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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China Tourism Group Duty Free Corp Ltd / Equity Capital Markets

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<li>Aequitas Research puts out a weekly update on the deals that were covered by the team recently along with updates for upcoming IPOs.</li>
<li>On the IPO front, China Tourism launched its US$2.5bn IPO. </li>
<li>There were no major placements this week and it likely to remain that way in the near future owing to it being earnings season.</li>
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Aequitas Research puts out a weekly update on the deals that were covered by the team recently along with updates for upcoming IPOs.
On the IPO front, China Tourism launched its US$2.5bn IPO. 
There were no major placements this week and it likely to remain that way in the near future owing to it being earnings season.


ECM Weekly (14th Aug 2022) - China Tourism, A/H Listing, Hongjiu Fruit, Socar, Betagro, ThaiBev, GQG

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.

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<li>Hyundai Oilbank, this year's biggest fish, dropped the IPO. Another big fish, CJ Olive Young, also officially announced that it would give up its listing.</li>
<li>The bookbuilding results of SOCAR turned out to be disastrous, suggesting an increased possibility that a higher-than-typical flow level will likely be seen in WCP and K Bank. </li>
<li>In particular, despite the valuation issues, we should pay attention to the possibility of an unexpected level of local institutional flows flocking to WCP, which has less schedule risk.</li>
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Hyundai Oilbank, this year's biggest fish, dropped the IPO. Another big fish, CJ Olive Young, also officially announced that it would give up its listing.
The bookbuilding results of SOCAR turned out to be disastrous, suggesting an increased possibility that a higher-than-typical flow level will likely be seen in WCP and K Bank. 
In particular, despite the valuation issues, we should pay attention to the possibility of an unexpected level of local institutional flows flocking to WCP, which has less schedule risk.


Messed up Korea IPO Pipeline and Unexpected Beneficiaries

Country Garden Holdings Co / Equity Capital Markets

<ul>
<li>Aequitas Research puts out a weekly update on the deals that were covered by the team recently along with updates for upcoming IPOs.</li>
<li>There were no major IPO launches during the week. Soosan will list early next week.</li>
<li>There were a number of placements/blocks across the region, including GDR launches for Swiss listing.</li>
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Aequitas Research puts out a weekly update on the deals that were covered by the team recently along with updates for upcoming IPOs.
There were no major IPO launches during the week. Soosan will list early next week.
There were a number of placements/blocks across the region, including GDR launches for Swiss listing.


ECM Weekly (31st Jul 2022) - Soosan, WCP, GDRs, Yancoal, Country Garden, Legend Biotech, MEP, PSMC

APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Clarence Chu

APAC IPOs & Placements

Soosan Industries / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/soosan-industries-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:36037:1" rel="noopener">Soosan Industries (126720 KS)</a> raised around US$153m in its South Korea IPO, after the deal was priced at the bottom end of its IPO price range.</li>
<li>Subscription rates for SSI have been tepid, to say the least, and previous deals with similar subscription rates as that to SSI’s have had dismal debuts.</li>
<li>A lack of instis opting for lockup meant that a large percentage of outstanding shares will be available for trading on debut.</li>
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Soosan Industries (126720 KS) raised around US$153m in its South Korea IPO, after the deal was priced at the bottom end of its IPO price range.
Subscription rates for SSI have been tepid, to say the least, and previous deals with similar subscription rates as that to SSI’s have had dismal debuts.
A lack of instis opting for lockup meant that a large percentage of outstanding shares will be available for trading on debut.


Soosan Industries IPO Trading - Weak Subscription Rates Don't Make for a Rosy Debut

IPOs and Catalysts/Events, Global Equity Research Ltd

Arun George

IPOs and Catalysts/Events

Uncompromised, Independent, Conflict-Free Research

Global Equity Research Ltd

Global Equity Research was started in 2017 by a group of experienced research professionals. It was founded on a passionate belief in the importance and the need for uncompromised, independent, conflict-free research. We aim to provide differentiated and actionable primary and bottom up fundamental research.

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/wcp-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:36076:1" rel="noopener">WCP (WCP KS)</a>, a lithium-ion batteries separator company, has pushed back its KRW900 billion (US$692 million) KRX IPO timeline from August to mid-September.</li>
<li>We previously discussed the IPO In <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/wcp-ipo-hooked-on-lithium" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="insights:72863" rel="noopener">WCP IPO: Hooked on Lithium</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/wcp-ipo-valuation-insights" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="insights:73042" rel="noopener">WCP IPO: Valuation Insights</a>. </li>
<li>In this note, we benchmark WCP vs its peers in terms of historical and forecasted financials along with multiples. Our valuation analysis suggests that the IPO price range remains unattractive.</li>
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WCP (WCP KS), a lithium-ion batteries separator company, has pushed back its KRW900 billion (US$692 million) KRX IPO timeline from August to mid-September.
We previously discussed the IPO In WCP IPO: Hooked on Lithium and WCP IPO: Valuation Insights. 
In this note, we benchmark WCP vs its peers in terms of historical and forecasted financials along with multiples. Our valuation analysis suggests that the IPO price range remains unattractive.


WCP IPO: Kicking the Can Down the Road Through a Revised IPO Timetable

South Korea

W-Scope Chungju Plant Co., Ltd. develops and manufactures battery separator. The Company develops, produces and sales lithium ion secondary battery separator. W-Scope Chungju Plant markets its products worldwide.

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WCP (393890 KS)

ECM Weekly (14th Aug 2022) - China Tourism, A/H Listing, Hongjiu Fruit, Socar, Betagro, ThaiBev, GQG

Aequitas Research puts out a weekly update on the deals that were covered by the team recently along with updates for upcoming IPOs.

Sumeet Singh

Messed up Korea IPO Pipeline and Unexpected Beneficiaries

This post investigates Korea's messed-up IPO pipeline situation and discusses who will be unexpected beneficiaries after the SOCAR bookbuilding...

Sanghyun Park

ECM Weekly (31st Jul 2022) - Soosan, WCP, GDRs, Yancoal, Country Garden, Legend Biotech, MEP, PSMC

Aequitas Research puts out a weekly update on the deals that were covered by the team recently along with updates for upcoming IPOs.

Sumeet Singh

Soosan Industries IPO Trading - Weak Subscription Rates Don't Make for a Rosy Debut

Soosan Industries (126720 KS) raised around US$153m in its South Korea IPO, after the deal was priced at the bottom end of its IPO price range.

Clarence Chu

WCP IPO: Kicking the Can Down the Road Through a Revised IPO Timetable

We benchmark WCP vs its peers in terms of historical and forecasted financials along with multiples. Our valuation analysis suggests that the IPO...

Arun George

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