External broker reports(aggregated public sources), CMB International

CMB International

External broker reports(aggregated public sources)

Incorporated in Hong Kong, supported by the mainland and targeting in global market, CMB International Capital Corporation Limited (“CMBI”) is an integrated financial institution providing comprehensive and professional services. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Merchants Bank ("CMB"), by leveraging on the Group’s synergy and coordination in domestic and overseas markets, as well as CMB’s strong resources and outstanding social reputation, CMBI and its subsidiaries have been actively implementing diversified business strategies and set up an overall layout of main business segments including Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Global Markets and Structured Finance, etc. Adhering to the philosophy of “being clients oriented and increasing our own values by the way of creating value for clients”, CMBI endeavors to provide quality and integrated financial services to institutional, corporate and individual customers both domestic and overseas including Hong Kong IPO sponsorship and underwriting, share placement and rights issue for listed companies, financial advisors, bonds issuance services, asset management, direct investment, wealth management, equity sales and trading, etc.

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<ul><li>If we consider 2023 as a banner year for AI technology, 2024 is set to be another solid year for both infrastructure investments and downstream demand continue to thrive.</li><li>We reaffirm our positive stance on optical transceiver players, specifically in light of their ongoing capacity expansion and production ramp-up of the high data rate optical modules, e.g., 400G/800G products.</li><li>Among those players we favor Innolight (300308 CH, BUY) and TFC (300394 CH, NR), both of which have leveraged the AI wave effectively through 2023 and stayed on strong trajectory into 2024. </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>

If we consider 2023 as a banner year for AI technology, 2024 is set to be another solid year for both infrastructure investments and downstream demand continue to thrive.We reaffirm our positive stance on optical transceiver players, specifically in light of their ongoing capacity expansion and production ramp-up of the high data rate optical modules, e.g., 400G/800G products.Among those players we favor Innolight (300308 CH, BUY) and TFC (300394 CH, NR), both of which have leveraged the AI wave effectively through 2023 and stayed on strong trajectory into 2024. 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.

Semi – Market Outlook on Optical Transceivers

Independent research on the U.S. markets, Baptista Research

Baptista Research

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Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Lumentum Holdings delivered a disappointing set of results as the company was unable to meet the revenue as well as earnings expectations of Wall Street.</li><li>The company's commercial lasers business is also expanding into high-growth areas such as solar cells, advanced semiconductors, electric vehicles, and display manufacturing.</li><li>We give Lumentum Holdings Inc. a 'Hold' rating with a revised target price.</li></ul>

Lumentum Holdings delivered a disappointing set of results as the company was unable to meet the revenue as well as earnings expectations of Wall Street.The company's commercial lasers business is also expanding into high-growth areas such as solar cells, advanced semiconductors, electric vehicles, and display manufacturing.We give Lumentum Holdings Inc. a 'Hold' rating with a revised target price.

Lumentum Holdings Inc.: What Is Its Competitive Edge? – Key Drivers

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Lumentum Holdings / Equity Capital Markets

<ul><li>Lumentum Holdings delivered a strong result in the last quarter and managed an all-around beat.</li><li>This quarter reported strong demand from customers.</li><li>Overall, the demand for the Telecom products of Lumentum remains strong, particularly in edge networking applications.</li></ul>

Lumentum Holdings delivered a strong result in the last quarter and managed an all-around beat.This quarter reported strong demand from customers.Overall, the demand for the Telecom products of Lumentum remains strong, particularly in edge networking applications.

Lumentum Holdings: R&D Expansion & Other Drivers

Managing Director, Zero One, Zero One

Vincent Fernando, CFA

Managing Director, Zero One

Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC) - ADR / Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Taiwan’s tech space fell hard last week, with the tech sector down 5.4%, compared to a 4.9% drop for the overall market. Semiconductors performed the worst, down 6.2%.</li>
<li>Hon Hai, Delta, Lite-On -- EV a major theme for the first-ever Taiwan Expo USA coming October 12th.</li>
<li>Taiwan wafer exports were at an all-time high in August. We note that wafer names have underperformed TSMC.</li>
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Taiwan’s tech space fell hard last week, with the tech sector down 5.4%, compared to a 4.9% drop for the overall market. Semiconductors performed the worst, down 6.2%.
Hon Hai, Delta, Lite-On -- EV a major theme for the first-ever Taiwan Expo USA coming October 12th.
Taiwan wafer exports were at an all-time high in August. We note that wafer names have underperformed TSMC.


Taiwan Tech Weekly: Trying to Recover After a Week of Deep Declines

<ul><li>This is our first report on Lumentum Holdings, a manufacturing company operating in the niche of optical and photonic products.</li><li>In its result result, the company delivered an all-around beat with strong revenue in Datacom EMLs, coherent components, pump lasers, tunable products, and sub-sea components.</li><li>Overall, Lumentum is in a good position to profit from the expanding applications for photonics in various end markets.</li></ul>

This is our first report on Lumentum Holdings, a manufacturing company operating in the niche of optical and photonic products.In its result result, the company delivered an all-around beat with strong revenue in Datacom EMLs, coherent components, pump lasers, tunable products, and sub-sea components.Overall, Lumentum is in a good position to profit from the expanding applications for photonics in various end markets.

Lumentum Holdings Inc.- Initiation of Coverage – Recent Acquisitions & Other Drivers

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Lumentum Holdings Inc. operates as a holding company. The Company, through its subsidiaries, supplies optical and photonic products. Lumentum Holdings serves data communications and telecommunications, networking, and life-sciences markets worldwide.

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Semi – Market Outlook on Optical Transceivers

If we consider 2023 as a banner year for AI technology, 2024 is set to be another solid year for both infrastructure investments and downstream...

CMB International

Lumentum Holdings Inc.: What Is Its Competitive Edge? – Key Drivers

Lumentum Holdings delivered a disappointing set of results as the company was unable to meet the revenue as well as earnings expectations of Wall...

Baptista Research

Lumentum Holdings: R&D Expansion & Other Drivers

Lumentum Holdings delivered a strong result in the last quarter and managed an all-around beat. This quarter reported strong demand from...

Baptista Research

Taiwan Tech Weekly: Trying to Recover After a Week of Deep Declines

AU Optronics stock suspended, Intel's Mobileye IPO is back, Samsung takes share from TSMC, Taiwan wafer exports are at an all-time high.

Vincent Fernando, CFA

Lumentum Holdings Inc.- Initiation of Coverage – Recent Acquisitions & Other Drivers

This is our first report on Lumentum Holdings, a manufacturing company operating in the niche of optical and photonic products. In its result...

Baptista Research

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