In today’s briefing:
- Midea Group: Offer Upsized at Top Tier. Updated Valuation Analysis
- Pre-IPO Midea Group H Share – Here Are the Risks Behind
- Bajaj Housing Finance IPO – Valuation Might Get Stretched from Demand Overflow
- ECM Weekly (16th Sep 2024) – Midea, Bajaj Housing, 99 Speed, P N Gadgil, Hozon, Trial, NextDC, Via
Midea Group: Offer Upsized at Top Tier. Updated Valuation Analysis
- Midea Group(000333 CH) has increased the shares on offer in Hong Kong by 15% to 565.9 million shares, priced at the top end of the range at HKD54.8 per share.
- With strong investor interest, the company may exercise an over allotment option that could take the deal size to USD 4.6 billion.
- Midea’s Hong Kong pricing reflects a nearly 21% discount to its A-share closing price, compared to the average 33% discount for dual-listed companies between Hong Kong and Shanghai or Shenzhen.
Pre-IPO Midea Group H Share – Here Are the Risks Behind
- For the reasons why Midea is eager to IPO in HK, investors shouldn’t just look at the surface of its glory, but delve into the “real motives” behind capital operations.
- The policy of subsidizing the trade-in of home appliances belongs to “early overdraft of demand” and is unsustainable. Valuation logic for the performance increment brought by such policy is P/B.
- If Midea cannot achieve the expected breakthroughs in To B business or internationalization in 2025-2026 to hedge against the weak domestic business, Midea’s performance/valuation in following years would inevitable decline.
Bajaj Housing Finance IPO – Valuation Might Get Stretched from Demand Overflow
- Bajaj Housing Finance (BHF IN) raised around US$800m in its India IPO.
- BHF is a non-deposit taking housing finance company engaged in mortgage lending since FY18. Its mortgage products include home loans, loans against property, lease rental discounting and developer financing.
- In our previous notes, we looked at the company’s past performance and valuation. In this note, we will talk about the trading dynamics.
ECM Weekly (16th Sep 2024) – Midea, Bajaj Housing, 99 Speed, P N Gadgil, Hozon, Trial, NextDC, Via
- 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 IPO front, Midea Group Co Ltd A (000333 CH) hogged much of the limelight this week, although Bajaj Housing Finance (BHF IN) created some history as well.
- We covered the Nextdc Ltd (NXT AU) and Terumo Corp (4543 JP) placements and looked at the possible deals in Trial Holdings (5882 JP) and Via Technologies (2388 TT).