China / Hong Kong Industry Focus China Property Sector Refer to important disclosures at the end of this report DBS Group Research . Equity 14 Nov 2017 Whose sales growth can outperform in 2018? HSI: 29,152 · Increasingly high share price sensitivity to presales ANALYST growth compared with previous three years and this Danielle WANG CFA, +852 2820 4915 is likely to continue
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[email protected] · Consolidation in the land market YTD likely to Trista QIN +852 2863 8820 support developers’ market share gain in 2018
[email protected] · Sunac (1918 HK), KWG (1813 HK), CIFI (884 HK) and Country Garden (2007 HK)’s land acquisition pace topped other developers we track Share price performance this year has been highly sensitive to Recommendation & valuation contracted sale growth. We explored various factors’ relationships with the share price performance YTD. We found that the FY18F correlation between developers’ presales growth and share price Target Mkt Company Price Price Rec Cap PE performance has recovered to a high level comparable with 2013 HK$ HK$ US$bn x after hitting the lowest level in 2014. We believe this is due to a CIFI Holdings 4.05 n.a. NR 3.9 5.3 change in the profile of investors that resulted in southbound (884 HK) money being more active in the market. We see this continuing in KWG Property 7.95 n.a. NR 3.2 4.8 2018.