June 15, 2018 | 12:46 PM by Fahad Khalid | fkhalid@jaguaranalytics.com

Unlock: iQIYI (IQ) – The “Netflix of China”

It pays to do fundamental research. This bullish view was presented to clients on April 11 with the stock at $17.75. Although we sold at $31 on June 4 for +75% gain in 2 months, the stock has continued to run up to $40. To learn more about our approach and how you can become a successful trader, sign up for a 4-week trial and test drive the JaguarLive chat room with some of the best traders: SUBSCRIBE

April 11, 2018

iQIYI
Ticker: IQ
Sector: Netflix of China
Current Price: $17.73
Target: $25.00+
Stop Loss: $16.25
Time Duration: 163 days

Trade Idea – Buy IQ stock at $17.73 debit or less.

We usually do not recommend buying common but in this we are going to do just that as official trade alert.

Alternate Trade – Buy straight September 17.5 calls for $3.00 or less.

Several years ago I wrote an detail note about Baidu and all the moving parts of Baidu that make up the company including search, shopping, streaming service, cloud, AI, etc. The one thing that stood out was IQ which is the Netflix of China. This business spun off on April 1st and I have been waiting for it for a long time. Now it is finally here.

Company is the largest internet video streaming service in China in terms of user time spent and average total MAUs in 2017, according to iResearch. Through our license partner, we also operate the largest smart TV video streaming service in China as measured by monthly active devices in December 2017.

This $2.6 billion company has 50.8 million paying streaming subscribers in China, or about 45% of Netflix worldwide, yet trades at 5% of the valuation of Netflix.

About 421.3 million monthly active users and 126 million daily active users. On average each paying subscriber spends 1.7 hours per day per user on the platform, more than twice the second biggest provider of streaming content which is Tencent. In F-1 filing with SEC at the time of IPO two weeks ago, company disclosed:

“In 2017, our original content accounted for 5 of the top 10 original internet variety shows and 6 of the top 10 original internet drama series in China based on each title’s peak monthly active users according to the iResearch Report. The Lost Tomb ( LOGO ), one of the first high-budget original internet drama series in China that we released in 2015, generated more than 100 million video views within the first 24 hours of debut and over 4 billion video views in total. Since 2015, we have released several award-winning multi-genre original titles, such as The Mystic Nine ( LOGO ) and Burning Ice ( LOGO ), which two titles in aggregate have generated approximately 13 billion video views. We also pioneered and produced a number of internet variety shows that are highly popular, such as Qipa Talk ( LOGO ), released in 2014 and currently in its fourth season, and The Rap of China ( LOGO ), each of which has generated over 3.0 billion video views. Leveraging on our initial success, we have extended selected popular titles into multi-season format.”

The company is building a large library of original content. As a result the growth rate is really impressive. Membership services revenues increased by +277.5% to RMB3,762.2 million in 2016, and further by +73.7% to RMB6,536.0 million (US$1,004.6 million) in 2017. Membership services revenue as a percentage of total revenues increased from 18.7% in 2015 to 33.5% in 2016, and further to 37.6% in 2017.

Total revenues have grown and continue to grow rapidly increasing by +111.3% to RMB11,237.4 million in 2016, and further by +54.6% from to RMB17,378.4 million (US$2,671.0 million) in 2017. Stock is trading at 1x Sales vs. Netflix trades at 15x Sales.

I like the growth, the disconnect in valuation vs. peers and future growth prospects from continued build out of original content in China. In your spare time, it is worth reading F-1 Filing with the SEC, click HERE.

Fahad

#IQ#NFLX

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