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March 8, 2023 HOLT® China Tech Insights: 10 high quality Tech stocks that are discounted relative to history On an aggregate basis the China Tech sector currently trades at a valuation discount on a HOLT P/B basis relative to its 5-yr median level (2.6x vs. 3.1x). HOLT screens for discounted Tech stocks that also exhibit high Operational Quality and Accounting Quality in the HOLT framework. |
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February 21, 2023 HOLT® APxJ Idea Screens: 15 cheap stocks on the HOLT Valuation Factor Relative to History HOLT screens for cheap Asia ex Japan stocks, based on the HOLT Valuation Factor Relative to History, that also exhibit year-on-year consensus EPS derived forecast CFROI® improvements in 2023 and positive CFROI revisions over the last 13-weeks. |
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February 9, 2023 The China Internet sector is forecast to see a recovery in CFROI® to 8% in 2023. Given improved earnings sentiment and attractive valuation relative to history, as well as volatility in recent share price performance, HOLT contextualizes what level of sales growth the market is pricing in for the China Internet names over the next 5 years. |
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January 30, 2023 HOLT APxJ Idea Screens: China/HKG SMID ideas with high scorecard rank and growth profile With China and Hong Kong among the best performing markets thus far in 2023, HOLT screens for SMID ideas in these markets that rank well in the HOLT Scorecard (overall and growth ranks) and have high accounting quality and low HOLT Probability of Default (PoD). |
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January 10, 2023 HOLT® APxJ Insights: Q1 2023 Market Screens HOLT’s market implied yield (MIY) fell in 4Q last year as markets turned positive on China’s easing of COVID-19 restrictions. Both MIY and HOLT P/B are still attractive relative to their respective 10-year average levels. Despite better share price performance last quarter, monthly CFROI® revision remains negative, amounting to almost 30bp reduction. Southeast markets continue to see stronger revisions, HKG/China’s negative revision trend narrowed while Korea and Taiwan lagged. |
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December 13,2022 HOLT® China Insights: Market Implied Expectations of China E-Commerce Companies Sentiment has improved in the China E-Commerce space over the last month driving price return +10% and has seen the most positive CFROI® revisions across the broader China Internet space over the last three months. HOLT benchmarks the four largest E-Commerce companies in China to show market implied expectations. |
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December 6, 2022 HOLT® Asia Tech Insights: China Software Sector - Leading CFROI® Improvements in Tech China Software has performed poorly over the last year but has experienced a small recovery over the last month. Software is the only sub-sector within China Tech forecast for YoY improvement in CFROI over 2022/23. HOLT Benchmarks two groups of companies within Software: 1) Long-Term Value Creators, and 2) CFROI Scalers. |
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November 30, 2022 HOLT® China Insights – Identifying Attractive CFROI® Recovery Opportunities China stocks gained by over 8% in the past 1-month as investors turned more positive following China's recent policy moves on Covid-19 and the property sector. HOLT identifies the recovery opportunities by screening out 200+ stocks that are forecast for 2023 CFROI improvements after sharp decline from 2020 to 2022. |
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November 14, 2022 HOLT® China Insights: Focusing on Deep Value Opportunities in HOLT Contrarians and Value Traps Valuation in terms of HOLT P/B has reached a 10-year trough level of 0.69x last month and is trading at a large discount compared to the broader APxJ market. More companies are now classified in the HOLT Contrarian and Value Trap investment styles. Historically, these two styles have outperformed when market recovered from trough HOLT P/B levels. |
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November 4, 2022 HOLT® APAC Style Watch: Momentum leads a stagnant market Given the scarcity of firms currently experiencing positive CFROI® revisions, the market continues to disproportionately reward this minority of companies, as reflected by the strength of HOLT's Momentum factor last month. Consistent with the strength of Momentum, HOLT's Restructuring investment style was the region's strongest performing cohort. |
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October 20, 2022 HOLT® China Insights - Screening for opportunities in China A-Shares and H-Shares At an aggregate level, IBES consensus estimates are pointing to diverging CFROI® trends for China A-share and H-share markets over the next two years: near-term CFROI for China A-shares is expected to improve to 6.6% in 2022 and 7.2% in 2023, whereas China H-share CFROI is forecast to decline to 5.9% this year before recovering next year. |
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October 7, 2022 HOLT® APxJ Insights: Q4 2022 Market Screens With APxJ HOLT P/B near 10-year lows, HOLT screens for companies that have underperformed this year, that trade at a P/B discount to peers, and have 2023 CFROI® improvements. A second screen is also provided, showing HOLT Best in Class stocks that rank in the top two quintiles on Quality, Momentum and Valuation. |
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September 15, 2022 HOLT® Asia Tech Insights – Asia ex Japan tech sector screens Consensus-driven forecast CFROI® has fallen over 90 bp since the start of the year and earnings downgrades have gathered pace of late. Share prices have also declined by nearly 30% YTD, resulting in valuations now back at 5Y median levels. This note looks at 2 idea screens to identify stocks that investors could consider in the current environment. |
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September 9, 2022 HOLT® APAC Financials Insights: China Banks Sector Screens For investors looking for opportunities in the sector following the share price decline and lower valuation on HOLT P/B and Market implied yield (MIY), HOLT screens for China banks with a smaller CFROE decline in 2023 (versus historical 3-year median), higher Tier 1 capital ratio and ranks them by HOLT MIY factor relative to history. |
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August 31, 2022 HOLT® China Consumer Insights: Economic Profit Generators and Screens Aggregate HOLT Economic Profit of China Consumer sector is forecast to exceed historical levels by 2023. In this market commentary, HOLT identifies i) the Top 5 EP wealth creators per dollar of investment; ii) the Top 5 EP wealth creators on absolute basis; and iii) Quality companies in the HOLT Scorecard with EP increase / decline in 2022/23. |
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August 2, 2022 HOLT® Asia Tech Insights – Apple supply chain in focus CFROI® for most sub-sectors within the Apple supply chain is forecast to decline this year before recovering in 2023, according to consensus estimates. CFROI revisions turned negative this month, but HOLT P/B is more than 1 s.d. below 5Y median levels. This report looks at CFROI forecasts and expectations at the sub-sector and company level. |
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July 19, 2022 HOLT® China A-shares Consumer Sector Insights: Searching for Quality and Value opportunities China A-shares market is forecast for stronger CFROI® improvement than the broader APxJ market in 2023. Consumer Staples and Consumer Discretionary are among the sectors leading the improvement. The two matrixes in this market commentary show where these consumer companies sit based on their Operational Quality and valuation relative to history. |
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June 29, 2022 HOLT® China Insights: Benchmarking China's EV Supply Chain This HOLT market commentary benchmarks companies in China's EV supply chain. The companies are forecast to achieve CFROI® of 12% in 2023, higher than that of the broader China market and Korea EV sector. After a share price correction from Oct 2021 to May 2022, the HOLT market implied yield has reverted to the sector's five year median level. |
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June 16, 2022 HOLT® China Tech: Looking for opportunities among China's emerging tech trends China tech shares outperformed regional peers over the past month with COVID lockdowns easing. The sector trades at a discount to history on HOLT's Market Implied Yield, and forecast CFROI® is expected to recover to 9% by 2023. Stocks leveraged to emerging tech trends have forecast CFROI increasing, and this report looks at opportunities among this group of stocks. |
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June 1, 2022 HOLT® APxJ Financial Insights: CFROE® Profile, Valuation Comparisons and Screens for APxJ Banks This commentary focuses on APxJ banks' forecast CFROE trend from 2021 to 2023, recent CFROE revisions and the valuation profile of the sector, and incorporates these factors into relevant screens. On a median basis, 2022 CFROE improvements are led by banks in Indonesia, Philippines and Thailand, while 2023 CFROE improvements are most obvious among banks in Taiwan, Australia and Malaysia. |
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May 20, 2022 HOLT® APxJ Insights: Idea Screens post December 2021 Financial Statement Update The HOLT APAC database consists of over 11,000 companies. This commentary focuses on the December 2021 year end companies that are recently updated and profiles the forecast CFROI® calculated for 2022 and 2023. At the sector level, Consumer Discretionary and Communications have the largest forecast CFROI turnaround post their decline in 2021. With exception of Utilities and Energy, CFROI is still on an increasing trend for most of the sectors. |
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May 4, 2022 HOLT® APAC Insights: Small Mid-Cap Screens The level of CFROI® for APAC SMID-cap companies is calculated to grow from 6.6% in 2021 to 7.2% in 2022, in spite of negative CFROI revisions over the last four months amidst a resurgence of COVID-19 cases in China, as well as rising macro and geopolitical risks. The Market Implied Yield (MIY) for the APAC SMID universe has risen from 4.9% in Apr‘21 to 5.7% currently, near its 5-year high level of 6%. In addition, the spread of MIY of small-caps vs. large-caps has increased within the last two years. HOLT screens for companies in the top two quintiles of the HOLT scorecard, and avoids those with poor financial risk and accounting quality scores in the HOLT framework. |
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April 7, 2022 HOLT APAC Style Watch: Strong fundamentals prevail Asia's equity markets endured yet another volatile month as the economic impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including a severe supply shock to energy and commodity markets, added to prevailing inflationary pressure and weakening global growth. Amidst this macro uncertainty, investors maintained their focus on stocks with balanced fundamentals. |
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March 10, 2022 HOLT® APAC Insights: Performance and Valuation of HOLT Market Segments Stable yield stocks were the strongest performing group in 2021 and continue to perform strongly year-to-date amid rising rates and inflation in APxJ. In contrast, hyper growth stocks posted significant declines in 2021 and this January. In this report, we look at the performance and valuation of HOLT market segments across APAC markets. |
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March 2, 2022 HOLT® China Insights: Oversold opportunities within China's green industries After delivering almost 60% share price return in 2021, companies in HOLT's China green economy universe have seen a sharp correction recently, particularly among the themes that performed the best last year. As such, valuation of the CGE aggregate is now more attractive, based on HOLT's market-implied yield (MIY) measure versus the broader market. |
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February 21, 2022 HOLT® APAC Viewpoint: Companies at valuation inflection points For investors looking for ideas that may have fallen to an attractive entry point amidst the market rotation, comparing the HOLT DCF upside relative to its own history is an efficient way to do this. Within this Viewpoint, HOLT runs four screens to explore valuation inflection ideas across the APAC region. |
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February 11, 2022 HOLT China Insights: The conundrum of Value vs Growth The sharp rotation from Growth to Value across Asia and globally continued in January as rising interest rate and high inflation rate concerns linger, with China (both onshore and offshore) being no exception. This report includes various screens for those who are looking for Value and Growth ideas in the market. |
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January 11, 2022 HOLT APAC Style Watch: Strong fundamentals matter Companies with well-balanced fundamentals performed strongly across the Asia Pacific region last month. In contrast, the region's growth stocks, particularly those with lower operational quality, underperformed in most Asian markets. This weakness is consistent with the pullback in hyper-growth stocks observed in other key global equity markets. |
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January 5, 2022 CFROI® for the Chinese Internet sector is forecast to remain depressed in 2022 amidst ongoing regulatory uncertainty. Outside China, there appears to be more broad-based CFROI growth and better earnings sentiment and may present an opportunity for investors to diversify. This report highlights key stock ideas within China as well as the rest of Asia. |
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December 6, 2021 HOLT® APAC Viewpoint: CFROI® still set to improve in 2022, but now with lower conviction HOLT takes a look at 2022 CFROI® forecasts, CFROI revisions, and valuation levels across APAC markets. While economic returns are forecast for further expansion next year, consensus earnings sentiment has weakened (forecasts were too high) and valuations are not cheap. In light of these mixed observations, HOLT frames stock ideas utilizing several screens in this report. |
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December 2, 2021 Following the share rally of Tesla over the last three months and the strong quarterly results of several China NEV names, this spark the growing interest on China pure EV OEM. This report revisits the corporate performance and market implied expectations of these companies. |
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November 18, 2021 HOLT APAC Airlines Insights: Modelling in recovery scenarios and environmental cost With strong share price sentiment recently, APAC Airlines HOLT P/B has recovered to long-term median level. HOLT constructs a "recovery scenario" for airlines assuming that CFROI rebounds to pre-COVID level to stress test valuation opportunities, and ranks airlines using a Transition Burden Scorecard to evaluate their carbon transition capability. |
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November 5, 2021 HOLT® Asia Tech Insights: China Tech Hardware Sector – Positioning in times of rising prices CFROI for Chinese tech hardware stocks is poised to rise to 10.1% in 2022 despite ongoing supply constraints upstream. While rising factory prices may pose another challenge to the sector, all is not necessarily bad. With one of the highest operating leverage in China, we screen for inflation beneficiaries within the tech hardware sector. |
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October 21, 2021 As the Evergrande debt crisis has put spotlight on China's leverage trend, the report reassesses China's financial risk through HOLT's proprietary metric Probability of Default and bottomup leverage analysis. The report includes screens on at risk stocks, eCAP with low leverage, firms highly ranked on HOLT Risk peer rank and oversold quality ideas. |
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October 4, 2021 HOLT Macau Gaming Insights: Further downside risk if priced at the average CFROI® of global peers Macau gaming operators are experiencing worse earnings cuts vs last industry down cycle, whereas implied expectations are still elevated despite the sharp decline in share prices. We leverage HOLT Portfolio sensitivity tool and make reference to global casino & gaming peers to stress test valuation of all major names. |
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September 23, 2021 CFROI for the Apple supply chain is forecast to reach a 10Y high in FY22E, led by rising silicon content in semis, while hardware names could see more intense competition. Overall revisions sentiment remains positive, but will the supply chain see positive price momentum like in prior cycles? This report highlights key ideas across the sector. |
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September 7, 2021 HOLT® China Real Estate Insights: Assessing opportunities at policy crossroads The potential alteration of land auction system may help improve developers' margins potentially in the longer term while the introduction of the "three red lines" could lead to different asset growth profiles going forward. Hence, we run sensitivity analysis in the HOLT Lens Portfolio Tool to assess potential upsides for developers. |
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August 23, 2021 In light of China's quest for carbon neutrality by 2060, the utilities sector is under spotlight. In this report, we revisit the market-implied expectations of the three HK-listed electricity producers with leading wind power capacities in China after their strong share price returns since late-2020. |
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August 9, 2021 HOLT China/HK Insights: Highlighting attractive stocks among recent China/HK additions As an ongoing effort to keep the China/HK database up-to-date, HOLT has added 107 China A-shares and 30 HK stocks over the past 9 months. In this report, we revisit these new additions and rank them using the HOLT Scorecard Factors of Quality, Momentum and Valuation as well as growth potential based on HOLT cashflow Growth rank. |
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July 28, 2021 HOLT® China Internet Insights: Implied expectations post correction Chinese Internet firms have come under increased scrutiny by the government this year. The latest labour rights guidelines announced this week triggered a major sell-off, with key stocks seeing double-digit declines. Amidst earnings cuts and CFROI decline, this report analyzes the implied growth expectations of key stocks after the sell-off. |
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July 13, 2021 HOLT® China Online Healthcare Insights: Opportunities behind the high market-implied expectations With the accelerating digitalization trend, China online healthcare companies are priced with a larger gap between market-implied CFROI® and near-term CFROI forecasts than the overall healthcare sector. However, this expectation gap is comparable to listed peers in the US market and consistent with other high-growth sectors. We focus on three online healthcare companies in this note. |
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June 28, 2021 HOLT China A-Share Insights: Selectively screening for Quality and Value amid a lackluster backdrop While China led the recovery from COVID-19 in 2020, the magnitude of forecast CFROI expansion is now expected to lag APxJ. In the absence of broad-based earnings upgrades, companies with strong momentum attributes are well rewarded by investors. This report includes idea screens on (i) Best in Class, Restructuring and Contrarian styles for Value ideas; (ii) Quality defensive and stable yield stocks for defensive positioning, (iii) stocks with strong outlook supported by earnings upgrades, (iv) oversold high quality companies.
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June 14, 2021 CFROI for Asia tech is expected to continue expanding to reach multi-year highs by 2022. While valuation has re-rated, it is nowhere as expensive as US or Europe. Amidst the global chip shortage, we remain positive on semis, preferring backend and fabless stocks. Downstream, we see opportunity to revisit laggards among 5G and cloud-related stocks. |
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June 4, 2021 As rising inflation expectations remain a key focus among investors globally, we systematically examine APAC stocks to identify potential beneficiaries in this report. To do so, we identify companies that historically have higher economic earnings sensitivity to sales as a measure of the degree of operating leverage (DOL). |
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May 17, 2021 HOLT APAC Viewpoint: Expecting record CFROI® in 2021/22; be mindful of historical fade pattrnes Investors currently are pricing in high economic returns to sustain over next five years, while this could be questioned given that the CFROI improvement is largely driven by cyclicals that historically had low economic returns. In this report, we identify attractively valued eCAP stocks and also companies with high margins and valuation supports. |
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May 6, 2021 HOLT APAC Style Watch: Best In Class outperforms Stocks exhibiting positive momentum and higher-than-average growth generated the strongest performance across Asia last month, as the rotation towards value paused despite encouraging economic data. While Growth and Momentum factors performed strongly standalone, the best returns were noted within those firms which also enjoyed Valuation support. |
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April 9, 2021 The HOLT Ranking Model provides investors with a monthly ranking of APAC markets using a rules-based systematic process. HOLT's multi-factor model uses Valuation, CFROI Sentiment and Market Sentiment to rank each market. Taiwan continues to top for April while Singapore and Japan occupy second and third respectively. |
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April 7, 2021 HOLT APAC Style Watch: A higher conviction value rally The 1Q of 2021 was dominated by rising bond yields and concerns about rising inflation, culminating in a Value led rally across the region. Encouragingly, while the performance of Value focused stocks remained strong MoM, higher Quality, lower market Risk stocks enjoyed a stronger contribution to performance in March relative to prior months. |
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March 12, 2021 HOLT® APAC Extreme valuation screens: Avoiding Extreme Valuation in Hyper growth stocks Hyper growth stocks have fallen sharply in recent weeks, underperforming in Asian markets. While Value stocks appear appealing in strong economic cycle, hyper growth stocks provide a longer runway. In this report, we highlight cheap and overly expensive hyper growth stocks. We also highlight Value stocks that benefit from economic recovery. |
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March 11, 2021 HOLT China A-Shares Insights: Implications and screens from the recent Value rotation China's CSI300 index is down over 3% YTD, making it one of the worst performing markets in APxJ this year. From a HOLT Factor perspective, China A-Shares investors pivoted from Momentum and Growth stocks to Value stocks last month. This report reviews the implied expectations of three best performing sectors and five deep value sectors in HOLT. |
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February 26, 2021 HOLT APAC Viewpoint: Are there still 'mispriced' Growth companies with strong Value support? The market's preference for stocks with strong cash flow growth largely remains based on our observation. However, given the strong performance of growth stocks, the notion of looking for high growth companies with strong value support appears appealing. In this report, we leverage HOLT framework to identify mispriced growth+value stocks. |
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February 3, 2021 The China property management industry saw a number of large cap new listings in Hong Kong late last year. In this report, we draw on the CFROI profile of earlier listed peers; asset growth profile of a set of high CFROI, asset light companies and longer term CFROI profiles of mature global facilities management companies to value these stocks. |
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January 14, 2021 On back of the recent HOLT observations around CFROI improvements expected in 2021 and the ongoing strong performance of the HOLT Momentum and Growth factors, this report screens for companies that have stronger momentum with CFROI and asset growth characteristics of past top outperformers and expected CFROI recovery in 2021. |
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January 5, 2021 HOLT China A-Share Insights: Screening for opportunities amid a strong 2021 CFROI outlook China A-share outperformed the broader APxJ region in 2020 and its CFROI is forecast to further increase to 6.3% in 2021E, the highest level since 2008. On the back of the strong rally, the pack includes screens on attractive laggards, companies with strong 2021 outlook and outperformers at risk |
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December 8, 2020 HOLT® APAC Style Watch: A low conviction rally to close the year As 2020 draws to a close, we take a look at HOLT Factor and Investment Style performance across the region over the course of the year. In short, investors initially sought refuge in high quality firms and those with positive earnings and market sentiment amidst the initial pandemic-induced drawdown during the first quarter of the year. As the region gradually re-emerged from mostly successful lockdown strategies, HOLT's higher-risk, Value focused styles experienced a similarly sharp rally. |
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December 1, 2020 HOLT China A-Share Insights: Discovering the standouts within new additions in China A-share market HOLT has added over 170 China A-shares over the past 18 months, extending our offering in the onshore market to over 2,000 stocks. This report analyzes the new additions by listing boards and ranks them using the HOLT Scorecard Factors of Quality, Momentum and Valuation as well as growth potential based on HOLT cash flow Growth rank. |
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November 9, 2020 HOLT HK/China Insights: Sifting through opportunities among recent HK new listings The Hong Kong market is home to several large cap new listings and secondary listings for Chinese ADRs this year. To date, HOLT has added over 40 companies into our HK database. In the report we look at these new stocks and rank them using the HOLT Scorecard Factors of Quality, Momentum and Valuation as well as growth potential based on HOLT cash flow Growth rank. |
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October 27, 2020 HOLT® APAC Viewpoint: Large cap outperformers and what to do with them? Year to date, 23 large cap companies (mkt cap > US$ 25 bn) in the region have doubled their share prices. HOLT's Flex Valuation Tools and Valuation Matrix are an efficient and disciplined way to assess various valuation outcomes for these stocks that have outperformed materially, helping investors to frame scenarios that they are most comfortable with. |
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October 12, 2020 Asia Discretionary outperformed for the past few months as consumption spending has started to bottom out. This report includes idea screens and industry group analysis to identify attractive recovery opportunities with more room to run. |
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September 25, 2020 HOLT China Insights: Screening for attractive H-shares as the discount to A-shares widens The HOLT market implied discount rate differential for China A versus H dual-listed companies increased to 210 bps in September (from 150 bps in May), which is near an all-time high that was last also observed during the 2015 A-share market rally. This points to increasing valuation appeal for the H-shares. We screen for relative opportunities among H-shares. |
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September 18, 2020 HOLT China A-share Insights: Screening for value opportunities While Growth led the year-to-date outperformance in China A, Value as a factor worked for the first time in August, whereas Growth gave up some of its YTD gains. This phenomenon continued into the first half of September. This pack includes screens for value opportunities including high quality laggards and companies at extreme valuation. |
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August 20, 2020 HOLT® APAC Viewpoint: Identifying pockets of value / laggard opportunities While Value as a factor hasn't worked on a YTD basis, value in Value is starting to emerge. The Value factor worked for the first time (on a full-month basis) since the crisis, and we see less negative consensus earning cuts as supportive for value outperformance. This note provides a number of ways to identify value opportunities in the region. |
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| August 5, 2020 HOLT APAC Insights: Extreme valuation screens - Picking ideas among leaders and laggards? Aggregate CFROI in APxJ is expected to recover in 2021, led by companies with strong Quality/Growth companies that are less impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. These companies have also generally led market performance since late 2018, as such, the valuation gap between leaders and laggards has reached levels that we not seen since the Tech bubble. |
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July 21, 2020 HOLT China A-Share Insights: Valuation check; selectively positioning in Growth and Quality China's market implied discount rate fell by 110bp since March to 4.8% in July, largely driven by the lower discount rate of high growth stocks. Taking into account their outperformance, we screen for Growth ideas that are still attractive on our model. We also highlight Quality screens as the outlook remains resilient and valuation is supportive. |
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July 8, 2020 HOLT® APAC Viewpoint: Identifying Growth opportunities in Asia Grouping growth stocks into Quality Growth and Hyper Growth can help investors better understand recent performance and focus on the right company characteristics when screening for ideas. Quality Growth has led market performance in three out of four years in Japan while Hyper Growth has emerged as a more viable investment sub-set in the APxJ.
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June 9, 2020 HOLT® China A-Share Insights: Screening for opportunities at times of uncertainty While China A-share is less volatile on a YTD basis vs broader APxJ region due to its more resilient CFROI forecast, we highlight three potential downside risks to forecast returns. Hence we suggest investors seek out high quality and strong momentum stocks and eCAP stocks. The pack also includes sector trend analysis with preferred ideas. |
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May 20, 2020 HOLT® APAC Viewpoint: Looking beyond 2020 CFROI® The market has clearly rewarded companies that are expected to maintain or even improve their economic returns (CFROI) in the current environment. In contrast, market remains skeptical on companies with material CFROI decline this year but recovering in 2021. On average, this group of companies has underperformed by –12% in China. |
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April 24, 2020 HOLT® APAC Viewpoint Drawing inferences from companies updated with 2019 financials We summarize the observations on the larger cap companies that we have updated in the HOLT APxJ database for December 2019 financials, including the impact of the new lease accounting standard under IFRS 16 and screen implications as forecast 2020 CFROI materially declines. |
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April 17, 2020 As people are asked to work at home and travel restrictions are becoming stricter amid the COVID-19 outbreak, tourism related stocks have not fared well. Considering the significance of China outbound tourism across Asia, this report profiled 60 stocks exposed to this theme, within Airline, Airport, Gaming, Hotel, Retail and Travel Agency. |
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April 2, 2020 HOLT® China Material Insights: Not too late to look at Anhui Conch and CR Cement Cement stocks exhibited more resilient share price performance in recent month, attributable to their large domestic exposure to the infrastructure and property investment in China. Companies with higher operational quality and stronger balance sheet, such as Anhui Conch and CR Cement, could provide investors with a better exposure into the sector. |
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March 23, 2020 HOLT® APAC Insights: Seeking stability in higher quality yield stocks Regional markets continue to exhibit high volatility. This week we screen for dividend stocks that have been sold-off despite having good operational quality, lower debt and strong cash flow profiles. The report also provides an update on HOLT MIDR, P/B and CFROI revisions relative to history. |
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March 3, 2020 As CS China economist highlights that the containment efforts against COVID-19 virus may lead to strained cash flows, this report assesses the risk across sectors using HOLT's Probability of Default metric and bottom up debt analysis, and includes thematic screens to position along this theme. |
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February 21, 2020 HOLT® China Consumer Insights: A tale of two halves in China baby product – Feihe and Hengan With the outbreak of the COVID-19 in the region and subsequent strict quarantines and travel bans in place, earnings sentiment appears to have taken a hit in recent weeks. However, as markets appear to be resilient, we highlight companies that are still poised to deliver 2020 CFROI improvements despite their recent earnings cuts. |
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February 21, 2020 HOLT® Asia Tech Insights – NEV battery supply chain on HOLT We explore the CFROI outlook for 48 companies in Asian NEV battery supply chain. Based on our observation that high CFROI companies are generally being appreciated within the supply chain, we identify 12 preferred stocks with resilient CFROI outlook as well as conservative valuation relative to respective domestic peers. |
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February 13, 2020 HOLT® APAC Viewpoint: More downgrades? Stocks that are down but not out This report leverages the observations from CS CQi team on China baby product market and takes a closer look at the two leading players in either segments – China Feihe and Hengan through HOLT. |
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February 10, 2020 HOLT® APAC Style Watch: Flight to quality amid macro uncertainty Regional investors sought the relative safety of high quality companies experiencing positive CFROI sentiment amid heightened macro uncertainty fueled by the coronavirus outbreak. |
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February 5, 2020 HOLT® APAC Viewpoint: Focusing on Quality stocks that are not overly expensive Companies with strong HOLT quality attributes have generally worked well during periods of high market volatility. Given the uncertainty due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak in China, we suggest a tilt back to high quality companies in HOLT focusing on the ones that are not overly expensive and have strong 13-week and 4-week CFROI revisions for China A-shares. |
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January 10, 2020 HOLT® APAC Style Watch: Value extends its recent gains Investors across the APAC region generally sought the relative safety of high quality firms for a majority of last year, irrespective of their prevailing momentum or valuation. However, for China A-share market, Momentum was the strongest factor in 2019, followed by Quality. Valuation as a factor did not work well among China A-share stocks last year. |
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January 9, 2020 HOLT® China A-share Insights: Positioning into 2020 CS China strategist's 2020 outlook for the China markets drew extensively on HOLT® analysis which we further elaborate on herein, highlighting a series of screen ideas by leveraging HOLT's® extensive 1,900 China A-share database that complement the various analysis. |
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November 25, 2019 HOLT® China Consumer Insights: Opportunities across Household Durables Household Durables should appeal to investors who want Quality exposure in Consumer with stronger valuation support. Aggregate performance rebounded recently as the pace of earnings cuts stabilized. Also despite rally, valuation is still compelling as HOLT® P/B is trading near long-term median levels and remains at a discount to the broader Consumer sectors. The pack includes sub-industry analysis on Home Appliance, Home Furnishing and Consumer Electronics. |
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November 11, 2019 The HOLT Ranking Model provides investors with a monthly ranking of APAC markets using a rules-based systematic process. HOLT's® multi-factor model uses Valuation, CFROI Sentiment and Market Sentiment to rank each market. The Taiwanese market is the top-ranked market this month followed by China H and Singapore. |
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October 4, 2019 To better identify pockets of opportunity in the China A-share market, we rank the 24 industry groups systematically through the HOLT® scorecard based on a company level assessment of Operational Quality, Momentum, and Valuation characteristics. Historically, highly ranked companies on the HOLT® Scorecard have outperformed over the long term. |
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September 2, 2019 HOLT® APAC Viewpoint: Picking up from August lows This report screens for stocks that have fallen by at least 20% from its 52-week high share price and at least 4% in August. Given the backdrop of still negative consensus earnings revisions in Asia, our screens also focus on stocks that exhibit higher operational quality rank and a more resilient consensus earnings revision during the month. |