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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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China Resources Beverage / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>CR Beverage's FY24 revenue was flat YoY at RMB13.5bn, missing CMBI's forecast by 6% due to stiffer packaged water competition and headwinds from the consumption climate, extreme weather in core areas and capacity limits of beverage products.</li><li>Net profit rose 23.1% YoY to RMB1.6bn, or 25% excluding listing costs, beating CMBI's estimate by 4%, as gross margin rose 3pct to 47.3% on a higher proportion of self-owned capacity.</li><li>The company has lifted its 2025 self-owned capacity proportion target to 70% from 60%, which should support sustained high growth in profit in our view. </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>

CR Beverage's FY24 revenue was flat YoY at RMB13.5bn, missing CMBI's forecast by 6% due to stiffer packaged water competition and headwinds from the consumption climate, extreme weather in core areas and capacity limits of beverage products.Net profit rose 23.1% YoY to RMB1.6bn, or 25% excluding listing costs, beating CMBI's estimate by 4%, as gross margin rose 3pct to 47.3% on a higher proportion of self-owned capacity.The company has lifted its 2025 self-owned capacity proportion target to 70% from 60%, which should support sustained high growth in profit in our view. 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.

CR Beverage (2460 HK) - FY24: Pleasant Surprises from Special Dividends and Target Hike