China Data Centres Equities More re-rating potential GDS C-REIT IPO driving re-rating of the sector: On 2 July, GDS announced its C- REIT IPO on Shanghai Stock Exchange is 166x oversubscribed (priced at RMB3.00, or 16.9x EV/2026 GDS projected EBITDA). We believe this deal brings two positives for GDS. First, deleverage – we estimate the deal would bring in net cash proceeds of cRMB1.6bn for GDS after a 20% reinvestment into C-REIT. We think it would help GDS maintain its net debt/adjusted EBITDA ratio below ...