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 <li>Sansan is a leading provider of cloud-based business card and contact management solutions in Japan, successfully expanding its service portfolio to include invoice management ('Bill One') and contract management ('Contract One'), positioning itself as a broader digital transformation (DX) enabler.</li>
 <li>The company is demonstrating a strong growth trajectory, with the core 'Sansan' business maintaining high profitability while the emerging 'Bill One' service is experiencing rapid revenue growth and is on the cusp of profitability, indicating a successful multi-product strategy.</li>
 <li>Favorable secular trends, including the Japanese government's push for digitalization and a growing corporate awareness of the need for DX, provide a robust tailwind for Sansan's continued expansion and market penetration.</li>
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  Sansan is a leading provider of cloud-based business card and contact management solutions in Japan, successfully expanding its service portfolio to include invoice management ('Bill One') and contract management ('Contract One'), positioning itself as a broader digital transformation (DX) enabler.
  The company is demonstrating a strong growth trajectory, with the core 'Sansan' business maintaining high profitability while the emerging 'Bill One' service is experiencing rapid revenue growth and is on the cusp of profitability, indicating a successful multi-product strategy.
  Favorable secular trends, including the Japanese government's push for digitalization and a growing corporate awareness of the need for DX, provide a robust tailwind for Sansan's continued expansion and market penetration.
This content is AI-generated and displayed for general informational purposes only. Please verify independently before use.

Japan Specialist

Mark Chadwick

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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 Sansan (4443): Ichigo keeps building its stake as revenue growth remains resilient despite AI concerns, with valuation broadly in line with global SaaS peers.</li>
<li>
 A&amp;D Holon (7745): Strategic Capital continues accumulating aggressively, with portfolio restructuring the likely catalyst for a stock that still screens cheaply versus peers.</li>
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Japan Pure Chemical (4973): Hibiki selling after a successful campaign, but the removal of the overhang leaves investors with an attractive AI semiconductor materials growth story</li>
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 Sansan (4443): Ichigo keeps building its stake as revenue growth remains resilient despite AI concerns, with valuation broadly in line with global SaaS peers.

 A&amp;D Holon (7745): Strategic Capital continues accumulating aggressively, with portfolio restructuring the likely catalyst for a stock that still screens cheaply versus peers.

Japan Pure Chemical (4973): Hibiki selling after a successful campaign, but the removal of the overhang leaves investors with an attractive AI semiconductor materials growth story


Japan Activism Briefs | SanSan, A&D Holon, Japan Pure Chemical

IPOs and Catalysts/Events, Global Equity Research Ltd

Arun George

IPOs and Catalysts/Events

Uncompromised, Independent, Conflict-Free Research

Global Equity Research Ltd

Global Equity Research was started in 2017 by a group of experienced research professionals. It was founded on a passionate belief in the importance and the need for uncompromised, independent, conflict-free research. We aim to provide differentiated and actionable primary and bottom up fundamental research.

Event-Driven

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<li>On 28 August, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/base-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:28353:1" rel="noopener">BASE Inc (4477 JP)</a> announced an offer by <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/sbi-holdings-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:10928:1" rel="noopener">SBI Holdings (8473 JP)</a> to acquire up to 23.8m shares (20.00% stake) at JPY340, a 7.6% premium to the undisturbed price. </li>
<li>There is no minimum acceptance condition. The shares are trading above the offer price, either due to expectations of a bump or to the SBI alliance benefiting the back-end valuation.</li>
<li>A price bump is likely as the offer is light on several metrics, the two substantial shareholders are unlikely to tender, and the Board has taken a neutral stance. </li>
</ul>


On 28 August, BASE Inc (4477 JP) announced an offer by SBI Holdings (8473 JP) to acquire up to 23.8m shares (20.00% stake) at JPY340, a 7.6% premium to the undisturbed price. 
There is no minimum acceptance condition. The shares are trading above the offer price, either due to expectations of a bump or to the SBI alliance benefiting the back-end valuation.
A price bump is likely as the offer is light on several metrics, the two substantial shareholders are unlikely to tender, and the Board has taken a neutral stance. 


BASE (4477 JP): SBI’s Partial Tender Offer Needs a Price Bump

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

In last week's Int'l Compass (Sept. 2), we highlighted emerging markets (EEM-US, Shanghai Comp) and Japan (TOPIX, TOPIX Small) as areas of bullish interest, with short-term bullish inflections suggesting the tide was turning in favor of these markets. This remains the focus in today's report, and especially on Japan; bullish price inflections and breakouts have started to proliferate, which suggests this could be the start of a broad-based rally for Japan in the weeks and months ahead.

In last week's Int'l Compass (Sept. 2), we highlighted emerging markets (EEM-US, Shanghai Comp) and Japan (TOPIX, TOPIX Small) as areas of bullish interest, with short-term bullish inflections suggesting the tide was turning in favor of these markets. This remains the focus in today's report, and especially on Japan; bullish price inflections and breakouts have started to proliferate, which suggests this could be the start of a broad-based rally for Japan in the weeks and months ahead.

Buy Japan On This Breakout ; TOPIX Breaking Out To 21-Year Highs; Actionable Theme: Growth Sectors

Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index / Technical Analysis

Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index (SHCOMP INDEX)

While there are always exceptions at the individual stock level, MSCI Emerging Markets (EEM-US) and Japan (TOPIX, TOPIX Small) have been some of the weaker areas to invest throughout 2021. We now see early signs of positive change and we recommend adding exposure to emerging markets and Japan.

While there are always exceptions at the individual stock level, MSCI Emerging Markets (EEM-US) and Japan (TOPIX, TOPIX Small) have been some of the weaker areas to invest throughout 2021. We now see early signs of positive change and we recommend adding exposure to emerging markets and Japan.

Buying Opportunities Within Emerging Markets and Japan; US Dollar Failing At 93.50

Japan

Sansan, Inc. provides mobile application software solutions. The Company offers business card management service by scanning the cards from scanner and smartphone. Sansan provides its services throughout Japan.

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Sansan Inc (4443 JP)

Primer: Sansan Inc (4443 JP) - Aug 2026

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Japan Activism Briefs | SanSan, A&D Holon, Japan Pure Chemical

Weekly roundup of Japanese activist fund moves: Hibiki exits Japan Pure Chemical, Ichigo adds to Sansan, and Strategic Capital keeps accumulating...

Mark Chadwick

BASE (4477 JP): SBI’s Partial Tender Offer Needs a Price Bump

A price bump is likely as the offer is light on several metrics, the two substantial shareholders are unlikely to tender, and the Board has taken a...

Arun George

Buy Japan On This Breakout ; TOPIX Breaking Out To 21-Year Highs; Actionable Theme: Growth Sectors

Japan (TOPIX, TOPIX Small) was a big focus for us last week, and it remains the focus in today's report; this could be the start of a broad-based...

Vermilion Research

Buying Opportunities Within Emerging Markets and Japan; US Dollar Failing At 93.50

MSCI Emerging Markets (EEM-US) and Japan (TOPIX, TOPIX Small) have been some of the weaker areas to invest throughout 2021. We now see early signs...

Vermilion Research

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