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.

Event-Driven

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/doosan-enerbility-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:7389:1" rel="noopener">Doosan Enerbility (034020 KS)</a> aims to raise around US$220m via selling around 4.9% of <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/doosan-bobcat-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:23592:1" rel="noopener">Doosan Bobcat Inc (241560 KS)</a> .</li>
<li>This will be the third selldown in the company in less than a year with the previous two deals in Nov 22 and May 23 having delivered mixed results</li>
<li>In this note, we will run the deal through our ECM framework and comment on other deal dynamics.</li>
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Doosan Enerbility (034020 KS) aims to raise around US$220m via selling around 4.9% of Doosan Bobcat Inc (241560 KS) .
This will be the third selldown in the company in less than a year with the previous two deals in Nov 22 and May 23 having delivered mixed results
In this note, we will run the deal through our ECM framework and comment on other deal dynamics.


Doosan Bobcat Placement - Past Deals Have Been Mixed but the Stock Has Been Doing Well

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

Equity Capital Markets

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<li>Almac announced its IPO price of 50,000 won, which is 11% higher than the high end of the IPO price range. Demand ratio was very high at 1,697 to 1.</li>
<li>A 98.7% of the IPO shares applied thought that the company's value is more than 45,000 won</li>
<li>Given the exceptional demand for IPO shares, it is likely that the IPO share price is likely to trade at higher end of the IPO range in our sensitivity analysis.</li>
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Almac announced its IPO price of 50,000 won, which is 11% higher than the high end of the IPO price range. Demand ratio was very high at 1,697 to 1.
A 98.7% of the IPO shares applied thought that the company's value is more than 45,000 won
Given the exceptional demand for IPO shares, it is likely that the IPO share price is likely to trade at higher end of the IPO range in our sensitivity analysis.


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

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<li>The changes for the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/korea-stock-exchange-kospi-200-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:26021:1" rel="noopener">KOSPI2 INDEX</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/kosdaq-150-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:31077:1" rel="noopener">KOSDAQ150 Index</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/shanghai-shenzhen-csi-300-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:22906:1" rel="noopener">CSI300 Index</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/sse-science-and-technology-innovation-board-50-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:29279:1" rel="noopener">STAR50 INDEX</a> and a bunch of other onshore China indices were implemented last week.</li>
<li>The coming week has a lot of rebalance implementations on Friday with the S&amp;P/ASX family and the MVIS family, among others.</li>
<li>AUM for the Yuanta/P-shares Taiwan Top 50 ETF (0050 TT) has continued to increase with big inflows in the last week.</li>
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The changes for the KOSPI2 INDEX, KOSDAQ150 Index, CSI300 Index, STAR50 INDEX and a bunch of other onshore China indices were implemented last week.
The coming week has a lot of rebalance implementations on Friday with the S&amp;P/ASX family and the MVIS family, among others.
AUM for the Yuanta/P-shares Taiwan Top 50 ETF (0050 TT) has continued to increase with big inflows in the last week.


Index Rebalance & ETF Flow Recap: HSCI, GDXJ, KRX New Deal, AMFI, Amman Mineral, Infratil

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<li>The review period for the September rebalance ends on 31 July, the changes will be announced towards end August and implemented at the close of trading on 7 September.</li>
<li>There is one change currently for each of the Secondary Battery, Bio, Internet and Game indices. Large stock price moves mean no changes for the BBIG Index currently.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/douzone-bizon-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:20161:1" rel="noopener">Douzone Bizon (012510 KS)</a> has flipped from a passive sell to a passive buy over the last month and the stock could move higher from here.</li>
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The review period for the September rebalance ends on 31 July, the changes will be announced towards end August and implemented at the close of trading on 7 September.
There is one change currently for each of the Secondary Battery, Bio, Internet and Game indices. Large stock price moves mean no changes for the BBIG Index currently.

Douzone Bizon (012510 KS) has flipped from a passive sell to a passive buy over the last month and the stock could move higher from here.


KRX New Deal Index Rebalance Preview: A Change for Each Index

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<li>Our target price of Almac is 58,573 won per share, which is 30% higher than the high end of the IPO price range of 45,000 won. </li>
<li>Our target price is based on 14.8x P/E using our estimated net profit of 25.4 billion won in 2024. </li>
<li>Almac ranks first in domestic market share (Korea) in the aluminum extruded module cases that protect batteries from external shocks.</li>
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Our target price of Almac is 58,573 won per share, which is 30% higher than the high end of the IPO price range of 45,000 won. 
Our target price is based on 14.8x P/E using our estimated net profit of 25.4 billion won in 2024. 
Almac ranks first in domestic market share (Korea) in the aluminum extruded module cases that protect batteries from external shocks.


South Korea

LG Energy Solution produces and sells batteries. The Company manufactures and sells automobile batteries, small batteries, energy storage system batteries, and other products. LG Energy Solution markets its products worldwide.

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LG Energy Solution (373220 KS)

Doosan Bobcat Placement - Past Deals Have Been Mixed but the Stock Has Been Doing Well

Doosan Enerbility (034020 KS) aims to raise around US$220m via selling around 4.9% of Doosan Bobcat Inc (241560 KS) . This will be the third deal...

Sumeet Singh

Almac IPO Bookbuilding Results Analysis

Almac announced its IPO price of 50,000 won, which is 11% higher than the high end of the IPO price range. Demand ratio was very high at 1,697 to 1.

Douglas Kim

Index Rebalance & ETF Flow Recap: HSCI, GDXJ, KRX New Deal, AMFI, Amman Mineral, Infratil

This recap highlights Insights covering Asian index rebalances (announcements/ forecasts/ IPO Fast Entry/ M&A driven changes). We also highlight...

Brian Freitas

KRX New Deal Index Rebalance Preview: A Change for Each Index

There is 1 change currently for each of the Secondary Battery, Bio, Internet & Game indices. There are some close contests among the top 3 stocks...

Brian Freitas

Almac IPO Valuation Analysis

Our target price of Almac is 58,573 won per share, which is 30% higher than the high end of the IPO price range of 45,000 won.

Douglas Kim

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