Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

Douglas Research Advisory

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Holding companies have been the best performing asset class in the Korean stock market in the past month.</li>
<li>In this insight, we provide updated NAV valuations of the top five, largest "pure" holdcos in Korea including SK Square, SK Inc, LG Corp, Hanjin KAL, and HD Hyundai.</li>
<li>The NAVs of these five holdcos are about 18% higher than their current prices on average. </li>
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Holding companies have been the best performing asset class in the Korean stock market in the past month.
In this insight, we provide updated NAV valuations of the top five, largest "pure" holdcos in Korea including SK Square, SK Inc, LG Corp, Hanjin KAL, and HD Hyundai.
The NAVs of these five holdcos are about 18% higher than their current prices on average. 


NAV Valuations of Top Five Largest "Pure" Holdcos in Korea

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<li>SK Telecom experienced the biggest cyberattack in its history in April which is likely to result in a major shakeup of its management team. </li>
<li>We estimate SK Telecom could lose 1 million+ mobile service customers. Given its ARPU of 29,355 won per month, this would represent lost annual revenue of nearly 352 billion won. </li>
<li>This massive cyberattack could cost SK Telecom more than 1 trillion won in a combination of lost revenue and additional commission/advertising necessary to attract new customers. </li>
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SK Telecom experienced the biggest cyberattack in its history in April which is likely to result in a major shakeup of its management team. 
We estimate SK Telecom could lose 1 million+ mobile service customers. Given its ARPU of 29,355 won per month, this would represent lost annual revenue of nearly 352 billion won. 
This massive cyberattack could cost SK Telecom more than 1 trillion won in a combination of lost revenue and additional commission/advertising necessary to attract new customers. 


Biggest Cyberattack in SK Telecom's History - Likely to Lead to Major Management Changes

External broker reports(aggregated public sources), Daishin Securities

Daishin Securities

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<ul><li>4Q24 revenue W3.8tn (-2% YoY), OP W140bn (-27% YoY)</li><li>2024 OP W860bn (-14% YoY), 2025E OP W1.03tn (+19% YoY)</li><li>2025E TSR W310bn-W380bn, return 6.8%–8.3%</li></ul><p><em>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.</em></p>

4Q24 revenue W3.8tn (-2% YoY), OP W140bn (-27% YoY)2024 OP W860bn (-14% YoY), 2025E OP W1.03tn (+19% YoY)2025E TSR W310bn-W380bn, return 6.8%–8.3%Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

LG Uplus (032640 KS) - Gearing up for Stronger Earnings and Shareholder Returns

APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Clarence Chu

APAC IPOs & Placements

IPOs and Placements coverage across Asia Pacific

Aequitas Research

We cover all listing across the Asia Pacific along with follow-up placements. As of Dec 2020, our team had covered 539 IPOs with a hit rate of 73.5% and 685 placements with a hit rate of 66.8%.

We combine fundamental bottom-up views with our proprietary quantitative framework to provide a holistic coverage across new listings and placements. Our coverage includes pre-IPO notes before the deal is launched, follow-up analysis once the deal is live and post-listing trading analysis as well.

Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/lg-cns-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:35945:1" rel="noopener">LG CNS (LGCNSZ KS)</a> raised around US$825m in its Korea IPO. LG CNS is a South Korean information technology company.</li>
<li>LG CNS is a South Korean information technology company. The firm primarily provides comprehensive digital transformation services and solutions backed AI, big data, and cloud.</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the demand for the deal and other trading dynamics.</li>
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LG CNS (LGCNSZ KS) raised around US$825m in its Korea IPO. LG CNS is a South Korean information technology company.
LG CNS is a South Korean information technology company. The firm primarily provides comprehensive digital transformation services and solutions backed AI, big data, and cloud.
In this note, we will talk about the demand for the deal and other trading dynamics.


LG CNS IPO Trading - Demand Aided by Domestics, Limited Lockup Undertaking

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/lg-cns-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:35945:1" rel="noopener">LG CNS (LGCNSZ KS)</a> is looking to raise around US$850m in its upcoming Korea IPO.</li>
<li>LG CNS is a South Korean information technology company. The firm primarily provides comprehensive digital transformation services and solutions backed AI, big data, and cloud.</li>
<li>In our previous notes, we looked at the firm’s past performance and undertook a peer comparison. In this note, we discuss our thoughts on valuation.</li>
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LG CNS (LGCNSZ KS) is looking to raise around US$850m in its upcoming Korea IPO.
LG CNS is a South Korean information technology company. The firm primarily provides comprehensive digital transformation services and solutions backed AI, big data, and cloud.
In our previous notes, we looked at the firm’s past performance and undertook a peer comparison. In this note, we discuss our thoughts on valuation.


LG CNS Pre-IPO - Thoughts on Valuation - Retail Demand Appears Hot, Digestible Val at Bottom End

South Korea

LG Uplus Corp., an affiliate of LG Group, provides a wide range of personal communications services (PCS) using code division multiple access (CDMA) technology.  The Company offers call forwarding, call and data transfer, call waiting, voice mail, Internet-phone, prepaid call, and authentication text-to-speech (TTS) services.

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LG Uplus Corp (032640 KS)

NAV Valuations of Top Five Largest "Pure" Holdcos in Korea

In this insight, we provide updated NAV valuations of the top five, largest "pure" holdcos in Korea including SK Square, SK Inc, LG Corp, Hanjin...

Douglas Kim

Biggest Cyberattack in SK Telecom's History - Likely to Lead to Major Management Changes

SK Telecom experienced the biggest cyberattack in its history in April which could cost SK Telecom more than 1 trillion won in a combination of...

Douglas Kim

LG Uplus (032640 KS) - Gearing up for Stronger Earnings and Shareholder Returns

4Q24 revenue W3.8tn (-2% YoY), OP W140bn (-27% YoY). 2024 OP W860bn (-14% YoY), 2025E OP W1.03tn (+19% YoY). 2025E TSR W310bn-W380bn, return 6.8%–8.3%

Daishin Securities

LG CNS IPO Trading - Demand Aided by Domestics, Limited Lockup Undertaking

LG CNS (LGCNSZ KS) raised around US$825m in its Korea IPO. LG CNS is a South Korean information technology company. In this note, we will talk...

Clarence Chu

LG CNS Pre-IPO - Thoughts on Valuation - Retail Demand Appears Hot, Digestible Val at Bottom End

LG CNS has launched its bookbuild its raise US$815m from its Korean IPO. The final IPO price range is unchanged from its initial indicative price...

Clarence Chu

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