Daily Brief ECM: TCS US$1.1bn Placement - Relatively Small but Isn’t Well Flagged and more

In today’s briefing:

TCS US$1.1bn Placement – Relatively Small but Isn’t Well Flagged, Could Have Implications for Others
99 Speed Mart Retail Holdings Pre-IPO Tearsheet
Pre-IPO Sichuan Baicha Baidao Industrial – High Profitability and Growth May Not Be Sustainable

TCS US$1.1bn Placement – Relatively Small but Isn’t Well Flagged, Could Have Implications for Others

Tata Sons, holding company of Tata Group, is looking to raise around US$1.1bn via selling a 0.65% stake in Tata Consultancy Svcs (TCS IN).
The deal doesn’t appear to be well-flagged although it could be part of Tata Sons’ recent moves to avoid an RBI mandated listing next year.
In this note, we talk about the deal dynamics and run the deal through our ECM framework.

99 Speed Mart Retail Holdings (99SPD MK) is looking to raise around US$300m in its upcoming Malaysia IPO. The bookrunner on the deal is CIMB Investment Bank Berhad.
99 Speed Mart Holdings (99 Speedmart) operates the “99 Speedmart” chain of mini-market outlets, retailing daily necessities across Malaysia.
Based on IMR, the firm was the largest mini-market player and a leading groceries retailer in Malaysia, with a market share of 37.9% and 11.1% based on 2022 sales, respectively.

Baicha Baidao’s business model is similar to MIXUE, but MIXUE has more heavy-asset model with own supply chain, while Baicha Baidao is more of a “transfer station” for raw materials.
Single store data of Baicha Baidao showed varying degrees of decline. It’s uncertain whether Baicha Baidao would maintain current market share/revenue growth/high gross margin in front of fierce homogeneous competition.
When Baicha Baidao submitted prospectus last year, its valuation was already about RMB18 billion.We think its valuation would be lower than MIXUE, close to Guming and higher than Auntea Jenny.

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