In today’s briefing:
- Select Sector Indices and S&P Equal Weight Rebalance: US$17.7bn Round-Trip Trade Post Capping Cutoff
- HSCI Index Rebalance Preview and Stock Connect: Potential Changes in March 2025
- BYD Electronics (285 HK): Earnings Bottoming Out in 4Q24, EV and Data Center Driving Growth in 2025
- EQD | Hong Kong Single Stock Options Weekly December 09 – 13
- China Consumption Weekly (16 Dec 2024): NEV Industry Nov., Baidu, Hisense, Boss Zhipin,
- 2025 IPOs Pipeline (USA, Europe, and the Middle East)
- Alphabet Inc (GOOGL) – Monday, Sep 16, 2024
- UiPath Inc.: These Are The 5 Biggest Challenges In Its Path! – Major Drivers
- Asian Equities: The SMID Compounders
- Indosat (ISAT IJ) – Rising ARPUs with an AI Twist
Select Sector Indices and S&P Equal Weight Rebalance: US$17.7bn Round-Trip Trade Post Capping Cutoff
- Constituent changes to the S&P 500 INDEX and capping changes will result in a round-trip trade of US$17.7bn across the Select Sector indices and the S&P500 Equal Weight Index.
- There is over US$500m to trade in Broadcom (AVGO US), Tesla (TSLA US), Apollo Global Management (APO US), Amazon.com Inc (AMZN US) and Workday Inc Class A (WDAY US).
- Broadcom (AVGO US) swings from a small net buy to a large net sell following the rally in the stock last week.
HSCI Index Rebalance Preview and Stock Connect: Potential Changes in March 2025
- We see 32 potential and close adds and 44 potential and close deletes for the Hang Seng Composite Index in March. Some of the stocks are close on market cap/liquidity.
- We expect 29 stocks to be added to Southbound Stock Connect following the rebalance while 31 stocks could be deleted from the trading link and become Sell-only.
- There are stocks that have a very high percentage of holdings via Stock Connect and there could be some unwinding prior to the stocks becoming Sell-only.
BYD Electronics (285 HK): Earnings Bottoming Out in 4Q24, EV and Data Center Driving Growth in 2025
- BYD Electronics benefits from two key growth drivers in 2025: a cyclical upswing in its legacy EMS business, and sustained strong growth in auto electronics and AI data cooling devices.
- Earnings momentum is expected to pick up in 4Q, with key segments entering an earning upcycle. Expect bottomline growth to accelerate to 45% in 2025 from 9% in 2024.
- The 13x 2025 PE multiple does not capture BYDE’s transformation from a low-end, cyclical EMS to a leading high-precision manufacturer with a more diverse and balanced set of growth drivers.
EQD | Hong Kong Single Stock Options Weekly December 09 – 13
- Top Ten most active contracts for the week all traded on Monday. Most of the active contracts were Calls with December expiries.
- Xiaomi Corp (1810 HK) makes the Top Ten non-Tencent most active contracts with both Puts and Call active – likely stock replacement and hedges following torrid run higher.
- Tencent implied vols trading at their lowest levels of the past year.
China Consumption Weekly (16 Dec 2024): NEV Industry Nov., Baidu, Hisense, Boss Zhipin,
- NEV retail volume increased by 51% YoY in November and 41% YoY for first eleven months.
- Jiyue Auto, as a car maker subsidiary of Baidu, is dismissing employees.
- Hisense, a home appliance producer, lays off 30,000 employees of its total 110,000.
2025 IPOs Pipeline (USA, Europe, and the Middle East)
- In this insight, we provide a list of 70 prominent companies in the USA, Europe, and the Middle East that could complete their IPOs in 2025.
- This is a comprehensive, REFERENCE GUIDE to help clients so that they could get a broad view of the major IPOs that could get completed in these regions in 2025.
- Some of the most prominent potential IPOs in these regions next year include Starlink, SpaceX, Stripe, Open AI, Klarna, Five Holdings, Monzo, and Ethiad Airways.
Alphabet Inc (GOOGL) – Monday, Sep 16, 2024
- Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL) has been consistently undervalued in the market despite strong revenue and earnings growth
- The company’s average forward P/E multiple over the past 15+ years has been just 21.7x, even though it has consistently outperformed the S&P 500
- Currently trading at a discounted valuation of around 17x 2025E EPS, Alphabet has been mispriced for most of its 20-year history
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UiPath Inc.: These Are The 5 Biggest Challenges In Its Path! – Major Drivers
- UiPath reported its financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2025, surpassing its guidance on all crucial financial metrics.
- The company concluded the quarter with an Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) of $1.607 billion, marking a 17% increase driven by a net new ARR of $56 million.
- Quarterly revenue reached $355 million, and the company achieved a non-GAAP operating income of $50 million.
Asian Equities: The SMID Compounders
- Following on from our previous note, we now identify inexpensive consistent compounders from the small and mid-cap universe in Asia ($1 – $5 bn in market capitalization).
- 28 stocks are on our list – 18 from onshore China, 5 from India, 2 each from Japan and Taiwan and 1 from Hong Kong.
- Industrials, technology, healthcare and financials dominate the list. The list of large and mid-cap compounders shall largely form the backbone of our top stock choices for 2025.
Indosat (ISAT IJ) – Rising ARPUs with an AI Twist
- A conversation with Indosat (ISAT IJ) managment revealed a stabilisation in the pricing environment following Telkomsel’s recent data price hikes and a more positive outlook for 2025 with market consolidation.
- 2025 will see the four-player market move to a three-player market which should be positive for data pricing following the XL/FREN merger, with ex-Java expansion also potentially boosting ISAT ARPUs.
- Indosat‘s move into the AI sphere through its exclusivity in providing NVIDIA Corp‘s GPUs in Indonesia should be an additional growth driver in 2025. Valuation remains appealing.