Global Healthcare Analyst

Tina Banerjee

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>We have screened for APAC (ex-China) healthcare companies using their respective Smart Score, a compound score for a company indicating its overall outlook based on key factors.</li>
<li>Smart Score screens the stock based on five major components including value, dividends, growth, resilience, and momentum. It also provides a cumulative score, which puts equal weightage on each parameter.  </li>
<li>Parameters used to screen the stocks: market cap≥ $800M and smart score≥ 3.5. We have seen stocks having high smart score has strong growth prospects and qualify for investment proposition.</li>
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We have screened for APAC (ex-China) healthcare companies using their respective Smart Score, a compound score for a company indicating its overall outlook based on key factors.
Smart Score screens the stock based on five major components including value, dividends, growth, resilience, and momentum. It also provides a cumulative score, which puts equal weightage on each parameter.  
Parameters used to screen the stocks: market cap≥ $800M and smart score≥ 3.5. We have seen stocks having high smart score has strong growth prospects and qualify for investment proposition.


Top APAC (Ex-China) Investment Worthy Healthcare Companies Using Smartkarma’s Smart Score Screener

Equity Bottom-Up

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/eubiologics-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:23739:1" rel="noopener">Eubiologics (206650 KS)</a> received UNICEF oral cholera vaccine order of KRW124B in 2024. This is nearly 1.9x higher than last year's sales, making the case for record-high sales in 2024.</li>
<li>Eubiologics is not expecting any near-term competition. The company is boosting its production capability to 90M doses annually by 2025 from 33M doses currently.</li>
<li>Eubiologics is planning to enter the premium vaccine market, which should further accelerate the revenue growth and improve its margins. Recently, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/bionote-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:36446:1" rel="noopener">Bionote (377740 KS)</a> has increased stake in Eubiologics.</li>
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Eubiologics (206650 KS) received UNICEF oral cholera vaccine order of KRW124B in 2024. This is nearly 1.9x higher than last year's sales, making the case for record-high sales in 2024.
Eubiologics is not expecting any near-term competition. The company is boosting its production capability to 90M doses annually by 2025 from 33M doses currently.
Eubiologics is planning to enter the premium vaccine market, which should further accelerate the revenue growth and improve its margins. Recently, Bionote (377740 KS) has increased stake in Eubiologics.


EuBiologics (206650 KS): Secular Sectoral Tailwind Is Not The Only Catalyst

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

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<li>There has been a new, highly mutated COVID variant found in South Africa named Omicron by the WHO.</li>
<li>Is this the onset of the 'dark winter' that many people have warned? In this insight, we will provide further details of this new COVID variant Omicron.</li>
<li>While the world waits on more data on the Omicron variant, we believe SK Bioscience, SD Biosensor, and Seegene could soundly outperform the market in the next several weeks. </li>
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There has been a new, highly mutated COVID variant found in South Africa named Omicron by the WHO.
Is this the onset of the 'dark winter' that many people have warned? In this insight, we will provide further details of this new COVID variant Omicron.
While the world waits on more data on the Omicron variant, we believe SK Bioscience, SD Biosensor, and Seegene could soundly outperform the market in the next several weeks. 


The Highly Mutated Omicron COVID Variant - Onset of the Dark Winter?

Douglas Research Advisory

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<li>In this insight, we provide some of the main highlights of the book <em><strong>"The Real Anthony Fauci",</strong></em> which was written by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr) in 2021.</li>
<li>We discuss how the appointment of RFK Jr could impact some of the major health care stocks in Korea, especially those that are involved in developing and producing vaccines.</li>
<li>Although the share prices of many Korean vaccines related stocks have declined materially in the past 2-3 years, RFK Jr becoming the next US Health Secretary could pose further headwinds.</li>
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In this insight, we provide some of the main highlights of the book "The Real Anthony Fauci", which was written by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr) in 2021.
We discuss how the appointment of RFK Jr could impact some of the major health care stocks in Korea, especially those that are involved in developing and producing vaccines.
Although the share prices of many Korean vaccines related stocks have declined materially in the past 2-3 years, RFK Jr becoming the next US Health Secretary could pose further headwinds.


Appointment of RFK Jr as the US Health Secretary and a Book Review Of "The Real Anthony Fauci"

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China biotech, Aequitas Research

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China biotech

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.

Quantitative Analysis

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<li>We analyzed the changes in short interest of KRX stocks as of Aug 16th which has an aggregated short interest worth USD5.3bn.</li>
<li>We tabulate league table for top short by value and short as multiple of ADT, as well as weekly increases &amp; decreases in short value, short as multiple of ADT.</li>
<li>We highlight short interest changes in Sk Hynix (000660 KS).</li>
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We analyzed the changes in short interest of KRX stocks as of Aug 16th which has an aggregated short interest worth USD5.3bn.
We tabulate league table for top short by value and short as multiple of ADT, as well as weekly increases &amp; decreases in short value, short as multiple of ADT.
We highlight short interest changes in Sk Hynix (000660 KS).


KRX Short Interest Weekly (Aug 16th): Sk Hynix

South Korea

SD Biosensor, INC. operates medical device manufacturing businesses. The Company produces electric medical instruments and other products. SD Biosensor conducts businesses across worldwide.

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SD Biosensor (137310 KS)

Top APAC (Ex-China) Investment Worthy Healthcare Companies Using Smartkarma’s Smart Score Screener

We have screened APAC (ex-China) healthcare companies with market cap≥$800M using Smartkarma’s Smart Score and picked up 2 investable ideas by...

Tina Banerjee

EuBiologics (206650 KS): Secular Sectoral Tailwind Is Not The Only Catalyst

Eubiologics secures UNICEF order for oral cholera vaccine and expects record-high sales in 2024. The company has plans for production capacity...

Tina Banerjee

The Highly Mutated Omicron COVID Variant - Onset of the Dark Winter?

There has been a new, highly mutated COVID variant found in South Africa named Omicron by the WHO. In this insight, we will provide further details...

Douglas Kim

Appointment of RFK Jr as the US Health Secretary and a Book Review Of "The Real Anthony Fauci"

We provide some of the main highlights of the book "The Real Anthony Fauci." We also discuss the impact of appointment of RFK Jr as US Health...

Douglas Kim

KRX Short Interest Weekly (Aug 16th): Sk Hynix

We analyzed KRX short interest report for the past week and highlighted short interest changes in Sk Hynix (ticker: 000660 KS).

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

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Top APAC (Ex-China) Investment Worthy Healthcare Companies Using Smartkarma’s Smart Score Screener

We have screened APAC (ex-China) healthcare companies with market cap≥$800M using Smartkarma’s Smart Score and picked up 2 investable ideas by...

Tina Banerjee

EuBiologics (206650 KS): Secular Sectoral Tailwind Is Not The Only Catalyst

​Eubiologics secures UNICEF order for oral cholera vaccine and expects record-high sales in 2024. The company has plans for production capacity...

Tina Banerjee

The Highly Mutated Omicron COVID Variant - Onset of the Dark Winter?

There has been a new, highly mutated COVID variant found in South Africa named Omicron by the WHO. In this insight, we will provide further details...

Douglas Kim

Appointment of RFK Jr as the US Health Secretary and a Book Review Of "The Real Anthony Fauci"

We provide some of the main highlights of the book "The Real Anthony Fauci." We also discuss the impact of appointment of RFK Jr as US Health...

Douglas Kim

KRX Short Interest Weekly (Aug 16th): Sk Hynix

We analyzed KRX short interest report for the past week and highlighted short interest changes in Sk Hynix (ticker: 000660 KS).

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Eubiologics secures UNICEF order for oral cholera vaccine and expects record-high sales in 2024. The company has plans for production capacity...