证券行业周报：资本市场重要性凸显，关注券商板块配置价值-2025-03-13

Investment Rating - The industry investment rating is "Overweight" (maintained) [2] Core Views - The importance of the capital market is highlighted, with a focus on the allocation value of the brokerage sector. The government work report emphasizes stabilizing the real estate and stock markets, indicating a sustained increase in capital market activity, which is expected to support brokerage performance and valuation recovery. Additionally, the acceleration of mergers and acquisitions is likely to optimize the industry structure and enhance brokerage profitability. Attention is recommended for leading brokerages benefiting from increased industry concentration and those with expected mergers and acquisitions [7][31]. Summary by Sections Market Review - The brokerage sector experienced a slight increase but underperformed compared to the CSI 300 index. During the week of March 3-7, the Shanghai Composite Index rose by 1.6%, the Shenzhen Component Index by 2.2%, and the CSI 300 Index by 1.4%. The brokerage index increased by 0.7%, lagging behind the CSI 300 by 0.7 percentage points. The brokerage index's price-to-book (PB) ratio is 1.43x, with a 37% valuation percentile over the past decade. The top five performing brokerages were Guotai Junan (+5.9%), Xinda Securities (+3.5%), Huaxi Securities (+3%), Huachuang Yinxin (+2.9%), and Shouguang Securities (+2.7%) [3][10]. Industry Weekly Data - Brokerage Business: The average daily stock trading volume in the Shanghai and Shenzhen markets was 15,064 billion yuan, a 9.1% decrease week-on-week. Despite this decline, the trading volume remains at a relatively high level since the beginning of the year. New fund issuance saw stock, mixed, and bond funds at 7 billion, 4.4 billion, and 6.4 billion units respectively, with significant fluctuations in issuance [5][19]. - Investment Banking: Six companies conducted equity financing during the week, raising a total of 9.6 billion yuan, with three IPOs raising 1.7 billion yuan and three refinancing deals raising 7.9 billion yuan [23]. - Capital Intermediation: As of March 7, the margin financing and securities lending balance reached 19,110 billion yuan, a 0.7% increase week-on-week, marking a two-year high. The financing balance was 18,992 billion yuan, up 0.6%, while the securities lending balance was 11.7 billion yuan, up 5.9%. The margin balance accounted for 2.57% of the total market capitalization of A-shares [6][23].