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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Lionheart Studio  / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/lionheart-studio-corporation" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:36417:1" rel="noopener">Lionheart Studio (426630 KS)</a>, a game development studio based in South Korea,  aims to raise around US$420m via its South Korean IPO.</li>
<li>The company is majority owned by <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/kakao-games-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:26730:1" rel="noopener">Kakao Games Corp (293490 KS)</a>, which after having recently hiked its stake, owned 54.94% of the company prior to listing.  </li>
<li>We spoke about the company’s past performance in our previous note. In this note, we’ll undertake a peer comparison.</li>
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Lionheart Studio (426630 KS), a game development studio based in South Korea,  aims to raise around US$420m via its South Korean IPO.
The company is majority owned by Kakao Games Corp (293490 KS), which after having recently hiked its stake, owned 54.94% of the company prior to listing.  
We spoke about the company’s past performance in our previous note. In this note, we’ll undertake a peer comparison.


LionHeart Studio IPO - Peer Comparison - Youngest and Most Untested

TMT & Consumer Independent Equity Research Analyst, Obex Capital Research

Aaron Gabin

TMT & Consumer Independent Equity Research Analyst

TMT & Consumer Independent Equity Research

Obex Capital Research

“Obex” is Latin for Barriers to Entry. Obex Capital Management’s investment philosophy is driven by an intense focus on which business model’s Barriers to Entry are able to withstand the ever increasing competitive disruption in the TMT and Consumer Sectors.

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Roblox Analyst Day featured some interesting new initiatives around advertising and marketplace dynamics.</li>
<li>The company will launch a self serve advertising platform in 2023 that has the potential to be worth an incremental 20% of revenues and margin supportive.</li>
<li>The company is also allowing developers to start introducing scare items, and begin participating in the on-platform resale market.</li>
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Roblox Analyst Day featured some interesting new initiatives around advertising and marketplace dynamics.
The company will launch a self serve advertising platform in 2023 that has the potential to be worth an incremental 20% of revenues and margin supportive.
The company is also allowing developers to start introducing scare items, and begin participating in the on-platform resale market.


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<li>Roblox initially fell 17% on earnings, but ended the week up 8%... why? Third party data is driving stock price action.</li>
<li>Reacceleration of DAUs, engagement, and bookings is beginning to play out...bullish ST.</li>
<li>LT EBITDA margins are anyone's guess right now, which makes the coming 9/9 Analyst Day an important catalyst to frame up the size and margin impact of TAM extensions.</li>
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Roblox initially fell 17% on earnings, but ended the week up 8%... why? Third party data is driving stock price action.
Reacceleration of DAUs, engagement, and bookings is beginning to play out...bullish ST.
LT EBITDA margins are anyone's guess right now, which makes the coming 9/9 Analyst Day an important catalyst to frame up the size and margin impact of TAM extensions.


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<ul><li>I mentioned a few weeks ago that the current market correction would likely begin to pickup speed when the mega caps like Apple and Microsoft began their corrections and re-rated lower below their 200 day moving averages like most of the Nasdaq index.</li><li>On Friday, we saw a significant bounce off extreme oversold conditions but many charts still need significant time to base and repair themselves.</li><li>If we are truly entering a new bear market, relief bounces like these will become common which is something investors likely haven’t seen in awhile after years of “buy the dip” bull market mentality was in full force.</li></ul>

I mentioned a few weeks ago that the current market correction would likely begin to pickup speed when the mega caps like Apple and Microsoft began their corrections and re-rated lower below their 200 day moving averages like most of the Nasdaq index.On Friday, we saw a significant bounce off extreme oversold conditions but many charts still need significant time to base and repair themselves.If we are truly entering a new bear market, relief bounces like these will become common which is something investors likely haven’t seen in awhile after years of “buy the dip” bull market mentality was in full force.

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<li>Management expected growth to bottom in April, wbut ended up bottoming in March, beginning a reacceleration expected to last into Q3. But how much acceleration?</li>
<li>Usage and engagement still strong: DAUs of 54.1M grew 30% YoY, a touch below of consensus. Hours Engaged were up 22% YoY to 11.8B, inline ahead of consensus.</li>
<li>Spending on brand safety, engineers, and developer fees set to continue - unclear how much earnings leverage to expect near term...tough for this market environment.</li>
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Management expected growth to bottom in April, wbut ended up bottoming in March, beginning a reacceleration expected to last into Q3. But how much acceleration?
Usage and engagement still strong: DAUs of 54.1M grew 30% YoY, a touch below of consensus. Hours Engaged were up 22% YoY to 11.8B, inline ahead of consensus.
Spending on brand safety, engineers, and developer fees set to continue - unclear how much earnings leverage to expect near term...tough for this market environment.


Roblox 1Q22: Acceleration Coming, But How Much?

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Roblox Corporation provides entertainment products and services. The Company designs and develops a wide range of online games such as internet three-dimensional and tutorial games for kids, teens, and adults. Roblox serves customers worldwide.

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Roblox 1Q22: Acceleration Coming, But How Much?

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