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/dongfang-electric-corporation-limited" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:1251:1" rel="noopener">Dongfang Electric Corporation (1072 HK)</a> (DEC) has been rallying on the back of its hydrogen energy angle and the pumped storage story. Given the company's experience and leadership in hydro generating equipment, we think it is well positioned to capture the gigantic market opportunity from the government's push to increase pumped storage capacity in the country by potentially a CAGR of 16% between 2020 and 2035. </p><p>DEC's edges are its expertise and technical competence - it has completed complicated projects like the world's largest pumped storage (Fengning, Hebei), highest operating water heads in China (Changlongshan, Zhejiang) and largest single unit size of generation (Xianju, Zhejiang). Currently, it has pipeline in Fujian, Xinjiang, Chongqing and Henan among others. Despite the recent spike in share price, valuations are still not too demanding at 12.7x PER for FY21 and 11.4x for FY22. We even see likeliness for earnings upgrade after 1H21 result announcement set for 27-Aug.</p>

Dongfang Electric Corporation (1072 HK) (DEC) has been rallying on the back of its hydrogen energy angle and the pumped storage story. Given the company's experience and leadership in hydro generating equipment, we think it is well positioned to capture the gigantic market opportunity from the government's push to increase pumped storage capacity in the country by potentially a CAGR of 16% between 2020 and 2035. DEC's edges are its expertise and technical competence - it has completed complicated projects like the world's largest pumped storage (Fengning, Hebei), highest operating water heads in China (Changlongshan, Zhejiang) and largest single unit size of generation (Xianju, Zhejiang). Currently, it has pipeline in Fujian, Xinjiang, Chongqing and Henan among others. Despite the recent spike in share price, valuations are still not too demanding at 12.7x PER for FY21 and 11.4x for FY22. We even see likeliness for earnings upgrade after 1H21 result announcement set for 27-Aug.

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