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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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Equity Bottom-Up

Guangzhou Automobile Group / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Maintain BUY. We project GAC’s 4Q22 net profit to decline 21% YoY to RMB 1.6bn as we expect its gross profit to fall 7% YoY and equity income from joint ventures (JVs) and associates to decline 13% YoY.</li><li>We are still of the view that GAC’s valuation is attractive and it is a defensive player in a volatile market.</li><li>Net profit in 4Q22 likely to fall YoY and QoQ. We project GAC’s 4Q22 net profit to fall 21% YoY to RMB 1.6bn amid 6% YoY decline in its total sales volume.</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. We project GAC’s 4Q22 net profit to decline 21% YoY to RMB 1.6bn as we expect its gross profit to fall 7% YoY and equity income from joint ventures (JVs) and associates to decline 13% YoY.We are still of the view that GAC’s valuation is attractive and it is a defensive player in a volatile market.Net profit in 4Q22 likely to fall YoY and QoQ. We project GAC’s 4Q22 net profit to fall 21% YoY to RMB 1.6bn amid 6% YoY decline in its total sales volume.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.

GAC Group (2238 HK) – We Expect 4Q22 NP to Fall on Equity Income