Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>In this insight, we provide details of Roundhill Ball Metaverse ETF, which is the largest metaverse ETF in the world. </li>
<li>Roundhill Ball Metaverse ETF includes 8 Asian companies including Nintendo, Sony, and Samsung Electronics which could be beneficiaries of the metaverse growth world-wide. </li>
<li>The US and Korea have the biggest metaverse ETFs globally. Although the size of the metaverse ETFs is small right now, there is an enormous demand for metaverse ETFs globally. </li>
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In this insight, we provide details of Roundhill Ball Metaverse ETF, which is the largest metaverse ETF in the world. 
Roundhill Ball Metaverse ETF includes 8 Asian companies including Nintendo, Sony, and Samsung Electronics which could be beneficiaries of the metaverse growth world-wide. 
The US and Korea have the biggest metaverse ETFs globally. Although the size of the metaverse ETFs is small right now, there is an enormous demand for metaverse ETFs globally. 


Roundhill Ball Metaverse ETF: Largest Metaverse ETF Worldwide & Its Impact on Asian Metaverse Stocks

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

Digital Core REIT / Equity Capital Markets

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<li>Digital Core REIT (DCREIT), a data center REIT, aims to raise up to US$600m in its Singapore IPO.</li>
<li>The company is sponsored by Digital Realty, one of the largest REITs in the US, and over 60% of the deal is already spoken for by cornerstone investors.</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the deal background</li>
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Digital Core REIT (DCREIT), a data center REIT, aims to raise up to US$600m in its Singapore IPO.
The company is sponsored by Digital Realty, one of the largest REITs in the US, and over 60% of the deal is already spoken for by cornerstone investors.
In this note, we will talk about the deal background


Digital Core REIT IPO - Hot Sector, Strong Backing but Has More than a Few Peculiar Points

Covering IPOs, Healthcare and Technology Stocks

Andrei Zakharov

Algosun Global

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<li>HashiCorp is a cloud infrastructure automation company offering industry leading-products with high-profile customer list and freemium business model. The unicorn was backed by leading VC investors. </li>
<li>HashiCorp is the open-source software company, which is well-positioned to gain market share in the cloud infrastructure, security and networking addressable markets. </li>
<li>The company filed to go public this month. Our post-IPO valuation implies substantial upside potential to last private round valuation and we have favorable view of the upcoming IPO.</li>
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HashiCorp is a cloud infrastructure automation company offering industry leading-products with high-profile customer list and freemium business model. The unicorn was backed by leading VC investors. 
HashiCorp is the open-source software company, which is well-positioned to gain market share in the cloud infrastructure, security and networking addressable markets. 
The company filed to go public this month. Our post-IPO valuation implies substantial upside potential to last private round valuation and we have favorable view of the upcoming IPO.


HashiCorp IPO: Serious Player in Multi-Cloud Infrastructure Automation Segment

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<li>Billions of people in the world will bypass Internet to use metaverse in the coming years. </li>
<li>There are real possibilities to encourage people to spend more time in the metaverse rather than Internet with regards to social life, gaming, work, and e-commerce. </li>
<li><strong>The market caps of the four metaverse related ETFs that were launched in Korea on 13 October are up by 453% to reach 421 billion won on 12 November. </strong></li>
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Billions of people in the world will bypass Internet to use metaverse in the coming years. 
There are real possibilities to encourage people to spend more time in the metaverse rather than Internet with regards to social life, gaming, work, and e-commerce. 
The market caps of the four metaverse related ETFs that were launched in Korea on 13 October are up by 453% to reach 421 billion won on 12 November. 


Why Billions of People Will Bypass Internet to Use Metaverse & Surge in Metaverse ETFs AUM in Korea

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

Baptista Research

Independent research on the U.S. markets

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.
Baptista Research is owned and managed by Ishan Majumdar, an ex-Venture Capitalist/ Investment Banker, a Chartered Accountant, and a Masters’ degree holder in Management from HEC Paris. Ishan has nearly a decade of experience in Mergers and Acquisitions, Leveraged Buyouts (LBOs), Venture Capital Investing, Corporate Strategy, and Valuation in front-office roles at the likes of BNP Paribas CIB, Credit Agricole CIB, Groupe Danone, and TIW Private Equity. He has worked on and closed multiple acquisition deals, leveraged buyouts, and start-up investment transactions.

<ul><li>Microsoft zoomed past the target price from our last report as the company delivered yet another stellar result driven by the strong adoption of Azure cloud offerings, excellent momentum in its Teams app and its Power Platform, the robust LinkedIn business and the gaming segment.</li><li>The company’s overall top-line was up 22% and the Microsoft cloud continues to be a major driver, contributing $20.7 billion to the top-line, up by a staggering 36% year over year.</li><li>We are optimistic about Microsoft and give it an ‘Outperform’ rating with a revised target price.</li></ul>

Microsoft zoomed past the target price from our last report as the company delivered yet another stellar result driven by the strong adoption of Azure cloud offerings, excellent momentum in its Teams app and its Power Platform, the robust LinkedIn business and the gaming segment.The company’s overall top-line was up 22% and the Microsoft cloud continues to be a major driver, contributing $20.7 billion to the top-line, up by a staggering 36% year over year.We are optimistic about Microsoft and give it an ‘Outperform’ rating with a revised target price.

Microsoft Corporation - Investment Thesis

United States

Microsoft Corporation operates as a software company. The Company offers applications, extra cloud storage, and advanced security solutions. Microsoft serves customers worldwide.

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Roundhill Ball Metaverse ETF: Largest Metaverse ETF Worldwide & Its Impact on Asian Metaverse Stocks

In this insight, we provide details of Roundhill Ball Metaverse ETF, which is the largest metaverse ETF in the world. The US and Korea have the...

Douglas Kim

Digital Core REIT IPO - Hot Sector, Strong Backing but Has More than a Few Peculiar Points

Digital Core REIT (DCREIT), a data center REIT, aims to raise up to US$600m in its Singapore IPO. In this note, we will talk about the positive and...

Sumeet Singh

HashiCorp IPO: Serious Player in Multi-Cloud Infrastructure Automation Segment

HashiCorp, one of the leaders among infrastructure automation platform providers, filed to go public after a successful Nasdaq debut of open source...

Andrei Zakharov

Why Billions of People Will Bypass Internet to Use Metaverse & Surge in Metaverse ETFs AUM in Korea

The market caps of the four metaverse related ETFs that were launched in Korea on 13 October are up by 453% to reach 421 billion won on 12 November.

Douglas Kim

Microsoft Corporation - Investment Thesis

Microsoft zoomed past the target price from our last report as the company delivered yet another stellar result driven by the strong adoption of...

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