On July 17, Nations Technologies declined 5.41% in regular trading, trading at HKD 10.46/share, with turnover of HKD 48.56 million. The drop was driven by a dual catalyst of heightened chairman pledge concerns and a broad semiconductor sector rout.

On the evening of July 16, the company disclosed that Chairman and CEO Sun Yingtong pledged an additional 200,000 A-shares for personal financing, bringing his cumulative pledged shares to 10.53 million, representing 68.14% of his total holdings. All pledged shares are set to expire within one year, with repayment sources explicitly including share disposals, raising market concerns over potential selling pressure. The company stated no forced liquidation risk exists.

Simultaneously, the semiconductor sector experienced a sharp collective decline, with peers SMIC down 9.31%, Hua Hong Grace down 12.2%, GigaDevice down 11.67%, Iluvatar CoreX down 8.0%, and Montage Technology down 9.76%, reflecting broad risk-off sentiment across the chip sector amid ongoing institutional profit-taking in AI and hardware names.

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