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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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Smoore International Holdings / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Net profit of RMB717mn came in at the low end of the pre-announcement, when revenue reportedly stood at a 9.4% YoY decline to RMB5.1bn.</li><li>A large part of the decline was explained by an 81.5% YoY tumble in China revenue to RMB393mn (or 96.3% YoY to RMB62mn should we excluding re-exporters), as a result of the enactment of the new national standard governing e-vapor, together with other market malignant practices.</li><li>From here, China revenue only represents only 1.2% to the total, and will no longer move the needle. </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>

Net profit of RMB717mn came in at the low end of the pre-announcement, when revenue reportedly stood at a 9.4% YoY decline to RMB5.1bn.A large part of the decline was explained by an 81.5% YoY tumble in China revenue to RMB393mn (or 96.3% YoY to RMB62mn should we excluding re-exporters), as a result of the enactment of the new national standard governing e-vapor, together with other market malignant practices.From here, China revenue only represents only 1.2% to the total, and will no longer move the needle. 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.

Smoore Int’l (6969 HK) – 1H Rev/Np -9%/-48%; Potential Turn-Around by 2024