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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

PICC Property & Casualty H / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>PICC P&amp;C reported a strong 1Q25 earnings alert, with net profit expected to surge 80%-100% YoY to RMB10.6bn-11.7bn, implying a QoQ upswing of 95.3%-117% vs 4Q24.</li><li>1Q25 net profit represented more than one-third (33%-37%) of last year’s total net profit, driven by 1) a largely improved CoR with reduced catastrophic claims in 1Q25; and 2) optimized asset allocation structure shifting from the FVTPL to FVOCI, which helped smooth the volatilities from fair value movement to achieve steady investment income growth amid market fluctuations.</li><li>We estimate the 1Q25 CoR to arrive at less than 95%, and adjust the auto/non-auto CoR to 95.9%/99.0% (prev.96.0%/98.9% report) in FY25E, thanks to stringent expense controls and an improved non-auto UW structure. </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>

PICC P&amp;C reported a strong 1Q25 earnings alert, with net profit expected to surge 80%-100% YoY to RMB10.6bn-11.7bn, implying a QoQ upswing of 95.3%-117% vs 4Q24.1Q25 net profit represented more than one-third (33%-37%) of last year’s total net profit, driven by 1) a largely improved CoR with reduced catastrophic claims in 1Q25; and 2) optimized asset allocation structure shifting from the FVTPL to FVOCI, which helped smooth the volatilities from fair value movement to achieve steady investment income growth amid market fluctuations.We estimate the 1Q25 CoR to arrive at less than 95%, and adjust the auto/non-auto CoR to 95.9%/99.0% (prev.96.0%/98.9% report) in FY25E, thanks to stringent expense controls and an improved non-auto UW structure. 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.

PICC P&C (2328 HK) - 1Q25 CoR Outperformed