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

Emcure Pharmaceuticals / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/emcure-pharmaceuticals-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:35585:1" rel="noopener">Emcure Pharmaceuticals</a> is looking to raise around US$240m in its upcoming India IPO.</li>
<li>Emcure Pharmaceuticals (EP) is an Indian Pharmaceutical company engaged in the developing, manufacturing and globally marketing a broad range of pharmaceutical products across several major therapeutic areas.</li>
<li>We have looked at the company’s past performance, in our earlier note. In this note, we talk about the RHP updates and take a quick look at valuations.</li>
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Emcure Pharmaceuticals is looking to raise around US$240m in its upcoming India IPO.
Emcure Pharmaceuticals (EP) is an Indian Pharmaceutical company engaged in the developing, manufacturing and globally marketing a broad range of pharmaceutical products across several major therapeutic areas.
We have looked at the company’s past performance, in our earlier note. In this note, we talk about the RHP updates and take a quick look at valuations.


Emcure Pharmaceuticals Pre-IPO - Refiling Updates and Valuations

HK/China Healthcare Analyst (ex-Fosun Pharma)

Xinyao (Criss) Wang

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Pfizer seems to be the worst-performing large pharma stock of 2023 after it lowered 2024 forecast. The Company continues to grapple with plummeting demand for its COVID products</li>
<li>The acquisition of Seagen can't turn things around. Except a few products that are still able to maintain growth, sales of vast majority products that we’re familiar with are declining. </li>
<li>The growth engine of Pfizer in post-pandemic era is still uncertain. Even though Pfizer's share price has fallen sharply, this may still not be the time for bottom fishing.</li>
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Pfizer seems to be the worst-performing large pharma stock of 2023 after it lowered 2024 forecast. The Company continues to grapple with plummeting demand for its COVID products
The acquisition of Seagen can't turn things around. Except a few products that are still able to maintain growth, sales of vast majority products that we’re familiar with are declining. 
The growth engine of Pfizer in post-pandemic era is still uncertain. Even though Pfizer's share price has fallen sharply, this may still not be the time for bottom fishing.


Pfizer Inc (PFE US) - Continue to Lose Its Way in the Post-Pandemic Era

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>Pfizer managed to surpass the revenue and earnings expectations of analysts.</li><li>Operationally, non-COVID-19 revenue increased, but total revenue decreased in the quarter.</li><li>The projected revenue declines in both PAXLOVID and COMIRNATY principally brought on this loss.</li></ul>

Pfizer managed to surpass the revenue and earnings expectations of analysts.Operationally, non-COVID-19 revenue increased, but total revenue decreased in the quarter.The projected revenue declines in both PAXLOVID and COMIRNATY principally brought on this loss.

Pfizer Inc: Delving into Their Game Plan For Future Growth! - Major Drivers

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One, Periscope Analytics

Brian Freitas

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One

Periscope Analytics

Periscope Analytics focuses on event-driven trades across Asia Pacific and provides comprehensive, timely and systematic coverage of index changes to major Asia Pacific indices in a structured manner.

The analysis includes forecasted inclusions and exclusions to all major Asian indices that have significant amount of tracking assets, including estimates of passive buy/sell flow on the stocks. The service also provides commentary and impact of market consultations, ground rule changes, and other events (IPOs, spin-offs, M&A) that could lead to index changes and passive flow.

Periscope Analytics works with multi-strategy hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, stat arb trading groups and long-only investors that invest and trade in the Asia Pacific region with the data being used to trade index rebalances, avoid pre-positioning and passive flow, and to time entry into and exit from stocks.

Event-Driven Trades Across Asia Pacific

Event-Driven

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/amazon-com-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:409:1" rel="noopener">Amazon.com Inc (AMZN US)</a> will replace <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/walgreens-boots-alliance-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:1118:1" rel="noopener">Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA US)</a> in the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/dow-jones-industrial-average" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:22887:1" rel="noopener">Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDU INDEX)</a> at the close on 23 February.</li>
<li>Passives will need to sell a lot of <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/walmart-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:11134:1" rel="noopener">Walmart (WMT US)</a> following the 3:1 stock split and buy a lot of <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/amazon-com-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:409:1" rel="noopener">Amazon.com Inc (AMZN US)</a>. </li>
<li>Given the ad hoc nature of the rebalances and the short timeline between announcement and implementation, the stocks could move over the rest of the week.</li>
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Amazon.com Inc (AMZN US) will replace Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA US) in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDU INDEX) at the close on 23 February.
Passives will need to sell a lot of Walmart (WMT US) following the 3:1 stock split and buy a lot of Amazon.com Inc (AMZN US). 
Given the ad hoc nature of the rebalances and the short timeline between announcement and implementation, the stocks could move over the rest of the week.


Dow Jones Industrials (INDU) Index Rebalance: Amazon (AMZN) Replaces Walgreen Boots (WBA)

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<li>A group of shareholders raised around US$530m in <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/mankind-pharma-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:36389:1" rel="noopener">Mankind Pharma</a>(MP) IPO in May 2023. The pre-IPO shareholders will be released from their lockup soon.</li>
<li>MP is a pharmaceutical company engaged in developing, manufacturing and marketing a range of pharmaceutical formulations across various acute and chronic therapeutic areas, as well as several consumer healthcare products.</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the lock-up dynamics and recent updates.</li>
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A group of shareholders raised around US$530m in Mankind Pharma(MP) IPO in May 2023. The pre-IPO shareholders will be released from their lockup soon.
MP is a pharmaceutical company engaged in developing, manufacturing and marketing a range of pharmaceutical formulations across various acute and chronic therapeutic areas, as well as several consumer healthcare products.
In this note, we will talk about the lock-up dynamics and recent updates.


Mankind Pharma Lock-Up - A US$1.1bn+ Lockup Release

United States

Pfizer Inc. is a research-based, global pharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets medicines for humans and animals.  The Company's products include prescription pharmaceuticals, non-prescription self-medications, and animal health products such as anti-infective medicines and vaccines.

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Emcure Pharmaceuticals Pre-IPO - Refiling Updates and Valuations

Emcure Pharmaceuticals is looking to raise around US$240m in its upcoming India IPO. In this note, we talk about valuations.

Sumeet Singh

Pfizer Inc (PFE US) - Continue to Lose Its Way in the Post-Pandemic Era

Pfizer's strategy in post-pandemic era is to "buy revenue", but sustainable growth is questionable because acquisitions may fail to bring...

Xinyao (Criss) Wang

Pfizer Inc: Delving into Their Game Plan For Future Growth! - Major Drivers

Pfizer managed to surpass the revenue and earnings expectations of analysts. Operationally, non-COVID-19 revenue increased, but total revenue...

Baptista Research

Dow Jones Industrials (INDU) Index Rebalance: Amazon (AMZN) Replaces Walgreen Boots (WBA)

Amazon replaces Walgreen Boots in the Dow Jones Industrial Average at the close on 23 February following Walmart's stock split. There will be over...

Brian Freitas

Mankind Pharma Lock-Up - A US$1.1bn+ Lockup Release

The two pre-IPO investors have launched a block to sell around US$591m worth of Mankind Pharma shares. Since the lockup on the shares expired not...

Sumeet Singh

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