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

Alibaba Group Holding  / 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>On the IPO front, things are picking up again going into the year end.</li>
<li>There were no large placement or blocks this week, although prior lockup linked blocks kept flowing through.</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.
On the IPO front, things are picking up again going into the year end.
There were no large placement or blocks this week, although prior lockup linked blocks kept flowing through.


ECM Weekly (27th Nov 2022) - Growatt, Lygend, Sunshine Ins, Weilong, DPC, Daiei, Skymark, GoTo

Global Emerging Market Equities, Propitious Research

Wium Malan, CFA

Global Emerging Market Equities

Independent, Fundamental Quantitative Research

Propitious Research

Fully independent, fundamental and quantitative equity research, focused on companies in the Telecommunication, Media, Technology, Internet and Healthcare sectors in the Global Emerging Markets. Idea generation focused on Quality stocks, trading below their intrinsic Value, with sound Corporate Governance.

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>JD.com should have an outsized benefit from a recovery in Chinese retail sales as further macro stimulus and a gradual easing of China’s covid-zero policy stimulates demand throughout 2023.</li>
<li>Following a return to margin expansion this year, due to economies of scale and curbing operating expenses during a challenging macro environment, the longer-term margin expansion trend remains on track.</li>
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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/jd-com-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:29043:1" rel="noopener">JD.com Inc. (9618 HK)</a> trades on extremely attractive valuation multiples (PE, PEG, FCF yield) with net cash on its balance sheet equal to 32% of its market cap.</li>
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JD.com should have an outsized benefit from a recovery in Chinese retail sales as further macro stimulus and a gradual easing of China’s covid-zero policy stimulates demand throughout 2023.
Following a return to margin expansion this year, due to economies of scale and curbing operating expenses during a challenging macro environment, the longer-term margin expansion trend remains on track.

JD.com Inc. (9618 HK) trades on extremely attractive valuation multiples (PE, PEG, FCF yield) with net cash on its balance sheet equal to 32% of its market cap.


2023 High Conviction: JD.com to Benefit from Discretionary Spend Recovery, Margin Progress on Track

Weilong Delicious Global Holdi / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/weilong-delicious-global-holdings-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:33378:1" rel="noopener">Weilong Delicious Global (WDG HK)</a>, a spicy snack food company in China, aims to raise around US$200m in its Hong Kong IPO.</li>
<li>According to F&amp;S, WDG ranked first among spicy snack food enterprises in China, with a market share of 6.2%, and in the seasoned flour product and spicy vegetable snacks categories.</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the updates from the recently re-refiled PHIP.</li>
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Weilong Delicious Global (WDG HK), a spicy snack food company in China, aims to raise around US$200m in its Hong Kong IPO.
According to F&amp;S, WDG ranked first among spicy snack food enterprises in China, with a market share of 6.2%, and in the seasoned flour product and spicy vegetable snacks categories.
In this note, we will talk about the updates from the recently re-refiled PHIP.


Weilong Delicious Global Pre-IPO - Latest PHIP Updates - No Growth

Asset Allocation & Fund Positioning, Copley Fund Research

Steven Holden

Asset Allocation & Fund Positioning

Copley Fund Research

Copley Fund Research provide research and data on asset allocation among Global and Emerging Market equity funds.  The analysis details absolute and relative positioning across countries, sectors and industries together with highly granular data on single stock and single fund allocations.  The data is updated monthly with time series going back to January 2011.

Global Research - Analysis of 165 prominent Global equity funds, combined AUM $335bn
GEM Research - Analysis of 127 prominent global EM equity funds, combined AUM $250bn

Asset Allocation - Global and GEM Equity

Alibaba Group Holding  / Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Ownership in Alibaba Group Holdings is on the rise among active Greater China managers. </li>
<li>Stock price below $100 a catalyst for active Greater China managers to buy back in, with Invesco, JP Morgan and E Fund among those opening positions</li>
<li>Alibaba remains well behind both TSMC and Tencent on an average weight basis and is the 2nd largest underweight in the Greater China region.</li>
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Ownership in Alibaba Group Holdings is on the rise among active Greater China managers. 
Stock price below $100 a catalyst for active Greater China managers to buy back in, with Invesco, JP Morgan and E Fund among those opening positions
Alibaba remains well behind both TSMC and Tencent on an average weight basis and is the 2nd largest underweight in the Greater China region.


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<li>DPC Dash aims to raise around US$100m in its Hong Kong IPO. </li>
<li>The company is the exclusive master franchisee for Domino’s Pizza in China, HK and Macau. DPC operated 562 stores across 13 cities, as of Nov 2022.</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the not-so-positive aspects of the deal.</li>
</ul>


DPC Dash aims to raise around US$100m in its Hong Kong IPO. 
The company is the exclusive master franchisee for Domino’s Pizza in China, HK and Macau. DPC operated 562 stores across 13 cities, as of Nov 2022.
In this note, we will talk about the not-so-positive aspects of the deal.


DPC Dash Pre-IPO - The Negatives - Lags the Leader, Remains Loss Making

China

PDD Holdings Inc. is a multinational commerce group that owns and operates a portfolio of businesses. The Company focuses on digital economy so that local communities and small businesses can benefit from the increased productivity and new opportunities. PDD Holdings has built a network of sourcing, logistics, and fulfillment capabilities for its underlying businesses.

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PDD Holdings (PDD US)

ECM Weekly (27th Nov 2022) - Growatt, Lygend, Sunshine Ins, Weilong, DPC, Daiei, Skymark, GoTo

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

2023 High Conviction: JD.com to Benefit from Discretionary Spend Recovery, Margin Progress on Track

As our 2023 High Conviction call, in this insight, we take a deep-dive analysis into JD.com’s key investment controversies: Revenue growth recovery...

Wium Malan, CFA

Weilong Delicious Global Pre-IPO - Latest PHIP Updates - No Growth

Weilong Delicious Global (WDG HK), a spicy snack food company in China, aims to raise around US$200m in its Hong Kong IPO.

Sumeet Singh

Alibaba (BABA US): Fighting Back

Ownership in Alibaba Group Holdings is on the rise among active Greater China managers. . Stock price below $100 a clear catalyst for managers to...

Steven Holden

DPC Dash Pre-IPO - The Negatives - Lags the Leader, Remains Loss Making

DPC Dash, Domino's Pizza's franchisee in China, aims to raise around US$100m in its Hong Kong IPO. In this note, we talk about the not so positive...

Sumeet Singh

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