HK/China Equity Long-Short

Osbert Tang, CFA

Osbert Tang is an equity analyst with over 20 years of experience with focuses on China transport, infrastructure, industrials and utilities sectors. He has been based in Shanghai since 2003, accumulated nearly 20 years of on-ground knowledge on the Chinese economy and financial markets, and has a wealth of contacts with China corporates and government entities. 

Osbert has received votes from top-tier institutional investors and has been a highly-ranked transport and infrastructure analyst in the Asiamoney, Institutional Investors and Greenwich surveys. In addition to his extensive experience with international investment banks including RBS, ABN AMRO (both served as Shanghai Chief Representative), Paribas Asia Equity, Maybank Kim Eng and DBS Securities, he has been a senior analyst with Moody’s Investors Service with focus on ratings of China infrastructure and related LGFV issuers. He has also worked in the area of strategic development at Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited. 

Osbert holds a BBA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and a MSSc in Applied Psychology from the City University of Hong Kong. He was accredited with the CFA charter in 1997, and is a member of both British Psychological Society and Hong Kong Psychological Society.

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Equity Bottom-Up

Zhejiang Expressway Co H / Equity Bottom-Up

<p><a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/zhejiang-expressway-co-h" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:2178:1" rel="noopener">Zhejiang Expressway Co H (576 HK)</a>'s (ZJEC) subsidiary <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/zheshang-securities-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:29981:1" rel="noopener">Zheshang Securities Co Ltd (601878 CH)</a> pre-announced a set of solid FY20 result on 26 Jan. With the current strength of the A-share market, we believe this business will add to the recovery of toll road business in FY21, driving encouraging momentum for ZJEC.</p><p>Focusing back to the core toll road business, both traffic and toll revenue are showing positive YoY growth in Dec 2020, suggesting good recovery pace. ZJEC is also progressing ahead with the plan to list the toll collection rights of Hanghui Expressway as a public infrastructure REIT. We think these factors are important catalysts for ZJEC in this year. Its 5.9x PER and 0.86x P/B for 12-month forward are undemanding and its ROE vs. P/B is also inexpensive in the sector.  </p>

Zhejiang Expressway Co H (576 HK)'s (ZJEC) subsidiary Zheshang Securities Co Ltd (601878 CH) pre-announced a set of solid FY20 result on 26 Jan. With the current strength of the A-share market, we believe this business will add to the recovery of toll road business in FY21, driving encouraging momentum for ZJEC.Focusing back to the core toll road business, both traffic and toll revenue are showing positive YoY growth in Dec 2020, suggesting good recovery pace. ZJEC is also progressing ahead with the plan to list the toll collection rights of Hanghui Expressway as a public infrastructure REIT. We think these factors are important catalysts for ZJEC in this year. Its 5.9x PER and 0.86x P/B for 12-month forward are undemanding and its ROE vs. P/B is also inexpensive in the sector.  

Zhejiang Expressway (576 HK): Gaining from Both Growth and Stable Business Exposures