[Today's focus]

Nai Xue's Tea (02150.HK): Net increase of 166 Nai Xue's tea directly-managed stores in the third quarter

Nai Xue's Tea (02150.HK) announced that in the third quarter of 2023, within this quarter, the group recorded a net addition of 166 Nai Xue's tea directly-managed stores and shut down 5 Nai Xue's tea directly-managed stores. As of September 30, 2023, the Group operated a total of 1,360 directly managed tea stores in Naxue.

In addition to Nai Xue's directly managed tea stores, as of September 30, 2023, the group has operated a total of 4 Nai Xue tea franchise stores. Currently, Nai Xue's tea franchise stores are mainly concentrated in middle- and low-tier cities.

In late July 2023, the company officially announced that it would be open to the main brand to join. At the end of September 2023, the first batch of franchise stores located in Suqian, Yangzhou, Taizhou and other places in East China began operations or trial operations one after another. On the product side, the company launched a campaign for RMB 9.9 to buy fresh milk tea this quarter, and expects to continue to launch similar activities for some time to come. Within this quarter, the share of fresh milk tea sales increased significantly, which may help boost the Group's winter sales performance. In terms of marketing, the company continues to attract consumers to try out new products and buy again through joint campaigns and other methods. During this quarter, the company collaborated with Magica Girl Sakura and Jay Chou's classic album “Fantasey” to launch products, which received a good market response.

[Important matters]

China Wallet (00802.HK): Regulators visited the company's head office and main place of business in Hong Kong

China Information Technology (08178.HK) and Yigao International form a strategic partnership to explore tokenization of corporate bonds

Changda Holdings (01433.HK): Construction of the new Bangladesh plant was completed on October 17

[Financial results]

The profit of GCL Technology (03800.HK) PV Materials Business Division from July to September was about 921 million yuan

Taobo (06110.HK)'s net profit for the first half of the year increased 16.7% year-on-year to 1,337 billion yuan

Hongxin Construction & Development (09930.HK)'s operating income and profit attributable to shareholders both grew rapidly in the third quarter

[Operational data]

China Taiping (00966.HK)'s original premium income from January to September reached 168.459 billion yuan, up 10.79% year-on-year

Taobo (06110.HK) The total sales amount of the Group's retail and wholesale business in the second quarter of the 2023/24 fiscal year recorded a low year-on-year decline in units

Datang New Energy (01798.HK) completed 1.904 million megawatt-hours of power generation in September, a year-on-year decrease of 13.28%

[Pharmaceutical Innovation]

Shandong Xinhua Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (00719.HK): Obtained a drug registration certificate for apixaban tablets

China Biotech Services (08037.HK) and AstraZeneca Investment (China) signed a strategic cooperation agreement to cooperate on immunocyte therapy, etc.

[Acquisition and sale]

ALCO HOLDINGS (00328.HK) plans to sell all shares of Aigao Electronics (Shenzhen) for 4 million yuan

[Equity Incentives]

Bubble Mart (09992.HK) awarded 4.77 million bonus shares

[Issuance of additional shares]

Hong Kong Aerospace Technology (01725.HK) successfully issued HK$700 million convertible notes to Macquarie Bank

[Increase or decrease holdings]

China Railway Construction Group, the controlling shareholder of China Railway Construction (01186.HK), increased its holdings of A shares by 2.4 million shares

The controlling shareholder of China Express (03969.HK) increased its holdings of the company's A shares by 2 million shares

[Repurchase Cancellation]

AIA (01299.HK) spent HK$135 million to repurchase 1.94 million shares on October 18

Standard Chartered Group (02888.HK) spent £18.265,700 to repurchase 2,445,300 shares on October 17

HSBC Holdings (00005.HK) spent HK$89.15 million to repurchase 1,436,000 shares on October 16

Kuaishou-W (01024.HK) spent HK$79.78 million to repurchase 1.4 million shares on October 18

On October 18, China Petroleum & Chemical Co., Ltd. (00386.HK) spent 5.91175 million yuan to repurchase 10,000 59,900 A-shares

On October 18, COSCO Marine Control (01919.HK) spent 52.182 million yuan to repurchase 5.341 million A-shares

On October 18, Haitong Securities (06837.HK) spent 2,6797 million yuan to repurchase 2,648,000 A-shares

Chuangke Industrial (00669.HK) spent HK$17.1379 million to repurchase 250,000 shares on October 18

Shell-W (02423.HK) spent $1.57 million to buy back 300,000 shares on October 17

Yum China (09987.HK) spent $1.5 million to buy back 28,300 shares on October 17

Dongfeng Group Shares (00489.HK) spent HK$9.881,800 to repurchase 3.157,000 shares on October 18

Xiansheng Pharmaceutical (02096.HK) spent HK$9.817,500 to repurchase 1.52 million shares on October 18

ESR (01821.HK) spent HK$9.16 million to repurchase 840,000 shares on October 18

Jinshan Software (038888.HK) spent HK$8 million to repurchase 300,000 shares on October 18

On October 18, Junshi Biotech (01877.HK) spent 6.9 million yuan to repurchase 171,000 A-shares

Jinke Services (09666.HK) spent HK$5.69 million to repurchase 600,000 shares on October 18

On October 18, Haohai Biotechnology (06826.HK) spent 4.928 million yuan to repurchase 47,600 A-shares

On October 18, Gushengtang (02273.HK) spent HK$3.73 million to repurchase 80,000 shares

Conch Venture (00586.HK) spent HK$3.41 million to repurchase 540,000 shares on October 18

Bairong Yun-W (06608.HK) spent HK$3,012,000 to repurchase 300,000 shares on October 18

China Wangwang (00151.HK) spent HK$2,463,900 to repurchase 500,000 shares on October 18

Greentown Services (02869.HK) spent HK$1,883 million to repurchase 620,000 shares on October 18

Bank of East Asia (00023.HK) spent HK$1,9701,000 to repurchase 204,400 shares on October 18

Fosun International (00656.HK) spent HK$1.88 million to repurchase 397,500 shares on October 18

Clarion Pharmaceutical-B (01672.HK) spent HK$1,745,500 to repurchase 1 million shares on October 18

Australian Energy Construction (01183.HK) cancelled 10.254 million shares and repurchased shares on October 18