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Sumeet Singh
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Kuaishou Technology Pre-IPO

Kuaishou Technology (KT) is a content community and social platform that is looking to raise around US$5bn in its Hong Kong IPO. The company is backed by Tencent, Sequoia China, Baidu, DST Global, Boyu Capital, Temasek and others.

As of nine months ended Sep 2020, it had 305m daily active users (DAUs), who spent 86 mins on average on the app every day. It also had 769m monthly active users (MAUs) and total e-commerce GMV of RMB204.1bn. On an average 1.1bn short videos were uploaded on its app during 1H20.

As per iResearch, Kuaishou was globally the largest live streaming platform by gross billings from virtual gifting and average live streaming MPUs, the second largest short video platform by average DAUs, and the second largest live streaming e-commerce platform by GMV, over six months ended June 30, 2020.

I have covered various aspects of the company’s performance in my previous notes, Kuaishou Technology Pre-IPO - Hot segment, fast growth but still leaves a lot of doubts, Kuaishou Technology Pre-IPO - Peer comparison and thoughts on valuation, and Kuaishou Technology Pre-IPO - PHIP updates - User growth has been slowing down post COVID. In this note, I’ll talk about the updated earnings forecast and valuation, along with index implications from the listing.
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