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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Equity Bottom-Up

<p><a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/china-longyuan-power-group-corp-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:14215:1" rel="noopener">China Longyuan Power Group Corp (916 HK)</a> achieved an impressive 39.4% YoY growth in wind power generation in 2M21 on a low base a year ago. However, even as we compared 2M21 generation with 2M19, the CAGR still reach a resilient 18.4%. This suggested that the low base effect is not a key reason for the surge in generation, but instead, the underlying demand is resilient. </p><p>Longyuan has taken a beating on the back of the concerns on future tariff, on-grid capacity and profitability if the proposal in the consultation paper released by the National Energy Association is fully implemented. However, with its valuation now back to the end-2020 level (10x PER), we see a lot of uncertainties have been discounted. With a 34% plunge in share price in just 5 trading days and 49% from its peak, the market has already turned from overly bullish to overly bearish, in our view. </p>

China Longyuan Power Group Corp (916 HK) achieved an impressive 39.4% YoY growth in wind power generation in 2M21 on a low base a year ago. However, even as we compared 2M21 generation with 2M19, the CAGR still reach a resilient 18.4%. This suggested that the low base effect is not a key reason for the surge in generation, but instead, the underlying demand is resilient. Longyuan has taken a beating on the back of the concerns on future tariff, on-grid capacity and profitability if the proposal in the consultation paper released by the National Energy Association is fully implemented. However, with its valuation now back to the end-2020 level (10x PER), we see a lot of uncertainties have been discounted. With a 34% plunge in share price in just 5 trading days and 49% from its peak, the market has already turned from overly bullish to overly bearish, in our view. 

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