Research on Tech Companies

Evelyn Zhang

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<p style="text-align: left;">The recent fall in price of many so called “China concept shares” of US listed Chinese companies, has largely been triggered by the passing of the "Holding Foreign Company Accountability Act" (HFCAA).</p><p style="text-align: left;">A flock of US listed Chinese companies have since decided to relist in HKSE due to a few reasons:</p><ol>
<li>The HFCAA causing conflicting compliance requirements with Chinese regulations.</li>
<li>Fear among investors of forced delisting in the US.</li>
<li>HKEX deregulation allowing more Chinese companies to be listed.</li>
<li>The valuation in HK is in sync with the U.S. stock market.</li>
<li>HK attracting more Chinese funds to operate in HKEX.</li>
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The recent fall in price of many so called “China concept shares” of US listed Chinese companies, has largely been triggered by the passing of the "Holding Foreign Company Accountability Act" (HFCAA).A flock of US listed Chinese companies have since decided to relist in HKSE due to a few reasons:
The HFCAA causing conflicting compliance requirements with Chinese regulations.
Fear among investors of forced delisting in the US.
HKEX deregulation allowing more Chinese companies to be listed.
The valuation in HK is in sync with the U.S. stock market.
HK attracting more Chinese funds to operate in HKEX.


Exit the Dragon – the Mass Exodus of US Listed Chinese Companies

IPOs and Catalysts/Events, Global Equity Research Ltd

Arun George

IPOs and Catalysts/Events

Uncompromised, Independent, Conflict-Free Research

Global Equity Research Ltd

Global Equity Research was started in 2017 by a group of experienced research professionals. It was founded on a passionate belief in the importance and the need for uncompromised, independent, conflict-free research. We aim to provide differentiated and actionable primary and bottom up fundamental research.

Equity Capital Markets

<div><p><a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/trip-com-group-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:180:1" rel="noopener">Trip.com (TCOM US)</a> has launched a $1.4 billion secondary listing in Hong Kong by offering 31.6 million ordinary shares. Bookbuilding is scheduled to run until the pricing on 13 April. The net proceeds will be used to fund the expansion of its travel offerings, improve user experience and invest in technology. </p></div><div><p>In <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/trip-com-secondary-listing-no-heads-in-the-clouds" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="insights:49965" rel="noopener">Trip.com Secondary Listing: No Heads in the Clouds</a>, we outlined our views on Trip.com’s fundamentals and valuation. Trip.com is a play on the expected reopening and recovery of travel in 2021 due to the global rollout of vaccines. In combination with the potential valuation upside to the last close price (based on SoTP), we concluded that the equity story is attractive. </p></div><div><div>
<p>In this note, we will look at Trip.com’s potential HK-ADS premium/(discount). As per the norm, Trip.com will price its H-shares at a discount to its ADSs to entice investors to participate in the secondary listing. However, market conditions remain volatile and Chinese tech names are losing their shine due to the US delisting threat and the trend of investors rotating out of tech stocks. The NASDAQ Golden Dragon China Index is down -18% since March 2021. Trip.com shares are up 15% YTD but down -2% since March 2021.  </p>
<div class="content-highlight"><p>Due to the weakening market sentiment on Chinese tech names, Trip.com will likely price its H-shares at a wider discount than the median of past secondary listings. Trip.com pricing its H-shares at a discount of 3-4% to its ADSs will be reasonable, in our view.</p></div>
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Trip.com (TCOM US) has launched a $1.4 billion secondary listing in Hong Kong by offering 31.6 million ordinary shares. Bookbuilding is scheduled to run until the pricing on 13 April. The net proceeds will be used to fund the expansion of its travel offerings, improve user experience and invest in technology. In Trip.com Secondary Listing: No Heads in the Clouds, we outlined our views on Trip.com’s fundamentals and valuation. Trip.com is a play on the expected reopening and recovery of travel in 2021 due to the global rollout of vaccines. In combination with the potential valuation upside to the last close price (based on SoTP), we concluded that the equity story is attractive. 
In this note, we will look at Trip.com’s potential HK-ADS premium/(discount). As per the norm, Trip.com will price its H-shares at a discount to its ADSs to entice investors to participate in the secondary listing. However, market conditions remain volatile and Chinese tech names are losing their shine due to the US delisting threat and the trend of investors rotating out of tech stocks. The NASDAQ Golden Dragon China Index is down -18% since March 2021. Trip.com shares are up 15% YTD but down -2% since March 2021.  
Due to the weakening market sentiment on Chinese tech names, Trip.com will likely price its H-shares at a wider discount than the median of past secondary listings. Trip.com pricing its H-shares at a discount of 3-4% to its ADSs will be reasonable, in our view.


Trip.com Secondary Listing: HK-ADS Premium/​​(Discount) Views

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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<p>Trip.com plans to raise around US$1-2bn in its secondary listing in Hong Kong. The company is said to have won listing approval last week and will look to launch its secondary offering soon.</p>
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<p>In our previous notes, along with covering all of the past listings, we have also looked at the overall drivers for the secondary listings in our earlier notes, links to which are below: </p>
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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/china-adrs-secondary-listing-deep-dive-yin-and-yang" target="_blank" rel="noopener">China ADRs Secondary Listing Deep-Dive: Yin and Yang,</a> published in Feb 2020,  we looked at the background and rules around undertaking a secondary listing in Hong Kong and then came up with a short-list of companies that might undertake a secondary listing. </li>
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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/china-adrs-secondary-listing-covid-19-has-increased-the-tension-but-narrowed-the-short-list" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In China ADRs Secondary Listing: COVID-19 Has Increased the Tension but Narrowed the Short List</a> published in May 2020, we looked at the recent developments and provided an revised short-list</li>
<li>In <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/china-adrs-secondary-listing-holding-foreign-companies-accountable-act-i-m-coming-home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">China ADRs Secondary Listing - Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act - I’m Coming Home</a>, published in May 2020, we spoke about the implication of the act which had made its way through the senate.</li>
<li>In <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/china-adrs-secondary-listing-pipeline-looks-rich-have-three-years-to-move" target="_blank" rel="noopener">China ADRs Secondary Listing - Pipeline looks rich, have three years to move</a>, published in Feb 2021, we looked at the recent updates from the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act and Hong Kong Exchanges changes to corporate weighted average voting rights. In this note, we’ll take an early look at the deal and talk about likely timing and impact of the raising.</li>
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<p>In this note, we’ll take a look at the deal and talk about the impact of the raising.</p>
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Trip.com plans to raise around US$1-2bn in its secondary listing in Hong Kong. The company is said to have won listing approval last week and will look to launch its secondary offering soon.


In our previous notes, along with covering all of the past listings, we have also looked at the overall drivers for the secondary listings in our earlier notes, links to which are below: 




China ADRs Secondary Listing Deep-Dive: Yin and Yang, published in Feb 2020,  we looked at the background and rules around undertaking a secondary listing in Hong Kong and then came up with a short-list of companies that might undertake a secondary listing. 

In China ADRs Secondary Listing: COVID-19 Has Increased the Tension but Narrowed the Short List published in May 2020, we looked at the recent developments and provided an revised short-list
In China ADRs Secondary Listing - Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act - I’m Coming Home, published in May 2020, we spoke about the implication of the act which had made its way through the senate.
In China ADRs Secondary Listing - Pipeline looks rich, have three years to move, published in Feb 2021, we looked at the recent updates from the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act and Hong Kong Exchanges changes to corporate weighted average voting rights. In this note, we’ll take an early look at the deal and talk about likely timing and impact of the raising.



In this note, we’ll take a look at the deal and talk about the impact of the raising.


Trip.com Secondary Listing - Probably Needs to Correct

Investment Advisors, JL Warren Capital

Junheng Li

Investment Advisors

JL Warren Capital

JL Warren Capital LLC is a leading independent equity research firm focused on Chinese companies and listed multinationals in China. We employ a bottom-up research approach that takes great care to avoid the acquisition of material non-public information. Through investigative due diligence including channel surveys and interviews, our research helps clients to pinpoint the dislocations in the market.

Equity Bottom-Up

<p>We see posts by <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/gsx-techedu-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:28069:1" rel="noopener">GSX Techedu (GSX US)</a>  employees on Maimai mentioning that certain “celebrity instructors” in K11 and K12 may be leaving the platform after the spring semester as the tutors were instructed to cease recruiting new enrollments for the instructors.   We believe that “celebrity teachers” receive options with a lockup period when signing up with GSX.  The recent stock selloff could result in a significant number of departures of “celebrity instructors”.  GSX consistently claims that “celebrity teachers” are their moat, resulting in their reported unusually high profit margins that the entire K12 AST industry have hard time to comprehend.</p>

We see posts by GSX Techedu (GSX US)  employees on Maimai mentioning that certain “celebrity instructors” in K11 and K12 may be leaving the platform after the spring semester as the tutors were instructed to cease recruiting new enrollments for the instructors.   We believe that “celebrity teachers” receive options with a lockup period when signing up with GSX.  The recent stock selloff could result in a significant number of departures of “celebrity instructors”.  GSX consistently claims that “celebrity teachers” are their moat, resulting in their reported unusually high profit margins that the entire K12 AST industry have hard time to comprehend.

GSX Post Archegos' Liquidation, Chinese K12 Parents Survey - Q2 2021

HK/China Equity Long-Short

Osbert Tang, CFA

<p>The China Private Education Sector presents an exciting growth story, riding on the increase in spending on education, rise in demand for quality education, support from local governments for private investments and increase in acceptance towards online delivery mode, among others. These positive factors, however, are balanced by the decrease in birth rates and the tight regulatory regime. Despite so, we continue to see good prospects given that earnings growth will remain ahead of the overall market by significant magnitude. Meanwhile, valuations have already returned to more reasonable levels, with investment value started to emerge on some names.</p><p>Companies in the sector have different focuses, including K-12 education, higher education, vocational education, tutoring (online) and tutoring (online and offline), and we have to be very selective. We prefer companies that focus on higher education which face lower regulatory risks, have a clear defined expansion strategy and specialise in a niche market segment. Out of the ten companies covered in this Smartkarma Original, we put forward <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/china-education-group-holdin" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:18218:1" rel="noopener">China Education Group (839 HK)</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/tianli-education-internation" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:27210:1" rel="noopener">Tianli Education (1773 HK)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/china-yuhua-education" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:23627:1" rel="noopener">China Yuhua Education (6169 HK)</a> as our top picks.</p><h2>What's Original?</h2><p>This Smartkarma Original takes an in-depth analysis on 10 companies in the Private Education Sector in China, covering stocks listed in the HKEx, NYSE, Shenzhen Stock Exchange as well as dual listings. In the A-share space, we cover <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/wuhu-yaxia-automobile-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:9979:1" rel="noopener">Offcn Education Technology (002607 CH)</a>, which is sizeable (market cap of almost HK$210bn) and with unique exposure to the civil servants recruitment examination training.</p><p>Besides addressing the key evolving trends of the industry and the all-important regulatory issues, we also touched on the private funding aspects for some prominent unlisted companies and the IPO trends of the industry. Where appropriate, we share some of our on-ground experiences with the aim to provide a closer feel on the industry and companies. We hope this Smartkarma Original will be a comprehensive and updated reference for China's Private Education Sector.</p>

The China Private Education Sector presents an exciting growth story, riding on the increase in spending on education, rise in demand for quality education, support from local governments for private investments and increase in acceptance towards online delivery mode, among others. These positive factors, however, are balanced by the decrease in birth rates and the tight regulatory regime. Despite so, we continue to see good prospects given that earnings growth will remain ahead of the overall market by significant magnitude. Meanwhile, valuations have already returned to more reasonable levels, with investment value started to emerge on some names.Companies in the sector have different focuses, including K-12 education, higher education, vocational education, tutoring (online) and tutoring (online and offline), and we have to be very selective. We prefer companies that focus on higher education which face lower regulatory risks, have a clear defined expansion strategy and specialise in a niche market segment. Out of the ten companies covered in this Smartkarma Original, we put forward China Education Group (839 HK), Tianli Education (1773 HK) and China Yuhua Education (6169 HK) as our top picks.What's Original?This Smartkarma Original takes an in-depth analysis on 10 companies in the Private Education Sector in China, covering stocks listed in the HKEx, NYSE, Shenzhen Stock Exchange as well as dual listings. In the A-share space, we cover Offcn Education Technology (002607 CH), which is sizeable (market cap of almost HK$210bn) and with unique exposure to the civil servants recruitment examination training.Besides addressing the key evolving trends of the industry and the all-important regulatory issues, we also touched on the private funding aspects for some prominent unlisted companies and the IPO trends of the industry. Where appropriate, we share some of our on-ground experiences with the aim to provide a closer feel on the industry and companies. We hope this Smartkarma Original will be a comprehensive and updated reference for China's Private Education Sector.

China Private Education: This Is Where the Future Lies

China

New Oriental Education & Technology Group, Inc. offers educational services. The Company offers foreign language training, test preparation courses for admissions and assessment tests in the United States, the PRC and Commonwealth countries, primary and secondary school education, and other services. New Oriental Education & Technology Group also operates software development.

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Exit the Dragon – the Mass Exodus of US Listed Chinese Companies

Is US-China financial decoupling affecting the US stock market? What's the future of US listed Chinese companies l? How can investors in China...

Evelyn Zhang

Trip.com Secondary Listing: HK-ADS Premium/(Discount) Views

Trip.com has launched a $1.4 bn secondary listing in Hong Kong. In the context of the weakening market sentiment, Trip.com pricing its H-shares at...

Arun George

Trip.com Secondary Listing - Probably Needs to Correct

Trip.com plans to raise around US$1-2bn in its secondary listing in Hong Kong. The company is said to have won listing approval last week and will...

Sumeet Singh

GSX Post Archegos' Liquidation, Chinese K12 Parents Survey - Q2 2021

Apart from negative trends in new enrollments and losses of celebrity teachers, SEC investigation of Archegos could reveal other promotors (Teng...

JL Warren Capital

China Private Education: This Is Where the Future Lies

Profit growth at China Private Education Sector will speed ahead and outperform overall market significantly. With valuations retreated to more...

Osbert Tang, CFA

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Exit the Dragon – the Mass Exodus of US Listed Chinese Companies

Is US-China financial decoupling affecting the US stock market? What's the future of US listed Chinese companies l? How can investors in China...

Evelyn Zhang

Trip.com Secondary Listing: HK-ADS Premium/​​(Discount) Views

Trip.com has launched a $1.4 bn secondary listing in Hong Kong. In the context of the weakening market sentiment, Trip.com pricing its H-shares at...

Arun George

Trip.com Secondary Listing - Probably Needs to Correct

Trip.com plans to raise around US$1-2bn in its secondary listing in Hong Kong. The company is said to have won listing approval last week and will...

Sumeet Singh

GSX Post Archegos' Liquidation, Chinese K12 Parents Survey - Q2 2021

Apart from negative trends in new enrollments and losses of celebrity teachers, SEC investigation of Archegos could reveal other promotors (Teng...

JL Warren Capital

China Private Education: This Is Where the Future Lies

Profit growth at China Private Education Sector will speed ahead and outperform overall market significantly. With valuations retreated to more...

Osbert Tang, CFA

Trip.com Secondary Listing: HK-ADS Premium/(Discount) Views