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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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Geely Auto (175 HK): Initiation: A Key Play on China EV and Global Expansion Theme

Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Maintain BUY. Although we had expected a QoQ lift in gross margin, BYD’s 3Q24 gross margin still beat our forecast.</li><li>Such beat was offset by higher-thanexpected SG&amp;A and R&amp;D expenses.</li><li>The solid gross margin gives us more confidence in forecasting 4Q24 and FY25 sales volume, as BYD still has the best resources to withstand the prolonged price war.</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>

Maintain BUY. Although we had expected a QoQ lift in gross margin, BYD’s 3Q24 gross margin still beat our forecast.Such beat was offset by higher-thanexpected SG&amp;A and R&amp;D expenses.The solid gross margin gives us more confidence in forecasting 4Q24 and FY25 sales volume, as BYD still has the best resources to withstand the prolonged price war.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.

BYD (1211 HK) - 3Q24 GPM Provides Confidence for FY25 Sales