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 analyze the monthly Hong Kong Connect flows with our data engine.</li>
<li>We tabulate the top stocks by inflows, outlfows, and holding by mainland investors.</li>
<li>We highlight flows for Tencent, CNPC, CNOOC, Meituan, CCB, HKEX, BYD, ABC, CR Beer.</li>
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We analyze the monthly Hong Kong Connect flows with our data engine.
We tabulate the top stocks by inflows, outlfows, and holding by mainland investors.
We highlight flows for Tencent, CNPC, CNOOC, Meituan, CCB, HKEX, BYD, ABC, CR Beer.


Hong Kong Connect Flows Monthly: $2.7 Bn of Inflows in May

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>Impressive recovery vs Feb-Apr 2023, while both consumer and investors sentiment should be boosted, the post holidays purchasing power is still important.</li><li>We find the data points during this 5-1 golden week in 2023 slightly better than expectation and encouraging, esp. after the weakening consumption trend post CNY 2023.</li><li>We are highly delighted to see a surge in recovery rate of domestic tourism volume/ spending during this holiday to 119%/ 101%, which is far better than the 83%/ 51% in Qingming Festival and 89%/ 73% in CNY, according to Ministry of Culture and Tourism/文化和旅游部.</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.

Impressive recovery vs Feb-Apr 2023, while both consumer and investors sentiment should be boosted, the post holidays purchasing power is still important.We find the data points during this 5-1 golden week in 2023 slightly better than expectation and encouraging, esp. after the weakening consumption trend post CNY 2023.We are highly delighted to see a surge in recovery rate of domestic tourism volume/ spending during this holiday to 119%/ 101%, which is far better than the 83%/ 51% in Qingming Festival and 89%/ 73% in CNY, according to Ministry of Culture and Tourism/文化和旅游部.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 Consumer Sector – A Strong Comeback in 5-1 Golden Week

<ul>
<li>We analyze the monthly Hong Kong Connect flows with our data engine.</li>
<li>We tabulate the top stocks by inflows, outlfows, and holding by mainland investors.</li>
<li>We analyzed the Hong Kong Connect Scheme for April and highlight flows for China Mobile, SMIC, PetroChina, Sensetime, CNOOC, CCB, Tencent, HKEx.</li>
</ul>


We analyze the monthly Hong Kong Connect flows with our data engine.
We tabulate the top stocks by inflows, outlfows, and holding by mainland investors.
We analyzed the Hong Kong Connect Scheme for April and highlight flows for China Mobile, SMIC, PetroChina, Sensetime, CNOOC, CCB, Tencent, HKEx.


Hong Kong Connect Flows Monthly: China Mobile, SMIC, PetroChina, Sensetime, CNOOC, CCB, Tencent

Greater China Equity Long/Short Analyst

Eric Chen

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>We believe the recovery of China consumption is "not yet solid", but not faltering.</li>
<li>China catering sector's recovery stays on track, although Q2 has historically been a low season.</li>
<li>Long Xiabuxiabu and short Jiumaojiu to play the sector's recovery while hedging against potential macro weakness.</li>
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We believe the recovery of China consumption is "not yet solid", but not faltering.
China catering sector's recovery stays on track, although Q2 has historically been a low season.
Long Xiabuxiabu and short Jiumaojiu to play the sector's recovery while hedging against potential macro weakness.


China Catering Sector: Long Xiabuxiabu / Short Jiumaojiu

<ul><li>FY22 results inline but margin improved meaningfully in 2H22.</li><li>Sales declined by 23% YoY to RMB 4.7bn and registered net losses of about RMB350mn, implying a -7.5% NP margin, both are inline with profit warning.</li><li>GP margin was at 61.9% (missed CMBI est. of 62.6%) but it was offset by better-than-expected other income and D&amp;A expenses.</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.

FY22 results inline but margin improved meaningfully in 2H22.Sales declined by 23% YoY to RMB 4.7bn and registered net losses of about RMB350mn, implying a -7.5% NP margin, both are inline with profit warning.GP margin was at 61.9% (missed CMBI est. of 62.6%) but it was offset by better-than-expected other income and D&amp;A expenses.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.

Xiabu Xiabu (520 HK) – Both sales and margin recovery are on track

China

Xiabuxiabu Catering Management China Holdings Co Ltd  owns and operates a chain of restaurants in China. The company allows customers to choose from a selection of vegetables, meats, and seafood to cook in their own individual hot pot in its restaurants.

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Xiabuxiabu Catering (520 HK)

Hong Kong Connect Flows Monthly: $2.7 Bn of Inflows in May

We analyzed the Hong Kong Connect Scheme for May and highlight flows for Tencent, CNPC, CNOOC, Meituan, CCB, HKEX, BYD, ABC, CR Beer.

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

China Consumer Sector – A Strong Comeback in 5-1 Golden Week

Impressive recovery vs Feb-Apr 2023, while both consumer and investors sentiment should be boosted, the post holidays purchasing power is still...

CMB International

Hong Kong Connect Flows Monthly: China Mobile, SMIC, PetroChina, Sensetime, CNOOC, CCB, Tencent

We analyzed the Hong Kong Connect Scheme for April and highlight flows for China Mobile, SMIC, PetroChina, Sensetime, CNOOC, CCB, Tencent, HKEx.

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

China Catering Sector: Long Xiabuxiabu / Short Jiumaojiu

The recovery of China catering sector remains on track. We recommend long Xiabuxiabu / short Jiumaojiu to play the recovery while hedging against...

Eric Chen

Xiabu Xiabu (520 HK) – Both sales and margin recovery are on track

Supported by robust XBXB and slightly weak Cou Cou performance YTD 2023, the Company is still on track to achieve its FY23E target in our view.

CMB International

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