APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Ethan Aw

APAC 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

Doosan Robotics  / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/doosan-robotics" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:36816:1" rel="noopener">Doosan Robotics (DOOSANROBO KS)</a> is looking to raise up to US$314m in its Korean IPO. </li>
<li>Doosan Robotics (DR) manufactures and sells collaborative robots (Cobots). The firm’s product portfolio primarily includes different series of robot arms as well as its coffee module. </li>
<li>In our previous notes, we looked at the company’s past performance and undertook a peer comparison. In this note, we talk about valuation.</li>
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Doosan Robotics (DOOSANROBO KS) is looking to raise up to US$314m in its Korean IPO. 
Doosan Robotics (DR) manufactures and sells collaborative robots (Cobots). The firm’s product portfolio primarily includes different series of robot arms as well as its coffee module. 
In our previous notes, we looked at the company’s past performance and undertook a peer comparison. In this note, we talk about valuation.


Doosan Robotics IPO - Thoughts on Valuation - A Punt at Best, a Crash at Worst

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/fadu-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:39896:1" rel="noopener">Fadu (440110 KS)</a> is looking to raise up to US$147m in its Korean IPO.</li>
<li>Fadu is a South Korean fabless semiconductor maker mainly engaged in flash storage technology innovation. Its core products are Enterprise Solid State Drive (SSD) and Enterprise SSDs. </li>
<li>Fadu’s revenue growth has been stupendous, to say the least. However, the firm’s revenues are derived mainly from two customers, which exposes it to a large degree of concentration risk.</li>
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Fadu (440110 KS) is looking to raise up to US$147m in its Korean IPO.
Fadu is a South Korean fabless semiconductor maker mainly engaged in flash storage technology innovation. Its core products are Enterprise Solid State Drive (SSD) and Enterprise SSDs. 
Fadu’s revenue growth has been stupendous, to say the least. However, the firm’s revenues are derived mainly from two customers, which exposes it to a large degree of concentration risk.


Fadu Pre-IPO - Stupendous Revenue Growth but Heavily Reliant on Two Key Customers

Korea / Special Sits, Pairs, Index Rebalancing, Clepsydra Capital

Sanghyun Park

Korea / Special Sits, Pairs, Index Rebalancing

Clepsydra Capital

Investigate special situations, pairs, and index rebalancing trades in Korea.

Event-Driven

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<li>Korea has a total of 68 holding companies listed on KOSPI and KOSDAQ. We then have 14 holdcos with a high level of price cointegration with their respective listed subsidiaries.</li>
<li>Three holding companies have sigma below zero on a 20D MA. Hanwha Corp is considered stub tradable as its share price relative to its subsidiaries was relatively flat.</li>
<li>Four holdcos, including SK Square are over 70% NAV discount. Among them, SK Square is of the most interest as the price correlation with SK Hynix has been improving lately.</li>
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Korea has a total of 68 holding companies listed on KOSPI and KOSDAQ. We then have 14 holdcos with a high level of price cointegration with their respective listed subsidiaries.
Three holding companies have sigma below zero on a 20D MA. Hanwha Corp is considered stub tradable as its share price relative to its subsidiaries was relatively flat.
Four holdcos, including SK Square are over 70% NAV discount. Among them, SK Square is of the most interest as the price correlation with SK Hynix has been improving lately.


Korea Holding Companies: Stub Tradable Names

Tracking developments across tech supply chains, Tech Supply Chain Tracker

Tech Supply Chain Tracker

Tracking developments across tech supply chains

Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>CoSAI is a collaboration between tech giants like Intel, Google, and IBM to drive innovation in the automotive industry.</li><li>Knobs and buttons are making a comeback in car interfaces, reflecting a trend in automotive design for more tactile controls.</li><li>Apple opposes Tata-Vivo partnership as Vivo marks its 10th anniversary in India, while Biden admin shows support for CHIPS Act to boost packaging and testing industry.</li></ul>

CoSAI is a collaboration between tech giants like Intel, Google, and IBM to drive innovation in the automotive industry.Knobs and buttons are making a comeback in car interfaces, reflecting a trend in automotive design for more tactile controls.Apple opposes Tata-Vivo partnership as Vivo marks its 10th anniversary in India, while Biden admin shows support for CHIPS Act to boost packaging and testing industry.

Tech Supply Chain Tracker (01-Aug-2024): Top tech firms join CoSAI.

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

Sprott Physical Uranium Trust / Event-Driven

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<li>Solactive has announced the constituent changes for the Global Uranium &amp; Nuclear Components Index with implementation at the close on 31 July.</li>
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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/oklo-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:38840" rel="noopener">Oklo (OKLO US)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/western-uranium-vanadium-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:43774" rel="noopener">Western Uranium &amp; Vanadium (WUC CN)</a> will be added to the index. Estimated one-way turnover is 7.9% resulting in a round-trip trade of US$486m.</li>
<li>There are only 4 trading days to implementation of the changes and we'd watch out for big moves on stocks that have more than 2x ADV to trade.</li>
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Solactive has announced the constituent changes for the Global Uranium &amp; Nuclear Components Index with implementation at the close on 31 July.

Oklo (OKLO US) and Western Uranium &amp; Vanadium (WUC CN) will be added to the index. Estimated one-way turnover is 7.9% resulting in a round-trip trade of US$486m.
There are only 4 trading days to implementation of the changes and we'd watch out for big moves on stocks that have more than 2x ADV to trade.


Solactive Global Uranium & Nuclear Components Index Rebalance: Two Adds & US$500m Trade

South Korea

Samsung C&T Corporation conducts diversified business support services and resort operation activities. The Company offers a range of services in areas including clothing retail, construction, energy, real estate, food service, and resort accommodations. Samsung C&T also operates a resort with amusement rides, a zoo, water park, golf clubs, and restaurants.

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Samsung C&T (028260 KS)

Doosan Robotics IPO - Thoughts on Valuation - A Punt at Best, a Crash at Worst

Doosan Robotics (DOOSANROBO KS) is looking to raise up to US$314m in its Korean IPO. comparison. In this note, we talk about valuation.

Ethan Aw

Fadu Pre-IPO - Stupendous Revenue Growth but Heavily Reliant on Two Key Customers

Fadu is a South Korean fabless semiconductor maker mainly engaged in flash storage technology innovation. Its core products are Enterprise Solid...

Ethan Aw

Korea Holding Companies: Stub Tradable Names

Korea has a total of 68 holding companies listed on KOSPI and KOSDAQ. Then, there are 14 stub tradable names as they have a high level of price...

Sanghyun Park

Tech Supply Chain Tracker (01-Aug-2024): Top tech firms join CoSAI.

CoSAI partners with tech giants, car interfaces embrace knobs, Apple opposes Tata-Vivo, Biden supports CHIPS Act, Micron ships 9th-gen NAND, Taiwan...

Tech Supply Chain Tracker

Solactive Global Uranium & Nuclear Components Index Rebalance: Two Adds & US$500m Trade

The changes for the Global Uranium & Nuclear Components Index will be implemented at the close tomorrow. There is a fair bit to trade on some...

Brian Freitas

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