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Zhongzheng International is a Bermuda-incorporated, Hong Kong-listed micro-cap holding company in the middle of a forced restructuring. Its operating core is Fairform Manufacturing, a decades-old original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and private-label maker of powered oral-care and hair-trimming devices, sold mainly to US customers. Fairform is moving from owning a Dongguan factory to an asset-light, subcontracted "agile" model. In June 2026 the group bolted on Elise Beauty, a Foshan-based SaaS and digital-enablement provider serving about 200 PRC beauty salons and medical-aesthetic centres. It is exiting its Indonesian coal concession (sale agreed August 2026 for US$1.2M). It previously exited PRC property development and money lending. The balance sheet is dominated by a 35% stake in a stalled Malaysian waterfront development (Pacific Memory, HK$541.5M carrying value), funded largely by shareholder loans from a director. The company is deeply loss-making: FY2026 net loss was HK$86.5M on HK$70.4M of revenue, and the auditor's opinion is qualified. --- ### Company's own description (latest filing) In [FY26P], the company describes its principal activities in FY2026 as: - manufacture and sale of healthcare and household products; - coal mining; and - research and development of software applications for the beauty and wellness industry. The company itself is an investment holding company. It reports three segments for FY2026: - Healthcare and household products - Coal mining - Beauty and wellness (new in FY2026, following the Elise Beauty acquisition) The legacy money-lending book is recorded under "corporate and unallocated" [FY26P]. ### Independent characterisation Economically, Zhongzheng today is three assets with very different characters. **(i) Fairform, a shrinking OEM toothbrush and trimmer maker.** - Segment revenue fell from HK$115.2M in FY2025 to HK$69.1M in FY2026. - The main cause is that a major US customer moved sourcing of kids' battery-powered and manual toothbrushes out of China. - Fairform's two largest customers generated HK$46.1M in FY2026 (Customer A HK$11.2M; Customer B HK$34.9M), about 65% of group revenue [FY26P]. - In FY2025 the largest customer alone was 55% of group sales and the top five were 97% [AR25]. **(ii) Elise Beauty, a nascent, profitable-at-target PRC vertical SaaS business.** - Only about two weeks of results were consolidated in FY2026: HK$0.9M revenue and HK$0.3M profit. - Group pro-forma revenue had it been owned all year would have been HK$95.6M. That implies Elise's standalone annual revenue is roughly HK$26M (derived; not separately disclosed). **(iii) A 35% equity-accounted associate, Pacific Memory Sdn Bhd.** - Pacific Memory owns an undeveloped commercial and leisure land bank at Port Dickson, Malaysia. - At HK$541.5M it is about 72% of total assets of HK$754.6M. - It generated losses of HK$43.1M attributable to the group in FY2026, driven by cost-escalation impairments [FY26P]. ### Business and revenue model mix [FY26P] | Revenue type | FY2026 | % of total | Recognition | |---|---|---|---| | Product sales (healthcare & household devices, plus raw material and mould trading) | 69.12 | 98.1% | Point in time | | IT service fees: beauty and wellness SaaS (subscription-type) | 0.91 | 1.3% | Over time | | Coal royalty / concession fees | 0.40 | 0.6% | Point in time | | Money-lending interest | 0.00 | 0.0% | n/a | | Total | 70.43 | 100% | — | ### Value-chain position, customers and end markets **Fairform: contract manufacturer / private-label producer:** - Sits upstream of global and US oral-care brands and retailers. - Customers are concentrated B2B brand owners in the US, Germany and the UK, plus traders in Hong Kong and other markets. - Credit terms are 0–120 days. - It is building B2B e-commerce (an international platform where it ranked in the top 10% of its sector by inquiry volume) and B2C proprietary brands. These were described as "insignificant" in revenue [AR25]. - **Elise Beauty (operating company: Foshan Yimeizhong Software Technology Co., Ltd., 佛山市伊美眾軟件科技有限公司).** - B2B software vendor to beauty salons and medical-aesthetic clinics in Guangdong. - Also extends small entrusted loans to its customers: HK$3.7M outstanding, 48-month term, 1–1.1% interest [FY26P]. **Coal (being exited):** - PT Bara does not mine itself. A contractor mines and pays royalties: PT Nusantara Energi Thermal from September 2023, then PT Barindo Multi Sejahtera ("BMS") from October 2025.

Zhongyu Energy is a mid-sized, privately controlled city-gas distributor in Mainland China, headquartered for listing purposes in Hong Kong. It holds 74 exclusive piped-gas franchises across 11 provinces. The franchises are concentrated in Henan (28) and Hebei (21). At end-2025 the company served about 5.40 million residential households and 35,340 industrial and commercial (I&C) customers over 28,597 km of intermediate and main pipelines (FY2025 results). Gas sales generate more than 80% of revenue but earn thin margins: the gross margin on piped gas was 7.4% in FY2025. Connection fees, at a 75% gross margin, historically supplied a disproportionate share of profit. That stream is now shrinking with China's property downturn. Management's answer is a pivot from "city-gas distributor" to "integrated energy service provider." In 2025 the smart-energy strategy was re-centred on biomass gasification through the acquisition of Guangdong Baojie Environmental Protection Technology. The equity story combines a low price-to-book multiple (≈0.8x) with high leverage (net gearing 1.49x at H1 2026), a 55% effective tax rate, ageing receivables, and two auditor changes in roughly twelve months. --- ### Company's own description (FY2025 Annual Results / Annual Report) The company describes itself as principally engaged in four activities: 1. Investment, operation and management of gas pipeline infrastructure, and distribution of piped gas to residential, industrial and commercial users. 2. Development of smart energy. 3. Sales of stoves and provision of related value-added services. 4. Operation of CNG/LNG vehicle filling stations in the PRC. The chairman's FY2025 statement sets out a dual mandate. The first part is to deepen the city-gas business, strengthen safe supply, optimise the gas-source structure and extend services (gas insurance, appliances, pipeline "aesthetic improvement"). The second is to execute a transformation strategy built around biomass, described in the results announcement as "focusing on biomass business to carry out zero-carbon coupling business." The stated long-term vision is to become the "most valuable integrated energy service provider." ### Independent characterization In economic terms, Zhongyu is a regulated-franchise gas distribution utility with a merchant gas-trading overlay. It is attempting a capital-light-to-capital-moderate diversification into industrial decarbonisation services. Its revenue model has four distinct economic engines. **1. Commodity pass-through (sales of gas; 82.9% of FY2025 revenue).** Gas is bought from upstream suppliers (PipeChina-connected majors and LNG sources) at an average RMB2.66/m³ in FY2025. It is resold at regulated or negotiated tariffs: - Residential RMB2.65/m³ - Industrial RMB3.44/m³ - Commercial RMB3.87/m³ - Wholesale RMB2.48/m³ - LNG wholesale RMB2.98/m³ Margin is the spread. Residential tariffs sat at or slightly below average purchase cost in FY2025 (RMB2.65 vs RMB2.66 before distribution cost of RMB0.22/m³). This shows the dependence on government-approved price linkage. Wholesale and LNG trading, including international LNG trading revenue of HK$2.77bn in FY2025, inflates revenue at near-zero margin. **2. Connection fees (gas pipeline construction; 6.7%).** These are one-off fees for connecting new residential households (average RMB2,906 per household in FY2025) and I&C customers. Gross margins are 70–78%. This is effectively a toll on new housing completions and old-community retrofits. **3. Smart / integrated energy (5.4%).** This covers distributed photovoltaics, energy management contracts (EMC), district/park energy (steam, heat, cooling, power), low-carbon transport energy, and, since 2025, biomass gasification equipment and heat supply via Guangdong Baojie. **4. Value-added services and retail (3.6%).** Own-brand kitchen appliances ("Zhongyu Phoenix"), the online retail platform "Zhongyu iFamille," gas insurance, interior/pipeline beautification ("Zhongyu Aijia"), and, in 2025–26, one-off property sales booked within this segment. **5. CNG/LNG vehicle filling stations (1.4%).** A structurally declining legacy business. ### Revenue model mix (FY2025) | Revenue type | FY2025 HK$M | Share | Character | |---|---|---|---| | Product (gas, CNG/LNG, appliances) | ≈10,606 | ≈85% | Commodity resale, point-in-time recognition | | Construction / service (connections) | 835 | 6.7% | Over-time recognition | | Integrated energy services (smart energy) | 668 | 5.4% | Mixed product/service, long-term EMC-type contracts | | Other VAS (insurance, services, property sales) | ≈335 | ≈2.7% | Service/one-off | Source: FY2025 results, Note 3. Revenue recognised at a point in time was HK$11,609m and over time HK$835m. Subscription and licensing revenue: none disclosed. ### Value-chain position, customers and end-markets Zhongyu sits midstream-to-downstream. It does not own upstream gas production. It procures pipeline gas and LNG, operates local distribution grids and LNG/CNG logistics, and sells to end-users. The customer mix in FY2025, by gas sales revenue, was: - Industrial customers: 47.3% - Wholesale: 25.2% - Residential: 21.5% - Commercial: 6.0% No single customer exceeds 10% of group revenue (FY2025 results, Note 4). End-markets are concentrated in northern and central China's industrial belt (Henan and Hebei ceramics, building materials and manufacturing users) and in household heating and cooking. Coal-to-gas conversion programmes in Hebei and Henan drove volume growth in 2017–2021. They have also left a tail of government receivables.

Zhongxin Fruit and Juice is a Singapore-incorporated, Catalist-listed investment holding company. Its operating assets are in China's apple belt. It processes fresh apples and pears into concentrated apple juice, concentrated pear juice, fructose, fruit essence and pomace. These are industrial ingredients for beverage, cider, dairy and confectionery manufacturers. It is effectively a captive production platform of its 53.11% parent, SDIC Zhonglu Fruit Juice, one of China's two dominant apple-juice-concentrate (AJC) producers. In FY2026, 99.6% of Zhongxin's revenue was sold to the SDICZL group, which handles export marketing to multinational food and beverage customers in the United States, the EU, South Africa and Japan. The group runs one active wholly-owned plant (Yuncheng Zhongxin, Shanxi) and one suspended plant (Xuzhou Zhongxin, Jiangsu) that is subject to a government relocation notice. It also holds a 50%-owned joint-venture plant (Linyi SDIC Zhonglu, Shanxi). Each plant processes about 40 tonnes of apples per hour. The investment case is a deep-value, low-liquidity, related-party-dependent agri-processing exposure. It is profitable but has no dividend capacity while accumulated losses persist at company level. --- ### Company's own description (AR2025, paraphrased) Annual Report 2025 describes the company as a subsidiary of SDIC Zhonglu Fruit Juice Co., Ltd., which it calls the world's leading producer of fruit and vegetable juice concentrates and beverages. The group's primary business is producing concentrated apple juice, mainly for export to multinational F&B corporations in the US, EU, South Africa and Japan via SDICZL. The juice is used as an ingredient in packet juice drinks, soft drinks, cider, yoghurt and candies. The group has: - two wholly-owned subsidiaries: Yuncheng Zhongxin Fruit & Juice Company Limited and Xuzhou Zhongxin Fruit & Juice Company Limited; - one 50%-owned joint venture: Linyi SDIC Zhonglu Fruit Juice Co., Ltd. Each facility is described as having apple processing capacity of 40 tonnes per hour. Each can produce roughly 10,000–15,000 tonnes of AJC per year. The company states that it aligns with the Ministry of Agriculture's "National R&D Center for Apple Processing" for new product development. It intends to: - broaden into other value-added products; - develop by-products from juice residues, such as animal feed, pectin and dietary fibre; - in the future, extend into the health food sector. ### Independent characterisation | Revenue model component | Share of FY2026 revenue | Notes | |---|---|---| | Product sales | 100% | All revenue is recognised at a point in time | | Services | 0% | None disclosed | | Subscription | 0% | Not applicable | | Licensing | 0% | Not applicable | Zhongxin is best understood as a contract-style tolling and processing platform embedded in the SDICZL supply chain, rather than an independent juice marketer. **Revenue concentration.** In FY2026: - RMB182.96 million of RMB183.71 million revenue (99.6%) was sold to SDICZL and its group. - 100% of trade receivables were owed by SDICZL. **Value-chain position.** The group sits in the primary-processing tier. It procures fresh apples and pears from farmers and suppliers in Shanxi during the harvest season (August–December, i.e., 1H of the fiscal year). It then evaporates and concentrates the juice, stores the concentrate, and sells it through the parent's export channel. **Financing intertwined with the parent.** - SDICZL pays partly in promissory notes. Zhongxin endorses these notes to banks to obtain trade financing. - SDICZL also provides interest-bearing, on-demand working-capital advances. - Zhongxin charges SDICZL interest (3.00–3.10% p.a. in FY2026) on overdue trade receivables. **Revenue model.** **Customer types.** Direct customer: the SDICZL group. End customers (via SDICZL): multinational beverage, cider, dairy and confectionery manufacturers. Pomace is sold locally. **End-markets served.** - Fruit juice and juice drinks - Soft drinks - Cider - Yoghurt and dairy - Confectionery - Fructose for food and beverage formulation (a growing share since FY2024) - Animal feed (pomace) **Seasonality.** Raw materials are procured and juice is produced mainly in 1H of the fiscal year for full-year supply. The company says sales are not significantly seasonal. In practice, half-year revenue swings have been large; for example, 1H FY2025 revenue was about 138% higher than 2H FY2025.

Zhongmin Baihui is a small, founder-controlled, Singapore-listed S-chip operating two distinct retail businesses in the People's Republic of China. Its legacy business is a chain of integrated department stores and supermarkets in Fujian Province under the 中闽百汇 brand, which generates almost all consolidated revenue (RMB919.7 million in FY2026), predominantly from direct merchandise sales including gold and Kweichow Moutai liquor. This business operates on thin and declining margins, recording a loss before equity-accounted income in FY2026. Its growth business is the asset-light management of large outlet malls outside Fujian — Changsha (Hunan), Wuxi (Jiangsu) and, since January 2026, Lvliang (Shanxi) — held through associates and joint ventures that pay no rent for the malls. Equity-accounted income from these vehicles (RMB54.6 million in FY2026) now exceeds group pre-tax profit, making the company's earnings profile closer to a mall-management holding company than a department-store operator. --- ### Company's own description In its FY2023 Annual Report the company describes itself as a retailer with more than 20 years of experience in China, operating integrated department stores and supermarkets in Fujian under the 中闽百汇 name and large outlet malls in Hunan and Jiangsu. It states a mission of offering a quality shopping experience to middle-income consumers, optimising its product mix through relationships with international and domestic brands, and adhering to the principles of Unity, Dedication, Faithfulness and Service (团结、敬业、忠诚、服务). The FY2026 results announcement describes the company as an investment holding company whose subsidiaries own, operate and manage a chain of department stores and retail stores, and states that no segment reporting is presented because operations are solely in the retail industry in China. ### Business model and revenue model The Fujian stores generate revenue from four contractual streams, as defined by the company: 1. **Direct sales** — merchandise purchased and sold by the Group (supermarket goods, fresh produce, gold, Maotai liquor, other goods). Revenue is recognised gross; this is the only stream carrying cost of sales. RMB821.3 million in FY2026 (89.3% of revenue). 2. **Commission from concessionaire sales** — brands operate counters within the stores; the Group books a commission on concessionaire gross sales. RMB61.6 million in FY2026 on gross concessionaire sales of RMB352.6 million (implied commission rate 17.5%). 3. **Rental income** — fixed rent from tenants occupying store space. RMB28.2 million in FY2026. 4. **Managed rental** — income from managed rental arrangements. RMB8.6 million in FY2026. The company also reports gross sales proceeds (direct sales + gross concessionaire sales + rental + managed rental) as an indicator of throughput: RMB1,210.7 million in FY2026. **Other income** is a material profit line (RMB93.3 million in FY2026, 47% of gross profit). Disclosed components include management fees (charged to director-related entities), advertisement and promotion fees charged to suppliers and concessionaires, leisure facilities income, lease-related gains, and in FY2026 a one-off promotional service income of RMB11.9 million. The outlet-mall business is not consolidated. The Group holds an effective 24.225% interest in the operating and management entity of Changsha Sasseur (ZMBH) Outlets (an associate), a 51% joint-venture interest in the operator of Wuxi Yueshang Outlets, and a 51% interest in Shanxi Baihui Yueshang Commercial Management Co., Ltd., operator of the Intime (悦尚时光里) mall in Lvliang. Per the August 2025 media release, these operating entities do not own the stores, earn rents and charges from tenants, and do not pay rent for the malls themselves. The Group's economic interest therefore reaches shareholders through share of results, dividends and repayment of shareholder loans. ### Value-chain position, customers and end-markets **Value-chain position:** downstream physical retail (Fujian) and retail property operation/management (outlets). The Group does not manufacture. **Customers:** middle-income consumers in Fujian county towns and cities (Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou and their counties); outlet-mall shoppers in Changsha, Wuxi and Lvliang. Concessionaires and tenants are commercial counterparties. The two outlets reported a combined 2.5 million VIP members at 30 June 2025 (Changsha 1,419,703; Wuxi 1,075,272). **End-markets:** grocery and fresh food, apparel and footwear, gold jewellery, premium baijiu, food and beverage, leisure and entertainment, and (in Wuxi) electric-vehicle showrooms. ### Independent characterisation Consolidated financials understate the strategic shift. The Fujian chain is a mature, shrinking, low-margin estate: revenue has declined two years running, the store count has contracted through closures and lease expiries, and the group recorded a loss of RMB4.1 million before equity-accounted income in FY2026. The outlet vehicles are the profit engine (RMB54.6 million share of results, FY2026) but convert to cash unevenly (dividends received RMB5.4 million in FY2026 versus RMB42.0 million in FY2025), and the Group carries RMB260.0 million of receivables from these JVs and associates — close to the Group's entire equity of RMB263.1 million. The investment case is therefore a judgement on mall-operator earnings quality, partner relationships and cash repatriation, rather than on department-store retailing.

| Field | Detail | |---|---| | Entity profiled | Kingwisoft Technology Group Company Limited (金慧科技集團股份有限公司) | | Current legal name | Kingwisoft Technology Group Company Limited | | Former names (chronological) | Asian Capital Holdings Limited (at 2010 GEM listing) → ZZ Capital International Limited 中植資本國際有限公司 (renamed 7 Sep 2016) → Zhongjin Technology Services Group Company Limited 中金科技服務集團股份有限公司 (in use by June 2021) → ZZ Technology Group Company Limited 中植科技集團股份有限公司 (renamed 7 Dec 2021) → Kingwisoft Technology Group Company Limited (in use by Nov 2022) | | Date of incorporation | 5 January 2010 (Futu / Stockopedia) | | Incorporation jurisdiction | Cayman Islands (exempted company with limited liability) | | Principal place of business (Hong Kong) | Unit 1608, Level 16, Tower 1, Grand Century Place, 193 Prince Edward Road West, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Changed in Sept 2024 from Room 1204, 12/F, Lee Garden One, 33 Hysan Avenue, Causeway Bay. | | Operating headquarters (PRC) | Dalian, Liaoning Province. This is the base of the main operating subsidiary, DaLian Kingwisoft (大連金慧融智科技股份有限公司), acquired via KingNine Holdings in Oct 2020. | | Exchange / ticker | The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, GEM, stock code 08295 (8295.HK) | | Listing date | 18 June 2010. IPO price HK$0.20, 300 million shares offered (Futu). | | ISIN | KYG989MR1033 | | CUSIP | Not applicable / not publicly disclosed (non-US issuer) | | Fiscal year end | 31 March | | Employees (latest) | 15,575 at 31 Mar 2026 (FY2026 annual results announcement) | | Employees (trend) | ~13,446 (FY2024, Google Finance/TradingView) → 14,377 (31 Mar 2025) → 15,575 (31 Mar 2026) | | Auditor | Ernst & Young (安永會計師事務所), per FY2026 annual results announcement. FY2026 auditor's remuneration RMB3.84m. | | Shares in issue | 4,776,019,590 ordinary shares of HK$0.01 each (31 Mar 2026) | | Market capitalisation (current) | About HK$229m–HK$253m per aggregators (Google Finance HK$229.25m at ~HK$0.050/share, mid-Oct 2026; TradingView HK$253.1m). | | Controlling shareholder (economic) | Tian Xi Capital Company Limited, through Zhong Zhi Xin Zhuo Capital Company Limited (≈50.46%) and Kangbang Qihui (HK) Limited (≈9.54%). Voting rights on these shares are entrusted to Mr Hu Shilong's concert group (see Section 9). | | Website | www.kwtech-group.com (current). Legacy domains: www.zhongjintechnology.com and www.zztech-group.com. | The name on the input list, Zhongjin Technology Services Group Company Limited (中金科技服務集團股份有限公司), is a former name of the HKEX GEM issuer with stock code 08295. The same legal entity has changed its name several times. It currently trades as Kingwisoft Technology Group Company Limited (金慧科技集團股份有限公司). The stock code and ISIN are unchanged throughout, so the issuer on the input list is the same entity profiled here. Kingwisoft Technology Group is a Hong Kong GEM-listed, Cayman-incorporated holding company. Effectively all of its revenue comes from business-process outsourcing (BPO) services delivered in Mainland China. Its operating core is the Dalian-based KingNine/DaLian Kingwisoft group, acquired in October 2020 from a vehicle that previously carried the "ZZ"/Zhongzhi brand. The group runs self-operated contact-service centres with 22,791 seats across first- to fourth-tier Chinese cities. These centres provide outsourced customer-service solutions to large internet platforms, securities and financial institutions, telecom carriers, manufacturers, retailers and logistics firms. Management is repositioning the business from labour-intensive "traditional back-office" work toward "data services": multimodal data annotation and training-data preparation for Chinese large-language-model developers. The business has grown revenue at double-digit compound rates since FY2022, but it has thin gross margins, heavy customer concentration (top three customers ≈58% of FY2026 revenue), recurring net losses since FY2023, and a controlling stake caught up in the Zhongzhi Enterprise Group bankruptcy liquidation. --- ### What the company does The company is an investment holding company. Its subsidiaries provide what the company calls "value-added telecommunications and related services" in Mainland China, in three revenue lines plus a small rental line (FY2026 annual results announcement, Note 4): 1. **Back-office services.** These comprise (a) provision of customer-service solutions, meaning outsourced inbound/outbound customer-service operations, and (b) establishment of contact-service systems and centres. FY2026 revenue was RMB1,270.5m, 97.0% of group revenue. 2. **Comprehensive marketing and agency services.** FY2026 revenue was RMB2.8m, down from RMB22.9m in FY2025. 3. **Data centre services.** FY2026 revenue was RMB35.9m, up from RMB26.4m. 4. **Rental income from investment property.** FY2026 revenue was RMB0.2m. Since FY2025 management has given the "data services" business a separate profile within the back-office line. It covers text, image, speech, video and multimodal data annotation, and participation in training-data preparation for several Chinese large-model companies. Data services are not reported as a separate revenue line. Management calls this business "the most important strategic growth engine" (FY2026 results, Outlook; paraphrased). ### Company's own description (paraphrased from the FY2026 annual results announcement) The company says that, in FY2026, it kept the competitive strengths of its traditional back-office business while expanding new data-centric back-office services. It reports deepening relationships with leading clients in internet, financial securities, telecom carriers, advanced manufacturing, retail and logistics. It says its top-five customer relationships were stable and that it won new orders from several leading internet companies. It describes deploying digital operating tools across service delivery: intelligent scheduling, automated quality inspection and real-time data dashboards. On data services, it describes a "milestone" year, with annotation capability across all major data modalities and cooperation with multiple leading domestic large-model firms. ### Business model and revenue model | Dimension | Characterisation | |---|---| | Revenue model | Almost entirely service revenue recognised over time: RMB1,309.1m of RMB1,309.2m contract revenue in FY2026. Point-in-time revenue fell from RMB24.5m (FY2025) to under RMB0.1m (FY2026), consistent with the collapse of the marketing/agency line. | | Product vs service vs subscription vs licensing | Effectively 100% services. There is no disclosed licensing or subscription revenue. Software is developed internally (438 software copyrights) and used to support delivery. The company receives VAT refunds under the software-product VAT policy (RMB1.4m in FY2026), so some revenue is treated as self-developed software sales for tax purposes, but the amount is not separately disclosed. | | Pricing model | Not publicly disclosed. BPO contracts in China are typically priced per seat, per FTE, per transaction or per outcome. The company does not disclose which basis it uses. | | Cost structure | Labour-dominated. Employee benefit expense was RMB942.0m in FY2026, 71.9% of revenue (derived). Cost of services was RMB1,204.0m, comprising staff costs, subcontracting, rent, depreciation and amortisation. | | Value-chain position | A Tier-2/Tier-3 domestic BPO and contact-centre operator, delivering labour-intensive service work for large platform clients. It is moving down the AI value chain into training-data supply (annotation, RLHF-style data, multimodal alignment data) for LLM developers. | | Customer types | Large enterprises. Disclosed sectors are internet platforms, securities/financial institutions, telecom carriers, advanced manufacturing, retail and logistics. Customers are not named. | | Customer concentration (FY2026) | Customer A RMB343.7m (26.2%), Customer B RMB265.7m (20.3%), Customer C RMB146.4m (11.2%). Top three ≈57.7% (derived). In FY2025, Customer A was RMB432.1m (34.8%) and Customer B RMB259.0m (20.9%). | | End-markets | Mainland China only. 100% of FY2025 and FY2026 revenue came from Mainland China customers. | ### Independent characterisation Kingwisoft is best understood as a low-margin, high-headcount Chinese contact-centre BPO whose economics depend on (i) utilisation of a large seat base, (ii) wage inflation versus contract repricing, (iii) local-government incentives (RMB18.3m grants in FY2026, more than the entire marketing expense line), and (iv) the order flow of two or three dominant platform clients. The "AI data services" narrative is strategically logical: annotation is labour-intensive, and the company has a trained workforce, quality systems and lower-tier-city seat capacity. However, the financial evidence of higher-margin data-services revenue is not yet visible. Group gross margin recovered to 8.1% in FY2026 from 3.3% in FY2025 but remains below the 21.6% of FY2022. The listed company's history is also far more complex than its operations. It has been through two takeovers, five names, an aborted control sale and a failed profit guarantee, and its controlling stake sits in a group under consolidated bankruptcy liquidation. Governance and control risk, not operating risk, is arguably the dominant valuation factor.

Zhonghua Gas is a micro-capitalisation, GEM-listed integrated energy services company whose operating substance is a small liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply and station-management business serving heat-supply customers in Tianjin and an industrial/commercial customer in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu, plus two small investment-property units in Shanghai. Revenue has contracted from RMB420.7m (FY2021) to RMB78.5m (FY2026), the business has been loss-making in every reported period since FY2020, and it relied on shareholder loans, loan capitalisations and small placings to remain solvent after defaulting on, then repaying, a HK$97.8m convertible bond. Its auditor flagged a material uncertainty on going concern for FY2025. Management is now attempting a strategic re-rating through a Tianjin high-pressure pipeline participation (RMB80m), a Laos fuel-and-gas network joint venture, and minority stakes in digital-finance vehicles (Vbit, Gasbit). The investment case is therefore an execution and financing story rather than a utility franchise. --- ### Company's own description In its latest annual reports the company describes its principal activities as (i) the provision of diversified integrated energy services, comprising technological development, construction-related and consultancy services for heat supply and coal-to-natural-gas conversion schemes, the supply of LNG and the sale of LNG (the "Energy Business"); and (ii) the leasing of investment properties located in Shanghai (the "Property Investments" business) (AR 2024–25, "Principal Activities" and note 1; Interim Report 2025–26, note 1). Historically, data providers also describe a now-dormant "Catering Business" (operation of restaurants and trading of non-staple food) and money-lending and corporate-services subsidiaries in Hong Kong (Morningstar profile; AR 2024–25 note 36 lists a Hong Kong money-lending subsidiary and a corporate-services subsidiary). ### Independent characterisation Stripped of the "integrated new energy services" framing, Zhonghua Gas is today a regional LNG distributor and station operator. In the fifteen months to March 2025, LNG sales generated RMB120.1m of the RMB121.5m group revenue (98.8%), management fees for operating customers' LNG supply stations added RMB1.2m, and rental from the two Shanghai offices added RMB0.2m (AR 2024–25, note 9). The construction and consultancy services associated with coal-to-gas conversion, which drove the business in 2016–2019, have essentially disappeared: management itself states that coal-to-gas in Tianjin is "saturated" and it expects fewer new projects (AR 2024–25 MD&A; Interim 2025–26 MD&A). The business is extremely concentrated: the five largest customers accounted for 91.3% of revenue in FY2025 (FY2023: 99.9%) and the largest single customer 35.4% (FY2023: 50.4%); the five largest suppliers accounted for 100% of purchases in both periods and the largest supplier 88.4% (FY2023: 81.6%) (AR 2024–25, Directors' Report). Demand is highly seasonal because the core Tianjin customers are heat-supply companies operating mainly November–March; the FY2026 annual report explains that the 15-month comparative captured eight winter months versus five in FY2026 (AR 2025–26 MD&A). ### Revenue model mix | Revenue type (RMB '000) | FY2023 | FY2025 15M | |---|---|---| | Sale of LNG (product, point-in-time) | 185515 | 120104 | | Management fee income (service, over time) | 966 | 1218 | | Rental income from investment properties | 171 | 194 | | Total revenue | 186652 | 121516 | Source: AR 2024–25, note 9. Revenue recognised at a point in time: RMB120.1m (FY2025) vs RMB185.5m (FY2023); over time: RMB1.4m vs RMB1.1m. In addition, "operation management service income" of RMB1.6m (FY2025) and RMB5.4m (FY2023) is booked in other income rather than revenue (note 10). Mix characterisation: ~99% product (LNG commodity resale), ~1% service, <0.2% rental. No subscription or licensing revenue. ### Value-chain position, customers and end-markets **Value-chain position:** Midstream-to-downstream LNG trader/distributor. The group buys LNG from a very small number of suppliers (one supplier = 88.4% of purchases) and trucks/supplies it to customer-owned or customer-sited LNG stations, earning a thin spread (gross margin 3.8% in FY2025 for the Energy segment, 9.5% in FY2026). It does not own upstream supply, regasification terminals or a city-gas franchise. **Customer types:** District heat-supply operators in Tianjin (Beichen, Xiqing and Hi-tech districts), an industrial/commercial user in Zhangjiagang (Jiangsu), and office tenants in Shanghai. Five customers individually exceeded 10% of revenue across FY2023–FY2025 (customers A–E; e.g., Customer E RMB94.1m in FY2023; Customer A RMB43.0m in FY2025) (AR 2024–25 note 13). **End-markets:** Northern China clean-heating (coal-to-gas substitution), industrial fuel, and small-scale commercial real estate leasing. Prospective: Lao PDR fuel oil and gas networks; digital-asset/financial services via minority investments (Section 10–11).

Zhongchang International is a micro-cap Hong Kong landlord that owns one asset of consequence: Jardine Center, a 24-storey "Ginza-style" retail and F&B tower at 50 Jardine's Bazaar, Causeway Bay. Around it sit four street shops and one upstairs shop on the same street, plus one vacant Mid-Levels shop. At 30 June 2026 the portfolio was valued at HK$1,394.4m, against HK$829.3m of borrowings. That implies a loan-to-value ratio near 60%. FY2025 rent was HK$28.9m and finance costs were HK$46.4m, so the company is structurally loss-making even before revaluation losses. Its solvency rests explicitly on the financial support of its state-owned controlling shareholder, China Cinda (HK). The investment case is therefore one of asset backing and sponsor support rather than earnings. The shares trade at roughly a quarter of book NAV. The binary drivers are a Causeway Bay retail rental recovery, interest rates, and Cinda's eventual strategy for the vehicle: support, privatisation, asset sale or recapitalisation. --- **Company's own description (FY2025 Annual Results Announcement and FY2024 Annual Report).** The company describes itself as an investment holding company whose group's principal activity is leasing investment properties in Hong Kong. Its revenue comes primarily from rental income on investment properties located mainly in the prime retail and shopping district of Causeway Bay, Hong Kong Island. Management names revenue growth and occupancy as the key measures of its core leasing business, and reports an "operating cost ratio" (staff costs plus other operating expenses, divided by revenue) as a cost-efficiency KPI. **Independent characterisation.** The company is effectively a single-asset retail property holding vehicle. Its business model is passive. It owns the freeholds or long leaseholds of strata or whole-building retail space and earns gross rent under operating leases, with no development activity, fee income, or operating retail. It does not manage the building itself; China Resources Property Management is the appointed building manager. The head office has three staff. The business has collapsed from a diversified property group to a single cluster of retail assets. Before 2017, Henry Group held a broader Hong Kong residential and commercial portfolio. Under Sansheng Hongye (2018–2020) it expanded into PRC property development: Shanghai Yuexin / Zhenjiang Tiangong and the Jinhua Mingrui associate. Both have since been disposed of or written off. What remains is the Jardine's Bazaar cluster.

Zhong Ying International is a micro-cap, GEM-listed Hong Kong civil engineering subcontractor in the middle of a control change and business pivot. Its legacy franchise, built since about 2010 under founders Ha Chak Hung and Ip Chu Shing, is the repair and maintenance of road and highway structures in Kowloon and the New Territories, performed as a subcontractor to main contractors holding Highways Department term contracts, supplemented since 2013 by drainage and civil construction. Between September 2024 and October 2025, control passed to Mr. Chu Jinzhe, an agriculture and traditional-Chinese-medicine (TCM) executive who is also a director of a Sinopharm-group subsidiary. Under him, the company recapitalised through a 2026 rights issue, renamed itself, entered Mainland construction contracts for wellness, deer-breeding and herb-cultivation facilities, and launched a "Smart Farm" trading segment holding Hong Kong wholesale licences for proprietary Chinese medicines and Chinese medicinal materials. Revenue reached HK$65.1M in FY2026, but the group remains loss-making, highly concentrated, and receivables-heavy. --- ### Company's own description (paraphrased from AR26) The company describes itself as an established subcontractor providing civil engineering works, specialising principally in the repair and maintenance of road and highway structures in Hong Kong, concentrated in Kowloon and the New Territories. Since 2013, it has extended into civil engineering construction works, including drainage systems. During FY2026, the company says it kept its focus on Hong Kong repair-and-maintenance and civil construction, while a dedicated team sought new business in Mainland China and identified construction opportunities in the TCM and healthcare industries. In March 2026, it formally added a third business line, "Smart Farm", comprising trading of finished Chinese medicinal materials (deer antler, ginseng) and trading of modular plant cultivation chambers, supported by Hong Kong Department of Health wholesale licences granted in late March 2026 to its subsidiary International Ginseng & Deer Research Institute Limited (國際蔘茸研究院有限公司) (AR26 Chairman's Statement and MD&A). Notably, note 1 of the FY2026 financial statements describes the group's principal activity as "provision of contracting and trading for modular plant cultivation chamber business", which differs from the segment presentation in which modular-chamber trading contributed only about HK$1.6M of HK$65.1M revenue (RA26 note 1 and MD&A). This inconsistency is flagged as a disclosure-quality issue. ### Independent characterisation In substance, Zhong Ying is today three small businesses housed in a listed shell-scale vehicle: 1. **A Hong Kong public-works subcontractor** with a narrow customer base: in FY2025 one customer (Customer B, a main contractor for repair and maintenance work) accounted for HK$35.12M of HK$35.16M revenue (≈99.9%); in FY2026 two customers accounted for ≈87.5% (Customer A HK$40.6M; Customer B HK$16.35M) (RA26 note 5). 2. **A Mainland China project contractor** with three contracts signed on 24 April 2025 with counterparties in the TCM/health/wellness space, aggregate contract value RMB96.05M, of which only about HK$5.1M was recognised in FY2026 (RA26 MD&A; segment geography note). 3. **A nascent commodity trading operation** (deer antler and modular plant cultivation chambers) generating HK$3.08M in FY2026 with a 22.3% segment gross margin (RA26 note 5). ### Business model and revenue model | Dimension | Description | Source | |---|---|---| | Revenue model mix (FY2026) | Service/contracting revenue recognised over time: HK$62.04M (95.3%); product trading recognised at a point in time: HK$3.08M (4.7%). No subscription or licensing revenue | RA26 note 5 | | Value-chain position | Tier-2 subcontractor to main contractors on Hong Kong government (Highways Department) term contracts; direct contractor to private developers/operators on Mainland projects; wholesale trader in TCM materials | AR26; RA26 | | Customer types | Hong Kong main contractors of government projects; Mainland private enterprises (wellness resort developer, sika-deer breeder, herb-cultivation forest owner); trade buyers of antler and cultivation chambers (identities not disclosed) | AR26; RA26 | | End-markets | Hong Kong road/highway infrastructure maintenance; Hong Kong civil works (drainage etc.); Mainland wellness tourism real estate; Mainland animal husbandry (sika deer, used for antler); Mainland herb cultivation; TCM materials trade | AR26 | | Cost structure | Cost of revenue is staff costs, subcontracting fees and materials; FY2026 cost of revenue HK$54.79M (84.1% of revenue). Material costs were only HK$0.34M, indicating a heavily subcontracted delivery model | RA26 note 10 | | Working-capital profile | Long collection cycle: payment certificates issued one to ten months after completion certificates; nominal credit term 30 days; retention receivables released 1–2 years after completion | RA26 notes 14–15 |

Zero Fintech Group is a small-cap Hong Kong consumer-credit lender that has completed a decade-long migration from a family-controlled printed-circuit-board and property conglomerate (Termbray) into a technology-led, licensed money lender. More than 97% of FY2025 revenue (HK$350.8M of HK$359.5M) came from interest income on loans originated in Hong Kong, predominantly unsecured personal instalment and revolving loans distributed through its proprietary "X Wallet" app, which markets itself as an AI-driven express-loan and buy-now-pay-later (X Pay) "super app". The loan book has grown from HK$589M gross at end-2021 to HK$1,354M at June 2026, priced at a weighted average of roughly 38% per annum on unsecured credit, supported since late 2024 by a HK$800M bank-funded asset-backed securitisation facility. A residual, loss-making property arm (unsold units at Ever Success Plaza, Zhongshan) is in run-off. The equity story is high-yield, high-credit-cost growth lending controlled by the Lee family. --- ### Company's own description In its FY2025 annual results announcement, the Group defines two reportable segments: (i) Property development and investment — "property development for sale of properties in the PRC and property investment for letting of properties in Hong Kong and the PRC"; and (ii) Money lending — "provision of mortgage and personal loan financing to customers." A third, unallocated revenue line, IT service income, has been reported since FY2024 following the acquisition of Alpha Times Technology Limited. Company press releases describe three core areas — property development and investment, money lending, and payment solutions — serving individuals and SMEs in Hong Kong and Mainland China (press release, 16 Apr 2025). ### How the business actually works **Unsecured consumer lending (core profit engine):** Customers apply through the X Wallet app for (a) fully automated revolving loans — approval requires a Hong Kong Identity Card, facial recognition, OCR and live testing, with a TransUnion credit report pulled by API and a proprietary scoring model setting limit, rate and tenor with "no human intervention" — and (b) instalment products (debt-consolidation and personal loans) underwritten by the credit department. Tenors are mostly 2–7 years; loan sizes range from HK$5,000 to HK$1.5M (raised from HK$700k in FY2023 and HK$800k in FY2024). Rates mostly 25%–48% p.a., weighted average ≈38% in FY2025 and H1 2026 (≈41% FY2023; ≈40% FY2024) (FY2023–FY2025 results; Interim 2026). Unsecured revenue was HK$311.3M in FY2025 (FY2024: HK$211.1M) and HK$204.3M in H1 2026. **Secured property lending:** Conducted mainly through X8 Finance Limited; first/second mortgages over Hong Kong residential and commercial property sourced via independent mortgage referral agents; tenors 1–20 years; amounts HK$80k–HK$103M; rates mostly 11%–24% (FY2025 weighted ≈16%), rising to 12%–25% with a weighted ≈23% in H1 2026 as the mix shifted toward large short-term bridging loans (Interim 2026). Customer count is shrinking (73 → 70 → 57 → 45 from FY2023 to H1 2026) and concentrated (top 10 = 71% of mortgage receivables at June 2026). **Buy-now-pay-later (X Pay):** Launched in H2 2023 within X Wallet, offering interest-free three-instalment payments at merchants; the company claimed over 1,000 merchants in April 2025 (press release 16 Apr 2025). X Pay revenue is not separately disclosed. **IT services:** Revenue of HK$2.8M (FY2024), HK$7.2M (FY2025) and HK$4.5M (H1 2026) recognised over time, derived from Alpha Times' PRC subsidiaries (Alpha Shenzhen, Alpha Chongqing), part of which are connected-party technology service agreements with entities related to the controlling family (cap HK$9.5M p.a. for FY2025–FY2027; Interim 2026 supplemental disclosure). **Property (run-off):** Ever Success Plaza, Zhongshan, Guangdong: 56 unsold residential units at 30 June 2026 (2 let), vacant commercial arcades and car parks; no unit sold since FY2021; plus one vacant Hong Kong investment property (fair value HK$48.5M) (Interim 2026). ### Revenue model mix (FY2025) | Revenue type (FY2025) | HK$ M | % of total | Nature | |---|---|---|---| | Interest income – money lending | 350.8 | 97.6% | Spread/interest (financial services) | | IT service income | 7.2 | 2.0% | Service fees, over time | | Rental income – properties | 1.5 | 0.4% | Lease income | | Sale of properties | 0.0 | 0.0% | Product (none since FY2021) | | Total | 359.5 | 100% | — | Source: FY2025 Annual Results Announcement (27 Mar 2026). ### Value-chain position, customers and end-markets Zero Fintech is a balance-sheet, non-bank originator: it acquires customers directly (heavy above-the-line advertising on buses, MTR, TV and online; FY2025 advertising and promotion HK$65.4M, 18% of revenue), underwrites in-house, funds itself with equity, a shareholder loan and bank-funded securitisation, and services and collects loans itself (external collection agents for delinquent accounts). Customers are Hong Kong retail borrowers (21,512 active unsecured customers at 30 June 2026), property owners seeking second-tier mortgage or bridging finance, and merchants using X Pay. No customer contributes ≥10% of revenue, but the largest borrower represented 5% and the top five 9% of loan receivables at June 2026 (FY2024: 10% and 22%) (Interim 2026; AR2024). **Independent characterisation.** Economically this is a near-prime/sub-prime Hong Kong consumer finance company with a digital front end, earning gross yields of ~31–35% on average gross receivables against credit costs of ~10–13%, i.e., a high-risk, high-margin lending model whose profitability is dominated by three swing factors: loan growth, impairment charges and customer-acquisition spend. The "fintech" label reflects distribution and decisioning automation rather than a fee-based platform; there is no disclosed meaningful non-interest revenue.

Zeotech Limited is a Brisbane-based, ASX-listed development company that is converting a portfolio of wholly owned Queensland kaolin resources into three revenue streams. The first is direct shipping ore (DSO) kaolin, including a premium pink "cosmetic" grade, sold into Asian markets under a binding five-year offtake with Chinese trading house Jiangsu Mineral Sources International (MSI), valued at up to roughly A$200–204 million. The second is AusPozz™, a high-reactivity metakaolin (HRM) supplementary cementitious material (SCM) aimed at Australia's low-carbon concrete market. Its 2025 pre-feasibility study (PFS) returned a post-tax NPV8 of A$406 million and a post-tax IRR of 42%. The third is a family of proprietary synthetic zeolite and biofilter products, including zeoteCH₄® for landfill methane control. Field trials of zeoteCH₄® recorded an average 92% methane reduction in 2026. Zeotech's main asset is the Toondoon Kaolin Project near Mundubbera, Queensland, which holds a granted mining lease and a 10.87 Mt Measured and Indicated resource. The company is pre-production and pre-profit, and is funded by equity. --- ### What the company does Zeotech describes itself in its current market profile as a future-focused team. It uses wholly owned kaolin resources to make high-reactivity metakaolin (HRM) for the low-carbon concrete market, and advanced materials such as zeolites to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, including fugitive methane (Source: Market Index company description, 2026). The FY2025 Annual Report (ASX, 30 Sep 2025) and FY2026 Annual Report (ASX, 21 Sep 2026) describe a shift from technical development to project execution. Activity is now concentrated on the Toondoon Kaolin Project and AusPozz™ commercialisation. In practice the company is building a vertically integrated industrial-minerals value chain in three linked stages: 1. **Upstream mining.** Low-strip, open-cut extraction of high-purity kaolin clays (grey, pink and white kaolin and plastic clay) from the Toondoon deposit, about 20 km south of Mundubbera, Queensland, inside an approved mining lease covering more than 28,000 hectares of tenure. 2. **Near-term DSO sales.** Raw kaolin is shipped with minimal processing to Asian buyers (China, South Korea and Japan were named target markets) through MSI. These sales are designed to produce early cash flow and help fund the more capital-intensive downstream project. 3. **Downstream processing.** Kaolin is calcined into AusPozz™ HRM at a proposed manufacturing facility on Gladstone Ports Corporation (GPC) land at the Port of Bundaberg. Proprietary University of Queensland–derived technology is used to synthesise zeolites from kaolin for environmental applications (landfill methane control, agricultural nutrient retention, and potentially carbon utilisation). ### Business and revenue model | Revenue stream | Model | Stage (Oct 2026) | Disclosed economics | |---|---|---|---| | Kaolin DSO (low-iron) | Bulk product sales under offtake (exclusive marketing rights to MSI in specified Asian territories) | Pre-production; trial shipment (minimum 10,000 t) being planned; ~120 t sample prepared for MSI | Offtake committed 800,000 t over initial 5 years (term sheet, Jul 2025) | | Cosmetic kaolin DSO (pink) | Premium bulk product sales (non-exclusive rights to MSI) | Pre-production | 150,000 t committed over 5 years (term sheet, Jul 2025); PFS target 9,000 dtpa | | AusPozz™ HRM | Manufactured product sales (SCM) to cement and concrete producers, contractors and precasters | Commercial-scale production trial (~700–800 t feedstock run); multiple MOUs; DFS stage | PFS: 300,000 tpa; NPV8 A$406m post-tax; IRR 42% post-tax; payback 2.1 years | | zeoteCH₄® / zeolites | Product sales and/or licensing (not yet defined) | Field-validated (92% methane reduction); international patent application in progress | Not publicly disclosed | | Current income | R&D Tax Incentive refunds, interest and other income | Ongoing | FY2026 "revenue" A$1.371m, mainly R&D refunds and other income | The current mix is effectively 0% product revenue. Reported "revenue" is non-operating income, mostly Australian R&D Tax Incentive refunds. One example is the A$905k R&D incentive payment announced in late 2024 (Halo Technologies announcement feed). ### Value-chain position and customers Zeotech sits at the raw-material and intermediate-processing end of the construction-materials and industrial-minerals value chains: **DSO kaolin customers:** Asian traders and end users (ceramics, paper, cosmetics, refractories) via MSI. **AusPozz™ customers:** cement producers (Holcim Australia, Cement Australia), tier-one construction contractors (Laing O'Rourke, VINCI Construction), precast and civil firms (Bisley, by LOI), and engineering/consulting firms (iCubed Consulting). **Methane control customers:** landfill operators and councils (Cleanaway collaboration; North Burnett Regional Council trial site) and potentially other fugitive-methane emitters. ### Independent characterisation Despite its "technology" branding, Zeotech is best characterised as an industrial-minerals junior with a materials-science overlay. Its near-term valuation depends almost entirely on three things: (i) securing the last Toondoon approvals (a protected plants permit and cultural heritage agreements were still outstanding as of mid-2026), (ii) completing a first DSO trial shipment through the Port of Bundaberg, and (iii) turning AusPozz™ MOUs into binding offtake contracts to support a DFS and a final investment decision (FID). The zeolite and methane platform has interesting optionality but no defined revenue model yet. Management's 2026 Noosa Mining Conference presentation framed the company as a mining company with a materials-technology angle, and said scale-up and conversion of testing into supply are still to be proven (Investing.com transcript summary, 22 Jul 2026).

Zensun Enterprises is a small-capitalisation, Hong Kong-listed, family-controlled PRC residential developer concentrated in Zhengzhou and wider Henan Province. It sits within the private Zensun group founded by Mr. Zhang Jingguo and controlled by his spouse, Ms. Huang Yanping. Over 98% of revenue comes from delivering pre-sold residential and commercial units; hotel, rental, project-management and securities income is immaterial. The company is in prolonged financial distress. All three offshore USD senior note series (2023, 2024 and 2025 maturities) are in payment default. Defaulted and cross-defaulted borrowings totalled RMB4.62 billion at end-2025. Equity attributable to owners fell from RMB8.2 billion in FY2021 to a deficit of about RMB20.6 million at 30 June 2026. The business survives on interest-free, on-demand loans of about RMB8.8 billion from controlling-shareholder entities and on slow conversion of a large Henan land bank. The investment case is essentially a distressed, related-party-dependent option on a Henan housing recovery. --- **Company's own description (FY2025 results, Note 1 and MD&A).** The group's principal activities are property development, property investment and management, project management and sales services, hotel operations, and securities trading and investment. These are carried out in Hong Kong, the Chinese Mainland and overseas. Management describes a strategy of sustainable development by seeking investment opportunities that strengthen profitability under acceptable risk in those markets. **Independent characterisation.** In economic substance, Zensun is a single-province PRC homebuilder with a small legacy portfolio of offshore assets inherited from the pre-2015 Heng Fai era. Those assets are a near-wholly-owned US housing vehicle and a minority stake in a NYSE-listed medical REIT. The PRC operations follow the standard pre-sale model. Land use rights are bought at auction, the company funds construction with project loans and buyer deposits, and revenue is recognised at a point in time on handover. That model explains the extreme volatility in reported revenue: FY2023 RMB20.0bn, H1 2024 RMB0.18bn, FY2025 RMB6.9bn and H1 2026 RMB0.36bn. Revenue tracks delivery schedules, not contract sales. Contract liabilities (buyer deposits) have run down from RMB31.3bn (FY2022) to RMB9.2bn (FY2025). This shows the delivery backlog shrinking much faster than new sales are replenishing it. **Revenue model mix (FY2025, RMB'000; FY2025 results Note 3).** There is no subscription or licensing revenue. The "Zensun/正商" trademark is licensed into the group royalty-free by related party Henan Zensun Real Estate Co., Ltd. That licence ran until July 2025 (FY2025 results Note 15). Renewal status was not disclosed in retrieved materials. **Value chain position.** Zensun acts as developer and master planner. Construction is largely outsourced, including to a related contractor controlled by Ms. Zhang Huiqi, the daughter of the controlling shareholder. Related-party construction costs were RMB542.9M in FY2025 and RMB1,489.7M in FY2024 (Zensun Development Group). Accrued construction costs owed to the daughter-controlled contractor were RMB792.4M at end-2025. Property engineering and property management are provided by related party Xingye Wulian Service Group (HKEX: 9916), also controlled by Ms. Zhang Huiqi, for RMB20.2M in FY2025. **Customer types and end-markets.** Customers are mainly retail homebuyers in Zhengzhou and other Henan cities, who are largely mortgage-financed. Zensun guarantees buyers' bank mortgages until title certificates are issued. Those guarantees amounted to RMB18.2bn at end-2025. The company also sells to commercial unit purchasers (e.g., Zhengzhou Zensun Boyue Commercial Centre). Project-management clients are independent property owners. Hotel guests come through the single Zhengzhou hotel. Tenants occupy investment properties in Hong Kong, Singapore, the Mainland and the US (AHR senior housing).

ZACD Group is a Singapore-headquartered, Hong Kong GEM-listed boutique real estate investment manager. It earns fees by originating, structuring and managing closed-end private real estate vehicles, mainly single-asset residential and industrial development funds in Singapore. It also provides acquisition and project management services to the development SPVs those vehicles own. Its subsidiary ZACD Capital Pte. Ltd. holds a Capital Markets Services licence from the Monetary Authority of Singapore for fund management. The group operates through a Singapore variable capital company umbrella, ZACD Capital Partners VCC, alongside standalone fund entities. Its current pipeline includes Arina East Residences at Tanjong Rhu, Bloomsbury Residences at one-north, Duet@Mount Emily and The Landmark at Chin Swee Road. The business is very small: FY2025 revenue was S$2.7 million and headcount was 16 at mid-2026. It is concentrated in related-party fund clients. It is also highly exposed, through bridging loans and corporate guarantees, to the success of a handful of projects, above all La Ville / Arina East. --- **Company's own description.** In the MD&A of its FY2024 and H1 2026 filings, the company calls itself a Singapore-headquartered integrated asset manager that provides solutions across the real estate value chain in Singapore and the Asia-Pacific region. It says it focuses strategically on two core businesses: **Investment management:** This covers fund-raising, investing, managing and exiting. **Acquisition and project management:** The company cites a track record in the end-to-end development cycle: identifying assets, acquiring, developing, selling, operating, and handing over or exiting. **Scale of the platform.** **H1 2026:** the group ran 17 investment portfolios, in private equity and fund structures, covering 14 real estate projects and assets in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Australia. It also provided corporate support and fund management services to a family office with about US$100 million of assets. **FY2024:** the group described 22 investment structures across 23 projects in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia and Hong Kong. **Note 3 of the FY2025 statements:** the group was manager of 5 Investment SPVs (2024: 9; 2023: 11) and 12 private real estate funds (2024: 12; 2023: 10). **Business model and revenue model.** The group earns service fees. It does not sell products and does not run a subscription or licensing model. Its revenue streams are as follows: 1. **SPV investment management (legacy).** Under the "Investment SPV" model used from 2010 to 2015, investors subscribe to convertible loans issued by a single-project SPV. ZACD earns: - a fixed management fee; and - "Establishment Shares", which are equity in the SPV received when the loans convert near project completion. ZACD then collects dividends on these shares. Under a related trust structure, ZACD earns performance fees from profits distributed through the ultimate holding company. It also earns a performance fee from one major investor in return for granting that investor priority rights to participate in projects. No new Investment SPVs have been formed since 2016. 2. **Fund management.** ZACD establishes and manages closed-end private real estate funds. It earns: - fund establishment fees and fund management fees, both as a percentage of committed capital; and - performance fees, as a percentage of return on equity distributed or on divestment or fund termination. Management fees are received quarterly or annually. 3. **Acquisitions and projects management.** ZACD sources and secures sites for developers and manages the development cycle. This covers tender consultancy and research, design development, marketing project management, sales administration, handover and defects management, legal coordination, and finance and corporate services. It also earns one-off "successful tender" fees. 4. **Property and tenancy management.** This is now marginal. It mainly consists of tenancy management of a Malaysian asset. 5. **Financial advisory.** This is dormant. The board decided on 30 November 2021 to cease SFC-regulated activities in Hong Kong. **Timing of revenue (FY2025, computed from Note 5).** S$1,738k (64%) of S$2,697k was recognised at a point in time, mainly performance fees, establishment fees and dividends. S$959k (36%) was recognised over time. This mix explains the volatility of the business: most income depends on project milestones, not recurring fees. **Balance-sheet "product".** A large part of ZACD's economic exposure comes from its own balance sheet, not from fees: - The company extends short-term bridging loans at 5–6% to its managed funds (net S$15.27 million at end-2025; S$12.76 million at 30 June 2026). - It holds small co-investments: 9.28% of the Mount Emily fund, 5% of BBEC, and 0.46% of Development4. - It gives corporate guarantees on development loans taken by fund-owned development SPVs. These arrangements make ZACD a de facto sponsor and credit provider, not a pure fee-earning manager. **Value chain position.** ZACD sits upstream as originator and sponsor. It sources land, often through Singapore Government Land Sales, JTC industrial land sales and collective (en bloc) tenders. It structures the investor vehicle, places capital with high-net-worth and family-office investors, and then manages the development SPV through to TOP (Temporary Occupation Permit) and exit. It typically partners with larger developers and contractors such as Qingjian Realty, MCC Land and SSLE Development. It does not take construction risk directly, but its guarantees expose it to project financing risk. **Customer types and end-markets.** **Customers:** These are overwhelmingly the group's own managed funds and SPVs, which are related parties. Computed from Note 32 of the FY2024 statements, revenue from related-party funds and SPVs was about S$4.14 million of S$4.96 million in FY2024 (about 83%). In FY2023 it was about S$9.08 million of S$9.91 million (about 92%). The underlying capital comes from high-net-worth individuals, family offices and a small number of anchor investors, such as Top Global Limited in the La Ville fund. **End-markets:** These are Singapore private residential (condominiums and executive condominiums), Singapore industrial (strata and B1/B2 development), and residual exposure to Australian commercial and hospitality assets and a Malaysian workers' dormitory. **Independent characterisation.** ZACD is best understood as a sponsor-operator of single-asset Singapore development funds, controlled by its founders. Its fee income is small and lumpy. It is highly dependent on the founders' network and on related-party transactions. It operates under a holding company that supports its own funds with loans and guarantees. Its listed equity (net assets S$14.8 million at 30 June 2026) is small relative to its contingent exposures, so the investment case depends mostly on the La Ville / Arina East outcome.

Z Fin Limited is a Hong Kong-headquartered, Bermuda-incorporated investment holding company controlled by the Ou Yaping family. It is mid-way through a rebrand from a Shenzhen/Shanghai property group (Sinolink) into a self-described FinTech investment and management platform. Economically, the group still has two very different halves. The consolidated half is real estate: a Shenzhen commercial rental portfolio, the heritage Rockbund precinct on Shanghai's Bund, luxury residential inventory in Shanghai, and property management. This half generates essentially 100% of reported revenue, all in the PRC. The equity-accounted half is FinTech: - a ~43.5% stake in ZA Global, the holding company of ZA Bank, Hong Kong's first digital bank to pass one million retail users, which turned profitable in 2025; - Peak3, an insurance-core software exporter; - a 4.95% holding in ZhongAn Online (6060.HK); - AA Investment, an SFC-licensed asset manager newly uplifted for virtual-asset activities. The shares trade at roughly a quarter of book value. The controlling shareholder's HK$6.60 privatisation offer now dominates the equity story. --- ### Company's own description (paraphrased from the FY2025 Annual Results and the 2026 Interim Report) The company describes itself as an investment holding company. Its principal activities are "increasingly focused" on FinTech investment and management, alongside property development, property management, property investment and financing services. Management frames 2025 as a pivotal year in which the rebrand marked a shift from a traditional property-focused conglomerate to a technology-driven enterprise. The stated priorities are to: - channel capital to high-growth FinTech areas, especially Web3, tokenisation of real-world assets (RWA) and regulated cross-border payments; - keep the legacy property and financing businesses as stable cash-flow support. ### Independent characterisation | Dimension | Characterisation | |---|---| | Revenue model | Lease/rental and service income. No product or licensing revenue at group level; recurring property service contracts run up to 12 years. FinTech economics are captured as equity-accounted results and dividends, not revenue. | | Value chain position | (a) Owner-operator landlord and asset manager of PRC commercial and heritage property; (b) residential developer with completed inventory; (c) property management service provider; (d) minority strategic investor in a Hong Kong digital bank and insurtech platform. | | Customer types | Retail and office tenants (jewellery, trading and real estate businesses at Sinolink Tower); retail brands and F&B at Rockbund and The Vi City; residents and owners (property management); high-net-worth buyers of Shanghai luxury residences; a handful of corporate borrowers (3 at 30 Jun 2026). At ZA Bank level: HK retail and SME banking customers. | | End-markets | PRC commercial real estate (Shenzhen Luohu; Shanghai Huangpu/Changning); PRC luxury residential; PRC property services; Hong Kong digital banking and wealth management; global insurance-software export (via Peak3); HK virtual-asset management (prospective). | | Related-party dependence | ZhongAn Online is a significant tenant and was the buyer of two Rockbund buildings (RMB1,436.6m). Rental income from ZhongAn Online was HK$28.9m in H1 2026, down from HK$66.0m in H1 2025. | The statutory accounts tell a more conservative story than the name. **Revenue is almost entirely property-derived.** In FY2025, 67.7% of revenue was rental income, 23.8% property management, 6.4% other services (hotel/school/project management), and only 2.2% interest from financing services. All revenue was generated in the PRC (FY2025 ARA, Note 3). **The FinTech exposure sits below the revenue line.** It appears as: - **Share of results of equity-accounted investments**, mainly ZA Global. This was a loss of HK$91.8m in FY2025 and HK$34.2m in H1 2026. - **Equity instruments at FVTOCI**, mainly 81.0m ZhongAn Online H shares, valued at HK$1,303.3m at 31 Dec 2025 and HK$729.0m at 30 Jun 2026. Movements flow through other comprehensive income, not profit. **AA Investment Management Limited:** This wholly-owned subsidiary holds SFC Type 1/4/9 licences, but its revenue is too small to be separately disclosed. **Reported earnings are dominated by non-cash fair-value and accounting events.** Examples: - a HK$4,252.3m gain on the RGAP business combination in FY2024; - a HK$974.4m fair-value loss on the convertible bonds in FY2025; - investment property revaluations; - dilution gains on ZA Global.

Yunnan Energy International is a micro-cap, Hong Kong-headquartered, Bermuda-incorporated listed platform controlled (73.05%) by Yunnan Provincial Energy Investment Group, a provincial state-owned enterprise owned by the Yunnan SASAC. Originally Techcomp, a laboratory and analytical instrument distributor founded in 1988, the company was taken over in 2018, divested its legacy instrument operating group, and was rebuilt as the parent group's offshore-listed trading and investment vehicle. Today it runs two thin-margin businesses with only 22 employees: (i) a medical and laboratory equipment distribution business serving Grade 3A hospitals in Yunnan and Guizhou; and (ii) a commodity supply-chain (trading) business in coal, photovoltaic modules, silicon materials, Panax notoginseng and stainless steel, increasingly export-oriented. It also holds a 6.67% stake in a parent-group solar and energy-storage project (Dayao Green Energy). Its strategic narrative is to become the group's vehicle for Southeast Asian green-energy investment and cross-border energy supply chain. --- ### Company's own description (latest filings) Per the FY2025 RA and 1H2026 IA, the Group's principal activities are: (1) the provision of distribution and after-sales services in the PRC for analytical instruments — expressly including medical CT equipment, MRI systems, fully automated microbial mass spectrometers, digital choledochoscopes, colour ultrasound machines, radio-frequency therapeutic devices, anaesthesia machines, patient monitors, and life-science and general laboratory instruments, with specialised and customised hardware and software (the Distribution Business); and (2) trading and supply-chain business on commodities, diversified industrial and consumer products (the Supply Chain Business). In addition, the company describes an International Energy Project Investment strategic pillar, currently expressed through a 6.67% equity interest in YEIG Dayao Green Energy Generation Co., Ltd. ### Business model and revenue model | Revenue type | FY2025 share | Notes | |---|---|---| | Product sales (trading/distribution) | 100% | All point-in-time sale of goods (FY2025 RA) | | Services | Not separately reported | After-sales embedded in Distribution contracts | | Subscription / licensing | 0% | None | | Investment income (non-revenue) | Dividend income HK$0.65M FY2025; HK$4.62M 1H2026 | Booked in other income | Both segments operate an asset-light procure-to-order intermediary model: the Group identifies customer requirements (specification, affordability), sources from multiple suppliers, and on-sells. 100% of revenue in FY2024 and FY2025 was sale of goods recognised at a point in time (FY2025 RA, note 4). There is no recurring subscription, licensing or separately reported service revenue; after-sales services (testing, training, maintenance) in Distribution are bundled into equipment contracts rather than separately disclosed. ### Value chain position The company sits in the mid-stream distribution/trading layer. It owns no manufacturing, R&D, logistics fleet or brands. Its value-add claimed in Distribution is technical: system-specification design, formulation of testing-standard requirements against customer budgets, installation, and on-site after-sales service. In Supply Chain, its value-add is sourcing, customs clearance capability, financing of working capital (receivables of 60–150 days), and access — via the parent group — to state-owned counterparties and Yunnan-produced commodities (silicon materials, coal, Sanqi/Panax notoginseng). ### Customer types and end-markets **Distribution:** hospitals (notably Grade 3A public hospitals in Yunnan and Guizhou), universities, research institutes, bureaus of geology and mineral resources, industrial enterprises and government agencies; all customers in FY2025 and 1H2026 were PRC end-users or distributors (FY2025 RA; 1H2026 IA). **Supply Chain:** state-owned enterprises and industrial companies — coal users (power plants, the "Jiehua Plant", PetroChina), global silicon-materials customers (Europe, Americas, APAC, Latin America), PV module buyers (including exports to Vientiane, Laos), Vietnamese stainless steel pipe processors, Yunnan Sanqi traders and pharmaceutical companies (1H2026 IA). ### Independent characterisation Analytically, YEIG is best described as a state-sponsored trading shell with an optional green-energy investment angle, rather than an instrument company (the market-data sector tags of "Scientific & Technical Instruments" are a legacy of Techcomp). Gross margins of 3–6% (rising to 10.8% in 1H2026), very high customer concentration (three customers = 59% of FY2025 revenue), funding largely from the parent group, and only 22 staff indicate a business whose economics depend on (a) the parent's counterparty network, (b) related-party credit, and (c) the ability to source higher-margin Yunnan-produced industrial materials (silicon) under connected-transaction frameworks. The 6.67% Dayao stake, while small, now accounts for 18.7% of total assets and generated more pre-tax profit contribution in 1H2026 (HK$4.62M dividend) than half the group's segment result.

The 1H2026 regional split was not disclosed and is shown as 0 for charting purposes only (IR26 states only "mainly located in Hong Kong, Macao and the PRC"). Sources: AR25-Ann; IR26. **Market capitalisation (current):** about HK$7.1–8.1 billion (US$0.9–1.0 billion), based on 4,059.3 million shares. This uses closes of HK$1.74 on 8 October 2026 (Investing.com) and HK$2.005 on 9 October 2026 (StockAnalysis). The 52-week range is HK$1.46–6.35 per Investing.com and HK$1.46–7.36 per Yahoo; the sources differ on the 52-week high. Yunfeng Financial Group is a Hong Kong-incorporated financial holding company controlled by Yunfeng Capital co-founder Yu Feng and indirectly associated with Alibaba founder Jack Ma. Economically it is a mid-sized Hong Kong and Macao life insurer: YF Life Insurance International (69.8%-owned, formerly MassMutual Asia) generates virtually all group earnings and holds about HK$115 billion of assets, against a group total of HK$119 billion at 30 June 2026. Around this core sits a small securities, asset-management and fintech platform (Yunfeng Securities and the "Yunfeng Youyu" app). Since July 2025 this platform has been repositioned as a Web3 and real-world-asset (RWA) gateway, through an ETH treasury, virtual-asset licence uplifts, a gold token and stakes in AlphaToken, Pharos and WooshPay. The investment case is therefore a hybrid. On one side is a profitable, growing, Fitch A-/Moody's A3-rated insurer trading at under 0.5x owner's embedded value. On the other is a speculative digital-asset option with governance and execution questions, most visibly a CEO role that has been filled on an interim basis for two years. --- ### Company's own description In its FY2025 results, management describes the group's main revenue sources as life insurance premium income plus other financial businesses. The latter comprise subscription and management fees on group-launched products, platform fees for distributing third-party products, and brokerage commission (AR25-Ann, MD&A). Management says the group consolidated its insurance and securities businesses during 2025 while fully embracing Web3 and blockchain. It frames its long-term vision as "Everything on Chain, Connecting Globally", powered by data, AI and blockchain (AR25-Ann, Prospects). In 1H2026 management restated insurance as the core business, with securities and fintech advanced "steadily". The stated aim is a "Yunfeng integrated financial ecosystem" linking traditional finance and digital assets (IR26). The insurance subsidiary operates under the brand concept "Invesurance", launched for YF Life's 50th anniversary in Hong Kong in 2025. ### Licences and scope **YF Life:** is an authorised insurer in Hong Kong for life and annuity, linked long-term, permanent health, and retirement scheme management long-term business. It operates in Macao through a licensed branch (AR25-Ann). **Yunfeng Securities:** holds SFC Type 1 (dealing in securities), Type 4 (advising on securities) and Type 9 (asset management) licences. During 2025 these were uplifted to cover virtual-asset services; the Type 1 uplift was approved around 9 September 2025 (36Kr; KrASIA; AR25-Ann). ### Independent characterisation Yunfeng is best understood as an insurance holding company with a fintech venture arm. It is not a diversified financial conglomerate. **Scale of the insurer:** In FY2025 YF Life's segment net operating income (NOI) was HK$1,385 million. The other financial services and corporate segment recorded an operating loss of HK$31 million (AR25-Ann). **Revenue model:** On an economic (premium) basis, revenue is overwhelmingly regular-premium life insurance. - FY2025 total premium and fee income (TPI) was HK$16,427 million. Of this, HK$10,872 million was renewal regular premium, HK$5,168 million first-year regular premium, HK$378 million single premium and HK$9 million fee income. - Under HKFRS 17, recognised insurance revenue was HK$3,076 million, because investment components are excluded. - Fee and brokerage revenue from non-insurance activities is very small: HK$24.9 million in 1H2026 (IR26 Note 7). **Value-chain position:** YF Life is a product manufacturer (underwriter). It distributes through four routes: - tied agency (2,727 agents at 30 June 2026); - brokers and independent financial advisers (530); - bancassurance (7 partners); - fintech partnerships. It also manages a large general account. Investments and cash were HK$97.0 billion at 30 June 2026, and 82% of that is fixed income, mostly US investment-grade credit. **Customer types:** Local Hong Kong and Macao retail customers, Chinese Mainland Visitors (CMV) buying USD participating savings products, MPF (pension) members, and professional investors on the Youyu app for virtual-asset and RWA products. **End-markets:** - Hong Kong life insurance, which accounted for 79% of FY2025 TPI. - Macao life insurance (21%). - Hong Kong retail brokerage, IPO distribution and asset management. - Hong Kong's regulated virtual-asset and tokenisation market.

Yuk Wing is a micro-cap Hong Kong industrial company. It designs, manufactures and sells down-the-hole (DTH) rockdrilling tools: hammers, casing systems, button bits, drill pipes, cluster drills and casing tubes. Its main customers are foundation and piling contractors in Hong Kong. At IPO it was the dominant local supplier, with a 59.2% revenue share of the Hong Kong DTH tool market in 2015 according to Frost & Sullivan. Since then the business has shrunk relative to its listing-era profitability. Revenue has oscillated between HK$107M and HK$217M, the group has posted losses in every year from FY2021 to FY2026, and it depends heavily on a few customers (top five = 67.2% of FY2026 revenue). Hong Kong still generates about 95% of sales. In 2026 the group began a significant strategic and financial reset: - acquired a Hefei industrial property company to host a second DTH production line and logistics hub; - liquidated most of its blue-chip securities portfolio; - moved its head office to a premium Central tower; - launched a highly dilutive HK$136.8M rights issue. The investment case now depends on whether this PRC-centred capacity expansion can rebuild growth outside a structurally soft Hong Kong private construction market. --- ### Company's own description In its FY2026 annual results announcement (26 June 2026), the company describes itself as principally engaged in two activities: - manufacturing and trading of DTH rockdrilling tools; and - trading of piling and drilling machineries and rockdrilling equipment. It sorts its self-designed and self-manufactured DTH tools into three groups: - DTH hammers; - casing systems (driver bits and casing bits); - miscellaneous products, including button bits, bit openers and newly developed drill pipes, cluster drills and casing tubes. In the August 2026 rights issue circular, the board described the company as Hong Kong's leading manufacturer and supplier of DTH rockdrilling tools. It said the group provides end-to-end technical rockdrilling solutions covering design, manufacture and sale. The stated applications include building foundations, piling, mining, quarrying, water-well drilling, utility linings, micro-tunnelling and overburden drilling, across varied geological formations and at considerable depths. ### Business model and revenue model | Dimension | Characterisation | Evidence | |---|---|---| | Product vs service mix | Product sales account for essentially all revenue. Technical advice and after-sales support are bundled into the sale, not billed separately | All revenue is recognised at a point in time on delivery (FY2026 results, Note 3) | | Subscription / licensing | None | No such revenue lines disclosed | | Contract structure | Short-term, fixed-price contracts. Customers have no return rights once goods are accepted. Credit terms 0–90 days | FY2026 results, Note 3 | | Own-manufactured vs traded | Most tools are self-designed and manufactured in-house. Some items and equipment are sourced from third parties depending on customer needs | IPO publicity (Business Wire, Jan 2017); segment structure | | Revenue concentration | Customer A = HK$68.6M (38.5% of FY2026 revenue). Customer B = HK$27.2M (15.3%). Top five = 67.2% | FY2026 results | | Supplier concentration | Top five suppliers = 81.8% of FY2026 purchases | FY2026 results | ### Value-chain position Yuk Wing is a mid-stream consumable-tool maker: **Upstream:** it buys steel, tungsten-carbide buttons and other components, largely in Renminbi. Management flagged RMB purchase-cost sensitivity in its November 2021 profit warning. **Midstream:** it machines and heat-treats DTH tools in Shunde. **Downstream:** it sells to piling and foundation contractors (including HKEX-listed foundation companies at IPO), drilling contractors, quarry operators and distributors. DTH bits and hammers wear out and must be replaced, which in principle gives a recurring revenue element. In practice, that volume is tied to the number of foundation and rockdrilling projects active at any time. ### Customer types and end-markets | End-market | Relevance | Notes | |---|---|---| | Building foundation / piling (Hong Kong) | Core; the majority of revenue | Hong Kong was 94.8% of FY2026 revenue. Demand fell because fewer rockdrilling projects were available | | Civil infrastructure / tunnelling (Hong Kong, Macau) | Secondary | Micro-tunnelling and utility linings are named applications; Macau revenue was HK$1.4M in FY2026 | | Mining and quarrying (PRC, international) | Minor | PRC revenue fell to HK$3.8M in FY2026 from HK$15.1M | | Water-well / geothermal / overburden drilling (Scandinavia, Germany) | Minor but growing | Scandinavia revenue doubled to HK$2.0M; Germany HK$1.35M | ### Independent characterisation In effect, Yuk Wing is a single-market, single-product-family niche manufacturer that has lost the operating leverage it had at IPO: - At IPO, the group earned net profit of HK$18.9M–27.0M a year on revenue of HK$127M–151M (FY2014–FY2016, per IPO publicity). - In FY2025 it generated HK$217M of revenue yet lost HK$12.2M. Three structural problems drive this deterioration: 1. Gross margin compression, from 36.5% in FY2021 to about 20–23% in FY2025–FY2026 (computed). 2. A fixed cost base that does not flex with volume. 3. Credit-loss and inventory-write-down drag. In parallel, the company has run a treasury book of blue-chip Hong Kong equities (BOC Hong Kong, HKEX, China Mobile) that made other gains a material part of results. These positions were largely liquidated in April–July 2026 to fund the Anhui Runsheng acquisition.

Yuexiu Transport Infrastructure is the Hong Kong-listed toll-road platform of Guangzhou Yue Xiu Holdings, one of Guangzhou's flagship municipal state-owned conglomerates. It owns concession rights to eleven controlled expressways and minority stakes in five further roads/bridges plus a passenger port, spanning Guangdong, Hubei, Henan, Hunan, Guangxi and (since February 2026) Shandong. The business is a pure-play, cash-generative, RMB-denominated infrastructure annuity: almost all revenue is regulated tolls, EBITDA margins run in the mid-to-high 80s (company definition), and the payout policy has delivered HK$0.25 per share for two consecutive years. Its strategic distinctiveness lies in a three-platform model—parent-level incubation of assets, a listed consolidator, and an onshore public infrastructure REIT—that recycles capital through drop-down acquisitions. The core challenge is concession run-off (weighted remaining life ~12.8 years) and traffic diversion from new parallel roads, which management is addressing through acquisitions, the flagship GNSR Expressway reconstruction-and-expansion project, and nascent new-energy investment. --- ### Company's own description (Annual Report 2025, paraphrased) The company describes itself as principally engaged in the investment, construction and development, operation and management of expressways and bridges in Guangdong Province and other high-growth provinces of the PRC. Its substantial shareholder GZYX is identified as a state-owned enterprise under the Guangzhou municipal SASAC. As at 31 December 2025 it held 16 investments in operating expressways, bridges and a port, with attributable toll mileage of 524.2 km from subsidiaries (total subsidiary toll mileage approx. 641.4 km), approx. 83.5 km from associates and a joint venture, and approx. 607.7 km in aggregate. After completing the Qinbin Expressway acquisition on 14 February 2026, total attributable mileage rose to approx. 659.3 km (2026 Interim). ### Business model and revenue model | Dimension | Characterisation | |---|---| | Model type | Concession-based infrastructure owner-operator (build/acquire–operate–transfer) | | Revenue mix (FY2025) | Toll revenue RMB4,249.0m (98.1%); other toll-related revenue RMB82.3m (1.9%), of which service-area and gas-station income RMB40.2m and entrusted road-management service income RMB33.6m | | Product vs. service vs. subscription vs. licensing | ~100% service (usage-based tolls); no product, subscription or licensing revenue | | Pricing | Tariffs set by provincial governments (hearing plus approval by provincial transport and price authorities); not market-determined | | Collection | Unified provincial toll-collection systems (ETC/MTC); receivables are due from local transport departments, credit risk considered minimal | | Earnings from non-controlled assets | Equity-accounted share of results of associates/JV: RMB160.2m in FY2025 (17.2% of project-level net profit) | | Capital recycling | Parent incubates assets → drop-down to listed company (Lanwei 2022, Pinglin 2024, Qinbin 2026) → mature assets can be spun into the onshore REIT (Han-Xiao Expressway, December 2021) | ### Value-chain position, customers and end-markets The company sits at the asset-ownership and operations layer of the toll-road value chain. Construction is subcontracted (e.g., Poly Changda Engineering for the Huocun Interchange works) and toll clearing is performed by provincial networks. Its "customers" are road users, segmented by vehicle class. In FY2025, passenger cars represented roughly 58–98% of traffic volume depending on the road (Humen Bridge ~98% passenger; Suiyuenan ~41% trucks), while trucks contribute a disproportionate share of revenue because truck tariffs are higher. End-markets are inter- and intra-provincial passenger travel (including self-drive tourism and commuting in the Guangzhou metropolitan area) and road freight along national trunk corridors (G4 Beijing–Hong Kong–Macao, G36 Nanjing–Luoyang, G80 Guangzhou–Kunming, G1011 Qinhuangdao–Binzhou). ### Independent characterisation Yuexiu Transport is best understood as a mid-sized, leveraged, state-backed toll-road annuity with three overlays: (1) a heavy concentration in a single urban ring road (GNSR Expressway generated 23.9% of FY2025 controlled toll revenue and 34.7% of project net profit); (2) a structural dependency on its parent for asset replenishment, which supports growth but creates recurring connected-party transactions; and (3) exposure to network-change risk in densely built Central and Southern China, where new parallel expressways and reconstruction works repeatedly divert traffic. Earnings quality is high in cash terms (FY2025 operating cash flow RMB3.08bn versus attributable profit RMB533m) because amortisation of intangible operating rights (RMB1.87bn in FY2025) is a large non-cash charge, but accounting profit is sensitive to impairments of concession assets (RMB265m on Daguangnan Expressway in FY2025).

Yuexiu REIT was the world's first listed REIT investing solely in Mainland Chinese property. It remains one of the largest China-asset REITs listed in Hong Kong or Singapore. It is controlled and sponsored by Yuexiu Property, Guangzhou's flagship state-owned developer, and it is heavily concentrated in Guangzhou's Tianhe CBD. Its anchor is the Guangzhou International Finance Center (GZIFC) complex, which contributed 62.9% of 1H2026 revenue. GZIFC combines a super Grade-A office tower, a podium mall, the Four Seasons Hotel Guangzhou and Ascott Serviced Apartments. The portfolio is valued at RMB33.56bn (30 Jun 2026). It spans offices, retail malls, the White Horse apparel wholesale market and hospitality across Guangzhou, Shanghai, Wuhan, Hangzhou and Hong Kong. Since 2022 the REIT has been in a defensive phase: - falling occupancy and rents in oversupplied Chinese office markets; - high offshore funding costs; - distributions cut by about 77% in HK$ terms between FY2021 and FY2025. The October 2025 sale of 50% of Yuexiu Financial Tower cut gearing from 48.5% to 41.9%. Management is now prioritising balance-sheet repair and RMB refinancing over growth. --- ### Company self-description In its filings, Yuexiu REIT describes itself as a vehicle "mainly engaged in the leasing of commercial properties in Chinese mainland" (2026 Interim Results, Note 1). Its press-release boilerplate (11 Mar 2026) makes three further points: - It was the first listed REIT in the world to invest only in PRC properties. - All of its properties sit in the central business districts of Guangzhou, Shanghai, Wuhan, Hangzhou and Hong Kong. - Its property types include Grade-A offices, commercial complexes, retail, a hotel, serviced apartments and a professional clothing market. ### Independent characterisation Yuexiu REIT is an externally managed, sponsor-backed, single-country commercial-property income vehicle. It has three defining features: 1. **Concentration risk.** Guangzhou generated about 87.5% of 1H2026 revenue, and GZIFC alone about 63%. The REIT's fortunes are essentially a leveraged bet on Tianhe CBD office and luxury hospitality demand. 2. **Dual earnings engine.** - Contractual rental income from offices, malls and wholesale space: 65.9% of 1H2026 gross income. - Operating (non-lease) income from the Four Seasons hotel and Ascott apartments: 34.1% of 1H2026 gross income. This operating income is more cyclical and has much thinner margins. 3. **Sponsor-pipeline model.** Almost every acquisition since IPO has come from the Yuexiu group. These include GZIFC (2012), Shanghai Yue Xiu Tower, the Wuhan and Hangzhou assets (2017) and Yuexiu Financial Tower (2021). The 2025 partial disposal of Yuexiu Financial Tower also went to a Yuexiu-group entity. The REIT is therefore also a capital-recycling tool for its parent. ### Revenue model | Revenue type (1H2026) | RMB M | % of total | |---|---|---| | Property rentals (office, wholesale, retail lease income) | 505.1 | 65.9 | | Hotel and serviced apartments: room rentals | 177.2 | 23.1 | | Hotel and serviced apartments: food and beverage | 71.1 | 9.3 | | Hotel and serviced apartments: other | 13.2 | 1.7 | | Total | 766.5 | 100.0 | *Source: 2026 Interim Results, Note 6.* **Leasing income:** is recognised on a straight-line basis, which smooths rent-free periods and escalations. **Hotel and serviced apartments:** are "entrusted operations". Four Seasons and Ascott manage them under management agreements, while the REIT bears the operating P&L. **Leasing agents:** are three Yuexiu-affiliated companies: Guangzhou Yuexiu Yicheng Business Operation Management, Guangzhou Baima Business Operation Management, and Guangzhou IFC Business Management. In FY2024 they were paid RMB24.3m, RMB6.2m and RMB16.6m respectively. ### Value chain position Yuexiu REIT sits at the asset-ownership end of the real-estate value chain. Development is done by the sponsor. Property management, leasing and hotel operation are outsourced to affiliates or brand operators. Its job is capital allocation, asset enhancement and capital management. ### Customer types and end-markets | End-market | Customer profile | |---|---| | Grade-A office | Multinationals and domestic corporates. Fortune Global 500 / China 500-backed tenants were about 39% of rented office area at 30 Jun 2026. Top three tenant industries: commercial services, finance, information technology | | Retail malls | Fashion, F&B, lifestyle and duty-free. Anchors include Uniqlo (Victory Plaza), Guangzhou Friendship Store and China Duty Free Group (GZIFC mall) | | Wholesale (White Horse Building) | About 850 apparel brand and wholesale tenants (853 leases at 30 Jun 2026) serving domestic and foreign buyers | | Luxury hotel | International business travellers, inbound tourists, MICE, high-net-worth F&B customers | | Serviced apartments | Long-stay expatriate executives and short-stay inbound travellers. Guests came from 112 countries and regions in 1H2026 |

Yuexiu Property is the flagship listed real estate platform of the Guangzhou state-owned Yuexiu Group. It is one of only about ten mainland developers that still generated more than RMB 100 bn of annual contracted sales in 2025. Its business is a residential development engine concentrated in six "core cities": Guangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Chengdu. Around that engine sit two operating "wings": commercial asset operation, anchored by its associate Yuexiu REIT (0405.HK), and property services through Yuexiu Services (6626.HK), plus a project-management (代建) arm. The company has climbed the industry league table from about 37th in 2021 to 9th in 2025 and 8th in 1H2026 (CRIC). Its differentiators are investment-grade ratings, a funding cost below 3%, "three red lines" green-tier compliance, and transit-oriented development (TOD) access via Guangzhou Metro. The offsetting weakness is severe margin compression: gross margin fell to 6.2% in 1H2026, and attributable profit has nearly disappeared. --- **What the company does.** Yuexiu Property develops, sells, invests in and manages real estate, primarily in mainland China, with a Hong Kong holding presence. Market data providers summarising its annual report describe four reporting segments: Property Development, Property Management, Property Investment, and Others. The "Others" segment has historically included real estate agency, decoration, elderly-care products and services, and education services. The elderly-care (康养) business was sold to the parent group in 2026. **Company's own framing (FY2025 Annual Report and 2025–2026 results presentations).** Management describes a "one main business, two wings" (一主两翼) portfolio for the 15th Five-Year Plan period. The main business is residential development. The two wings are commercial operation (Yuexiu REIT and held assets) and property services plus project management (Yuexiu Services and Yuexiu Construction Technology/越建科). The long-term corporate identity is the "Four Goods" enterprise strategy (四好企业): good products, good services, good brand, and good team. At the product level, the company launched the "4×4 Good Product Concept" (4×4好产品理念) in early 2025, in response to the Ministry of Housing's "good housing" (好房子) policy. **Revenue model.** Revenue is overwhelmingly product (property-sale) revenue, recognised on delivery. In 1H2026, property development revenue was about RMB 33.38 bn of RMB 36.65 bn total, roughly 91%. Service revenue comes from consolidated Yuexiu Services, whose FY2025 revenue was RMB 3.902 bn. Rental revenue comes from held investment properties (investment properties carried at RMB 17.13 bn at end-2025). There is no meaningful subscription or licensing revenue. Equity-accounted income from joint ventures and associates is a material profit contributor outside revenue. In 1H2026, associates contributed about RMB 887 M of profit, which Kaiyuan Securities described as the largest single profit pillar of the period. **Value-chain position.** The company is an integrated developer covering land acquisition (public tender, urban renewal, TOD with Guangzhou Metro), product design, construction management (outsourced construction, internal project management), sales, post-delivery property management, and asset recycling. On the recycling side, held commercial assets are periodically injected into Yuexiu REIT, a "dual platform" model the company describes as normalised. **Customer types and end-markets.** The core customer is the mainland urban household buying for owner-occupation. The mix has shifted toward upgrader (改善) and high-end products in tier-1 cities. The 2025 average selling price was about RMB 36,000/sq.m., up 23%. Flagship projects in Beijing and Shanghai exceeded RMB 100,000/sq.m. Secondary customers are corporate tenants (offices, retail) through investment properties, homeowners and commercial clients (property services), and government or SOE clients (project management and urban renewal). **Independent characterisation.** Yuexiu is a state-backed, tier-1-concentrated volume developer. It deliberately traded margin for market share and land-bank quality during 2021–2024, buying heavily in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou at what are now high historical land costs. That decision is flowing through the income statement as gross margins collapsing from 21.8% (FY2021) to 6.2% (1H2026). Its balance sheet and funding access remain among the best in the sector. In 2026 it shifted from expansion to destocking: 81% of 1H2026 sales came from existing inventory. It is effectively a cash-flow-positive, low-profit credit story with an option on margin recovery, as newer core-city land (which management says carries gross margins above 15%) begins to be recognised.

YTO International is the Hong Kong-listed international logistics platform of YTO Express Group, one of mainland China's largest express parcel carriers. Built on the 2017 acquisition of the Hong Kong freight forwarder On Time Logistics, it combines a legacy asset-light air and ocean forwarding franchise (historically a top Cathay Pacific Cargo agent) with a newer cross-border e-commerce parcel business and an emerging overseas warehousing and last-mile capability in Central Asia, Australia and other corridors. The company is small (FY2025 revenue HK$3.19 billion, ~1,150 staff) relative to peers, loss-making since FY2024, and heavily reliant on parent resources — notably YTO Airlines' freighter fleet and the parent's Jiaxing Global Air Logistics Hub. Management's stated ambition is to become a "comprehensive international express logistics and supply chain integrator" under a "1+7" global hub network. Its balance sheet is essentially net cash, and 1H2026 shows sharp volume recovery, but profitability has not yet returned. --- ### Company's own description (latest filings) In its FY2025 Final Results Announcement (26 March 2026) and 1H2026 Interim Results (18 August 2026), the company describes its core businesses as international express and parcel services, international freight forwarding (air and ocean), and logistics/international supply chain services. It characterises its strategy as following three outbound vectors — Chinese people and enterprises going global, cross-border e-commerce, and the Belt and Road Initiative — and as building a network under the banner "China Connects the World and the World Connects the World". As at 30 June 2026 the company states its international service network covers more than 150 countries and regions across six continents. The FY2025 announcement additionally discloses over 2,000 international air route products and nearly 200 self-operated stations and core agent coverage points. The company's segment framework (unchanged in substance since FY2023) is: Air freight; Ocean freight; International express and parcel; Logistics (warehousing, distribution, customs clearance); and Others (combined shipments, trucking, rail freight, general sales agency, e-commerce, customs clearance services, hand-carry). ### Business model and revenue model The business is overwhelmingly service revenue — effectively 100% of revenue is transport and logistics service fees. There is no material product, subscription or licensing revenue. The model has three distinct economic engines: 1. **Freight forwarding (air and ocean) — ~77% of FY2025 revenue.** An asset-light intermediary model: the company buys cargo capacity (airline space allocations, block-space agreements, charters, ocean container slots) and resells it bundled with documentation, consolidation, customs coordination and destination handling. Revenue is gross freight billing; gross margin is the spread between sell rates and buy rates. Margins are thin and highly sensitive to spot freight rates and capacity commitments (charter exposure turned the air segment loss-making in FY2025). 2. **International express and parcel — ~18% of FY2025 revenue (21.5% in 1H2026).** Cross-border small-parcel delivery for e-commerce platforms and merchants via "dedicated line" (专线) products and standard express products, priced per parcel/weight. It is more vertically integrated — collection in China, linehaul (often via YTO Airlines freighters), customs clearance, and increasingly self-operated last-mile in Kazakhstan and Australia. 3. **Logistics / supply chain services — ~2% of revenue.** Warehousing, pick-and-pack, distribution, overseas warehousing and integrated supply chain projects (e.g., Xiaomi spare parts and finished-goods logistics from 2025). ### Value chain position The company sits in the middle of the cross-border logistics value chain as a forwarder/integrator: upstream it relies on airlines (including sister company YTO Airlines), shipping lines (e.g., new cooperation with Emirates Shipping Line in 2025) and trucking/rail operators; downstream it serves shippers, consignees, e-commerce platforms and merchants. It is attempting to move "up" the value chain from pure transport brokerage toward end-to-end supply chain solutions with controlled infrastructure (hubs, bonded warehouses, last-mile fleets). ### Customer types and end-markets Per the FY2024 and 1H2026 filings, air freight customers come from garment, footwear and electronics industries, plus e-commerce small-parcel shippers. Company profiles (Yahoo Finance/Finnomena) also cite fashion and consumer goods, fresh and healthcare, electronics and technology, and aviation materials and parts. Strategic target verticals named for 2026 are electronics and electrical appliances, new-energy vehicles (NEVs), engineering/construction machinery and cross-border e-commerce. Named customers: Xiaomi Group (supply chain cooperation commenced 2025). Cross-border e-commerce platforms are described as key partners but are not named. ### Independent characterisation YTO International is best understood as a sub-scale, captive international arm of a domestic express giant. Its legacy freight forwarding book (the On Time franchise) provides the majority of revenue but earns thin, volatile margins; the e-commerce parcel business, which management positioned as a "second growth curve", collapsed from 140.7 million parcels in FY2023 to 26.3 million in FY2025 as the company deliberately exited low-margin volume and as US/European low-value import regimes tightened. The company's differentiation rests on parent-provided assets (freighters, domestic network, Jiaxing hub, technology via a Master IT Services Agreement) rather than on its own capital base. Strategic direction — corridor-based hubs in Central Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia — mirrors Chinese trade diversification away from the US, but the company is investing ahead of profitability.

Two operational data points from Annual Report 2026 indicate scale. The Sabie sawmill section 189A process initially covered up to about 149 employees and in the end affected 11. The plywood plant section 189A process initially covered up to 138 employees and in the end affected 62. Together with the forestry, fleet and wholesale operations, this points to a workforce in the low thousands rather than hundreds. The PitchBook figure is plausible only if contractors are included. York Timber Holdings is South Africa's largest integrated solid-wood processor. It is a 110-year-old JSE company (listed 80 years) that controls the full pine value chain, from roughly 91,000 hectares of landholdings (about 55,400 ha planted to pine and eucalyptus, FSC-certified) through mechanised harvesting and its own log-haulage fleet, two operating sawmills (Sabie and Jessievale), one plywood plant and a wholesale distribution arm (Agentimber). Its economic engine is the biological asset: a R3.45 billion plantation estate whose standing volume reached 7.73 million m³ at June 2026. Its operating results depend on converting that resource efficiently into SANS 929-certified structural lumber and plywood for South African construction, truss, retail and industrial customers. After years of under-earning in processing and heavy reliance on purchased logs, York is now in a "get the basics right" reset. It is reducing external log purchases as its Escarpment plantations reach rotation, right-sizing plywood, rebuilding the Sabie mill and unbundling its agricultural interests to shareholders. The shares trade at about 0.29x net asset value. --- ### Company's own description (Annual Report 2026) York describes itself as an investment holding company whose subsidiaries conduct an "integrated forestry value chain, including forestry, sawmilling and plywood manufacturing operations", with sales channels serving "wholesale and retail markets in South Africa, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and other international markets" (AFS FY2026, Directors' Report §1). The Annual Report frames the model as "from tree to timber", a six-step cycle: plant, grow and protect, harvest, process, supply, reinvest. It states that York offers "premium sawn timber and plywood that are certified to South African National Standard (SANS) 929 and fully comply with the National Building Regulations and Standards". It also positions timber as a "carbon-positive and sustainable resource", and says it is committed to stimulating a South African mass-timber construction industry (Annual Report 2026, pp. 8–9). ### Independent characterisation York is a vertically integrated, commodity-exposed timber processor with an embedded, long-duration natural-resource asset. Three features define its economics. 1. **Biological asset dominance.** Plantation biological assets of R3,454 m (FY2026) are 67% of total assets of R5,117 m and roughly 1.1x book equity of R3,153 m. IAS 41 fair-value movements, which are non-cash, swing reported earnings far more than operations do. FY2026 fair-value gains of R214 m compare with operating profit before fair-value adjustments of only R31.5 m (AFS FY2026; Annual Report eight-year review). Management therefore guides investors to "core earnings", which strip fair-value movements out. Core EPS has been negative for four consecutive years (FY2023–FY2026). 2. **Fibre self-sufficiency as the main operating lever.** Logs bought from third parties made up 52% of mill intake in FY2022. That fell to 31% in FY2026 as the Escarpment plantations, deliberately held back by extending clearfell age from 20 to 23 years after the 2022 rights offer, moved into rotation. Management estimates the EBITDA penalty from external purchases, net of the harvesting costs avoided, at R145.1 m in FY2026, down from R228.0 m in FY2025 (Investor Presentation FY2026, slide 17). Further reductions are guided. 3. **Processing under-performance.** Of the three processing plants, only Jessievale was consistently profitable in FY2026 (EBITDA R48.8 m). Sabie lost R28.8 m and plywood lost R23.6 m. The Processing segment as a whole was EBITDA-negative (−R16.4 m) for the first time in the disclosed series, while Forests and Fleet earned R147.8 m (Investor Presentation FY2026, slide 5). ### Revenue model | Product revenue (R m, incl. discontinued agri) | FY2025 | FY2026 | |---|---|---| | Lumber | 973.8 | 1009.3 | | Plywood | 684.7 | 625.8 | | Logs (external sales) | 207.0 | 191.7 | | Agricultural produce (discontinued in FY2026) | 74.7 | 44.6 | | Wood chips | 53.7 | 49.2 | | Total | 1993.9 | 1920.6 | York's revenue is essentially 100% physical product sales. There is no subscription, licensing or material service income; a small amount of rental income from investment property is included in other income. The revenue mix by product is shown below, as disclosed in the FY2026 Investor Presentation (slide 32). The figures include agricultural revenue, which is discontinued in FY2026. The sum excluding agriculture (R1,876.1 m FY2026; R1,919.2 m FY2025) reconciles to reported continuing revenue (R1,876.1 m and R1,920.2 m) within rounding. ### Value-chain position and customers York sits upstream (plantation owner and log seller), midstream (sawmilling and plywood) and partly downstream (wholesale distribution through Agentimber). It is a net buyer of logs: FY2026 external purchases were 186,435 m³, against external log sales of 304,903 m³. External sales are largely pulp-grade and surplus Highveld volumes, while purchased logs are mostly sawlog and pruned plywood-grade material, notably from the state-owned South African Forestry Company (SAFCOL) (Investor Presentation FY2026, slides 16–17; Annual Report 2026, risk 03). Customers named in York's disclosures include truss plants, corporate and independent retailers, re-manufacturers, furniture manufacturers and construction contractors (Business Day, 7 December 2022, citing York's rights offer circular). Receivables are split for credit purposes into "independent customers" and "corporate customers" (AFS FY2026 note 12). End-markets are residential and non-residential construction (structural and roof-truss lumber), formwork and subflooring (plywood), packaging and pallets, furniture, and industrial uses.

Yongsheng Advanced Materials was a small-capitalisation, Hangzhou-based textile services and diversified holding company whose operating core is Hangzhou Huvis Yongsheng Dyeing and Finishing Co. Limited ("Yongsheng Dyeing"), a High and New Technology Enterprise performing commission dyeing and finishing of differentiated polyester filament fabrics for apparel, home-textile and automotive-interior end markets. After listing in 2013 as an integrated polyester filament yarn (PFY) producer, dyer and textile trader, the group progressively sold its trading (2015) and PFY production (2019) businesses to its controlling shareholder, and pivoted into Hong Kong building RMAA contracting (acquired 2019, sold 2022), Hangzhou commercial property (Yongsheng Plaza, completed 2021) and early-stage environmental/water projects in China and Southeast Asia. By 2022 it was a sub-RMB250m-revenue business carrying roughly RMB810m of investment property, persistent valuation losses, and a share price at a deep discount to book value — conditions that led the founder to take it private in 2023–24. --- ### Company's own description (latest filings) In its FY2022 results announcement and 2023 interim results, the company described itself as principally engaged in (1) dyeing and processing of differentiated polyester filament fabric; (2) properties investment; and (3) environmental water project operation, having disposed of its Hong Kong RMAA (renovation, maintenance, alteration and addition) services business in July 2022 in order to concentrate resources on dyeing, environmental water projects and property investment. The company characterised Yongsheng Dyeing as located in Hangzhou, certified as a High and New Technology Enterprise, and recognised as a Provincial Level Research and Development Center (FY2022 results announcement; 2023 interim results). ### Independent characterisation Economically, by 2022–23 the company was a two-engine micro-cap: 1. **A commission dyeing and finishing mill** (approx. 84.7% of FY2022 continuing revenue; RMB183.1m). Yongsheng Dyeing processes polyester filament greige fabric supplied by or sold to customers — principally weavers, converters and fabric traders serving apparel, home textiles (e.g., velvet, upholstery-type fabrics), and automotive interior trims. Revenue is recognised at a point in time on delivery of processed goods (FY2022 Note 4). The business is volume- and dye/chemical/energy-cost-sensitive, with gross margins that compressed from 43.6% (FY2018) to 22.2% (FY2022) before recovering to 29.9% in H1 2023. 2. **A landlord** (approx. 15.3% of FY2022 continuing revenue; RMB32.9m) owning Yongsheng Plaza, a 24-storey commercial tower in the Xiaoshan Economic and Technological Development Zone, plus eight office units in a nearby building. Rental margins are very high (84–93%) but the asset is carried at fair value, so reported earnings were dominated by valuation movements (RMB104.7m fair value loss in FY2021; RMB70.4m remeasurement loss plus RMB20.3m fair value loss in FY2022). A third activity — environmental/water projects (Inya Water platform in Myanmar/Cambodia/Malaysia; a building-reinforcement-materials JV in Deqing; industrial land in Maanshan, Anhui) — consumed capital (segment capex RMB78.3m in FY2021) but generated zero external revenue in every reported period through H1 2023. A fourth, treasury/lending activity, is economically significant: loan receivables of RMB158.4m (FY2021), RMB139.5m (FY2022) and RMB86.5m (H1 2023), mostly trust loans to independent third parties "introduced by the controlling shareholder", at 5–12% interest, plus RMB25–49m of wealth-management/fund products. Interest income (RMB14.8m FY2021; RMB13.9m FY2022) was material relative to operating profit. ### Business and revenue model mix | Revenue type (FY2022, continuing) | RMB m | % of continuing revenue | Nature | |---|---|---|---| | Processing (dyeing & finishing services/products) | 183.1 | 84.7% | Product/service — point-in-time | | Gross rental income from investment properties | 30.8 | 14.2% | Lease income (IFRS 16 operating leases) | | Property management services | 2.2 | 1.0% | Service — over time | | Environmental water project operation | 0.0 | 0.0% | Pre-revenue | | Total continuing | 216.0 | 100% | — | Source: FY2022 results announcement, Note 4. There is no subscription or licensing revenue. ### Value-chain position Within the polyester textile chain (PTA/MEG → polyester polymer → PFY spinning → weaving/knitting → dyeing & finishing → garment/home-textile making → brands/retail), the company occupied the mid-stream dyeing and finishing node after 2019. Before November 2019 it was also upstream in PFY spinning (via Hangzhou HUVIS Yongsheng Chemical Fiber and Nantong Yongsheng HUVIS Fiber Advanced Materials), and before May 2015 in textile trading. ### Customer types and end-markets **Customers:** fabric converters, weavers and traders (domestic and export-oriented). No single customer exceeded 10% of revenue in FY2020–FY2021; in FY2022 one dyeing customer accounted for RMB37.5m (17.4% of continuing revenue), equal to the entire "Others" (non-Mainland) geographic line (FY2022 Note 3). Five largest customers were 31.9% of sales and five largest suppliers 38.0% of purchases in FY2019 (2019 Annual Report). **End-markets:** apparel; home textiles (management cited US/European inflation hitting home-textile demand in 2022–23); automotive interior decoration (orders fell in 2022 on chip shortages); Hangzhou commercial office/retail tenants; prospective municipal water and solid-waste markets.

Yongmao Holdings is a mid-sized, founder-controlled Chinese tower crane manufacturer with a Singapore holding company. Its core plant is in Fushun, Liaoning. It designs, makes, sells, rents and services tower cranes with lifting capacities from 80 to 4,000 tonne-metres. The range covers four families: Topless STT, ST, Luffing STL/STF and Derrick Q. Yongmao has been named among the world's top ten tower crane manufacturers in the ICm20 ranking every year since 2013. Its cranes have been exported to more than 80 countries and regions. The business has moved away from mid-size residential cranes and toward mega-size luffing and flat-top cranes for wind, nuclear and government infrastructure work. Luffing models now make up the largest share of equipment sales. A rental and service fleet across the PRC, Hong Kong/Macau and Singapore provides recurring revenue, about 36% of the total in FY2026. Weaknesses are thin profitability, negative operating cash flow, rising leverage and unresolved Hong Kong accident litigation. --- ### Company's own description (paraphrased from AR2026) Since 1992 the Group has designed, developed and manufactured tower cranes, components and accessories. Overseas, it sells to construction equipment distributors and rental companies. In the PRC, it sells to construction companies and equipment rental companies. The Yongmao name is recognised in the PRC as a "Chinese Well-Known Brand" (中国驰名商标). Its in-house R&D team has developed more than 70 tower crane models and sub-models. The Group says it holds the certifications and approvals needed for export and deployment in multiple jurisdictions. Its main production facility in Fushun uses robotic welding and modern process flow, and it can generally deliver a tower crane in 30 to 90 days. End uses are construction sites, infrastructure projects and shipbuilding. The FY2026 results notes list two principal activities for the subsidiaries: (i) manufacturing and sale of tower cranes and related components; and (ii) rental and servicing of tower cranes and construction machinery. ### Independent characterisation Yongmao is a vertically integrated equipment OEM with a captive rental arm. It runs three linked activities: 1. **Manufacturing and equipment sales (64% of FY2026 revenue).** Tower cranes and components are sold one-off. The PRC entities sell mainly in China and through distributors abroad. The Singapore subsidiary sells and services cranes in Singapore and nearby markets. Customers can pay in instalments over 24 to 60 months, so a large part of revenue is effectively vendor-financed. 2. **Rental (28%) and service (8%).** The Group builds cranes for its own rental fleet (RMB151.8 million of self-built rental cranes were added to inventory in FY2026). It rents them in Hong Kong/Macau through its 60%-owned Yongmao Machinery (H.K.), and also in the PRC and Singapore. Service income includes installation, erection, dismantling, maintenance and operator-related work. 3. **Strategic links with Tat Hong.** Tat Hong Holdings owns about 24% of Yongmao, and its long-time chief, Ng San Tiong, is Yongmao's Deputy Chairman. Tat Hong-affiliated rental companies in China are recurring buyers through interested-person transactions (IPTs). Yongmao also holds an 11.6% stake in Tat Hong Equipment (China) Pte Ltd. **Value-chain position.** Yongmao sits in the midstream as an OEM. It buys steel, slewing rings, hoists, electrical systems and drives, then fabricates, assembles and tests cranes. It also operates downstream as a rental and service provider. It does not make major subsystems such as engines or gearboxes in-house, as far as public disclosures show. **Revenue model mix (FY2026, FY2026 Results Note 5).** Product sales and service income are recognised at a point in time; rental is recognised over time. There is no subscription or licensing revenue. **Customer types:** construction contractors, power-sector EPC contractors (for example, Jiangsu Electric Power Construction named Yongmao an excellent supplier for 2024), equipment rental firms (including Tat Hong affiliates and Zhejiang Hongji Leasing), and overseas distributors. **End markets:** wind power (onshore and offshore), nuclear power, thermal power plants, bridges and transport infrastructure, airports, urban renewal and high-rise buildings, public housing (Hong Kong, Singapore) and shipbuilding.

YNBY International is the Hong Kong-listed international trading and distribution platform of Yunnan Baiyao Group, one of China's best-known traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and consumer-health brand owners. Emerging from a severe 2022 governance and credit crisis under its former identity, Ban Loong Holdings, the company has been rebuilt since 2022 by a Yunnan Baiyao-appointed management team with Huawei international-business pedigree. Its revenue comes almost entirely from low-margin trading: healthcare and cosmetics raw materials sold to PRC manufacturers (including Yunnan Baiyao itself), third-party-branded goods sold to Chinese and Korean e-commerce platforms, and, increasingly strategically, overseas distribution of Yunnan Baiyao-branded medicines and toothpaste, including Thai-manufactured product. Revenue scaled from HK$180m (FY Mar-2022) to HK$1.11bn (FY2025), but gross margin compressed to 4.6% in FY2025 and 3.0% in 1H2026, leaving profits marginal. The investment case rests on whether the parent's global-expansion mandate converts into higher-margin branded distribution. --- ### The company's own description In its FY2025 annual report, the company describes itself as principally engaged in the trading of goods and commodities, comprising e-commerce and general trading and raw-materials trading, together with professional services such as product registration and promotion. Operations are divided into (i) a trading-of-goods-and-commodities segment, covering (a) e-commerce and general trading, (b) raw-material trading for healthcare products in the PRC, and (c) distribution of "YNBY Products" manufactured and branded by the company or by Yunnan Baiyao Group to overseas markets; and (ii) an "other" segment providing marketing services, product registration services and OEM/ODM sourcing (AR2025, MD&A). The principal activity of the listed parent is investment holding (Interim 1H2026, note 1). The e-commerce business sells third-party-branded products sourced from overseas suppliers to PRC platforms such as VIP.com, JD.com and Tmall, and to overseas platforms such as Coupang; FY2024 filings additionally named Lazada and Shopee (AR2024; AR2025). The raw-materials business, which grew out of the former CBD (cannabidiol) trading activity from early 2022, supplies plant extracts and inputs such as packaging materials, sorbitol, steviol glycoside, lauric acid and glycerin to PRC cosmetics and healthcare manufacturers (AR2024, MD&A). ### Business model and revenue model | Revenue stream | Model | Recognition | FY2025 relevance | Source | |---|---|---|---|---| | Raw-material trading ("global supply chain integration") | Buy-sell trading; margin = spread between procurement cost and selling price | Point in time | Core; HK$191.6m sold to Yunnan Baiyao Group alone in FY2025 | AR2025 CCT disclosure | | E-commerce & general trading | Buy-sell of third-party branded goods to platforms; inventory-light, order-backed | Point in time | Core volume driver | AR2025 | | YNBY Products overseas distribution | Purchase from Yunnan Baiyao Group / contract manufacturers, resell overseas | Point in time | Strategic; purchases from parent only HK$3.8m in FY2025 vs HK$200m cap | AR2025 CCT table | | Professional services (registration, IP, marketing, OEM/ODM sourcing) | Cost-plus fee (10–15% mark-up) | Over time | Nil revenue FY2024, FY2025, 1H2026; HK$9.2m in 9M2023 | AR2025; FY2024 results | The mix is effectively 100% product trading; there is no subscription, licensing or recurring-service revenue in the latest three reporting periods (FY2024 results note 4; Interim 1H2026 note 4). ### Independent characterisation YNBY International is best understood as a captive trading house and international market-entry vehicle for Yunnan Baiyao Group rather than a pharmaceutical or consumer brand company in its own right. Three features dominate its economics. First, it carries minimal fixed assets (property, plant and equipment of HK$2.0m at 30 June 2026) and no owned manufacturing; its Thai toothpaste is contract-manufactured. Second, its gross margin is structurally thin and volatile, determined by product mix — FY2024's 8.74% reflected higher-margin YNBY product sales, while FY2025 fell to 4.63% and 1H2026 to about 2.95% (derived) as low-margin trading volume surged. Third, it is highly concentrated: the top five customers generated 72.4% of FY2025 sales and the largest customer 29.7%, while one of the top five is a Yunnan Baiyao Group entity (AR2025). In value-chain terms it sits in the middle — sourcing, logistics coordination, customs clearance and quality inspection — between upstream ingredient suppliers or brand owners and downstream manufacturers, platforms and overseas retailers. ### Customer types and end-markets | Customer type | Examples (as disclosed) | End-market | |---|---|---| | PRC cosmetics & healthcare manufacturers | Yunnan Baiyao Group (related party); unnamed independent third parties | Oral care, personal care, health products | | E-commerce platforms (PRC) | VIP.com, JD.com, Tmall | Cross-border/imported consumer goods | | E-commerce platforms (overseas) | Coupang (Korea); historically Lazada, Shopee (SE Asia) | Consumer goods | | Overseas distributors / retailers of YNBY Products | Customers in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore, USA (FY2024 disclosure) | TCM, OTC, oral care | | General trading clients | Not named | Mixed commodities |

Yip's Chemical is a Hong Kong-listed, family-controlled chemical group whose operations are almost entirely in mainland China. It is transforming from a vertically integrated solvents-to-coatings manufacturer into what management calls a "leading development platform for chemical businesses." The core consolidated franchises are: **Bauhinia Variegata inks:** Ranked first in mainland China and 18th globally by sales (Ink World, 2024). **Coatings:** Bauhinia, Camel, Hang Cheung toy and plastic coatings, and resins. Ranked seventh in mainland China and 57th globally (Coatings World, 2024). **Lubricants:** Hercules automotive and Pacoil industrial brands. Since December 2025 the Group has also owned about 60% of Beijing Sino-Hypro, a high-margin chemical-vapour recovery and treatment engineering company. It holds a 24% effective stake in Handsome Chemical, the world's largest acetate-solvents producer, which is now controlled by PAG. Consolidated revenue is about HK$3bn. A substantial share of earnings comes from the equity-accounted solvents associate. The balance sheet is conservatively geared at 13.4% net debt to equity, and the shares trade at roughly one-third of book value. --- ### Company's own description In its FY2025 results announcement, the Company describes itself as an investment holding company. Its principal subsidiaries and associates are engaged in: 1. Manufacturing of and trading in solvents, coatings, inks and lubricants. 2. Manufacturing and sale of chemical vapour recovery and treatment (CVRT) systems. 3. Property investment. 4. Other businesses. In the 2024 Annual Report, management restated its vision. The Group aims to leverage a long-term-oriented controlling shareholder base, its Hong Kong listing, its reputation and its China operating experience. It intends to build and invest in chemical businesses with distinctive models in niche markets, grounded in green technology, service and branding. The long-standing corporate vision is "Towards a Century of Revered Leadership" (百年葉氏). ### Independent characterisation | Business | Customer types | End-markets | |---|---|---| | Architectural coatings | Distributors, branded stores, painters (Camel), property developers and SOE contractors | Residential repainting ("secondary renovation"), new-build projects | | Industrial coatings | Furniture OEMs, toy makers (incl. international brands), plastics converters, protective-coating users | Custom wooden furniture, toys, plastic substrates, NEV batteries (start-up), anti-corrosion | | Resins | Captive and third-party coatings formulators | Automotive and protective coatings | | Inks | Packaging printers and converters | Food, beverage, daily necessities, gift packaging, electronics, PCBs, decorative materials | | Lubricants | Auto-aftermarket distributors and stores; industrial users | Passenger and commercial vehicles; electronics, appliances, steel, ports, cement, textiles, metalworking | | CVRT (Sino-Hypro) | Refineries, chemical plants, storage terminals, logistics operators | Oil and gas and chemical emissions control | | Solvents (associate) | Coatings, adhesives, pharma, tannery and battery makers; exports | Global acetate solvents | Yip's Chemical is best understood as three economic layers. **Layer 1: Consolidated operating businesses (about HK$3.0bn revenue in FY2025).** These are formulators and downstream manufacturers selling physical products, almost exclusively in mainland China. **Coatings: 46% of FY2025 revenue:** Architectural paint is sold through distributors and branded stores; Bauhinia had more than 2,300 branded stores at end-2022. Industrial coatings cover furniture, toys and plastics, and protective uses. Resins are partly used captively. **Packaging and specialty inks: 44%:** Gravure, offset, screen and UV inks are sold B2B to printing and converting companies. **Lubricants: 9.5%:** Automotive aftermarket products are sold via distributors; industrial specialties are sold B2B. **Layer 2: Engineering and technology (from December 2025).** Sino-Hypro designs, manufactures and supplies systems that recover and treat chemical vapour generated in the production, storage and transport of chemicals, oil and gas. Revenue is project and contract based, with contract assets and liabilities, and is billed under payment schedules rather than credit terms. Gross margin was 45.6% in H1 2026, far above the legacy businesses. **Layer 3: Financial and associate holdings.** - A 24% effective stake in Handsome Chemical: share of results HK$79.4m in FY2025 and HK$112m in H1 2026. - A portfolio of FVTPL financial assets worth HK$923m at end-2025. This includes US$85m of PAG-vehicle preferred shares subscribed in 2023. - Investment-grade bonds. - Investment properties of HK$214m. **Revenue model mix (FY2025).** About 99.8% is product sales recognised at a point in time. Rental income is 0.2%. There is no subscription or licensing revenue. CVRT will add contract revenue from 2026; in H1 2026, Sino-Hypro's HK$136m was about 8% of Group revenue. **Value-chain position.** Historically the Group was integrated upstream, because solvents were a key raw material for coatings and inks. After the 2022 PAG transaction it is a minority owner of the upstream acetate chain and a majority owner of downstream formulators. Raw materials include solvents, resins, pigments, titanium dioxide and base oils. Customer concentration is low: the top five customers were under 8% of revenue in FY2024. **Customer types and end-markets**

Ying Li International Real Estate is a small, highly leveraged, state-controlled landlord of Chongqing commercial property. It is listed in Singapore. The group was founded by entrepreneur Fang Ming in 1993 and became the first Chongqing company on the SGX Mainboard in 2008. It built several of Chongqing's early CBD landmarks, including Minsheng Mansion, Zou Rong Plaza, New York New York, Future International and Ying Li International Financial Centre. China Everbright Limited took control in 2019. Since then the company has moved from development towards an asset-light "property investment and asset management" model. Today about 93–100% of revenue is rental income from over 300,000 sqm of investment GFA. That GFA is roughly 66% retail, 10% office and 24% car park and warehousing. The investment properties are carried at RMB4.28bn. Group borrowings are RMB2.21bn, mostly from CEL entities, and finance costs routinely exceed gross profit. The equity is effectively a call option on Chongqing asset values and parent support. --- **What the company does.** Ying Li is an investment holding company. Its subsidiaries are engaged in five activities: 1. Property development. 2. Mall and property management. 3. Property consultancy, sales, marketing and management. 4. Commercial property leasing. 5. Investment holding. This is the principal-activities description in the 1H2026 interim statements. The economic reality is narrower: almost all revenue now comes from leasing retail malls, offices and car parks in Chongqing's Yuzhong and Jiangbei districts. **Company's own description (paraphrased from the FY2025 Annual Report).** - Ying Li describes itself as a premier Chongqing-based developer that modernised the city's main business districts. - It says it is transforming from traditional development into a cross-border property investment and asset management platform. - It positions itself as an "operator-advocator" of better building and lifestyle environments. - It pursues a two-pronged strategy: financial-related asset management and asset-related management. - Target areas named are property investment, renewable energy, carbon neutrality and healthcare, using a fund-management approach. **Independent characterisation.** The filings support a more conservative description. Ying Li is a captive, sub-scale landlord whose principal function within the CEL group is to hold and gradually monetise a legacy Chongqing portfolio. - The renewable-energy, healthcare and cross-border trading ambitions have produced no disclosed revenue in FY2021–1H2026. - Development activity is limited to selling down completed inventory, carried at RMB782.5M. No new phases have been launched. - Mall operations at IMIX Park Jiefangbei are outsourced to a CEL associate (EBA (Shanghai) Commercial Management). - From 1 October 2026, Future International's retail podium will be run by a third-party operator under a 15-year-3-month contract. - The company is therefore increasingly an asset owner that contracts out operations. It is not an operator. **Revenue model.** In 1H2026 rental income was 100% of revenue (RMB90.0M), because no property units were sold. **Value chain position.** Historically Ying Li was a vertically integrated urban-renewal developer covering land assembly, development, sales and long-term holding. It now sits at the ownership end of the value chain. It captures rent and asset-value movements and outsources mall operations and leasing. It retains a small in-house asset-management, project-management and legal team. **Customer types and end-markets.** **Retail tenants:** Domestic and international brands at IMIX Park Jiefangbei. The FY2025 Annual Report names Nike, ASICS, Xiaomi and Starbucks. IMIX Park Daping is re-tenanted towards family, education, wellness and entertainment services. **Office tenants:** Ying Li International Financial Centre (IFC) names OCBC, JCDecaux, the Hong Kong SAR representative office and Sinopec Chongqing Branch. **Master tenants:** Future International's mall has historically operated on long-term leases with three master tenants. Two of them, New World Department Store and Huanledi, had leases expiring 30 Sep 2026. **Property buyers:** Purchasers of residual units at Lion City Garden (residential/retail) and the Ying Li International Hardware and Electrical Centre (IEC), a wholesale and trade-mall complex. **End-markets:** Chongqing consumer retail, Grade A office and parking. Exposure is 100% to the PRC.

| Field | Detail | |---|---| | Legal name | TOTM Technologies Limited | | Former names | CMC Infocomm Limited (IPO name, 2015); Yinda Infocomm Limited (c.2017 to 11 Oct 2021) | | Company registration no. | 201506891C (Republic of Singapore) | | Incorporation year | 2015 | | Incorporation jurisdiction | Singapore | | Headquarters / registered office | 47 Scotts Road, #17-04 Goldbell Towers, Singapore 228233 (Annual Report 2026) | | Exchange / board | Singapore Exchange, Catalist board (sponsor-supervised) | | Ticker | 42F (Yahoo: 42F.SI) | | ISIN | SG1BF8000005 | | CUSIP | Not applicable (no US listing) | | IPO | August 2015, as CMC Infocomm Limited | | Fiscal year end | 31 May | | Catalist sponsor | UOB Kay Hian Private Limited (SAC Capital Private Limited until mid-2025) | | External auditor | Forvis Mazars LLP; partner-in-charge Chin Chee Choon since FY ended 31 May 2022 | | Internal auditor | BDO Advisory Pte Ltd | | Share registrar | B.A.C.S. Private Limited | | Company secretary | Sim Yok Teng | | Employees (latest) | 97 per Google Finance (aggregator; date of count not stated). treat as not publicly verified | | Employees (3-year trend) | Not publicly disclosed in the sources reviewed. Management cited headcount reductions in FY2024–FY2026 | | Shares outstanding | 1,739,260,622 ordinary shares at 31 May 2026 (Annual Report 2026) | | Share price (latest retrieved) | S$0.023 (Yahoo Finance delayed quote, 17 September 2026) | | Market capitalisation | About S$40.0 million (derived: 1,739.26m shares × S$0.023). Yahoo showed S$41.74m on 15 Sep 2026 and S$34.93m intraday, so data-vendor share counts differ | | Websites | totmtechnologies.com; totm-labs.com; totm.ai | | Chairman | Vacant since 30 April 2026; search under way (Annual Report 2026) | | CEO | Chan Wei Jie (Executive Director and Group CEO since 12 May 2026) | TOTM Technologies is a Singapore-domiciled micro-cap on the SGX Catalist board. Its operating core is a government-grade biometric identity business in Indonesia. Through its subsidiary PT International Biometrics Indonesia (InterBio), the Group has provided annual technical support for Indonesia's national biometric identity system since 2017. It also supplies Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS) licences to the Ministry of Home Affairs, and that relationship produced about three-quarters of FY2026 revenue. The Group was previously a telecoms network-services contractor, and it exited that business between 2021 and 2022. Under leadership installed in 2025–2026, it is now repositioning as a "frontier technology venture builder" through TOTM Labs. The new initiatives are an enterprise agentic-AI platform (TOTM.AI), a maritime fleet-readiness cloud, a Vietnam–Indonesia–Singapore blockchain trade-finance corridor, and post-quantum cryptography advisory. The investment case rests on a small, recurring identity revenue base of about S$6.5 million, roughly S$6.8 million of cash, and new ventures that have not yet earned revenue. --- ### What the company does TOTM Technologies Limited is an investment holding company. The FY2026 results notes list four principal activities for its significant subsidiaries: - IT consulting, computer and computer-facility management services - IT and computer services, specifically the development and sale of identity-management technologies - Investment holding - Developing, commercialising, investing in and operating businesses in frontier technology sectors The fourth activity was added after shareholders approved the diversification mandate on 12 March 2026. In substance, the Group has two components. **1. Digital Identity business (operating core).** This business is conducted mainly through InterBio in Jakarta. Its development and back-office support come from TOTM Tech India Private Limited in Hyderabad, and its group management sits in Singapore. Revenue falls into three service lines: - Annual Technical Support (ATS) and maintenance for Indonesia's national identity (e-KTP) biometric system, operated for the Directorate General of Population and Civil Registration (Dukcapil) within the Ministry of Home Affairs (MOHA) - Sales of ABIS licences and related services, including multimodal authentication and liveness/face-recognition licences - System installation and integration projects, which are periodic **2. Frontier technology ventures (pre-revenue).** These sit under TOTM Labs Pte. Ltd. and the "Venture Business Unit" set up in September 2025. The company describes TOTM Labs as an AI-enabled venture builder. Its current portfolio: - TOTM.AI, a "Digital Employees" agentic-AI platform - Maritime Cloud Platform (MCP) - Cross-Border Blockchain Corridor and Digital Product Passport - Quantum / post-quantum cryptography (PQC) unit ### Company's own description The Annual Report 2026 Letter to Shareholders describes TOTM as part of the infrastructure behind one of Southeast Asia's largest public-sector identity programmes. It says the Indonesian government has trusted the company with citizen-identity security for more than a decade. The same letter frames the strategy as a trusted, resilient identity core, supported by a growing set of complementary frontier-technology capabilities. The theme title is "Steady Core, New Frontiers." The May 2026 placement press release describes the Group as an integrated identity-management and biometric-solutions provider and an emerging-technologies venture builder. ### Business and revenue model | Revenue stream | Model | FY2026 revenue (S$'000) | % of FY2026 revenue | Recognition | |---|---|---|---|---| | Technical support services for identity management (ATS) | Annual government service contract, renewed every year since 2017 | 4805 | 74.2 | Over time | | Sales of licences and other related services | Per-licence sales (ABIS; multimodal authentication) | 1189 | 18.4 | Point in time | | Installation and integration services | Project-based systems integration (Singapore) | 485 | 7.5 | Point in time | | Frontier technology (TOTM.AI, MCP, blockchain, quantum) | Planned SaaS, licensing and consulting | 0 | 0.0 | Not applicable (pre-revenue) | *Source: FY2026 results announcement, Note 4.2 (30 July 2026).* **Mix characterisation.** The FY2026 revenue mix was about 74% recurring service, 18% licensing and 8% project. Subscription revenue is nil, and no frontier venture had recorded revenue at 31 May 2026. **Value chain position.** The Group is a mid-chain integrator and licensor. Core matching algorithms were historically licensed from technology partners, notably TECH5 SA of Switzerland. The FY2022 InterBio acquisition disclosures state that PT IBI's platforms rely on core technologies licensed from strategic partners including TECH5. The Group adds integration, local delivery, database operations know-how and government relationships, and sells to the end customer, which is mainly the Indonesian state. **Customer types.** The main customer is the Government of Indonesia (MOHA/Dukcapil). Secondary customers are other Indonesian agencies, including a law-enforcement agency that awarded a US$5.4 million contract executed in FY2023. Smaller contributions come from private-sector e-KYC users of verification licences and, in FY2026, a Singapore systems-integration client whose name was not disclosed. **End markets.** Current: national ID and civil registration, public safety/law enforcement, and financial-services e-KYC. Targeted: enterprise AI (financial services, supply chain, healthcare, professional services, public sector), maritime fleet operations, cross-border trade finance, and quantum-safe security for financial institutions. ### Independent characterisation TOTM is best seen as a single-customer, single-country government services business inside a listed shell that has gone through repeated strategic pivots. The company names the counterparty: the MOHA relationship produced 100% of identity revenue in FY2024 and FY2025 and about 93% in FY2026. That concentration is both the core asset and the main vulnerability. Revenue has been in a narrow band of S$6.5–8.1 million since FY2024. Within that band, licence volumes swing widely and the ATS base is stable at about S$4.8–5.2 million. The 2026 move into AI, blockchain, maritime and quantum marks a third business identity in five years: telecom contractor, then biometrics specialist, then frontier-tech venture builder. It is funded by equity placements rather than internal cash generation.

| Metric | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 | |---|---|---|---| | Employees at year end (headcount) | 201 | 203 | 186 | FY2024 and FY2025 are per IR2025 and AR2025. The latest reported figure is 172 (S&P, mid-2026). Yik Wo International is a micro-cap, Fujian-based manufacturer of injection-moulded polypropylene disposable food storage containers. Its products are sold predominantly under the "JAZZIT" (爵士兔) brand to customers in the PRC. The 2020 prospectus cited Frost & Sullivan ranking the company fourth among China's disposable plastic fast-food box makers by 2019 sales. Through 2023 the business looked like a tidy, cash-generative niche manufacturer. Revenue peaked at RMB323.3 million, gross margins held near 29%, there was no bank debt, and cash built steadily. That model is now under acute structural pressure. Local bans on non-degradable plastics, post-COVID normalisation of takeaway demand, intense competition and a market shift toward biodegradable alternatives drove revenue down 42.5% in FY2025. A further 44.9% decline followed in H1 2026, and the Group swung to losses. A small e-commerce arm ("Yihe Tianxia") and a now-exited film investment represent diversification attempts with limited success. The equity trades at roughly a quarter of book value and well below net cash. That discount reflects investor scepticism about capital allocation, governance and the costly (~RMB268 million) biodegradable-factory pivot management has outlined. --- ### Company's own description (AR2025, paraphrased) The Company is an investment holding company. Its subsidiaries are principally engaged in the design, development, manufacturing and sale of disposable plastic food storage containers. To a lesser extent, they sell daily necessities and other household goods through an e-commerce platform and retail shops in the PRC. The Board identifies two operating segments: - (i) design, development, manufacturing and sales of disposable plastic food storage containers; and - (ii) sales of daily necessities and other household goods on the e-commerce platform and retail shops. The Corporate Governance Report frames the mission as providing high-quality, environmentally friendly disposable food storage containers while maintaining product safety. ### Independent characterisation Yik Wo is a single-site, single-country, commodity-adjacent consumer packaging converter. **Manufacturing process.** It buys polypropylene (PP) resin and other thermoplastics and converts them by high-temperature hot-melt injection moulding into lunch boxes, fresh and preserved fruit containers, "semi-food" containers, cups and trays (Morningstar profile; finnomena profile). It designs and produces its own moulds, which supports customisation (moomoo profile, citing the prospectus). **Revenue model.** Revenue is almost entirely product sales, recognised at the net invoiced value of goods sold (IR2025 note 6). There is no subscription, licensing or service revenue of significance. The e-commerce segment is a merchandise-resale model (B2C app plus physical retail shops), not a marketplace-commission model. Its revenue is recorded as non-branded e-commerce sales of daily necessities and household goods. **Value chain position.** Mid-stream converter, sitting between petrochemical resin suppliers upstream and distributors, wholesalers, foodservice operators and takeaway/catering customers downstream. Pricing power is limited. The FY2025 gross margin compression (29.3% to 25.0%) and the H1 2026 trailing gross margin of ~20.6% (S&P TTM) show the Group absorbing price pressure rather than passing it on. **Customer types.** Not itemised in the sources reviewed. The prospectus-era description and the mix of "regular" versus "customised" products suggest a base of regional distributors and wholesalers, plus food businesses requiring multi-compartment or customised containers. **Trade terms.** Credit terms are generally 60 days (IR2025 note 18). Trade receivables are RMB-denominated. **End-markets.** - Foodservice and takeaway packaging (fast-food boxes, bento boxes) - Fresh produce packaging (fruit containers) - Household storage - For the e-commerce arm: PRC consumer retail of daily necessities, beauty and skincare, household appliances and regional agricultural specialties **Geography.** 100% of revenue is derived in the PRC and all non-current assets are located in the PRC (IR2025 note 6). Product sales historically covered more than a dozen provinces including Fujian, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Shaanxi, Hebei and Henan (moomoo, citing the prospectus), with Jiangsu and Shandong also cited (CB Insights). ### Revenue model mix | Revenue type | FY2025 share | Comment | |---|---|---| | Product sales — manufactured containers | ~99% (H1 2025: 98.9%) | JAZZIT-branded plus non-branded containers | | Product sales — e-commerce / retail merchandise | ~1% (H1 2025: 1.1%) | Resale of third-party goods | | Services / subscription / licensing | 0% | None disclosed | The H1 2025 split is per IR2025 note 5.

YHN Acquisition I Limited is a Hong Kong-based, BVI-incorporated SPAC that raised $60 million on Nasdaq in September 2024. It is managed by a team linked to Norwich Capital Limited, a boutique SPAC-sponsorship firm. Its stated mandate was industry- and geography-agnostic. In practice, the sponsor's PRC and Hong Kong ties steered it toward a China-based target. In April 2025 it signed a business combination agreement with Mingde Technology Limited, the offshore holding company for a Hangzhou-based internet group described as specializing in online sports platforms and health-product store technologies. The headline equity value at the letter-of-intent stage was $396 million. Since then the SPAC has used up most of its capital base. Two redemption rounds, in December 2025 and September 2026, cut the trust from about $61 million to about $7.9 million. It has received three Nasdaq continued-listing deficiency notices and has disclosed substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern. Its investment case now rests almost entirely on closing the Mingde transaction before mid-2027. --- ### Company's own description (10-K FY2025, paraphrased) YHN describes itself as a newly incorporated BVI blank check company. It was formed to carry out a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, recapitalization, reorganization or similar combination with one or more target businesses. It says it is based in Hong Kong, and that its sponsor and most of its officers and directors are based in, or have significant ties to, mainland China and/or Hong Kong. It acknowledges that it may complete a combination with a PRC-based company, which could make it less attractive to non-PRC targets. Its search was not limited by industry or geography. It has disclosed that it entered into the Business Combination Agreement with Mingde. ### Business model and revenue model | Dimension | Characterization | |---|---| | Business model | Capital pool. Public investors' cash sits in a U.S. Treasury-invested trust until a combination closes or the SPAC liquidates | | Revenue model | None. Product, service, subscription and licensing revenue are all 0%. Income consists only of interest and dividends earned on trust investments (10-K FY2025) | | Value chain position | A listing vehicle that gives a private company access to U.S. public markets | | Customer types | Not applicable. The "counterparties" are prospective targets, public shareholders, PIPE investors and the sponsor | | End-markets | Not applicable for the SPAC. The target's end-markets are PRC online sports platforms and health-product retail technology (Investing.com, April 2025) | ### Economics of the vehicle (all from filings) **Sponsor promote:** The sponsor and initial shareholders received 1,725,000 insider shares for $25,000, about $0.017 per share. 225,000 of these were forfeited in February 2025 after the over-allotment option lapsed, leaving 1,500,000 (10-K FY2025; F-4/A). **Sponsor at-risk capital:** 250,000 private units bought for $2,500,000. These become worthless on liquidation. **Administrative fee:** $10,000 per month paid to the sponsor for office space and administrative services from IPO until closing or liquidation (10-K FY2025, Item 2). **Deferred underwriting:** $1,500,000 (2.5% of gross proceeds), payable at closing and reduced by $0.25 per redeemed share, with a minimum of $500,000. It is waived if no deal closes within the original deadline framework (F-4/A). **Working capital loans:** Up to $500,000 may be converted into units (10-K FY2025). **Extension economics:** $150,000 per three-month extension (December 2025 to September 2026). $100,000 per extension under the September 2026 amendment. ### Independent characterization In practice YHN is a small (under $10M in trust), late-life, Asia-sponsored SPAC with a single identified China-based target. Its value to remaining public holders is the per-share trust value, about $11 plus or minus by late 2026. A right attached to each unit adds 0.1 share if the deal closes. The key analytical questions are no longer about operating fundamentals. They are about (i) whether the Mingde deal closes before June 19, 2027; (ii) whether Nasdaq listing survives, since the deal requires PubCo to remain Nasdaq-listed; and (iii) PRC regulatory clearance (CSRC filing), given Mingde's VIE structure.