Equities Hong Kong/China Initial Coverage Company Report Shenzhen Investment (604 HK) 3 August 2016 HK & China / Property Uprising with Shenzhen Headquartered in Shenzhen and having listed on HKEx for over 19 BUY years, SZI is the largest property developer operated under the Share Target administration of Shenzhen SASAC. Owning 12 projects in Upside Shenzhen and 17 in other cities covering industrial, commercial Price Price and residential estates, SZI’s business is mainly divided into three HK$3.21 HK$5.05 57.32% components: property development, property leasing and operating, property management. (as of 1 August 2016) Unparalleled advantage in land acquisition. Benefiting from being the largest exchange-listed real estate developer under August Zhan Shenzhen SASAC, SZI has been enjoying the surging Shenzhen (852) 2106 8172 market ever since the corporate shifted its prime focus back to
[email protected] Shenzhen in 2012. In FY15, SZI recorded 7.02 million sq m net sales area in Shenzhen, contributing for 57% of its total FY15 52 Range (HK$) 2.4-3.72 contracted sales, and the ASP for Shenzhen area was Rmb52,598/sq m compared with nationwide Rmb16,857/sq m. In DVD yield % 5.03 FY15, the gross profit margin for Shenzhen projects stood at 49.6% compared with 39.8% for other tier-1 cities and 10.5% for Latest Key Data tier-2 cities and under. FF no of shares (m) -H share 2,898 Solid yet ambitious financial position. With SZI’s further FF (%) -H share 39.24 issuance of domestic corporate bonds (approved quota of FF market cap (HK$ m) 9,302 Rmb20bn, around 45% was issued by the end of FY15) and new 12M daily turnover (HK$ m) 43.20 capital shares, we expect its cost of borrowing to further decline to 12M volatility (%) 47.92 below 4.5% in FY16E and 4.2% in FY18E.