Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events, Quiddity Advisors

Travis Lundy

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Quiddity Advisors

Event-Driven

On Friday 13th November 2020, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/open-house-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:19550:1" rel="noopener">Open House (3288 JP)</a> and 32%-owned affiliate <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/pressance-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:17783:1" rel="noopener">Pressance Corp (3254 JP)</a> announced a revision of their shareholder agreement and a quasi-MBO Partial Tender Offer and Capital Injection which would, as a result of both being successful, get Open House to 65% ownership and would get Pressance an additional JPY 5bn in capital. Pressance (3254 JP) is a relatively fast-growing Kansai-based real estate developer and broker in Japan, building, selling, and managing condos and parking lots. It specializes in smaller condos - both in terms of bedrooms per unit and in terms of total units per property - and investment properties, and then managing those properties. It also runs a small hotel business. Pressance had been fast-growing in stock price as well until just under a year ago when former CEO Yamagishi-san was arrested in connection with a case of missing money at a school called Meijo Gakuen. The previous president was arrested too. Hedge funds bought shares in large numbers at the time. Tower Investment Management, which had been steadily selling into strength, bought 3.5% of the shares out in the two days after the sharp selloff started, getting to 10.27%. They bought more in March when the COVID crisis hit getting to 15.46% by early April 2020. CEO Yamagishi sold 31.63% to Open House in April.Open House (3288 JP) is a larger fast-growing Kanto-based real estate broker and developer, getting two-thirds of its revenue from the development and sale of single-family homes, another 10% from developing condominiums - both done under a number of "brands", and another 20% from the property resale/broking business with more than 80% of properties (by count) in the 100-500mm and 500mm yen-plus price categories (65% in Tokyo and Yokohama, 35% in Kansai/Chubu/Kyushu and elsewhere).Open House already owns just under one-third of Pressance and is looking to make that just under two-thirds, probably hoping that some shareholders who might be viewed as "noisy" will accept the invitation to exit their positions. This is also an exit opportunity for the former Pressance CEO who will be selling roughly 8% of Pressance shares into the Tender Offer. For Open House, this is a bolt-on to consolidate more growth.We'll see.As always with partial offers, below you'll find the details and the Partial Offer Arb Grids.

On Friday 13th November 2020, Open House (3288 JP) and 32%-owned affiliate Pressance Corp (3254 JP) announced a revision of their shareholder agreement and a quasi-MBO Partial Tender Offer and Capital Injection which would, as a result of both being successful, get Open House to 65% ownership and would get Pressance an additional JPY 5bn in capital. Pressance (3254 JP) is a relatively fast-growing Kansai-based real estate developer and broker in Japan, building, selling, and managing condos and parking lots. It specializes in smaller condos - both in terms of bedrooms per unit and in terms of total units per property - and investment properties, and then managing those properties. It also runs a small hotel business. Pressance had been fast-growing in stock price as well until just under a year ago when former CEO Yamagishi-san was arrested in connection with a case of missing money at a school called Meijo Gakuen. The previous president was arrested too. Hedge funds bought shares in large numbers at the time. Tower Investment Management, which had been steadily selling into strength, bought 3.5% of the shares out in the two days after the sharp selloff started, getting to 10.27%. They bought more in March when the COVID crisis hit getting to 15.46% by early April 2020. CEO Yamagishi sold 31.63% to Open House in April.Open House (3288 JP) is a larger fast-growing Kanto-based real estate broker and developer, getting two-thirds of its revenue from the development and sale of single-family homes, another 10% from developing condominiums - both done under a number of "brands", and another 20% from the property resale/broking business with more than 80% of properties (by count) in the 100-500mm and 500mm yen-plus price categories (65% in Tokyo and Yokohama, 35% in Kansai/Chubu/Kyushu and elsewhere).Open House already owns just under one-third of Pressance and is looking to make that just under two-thirds, probably hoping that some shareholders who might be viewed as "noisy" will accept the invitation to exit their positions. This is also an exit opportunity for the former Pressance CEO who will be selling roughly 8% of Pressance shares into the Tender Offer. For Open House, this is a bolt-on to consolidate more growth.We'll see.As always with partial offers, below you'll find the details and the Partial Offer Arb Grids.

Pressance (3254 JP) Partial Tender - YUMMY!

'Quantamental' Japan Specialist, LightStream Research

Campbell Gunn

'Quantamental' Japan Specialist

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ja research is an independent research platform focused exclusively on Japanese equities. Leveraging data and graphic analysis provided by Japan Analytics, we provide insights on small and medium-sized companies that have been ignored by the sell-side as well as challenging conventional wisdom on larger companies. We also offer analyst and corporate access, the latter with translation if required. 

Quantitative Analysis

<figure class="editor-figure mceNonEditable"><img src="https://static-prod.smartkarma.com/images/media/000/122/342/original/2020-03-11_11-02-32.png?1583892183" class="editor-image img-responsive" data-smartkarma-image-id="122342"></figure><figure class="editor-figure mceNonEditable"><img src="https://static-prod.smartkarma.com/images/media/000/122/590/original/2020-03-12_07-42-03.png?1583966536" class="editor-image img-responsive" data-smartkarma-image-id="122590"></figure><div class="content-caption">Source • Japan Analytics</div>CUMULATIVE CASH FLOWS - In this third and final of our series on Japanese companies that might be compromised as the Covid-19 recession unfolds,  we shall look at Cumulative Cash Flows. Our cash flow model is derived from the disclosed Balance Sheets and Statements of Comprehensive Income and balances to zero for every company for every comparable period. Variations in disclosure between the audited annual yuho and unaudited quarterly kessan tanshin reports, notably when the company is reporting under the weaker IFRS standard can result in unavoidable quarter-to-quarter variations. Consequently, our analysis will focus on year-on-year changes as of the most recent quarterly disclosure irrespective of fiscal year-end.  Our review will cover six principal cash flow metrics:-<ul>
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Operating Cash Flow - Operating Cash Flow comprises all cash flow items relating to transactions with customers and suppliers except inventory cash flows.</li>
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Investing Cash Flow - Investing Cash Flow comprises cash flow to or from Fixed Assets and Inventories. Unlike GAAP Cash Flows Statements, It does not include investments in financial assets.</li>
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Inventory Cash Flow - A sub-set of Investing Cash Flow, inventory Cash Flow is the change in Inventory on the Balance Sheet. </li>
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Free Cash Flow - Free Cash Flow the sum of Operating Cash Flow, Fixed Asset Cash Flow and Inventory Cash Flow.</li>
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Financing Cash Flow - Financing Cash Flow comprises Debt &amp; Lease Liabilities, Investments and the taxation that is allocated to Financing Cash Flow. Debt &amp; Lease Liabilities includes changes in Short and Long-Term Debt and Lease Liabilities and Interest and Bond Issuance Expenses.' Investments' includes Interest &amp; Dividend Income, Purchases and Sales of Securities, Loans, Gains and Losses on Marketable Securities and Equity Earnings.</li>
<li>Change in Cash - Change in Cash is the sum of Free Cash Flow, Financing Cash Flow and Shareholder Cash Flow after including Minorities &amp; Adjustments. </li>
</ul>EXCLUDED - Four companies have been excluded from our review as they have substantial financial subsidiaries - <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/z-holdings-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:19603:1" rel="noopener">Z Holdings (4689 JP)</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/rakuten-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:31:1" rel="noopener">Rakuten (4755 JP)</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/sony-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:563:1" rel="noopener">Sony (6758 JP)</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/japan-post-holdings-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:359:1" rel="noopener">Japan Post (6178 JP)</a> which distort their balance sheets. We have also excluded companies with a current market cap below ¥50b, although some exceptions have been made for abnormally large movements, such as those in <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/japan-display-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:8280:1" rel="noopener">Japan Display (6740 JP).</a><a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/toshiba-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:637:1" rel="noopener">Toshiba (6502 JP)</a>-  As an example of our analysis, Toshiba has seen the largest reduction in Cash as a percentage of market value over the last twelve months of any large-cap Japanese company. Toshiba's cash balance has declined by ¥1.4 trillion since peaking in 2019-Q2 - 114% of the current market cap. 70% of the cash generated between 2018-Q4 and 2019-Q2 has been allocated to share repurchases, dividends and cash reduction. The company's net cash remains at a healthy 51% of market value and 43% of Shareholders' Equity; however, Cumulative Operating Cash Flow will fall below zero in the current quarter. There are few additional reductions in Fixed Assets and Inventories that can be sustained without irreparable damage. The logic of buying back shares in an entity that has negative residual returns is not clear to us. Despite the potential for a TOPIX re-inclusion 'bounce', fundamentally the stock should be avoided.<div class="content-highlight">In the DETAIL Section below, we shall look at the top (or bottom) thirty large-cap companies on each of the metric above scaled by market capitalisation. </div>

Source • Japan AnalyticsCUMULATIVE CASH FLOWS - In this third and final of our series on Japanese companies that might be compromised as the Covid-19 recession unfolds,  we shall look at Cumulative Cash Flows. Our cash flow model is derived from the disclosed Balance Sheets and Statements of Comprehensive Income and balances to zero for every company for every comparable period. Variations in disclosure between the audited annual yuho and unaudited quarterly kessan tanshin reports, notably when the company is reporting under the weaker IFRS standard can result in unavoidable quarter-to-quarter variations. Consequently, our analysis will focus on year-on-year changes as of the most recent quarterly disclosure irrespective of fiscal year-end.  Our review will cover six principal cash flow metrics:-

Operating Cash Flow - Operating Cash Flow comprises all cash flow items relating to transactions with customers and suppliers except inventory cash flows.

Investing Cash Flow - Investing Cash Flow comprises cash flow to or from Fixed Assets and Inventories. Unlike GAAP Cash Flows Statements, It does not include investments in financial assets.

Inventory Cash Flow - A sub-set of Investing Cash Flow, inventory Cash Flow is the change in Inventory on the Balance Sheet. 

Free Cash Flow - Free Cash Flow the sum of Operating Cash Flow, Fixed Asset Cash Flow and Inventory Cash Flow.

Financing Cash Flow - Financing Cash Flow comprises Debt &amp; Lease Liabilities, Investments and the taxation that is allocated to Financing Cash Flow. Debt &amp; Lease Liabilities includes changes in Short and Long-Term Debt and Lease Liabilities and Interest and Bond Issuance Expenses.' Investments' includes Interest &amp; Dividend Income, Purchases and Sales of Securities, Loans, Gains and Losses on Marketable Securities and Equity Earnings.
Change in Cash - Change in Cash is the sum of Free Cash Flow, Financing Cash Flow and Shareholder Cash Flow after including Minorities &amp; Adjustments. 
EXCLUDED - Four companies have been excluded from our review as they have substantial financial subsidiaries - Z Holdings (4689 JP), Rakuten (4755 JP), Sony (6758 JP), Japan Post (6178 JP) which distort their balance sheets. We have also excluded companies with a current market cap below ¥50b, although some exceptions have been made for abnormally large movements, such as those in Japan Display (6740 JP).Toshiba (6502 JP)-  As an example of our analysis, Toshiba has seen the largest reduction in Cash as a percentage of market value over the last twelve months of any large-cap Japanese company. Toshiba's cash balance has declined by ¥1.4 trillion since peaking in 2019-Q2 - 114% of the current market cap. 70% of the cash generated between 2018-Q4 and 2019-Q2 has been allocated to share repurchases, dividends and cash reduction. The company's net cash remains at a healthy 51% of market value and 43% of Shareholders' Equity; however, Cumulative Operating Cash Flow will fall below zero in the current quarter. There are few additional reductions in Fixed Assets and Inventories that can be sustained without irreparable damage. The logic of buying back shares in an entity that has negative residual returns is not clear to us. Despite the potential for a TOPIX re-inclusion 'bounce', fundamentally the stock should be avoided.In the DETAIL Section below, we shall look at the top (or bottom) thirty large-cap companies on each of the metric above scaled by market capitalisation. 

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Pressance Corporation develops and sells condominiums. The Company also provides leasing and managing services for office buildings, condominiums, and parking lots.

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Pressance Corp (3254 JP)

Pressance (3254 JP) Partial Tender - YUMMY!

Open House bought 31.6% of Pressance (3254) in spring when embattled former CEO Yamagishi needed to sell. Now OH are going in to get up to 65%,...

Travis Lundy

🇯🇵 JAPAN • Who’s Swimming Naked? > Part 3: Cumulative Cash Flow

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Campbell Gunn

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