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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 Catering Sector: Positioning for Interim Results

Equity Bottom-Up

Haidilao International Holding / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>FY22 result beat again if we consider only its Greater China business.</li><li>As Haidilao achieved positive SSSG returns in YTD 2023 and notably low breakeven point since 2H22 (thru staff costs refinement and no negative impacts on service quality), we do find its turnaround in FY23E and valuation attractive.</li><li>Our net profit forecasts are 23%-33% higher than BBG consensus. Maintain BUY.</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>

FY22 result beat again if we consider only its Greater China business.As Haidilao achieved positive SSSG returns in YTD 2023 and notably low breakeven point since 2H22 (thru staff costs refinement and no negative impacts on service quality), we do find its turnaround in FY23E and valuation attractive.Our net profit forecasts are 23%-33% higher than BBG consensus. Maintain BUY.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.

Haidilao (6862 HK) – Reopen and staff costs reform-led turnaround