Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/coocon-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:32234:1" rel="noopener">Coocon Corp (294570 KS)</a> is getting ready to complete its IPO in Korea in the next several weeks. The IPO price range is from 31,000 won to 40,000 won per share. The expected market cap range is from 257 billion won to 332 billion won. The IPO base deal size is from $44 million to $57 million. The book building for the institutional investors will start on 13 April 2021. </li>
<li>The company generated sales of 51.4 billion won (up 24.8% YoY), operating profit of 11.3 billion won (up 82.3% YoY), and net profit of 18.9 billion won (up 106.5% YoY) in 2020. Coocon has experienced a strong growth in sales in the past four years. From 2017 to 2020, the company's sales increased by 52% CAGR.</li>
<li><div class="content-highlight">There is likely to be a strong demand for the Coocon IPO shares, especially because the  IPO discount range is very large (32.4% to 47.6%). As the market leader in providing API based information services, Coocon is well positioned to capitalize on the growing demand of Big Data based API services in Korea.</div></li>
<li>Despite the strong fundamentals of the company, there has been some noticeable weakness on numerous tech related IPOs globally in the past 2-3 weeks and the overall growing negative sentiment on the global tech IPOs could also have a negative impact on this IPO as well. </li>
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Coocon Corp (294570 KS) is getting ready to complete its IPO in Korea in the next several weeks. The IPO price range is from 31,000 won to 40,000 won per share. The expected market cap range is from 257 billion won to 332 billion won. The IPO base deal size is from $44 million to $57 million. The book building for the institutional investors will start on 13 April 2021. 
The company generated sales of 51.4 billion won (up 24.8% YoY), operating profit of 11.3 billion won (up 82.3% YoY), and net profit of 18.9 billion won (up 106.5% YoY) in 2020. Coocon has experienced a strong growth in sales in the past four years. From 2017 to 2020, the company's sales increased by 52% CAGR.
There is likely to be a strong demand for the Coocon IPO shares, especially because the  IPO discount range is very large (32.4% to 47.6%). As the market leader in providing API based information services, Coocon is well positioned to capitalize on the growing demand of Big Data based API services in Korea.
Despite the strong fundamentals of the company, there has been some noticeable weakness on numerous tech related IPOs globally in the past 2-3 weeks and the overall growing negative sentiment on the global tech IPOs could also have a negative impact on this IPO as well. 


Douglas Research Advisory

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>FnGuide has been able to capitalize on its excellent brand name in the financial industry (especially for research used in equity trading) to profitably expand into the index development business.</li>
<li>Although the index business accounted for 25% of its sales in 2024, it has been the fastest growing business in the past six years. </li>
<li>Valuations are reasonable and it is trading at 27% below four year historical EV/EBITDA basis. We like FnGuide as a long-term investment story. </li>
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FnGuide has been able to capitalize on its excellent brand name in the financial industry (especially for research used in equity trading) to profitably expand into the index development business.
Although the index business accounted for 25% of its sales in 2024, it has been the fastest growing business in the past six years. 
Valuations are reasonable and it is trading at 27% below four year historical EV/EBITDA basis. We like FnGuide as a long-term investment story. 


Korea Small Cap Gem #36: FnGuide [Increasing Moat for Its Index Business]

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<li>Our base case valuation of Dozn is implied market cap of 429 billion won or target price of 17,910 won per share (43% higher than high-end of IPO price range). </li>
<li>Our base case target price is based on P/E of 25.3x (20% premium to comps' average valuation multiple) using our estimated net profit of 17 billion won in 2025. </li>
<li>This valuation premium is appropriate due to Dozn's higher sales growth rate, higher net margins, and higher ROE versus the comps. </li>
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Our base case valuation of Dozn is implied market cap of 429 billion won or target price of 17,910 won per share (43% higher than high-end of IPO price range). 
Our base case target price is based on P/E of 25.3x (20% premium to comps' average valuation multiple) using our estimated net profit of 17 billion won in 2025. 
This valuation premium is appropriate due to Dozn's higher sales growth rate, higher net margins, and higher ROE versus the comps. 


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<li>Dozn is getting ready to complete its IPO in Korea in March 2025. The company plans to offer 2.5 million shares in this IPO.</li>
<li>The IPO price range is from 10,250 won to 12,500 won per share and the offering amount ranges from 26.2 billion won to 31.2 billion won.</li>
<li>Founded in 2017, Dozn is emerging as a prominent business-to-business (B2B) digital solution service provider in Korea.</li>
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Dozn is getting ready to complete its IPO in Korea in March 2025. The company plans to offer 2.5 million shares in this IPO.
The IPO price range is from 10,250 won to 12,500 won per share and the offering amount ranges from 26.2 billion won to 31.2 billion won.
Founded in 2017, Dozn is emerging as a prominent business-to-business (B2B) digital solution service provider in Korea.


Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One, Periscope Analytics

Brian Freitas

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One

Periscope Analytics

Periscope Analytics focuses on event-driven trades across Asia Pacific and provides comprehensive, timely and systematic coverage of index changes to major Asia Pacific indices in a structured manner.

The analysis includes forecasted inclusions and exclusions to all major Asian indices that have significant amount of tracking assets, including estimates of passive buy/sell flow on the stocks. The service also provides commentary and impact of market consultations, ground rule changes, and other events (IPOs, spin-offs, M&A) that could lead to index changes and passive flow.

Periscope Analytics works with multi-strategy hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, stat arb trading groups and long-only investors that invest and trade in the Asia Pacific region with the data being used to trade index rebalances, avoid pre-positioning and passive flow, and to time entry into and exit from stocks.

Event-Driven Trades Across Asia Pacific

Index Rebalance

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<li>There are 17 inclusions and 17 exclusions for the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/kosdaq-150-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:31077:1" rel="noopener">KOSDAQ 150 Index (KOSDQ150 INDEX)</a> at the December rebalance to be implemented at the close on 14 December.</li>
<li>While most of the inclusions were expected, there are many differences on the deletes. Trading the strategy becomes tougher with the short sell ban in place.</li>
<li>The adds have started to outperform the deletes over the last month and there could be more movement over the next 3 weeks to implementation.</li>
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There are 17 inclusions and 17 exclusions for the KOSDAQ 150 Index (KOSDQ150 INDEX) at the December rebalance to be implemented at the close on 14 December.
While most of the inclusions were expected, there are many differences on the deletes. Trading the strategy becomes tougher with the short sell ban in place.
The adds have started to outperform the deletes over the last month and there could be more movement over the next 3 weeks to implementation.


KOSDAQ150 Index Rebalance: 17 Changes a Side; Many Surprises

South Korea

Coocon Corporation operates as a business information provider. The Company provides business information collecting, connecting, and organizing services. Coocon offers services worldwide.

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Coocon Corp (294570 KS)

COOCON IPO Preview

As the market leader in providing API based information services, Coocon is well positioned to capitalize on the growing demand of Big Data based...

Douglas Kim

Korea Small Cap Gem #36: FnGuide [Increasing Moat for Its Index Business]

FnGuide has been able to capitalize on its excellent brand name in the financial industry (especially for research used in equity trading) to...

Douglas Kim

Dozn IPO Valuation Analysis

Our base case valuation of Dozn is implied market cap of 429 billion won or target price of 17,910 won per share (43% higher than high-end of IPO...

Douglas Kim

Dozn IPO Preview

Dozn is getting ready to complete its IPO in Korea in March 2025. Dozn is emerging as a prominent business-to-business (B2B) digital solution...

Douglas Kim

KOSDAQ150 Index Rebalance: 17 Changes a Side; Many Surprises

There are 17 changes a side for the KOSDAQ150 in Dec. Most of the inclusions were on expected lines, but there are many difference among the...

Brian Freitas

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