中滙集團控股有限公司
Edvantage Group Holdings Limited
(Stock Code：0382.HK)
Edvantage Group Won "the Best Education Company" and
"the Best IR Team Award"
[8 Jan 2021, Hong Kong] Edvantage Group Holdings Limited (“Edvantage Group” or the “Group”, stock code: 0382.HK), the largest private higher education group in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (“GBA”), is pleased to announce that on January 6, 2021, the Group stood out in the "Fifth Golden Hong Kong Stocks Annual Awards Ceremony" held in Shenzhen, winning two awards, namely "the Best Education Company" and "the Best IR Team Award". The Award represents that the capital market affirms and encourages the achievements of the Group's senior management in cultivating in the education business.
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Edvantage Group Won "the Best Education Company" and
"the Best IR Team Award" |
The "Fifth Golden Hong Kong Stocks Annual Selection" has undergone a two-month rigorous screening process, attracting more than 1,000 Hong Kong-listed companies to participate in the competition, covering a number of emerging industries leading the transformation of China's economy, with a total market value of over HK$20 trillion, landing on the top of Asia, equivalent to more than 1/2 of the total market value of the entire Hong Kong stock market, with more than 90% are Southbound Stock Connect companies. In addition, more than 200 banks, securities, insurance, trust, asset management and other financial institutions and thousands of professional investors attended the event. The expert committee of this selection will select the final list of winners based on factors such as the company's performance growth in the past year, industry rankings, corporate governance, business model, market influence, and capital market performance.
"The Best Education Company" award won by the Group has high value and great influence. "the Best Education Company" award aims to commend a Hong Kong-listed education company that has a healthy corporate governance structure, a prominent industry position, and a good main business that can provide investors with continuous and stable value returns. This time the Group won "the Best Education Company" award, highlighting the industry's and investors' attention to related industries, and it is a great encouragement to the Group.
Since its listing in July 2019, the Group has received close attention from the market and investors. Under the circumstance of fluctuations in the macro market, the stock price has repeatedly achieved record highs, which has been favored by many investment institutions. The Group has also released good news recently. After being included in the MSCI China All-Stock Small-Cap Index in November 2020, it announced the acquisition of two schools in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, Sichuan City Vocational College and Sichuan City Technician College in December 2020. The Group successfully settled in the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle and accelerated the layout of the Pan-Pearl River Delta.
Good things come in pairs. The Group’s outstanding investor relations team also won " the Best IR Team Award". The Group’s investor relations team is committed to promoting the optimization of the group’s governance structure, actively cooperating with the group’s management to organize the release of quarterly reports, continuously updating the group’s latest situation in the capital market, improving the level of group information disclosure, and promoting the healthy development of the capital market. In addition, the investor relations team started by strengthening the brand influence in the capital market and effectively organized and implemented market value management work related to investor relations management. The outstanding capabilities demonstrated in the past year have been widely recognized by the capital market. In general, this time the Group won "the Best IR Team Award" due to the following outstanding characteristics of the Group:
- The management and the executive team are concentric: under the leadership of the chairman of the company, the directors and senior management, the finance, business and investor relations departments are concentric to implement the long-term development strategy, business operation planning, project merger goals, etc, and put it into place and achieve good market communication effects;
- Focus on information and disclosure: The Group has been listed for one and a half years and is the only listed higher education company that voluntarily discloses quarterly data. In addition, in the past three interim reports and annual reports, the Group has continued to publish positive profit alerts and pay dividends with its sound business operations and comprehensive strength;
- China and Hong Kong cross-border investor relations cooperation: In order to better maintain positive and good communication with capital markets in various places, China team and Hong Kong team have worked tirelessly to maintain close communication. Up to now, 19 investment banks have issued research reports covering the group;
- Multi-level communication with the market: The company's management and investor relations team flexibly use multi-level, biliterate and trilingual to maintain communication with the market, in order to share the Group’s business highlights and investment value with institutional investors and analysts
This award has given a boost to the development of the Group. In the future, the Group will continue to combine endogenous growth and extensional mergers and acquisitions to expand its business and continue to promote the steady development of domestic and foreign academic education and vocational education businesses through the integration of offline and online methods. Starting from "the Best Education Company" of the Golden Hong Kong Stocks, with the goal of becoming a world-renowned high-level education group, the Group will continue to create value for shareholders.
