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/hesai-group" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:36743:1" rel="noopener">Hesai Group (HSAI US)</a> is looking to raise around US$170m in its upcoming US IPO.</li>
<li>HSAI is a manufacturer of three-dimensional light detection and ranging (Lidar) solutions. It has shipped over 103,000 Lidar units from 2017 to the end of 2022.</li>
<li>We have looked at the company’s past performance and undertaken a peer comparison in our previous notes. In this note, we will talk about valuations.</li>
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Hesai Group (HSAI US) is looking to raise around US$170m in its upcoming US IPO.
HSAI is a manufacturer of three-dimensional light detection and ranging (Lidar) solutions. It has shipped over 103,000 Lidar units from 2017 to the end of 2022.
We have looked at the company’s past performance and undertaken a peer comparison in our previous notes. In this note, we will talk about valuations.


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<li>
<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/hesai-group" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:36743:1" rel="noopener">Hesai Group (HSAI US)</a> is looking to raise at least US$100m in its upcoming US IPO.</li>
<li>HSAI is a manufacturer of three-dimensional light detection and ranging (Lidar) solutions. It has shipped over 103,000 Lidar units from 2017 to the end of 2022.</li>
<li>In this note, we will undertake a peer comparison with domestic and US-listed peers.</li>
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Hesai Group (HSAI US) is looking to raise at least US$100m in its upcoming US IPO.
HSAI is a manufacturer of three-dimensional light detection and ranging (Lidar) solutions. It has shipped over 103,000 Lidar units from 2017 to the end of 2022.
In this note, we will undertake a peer comparison with domestic and US-listed peers.


Hesai Group Pre-IPO -  Peer Comparison - Not Really the Largest, Globally or Locally

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<li>The market says Tesla's 20-30% price cuts will reverse stalling demand, even though several rounds of expensive cuts &amp; incentives in Q4 didn't.</li>
<li>I'm not convinced, as shown in my 2023 model &amp; forecast.</li>
<li>Tesla apparently isn't either, as indicated by sharply lower guidance and apparently plans to ramp up debt to bolster cash.</li>
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The market says Tesla's 20-30% price cuts will reverse stalling demand, even though several rounds of expensive cuts &amp; incentives in Q4 didn't.
I'm not convinced, as shown in my 2023 model &amp; forecast.
Tesla apparently isn't either, as indicated by sharply lower guidance and apparently plans to ramp up debt to bolster cash.


Tesla's Demand Problems Aren't Going Away

APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Ethan Aw

APAC IPOs & Placements

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<li>In this note, we will take a look at the performance of bookrunners for ASEAN placements from 2019-2022.</li>
<li>The following dataset includes all ASEAN placements above US$100m for the period of Calendar Years 2019-2022, which amounted to a total of <strong>54 deals</strong>.</li>
<li>The deals you see in this note are based on our historical placements tracker. Feel free to drop us a message for additional information on any of these placements.</li>
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In this note, we will take a look at the performance of bookrunners for ASEAN placements from 2019-2022.
The following dataset includes all ASEAN placements above US$100m for the period of Calendar Years 2019-2022, which amounted to a total of 54 deals.
The deals you see in this note are based on our historical placements tracker. Feel free to drop us a message for additional information on any of these placements.


Aequitas ASEAN Placements Bookrunner Performance (2019-2022)

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Baptista Research is an independent financial research house focused on the U.S. markets. We provide equity research as well as credit research reports on the top-listed U.S. companies with most of our focus on technology, consumer goods and services, automobiles, industrials, oil and gas, pharma, and healthcare. Our research has served more than 3000 institutional investors including mutual funds, hedge funds, banks, family offices, and various buy-side firms. We operate a research subscription service where institutions, as well as retail investors, can have priority access to all our research. We also have a wide distribution of our research reports across some of the top global financial platforms. Apart from equity research and credit research, we also provide advisory services with respect to mergers & acquisitions (M&A), private equity/ venture capital fundraising, valuation reports, and investment management services for corporates.
Baptista Research is owned and managed by Ishan Majumdar, an ex-Venture Capitalist/ Investment Banker, a Chartered Accountant, and a Masters’ degree holder in Management from HEC Paris. Ishan has nearly a decade of experience in Mergers and Acquisitions, Leveraged Buyouts (LBOs), Venture Capital Investing, Corporate Strategy, and Valuation in front-office roles at the likes of BNP Paribas CIB, Credit Agricole CIB, Groupe Danone, and TIW Private Equity. He has worked on and closed multiple acquisition deals, leveraged buyouts, and start-up investment transactions.

Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Tesla delivered a mixed set of results in the last quarter and failed to meet revenue expectations of Wall Street.</li><li>Tesla has had a challenging 2022 because of delivery challenges, high interest rates, and forced shutdowns.</li><li>For Autopilot, Tesla deployed a Full Self-Driving Beta for city streets to around 400,000 customers in North America.</li></ul>

Tesla delivered a mixed set of results in the last quarter and failed to meet revenue expectations of Wall Street.Tesla has had a challenging 2022 because of delivery challenges, high interest rates, and forced shutdowns.For Autopilot, Tesla deployed a Full Self-Driving Beta for city streets to around 400,000 customers in North America.

Tesla Inc: Launch In Thailand & Other Drivers

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Tesla Inc. operates as a multinational automotive and clean energy company. The Company designs and manufactures electric vehicles, battery energy storage from home to grid-scale, solar panels and solar roof tiles, and related products and services. Tesla owns its sales and service network and sells electric power train components to other automobile manufacturers.

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Hesai Group IPO - Thoughts on Valuation

Hesai Group (HSAI US) is looking to raise around US$170m in its upcoming US IPO. In this note, we till talk about valuations.

Sumeet Singh

Hesai Group Pre-IPO - Peer Comparison - Not Really the Largest, Globally or Locally

Hesai Group (HSAI US) is looking to raise at least US$100m in its upcoming US IPO. In this note, we will undertake a peer comparison.

Sumeet Singh

Tesla's Demand Problems Aren't Going Away

The market says Tesla's 20-30% price cuts will reverse stalling demand, even though several rounds of expensive cuts & incentives in Q4 didn't. I'm...

Vicki Bryan

Aequitas ASEAN Placements Bookrunner Performance (2019-2022)

In this note, we will take a look at the performance of bookrunners for ASEAN placements from 2019-2022, which includes all ASEAN placements above...

Ethan Aw

Tesla Inc: Launch In Thailand & Other Drivers

Tesla delivered a mixed set of results in the last quarter and failed to meet revenue expectations of Wall Street. Tesla has had a challenging...

Baptista Research

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