Overseas Chinese Equities, Aequitas Research

Ming Lu

Overseas Chinese Equities

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 Bottom-Up

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<li>The authorities approved three of Tencent’s games in January 2023 after five in December 2022.</li>
<li>Tencent closed its XR business and terminated a property rental contract.</li>
<li>NetEase refused to extend service for Activision Blizzard for additional six months.</li>
</ul>


The authorities approved three of Tencent’s games in January 2023 after five in December 2022.
Tencent closed its XR business and terminated a property rental contract.
NetEase refused to extend service for Activision Blizzard for additional six months.


China Internet Weekly (23Jan2023): Tencent, Meituan, NetEase, Activision Blizzard

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Sumeet Singh

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements

Equity Capital Markets

LG Energy Solution / Equity Capital Markets

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<li>Aequitas Research puts out a weekly update on the deals that were covered by the team recently along with updates for upcoming IPOs.</li>
<li>Things are starting to pickup on the IPO front with the first somewhat sizeable US ADR filing done this week.</li>
<li>Placements deal flow continued to stay strong this week, even as the performance didn't.</li>
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Aequitas Research puts out a weekly update on the deals that were covered by the team recently along with updates for upcoming IPOs.
Things are starting to pickup on the IPO front with the first somewhat sizeable US ADR filing done this week.
Placements deal flow continued to stay strong this week, even as the performance didn't.


ECM Weekly (20th Jan 23) - HK Brokers, Wuxi, IQIYI, Anycol, Adani, WM Mot, LG Ene, AIn, Oasis, Perta

Pan-Asia Index Flows & Special Situations, Quiddity Advisors

Janaghan Jeyakumar, CFA

Pan-Asia Index Flows & Special Situations

Quiddity Advisors

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Event-Driven

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<li>The <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/hang-seng-tech-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:31367:1" rel="noopener">Hang Seng Tech Index (HSTECH INDEX)</a> represents the 30 largest technology companies listed in Hong Kong which have high business exposure to certain technology themes.</li>
<li>This index was launched in 2020 and has gained significant passive tracking over the last two years.</li>
<li>In this insight, we take a brief look at the selection criteria and the historical price performance of past Rebalance Events.</li>
</ul>


The Hang Seng Tech Index (HSTECH INDEX) represents the 30 largest technology companies listed in Hong Kong which have high business exposure to certain technology themes.
This index was launched in 2020 and has gained significant passive tracking over the last two years.
In this insight, we take a brief look at the selection criteria and the historical price performance of past Rebalance Events.


Quiddity Primer for HSTECH Rebalance Events

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.

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul><li>NBS released (17 January) Dec and full year 2022 online retail sales data.</li><li>YoY growth of online physical goods GMV reaccelerated to 4.4% YoY in Dec 2022 (1.2% YoY in Nov), which in our view could be attributed to recovery in logistics and fulfilment capability in late Dec and frontloaded sales generated from the Spring Festival shopping festival due to the early Spring Festival in 2023.</li><li>But solid recovery in YoY growth trajectory likely takes time, in our view, echoed by the 4.7% YoY online retail sales growth during the first five days of the shopping festival (30 Dec 2022-3 Jan 2023; per Ministry of Commerce). </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>

NBS released (17 January) Dec and full year 2022 online retail sales data.YoY growth of online physical goods GMV reaccelerated to 4.4% YoY in Dec 2022 (1.2% YoY in Nov), which in our view could be attributed to recovery in logistics and fulfilment capability in late Dec and frontloaded sales generated from the Spring Festival shopping festival due to the early Spring Festival in 2023.But solid recovery in YoY growth trajectory likely takes time, in our view, echoed by the 4.7% YoY online retail sales growth during the first five days of the shopping festival (30 Dec 2022-3 Jan 2023; per Ministry of Commerce). 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.

China Internet – December online retail sales recap

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<li>IQIYI aims to raise around US$500m via a follow-on ADS offering.</li>
<li>While the company hasn’t stated its use of proceeds, it will probably use most of it to redeem convertible notes</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the deal dynamics and  run the deal through our ECM framework.</li>
</ul>


IQIYI aims to raise around US$500m via a follow-on ADS offering.
While the company hasn’t stated its use of proceeds, it will probably use most of it to redeem convertible notes
In this note, we will talk about the deal dynamics and  run the deal through our ECM framework.


IQIYI Follow-On Offering - Might Be Expected but Its Track Record Is...

China

Meituan operates as a web based shopping platform for locally found consumer products and retail services. The Company offers deals of the day by selling vouchers on local services and entertainment, dining, delivery, and other services. Meituan provides its services throughout China.

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China Internet Weekly (23Jan2023): Tencent, Meituan, NetEase, Activision Blizzard

The authorities approved three of Tencent’s games in January 2023 after five in December 2022. Tencent closed its XR business. NetEase refused to...

Ming Lu

ECM Weekly (20th Jan 23) - HK Brokers, Wuxi, IQIYI, Anycol, Adani, WM Mot, LG Ene, AIn, Oasis, Perta

Aequitas Research puts out a weekly update on the deals that were covered by the team recently along with updates for upcoming IPOs.

Sumeet Singh

Quiddity Primer for HSTECH Rebalance Events

When considering the passive AUM tracking the index as a percentage of float, our estimations show that HSTECH is superior to both HSCEI and HSI....

Janaghan Jeyakumar, CFA

China Internet – December online retail sales recap

YoY growth of online physical goods GMV reaccelerated to 4.4% YoY in Dec 2022 (1.2% YoY in Nov), which in our view could be attributed to recovery...

CMB International

IQIYI Follow-On Offering - Might Be Expected but Its Track Record Is...

iQIYI aims to raise around US$500m via a follow-on ADS offering. While the deal might be expected, the stock's longer term track record doesn't...

Sumeet Singh

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