In today’s briefing:
- ECM Weekly (21st Oct 2024) – Tokyo Metro, China Resources, Horizon Robotics, Hyundai India, Waaree
- Pre-IPO China Resources Beverage – Due to the Pain Points, High Valuation Is Not Justified
ECM Weekly (21st Oct 2024) – Tokyo Metro, China Resources, Horizon Robotics, Hyundai India, Waaree
- Aequitas Research’s weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.
- On the live IPOs front, the coming week will see a whole lot of listings across the region.
- On the placements front, there were mainly deals in Australia this week.
Pre-IPO China Resources Beverage – Due to the Pain Points, High Valuation Is Not Justified
- The whole industry has entered a medium to low-speed growth stage, and the industry’s future growth rate will remain single-digit growth. So, CR Beverage’s future performance decline is inevitable.
- Due to serious homogenization/competition of packaged drinking water market, there’s not much room for innovation/iteration. CR Beverage’s sales-driven model is hard to bring “new story” to break through the dilemma.
- CR Beverage is clearly inferior to Nongfu Spring. Its valuation should be lower than Nongfu Spring. We think reasonable valuation of CR Beverage is about US$4 billion (or lower).