Hang Seng index can be expected after the close on 12th May 2023.</li>
<li>In <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/quiddity-leaderboard-for-hang-seng-index-mar-23-healthcare-names-could-dominate" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="insights:94998" rel="noopener">Quiddity Leaderboard for Hang Seng Index Mar 23: Healthcare Names Could Dominate</a>, we expected some healthcare names to be added but there were no index changes in March 2023. </li>
<li>Although the index methodology is highly subjective and predicting index changes is extremely tricky, the HSI is an important index in the region and here are our thoughts for June. </li>
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The June 2023 index review results for the Hang Seng index can be expected after the close on 12th May 2023.
In Quiddity Leaderboard for Hang Seng Index Mar 23: Healthcare Names Could Dominate, we expected some healthcare names to be added but there were no index changes in March 2023. 
Although the index methodology is highly subjective and predicting index changes is extremely tricky, the HSI is an important index in the region and here are our thoughts for June. 


Quiddity Leaderboard for Hang Seng Index Jun 23: Beigene Looks Interesting

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<li>ClouDr had outstanding performance in 2022, which was mainly due to its unique but effective development model - starting from To B business first and then expanding To C business. </li>
<li>ClouDr may become the first company to develop a successful profit model of online medical services. The integration of AI and medical care enables ClouDr to enjoy more policy dividends/catalysts </li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/cloudr-group-limited" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:34459:1" rel="noopener">ClouDr Group (9955 HK)</a> has high growth potential with big investment value, and it could even surpass JD Health in the future. The Company is undervalued and deserve investors’ attention.</li>
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ClouDr had outstanding performance in 2022, which was mainly due to its unique but effective development model - starting from To B business first and then expanding To C business. 
ClouDr may become the first company to develop a successful profit model of online medical services. The integration of AI and medical care enables ClouDr to enjoy more policy dividends/catalysts 

ClouDr Group (9955 HK) has high growth potential with big investment value, and it could even surpass JD Health in the future. The Company is undervalued and deserve investors’ attention.


ClouDr Group (9955.HK) -  “A Dark Horse” to Beat JD Health

China

JD Health International Inc. operates drug stores. The Company retails Chinese and Western medicines, nutrition products, health care products, and other products. JD Health International markets its products throughout China.

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JD Health International (6618 HK)

Hong Kong Connect Flows (Apr 14th): Sensetime, SMIC, Cnooc, China Mobile, Tencent, Meituan, Kuaishou

We analyzed southbound Hong Kong connect flows in the past week and highlight flows for Sensetime, SMIC, Cnooc, China Mobile, Tencent, Meituan,...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Hang Seng Index Rebalance Preview: A Year Later Than Planned - 80 Members at Last?

We highlight 10 potential adds in June. Adding all 10 stocks will result in one-way turnover of 5%, so fewer stocks (some large, some small) will...

Brian Freitas

JD Health (6618.HK) - Business Transformation Is Still Difficult

JD Health had high performance growth in 2022, but user growth may face decline in post-COVID period. Gross profit margin and revenue structure are...

Xinyao (Criss) Wang

Quiddity Leaderboard for Hang Seng Index Jun 23: Beigene Looks Interesting

I have presented 24 Names from Healthcare, Consumer Discretionary, Properties, Utilities, and Conglomerates as high-likelihood names. Quiddity's...

Janaghan Jeyakumar, CFA

ClouDr Group (9955.HK) - “A Dark Horse” to Beat JD Health

ClouDr could be the first company to develop a successful profit model of online medical services, changing the game rule. ClouDr has big potential...

Xinyao (Criss) Wang

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