China Tech Stocks Rebound on Buying From Cathie Wood and Tencent
- Ark Investment Management buys ADRs of JD.com after results
- JD.com shares jump more than 10% in Hong Kong trading
Chinese technology stocks rallied for a second day, as sentiment was boosted by Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s stock buyback and as Cathie Wood bought back into JD.com after a strong set of results.
The Hang Seng Tech Index rose as much as 5%, adding to Monday’s 2.1% gains, after falling for five straight weeks to the lowest level since its July 2020 inception on Friday. The gauge has been trapped in a technical bear market since the first week of March and plunged into so-called oversold territory last week.
Traders jumped back into battered Chinese tech stocks, which have been targeted by a slew of new rules, after JD.com reported quarterly sales that beat estimates and Wood’s Ark Investment Management bought back American depository receipts of the company on Monday. Tencent’s move to continue purchases of its shares also instilled some confidence.
“We are seeing lots of bottom-fishing activities in the market, including strong buying of Tencent and Alibaba,” Jackson Wong, asset management director at Amber Hill Capital Ltd., said by phone. “Companies that have fallen the most and prove to have solid fundamentals will lead the rebound.”
Shares of Tencent, China’s biggest company by market value, rose as much as 5% while its rival Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., which dropped to a record low in Hong Kong on Monday, gained as much as 5.7%. JD.com, a Chinese e-commerce giant, jumped as much as 11%, the most since July 29, after its second-quarter revenue beat average analyst estimate.
While investors are still concerned about regulations, earnings such as those from JD.com “have partly offset some of the worries,” Linus Yip, a strategist at First Shanghai Securities in Hong Kong, said by phone. “Valuations look appealing if investors want to hold for 6 months or longer.”
The Hong Kong benchmark tracking the biggest technology stocks in China has lost more than 40% since a February peak as Beijing conducted a sweeping crackdown on private sectors to reduce inequalities in the world’s second-biggest economy.
MSCI Inc., the world’s biggest index provider, shook off concerns about the “investability” of Chinese stocks, citing previous instances where markets rebounded in the aftermath.
Regulatory compliance has weighed on China “every three, four, five years and obviously the markets have sold off at the time. But very quickly afterwards, the markets have recovered and gone through to new heights,” MSCI Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Henry Fernandez told Bloomberg Television’s Haidi Lun and Shery Ahn in an interview.
Some investors have taken the opportunity to buy during the selloff. Veteran fund manager Hugh Young of Aberdeen Standard Investments said earlier this month that his firm bought the dip in Tencent and kept most of its other big-tech holdings largely unchanged.
Authors: Abhishek Vishnoi and Jeanny Yu, Bloomberg