Technical Analyst, Vermilion Research

Joe Jasper

Technical Analyst

Technical and Quantitative Research

Vermilion Research

Vermilion’s objective is to deliver timely, actionable, and unique technical research to professional investors through the application of our various technical indicators.

Our research strategists seek to highlight securities which we believe are at major inflection points, based on our various technical and quantitative indicators, and offer asymmetric risk/return profiles. Our unique research methodology, centered on relative strength, enables our strategists to deliver superior investment recommendations.

Our process begins by organizing the universe of actively traded stocks into discrete sectors, then into industry groups. We then apply our technical and quantitative tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sector or group, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. We provide a historical perspective that often reveals, through our long-term charts, how price patterns often repeat themselves over time.

Technical Analysis

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<li>2023 gameplan remains unchanged; we see limited upside from here for ACWI-US, and we expect a rangebound year of trading on ACWI-US with $93 capping upside and $75-77 capping downside</li>
<li>We also remain overweight Europe/UK, we want to add exposure on pullbacks to China/Hong Kong/EM, and overweight non-U.S. equities (MSCI ACWI ex-US) relative to MSCI ACWI</li>
<li>We highlight buy ideas within Technology, Communications, and Consumer Discretionary. The UK/Europe and Hong Kong/China continue to make up the majority of our buy recommendations</li>
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2023 gameplan remains unchanged; we see limited upside from here for ACWI-US, and we expect a rangebound year of trading on ACWI-US with $93 capping upside and $75-77 capping downside
We also remain overweight Europe/UK, we want to add exposure on pullbacks to China/Hong Kong/EM, and overweight non-U.S. equities (MSCI ACWI ex-US) relative to MSCI ACWI
We highlight buy ideas within Technology, Communications, and Consumer Discretionary. The UK/Europe and Hong Kong/China continue to make up the majority of our buy recommendations


Major Top on U.S. Dollar; Overweight Non-U.S. And Europe/UK; Buys in Tech, Comm., Discretionary

Taiwan Tech Focused Senior Analyst

Patrick Liao

Equity Bottom-Up

Novatek Microelectronics Corp / Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Novatek reached NT$36.5bn, 50.7% and NT$18.3 for revenue, GM and ESP respectively. </li>
<li>Its revenue and GM would be NT$34.5~35.8bn and 46~49% range in 2Q22, which revenue was declined 2~5.5% QoQ and increase 1.2~4.7% YoY.</li>
<li>There are hopes for China 618-shopping Festival, US back-to-school and China double 11 shopping Festival, etc.</li>
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Novatek reached NT$36.5bn, 50.7% and NT$18.3 for revenue, GM and ESP respectively. 
Its revenue and GM would be NT$34.5~35.8bn and 46~49% range in 2Q22, which revenue was declined 2~5.5% QoQ and increase 1.2~4.7% YoY.
There are hopes for China 618-shopping Festival, US back-to-school and China double 11 shopping Festival, etc.


Novatek (3034.TT): 2Q22 Revenue Declined 2~5.5% QoQ, but the Stock Price Could Be Reacted Earlier.

Vanguard Intl Semiconductor / Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Vanguard's revenue is NTD$13.49bn, which is falling at the high-end of guidance NTD$13.2~13.6 in 1Q22. </li>
<li>Vanguard is likely to further raise price in 2Q22, and we expect revenue/GM could be NT$14.67bn/49.2% in 2Q22.</li>
<li>Further price increase could hold in 2H22 because 1) the smartphone growth expectation is reducing in 2Q22, and 2) the US Federal Reserve increased interest rate to control the inflation.</li>
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Vanguard's revenue is NTD$13.49bn, which is falling at the high-end of guidance NTD$13.2~13.6 in 1Q22. 
Vanguard is likely to further raise price in 2Q22, and we expect revenue/GM could be NT$14.67bn/49.2% in 2Q22.
Further price increase could hold in 2H22 because 1) the smartphone growth expectation is reducing in 2Q22, and 2) the US Federal Reserve increased interest rate to control the inflation.


Vanguard (5347.TT): 1Q22 Results/ 2Q22 Preview- Further Price Increase Could Hold in 2H22

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<li>Novatek's revenue was NT$36.512bn in 1Q22, which was 38.5% YoY and 62.6% QoQ. It was 50.73%/36.73%/30.5% GM/OPM/NM in 1Q22, which was higher than our prior expectation of 43.6%/27.3%/22.3% in GM/OPM/NM.   </li>
<li>In our views, we revise up to be revenue/GM as NT$38.7bn/50.98% in 2Q20.</li>
<li>As the inflation, 5G, Russia-Ukraine war did change the landscape, the outlook seems not that so much worse in 2022.</li>
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Novatek's revenue was NT$36.512bn in 1Q22, which was 38.5% YoY and 62.6% QoQ. It was 50.73%/36.73%/30.5% GM/OPM/NM in 1Q22, which was higher than our prior expectation of 43.6%/27.3%/22.3% in GM/OPM/NM.   
In our views, we revise up to be revenue/GM as NT$38.7bn/50.98% in 2Q20.
As the inflation, 5G, Russia-Ukraine war did change the landscape, the outlook seems not that so much worse in 2022.


Novatek (3034.TT): 1Q22 Results/ 2Q22 Outlook- The Outlook Seems Better than Feared in 2022. .

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<li>Novatek’s monthly revenue is increasing above 20% YoY from July 2020.  However, the growth trend seems slowing down from 1Q22.</li>
<li>The price for DDIC (Display Driver IC) is the lowest among in the foundry companies’ products although its demand quantity can be large, which gives its actual price bargaining power.</li>
<li>Somehow, the end demand still needs a Display with related ICs for the application. So, there must be some certain suppliers to complete the supply chain.</li>
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Novatek’s monthly revenue is increasing above 20% YoY from July 2020.  However, the growth trend seems slowing down from 1Q22.
The price for DDIC (Display Driver IC) is the lowest among in the foundry companies’ products although its demand quantity can be large, which gives its actual price bargaining power.
Somehow, the end demand still needs a Display with related ICs for the application. So, there must be some certain suppliers to complete the supply chain.


Novatek (3034.TT): The Growth Trend Seems Slowing Down Since 1Q22.

Taiwan

Vanguard International Semiconductor Corporation offers integrated circuit foundry services.  The Company manufactures 0.18um logic, mixed-signal, analog, high voltage, low power, CMOS RF, flash, embedded memory, and bipolar CMOS DMOS semiconductors.

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Vanguard Intl Semiconductor (5347 TT)

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Novatek (3034.TT): 2Q22 Revenue Declined 2~5.5% QoQ, but the Stock Price Could Be Reacted Earlier.

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Novatek (3034.TT): 1Q22 Results/ 2Q22 Outlook- The Outlook Seems Better than Feared in 2022. .

Novatek's revenue/GM/OPM/NM was NT$36.512bn50.73%/36.73%/30.5% in 1Q22. In our views, we revise up to be revenue/GM as NT$38.7bn/50.98% in 2Q20....

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