Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>In this insight, we highlight the pricing gap divergences of the major Korean holdcos and opcos in 2Q 2023.</li>
<li>Of the 38 pair trades, 21 of them involved holdcos outperforming opcos YTD and 17 of them involved opcos outperforming holdcos in the same period.</li>
<li>We highlight 38 pair trades that involve Korean holdcos and opcos.</li>
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In this insight, we highlight the pricing gap divergences of the major Korean holdcos and opcos in 2Q 2023.
Of the 38 pair trades, 21 of them involved holdcos outperforming opcos YTD and 17 of them involved opcos outperforming holdcos in the same period.
We highlight 38 pair trades that involve Korean holdcos and opcos.


Korean Holdcos Vs Opcos Gap Trading Opportunities in 2Q 2023

Korea / Special Situations, Clepsydra Capital

Sanghyun Park

Korea / Special Situations

Korea / Special Sits, Pairs, Index Rebalancing

Clepsydra Capital

Investigate special situations, pairs, and index rebalancing trades in Korea.

Event-Driven

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<li>DGB Financial Group's market cap makes it virtually impossible to get deleted even with Kakao Pay's GICS change in this June rebalancing.</li>
<li>It's unclear whether this has damaged the price impact of K200 inclusion. Nevertheless, the intensity of the pre-rebalancing flow wasn't aggressive, possibly due to the combination of factors, including this.</li>
<li>This suggests the possibility of an intense price impact resulting from a more concentrated flow right before the effective date, so we should prepare a setup that considers this.</li>
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DGB Financial Group's market cap makes it virtually impossible to get deleted even with Kakao Pay's GICS change in this June rebalancing.
It's unclear whether this has damaged the price impact of K200 inclusion. Nevertheless, the intensity of the pre-rebalancing flow wasn't aggressive, possibly due to the combination of factors, including this.
This suggests the possibility of an intense price impact resulting from a more concentrated flow right before the effective date, so we should prepare a setup that considers this.


Clarifying Market's Inaccurate Constituent Change Forecast in K200 Rebalancing with GICS Revision

Equity Capital Markets

EcoPro Materials / Equity Capital Markets

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<li>Ecopro Materials, an affiliate of Ecopro, is getting ready to complete its IPO in 2H 2023. Ecopro Co has a 52.8% stake in Ecopro Materials. </li>
<li>Ecopro Materials' core products are lithium cell core materials called precursors, which are used as part of the rechargeable batteries. </li>
<li>The expected market value of Ecopro Materials is about 3 trillion won to 4 trillion won (US$2.3 billion to US$3.0 billion).</li>
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Ecopro Materials, an affiliate of Ecopro, is getting ready to complete its IPO in 2H 2023. Ecopro Co has a 52.8% stake in Ecopro Materials. 
Ecopro Materials' core products are lithium cell core materials called precursors, which are used as part of the rechargeable batteries. 
The expected market value of Ecopro Materials is about 3 trillion won to 4 trillion won (US$2.3 billion to US$3.0 billion).


Initial Thoughts on the Ecopro Materials IPO

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<li>Jeio (418550 KS) announced its IPO price of 13,000 won, which was at the high end of the recently revised down IPO price range of 10,000 won to 13,000 won.</li>
<li>There were 1,174 institutional investors that participated in this IPO survey. The demand ratio was 352.6 to 1.</li>
<li>Our base case valuation of JEIO is target price of 12,575 won per share, which is 3.3% lower than the IPO price 13,000 won.</li>
</ul>


Jeio (418550 KS) announced its IPO price of 13,000 won, which was at the high end of the recently revised down IPO price range of 10,000 won to 13,000 won.
There were 1,174 institutional investors that participated in this IPO survey. The demand ratio was 352.6 to 1.
Our base case valuation of JEIO is target price of 12,575 won per share, which is 3.3% lower than the IPO price 13,000 won.


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<li>NPS said it would add 50 KOSPI stocks to KOSPI 200 for direct management. However, the key was when this would be implemented and which ones would be included.</li>
<li>SBS, one of Korea's major networks, exclusively reported that NPS finalized the constituent stocks of the NPS-KR250 and started rebalancing trading on the 50 additional KOSPI stocks from January.</li>
<li>Hence, tracing and identifying who these additional 50 KOSPI stocks are is becoming the hottest topic in Korea's local market at this point.</li>
</ul>


NPS said it would add 50 KOSPI stocks to KOSPI 200 for direct management. However, the key was when this would be implemented and which ones would be included.
SBS, one of Korea's major networks, exclusively reported that NPS finalized the constituent stocks of the NPS-KR250 and started rebalancing trading on the 50 additional KOSPI stocks from January.
Hence, tracing and identifying who these additional 50 KOSPI stocks are is becoming the hottest topic in Korea's local market at this point.


Korea NPS Reportedly Finalized Additional 50 KOSPI Stocks in Its BM for Direct Management

South Korea

COSMOAM&T Co., Ltd. manufactures, sells, and exports blank video & audio recording tapes including back-coated tapes, high speed recordable tapes, and video head cleaners.  The Company also produces recordable and rewritable optical discs, such as compact discs (CD), mini discs (MD), and digital video discs (DVD).

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CosmoAM&T (005070 KS)

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Initial Thoughts on the Ecopro Materials IPO

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JEIO IPO: Book Building Results Analysis

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Douglas Kim

Korea NPS Reportedly Finalized Additional 50 KOSPI Stocks in Its BM for Direct Management

This post investigates the 50 additional KOSPI stocks that Korea NPS has reportedly chosen for its benchmark index for direct management, called...

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