HK/China Equity Long-Short

Osbert Tang, CFA

Osbert Tang is an equity analyst with over 20 years of experience with focuses on China transport, infrastructure, industrials and utilities sectors. He has been based in Shanghai since 2003, accumulated nearly 20 years of on-ground knowledge on the Chinese economy and financial markets, and has a wealth of contacts with China corporates and government entities. 

Osbert has received votes from top-tier institutional investors and has been a highly-ranked transport and infrastructure analyst in the Asiamoney, Institutional Investors and Greenwich surveys. In addition to his extensive experience with international investment banks including RBS, ABN AMRO (both served as Shanghai Chief Representative), Paribas Asia Equity, Maybank Kim Eng and DBS Securities, he has been a senior analyst with Moody’s Investors Service with focus on ratings of China infrastructure and related LGFV issuers. He has also worked in the area of strategic development at Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited. 

Osbert holds a BBA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and a MSSc in Applied Psychology from the City University of Hong Kong. He was accredited with the CFA charter in 1997, and is a member of both British Psychological Society and Hong Kong Psychological Society.

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China Communications Construction (1800 HK)

<p>3Q21 result of <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/china-communications-construction-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:265:1" rel="noopener">China Communications Construction (1800 HK)</a> (CCCC) marks another steady quarter with reported growth of 4.9% YoY. We believe the improvement in construction business has been partly offset by weaker toll road operation given the negative traffic impact from higher domestic COVID-19 cases during the summer time. Hence, recurring profit was weaker with a marginal 1.2% decline in 3Q21. Nonetheless, 9M21 vs. 9M19 still sees a steady CAGR of 4.8% in earnings. Also, there is good YoY growth in operating cash flow.</p><p>We expect a recovery in traffic to bode well for CCCC's investment projects, adding to its good cost management and positive reversal in credit and asset impairments. The encouraging 3Q21 new contract momentum (+57.6% YoY) and the sharp rebound in overseas contracts signed is expected to underpin CCCC's outlook for the next two years. Valuation multiples are clearly still very undemanding - 0.21x P/B, 3.3x PER and 6% dividend yield. </p>

3Q21 result of China Communications Construction (1800 HK) (CCCC) marks another steady quarter with reported growth of 4.9% YoY. We believe the improvement in construction business has been partly offset by weaker toll road operation given the negative traffic impact from higher domestic COVID-19 cases during the summer time. Hence, recurring profit was weaker with a marginal 1.2% decline in 3Q21. Nonetheless, 9M21 vs. 9M19 still sees a steady CAGR of 4.8% in earnings. Also, there is good YoY growth in operating cash flow.We expect a recovery in traffic to bode well for CCCC's investment projects, adding to its good cost management and positive reversal in credit and asset impairments. The encouraging 3Q21 new contract momentum (+57.6% YoY) and the sharp rebound in overseas contracts signed is expected to underpin CCCC's outlook for the next two years. Valuation multiples are clearly still very undemanding - 0.21x P/B, 3.3x PER and 6% dividend yield. 

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