Covering IPOs, Healthcare and Technology Stocks

Andrei Zakharov

Equity Capital Markets

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<li>Klarna Group, a Swedish fintech company and BNPL provider, filed for an IPO and submitted a registration statement F-1 form with the SEC.</li>
<li>The company believes that AI and product diversification will boost profitability in the coming years coupled with aggressive cost-cutting and better underwriting process.</li>
<li>However, Klarna delayed its planned IPO due to extreme volatility and Trump’s tariffs, which are a headwind for BNPL players, including Affirm and Klarna.</li>
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Klarna Group, a Swedish fintech company and BNPL provider, filed for an IPO and submitted a registration statement F-1 form with the SEC.
The company believes that AI and product diversification will boost profitability in the coming years coupled with aggressive cost-cutting and better underwriting process.
However, Klarna delayed its planned IPO due to extreme volatility and Trump’s tariffs, which are a headwind for BNPL players, including Affirm and Klarna.


Klarna IPO Preview: The Dominant BNPL Player in Europe, Trump’s Tariffs Are a Headwind

Founder at Stock Spin-off Investing, Stock Spin-Off Investing

Richard Howe

Founder at Stock Spin-off Investing

Stock Spin-Off Investing

Generate attractive returns by taking advantage of inefficiencies in the stock spin-off market.

Stock Spin-offs

Event-Driven

<ul><li>This week, two charts caught my eye. First, investor sentiment continues to be very bad.</li><li>Second, non-US stocks are actually performing well.<figure class="editor-figure mceNonEditable"></figure></li><li>Quietly, one of my recommendations, Airtel Africa (AAF) is at an all-time high. Airtel Africa is a good example of what you can find in international markets.</li></ul>

This week, two charts caught my eye. First, investor sentiment continues to be very bad.Second, non-US stocks are actually performing well.Quietly, one of my recommendations, Airtel Africa (AAF) is at an all-time high. Airtel Africa is a good example of what you can find in international markets.

<ul><li>Angi Inc. (“Angi”) is set to be spun off from IAC Inc. (IAC owns 85% of the company) on March 31, 2025 following a multi-year turnaround that restored profitability and improved cash flow.</li><li>The first day of regular way trading will be April 1, 2025.</li><li>Angi operates the largest digital marketplace for home services in the U.S., connecting homeowners with contractors across Angi’s Ads and Leads platform (formerly HomeAdvisor/Angie’s List) and Services (pre-priced jobs fulfilled via Angi’s network), with an international segment spanning Europe and Canada.</li></ul>

Angi Inc. (“Angi”) is set to be spun off from IAC Inc. (IAC owns 85% of the company) on March 31, 2025 following a multi-year turnaround that restored profitability and improved cash flow.The first day of regular way trading will be April 1, 2025.Angi operates the largest digital marketplace for home services in the U.S., connecting homeowners with contractors across Angi’s Ads and Leads platform (formerly HomeAdvisor/Angie’s List) and Services (pre-priced jobs fulfilled via Angi’s network), with an international segment spanning Europe and Canada.

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>Constituent changes to the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/s-p-500-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:22886:1" rel="noopener">S&amp;P 500 INDEX</a> and capping changes will result in a round-trip trade of US$15.5bn across the Select Sector indices and the S&amp;P500 Equal Weight Index.</li>
<li>The Select Sector index trackers and S&amp;P500 Equal Weight trackers will need to buy the adds to the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/s-p-500-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:22886:1" rel="noopener">S&amp;P500 INDEX</a> and sell the deletes, further increasing flow for the stocks.</li>
<li>The <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/vaneck-vectors-semiconductor" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:32807:1" rel="noopener">VanEck Vectors Semiconductor (SMH US)</a> ETF will be selling <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/broadcom-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:998:1" rel="noopener">Broadcom (AVGO US)</a> at the same time as the Select Sector and S&amp;P500 Equal Weight Index trackers.</li>
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Constituent changes to the S&amp;P 500 INDEX and capping changes will result in a round-trip trade of US$15.5bn across the Select Sector indices and the S&amp;P500 Equal Weight Index.
The Select Sector index trackers and S&amp;P500 Equal Weight trackers will need to buy the adds to the S&amp;P500 INDEX and sell the deletes, further increasing flow for the stocks.
The VanEck Vectors Semiconductor (SMH US) ETF will be selling Broadcom (AVGO US) at the same time as the Select Sector and S&amp;P500 Equal Weight Index trackers.


Select Sector Indices and S&P Equal Weight Rebalance: US$15.5bn Flow Post Capping

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events, Quiddity Advisors

Travis Lundy

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Quiddity Advisors

<ul>
<li>On Friday post-close, S&amp;P DJI announced the changes to the S&amp;P500, S&amp;P MidCap400, and S&amp;P SmallCap600 Indices. The S&amp;P500 names will get added to/deleted from the S&amp;P500 Equal-Weight Index too.</li>
<li>There will be 4 changes for the S&amp;P500 and all 4 DELs from S&amp;P500 are demoted to the S&amp;P600 Index. SPDR Select and Equal-Weight Indices add up to big volumes.</li>
<li>There is a theoretical quantity to trade, and an expected quantity to trade and it is worth knowing the difference. EW, of course, is still "live" for a few days.</li>
</ul>


On Friday post-close, S&amp;P DJI announced the changes to the S&amp;P500, S&amp;P MidCap400, and S&amp;P SmallCap600 Indices. The S&amp;P500 names will get added to/deleted from the S&amp;P500 Equal-Weight Index too.
There will be 4 changes for the S&amp;P500 and all 4 DELs from S&amp;P500 are demoted to the S&amp;P600 Index. SPDR Select and Equal-Weight Indices add up to big volumes.
There is a theoretical quantity to trade, and an expected quantity to trade and it is worth knowing the difference. EW, of course, is still "live" for a few days.


S&P500/400/600/Equal-Weight Flows for March 2025 Rebalance

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DoorDash, Inc. provides restaurant food delivery services. The Company develops technology to connect customers with merchants through an on-demand food delivery application. DoorDash serves customers in the United States.

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Brian Freitas

S&P500/400/600/Equal-Weight Flows for March 2025 Rebalance

The S&P500/400/600 rebalance was largely as expected. Williams Sonoma was our "first" pick to get in. It did. APP was the obvious entry which we...

Travis Lundy

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