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.

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/softbank-group-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:315:1" rel="noopener">Softbank Group (9984 JP)</a> aims to raise around US$8-10bn via selling some of its stake in <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/arm-holdings-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:21816:1" rel="noopener">ARM Holdings</a> ’ US IPO.</li>
<li>ARM develops and licences high-performance, low-cost, and energy-efficient CPU products and related technology, which is used by semiconductor companies and OEMs to develop their own products.</li>
<li>In this note, we talk about the not-so-positive aspects of the deal.</li>
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Softbank Group (9984 JP) aims to raise around US$8-10bn via selling some of its stake in ARM Holdings ’ US IPO.
ARM develops and licences high-performance, low-cost, and energy-efficient CPU products and related technology, which is used by semiconductor companies and OEMs to develop their own products.
In this note, we talk about the not-so-positive aspects of the deal.


ARM Holdings Limited - The Negatives - Tepid Growth and China JV Issues

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<li>
<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/softbank-group-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:315:1" rel="noopener">Softbank Group (9984 JP)</a> aims to raise around US$8-10bn via selling some of its stake in <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/arm-holdings-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:21816:1" rel="noopener">ARM Holdings</a> ’ US IPO.</li>
<li>ARM develops and licences high-performance, low-cost, and energy-efficient CPU products and related technology, which is used by semiconductor companies and OEMs to develop their own products.</li>
<li>In this note, we talk about the positive aspects of the deal.</li>
</ul>



Softbank Group (9984 JP) aims to raise around US$8-10bn via selling some of its stake in ARM Holdings ’ US IPO.
ARM develops and licences high-performance, low-cost, and energy-efficient CPU products and related technology, which is used by semiconductor companies and OEMs to develop their own products.
In this note, we talk about the positive aspects of the deal.


ARM Holdings Limited - The Positives - Pervasive Global Presence

Articles from Caixin Global, Caixin Global

Caixin Global

Articles from Caixin Global

Caixin is a media group dedicated to providing financial and business news through periodicals, online content, mobile apps, conferences, books and TV/video programs. Caixin aims to blaze a trail that helps traditional media prosper in the new media age through integrated multimedia platforms.

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<ul><li>Chinese data center firms are ramping up their overseas expansion to ride the artificial intelligence (AI) wave, especially in Southeast Asia, said a senior executive at GDS Holdings Ltd., one of the country’s largest data center operators.</li><li>While traditional computing requires proximity to the end-use market, AI computing power is more oriented towards natural resources, and Southeast Asia has both resources and cost advantages, said Jimmy Yu, senior vice president of international business at GDS in an interview with Caixin on July 27.</li><li>“Developing AI computing power requires a resource-rich region to carry out training and inference in large models. Southeast Asia has rich land and power resources, and the costs are much lower than in the Middle East, Americas, or Europe,” Yu said.</li></ul>

Chinese data center firms are ramping up their overseas expansion to ride the artificial intelligence (AI) wave, especially in Southeast Asia, said a senior executive at GDS Holdings Ltd., one of the country’s largest data center operators.While traditional computing requires proximity to the end-use market, AI computing power is more oriented towards natural resources, and Southeast Asia has both resources and cost advantages, said Jimmy Yu, senior vice president of international business at GDS in an interview with Caixin on July 27.“Developing AI computing power requires a resource-rich region to carry out training and inference in large models. Southeast Asia has rich land and power resources, and the costs are much lower than in the Middle East, Americas, or Europe,” Yu said.

Southeast Asia Is Looking Mighty Fine to China’s Data Center Firms

External broker reports(aggregated public sources), CMB International

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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.

<ul><li>The current market expectation of 800G transceivers shipment to reach 12mn in 2024 seems too optimistic.</li><li>Optical transceiver manufacturers are in the spotlight this year. As key beneficiaries of Generative AI enthusiasm, Innolight/Eoptolink grew 354.6%/200.2% YTD.</li><li>Admittedly, the surging demand for Nvidia (Not Rated) GPU will bring increasing orders for 800G transceivers in 2023/24. </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>

The current market expectation of 800G transceivers shipment to reach 12mn in 2024 seems too optimistic.Optical transceiver manufacturers are in the spotlight this year. As key beneficiaries of Generative AI enthusiasm, Innolight/Eoptolink grew 354.6%/200.2% YTD.Admittedly, the surging demand for Nvidia (Not Rated) GPU will bring increasing orders for 800G transceivers in 2023/24. 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.

Hardware – Investors Expect Spectacular Results in the AI Infrastructure Arms Race

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<ul><li>The start of the second half of the year so far has seen a change in the market themes versus the first half of the year.</li><li>Microsoft’s declaration in January 2023 that AI would emerge as the next computing platform coupled with Nvidia’s shocking earnings guide up last quarter, coupled with a weaker dollar and decline in bond yields, provided fuel in the first half of the year for the technology sector and garnered investor eyeballs to anything closely associated with AI.</li><li>However, on Microsoft’s most recent earnings call on July 25th, CFO Amy Hood stated “Even with strong demand and a leadership position, growth from our AI services will be gradual as Azure AI scales and our copilots reach general availability dates. So for FY '24, the impact will be weighted towards H2.”</li></ul>

The start of the second half of the year so far has seen a change in the market themes versus the first half of the year.Microsoft’s declaration in January 2023 that AI would emerge as the next computing platform coupled with Nvidia’s shocking earnings guide up last quarter, coupled with a weaker dollar and decline in bond yields, provided fuel in the first half of the year for the technology sector and garnered investor eyeballs to anything closely associated with AI.However, on Microsoft’s most recent earnings call on July 25th, CFO Amy Hood stated “Even with strong demand and a leadership position, growth from our AI services will be gradual as Azure AI scales and our copilots reach general availability dates. So for FY '24, the impact will be weighted towards H2.”

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ARM Holdings Limited - The Negatives - Tepid Growth and China JV Issues

Softbank Group (9984 JP) aims to raise around US$8-10bn via selling some of its stake in ARM Holdings ’ US IPO. In this note, we talk about the not...

Sumeet Singh

ARM Holdings Limited - The Positives - Pervasive Global Presence

Softbank Group (9984 JP) aims to raise around US$8-10bn via selling some of its stake in ARM Holdings ’ US IPO. In this note, we talk about the...

Sumeet Singh

Southeast Asia Is Looking Mighty Fine to China’s Data Center Firms

Chinese data center firms are ramping up their overseas expansion to ride the artificial intelligence (AI) wave, especially in Southeast Asia,...

Caixin Global

Hardware – Investors Expect Spectacular Results in the AI Infrastructure Arms Race

Optical transceiver manufacturers are in the spotlight this year. As key beneficiaries of Generative AI enthusiasm, Innolight/Eoptolink grew 354.6%...

CMB International

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The start of the second half of the year so far has seen a change in the market themes versus the first half of the year.

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