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.

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 managed to price its IPO above the mid-point.</li>
<li>There were a host of placements and blocks this week across the region.</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 managed to price its IPO above the mid-point.
There were a host of placements and blocks this week across the region.


ECM Weekly (21st Aug 2022) - China Tourism, SoCar, Beauty Farm, ANZ, Max, Judo, Steadfast, Cleanaway

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One, Periscope Analytics

Brian Freitas

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One

Periscope Analytics

Periscope Analytics focuses on event-driven trades across Asia Pacific and provides comprehensive, timely and systematic coverage of index changes to major Asia Pacific indices in a structured manner.

The analysis includes forecasted inclusions and exclusions to all major Asian indices that have significant amount of tracking assets, including estimates of passive buy/sell flow on the stocks. The service also provides commentary and impact of market consultations, ground rule changes, and other events (IPOs, spin-offs, M&A) that could lead to index changes and passive flow.

Periscope Analytics works with multi-strategy hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, stat arb trading groups and long-only investors that invest and trade in the Asia Pacific region with the data being used to trade index rebalances, avoid pre-positioning and passive flow, and to time entry into and exit from stocks.

Event-Driven Trades Across Asia Pacific

Event-Driven

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<li>A news report has indicated that SEBI is looking to tighten criteria used for inclusion and continued availability of stocks in the Futures &amp; Options (F&amp;O) segment of the market.</li>
<li>Our analysis shows 30 stocks could be deleted from the F&amp;O segment while another 12 are close to deletion zone. If applied objectively, 22 stocks could be added to F&amp;O.</li>
<li>Deletion from the F&amp;O segment could see two stocks dropped from the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/nifty-next-50-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:36053:1" rel="noopener">Nifty Next 50 Index</a> while inclusion in F&amp;O could see two stocks added to the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/nifty-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:23617:1" rel="noopener">NIFTY Index</a>.</li>
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A news report has indicated that SEBI is looking to tighten criteria used for inclusion and continued availability of stocks in the Futures &amp; Options (F&amp;O) segment of the market.
Our analysis shows 30 stocks could be deleted from the F&amp;O segment while another 12 are close to deletion zone. If applied objectively, 22 stocks could be added to F&amp;O.
Deletion from the F&amp;O segment could see two stocks dropped from the Nifty Next 50 Index while inclusion in F&amp;O could see two stocks added to the NIFTY Index.


Impact of Potential Changes to India F&O Eligibility Criteria

China Tourism Group Duty Free Corp Ltd / 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>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>
</ul>


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

APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Clarence Chu

APAC IPOs & Placements

<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>Placements continued to take center stage this week, beginning with Uber’s clean-up sale of Zomato.</li>
<li>Socar launched its one-day bookbuild earlier in the week. We continued looking at the upcoming deals in our pipeline. </li>
</ul>


Aequitas Research puts out a weekly update on the deals that were covered by the team recently along with updates for upcoming IPOs.
Placements continued to take center stage this week, beginning with Uber’s clean-up sale of Zomato.
Socar launched its one-day bookbuild earlier in the week. We continued looking at the upcoming deals in our pipeline. 


ECM Weekly (7th Aug 2022) - Zomato, Orica, China Tourism, Hongjiu Fruit, Giant Biogene, Socar

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/uber-technologies-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:430:1" rel="noopener">Uber (UBER US)</a> is looking to raise US$420m in its share sale in <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/zomato-media-pvt" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:28820:1" rel="noopener">Zomato (ZOMATO IN)</a>. The selldown will be a clean-up sale.</li>
<li>Uber had earlier inherited its stake in Zomato in 2020 when it sold UberEats India to the latter. </li>
<li>We had earlier flagged the possibility of a selldown given that most of Zomato’s investors would come off their respective one-year lockups. </li>
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Uber (UBER US) is looking to raise US$420m in its share sale in Zomato (ZOMATO IN). The selldown will be a clean-up sale.
Uber had earlier inherited its stake in Zomato in 2020 when it sold UberEats India to the latter. 
We had earlier flagged the possibility of a selldown given that most of Zomato’s investors would come off their respective one-year lockups. 


Zomato Placement - Opportunistic Selldown, Momentum Hasn’t Been the Greatest

India

Zomato Limited is an online restaurant guide and food ordering platform. The Company offers platform connects customers, restaurant partners and delivery partners to search and discover restaurants, read and write customer generated reviews, order food delivery, book a table, and make payments while dining-out at restaurants. Zomato serves customers worldwide.

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ECM Weekly (21st Aug 2022) - China Tourism, SoCar, Beauty Farm, ANZ, Max, Judo, Steadfast, Cleanaway

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

Impact of Potential Changes to India F&O Eligibility Criteria

News reports indicate that SEBI is looking to tighten criteria for inclusion and continued availability of stocks in the F&O segment. 30 stocks...

Brian Freitas

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

ECM Weekly (7th Aug 2022) - Zomato, Orica, China Tourism, Hongjiu Fruit, Giant Biogene, Socar

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

Clarence Chu

Zomato Placement - Opportunistic Selldown, Momentum Hasn’t Been the Greatest

Uber (UBER US) is looking to raise US$420m in its share sale in Zomato (ZOMATO IN). The selldown will be a clean-up sale.

Clarence Chu