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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

<ul><li>Tongda announced plans to dispose its Apple business and purchase back smart electrical appliances and motor businesses, in order to mitigate geopolitical risks and boost capital for future new business development.</li><li>After our discussion with mgmt., we expect Apple biz disposal will allow Tongda to focus more on non-Apple customers’ market share gains and boost capital for new businesses given the likely smartphone recovery in 2024, while business buyback should accelerate profitability improvement driven by order wins in FY24-25E.</li><li>We lower FY23/25E EPS estimates by 4-19% to reflect the business disposal and cut interest expense assumptions.</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>

Tongda announced plans to dispose its Apple business and purchase back smart electrical appliances and motor businesses, in order to mitigate geopolitical risks and boost capital for future new business development.After our discussion with mgmt., we expect Apple biz disposal will allow Tongda to focus more on non-Apple customers’ market share gains and boost capital for new businesses given the likely smartphone recovery in 2024, while business buyback should accelerate profitability improvement driven by order wins in FY24-25E.We lower FY23/25E EPS estimates by 4-19% to reflect the business disposal and cut interest expense assumptions.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.

Tongda (698 HK) – Positive on Earnings Recovery in FY24-25E After Disposal of Apple Business

Tongda Group Holdings

Tongda (698 HK) – Positive on Earnings Recovery in FY24-25E After Disposal of Apple Business