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>Long/Short basket trading on an equal weight using only six stocks for a 10% ceiling reversion with SungEel and Sebitchem would have delivered a daily yield of close to 2%.</li>
<li>An outright position on SungEel and Sebitchem and the biggest mover, Ecopro BM, alone would have delivered a pretty juicy yield of 4.2%.</li>
<li>The rebalancing of this ETF is an event that allows you to bet on highly predictable share price movements by forming a basket with a relatively small number of stocks.</li>
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Long/Short basket trading on an equal weight using only six stocks for a 10% ceiling reversion with SungEel and Sebitchem would have delivered a daily yield of close to 2%.
An outright position on SungEel and Sebitchem and the biggest mover, Ecopro BM, alone would have delivered a pretty juicy yield of 4.2%.
The rebalancing of this ETF is an event that allows you to bet on highly predictable share price movements by forming a basket with a relatively small number of stocks.


Tracing Back TIGER (WISE) Battery ETF Rebalancing on October 13

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

Equity Capital Markets

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<li>WCP starts trading on its IPO tomorrow (30 September) in Korea. Even at the lower share price of 60,000 won, we continue to have a Negative View of WCP. </li>
<li>We have updated our valuation on WCP taking into account the latest prices and valuation multiples of the comps as of 29 September. </li>
<li>Our base case valuation of WCP is market cap of 1.8 trillion won or target price of 51,973 won, which is 13% lower than the IPO price of 60,000 won.</li>
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WCP starts trading on its IPO tomorrow (30 September) in Korea. Even at the lower share price of 60,000 won, we continue to have a Negative View of WCP. 
We have updated our valuation on WCP taking into account the latest prices and valuation multiples of the comps as of 29 September. 
Our base case valuation of WCP is market cap of 1.8 trillion won or target price of 51,973 won, which is 13% lower than the IPO price of 60,000 won.


Trading Strategy for WCP Post Lowered IPO Price

Mirae Asset TIGER Secondary Cell ETF / Event-Driven

Mirae Asset TIGER Secondary Cell ETF (305540 KS)

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<li>The rebalancing trading will be at the close on October 13. The AUM currently amounts to ₩1.32T with 28 constituents, implying that the passive impacts wouldn't be insignificant.</li>
<li>It will likely show a similar pattern to the last rebalancing. With no constituent change, weight adjustment by 10% cap of top stocks leads to weight adjustment of the rest.</li>
<li>An important variable here is the entry of newly listed stocks. SungEel Hitech and Sebitchem, the two larger cap stocks, appear to have a reasonably high inclusion probability.</li>
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The rebalancing trading will be at the close on October 13. The AUM currently amounts to ₩1.32T with 28 constituents, implying that the passive impacts wouldn't be insignificant.
It will likely show a similar pattern to the last rebalancing. With no constituent change, weight adjustment by 10% cap of top stocks leads to weight adjustment of the rest.
An important variable here is the entry of newly listed stocks. SungEel Hitech and Sebitchem, the two larger cap stocks, appear to have a reasonably high inclusion probability.


TIGER Battery ETF (WISE) Rebalancing in October

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/hpsp-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:36004:1" rel="noopener">HPSP (403870 KS)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/sungeel-hitech-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:36028:1" rel="noopener">Sungeel Hitech (365340 KS)</a> are the candidates for Early Entry in the December rebalancing as they sit comfortably within the Early Entry zone.</li>
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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/rsupport-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:14783:1" rel="noopener">Rsupport (131370 KS)</a> and Kona I (052400 KS) are safe deletion bets. If they are not deleted through the rebalancing process, they will most likely be excluded by Early Entry.</li>
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HPSP and SungEel should see an inflow equivalent to 0.9x and 0.8x ADTVs, respectively. Rsupport and Kona I will likely suffer an outflow of 3.4x and 3.8x ADTVs, respectively.</li>
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HPSP (403870 KS) and Sungeel Hitech (365340 KS) are the candidates for Early Entry in the December rebalancing as they sit comfortably within the Early Entry zone.

Rsupport (131370 KS) and Kona I (052400 KS) are safe deletion bets. If they are not deleted through the rebalancing process, they will most likely be excluded by Early Entry.

HPSP and SungEel should see an inflow equivalent to 0.9x and 0.8x ADTVs, respectively. Rsupport and Kona I will likely suffer an outflow of 3.4x and 3.8x ADTVs, respectively.


KOSDAQ 150 Early Entry Candidates for December Rebalancing

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<li>SOCAR announced its IPO book building results. The IPO price has been determined at 28,000 won (18% lower than the low end of the IPO range).</li>
<li>Our base case target price for SOCAR is 27,176 won, which is 3% lower than the IPO price of 28,000 won. </li>
<li>We remain Negative on this IPO due to lack of upside. There were 348 companies involved in the IPO survey with the final demand ratio of 56 to 1.</li>
</ul>


SOCAR announced its IPO book building results. The IPO price has been determined at 28,000 won (18% lower than the low end of the IPO range).
Our base case target price for SOCAR is 27,176 won, which is 3% lower than the IPO price of 28,000 won. 
We remain Negative on this IPO due to lack of upside. There were 348 companies involved in the IPO survey with the final demand ratio of 56 to 1.


South Korea

Sebitchem Co., Ltd. operates as a wastewater treatment chemicals recycling company. The Company provides waste acid recycling, phosphoric acid production, waste anode material and waste battery decomposition, active materials purification and separation, and precursor complex solutions sale services. Sebitchem markets its products worldwide.

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