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CMB International

Incorporated in Hong Kong, supported by the mainland and targeting in global market, CMB International Capital Corporation Limited (“CMBI”) is an integrated financial institution providing comprehensive and professional services. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Merchants Bank ("CMB"), by leveraging on the Group’s synergy and coordination in domestic and overseas markets, as well as CMB’s strong resources and outstanding social reputation, CMBI and its subsidiaries have been actively implementing diversified business strategies and set up an overall layout of main business segments including Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Global Markets and Structured Finance, etc. Adhering to the philosophy of “being clients oriented and increasing our own values by the way of creating value for clients”, CMBI endeavors to provide quality and integrated financial services to institutional, corporate and individual customers both domestic and overseas including Hong Kong IPO sponsorship and underwriting, share placement and rights issue for listed companies, financial advisors, bonds issuance services, asset management, direct investment, wealth management, equity sales and trading, etc.

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Equity Bottom-Up

Budweiser Brewing  APAC  / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Stripping off mainly the US$66mn tax provision, Bud APAC 4Q results came in c.3%/6% below us/consensus.</li><li>Operations in South Korea (esp. home channel) looked increasingly challenging upon the return of Japanese brands, with volume consecutively edging down by MSD% since 3Q23 (1H23: +LSD%).</li><li>In our view, the headwind could mean hiccups to further price optimisation initiatives, and any upcoming EBITDA margin expansion would predominantly rely on cost reduction (beyond mix change).</li></ul><p><em>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.</em></p>

Stripping off mainly the US$66mn tax provision, Bud APAC 4Q results came in c.3%/6% below us/consensus.Operations in South Korea (esp. home channel) looked increasingly challenging upon the return of Japanese brands, with volume consecutively edging down by MSD% since 3Q23 (1H23: +LSD%).In our view, the headwind could mean hiccups to further price optimisation initiatives, and any upcoming EBITDA margin expansion would predominantly rely on cost reduction (beyond mix change).Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Budweiser APAC (1876 HK) - 4Q23 a Slight Miss; S. Korea Undershoot