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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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<ul><li>Maintain BUY and raise TP to HK$2.42 to reflect stronger demand of next-gen high-speed connectivity in AI servers in FY24/25E, backed by MCIO connectors /cables and high-speed I/O products, recent launch of 224G high-speed products at DesignCon, and collaboration with MediaTek for high-speed connectivity solutions in CPO sockets at OFC.</li><li>During our NDR last week, mgmt. was positive on rising copper connectivity trend in AI servers and expected 1) 15-20% YoY for networking/server in FY24E (30-40% GPM), and 2) AI server related revenue (mainly copper) to reach 8-10% FY24E sales (vs. 1% in FY23), backed by new copper products and high-speed connection products in AI server.</li><li>We lifted FY24-25 EPS by 9-10% to reflect stronger demand of AI-related products and share gain from the US peers (Amphenol, TEL, Molex) in global server connector market following mass production of new AI products in FY24/25E.</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>

Maintain BUY and raise TP to HK$2.42 to reflect stronger demand of next-gen high-speed connectivity in AI servers in FY24/25E, backed by MCIO connectors /cables and high-speed I/O products, recent launch of 224G high-speed products at DesignCon, and collaboration with MediaTek for high-speed connectivity solutions in CPO sockets at OFC.During our NDR last week, mgmt. was positive on rising copper connectivity trend in AI servers and expected 1) 15-20% YoY for networking/server in FY24E (30-40% GPM), and 2) AI server related revenue (mainly copper) to reach 8-10% FY24E sales (vs. 1% in FY23), backed by new copper products and high-speed connection products in AI server.We lifted FY24-25 EPS by 9-10% to reflect stronger demand of AI-related products and share gain from the US peers (Amphenol, TEL, Molex) in global server connector market following mass production of new AI products in FY24/25E.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.

FIT Hon Teng (6088 HK) - Opportunities in US$1.7bn Server Connector/Cable Market