ChinaDaily Briefs

Daily Brief China: Irc Ltd, NetEase , Taste Gourmet, Trip.com, Hangzhou Tigermed Consulting C and more

In today’s briefing:

  • IRC Limited (1029 HK): A Wide Spread as the Conditional Offer Opens
  • Tencent/Netease: Netease Tops ’23 League Table with Most Games Approved
  • 23 Dividend Yielding Mid Caps – Report Card For 2023
  • Monthly Chinese Tourism Tracker | No “Pent-Up Demand”! | Weak YTD Returns, Too | (December 2023)
  • China Healthcare Weekly (Dec.25) – Stock Picking Strategy, Logic Flaws Behind a Good Story, Tigermed


IRC Limited (1029 HK): A Wide Spread as the Conditional Offer Opens

By Arun George

  • The Irc Ltd (1029 HK) IFA opines that a mandatory conditional offer from Nikolai Levitskii (Chairman and 30.61% shareholder) at HK$0.118 per share is fair and reasonable. 
  • The offer is open, with the first closing date of 12 January 2024. The offer is conditional on the offeror and concert parties representing more than 50% of voting rights. 
  • While the offer is light, satisfying the minimum acceptance condition is possible. The risk/reward profile is favourable as the upside (25.5% spread) outweighs the downside (5.3% to the undistributed price). 

Tencent/Netease: Netease Tops ’23 League Table with Most Games Approved

By Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

  • China announced game approval for the December batch. The number of games approved has increased compared to recent months.
  • The pace of China game approval appears to be accelerating, to the same level as pre-tightening.
  • Netease scored two approvals while Tencent scored one. Netease finished the year with the most games approved.

23 Dividend Yielding Mid Caps – Report Card For 2023

By Sameer Taneja

  • We compile a report card for dividend-yielding mid-caps that filter out on favorable characteristics of having net cash, decent ROEs, growth, etc. 
  • It’s been a disappointing year in share price performance owing to the negativity surrounding China and soft business performance in some cases, but there have been some bright spots.
  • We help provide a comprehensive list of our updates on some names and an outlook for 2024. It’s our last insight for 2023, so happy new year everyone!

Monthly Chinese Tourism Tracker | No “Pent-Up Demand”! | Weak YTD Returns, Too | (December 2023)

By Daniel Hellberg

  • “Pent-Up demand”? No signs of it anywhere in outbound or domestic metrics
  • Sluggish outbound demand, capacity trajectories continued to lag in November
  • YTD share performance weak, mirrors disappointing recovery in travel activity

China Healthcare Weekly (Dec.25) – Stock Picking Strategy, Logic Flaws Behind a Good Story, Tigermed

By Xinyao (Criss) Wang

  • In the Chinese pharmaceutical industry, stock selection strategies can be divided into “defensive” and “offensive”. We need to combine the judgment of the cycle to choose a stock picking strategy.
  • Domestic innovative pharmaceutical companies have the opportunity to create a high gross-margin incremental market of over RMB1 trillion through successful internationalization, but we pointed out the logical flaw behind.
  • We analyzed the key points of Hangzhou Tigermed Consulting (3347 HK). It seems insiders don’t have firm confidence in the prospects, so why should investors rush to buy the bottom?

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