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Daily Brief Indonesia: Multi Bintang Indonesia and more

By | Daily Briefs, Indonesia

In today’s briefing:

  • Multibintang Q1 FY24: Soft Start, Down to 13x PE and a >7% Dividend Yield


Multibintang Q1 FY24: Soft Start, Down to 13x PE and a >7% Dividend Yield

By Sameer Taneja

  • Multi Bintang Indonesia (MLBI IJ) showed a weak print, with sales down 10% YoY and profitability flat for Q1 FY24. Consumption was weak locally despite strong Bali tourism. 
  • On the positive side, the company improved its net cash position to substantially to 900 bn Rph ( or 6% of Mkt Cap) and expanded margins by 400 bps YoY. 
  • Trading at 13x FY23 PE (with a 7% dividend yield assuming a 100% payout), there is great value in this market leader (60% Mkt share) of beer consumption in Indonesia.

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Daily Brief United States: Teradyne Inc, Teledyne Technologies, Waste Connections , Hilton Worldwide Holdings , Tempur Sealy International, O’Reilly Automotive, Tyler Technologies, MiMedx Group , Eventbrite Inc, Fortive and more

By | Daily Briefs, United States

In today’s briefing:

  • Teradyne Inc.: How Will The Memory Market Volatility Impact Its Business? – Major Drivers
  • Teledyne Technologies Incorporated: Initiation Of Coverage – What Is Their Segmentwise Performance & Future Outlook? – Major Drivers
  • Waste Connections Inc.: Initiation of Coverage – 4 Pivotal Factors Driving Its Performance In 2024 & Beyond! – Major Drivers
  • Hilton Worldwide Holdings: Resilient Demand In Key Regions Driving Growth! – Major Drivers
  • Tempur Sealy International Inc (TPX) – Friday, Feb 2, 2024
  • O’Reilly Automotive Inc.: Expansion Into The Mexican Market & 5 Major Factors Driving Its Growth! – Financial Forecasts
  • Tyler Technologies: Cybersecurity Concerns Spurring SaaS Adoption! But Can Its AI Aquisitions Save The Day? – Major Drivers
  • MDXG: MACs Give Credit for Efficacy
  • EB: Margin Stability Ahead of Summer
  • Fortive Corporation: Strategic M&A For Boosting Revenue Growth & Profitability! – Major Drivers


Teradyne Inc.: How Will The Memory Market Volatility Impact Its Business? – Major Drivers

By Baptista Research

  • Teradyne, Inc delivered first quarter 2024 financial results that exceeded its revenue, gross margin and earnings guidance ranges, led by stronger than projected performance in Memory and System on a Chip (SOC) driven primarily by AI applications.
  • Teradyne capitalized on the impact of AI in networking as well as in Edge AI applications like Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), with AI applications driving over 40% of memory shipments in Q1.
  • Nonetheless, the mobile sector was weaker than expected for the same period, but the company’s Robotics business met its plan for a third consecutive quarter.

Teledyne Technologies Incorporated: Initiation Of Coverage – What Is Their Segmentwise Performance & Future Outlook? – Major Drivers

By Baptista Research

  • Teledyne Technologies, a prominent industrial conglomerate focused on aerospace and defense, instrumentation, digital imaging, and engineered systems, reported its Q1 2024 earnings.
  • In the call, management touted robust results including record first quarter non-GAAP operating margin, record adjusted earnings per share, and record free cash flow.
  • The company’s strong performance was driven by growth in its marine, aviation, and select defense businesses which offset sales declines in other areas.

Waste Connections Inc.: Initiation of Coverage – 4 Pivotal Factors Driving Its Performance In 2024 & Beyond! – Major Drivers

By Baptista Research

  • Waste Connections, Inc. reported a strong start to 2024, delivering better-than-expected operating and financial results, including adjusted EBITDA margin expansion of 160 basis points to 31.4% in Q1.
  • The company’s earnings exceeded projections due to improvements in employee retention and safety trends, along with rising commodity values.
  • Waste Connections management highlighted several notable trends impacting its business, including continued improvement in employee turnover rates and safety incidents, suggesting an effective culture of accountability within the company.

Hilton Worldwide Holdings: Resilient Demand In Key Regions Driving Growth! – Major Drivers

By Baptista Research

  • Hilton has reported its first-quarter results for 2024, which the company states have continued to demonstrate the strength of Hilton’s business along with its development story.
  • Although the company’s RevPAR growth found itself at the lower end of its guidance, both adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EPS exceeded predictions significantly.
  • Some of Hilton’s newly announced partnerships and portfolio additions have solidified its confidence in future growth.

Tempur Sealy International Inc (TPX) – Friday, Feb 2, 2024

By Value Investors Club

  • Tempur Sealy International (TPX) is the industry leader in the mattress market, consistently gaining market share and outperforming competitors
  • Despite a cyclical downturn in the mattress industry post-COVID, TPX is experiencing secular share gains and margin improvements
  • TPX’s pending acquisition of Mattress Firm presents an attractive opportunity for investors due to its reasonable valuation and potential for growth in the years ahead

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O’Reilly Automotive Inc.: Expansion Into The Mexican Market & 5 Major Factors Driving Its Growth! – Financial Forecasts

By Baptista Research

  • In the first quarter of 2024, O’Reilly Automotive, Inc., had a 3.4% comparable store sales growth, which was primarily driven by mid-single-digit comps in Professional.
  • This marked continuous strong top line sales results and was a testament to consistent execution across all 6,200+ stores.
  • The company noted that its store volumes continued to grow despite the company’s size and market share gains over the years.

Tyler Technologies: Cybersecurity Concerns Spurring SaaS Adoption! But Can Its AI Aquisitions Save The Day? – Major Drivers

By Baptista Research

  • Tyler Technologies’ Q1 2024 results started the year on a positive note, surpassing key metrics expectations including revenues, earnings, operating margin, and cash flow.
  • Recurring revenues grew nearly 9% and comprised 84% of total revenues.
  • The company also saw robust public sector demand supported by healthy budgets.

MDXG: MACs Give Credit for Efficacy

By Zacks Small Cap Research

  • MiMedx is a wound care and therapeutic biologics company, developing and distributing allografts.
  • The company derives its products from human placental tissues processed using the Purion technology.
  • MiMedx differentiates itself in the regenerative medicine market through the substantial library of supportive research for its products.

EB: Margin Stability Ahead of Summer

By Hamed Khorsand

  • EB is continuing with its efforts to become a marketplace for events after reporting more than 24 million tickets were sold in the first quarter.
  • EB has been trying to win back paid creators after many left the platform last year due to higher costs for events on EB’s marketplace
  • While revenue was in line with consensus estimates, EB reported its third consecutive quarter with gross margin above 70 percent

Fortive Corporation: Strategic M&A For Boosting Revenue Growth & Profitability! – Major Drivers

By Baptista Research

  • Based on the Q1 2024 earnings of Fortive Corporation, it is discernible that the company has visualized a strong start to the year, overachieving its anticipations regarding core revenue growth, margins extension, earnings, and free cash flow.
  • Fortive’s strategy broadly focuses around invigorating safety and productivity of consumers across manufacturing and healthcare sectors.
  • Baptista Research looks to evaluate the different factors that could influence the company’s price in the near future and attempts to carry out an independent valuation of the company using a Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) methodology.

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Daily Brief India: Indegene Limited, NIFTY Index and more

By | Daily Briefs, India

In today’s briefing:

  • Indegene IPO – Marquee Clients, Strong Track Record, Decent Valuation
  • EQD | The NIFTY May Be About to Start A Come Down


Indegene IPO – Marquee Clients, Strong Track Record, Decent Valuation

By Clarence Chu

  • Indegene Limited (1864095D IN) is looking to raise US$220m in its India IPO, via selling a mix of primary and secondary shares.
  • Indegene is a “digital-first” commercialisation firm with an exclusive focus on the global life sciences industry.
  • In this note, we will look at peers and discuss our thoughts on valuation.

EQD | The NIFTY May Be About to Start A Come Down

By Nico Rosti

  • The NIFTY Index kept rising for the past few months but has stalled its advance since March. It may be about to pullback and lose some gains, in May.
  • The index is currently up 2 weeks in a row, not yet strongly overbought but our model say that from a time perspective it could start to pullback next week.
  • If the index does not start to pullback soon, it could rally for another 2-3 weeks.

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Daily Brief China: People’s Insurance (PICC), Tencent, Xiao I and more

By | China, Daily Briefs

In today’s briefing:

  • StubWorld: Stay Long PICC (1339 HK)
  • Upgrading Emerging Markets to Market Weight; China/Hong Kong Continue to Bottom; Energy Breakdowns
  • AIXI: AI commercialization efforts accelerate but significant hurdles remain.


StubWorld: Stay Long PICC (1339 HK)

By David Blennerhassett

  • People’s Insurance (PICC) (1339 HK) has bounced off its lifetime low implied stub and simple ratio (PICC/PICC Property & Casualty (2328 HK)); but still trades below its historical trailing/forward metrics.
  • Preceding my comments on PICC are the current setup/unwind tables for Asia-Pacific Holdcos.
  • These relationships trade with a minimum liquidity of US$1mn, and a % market capitalisation >20%.

Upgrading Emerging Markets to Market Weight; China/Hong Kong Continue to Bottom; Energy Breakdowns

By Joe Jasper

  • We continue to view the latest pullback as healthy/normal within the ongoing bull market, and it is quite possible that the lows have been established on MSCI ACWI (ACWI-US).
  • Upgrading EM to Market Weight; MSCI Emerging Markets, China (shanghai Composite) and Hong Kong (Hang Seng) Still Bottoming; we discussed buying in our February 23, 2024 Int’l Compass
  • Commodities all appear to be rolling over near resistance, which is what we discussed to watch for in our April 18, 2024 Int’l Compass. This has bullish implications for ACWI

AIXI: AI commercialization efforts accelerate but significant hurdles remain.

By Zacks Small Cap Research

  • Xiao-I (NASDAQ: AIXI) is leveraging its experience as a chatbot provider to establish itself as a provider of AI models, principally in China.
  • The company is focused on commercializing products in the consumer, marketing, and banking sectors in 2024 and exploring international expansion opportunities.
  • The company is competing with some of the most successful companies in China for mindshare in AI markets.

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Daily Brief Japan: Oriental Land, TSE Tokyo Price Index TOPIX and more

By | Daily Briefs, Japan

In today’s briefing:

  • Updated Tool (30Apr24) & “Diff File Generator” For TSE “Mgmt Conscious of Capital Cost/Stock Price”
  • The Raising of Listing Criteria in the Growth Market Will Lead to Increased Investment Opportunities


Updated Tool (30Apr24) & “Diff File Generator” For TSE “Mgmt Conscious of Capital Cost/Stock Price”

By Travis Lundy

  • In mid-January, the TSE announced a “name-and-shame” list where they listed all the companies which had put forth a disclosure about 【資本コストや株価を意識した経営の実現に向けた対応】. But they did not actually shame.
  • The list shows which companies have disclosed a policy/consideration. But no data/links. We are weeks ahead of the TSE and we have all the links.
  • We created a tool to name everyone, show their reports, provide links to every document, and now a new tool. Put in a name, see the difference between the Old/New Reports.

The Raising of Listing Criteria in the Growth Market Will Lead to Increased Investment Opportunities

By Aki Matsumoto

  • Criteria for IPOs aren’t a major issue. TSE is concerned that many companies will be in jeopardy of being delisted if the criteria for maintaining listing are raised.
  • TSE will likely make “request” to Growth Market listed companies to increase their market capitalization if the criteria for maintaining listing are not raised.
  • From 2025, delisting and subsequent re-listing through M&A and MBOs is expected to increase, which will lead to more investment opportunities.

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Daily Brief Quantitative Analysis: Hong Kong Buybacks Weekly (May 3rd): Meituan and more

By | Daily Briefs, Quantitative Analysis

In today’s briefing:

  • Hong Kong Buybacks Weekly (May 3rd): Meituan, Hang Seng Bank, Swire Pacific


Hong Kong Buybacks Weekly (May 3rd): Meituan, Hang Seng Bank, Swire Pacific

By Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

  • We analyze statistics on top repurchases over one week, one month, one quarter and one year periods ended on May 3rd based on HKEx daily reports.
  • In the past 7 days, the top 3 companies that repurchased the most shares from the market were Meituan (3690 HK), Hang Seng Bank (11 HK), Swire Pacific (19 HK).
  • In the past 30 days, the top 3 companies that repurchased the most shares from the market were Tencent (700 HK), Meituan (3690 HK), Hang Seng Bank (11 HK).

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Daily Brief Technical Analysis: Upgrading Emerging Markets to Market Weight; China/Hong Kong Continue to Bottom; Energy Breakdowns and more

By | Daily Briefs, Technical Analysis

In today’s briefing:

  • Upgrading Emerging Markets to Market Weight; China/Hong Kong Continue to Bottom; Energy Breakdowns


Upgrading Emerging Markets to Market Weight; China/Hong Kong Continue to Bottom; Energy Breakdowns

By Joe Jasper

  • We continue to view the latest pullback as healthy/normal within the ongoing bull market, and it is quite possible that the lows have been established on MSCI ACWI (ACWI-US).
  • Upgrading EM to Market Weight; MSCI Emerging Markets, China (shanghai Composite) and Hong Kong (Hang Seng) Still Bottoming; we discussed buying in our February 23, 2024 Int’l Compass
  • Commodities all appear to be rolling over near resistance, which is what we discussed to watch for in our April 18, 2024 Int’l Compass. This has bullish implications for ACWI

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Daily Brief ESG: The Raising of Listing Criteria in the Growth Market Will Lead to Increased Investment Opportunities and more

By | Daily Briefs, ESG

In today’s briefing:

  • The Raising of Listing Criteria in the Growth Market Will Lead to Increased Investment Opportunities


The Raising of Listing Criteria in the Growth Market Will Lead to Increased Investment Opportunities

By Aki Matsumoto

  • Criteria for IPOs aren’t a major issue. TSE is concerned that many companies will be in jeopardy of being delisted if the criteria for maintaining listing are raised.
  • TSE will likely make “request” to Growth Market listed companies to increase their market capitalization if the criteria for maintaining listing are not raised.
  • From 2025, delisting and subsequent re-listing through M&A and MBOs is expected to increase, which will lead to more investment opportunities.

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Daily Brief Thematic (Sector/Industry): US EV Charging Infrastructure Tracker – April 2024 and more

By | Daily Briefs, Thematic (Sector/Industry)

In today’s briefing:

  • US EV Charging Infrastructure Tracker – April 2024
  • AUCTUS ON FRIDAY – 03/05/2024


US EV Charging Infrastructure Tracker – April 2024

By Garvit Bhandari

  • EV charging ports have been growing faster than any other fueling category and now account for around 88% of all alternative fueling stations.
  • There are a total of 68,077 public and private EV charging station locations in the US as of 30 April 2024.
  • Total EVSE charging ports were182,632, up 8.4% vs. 2023. In terms of providers, ChargePoint Network has the highest charging ports accounting for 36% of the total ports in the US.

AUCTUS ON FRIDAY – 03/05/2024

By Auctus Advisors

  • ADX Energy (ADX AU)C; target price of A$0.75 per share: Raising new equity to fund a high impact activity programme – ADX has raised A$13.5 mm of new equity priced at A$0.105 per share.
  • One free-attaching option will be issued for evert two placement shares with an exercise price of A$0.15 per share and an expiry date of 08/05/2026.
  • The proceeds from the raise will fund (1) the production testing of the 450 m gas column encountered at the Welchau exploration well (the well might also be deepened to assess the exploration potential below the current total depth of the well), (2) the residual drilling cost (net of the carry provided by MND) of a gas exploration well on the ADX-AT-I licence, (3) the residual cost (net of the carry provided by MND) of the drilling and tie-in the Anshof-2A sidetrack and (4) upgrades to the gas processing facilities at ADX’s Vienna Basin fields.

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Daily Brief ECM: Indegene IPO – Marquee Clients and more

By | Daily Briefs, ECM

In today’s briefing:

  • Indegene IPO – Marquee Clients, Strong Track Record, Decent Valuation
  • Gridwiz IPO Preview


Indegene IPO – Marquee Clients, Strong Track Record, Decent Valuation

By Clarence Chu

  • Indegene Limited (1864095D IN) is looking to raise US$220m in its India IPO, via selling a mix of primary and secondary shares.
  • Indegene is a “digital-first” commercialisation firm with an exclusive focus on the global life sciences industry.
  • In this note, we will look at peers and discuss our thoughts on valuation.

Gridwiz IPO Preview

By Douglas Kim

  • Gridwiz is getting ready to complete its IPO on KOSDAQ in June. Gridwiz focuses on the power demand resource management (DR) business, involving utilities, energy storage system, and solar power.
  • The IPO price range is from 34,000 won to 40,000 won. The IPO offering amount ranges from 47.6 billion won to 56 billion won. 
  • According to the bankers’ valuation, the market capitalization post listing is expected to reach 285 billion won to 335 billion won. 

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