Expert on Japan Retail and Consumer Markets, JapanConsuming

Michael Causton

Expert on Japan Retail and Consumer Markets

Real Insight on Japanese Consumer Markets

JapanConsuming

JapanConsuming is a specialist research firm producing intelligence on Japanese retail and consumer markets. Founded in 2000, JapanConsuming has become the leading provider of insights on Japanese retailers and consumer trends to retailers, brands, government agencies and investors. As well as a highly regarded monthly report on the market, JapanConsuming produces in-depth reports on retail sectors, seminars on key trends and telephone consulting to investors on trends and retailers.

JapanConsuming was founded by Michael Causton and Roy Larke. 

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

Japan's large wholesalers continue to provide a high value service that massages relationships in the supply chain.The top companies had yet another good year in 2018 and are expected to continue to grow both sales and profits as they consolidate market share and absorb smaller businesses.There are clear signs that the market is in the midst of a major structural shift. As these behemoth firms race to reduce over-reliance on labour in the supply chain, the role of small wholesalers will disappear, which in turn will further decimate independent retailing.

Japan's large wholesalers continue to provide a high value service that massages relationships in the supply chain.The top companies had yet another good year in 2018 and are expected to continue to grow both sales and profits as they consolidate market share and absorb smaller businesses.There are clear signs that the market is in the midst of a major structural shift. As these behemoth firms race to reduce over-reliance on labour in the supply chain, the role of small wholesalers will disappear, which in turn will further decimate independent retailing.

Japan Wholesaling: Higher Sales but Digital Shift Will Decimate Smaller Firms

Technical Analyst, Vermilion Research

Joe Jasper

Technical Analyst

Technical and Quantitative Research

Vermilion Research

Vermilion’s objective is to deliver timely, actionable, and unique technical research to professional investors through the application of our various technical indicators.

Our research strategists seek to highlight securities which we believe are at major inflection points, based on our various technical and quantitative indicators, and offer asymmetric risk/return profiles. Our unique research methodology, centered on relative strength, enables our strategists to deliver superior investment recommendations.

Our process begins by organizing the universe of actively traded stocks into discrete sectors, then into industry groups. We then apply our technical and quantitative tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sector or group, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. We provide a historical perspective that often reveals, through our long-term charts, how price patterns often repeat themselves over time.

Technical Analysis

With U.S. markets stumbling, the MSCI ACWI index is breaking down to new lows: defensive Sectors remain attractive. Relative to MSCI ACWI however, emerging markets are the place to be. China, Brazil, Hungary, Qatar, India, Poland, and Indonesia all display positive price and/or RS trends. In this report we recap technical important levels on all major indexes and highlight attractive stocks within Real Estate, Health Care/Pharma, Precious Metals Mining, and Utilities.

With U.S. markets stumbling, the MSCI ACWI index is breaking down to new lows: defensive Sectors remain attractive. Relative to MSCI ACWI however, emerging markets are the place to be. China, Brazil, Hungary, Qatar, India, Poland, and Indonesia all display positive price and/or RS trends. In this report we recap technical important levels on all major indexes and highlight attractive stocks within Real Estate, Health Care/Pharma, Precious Metals Mining, and Utilities.

Global Healthcare Analyst

Tina Banerjee

Equity Bottom-Up

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/medipal-holdings-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:18394:1" rel="noopener">Medipal Holdings (7459 JP)</a> intends to acquire a minimum of 8.7M shares of <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/paltac-corporation" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:20014:1" rel="noopener">Paltac Corporation (8283 JP)</a> (representing ownership ratio of 14.3%) to make it a wholly owned subsidiary.</li>
<li>Medipal will conduct tender offer to acquire all of the Paltac shares at ¥6,650 per share, representing a premium of 43% to the undisturbed closing price.</li>
<li>Converting Paltac into a wholly owned subsidiary will make Medipal a unique wholesale and distribution company. The combination of high productivity and expertise should create best-in-class logistics.</li>
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Medipal Holdings (7459 JP) intends to acquire a minimum of 8.7M shares of Paltac Corporation (8283 JP) (representing ownership ratio of 14.3%) to make it a wholly owned subsidiary.
Medipal will conduct tender offer to acquire all of the Paltac shares at ¥6,650 per share, representing a premium of 43% to the undisturbed closing price.
Converting Paltac into a wholly owned subsidiary will make Medipal a unique wholesale and distribution company. The combination of high productivity and expertise should create best-in-class logistics.


Medipal Holdings (7459 JP): Paltac (8283 JP) Acquisition to Release Margin Pressure

Today's report puts a spotlight on the Health Care Sector, which is assuming a global leadership role vs. other Sectors. We also focus on the Communications Sector as we are seeing steady relative strength ranking (RSR) improvements over the last couple of months. At the Group level, we highlight select smid-cap Casinos &amp; Gaming stocks. Finally, India’s S&amp;P BSE SENSEX is breaking out to new all-time highs as RS bullishly inflects, we highlight actionable stocks.

Today's report puts a spotlight on the Health Care Sector, which is assuming a global leadership role vs. other Sectors. We also focus on the Communications Sector as we are seeing steady relative strength ranking (RSR) improvements over the last couple of months. At the Group level, we highlight select smid-cap Casinos &amp; Gaming stocks. Finally, India’s S&amp;P BSE SENSEX is breaking out to new all-time highs as RS bullishly inflects, we highlight actionable stocks.

Global Strategy: Health Care Outperforming - Overweight; India Breaking Out -Add Exposure

Doing bespoke work since 2002....., Custom Products Group

Patrick Hansen

Doing bespoke work since 2002.....

Custom Products Group

Custom Products was started 14 years ago at Lehman Brothers by current co-founder Patrick Hansen, CFA. After 3 years at Lehman, Patrick moved the team to Macquarie Securities where Simon Rigney (co-founder) joined. 3 years ago we took Custom Products independent. 

Our core strength can be summed up three words. 1- Customization - we have very little off the shelf products and most work is done on a one on one bespoke basis. 2- Speed - We pride ourselves in our ability to get requests back to the client very quickly. 3- Confidentiality - We do not redistribute. There is no grace period where we wait a week and then mass blast. Any request stops with that client.

With only 2 weeks left in August, we wanted to highlight names that you should be looking at heading into the next couple of months to the end of the year. We screened for names that 1- have a success rate since 2000 greater than 70%. 2- median return relative to TOPIX is greater than 5.5%.<h2>Screen Results</h2><figure class="editor-figure mceNonEditable"><img src="https://static-prod.smartkarma.com/images/media/000/031/654/original/2.png?1502826967" class="editor-image img-responsive" data-smartkarma-image-id="31654"></figure><div class="content-caption">Source: Custom Products</div>Both <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/12795" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:12795:1">Yokogawa Electric Corp (6841 JP)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/14085" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:14085:1">Sapporo Holdings Ltd (2501 JP)</a> have been up 88% of the time. That means in the 17 years they have only been down twice relative to…

With only 2 weeks left in August, we wanted to highlight names that you should be looking at heading into the next couple of months to the end of the year. We screened for names that 1- have a success rate since 2000 greater than 70%. 2- median return relative to TOPIX is greater than 5.5%.Screen ResultsSource: Custom ProductsBoth Yokogawa Electric Corp (6841 JP) and Sapporo Holdings Ltd (2501 JP) have been up 88% of the time. That means in the 17 years they have only been down twice relative to…

Which Names Do the Best from September to the End of the Year....

Japan

Alfresa Holdings Corporation is a holding company established through the merger of Azwell Inc. and Fukujin Co., Ltd.  The Company's subsidiaries mainly wholesale and manufacture medical related products including medicines, reagents, and medical tools and equipment.

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Alfresa Holdings (2784 JP)

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Vermilion Research

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Medipal Holdings plans to acquire a minimum of 8.7M shares of Paltac Corporation to make it a wholly owned subsidiary, at ¥6,650 per share, aiming...

Tina Banerjee

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Vermilion Research

Which Names Do the Best from September to the End of the Year....

With only 2 weeks left in August, we wanted to highlight names that you should be looking at heading into the next couple of months to the end of...

Custom Products Group

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Japan Wholesaling: Higher Sales but Digital Shift Will Decimate Smaller Firms

Japan's large wholesalers continue to provide a high value service that massages relationships in the supply chain.The top companies had yet...

Michael Causton

Global Markets Deteriorating...Except EM

With U.S. markets stumbling, the MSCI ACWI index is breaking down to new lows: defensive Sectors remain attractive. Relative to MSCI ACWI however,...

Vermilion Research

Medipal Holdings (7459 JP): Paltac (8283 JP) Acquisition to Release Margin Pressure

​Medipal Holdings plans to acquire a minimum of 8.7M shares of Paltac Corporation to make it a wholly owned subsidiary, at ¥6,650 per share, aiming...

Tina Banerjee

Global Strategy: Health Care Outperforming - Overweight; India Breaking Out -Add Exposure

Today's report puts a spotlight on the Health Care Sector, which is assuming a global leadership role vs. other Sectors. We also focus on...

Vermilion Research

Which Names Do the Best from September to the End of the Year....

With only 2 weeks left in August, we wanted to highlight names that you should be looking at heading into the next couple of months to the end of...

Custom Products Group

Medipal Holdings plans to acquire a minimum of 8.7M shares of Paltac Corporation to make it a wholly owned subsidiary, at ¥6,650 per share, aiming...