Actionable bottom-up long/short Insights on equities

Equity Bottom-Up

Analysis of new equity issuance (IPOs, Placements)

Equity Capital Markets

Deep-dive assessments of company accounting irregularities

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China

Alibaba Group Holding Limited provides online sales services. The Company provides internet infrastructure, electronic commerce, online financial, and internet content services through its subsidiaries. Alibaba Group Holding offers its products and services worldwide.

PDD Holdings Inc. is a multinational commerce group that owns and operates a portfolio of businesses. The Company focuses on digital economy so that local communities and small businesses can benefit from the increased productivity and new opportunities. PDD Holdings has built a network of sourcing, logistics, and fulfillment capabilities for its underlying businesses.

Consumer Discretionary

Lead Equity Research Analyst

Sameer Merchant, CFA

Trained and bred in the bulge bracket milieu, Sameer Merchant CFA has a very thorough but a nebulous approach to investing. He prefers to build detailed quarterly financial models, reads profusely on the companies under coverage and informs his investing decisions using methodical valuation techniques including Comparables, DCF and Sum of the Parts.

Sameer has almost a decade’s experience in Equity Research, working for bulge bracket names ranging from Goldman Sachs to Barclays. He has covered stocks across a broad range of sectors, including Chemicals, Fintech and Real Estate, with market cap ranging from $50m to >$100bn. Sameer is the CEO and Lead Equity Research Analyst of AlphaStone Equities.

Sameer Merchant, CFA
Lead Equity Research Analyst

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