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.

Dongfang Electric (1072 HK): At Full Throttle

Dongfang Electric (1072 HK): Surge in 3Q22 Profit and Acceleration of New Orders

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Dongfang Electric (1072 HK): Healthy 3Q21 Result with Positive Order Flow

Dongfang Electric (1072 HK): Beaten Down Too Excessively

Dongfang Electric (1072 HK): Looks to Have More Room to Go

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>The 1Q22 result of <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/dongfang-electric-corporation-limited" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:1251:1" rel="noopener">Dongfang Electric (1072 HK)</a> kick-started FY22 with an encouraging new record high quarterly profit and a good recovery in YoY new order momentum.</li>
<li>We are excited to see DEC managed to control its selling, administrative and R&amp;D costs with a slight 2.7% YoY growth, compared with a solid 29.8% revenue increase.</li>
<li>Recurring pre-tax profit growth is estimated to be over 30% YoY, and its order backlog at around Rmb85.4bn, 1.8x its FY21 revenue. We consider its 7.7x FY22F PER very undemanding. </li>
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The 1Q22 result of Dongfang Electric (1072 HK) kick-started FY22 with an encouraging new record high quarterly profit and a good recovery in YoY new order momentum.
We are excited to see DEC managed to control its selling, administrative and R&amp;D costs with a slight 2.7% YoY growth, compared with a solid 29.8% revenue increase.
Recurring pre-tax profit growth is estimated to be over 30% YoY, and its order backlog at around Rmb85.4bn, 1.8x its FY21 revenue. We consider its 7.7x FY22F PER very undemanding. 


Dongfang Electric (1072 HK): From Strength to Strength