Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

Equity Capital Markets

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<li>VNG (VinaGame) (VNG US) is getting ready to complete its IPO on the NASDAQ exchange in the next several months. VNG operates the dominant chat app Zalo in Vietnam. </li>
<li>VNG is reminiscent of Kakao Corp (035720 KS) in its early years of operations when it captured a dominant portion of Korea's chat app market through its KakaoTalk app.</li>
<li>Although the company has yet to provide a firm timeline of the IPO, there is likely to be eye-popping demand for the IPO shares of VNG. </li>
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VNG (VinaGame) (VNG US) is getting ready to complete its IPO on the NASDAQ exchange in the next several months. VNG operates the dominant chat app Zalo in Vietnam. 
VNG is reminiscent of Kakao Corp (035720 KS) in its early years of operations when it captured a dominant portion of Korea's chat app market through its KakaoTalk app.
Although the company has yet to provide a firm timeline of the IPO, there is likely to be eye-popping demand for the IPO shares of VNG. 


External broker reports(aggregated public sources), CMB International

CMB International

External broker reports(aggregated public sources)

Incorporated in Hong Kong, supported by the mainland and targeting in global market, CMB International Capital Corporation Limited (“CMBI”) is an integrated financial institution providing comprehensive and professional services. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Merchants Bank ("CMB"), by leveraging on the Group’s synergy and coordination in domestic and overseas markets, as well as CMB’s strong resources and outstanding social reputation, CMBI and its subsidiaries have been actively implementing diversified business strategies and set up an overall layout of main business segments including Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Global Markets and Structured Finance, etc. Adhering to the philosophy of “being clients oriented and increasing our own values by the way of creating value for clients”, CMBI endeavors to provide quality and integrated financial services to institutional, corporate and individual customers both domestic and overseas including Hong Kong IPO sponsorship and underwriting, share placement and rights issue for listed companies, financial advisors, bonds issuance services, asset management, direct investment, wealth management, equity sales and trading, etc.

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul><li>China’s online game market revenue grew by 37.5% YoY to RMB28.6bn in Jul 2023, with growth further accelerating (May/Jun: +16.0/23.6% YoY), according to CNG.</li><li>The strong YoY growth was mainly due to the launch of new games and low-base effect.</li><li>Overseas revenue from China’s self-developed games also returned to positive growth track in July (+7.6% YoY), thanks to the solid performance of Tencent’s and NetEase’s overseas mobile games. </li></ul>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

China’s online game market revenue grew by 37.5% YoY to RMB28.6bn in Jul 2023, with growth further accelerating (May/Jun: +16.0/23.6% YoY), according to CNG.The strong YoY growth was mainly due to the launch of new games and low-base effect.Overseas revenue from China’s self-developed games also returned to positive growth track in July (+7.6% YoY), thanks to the solid performance of Tencent’s and NetEase’s overseas mobile games. Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

China Internet – July online game market recap

ASEAN Insight Provider, CrossASEAN Research

Angus Mackintosh

ASEAN Insight Provider

CrossASEAN Research

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Insights across South East Asia

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>
<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/sea-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:8509:1" rel="noopener">Sea Ltd</a> began to step on the gas in terms of promotions in 2Q2023, even warning of potential quarterly losses, mainly due to perceived threats in Indonesia from TikTop Shop.</li>
<li>Reports that TikTok Shop will be banned in Indonesia will provide significant relief in terms of competition as it is targeted for unfair competition versus local MSMEs through cheap imports.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/sea-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:8509:1" rel="noopener">Sea Ltd</a> has also relaunched FreeFire in India, which could become a significant catalyst for the recovery of the gaming business.  Valuations are attractive on both sales and earnings.</li>
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Sea Ltd began to step on the gas in terms of promotions in 2Q2023, even warning of potential quarterly losses, mainly due to perceived threats in Indonesia from TikTop Shop.
Reports that TikTok Shop will be banned in Indonesia will provide significant relief in terms of competition as it is targeted for unfair competition versus local MSMEs through cheap imports.

Sea Ltd has also relaunched FreeFire in India, which could become a significant catalyst for the recovery of the gaming business.  Valuations are attractive on both sales and earnings.


Sea Ltd (SE US) - A Positive Catalyst from TikTok Shop's Trouble

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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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/vng-limited" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:26716:1" rel="noopener">VNG (VinaGame) (VNG US)</a>, Vietnam’s leading internet platform, aims to raise up to US$300m in its US IPO.</li>
<li>VNG is Vietnam’s leading homegrown digital ecosystem, as per the company, with diverse product offerings across games, communications and media, fintech and other opportunities</li>
<li>We looked at the company’s past performance in our earlier notes. In this note, we undertake a comparison versus its local competitors.</li>
</ul>



VNG (VinaGame) (VNG US), Vietnam’s leading internet platform, aims to raise up to US$300m in its US IPO.
VNG is Vietnam’s leading homegrown digital ecosystem, as per the company, with diverse product offerings across games, communications and media, fintech and other opportunities
We looked at the company’s past performance in our earlier notes. In this note, we undertake a comparison versus its local competitors.


China/Asia TMT

Shawn Yang

China growth and global non-US Internet equities

Blue Lotus Research Institute

Blue Lotus Research is a Hong Kong Type 4 Licensed investment advisory firm focusing on Chinese growth equities and global non-US Internet equities

<ul>
<li>BYD/CATL: Renewed effort of German carmakers in EV positive to Chinese battery makers</li>
<li>700HK: Tencent’s management said “Hunyuan” LLM will be launched within this month(+)</li>
<li>NetEase's "Eggy Party" announced that they reached over 100 mn MAUs and surpassing 100 mn UGC maps. (+)</li>
</ul>


BYD/CATL: Renewed effort of German carmakers in EV positive to Chinese battery makers
700HK: Tencent’s management said “Hunyuan” LLM will be launched within this month(+)
NetEase's "Eggy Party" announced that they reached over 100 mn MAUs and surpassing 100 mn UGC maps. (+)


China TMT Update-BYD/CATL/700HK/NTES-“Hunyuan” LLM Will Be Launched/"Eggy Party" Reached 100 Mn MAUs

China

Tencent Holdings Limited operates as an investment holding company. The Company, through its subsidiaries, provides Internet and mobile value-added services (VAS), online advertising, and e-commerce transactions. Tencent Holdings offers services to users worldwide.

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VNG (VinaGame) IPO Preview

VNG is reminiscent of Kakao Corp (035720 KS) in its early years of operations when it captured a dominant portion of Korea's chat app market...

Douglas Kim

China Internet – July online game market recap

China’s online game market revenue grew by 37.5% YoY to RMB28.6bn in Jul 2023, with growth further accelerating (May/Jun: +16.0/23.6% YoY),...

CMB International

Sea Ltd (SE US) - A Positive Catalyst from TikTok Shop's Trouble

Sea Ltd would be a significant beneficiary if TikTok Shop is banned in Indonesia, which looks to be the case, given it reduces competition and the...

Angus Mackintosh

VNG Pre-IPO - Local Peers Comparison

VNG (VinaGame) (VNG US), Vietnam’s leading internet platform, aims to raise up to US$300m in its US IPO. In this note, we talk about local...

Sumeet Singh

China TMT Update-BYD/CATL/700HK/NTES-“Hunyuan” LLM Will Be Launched/"Eggy Party" Reached 100 Mn MAUs

German carmakers in EV positive to Chinese battery makers;700HK: “Hunyuan” LLM will be launched within this month(+);NetEase's "Eggy Party"...

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