BABA: opens +9% and continuing to trade VERY strong in HK today. Market realising pendulum swung too far, and starting to fade the risk premia here. (Chart: BABA vs TENCENT intraday)
Putting things into perspective: since November, Media frenzy and Investor panic wiped $260bn in value.
Meanwhile, 4Q was historic high Q-rev growth +37% Y/Y, historic high core commerce EBITDA, and historic high quarterly op profit. Clodu turned profitable, and Cainiao positive OCF also.
SO, you now get BABA on 4 year valuation lows, at extreme lows vs Tencent, and with net cash of $52bn!
Wium Malan brings this together: Current Alibaba share price implies a fair value, for their 33% equity stake in the Ant Group, of roughly negative $113bn! skr.ma/W526n (paywalled)
💡 IDEAL $KBANK.TB - consensus Thai O/W, seen as a digital aspirant. However, Brian spots two flies in the ointment. Stock has doubled from 2020 lows, so this is worth noting.
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1. foreign line highly likely deletion from MSCI at upcoming MAY SAR - Deletion of the foreign line would require passive funds to sell 87m shares...
2. There is also a possibility of a reduction in the Foreign Inclusion Factor (FIF) on the Non Voting Depository Receipt (NVDR) line if the foreign room stays below 15% on the price cutoff date. This would necessitate selling of around 22m shares.
Thai IPO raising $750m: Ngern Tid Lor (NTL) jointly owned by CVC and Bank of Ayudhya (BAY TB) with 16pc market share.
Impressive track record: 2016-20, gross l25.1% CAGR, total income 22.5% CAGR, while PAT did better with a CAGR of 29.1% over 2016-20.
Gets better: 2010-20, its total income has increased by 12.6x, branch network by 6x and receivables by 18x. That implies a CAGR of 28.9% for total income, 19.6% for branches and 33.5% for receivables.
We are seeing growing Enquiries from EM investors looking to switch at least part of their EM Asia exposure into an Asia ex-China benchmark.
iShares MSCI Asia ex China AUM has doubled in just a couple of months. In the grand scheme still small at $420m but is this a coincidence this coincides with recent Geopolitical tension?
The impact on EM Asia ex China country weights is absolutely enormous. TWN and KOR could go beyond 30pc while India post 20pc.