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Phillip Zhong
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Lacking Strong Earnings Driver, but Shares Undervalued

Year to date, shares of Wharf Holdings dropped almost 27%, underperforming the market by more than 10%. The poor performance was attributed to a slowing residential market in China, coupled with a slowing retail sales growth in China. Further, the company holds a portfolio of listed equities of blue-chip Hong Kong property developers as a way to manage its excess cash. While the company seems to lack a strong growth driver at this point, we believe the degree of underperformance relative to its ...
Underlying
Wharf (Holdings) Ltd.

Wharf is an investment holding company. Co. operates in five segemnts: investment property, which includes property leasing operations consisting of retail, office and serviced apartments; development property, which encompasses activities relating to the acquisition, development, design, construction, sale and marketing of Co.'s trading properties; hotels, which includes hotel operations in the Asia Pacific region; logistics, which includes the container terminal operations in Hong Kong and Mainland China; and media and entertainment, which comprises pay television, internet and multimedia and other businesses and the telecommunication businesses.

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