Japan Specialist

Mark Chadwick

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Inditex's strong 1Q print is constructive for sector sentiment; Fast Retailing's own growth trajectory remains stronger, with eight consecutive quarters of top-line outperformance.</li>
<li>3Q results on 9 July expected to show ~18% revenue growth and ~22% operating profit growth to ¥180bn, extending Fast's lead over Inditex on growth.</li>
<li>Margins moving in the right direction, omnichannel progress underappreciated; AI integration the one area where Fast's external narrative lags the underlying investment.</li>
</ul>


Inditex's strong 1Q print is constructive for sector sentiment; Fast Retailing's own growth trajectory remains stronger, with eight consecutive quarters of top-line outperformance.
3Q results on 9 July expected to show ~18% revenue growth and ~22% operating profit growth to ¥180bn, extending Fast's lead over Inditex on growth.
Margins moving in the right direction, omnichannel progress underappreciated; AI integration the one area where Fast's external narrative lags the underlying investment.


Fast Retailing (9983) | Inditex Q1 Read-Across

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

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<li>Our global intermediate-term outlook remains bullish on MSCI ACWI (in place since our 5/14/25 Compass).</li>
<li>We also upgraded our near-term outlook to bullish on MSCI ACWI in our April 23, 2026 Int’l Compass.</li>
<li>Remain overweight Technology, our primary focus every single week since April 16. It's getting hard to find names near buy points. Elsewhere, we highlight opportunities within Discretionary, Industrials, and Transportation</li>
</ul>


Our global intermediate-term outlook remains bullish on MSCI ACWI (in place since our 5/14/25 Compass).
We also upgraded our near-term outlook to bullish on MSCI ACWI in our April 23, 2026 Int’l Compass.
Remain overweight Technology, our primary focus every single week since April 16. It's getting hard to find names near buy points. Elsewhere, we highlight opportunities within Discretionary, Industrials, and Transportation


Lockout Rally Continues; Yet Another Bullish Gap on ACWI-US; Crude Oil Top in Place

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. 

<ul>
<li>Fast Retailing’s 1H2026 results set new records as expected, including strong sales in its home market.</li>
<li>For the past three years Uniqlo has generated real momentum, growing across every region but particularly in Europe and North America.</li>
<li>GU and the Global Brands segment, however, remain works in progress.</li>
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Fast Retailing’s 1H2026 results set new records as expected, including strong sales in its home market.
For the past three years Uniqlo has generated real momentum, growing across every region but particularly in Europe and North America.
GU and the Global Brands segment, however, remain works in progress.


Pan-Asia Tactical Market Calls (Quant-Driven), MRM Research

Nico Rosti

Pan-Asia Tactical Market Calls (Quant-Driven)

MRM Research

Quantitative Research

Equity Derivatives

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<li>
<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/fast-retailing-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:751:1" rel="noopener">Fast Retailing (9983 JP)</a> recently posted very good results, beating forecasts.</li>
<li>On Friday the stock closed the week at 75,540. A very overbought position, according to our model. But the stock pulled back on Monday, this could turn into a buy-the-dip.</li>
<li>This insight offers a<strong> tactical view on a possible sell short setup that came up after the recent strong move, but higher prices are needed to materialize it, this week.</strong>
</li>
</ul>



Fast Retailing (9983 JP) recently posted very good results, beating forecasts.
On Friday the stock closed the week at 75,540. A very overbought position, according to our model. But the stock pulled back on Monday, this could turn into a buy-the-dip.
This insight offers a tactical view on a possible sell short setup that came up after the recent strong move, but higher prices are needed to materialize it, this week.



Fast Retailing (9983 JP) TACTICAL OUTLOOK: Rally Stretched, But Models Suggest Dip Likely Brief

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events, Quiddity Advisors

Travis Lundy

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Quiddity Advisors

Index Rebalance

<ul>
<li>The Nikkei 225 Average Index Committee is in something of a weird spot. For the first time in a while there are two potential automatic ADDs. That needs two DELETEs.</li>
<li>But there is also a sector imbalance which is quite fierce. There are 3-4 good candidates going forward. One needs a stock split. There's one auto DELETE, but...</li>
<li>The other DELETEs should come from the Technology sector and they aren't close to the border. There are, however, two cappings in view helping the total towards US$6.9bn one-way flow.</li>
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The Nikkei 225 Average Index Committee is in something of a weird spot. For the first time in a while there are two potential automatic ADDs. That needs two DELETEs.
But there is also a sector imbalance which is quite fierce. There are 3-4 good candidates going forward. One needs a stock split. There's one auto DELETE, but...
The other DELETEs should come from the Technology sector and they aren't close to the border. There are, however, two cappings in view helping the total towards US$6.9bn one-way flow.


[Quiddity Index] Nikkei 225 Sep26 Rebal - 2 Auto ADDs, M-A-Y-B-E 1 Extra, 2 Caps

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FAST RETAILING CO., LTD. operates a chain of clothing stores, UNIQLO, throughout Japan and in other markets overseas including UK, China, Hong Kong, South Korea, US, France, Singapore and Russia.  The Company designs, manufactures, and retails its own line of casual clothing.

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Fast Retailing (9983 JP)

Fast Retailing (9983) | Inditex Q1 Read-Across

Inditex's 1Q performance positive for sector sentiment, but Fast Retailing's growth trajectory stronger with 8 quarters of outperformance.

Mark Chadwick

Lockout Rally Continues; Yet Another Bullish Gap on ACWI-US; Crude Oil Top in Place

Lockout Rally Continues; Yet Another Bullish Gap on $ACWI; Crude Oil $USO Top in Place; Actionable Themes: Technology, Discretionary, Industrials,...

Vermilion Research

Fast Retailing: Real Global Growth

Fast Retailing's 1H2026 results show record-setting sales, with Uniqlo leading the way in growth across all regions except GU and Global Brands.

Michael Causton