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Baptista Research is an independent financial research house focused on the U.S. markets. We provide equity research as well as credit research reports on the top-listed U.S. companies with most of our focus on technology, consumer goods and services, automobiles, industrials, oil and gas, pharma, and healthcare. Our research has served more than 3000 institutional investors including mutual funds, hedge funds, banks, family offices, and various buy-side firms. We operate a research subscription service where institutions, as well as retail investors, can have priority access to all our research. We also have a wide distribution of our research reports across some of the top global financial platforms. Apart from equity research and credit research, we also provide advisory services with respect to mergers & acquisitions (M&A), private equity/ venture capital fundraising, valuation reports, and investment management services for corporates.
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Equity Bottom-Up

Marriott International / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Marriott International delivered an all-around beat in the most recent quarterly result.</li><li>The quarter rebounded in international travel, especially in regions like Greater China, where RevPAR surpassed pre-pandemic levels.</li><li>In this report, we have carried out a fundamental analysis of the historical financial statements of the company.</li></ul>

Marriott International delivered an all-around beat in the most recent quarterly result.The quarter rebounded in international travel, especially in regions like Greater China, where RevPAR surpassed pre-pandemic levels.In this report, we have carried out a fundamental analysis of the historical financial statements of the company.

Marriott International Inc.: Introduction of New Extended Stay Lodging Brand & Other Major Drivers

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/samhi-hotels-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:28359:1" rel="noopener">SAMHI Hotels (SAMHI IN)</a> plans to raise around US$200m (estimated) in its Indian IPO.</li>
<li>Samhi is India’s third-largest hotel asset owner, by number of keys, with a portfolio of 25 operating hotel assets comprising 3,839 keys, as of Feb 2023.</li>
<li>In this note, we will undertake a peer comparison and provide our thoughts on valuation.</li>
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SAMHI Hotels (SAMHI IN) plans to raise around US$200m (estimated) in its Indian IPO.
Samhi is India’s third-largest hotel asset owner, by number of keys, with a portfolio of 25 operating hotel assets comprising 3,839 keys, as of Feb 2023.
In this note, we will undertake a peer comparison and provide our thoughts on valuation.


Samhi Hotels Pre-IPO - The Negatives - Peer Comp and Valuation

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/samhi-hotels-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:28359:1" rel="noopener">SAMHI Hotels (SAMHI IN)</a>  plans to raise around US$200m (estimated) in its Indian IPO.</li>
<li>Samhi is India’s third-largest hotel asset owner, by number of keys, with a portfolio of 25 operating hotel assets comprising 3,839 keys, as of Feb 2023.</li>
<li>In this note, we look at its updated filings and discuss the changes since its last filing in 2019.</li>
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SAMHI Hotels (SAMHI IN)  plans to raise around US$200m (estimated) in its Indian IPO.
Samhi is India’s third-largest hotel asset owner, by number of keys, with a portfolio of 25 operating hotel assets comprising 3,839 keys, as of Feb 2023.
In this note, we look at its updated filings and discuss the changes since its last filing in 2019.


Samhi Hotels Pre-IPO - Refiling Updates - Bigger Portfolio, Smaller Deal

Marriott International / Equity Capital Markets

<ul><li>Marriott International delivered a solid quarterly result that was an all-around beat resulting from strong demand growth globally, with a decent performance across all geographies and hotel levels.</li><li>U.S. and Canadian RevPAR increased by 26% year over year while occupancy increased by 8% to 66%.</li><li>Global card acquisitions climbed by 35% year on year, while global card expenditure increased by 16%.</li></ul>

Marriott International delivered a solid quarterly result that was an all-around beat resulting from strong demand growth globally, with a decent performance across all geographies and hotel levels.U.S. and Canadian RevPAR increased by 26% year over year while occupancy increased by 8% to 66%.Global card acquisitions climbed by 35% year on year, while global card expenditure increased by 16%.

Marriott International Inc.: City Express & Digital Networks Driving Growth – Key Drivers

HK/China Equity Long-Short

Osbert Tang, CFA

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<li>Despite <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/shangri-la-asia-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:19690:1" rel="noopener">Shangri-La Asia (69 HK)</a>'s good share price performance YTD, it has still not yet fully reflected the strengths of and benefits from China's re-opening. More upside to come.</li>
<li>Occupancy for Hong Kong and mainland China has surged 30-45pp YoY in Mar, and with China's RevPAR for FY22 is down 56.5% from peak, we see massive rebound in profitability.</li>
<li>Share of China's EBITDA was US$258m in FY22, from US$465m in FY16-19, suggests good room for recovery. It is cheap on ~70% discount to revalued NAV, vs. 37% in FY18.</li>
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Despite Shangri-La Asia (69 HK)'s good share price performance YTD, it has still not yet fully reflected the strengths of and benefits from China's re-opening. More upside to come.
Occupancy for Hong Kong and mainland China has surged 30-45pp YoY in Mar, and with China's RevPAR for FY22 is down 56.5% from peak, we see massive rebound in profitability.
Share of China's EBITDA was US$258m in FY22, from US$465m in FY16-19, suggests good room for recovery. It is cheap on ~70% discount to revalued NAV, vs. 37% in FY18.


Shangri-La Asia (69 HK): Not yet Fully Reflected China's Comeback

United States

Marriott International Inc. is a worldwide operator and franchisor of hotels. The Company franchises lodging facilities and vacation timesharing resorts under various brand names. Marriott also provides services to home and condominium owner associations for projects associated with several of its brands.

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Marriott International delivered a solid quarterly result that was an all-around beat resulting from strong demand growth globally, with a decent...

Baptista Research

Shangri-La Asia (69 HK): Not yet Fully Reflected China's Comeback

Shangri-la Asia is an excellent play on recovery of China, where 55% of rooms are located. Its overseas assets will gain from surge in outbound...

Osbert Tang, CFA

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