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June 10, 2015 STRATEGY RESEARCH | Hong Kong / China SEE PAGE 20 FOR IMPORTANT DISCLOSURES AND ANALYST CERTIFICATIONS The Strategist Hong Kong/China-Focus List The HK/China-Focus List represents the most actionable Long and Short ideas based on our coverage. The list currently has 19 stocks and the inclination is to keep it tight and focused on our six core investment themes: 1) Financial reform. The deepening financial reforms will benefit some China banks, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (388 HK, Not Rated) and brokers. 2) Long H-shares, Short A-shares. The government is expanding different channels to increase cross-broader flows. The A-H premium index has returned to 40% but it will narrow in the long term. Lists of A-H stocks that are dual-listed in SH-HK and SZ-HK are in this report. 3) Strong USD. This is the key risk to emerging markets (EM), especially China. China developers with high USD debts and funding risks, and companies with high exposure to EM are at risk. 4) Risk of rising bond yields. The recent global bond market selloff has erased all of this year’s gains. This is negative to some interest-rate sensitive high-yield stocks, eg, REITs and utilities. 5) Domestic consumption. Staples’ index performance relative to discretionary is near support levels and has started to turn around. Valuations and earnings upgrades are more favourable to staples. 6) Alternative energy. Our analyst’s top preference is the solar downstream sector as it has the highest IRR among the alternative energy sources, followed by nuclear then wind power. Strategist Willie Chan (852) 2268-0631 [email protected] Hong Kong / China Focus List Mkt cap 3m T/O Price TP Ticker Sector Company USDm USDm (LC) Rating (LC) Upside (%) Financial reform: 1288 HK Banks Agricultural Bank of China 194,134 113 4.2 Buy 5.1 21 1963 HK Banks Bank of Chongqing 2,673 3 7.6 Buy 9.7 27 939 HK Banks China Construction Bank 251,841 369 7.8 Buy 9.4 20 3360 HK Diversified Financials Far East Horizon 3,172 14 7.6 Buy 12.5 64 Long H-shares, Short A-shares: 2866 HK Transport China Shipping Container Line 13,767 56 4 Buy 6 54 1138 HK Transport China Shipping Development 6,381 22 6 Buy 8 35 2333 HK Automotive Great Wall Motors 22,095 57 51 Buy 63 23 3968 HK Banks China Merchants Bank 83,201 87 25 Sell 21 (15) Strong USD: 992 HK Technology Lenovo Group 17,679 73 12 Sell 9 (28) 2618 HK Technology TCL Communication 1,325 9 8 Hold 8 (2) Risk of rising bond yields: 902 HK Utilities Huaneng Power 25,358 33 11 Hold 9 (10) Domestic consumption: 538 HK Consumer Staples Ajisen (China) 622 1 4.6 Buy 5.6 23 1117 HK Consumer Staples China Modern Dairy 1,924 6 3.1 Buy 3.6 15 1044 HK Consumer Staples Hengan International 14,473 27 90.6 Buy 102.6 13 151 HK Consumer Staples Want Want China 14,589 28 8.6 Buy 10.3 19 1958 HK Consumer Discretionary BAIC Motor 10,324 10 11 Sell 8 (25) 2238 HK Consumer Discretionary GAC 11,147 12 8 Sell 5 (31) Alternative energy: 916 HK Energy China Longyuan Power 9,702 18 9.6 Buy 12.0 25 451 HK Energy GCL New Energy 1,610 9 1.0 Buy 1.6 62 Source: Bloomberg, Maybank Kim Eng Research

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The Strategist

Hong Kong/China-Focus List The HK/China-Focus List represents the most actionable Long and

Short ideas based on our coverage. The list currently has 19 stocks

and the inclination is to keep it tight and focused on our six core

investment themes:

1) Financial reform. The deepening financial reforms will benefit

some China banks, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (388 HK, Not

Rated) and brokers.

2) Long H-shares, Short A-shares. The government is expanding

different channels to increase cross-broader flows. The A-H

premium index has returned to 40% but it will narrow in the long

term. Lists of A-H stocks that are dual-listed in SH-HK and SZ-HK

are in this report.

3) Strong USD. This is the key risk to emerging markets (EM),

especially China. China developers with high USD debts and

funding risks, and companies with high exposure to EM are at risk.

4) Risk of rising bond yields. The recent global bond market

selloff has erased all of this year’s gains. This is negative to some

interest-rate sensitive high-yield stocks, eg, REITs and utilities.

5) Domestic consumption. Staples’ index performance relative to

discretionary is near support levels and has started to turn around.

Valuations and earnings upgrades are more favourable to staples.

6) Alternative energy. Our analyst’s top preference is the solar

downstream sector as it has the highest IRR among the alternative

energy sources, followed by nuclear then wind power.

Strategist Willie Chan

(852) 2268-0631

[email protected]

Hong Kong / China Focus List

Mkt cap 3m T/O Price

TP

Ticker Sector Company USDm USDm (LC) Rating (LC) Upside (%)

Financial reform: 1288 HK Banks Agricultural Bank of China 194,134 113 4.2 Buy 5.1 21

1963 HK Banks Bank of Chongqing 2,673 3 7.6 Buy 9.7 27 939 HK Banks China Construction Bank 251,841 369 7.8 Buy 9.4 20 3360 HK Diversified Financials Far East Horizon 3,172 14 7.6 Buy 12.5 64 Long H-shares, Short A-shares:

2866 HK Transport China Shipping Container Line 13,767 56 4 Buy 6 54 1138 HK Transport China Shipping Development 6,381 22 6 Buy 8 35 2333 HK Automotive Great Wall Motors 22,095 57 51 Buy 63 23 3968 HK Banks China Merchants Bank 83,201 87 25 Sell 21 (15) Strong USD:

992 HK Technology Lenovo Group 17,679 73 12 Sell 9 (28) 2618 HK Technology TCL Communication 1,325 9 8 Hold 8 (2) Risk of rising bond yields:

902 HK Utilities Huaneng Power 25,358 33 11 Hold 9 (10) Domestic consumption:

538 HK Consumer Staples Ajisen (China) 622 1 4.6 Buy 5.6 23 1117 HK Consumer Staples China Modern Dairy 1,924 6 3.1 Buy 3.6 15 1044 HK Consumer Staples Hengan International 14,473 27 90.6 Buy 102.6 13 151 HK Consumer Staples Want Want China 14,589 28 8.6 Buy 10.3 19 1958 HK Consumer Discretionary BAIC Motor 10,324 10 11 Sell 8 (25) 2238 HK Consumer Discretionary GAC 11,147 12 8 Sell 5 (31) Alternative energy:

916 HK Energy China Longyuan Power 9,702 18 9.6 Buy 12.0 25 451 HK Energy GCL New Energy 1,610 9 1.0 Buy 1.6 62 Source: Bloomberg, Maybank Kim Eng Research

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Hong Kong/China-Focus List

The Hong Kong/China-Focus List represents the most actionable Long and

Short ideas based on our coverage. The list currently has 19 stocks and the

inclination is to keep it tight and focused. The HK/China-Focus List is

positioned within the context of our six core investment themes that we

have discussed: 1) financial reform; 2) long H-shares, Short A-shares; 3)

strong USD; 4) risk of rising bond yields; 5) domestic consumption; and 6)

alternative energy.

Financial reform: China is deepening its financial reforms and the focus is on: 1) RMB

internationalization; 2) capital account liberalization; 3) improving

financial services available to small and micro enterprises; and 4)

improving domestic capital markets and internet finance.

China has taken the following steps:

1) For RMB internationalization. The government continues to work with

more countries on RMB clearance arrangement and currency swap

deals. It has also given foreign companies more freedom to convert

their capital in foreign exchanges to RMB. Right now it targets to have

RMB added to the Special Drawing Rights (SDR) basket in Oct 2015.

2) For capital account liberalization. The government has significantly

liberalized two-way capital flows by unveiling: i) Shanghai-HK and

Shenzhen-HK Stock Connect; ii) China-HK mutual fund recognition; and

iii) QDII programme for domestic individual investors.

3) To improve financial services available to small and micro

enterprises. The government is encouraging banks to improve the

availability of loans and broaden the scope of financial services for

small and micro enterprises.

4) To improve domestic capital markets and internet finance. China is

establishing an IPO registration process to replace the current

administrative approval control process. In addressing local government

debt risk, the municipal bond market was formally launched in Apr-15.

The government is also allowing private capital to invest in public

projects through the private and public partnership (PPP) model.

Municipal bond issuances and PPP-based financing via corporate bond

issuances will really help to expand the size of China’s bond market.

The development of internet financing will also increase the size of the

P2P market.

We believe the financial sector will benefit from the reforms. Under the

debt-swap programme, the interest burden on local governments will

be lower and banks’ NPL problem will be eased as well. The whole yield

curve could also steepen as this may result in lower short-dated bond

yields.

YTD, China banks have still underperformed slightly relative to the MSCI

China. Valuation-wise, it is trading at 1.1x 2015 P/BV with 4.6%

dividend yield. We believe the potential upside for banks is relatively

higher than for other expensive sectors such as tech and small-cap.

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Figure 1: MSCI China Banks relative to MSCI China, P/BV

Source: MSCI, Factset, Maybank Kim Eng Research

Steven Chan, our regional banks analyst, has BUY ratings on China

Construction Bank, Agricultural Bank of China, Bank of Chongqing and Far

East Horizon.

China Construction Bank has the strongest capital position among peers. Its

CET1 CAR was 12.5% in Mar 2015. The bank also benefits from RMB

clearance arrangement given its extensive overseas networks.

As for Agricultural Bank of China and Bank of Chongqing, they both benefit

from the government’s policy to support the agricultural sector and to

broaden the scope of financial services for small and micro enterprises.

Agricultural Bank of China recorded a recovery in fee income, stronger

loan growth (4.9% QoQ) and improvement in asset quality in its 1Q15

results. It also offers 5.1% dividend yield. In addition, Bank of Chongqing

has the highest ROE and is rapidly diversifying its fee income business.

Furthermore it has better-than-sector average asset quality. It also

recorded higher loan growth of 4.5% QoQ in Mar 2015.

Catalysts for Far East Horizon are its upcoming earnings growth drivers: 1)

operating lease of expensive industrial and infrastructure equipment; and

2) healthcare services through the acquisition of specialty hospitals. It’s

trading at 5.5x 2016F PER, well below the average for its regional peers of

11x.

Since Nov-14, the Chinese government has launched many different

policies to increase the two-way capital flows between the China and Hong

Kong markets. However, it will still take more time to see greater money

flows from the mainland to Hong Kong. That said, overseas investors have

already increased their participation in the Hong Kong market as the daily

turnover has already doubled compared to last year. Obviously it is very

positive for HK Exchanges and Clearing (388 HK, Not Rated) and brokerage

stocks given their share prices are highly sensitive to the market turnover.

In addition, many HK-listed Chinese brokerage stocks are trading at a

discount to their A-share peers, eg GF Securities, Haitong Securities and

Citic Securities. (Please refer to Long H-shares, Short A-shares section.)

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Figure 2: Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing (388 HK, NR) and market turnover

Source: CEIC, Bloomberg, Maybank Kim Eng Research

Long H-shares, Short A-shares: Since the Shanghai-HK Stock Connect was launched in Nov-14, the flows via

this programme have been disappointing so far. As of 3 Jun, only 51.5% of

the northbound aggregate quota and 39.4% of the southbound aggregate

quota had been utilized. This is the main reason why the Hang Seng A-H

premium index is now back to 40%. Given the Chinese government is

expanding different channels to increase cross-broader flows, we believe

the A-H gap will narrow in the long term. The market is expecting the

Shenzhen-HK Stock Connect to be launched in 4Q15. Although we do not

think the potential flows will be better than Shanghai-HK Stock Connect,

market speculation is likely again.

Below is a list of companies dual-listed in Shenzhen and Hong Kong. Most

of the H-shares are trading at a significant discount to their A-share peers.

Figure 4: Shenzhen-Hong Kong dual-listed companies, premium/discount

H-shr price A-shr price Premium/ Rating

H-share A-share Company Sector HKD CNY discount (%) on H-shr

1057 HK 002703 CH Zhejiang Shibao* Consumer Discretionary 16 52 -76 Not Rated

568 HK 002490 CH Shandong Molong Petroleum Mach Energy 5 16 -72 Not Rated

42 HK 000585 CH Northeast Electric Development Industrials 3 8 -68 Not Rated

350 HK 000666 CH Jingwei Textile Machinery Industrials 12 27 -63 Not Rated

719 HK 000756 CH Shandong Xinhua Pharmaceutical Health Care 8 18 -62 Not Rated

921 HK 000921 CH Hisense Kelon Electrical Consumer Discretionary 7 14 -58 Not Rated

1812 HK 000488 CH Shandong Chenming Paper Materials 6 12 -58 Not Rated

895 HK 002672 CH Dongjiang Environmental Industrials 48 76 -49 Not Rated

1157 HK 000157 CH Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science Industrials 7 10 -46 Not Rated

1211 HK 002594 CH BYD Consumer Discretionary 55 75 -42 Not Rated

763 HK 000063 CH ZTE Information Technology 24 32 -42 Not Rated

1513 HK 000513 CH Livzon Pharmaceutical Group Health Care 66 91 -42 Not Rated

2208 HK 002202 CH Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Tech Industrials 20 25 -37 Not Rated

2039 HK 000039 CH China International Marine Containers Industrials 23 29 -36 Not Rated

2338 HK 000338 CH Weichai Power Industrials 30 35 -33 Not Rated

347 HK 000898 CH Angang Steel Materials 6 8 -33 Sell

1776 HK 000776 CH GF Securities Financials 25 27 -26 Not Rated

2202 HK 000002 CH China Vanke Financials 20 15 9 Not Rated

Source: Bloomberg, Maybank Kim Eng Research *suspended in A-share market

Figure 3: Hang Seng A-H premium

Source: Bloomberg, Maybank Kim Eng Research

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As for stocks that are dual-listed in Shanghai and Hong Kong, our analysts

have BUY recommendations based on fundamentals for the following H-

shares: China Shipping Container Lines, China Shipping Development, Great

Wall Motors and Agricultural Bank of China. However, our analyst has a

SELL recommendation on China Merchants Bank.

China Shipping Container Lines and China Shipping Development. Osbert

Tang, our transportation analyst, believes China Shipping Container Lines is

a potential industry restructuring candidate though the process will be a

lengthy one. Valuation-wise it is also more attractive than its A-shares. For

China Shipping Development, he believes the key earnings drivers for the

next two years are higher VLCC profitability, pick-up in domestic coal

freight rate, contribution from LNG transportation and lower fuel

expenses.

Great Wall Motors. KL Lo, our consumer discretionary analyst, believes

sales will be driven by new models and favourable YoY sales comparison in

the coming quarters will also benefit the company. Gross margins will

further improve given better product mix and higher utilization at the new

Xushui plant.

China Merchants Bank. Steven Chan is concerned about the bank’s

weakening asset quality, rising credit costs and declining non-interest

income. The bank’s loan growth also slowed down in 1Q.

Figure 5: Shanghai-Hong Kong dual-listed companies, premium/discount

H-shr price A-shr price Premium/ Rating

H-share A-share Name Sector HKD CNY discount (%) on H-shr

1108 HK 600876 CH Luoyang Glass Industrials 7 20 -72 Not Rated

2727 HK 601727 CH Shanghai Electric Group Industrials 8 23 -71 Not Rated

2866 HK 601866 CH China Shipping Container Lines Industrials 4 10 -71 Buy

553 HK 600775 CH Nanjing Panda Electronics L Information Technology 11 27 -68 Not Rated

38 HK 601038 CH First Tractor Industrials 7 18 -68 Not Rated

300 HK 600806 CH Shenji Group Kunming Machine T* Industrials 4 9 -68 Not Rated

187 HK 600860 CH Beijing Jingcheng Machinery El Industrials 6 15 -67 Not Rated

1033 HK 600871 CH Sinopec Oilfield Service Materials 4 10 -67 Not Rated

2880 HK 601880 CH Dalian Port PDA Industrials 4 10 -67 Not Rated

1919 HK 601919 CH China COSCO Holdings Industrials 6 14 -66 Sell

338 HK 600688 CH Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Materials 4 9 -66 Not Rated

1618 HK 601618 CH Metallurgical Corp of China Industrials 4 10 -66 Not Rated

3993 HK 603993 CH China Molybdenum Materials 7 17 -66 Not Rated

1053 HK 601005 CH Chongqing Iron & Steel Materials 2 6 -66 Not Rated

107 HK 601107 CH Sichuan Expressway Industrials 4 9 -65 Not Rated

1171 HK 600188 CH Yanzhou Coal Mining Energy 7 16 -64 Sell

323 HK 600808 CH Maanshan Iron & Steel Materials 3 7 -63 Sell

1065 HK 600874 CH Tianjin Capital Environmental Industrials 8 17 -63 Not Rated

564 HK 601717 CH Zhengzhou Coal Mining Machiner Industrials 7 14 -63 Not Rated

2899 HK 601899 CH Zijin Mining Group Materials 3 7 -61 Not Rated

2600 HK 601600 CH Aluminum Corp of China Materials 5 9 -61 Sell

588 HK 601588 CH Beijing North Star Financials 4 8 -60 Not Rated

1138 HK 600026 CH China Shipping Development Industrials 6 12 -60 Buy

1766 HK 601766 CH CRRC Corp* Industrials 15 29 -59 Not Rated

995 HK 600012 CH Anhui Expressway Industrials 8 16 -59 Not Rated

390 HK 601390 CH China Railway Group Industrials 10 19 -58 Not Rated

317 HK 600685 CH CSSC Offshore and Marine Engin Industrials 36 68 -58 Not Rated

2883 HK 601808 CH China Oilfield Services Energy 15 27 -58 Not Rated

991 HK 601991 CH Datang International Power Gen Utilities 5 9 -57 Hold

1898 HK 601898 CH China Coal Energy Energy 5 9 -56 Sell

358 HK 600362 CH Jiangxi Copper Materials 15 26 -53 Hold

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1072 HK 600875 CH Dongfang Electric Industrials 18 29 -51 Not Rated

2238 HK 601238 CH Guangzhou Automobile Group Consumer Discretionary 8 13 -51 Sell

670 HK 600115 CH China Eastern Airlines Industrials 6 10 -50 Not Rated

525 HK 601333 CH Guangshen Railway Industrials 5 8 -49 Not Rated

548 HK 600548 CH Shenzhen Expressway Industrials 7 11 -49 Not Rated

1186 HK 601186 CH China Railway Construction Industrials 14 22 -49 Not Rated

2009 HK 601992 CH BBMG Materials 9 13 -45 Not Rated

874 HK 600332 CH Guangzhou Baiyunshan Pharmaceu Health Care 32 45 -43 Not Rated

1800 HK 601800 CH China Communications Construct Industrials 14 19 -43 Not Rated

1055 HK 600029 CH China Southern Airlines Industrials 8 10 -41 Not Rated

857 HK 601857 CH PetroChina Energy 9 12 -41 Sell

3948 HK 900948 CH Inner Mongolia Yitai Coal Energy 9 2 -40 Not Rated

753 HK 601111 CH Air China Industrials 9 12 -37 Not Rated

1336 HK 601336 CH New China Life Insurance Financials 50 61 -35 Not Rated

998 HK 601998 CH China CITIC Bank Financials 7 8 -32 Hold

1088 HK 601088 CH China Shenhua Energy Energy 20 23 -30 Sell

2196 HK 600196 CH Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Health Care 33 37 -29 Not Rated

6818 HK 601818 CH China Everbright Bank Financials 5 6 -29 Not Rated

2607 HK 601607 CH Shanghai Pharmaceuticals Health Care 26 29 -29 Not Rated

902 HK 600011 CH Huaneng Power International In Utilities 11 12 -28 Hold

6837 HK 600837 CH Haitong Securities Financials 24 27 -28 Not Rated

386 HK 600028 CH China Petroleum & Chemical Energy 7 8 -27 Hold

168 HK 600600 CH Tsingtao Brewery Consumer Staples 52 57 -27 Not Rated

1071 HK 600027 CH Huadian Power International Utilities 9 9 -20 Hold

6030 HK 600030 CH CITIC Securities Financials 32 32 -20 Not Rated

3328 HK 601328 CH Bank of Communications Financials 8 7 -19 Hold

1988 HK 600016 CH China Minsheng Banking Financials 11 11 -19 Sell

2628 HK 601628 CH China Life Insurance Financials 37 36 -18 Not Rated

2333 HK 601633 CH Great Wall Motors Consumer Discretionary 52 47 -12 Buy

1288 HK 601288 CH Agricultural Bank of China Financials 4 4 -10 Buy

939 HK 601939 CH China Construction Bank Financials 8 7 -7 Buy

3988 HK 601988 CH Bank of China Financials 5 4 -7 Hold

177 HK 600377 CH Jiangsu Expressway Industrials 11 9 -6 Not Rated

2601 HK 601601 CH China Pacific Insurance Group Financials 41 33 -2 Not Rated

914 HK 600585 CH Anhui Conch Cement Materials 33 26 0 Not Rated

3968 HK 600036 CH China Merchants Bank Financials 25 19 4 Sell

1398 HK 601398 CH Industrial & Commercial Bank Financials 7 5 4 Hold

2318 HK 601318 CH Ping An Insurance Group Financials 115 86 6 Not Rated

Source: Bloomberg, Maybank Kim Eng Research *suspended in A-share market

Strong USD: A strong USD is still the key risk to emerging markets, especially for China.

As mentioned in our first report (Must… Fix… This…, 5 Dec 2014), many

Chinese companies raised a lot of offshore bonds due to expectations of

RMB depreciation, cheaper overseas funding costs and the difficulty of

securing financing inside China. The following chart shows the strong USD

has already attracted capital away from China since the beginning of 2014.

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Figure 6: MSCI China consumer staples relative MSCI China, index performance

Source: Bloomberg, Maybank Kim Eng Research

China property is a sector that has borrowed heavily in the past few years.

Many developers have high net debt/equity multiples. This is why many of

them have done placements recently to rebuild their balance sheets.

Interest rate cuts and small sales pick-up in tier-1 cities do help relieve

some of their financial pressure. However, sluggish sales in tier-2 and tier-

3 cities and high housing inventory remain the major issues for them.

The latest earnings of Lenovo and TCL Communication show the strength of

the USD has started to hurt companies with high exposure to EMs.

Approximately 55-60% of Lenovo’s sales come from EMs/EU/JP. Lenovo’s

1Q15 revenue missed guidance and consensus forecast by 6-7% because of

the strong USD. For TCL Communication, 75-80% of sales are from EMs.

Companies with high exposure to EMs could be the most at risk.

Warren Lau, our technology analyst, has a SELL on Lenovo and HOLD on

TCL Communication. Also, IDC lowered their outlook for PCs and global

smartphones demand. Warren has low expectations for Lenovo to turn

around Moto’s smartphone and IBM’s X-system server business it acquired

in late 2014. He thinks even if the company can lower costs, end-market

demand, competition, pricing and market share are bigger challenges for

Lenovo.

For TCL Communication, Warren believes weaker-than-end-market

demand, a stronger USD, and to a lesser extent increasing competition, are

the key reasons he thinks the Street’s earnings forecast may be too

optimistic.

Risk of rising bond yields: The recent global bond market sell-off has already erased all of this year’s

gains. The poor bond market liquidity, extremely low bond yields

environment in the past few years and a slight improvement of the

economic outlook for Europe have triggered this sharp unwinding. Based on

mean-revision, there is still room for global bond yields to rise further from

the current low levels. There’s a good chance the Fed increases interest

rates in the next six months. This is negative to some interest-rate

sensitive high-yield stocks, eg, REITs and utilities.

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Figure 7: 2-yr bond yield in the US, Germany & HK Figure 8: 10-year bond yield in the US, Germany & HK

Source: Bloomberg, Maybank Kim Eng Research Source: Bloomberg, Maybank Kim Eng Research

The following charts show the inverse correlation between the US 10-year

bond yield and the Hang Seng Utilities index; and the US 10-year bond

yield and the Hang Seng REIT index. Whenever the US 10-year bond yield

moves up, the utilities sector underperforms the Hang Seng Index.

For the REIT sector, the REIT index outperformed the Hang Seng Index

since the US started QE in 2008. In addition, Hong Kong retail sales

enjoyed very strong growth over the past six years, so most of the malls

under the REITs had very strong pricing power on rental. However after

2013, whenever the FED delivered the tightening message, the US 10-year

bond yield has picked up, and the Hang Seng REIT index has

underperformed the market. Singapore REITs have also experienced a

similar change. Also, Hong Kong’s retail sales have slowed down sharply

since 2014, so rental yields might come under pressure as well.

Figure 9: 2-yr bond yield in US, Germany & HK Figure 10: 10-year bond yield in US, Germany & HK

Source: Bloomberg, Maybank Kim Eng Research Source: Bloomberg, Maybank Kim Eng Research

The following is the top 30 high-yield stocks based on our coverage. Within

utilities, we have a HOLD rating on Huaneng Power and it has 10%

downside relative to our target price. Our analyst, Ricky Ng, thinks a new

round of tariff cut (~5.1%) this year could offset the positive impact of

cheaper coal cost. The stock lacks near-term catalysts as the asset

injection from its parent was just recently completed.

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Figure 11: The top 30 high-yield stocks under our universe

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Texwinca 1,392 2 7.8 Buy 8.7 12 12.4 10.8 1.8 1.7 8 9 5 15 14 16

303 HK Industrials VTECH Holdings 3,285 5 101.5 Hold 112.0 10 16.6 15.7 5.7 5.7 6 6 (3) 6 34 36

600104 CH Automotive SAIC Motor Corp 44,522 333 25.1 Buy 31.4 25 8.4 7.6 1.6 1.4 6 7 18 10 20 20

2888 HK Banks Standard Chartered 40,978 33 122.2 Hold 124.0 1 11.1 9.5 0.8 0.8 6 7 39 17 7 8

5 HK Banks HSBC 186,881 245 73.9 Hold 72.5 (2) 13.1 12.7 0.9 0.9 5 6 6 3 7 7

3698 HK Banks Huishang Bank 5,829 3 4.0 Hold 3.7 (7) 5.9 5.0 0.9 0.8 5 6 7 18 16 17

1288 HK Banks Agricultural Bank of

China

199,214 112 4.2 Buy 5.1 21 5.8 5.2 1.0 0.9 5 6 5 13 18 18

991 HK Utilities Datang Intl Power 15,641 12 4.6 Hold 4.5 (1) 8.9 7.9 1.0 0.9 5 6 30 12 12 12

902 HK Utilities Huaneng Power Intl 25,358 33 10.5 Hold 9.5 (10) 10.1 10.0 1.5 1.4 5 5 9 1 16 14

1373 HK Consumer

Disc.

Intl Housewares Retail 201 0 2.2 Buy 2.7 26 11.3 10.0 1.9 1.7 5 5 8 12 17 18

3360 HK Diversified

Financials

Far East Horizon 3,112 14 7.5 Buy 12.5 67 6.7 5.1 1.1 0.9 5 6 29 32 17 20

2618 HK Technology TCL Communication 1,325 9 8.2 Hold 8.0 (2) 7.5 7.1 3.1 2.9 5 5 12 5 44 38

939 HK Banks China Construction Bank 256,219 369 7.8 Buy 9.4 20 6.5 5.6 1.1 1.0 5 5 5 15 18 18

538 HK Consumer

Staples

Ajisen (China) 633 1 4.4 Buy 5.6 27 15.7 12.0 1.4 1.3 4 6 12 31 9 11

1958 HK Automotive BAIC Motor 10,324 10 10.6 Sell 7.9 (25) 11.3 9.5 1.8 1.6 4 5 7 18 16 18

998 HK Banks China CITIC Bank 54,623 71 6.6 Hold 6.8 4 6.1 5.0 0.8 0.7 4 5 (2) 22 14 15

1963 HK Banks Bank of Chongqing 2,763 3 7.7 Buy 9.7 27 5.2 4.3 0.9 0.8 4 5 13 20 19 19

3618 HK Banks Chongqing Rural

Commercial Bank

7,760 12 6.4 Buy 8.3 29 5.8 4.7 1.0 0.9 4 5 22 21 19 20

1398 HK Banks ICBC 307,292 286 6.7 Hold 6.6 (2) 7.0 6.3 1.1 1.0 4 5 (1) 11 17 17

1259 HK Consumer

Staples

China Child Care

Corporation

215 1 1.6 Hold 2.0 23 4.7 4.5 0.7 0.7 4 4 5 4 17 15

3988 HK Banks Bank of China 215,842 261 5.2 Hold 5.6 8 7.1 6.3 1.0 0.9 4 5 (0) 12 15 15

1071 HK Utilities Huadian Power

International

12,157 12 8.8 Hold 8.8 0 8.9 7.7 1.4 1.2 4 5 6 15 18 16

11 HK Banks Hang Seng Bank 38,292 28 155.8 Hold 142.9 (8) 17.7 15.8 1.9 1.9 4 4 2 12 12 12

1190 HK Construction Bolina Holding 363 1 2.8 Sell 2.4 (17) 10.7 9.4 1.9 1.7 4 4 16 14 19 19

836 HK Utilities China Resources Power 13,896 21 22.3 Buy 25.0 12 8.7 7.8 1.2 1.1 4 4 3 11 15 15

6 HK Utilities Power Assets Holdings 20,341 28 73.5 Buy 87.0 18 17.6 17.1 1.2 1.2 4 4 9 3 7 7

1928 HK Macau Gaming Sands China 31,426 81 28.5 Hold 28.2 (1) 22.0 21.9 4.4 4.3 4 4 (48) 0 21 20

811 HK Industrials Xinhua Winshare

Publishing and Media

1,561 2 10.4 Buy 11.0 6 13.2 11.6 1.5 1.4 4 4 13 14 12 13

2380 HK Utilities China Power Intl

Development

5,876 22 6.3 Buy 4.6 (26) 11.6 10.8 1.4 1.2 3 4 3 7 12 12

3328 HK Banks Bank of Communications 87,839 44 7.6 Hold 7.5 (2) 7.9 7.1 0.9 0.8 3 4 (13) 11 12 12

Source: Bloomberg, Maybank Kim Eng Research

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Domestic consumption: YTD, consumer staples is the biggest underperforming sector within MSCI

China. Either relative to MSCI China or consumer discretionary,

performance of the consumer staples index is near the support level and

could start to turn around. Both valuations and earnings upgrades are also

more favourable for staples. Hence we favour consumer staples more than

consumer discretionary. (Long staples, Short discretionary, May 21, 2015.)

The Apr-15 auto sales data show China’s auto market has entered the slow

season (Apr-Sep). The following chart shows the P/BV for auto relative to

food, beverage & tobacco has hit the top-end of the range and auto has

also outperformed food, beverage & tobacco by 43% YoY. Therefore, we

believe weak retail sales and weak top-line growth for the consumer

staples sector should have already been priced in.

Figure 12: Staples rel discretionary, PB Figure 13: Auto rel food, beverage & tobacco, relative PB

Source: CEC, NBS, Maybank Kim Eng Source: NDRC, Maybank Kim Eng

Our consumer staples analysts Jacqueline Ko and Benjamin Ho favour China

Modern Dairy, Want Want, Hengan and Ajisen. They think falling raw

material costs will continue to improve Want Want China’s profit margin

while product-mix upgrade will continue to increase its ASP. Within the

dairy sector, they favour upstream over downstream. Benjamin expects

the price of domestic raw milk will increase in 2H15 and companies that

produce quality raw milk will increase in 2H15 and that they should be

rewarded as they have the flexibility of moving into value-added

categories such as branded pasteurized milk. The key catalysts for China

Modern Dairy are recovering raw milk price in 2H15 HoH, on-track raw milk

volume output and normalizing downstream ex-factory ASP.

Our consumer discretionary analyst KL Lo has SELL ratings on GAC Group

and BAIC Group. He expects Japanese brands will face stiffer pricing

pressure in the coming quarters and GAC is trading at a much higher PER

than its peer Dongfeng (China Auto OEM, 18 May 2015). For BAIC Group, he

thinks Beijing Hyundai is a strong cash generator for the company and

Benz’s operation and earnings are poised to improve on the back of rising

scale, but the company’s proprietary brand strategy remains a drag. He

believes the company will continue to be loss-making in 2015-17E on rising

investment and additional R&D expenses, which will offset the benefits

from scale and cost reduction.

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Alternative energy: Air pollution is a severe problem in China and poses a threat to China’s

public health. Currently, the density of PM 2.5 in Beijing is the highest

among the various Asian cities. The Chinese government published the plan

to tackle air pollution. Its goal is to reduce coal consumption by closing

polluting mills and factories, and switching to alternative energy sources

such as hydro, nuclear and renewable energy. The government has also

announced many favourable policies to create domestic demand.

Within the alternative energy space, Ricky Ng, our utilities analyst, prefers

the China solar downstream sector. It offers the highest IRR within the

energy sector in China, followed by nuclear and then wind power. The

government aims to have 100GW of solar capacity and 200GW of wind by

2020. (Solar farms – a sunrise industry, May 13, 2015.)

Figure 15: China’s power generation in 2014 Figure 16: China’s power capacity target in 2020

Source: CEC, NBS, Maybank Kim Eng Source: NDRC, Maybank Kim Eng

Ricky has BUYs on GCL New Energy and Longyuan Power. Ricky forecasts

robust installation capacity growth for GCL New Energy. He expects

possible synergies between GCL New Energy and its parent, GCL-Poly, on

cost saving and by leveraging the latter’s brand and reputation. GCL New

Energy could be the first to carry out the “Yield Co” business model in

China to further boost capacity. GCL New Energy could spin off the entity

holding operating solar power projects to create another financing channel

to secure cheaper funds to acquire the newly constructed solar projects.

Longyuan Power’s 1Q15 earnings beat expectations due to stronger wind

and coal-fired power generation as well as falling finance expenses. Ricky

is optimistic about Longyuan’s capacity growth as the upcoming fifth batch

of wind project pre-approvals in China will contribute to a sustainable

project pipeline. The total capacity approvals in the fifth batch could be

more than the average of 28GW in the last four batches.

Thermal 75.6%

Hydro 19.0%

Nuclear 2.4%

Wind 2.4%

Solar 0.5%

Coal 60% Hydro

18%

Nuclear 3%

Natural Gas 4%

Wind 10%

Solar 5%

Figure 14: IRR among different power sources

Source: Bloomberg, Maybank Kim Eng Research

6%

8%

10%

12%

14%

16%

18%

20%

Solar Nuclear Wind Coal Hydro

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Figure 17: Hong Kong/China-Focus List

Mkt Cap

3m

T/O Price

TP

Up/

down PER (x) P/BV (x)

Div yield

(%)

EPS

growth (%) ROE (%)

Ticker Sector Company USDm USDm (LC) Rating (LC) side(%) 15E 16E 15E 16E 15E 16E 15E 16E 15E 16E

Financial Reform

1288 HK Banks Agricultural Bank of China 194,134 113 4.2 Buy 5.1 21 5.8 5.2 1.0 0.9 5.1 5.7 5 13 18 18

1963 HK Banks Bank of Chongqing 2,673 3 7.6 Buy 9.7 27 5.2 4.3 0.9 0.8 4.3 5.2 13 20 19 19

939 HK Banks China Construction Bank 251,841 369 7.8 Buy 9.4 20 6.5 5.6 1.1 1.0 4.6 5.3 5 15 18 18

3360 HK Div. Financials Far East Horizon 3,172 14 7.6 Buy 12.5 64 6.7 5.1 1.1 0.9 4.7 5.9 29 32 17 20

Long H-shares, Short A-shares

2866 HK Transport China Shipping Container

Lines

13,767 56 4 Buy 6 54 22.1 15.2 1.3 1.2 0.0 1.0 1,315 45 6 8

1138 HK Transport China Shipping

Development

6,381 22 6 Buy 8 35 23.4 17.0 0.7 0.7 2.3 2.5 922 38 3 4

2333 HK Automotive Great Wall Motors 22,095 57 51 Buy 63 23 10.7 9.1 3.0 2.4 2.8 3.3 44 18 31 30

3968 HK Banks China Merchants Bank 83,201 87 25 Sell 21 (15) 7.9 6.3 1.4 1.2 3.4 4.3 13 26 19 21

Strong USD

992 HK Technology Lenovo Group 17,679 73 12 Sell 9 (28) 19.8 20.1 3.4 3.0 2.0 2.9 2 (1) 21 16

2618 HK Technology TCL Communication 1,325 9 8 Hold 8 (2) 7.5 7.1 3.1 2.9 4.6 4.5 12 5 44 38

Risk on rising bond yield

902 HK Utilities Huaneng Power 25,358 33 11 Hold 9 (10) 10.1 10.0 1.5 1.4 5.1 5.1 9 1 16 14

Domestic Consumption

538 HK Consumer

Staples

Ajisen (China) 622 1 4.6 Buy 5.6 23 15.7 12.0 1.4 1.3 4.5 5.8 12 31 9 11

1117 HK Consumer

Staples

China Modern Dairy 1,924 6 3.1 Buy 3.6 15 9.4 7.8 1.7 1.4 0.8 1.1 52 21 19 20

1044 HK Consumer

Staples

Hengan Intl 14,473 27 90.6 Buy 102.6 13 24.1 21.2 5.7 5.1 2.6 3.0 19 14 25 26

151 HK Consumer

Staples

Want Want China 14,589 28 8.6 Buy 10.3 19 19.3 18.0 5.9 5.1 2.6 2.8 22 7 34 31

1958 HK Consumer

Discretionary

BAIC Motor 10,324 10 11 Sell 8 (25) 11.3 9.5 1.8 1.6 4.4 5 7 18 16 18

2238 HK Consumer

Discretionary

GAC 11,147 12 8 Sell 5 (31) 10.9 9.2 1.1 1.0 3.0 4 16 18 10 11

Alternative Energy

916 HK Energy Longyuan Power 9,702 18 9.6 Buy 12.0 25 13.9 12.3 1.6 1.4 1.4 1.5 69 13 12 12

451 HK Energy GCL New Energy 1,610 9 1.0 Buy 1.6 62 22.3 10.0 3.6 2.6 0.0 0.0 -527 124 18 31

Source: Bloomberg, Maybank Kim Eng

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Performance and valuation summary

Figure 18: Equity performance by country (in local currency terms)

Index level

FX rate

--- Absolute performance (local currency) ---

Name -1w -1m -3m -6m -1y MTD QTD YTD

MSCI All Country World 427

(2) (2) (1) 1 1 (2) 1 2

MSCI Emerging Market 977

(3) (7) 0 (1) (6) (3) 0 2

MSCI Asia Pac (inc JP) 147

(3) (4) 2 5 3 (3) 1 7

MSCI Asia Pac x JP 483

(3) (6) (0) 2 (1) (3) (1) 3

MSCI Asia x JP 598

(3) (5) 3 4 4 (3) 1 6

MSCI Far East x JP 567

(2) (5) 4 6 5 (2) 2 7

MSCI Emerging Asia 485

(3) (5) 2 4 4 (3) 1 6

MSCI EM Latin America 2,493

(0) (9) (1) (13) (23) (0) 2 (9)

MSCI EMMEA 265

(4) (11) (5) (8) (21) (4) (3) (2)

MSCI Frontie 586 1 (3) (3) (7) (16) 1 0 (4)

MSCI Asia x JP Small Cap 1,151

(3) (1) 9 11 7 (3) 7 13

China - Shanghai Composite 5,132 6.2 11 19 58 75 151 11 37 59

China - H-shares 14,114 7.8 0 0 22 22 36 0 14 18

Hong Kong - HSI 27,316 7.8 (0) (2) 13 14 18 (0) 10 16

Taiwan - TAIEX 9,368 31.1 (3) (5) (2) 2 2 (3) (2) 1

Korea - KOSPI 2,065 1,123 (2) (3) 3 4 3 (2) 1 8

Singapore - STI 3,320 1.4 (2) (4) (2) (0) 1 (2) (4) (1)

Malaysia - KLCI 1,739 3.8 (0) (5) (4) (1) (7) (0) (5) (1)

Thailand - SET 1,508 33.8 1 (1) (3) (6) 4 1 0 1

Indonesia - JCI 5,015 13,380 (4) (3) (8) (3) 2 (4) (9) (4)

Philippines - PSEi 7,485 45.0 (1) (5) (4) 4 11 (1) (6) 4

India - Sensex 26,523 64.1 (5) (3) (10) (7) 6 (5) (5) (4)

Vietnam - Ho Chi Minh 580 21,815 2 5 (3) 0 5 2 5 6

Australia ASX 200 5,499 1.3 (5) (6) (7) 3 1 (5) (7) 2

New Zealand - NZX50 5,886 1.4 1 2 0 7 14 1 1 6

Japan - Nikkei 225 20,457 125.3 (1) 5 9 14 36 (1) 7 17

Japan - TOPIX 1,662 125.3 (1) 5 9 15 35 (1) 8 18

S&P 500 2,079 1.0 (1) (0) (1) 0 7 (1) 1 1

Russell 2000 1,254 1.0 1 3 2 6 9 1 0 4

FTSE 100 6,790 1.5 (3) (2) (2) 1 (0) (3) 0 3

Euro Stoxx 3,468 1.1 (3) (2) (4) 6 6 (3) (6) 10

Source: Maybank Kim Eng, Factset, MSCI, data as of 8 June 2015

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Figure 19: Equity performance by country (in USD terms)

Index level

FX rate

--- Absolute performance (USD) ---

Name -1w -1m -3m -6m -1y MTD QTD YTD

MSCI All Country World 427

(2) (2) (1) 1 1 (2) 1 2

MSCI Emerging Market 977

(3) (7) 0 (1) (6) (3) 0 2

MSCI Asia Pac (inc JP) 147

(3) (4) 2 5 3 (3) 1 7

MSCI Asia Pac x JP 483

(3) (6) (0) 2 (1) (3) (1) 3

MSCI Asia x JP 598

(3) (5) 3 4 4 (3) 1 6

MSCI Far East x JP 567

(2) (5) 4 6 5 (2) 2 7

MSCI Emerging Asia 485

(3) (5) 2 4 4 (3) 1 6

MSCI EM Latin America 2,493

(0) (9) (1) (13) (23) (0) 2 (9)

MSCI EMMEA 265

(4) (11) (5) (8) (21) (4) (3) (2)

MSCI Frontie 586 1 (3) (3) (7) (16) 1 0 (4)

MSCI Asia x JP Small Cap 1,151

(3) (1) 9 11 7 (3) 7 13

China - Shanghai Composite 5,132 6.2 11 19 60 73 153 11 37 59

China - H-shares 14,114 7.8 0 0 22 22 36 0 14 18

Hong Kong - HSI 27,316 7.8 (0) (2) 13 14 18 (0) 10 16

Taiwan - TAIEX 9,368 31.1 (5) (6) (1) 2 (1) (5) (2) 2

Korea - KOSPI 2,065 1,123 (4) (7) 1 3 (6) (4) (0) 5

Singapore - STI 3,320 1.4 (3) (6) (2) (3) (7) (3) (3) (4)

Malaysia - KLCI 1,739 3.8 (3) (9) (7) (8) (20) (3) (7) (8)

Thailand - SET 1,508 33.8 0 (4) (7) (8) 0 0 (4) (2)

Indonesia - JCI 5,015 13,380 (5) (5) (11) (11) (10) (5) (11) (11)

Philippines - PSEi 7,485 45.0 (2) (6) (6) 2 8 (2) (6) 3

India - Sensex 26,523 64.1 (5) (4) (13) (10) (2) (5) (7) (5)

Vietnam - Ho Chi Minh 580 21,815 2 4 (5) (2) 2 2 4 4

Australia ASX 200 5,499 1.3 (5) (9) (9) (6) (17) (5) (7) (5)

New Zealand - NZX50 5,886 1.4 0 (5) (5) (2) (5) 0 (5) (4)

Japan - Nikkei 225 20,457 125.3 (2) 0 5 11 11 (2) 2 12

Japan - TOPIX 1,662 125.3 (2) 0 5 11 10 (2) 3 13

S&P 500 2,079 1.0 (1) (0) (1) 0 7 (1) 1 1

Russell 2000 1,254 1.0 1 3 2 6 9 1 0 4

FTSE 100 6,790 1.5 (3) (1) (2) (1) (9) (3) 3 1

Euro Stoxx 3,468 1.1 (0) (2) (2) (3) (12) (0) (2) 2

Source: Maybank Kim Eng, Factset, MSCI, data as of 8 June 2015

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Figure 20: Equity performance by country – relative performance

Index level

FX rate

--- Relative performance to MSCI Asia x Japan ---

Name -1w -1m -3m -6m -1y MTD QTD YTD

MSCI All Country World 427

1 3 (3) (4) (4) 1 (1) (4)

MSCI Emerging Market 977

(0) (2) (2) (5) (10) (0) (1) (4)

MSCI Asia Pac (inc JP) 147

(0) 1 (1) 1 (1) (0) (1) 1

MSCI Asia Pac x JP 483

(1) (1) (3) (3) (6) (1) (2) (3)

MSCI Asia x JP 598

MSCI Far East x JP 567

0 (0) 2 1 1 0 1 1

MSCI Emerging Asia 485

(0) (0) (1) (0) (0) (0) (1) (0)

MSCI EM Latin America 2,493

2 (4) (4) (17) (28) 2 0 (15)

MSCI EMMEA 265

(2) (6) (8) (13) (25) (2) (5) (8)

MSCI Frontie 586 4 2 (5) (12) (21) 4 (1) (10)

MSCI Asia x JP Small Cap 1,151

(1) 3 6 7 2 (1) 6 7

China - Shanghai Composite 5,132 6.2 14 24 57 69 149 14 35 53

China - H-shares 14,114 7.8 3 5 19 17 32 3 13 12

Hong Kong - HSI 27,316 7.8 2 3 10 9 14 2 8 10

Taiwan - TAIEX 9,368 31.1 (2) (1) (4) (3) (5) (2) (3) (4)

Korea - KOSPI 2,065 1,123 (1) (2) (1) (1) (10) (1) (1) (1)

Singapore - STI 3,320 1.4 (0) (1) (4) (7) (11) (0) (4) (10)

Malaysia - KLCI 1,739 3.8 (1) (4) (9) (13) (25) (1) (8) (14)

Thailand - SET 1,508 33.8 3 1 (10) (13) (4) 3 (5) (8)

Indonesia - JCI 5,015 13,380 (2) (0) (13) (16) (14) (2) (13) (17)

Philippines - PSEi 7,485 45.0 0 (1) (9) (2) 3 0 (8) (3)

India - Sensex 26,523 64.1 (2) 1 (15) (15) (6) (2) (9) (11)

Vietnam - Ho Chi Minh 580 21,815 4 9 (8) (6) (2) 4 3 (2)

Australia ASX 200 5,499 1.3 (3) (4) (11) (10) (21) (3) (8) (11)

New Zealand - NZX50 5,886 1.4 3 0 (7) (7) (9) 3 (6) (10)

Japan - Nikkei 225 20,457 125.3 1 5 2 6 7 1 1 6

Japan - TOPIX 1,662 125.3 1 5 2 7 6 1 2 7

S&P 500 2,079 1.0 1 4 (4) (4) 3 1 (1) (5)

Russell 2000 1,254 1.0 3 8 (1) 2 4 3 (1) (2)

FTSE 100 6,790 1.5 (0) 3 (5) (6) (14) (0) 2 (5)

Euro Stoxx 3,468 1.1 2 3 (5) (8) (17) 2 (4) (4)

Source: Maybank Kim Eng, Factset, MSCI, data as of 8 June 2015

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Figure 21: Equity performance by MSCI Asia ex Japan sector

--- Absolute performance ---

Name Index -1w -1m -3m -6m -1y MTD QTD YTD

MSCI Asia ex Japan 598 (3) (5) 3 4 4 (3) 1 6

Energy 579 (1) (7) 4 (1) (13) (1) 5 4

Materials 304 (3) (7) 3 3 (5) (3) 3 7

Industrials 187 (0) (2) 8 12 4 (0) 6 13

Capital goods 175 1 (1) 9 13 0 1 8 15

Transportation 228 (3) (6) 3 7 15 (3) 1 5

Consumer discretionary 467 (6) (10) (7) (12) (21) (6) (7) (8)

Automobiles & Components 724 (9) (14) (12) (16) (24) (9) (13) (12)

Retailing 289 (7) (8) 3 0 1 (7) 2 3

Consumer staples 442 (4) (5) 2 2 1 (4) (1) 5

Food/staples retail 120 (3) (4) 9 2 (8) (3) 7 5

Food/beverage/tobacco 368 (5) (4) (2) (5) (10) (5) (3) (3)

Health care 808 (5) (5) (1) 8 31 (5) (2) 11

Financials 359 (2) (3) 10 10 19 (2) 6 10

Banks 285 (1) (2) 7 6 12 (1) 5 6

Diversified financials 742 (2) (3) 29 27 47 (2) 22 30

Insurance 348 (2) (0) 15 20 42 (2) 9 19

Real estate 205 (3) (8) 3 5 9 (3) 1 7

Technology 370 (4) (6) (4) 3 1 (4) (4) 4

Software services 1,883 (2) (1) 2 9 20 (2) (1) 15

Tech hardware 185 (3) (7) (5) 1 5 (3) (6) 1

Semiconductors/equipment 363 (6) (7) (8) 0 (5) (6) (5) (0)

Telecoms 156 (2) (8) (1) 2 11 (2) (1) 5

Utilities 236 (2) (5) 0 (1) 1 (2) (0) 0

Source: Maybank Kim Eng, Factset, MSCI, data as of 8 June 2015

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Figure 22: Equity performance by MSCI Asia ex Japan sector – relative performance

--- Relative performance MSCI Asia ex Japan ---

Name Index -1w -1m -3m -6m -1y MTD QTD YTD

MSCI Asia ex Japan 598

Energy 579 1 (2) 1 (5) (17) 1 4 (2)

Materials 304 (0) (3) (0) (2) (10) (0) 2 1

Industrials 187 2 3 5 8 (1) 2 5 6

Capital goods 175 3 4 6 9 (4) 3 7 9

Transportation 228 (0) (1) 1 2 11 (0) (0) (1)

Consumer discretionary 467 (4) (5) (10) (16) (25) (4) (9) (14)

Automobiles & Components 724 (7) (9) (15) (20) (28) (7) (14) (18)

Retailing 289 (4) (3) 1 (4) (3) (4) 0 (3)

Consumer staples 442 (1) 0 (1) (2) (3) (1) (2) (1)

Food/staples retail 120 (0) 1 6 (2) (12) (0) 5 (1)

Food/beverage/tobacco 368 (2) 1 (5) (9) (14) (2) (4) (9)

Health care 808 (2) (0) (3) 4 26 (2) (3) 5

Financials 359 1 2 7 6 14 1 5 4

Banks 285 2 3 4 2 8 2 3 (1)

Diversified financials 742 1 2 26 22 43 1 20 24

Insurance 348 1 5 12 16 37 1 8 13

Real estate 205 (1) (4) 1 0 4 (1) 0 1

Technology 370 (1) (1) (7) (2) (4) (1) (6) (2)

Software services 1,883 0 4 (0) 5 16 0 (2) 9

Tech hardware 185 (1) (2) (8) (4) 0 (1) (7) (5)

Semiconductors/equipment 363 (3) (2) (11) (4) (10) (3) (6) (6)

Telecoms 156 1 (3) (4) (2) 7 1 (3) (1)

Utilities 236 1 (0) (2) (5) (4) 1 (2) (6)

Source: Maybank Kim Eng, Factset, MSCI, data as of 8 June 2015

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Figure 23: MSCI country valuation

PER (x) EPS growth YoY (%) RoE (%) P/BV (x) DY (%)

2014F 2015F 2016F 2014F 2015F 2016F 2014F 2015F 2016F 2014F 2015F 2016F 2014F 2015F 2016F

Asia-ex-Japan

13.5 13.0 11.8 8 10 10 12 11 12 1.6 1.5 1.4 2.6 2.6 2.8 China

10.9 12.1 10.6 6 7 14 14 13 13 1.5 1.6 1.4 3.0 2.5 2.9

Hong Kong

14.0 17.5 16.0 31 (18) 10 10 8 8 1.4 1.4 1.3 3.4 2.7 2.9

Taiwan

14.6 12.7 12.0 28 13 6 13 13 13 1.9 1.7 1.6 2.9 3.7 4.0

Korea

12.3 9.8 9.2 (8) 32 6 9 10 10 1.1 1.0 0.9 1.4 1.6 1.6

Singapore

13.9 13.7 12.6 15 0 9 10 10 10 1.4 1.3 1.2 3.5 3.7 4.0

Malaysia

17.3 16.1 14.7 4 8 9 12 11 12 2.0 1.8 1.7 3.0 3.1 3.4

Thailand

18.3 14.5 12.8 (23) 26 13 12 14 14 2.2 2.0 1.8 2.8 3.0 3.3

Indonesia

17.3 15.6 13.7 11 7 14 20 19 19 3.5 2.9 2.5 2.2 2.4 2.6

Philippines

22.7 20.1 17.9 23 13 12 14 14 14 3.3 2.8 2.6 2.0 1.9 2.0

India

21.3 19.2 16.1 9 14 19 15 15 16 3.2 3.0 2.6 1.4 1.5 1.7

Japan 17.2 16.9 15.2 19 13 11 9 9 9 1.5 1.5 1.4 1.7 1.8 1.9

US

18.3 17.7 15.8 5 5 12 14 15 16 2.8 2.7 2.5 2.0 2.1 2.2 Europe

18.6 15.2 13.6 15 37 11 9 9 9 1.5 1.5 1.5 3.7 3.5 3.8

Source: Maybank Kim Eng, Factset, MSCI, Bloomberg data as of 8 June 2015

Figure 24: MSCI Asia ex-Japan sector valuation

PER (x) EPS growth YoY (%) RoE(%) P/BV (x) DY (%)

2014F 2015F 2016F 2014F 2015F 2016F 2014F 2015F 2016F 2014F 2015F 2016F 2014F 2015F 2016F

Asia-ex-Japan

13.5 13.0 11.8 8 10 10 12 11 12 1.6 1.5 1.4 2.6 2.6 2.8

Energy

12.6 14.9 11.4 (22) (13) 31 9 7 9 1.1 1.1 1.0 3.1 2.4 3.0

Materials

19.0 14.9 12.8 (13) 46 16 6 8 9 1.1 1.2 1.1 2.5 2.6 2.6

Industrials

20.5 16.4 14.3 14 53 15 7 9 9 1.4 1.4 1.3 2.8 2.0 2.2 Capital goods

18.7 15.9 13.7 15 51 16 7 8 9 1.3 1.3 1.2 3.1 1.9 2.0

Transportation 25.2 27.9 17.6 15.8 11 62 11 6 9 9 1.6 1.6 1.5 2.1 2.3

Consumer discretionary 11.1 12.0 11.2 10.0 (5) 6 12 14 13 13 1.7 1.5 1.3 2.3 2.4 Automobiles & Components 8.3 8.7 7.8 7.1 (5) 8 10 15 14 14 1.3 1.1 1.0 1.7 2.1 Retailing

18.0 17.2 14.8 (2) 21 16 8 9 10 1.5 1.6 1.4 1.8 1.7 1.9

Consumer staples 25.3 26.5 23.5 20.4 5 24 15 12 13 13 3.1 3.0 2.7 1.8 1.8 Food/staples retail 25.3 26.7 26.1 21.8 (16) 34 20 7 8 9 2.0 2.0 1.9 1.8 1.8 Food/beverage/tobacco 22.5 23.1 20.0 17.7 6 22 13 12 12 13 2.6 2.4 2.2 2.1 2.1

Health care

29.3 28.2 22.7 28 24 24 14 15 16 4.2 4.3 3.7 0.8 0.8 0.9

Financials

11.0 11.2 10.3 14 9 9 11 11 11 1.3 1.2 1.1 3.1 3.0 3.2 Banks

8.8 8.9 8.2 9 8 8 14 13 13 1.2 1.2 1.1 3.9 3.7 4.0

Diversified financials 15.3 15.9 16.0 14.2 51 35 12 12 14 14 2.0 2.2 2.0 2.3 2.5 Insurance

17.1 17.1 15.2 41 15 12 12 11 11 2.0 1.9 1.7 1.3 1.4 1.6

Real estate

13.3 13.7 12.3 7 (1) 11 7 6 7 0.9 0.9 0.8 3.3 3.1 3.3

Technology

14.3 12.7 11.6 6 12 9 16 16 15 2.3 2.0 1.8 1.8 2.2 2.5 Software services 29.3 32.0 27.6 22.8 28 21 21 25 24 23 7.9 6.5 5.3 0.8 0.9 Tech hardware 10.8 10.8 9.9 9.2 37 9 7 13 13 13 1.4 1.3 1.2 2.1 2.5 Semiconductors/equipment 13.2 13.8 11.5 10.7 48 13 8 20 20 19 2.8 2.3 2.0 2.2 3.1

Telecoms

18.8 17.2 15.8 0 9 9 12 12 13 2.3 2.1 2.0 3.2 3.4 3.6

Utilities

9.4 11.5 12.9 100 (13) (11) 16 13 11 1.6 1.5 1.4 2.8 2.9 3.1

Source: Maybank Kim Eng, Factset, MSCI, Bloomberg data as of 8 June 2015

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ONG Seng Yeow

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MALAYSIA

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• Software Technology • Telcos

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Gregory YAP (65) 6231 5848 [email protected] • SMID Caps • Technology & Manufacturing • Telcos

YEAK Chee Keong, CFA (65) 6231 5842 [email protected] • Offshore & Marine

Derrick HENG, CFA (65) 6231 5843 [email protected] • Transport • Property • REITs (Office)

Joshua TAN (65) 6231 5850 [email protected] • REITs (Retail, Industrial)

WEI Bin (65) 6231 5844 [email protected] • Commodity • Logistics • S-chips

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VIETNAM

NGUYEN Thi Ngan Tuyen, Head of Retail Research (84) 8 44 555 888 x 8081 [email protected] • Food & Beverage • Oil&Gas • Banking

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India Manish Modi [email protected] Tel: (91)-22-6623-2601

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