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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

<ul><li>Resume coverage with BUY. On the back of tight global aluminum (Al) supply (capacity control in China &amp; disruption of bauxite supply) but rising demand (growth of EV &amp; solar power + stabilisation of construction demand following China’s U-turn on property policy), we forecast Al / alumina price to increase 4.5%/10% 2024E and to stay high in 2025E.</li><li>We believe Hongqiao (~9% global market share in terms of Al output in 2023) is set to benefit from unit margin expansion, thanks to its vertically integrated model with overseas bauxite equity interest, captive power plant and high percentage of molten Al products.</li><li>We forecast Hongqiao to deliver earnings growth of 61%/5% in 2024E/25E (6%/4% above Bloomberg consensus).</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>

Resume coverage with BUY. On the back of tight global aluminum (Al) supply (capacity control in China &amp; disruption of bauxite supply) but rising demand (growth of EV &amp; solar power + stabilisation of construction demand following China’s U-turn on property policy), we forecast Al / alumina price to increase 4.5%/10% 2024E and to stay high in 2025E.We believe Hongqiao (~9% global market share in terms of Al output in 2023) is set to benefit from unit margin expansion, thanks to its vertically integrated model with overseas bauxite equity interest, captive power plant and high percentage of molten Al products.We forecast Hongqiao to deliver earnings growth of 61%/5% in 2024E/25E (6%/4% above Bloomberg consensus).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.

China Hongqiao (1378 HK) - A Key Beneficiary of Tight Aluminum Supply Trading