Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

There was a lot of action in the Japanese and Korean stock markets in the past week. As US 10 Year Treasury bond yield continues to roar higher, global equities are not yet deterred but global investors are willing to take higher risk and the fund flows are shifting clearly from bonds to equities, although the extent of how much longer this will prevail is a topic that has been hotly debated.The top three reports (in terms of views) covering the North Asia markets in the past week were as…

There was a lot of action in the Japanese and Korean stock markets in the past week. As US 10 Year Treasury bond yield continues to roar higher, global equities are not yet deterred but global investors are willing to take higher risk and the fund flows are shifting clearly from bonds to equities, although the extent of how much longer this will prevail is a topic that has been hotly debated.The top three reports (in terms of views) covering the North Asia markets in the past week were as…

The Week That Was In North Asia@Smartkarma: Dr. Jim Walker's 2018 Strategy, Bitcoin Crash, & BLASH

Doing bespoke work since 2002....., Custom Products Group

Patrick Hansen

Doing bespoke work since 2002.....

Custom Products Group

Custom Products was started 14 years ago at Lehman Brothers by current co-founder Patrick Hansen, CFA. After 3 years at Lehman, Patrick moved the team to Macquarie Securities where Simon Rigney (co-founder) joined. 3 years ago we took Custom Products independent. 

Our core strength can be summed up three words. 1- Customization - we have very little off the shelf products and most work is done on a one on one bespoke basis. 2- Speed - We pride ourselves in our ability to get requests back to the client very quickly. 3- Confidentiality - We do not redistribute. There is no grace period where we wait a week and then mass blast. Any request stops with that client.

It has been a while since we updated the "Hated by the Street" screen. So we thought it would be good to see which names made the list. Usually we only screen for names where the % of BUY recommendations to Total is less than 20%. However, 126 names made that list. We therefore further limited the screen by adding % of SELL recommendations greater than 30% of total recommendations. 26 names met both criteria. At the top of the list is <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/391" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:391:1">Sharp Corp (6753 JP)</a> with 0 BUY recommendations and 8 SELL…

It has been a while since we updated the "Hated by the Street" screen. So we thought it would be good to see which names made the list. Usually we only screen for names where the % of BUY recommendations to Total is less than 20%. However, 126 names made that list. We therefore further limited the screen by adding % of SELL recommendations greater than 30% of total recommendations. 26 names met both criteria. At the top of the list is Sharp Corp (6753 JP) with 0 BUY recommendations and 8 SELL…

Names that Are Hated and Loved by the Street in Japan....

We are entering the period when Japanese company love to tweak their full-year guidance in front of the fiscal year-end in March. We looked back over the last 9 years to identify companies that are always revising up and those that always revising down company guidance. We put together 3 screens. The first are companies that have revised up full-year company EPS guidance more than 60% of the time over the last 9 years. The biggest names that made the screen are  <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/73" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:73:1">Toyota Motor Corp (7203 JP)</a>…

We are entering the period when Japanese company love to tweak their full-year guidance in front of the fiscal year-end in March. We looked back over the last 9 years to identify companies that are always revising up and those that always revising down company guidance. We put together 3 screens. The first are companies that have revised up full-year company EPS guidance more than 60% of the time over the last 9 years. The biggest names that made the screen are  Toyota Motor Corp (7203 JP)…

Which Companies Tend to Revise Company Guidance in January / February....

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

Actionable Charts from Smart Karma’s Most-Searched Tickers.We ran through a list of the most frequently searched tickers on the SmartKarma platform using the Discovery Tool.  Notable themes include:<ul><li>Add exposure to Energy and Materials. </li><li>Financial stocks are strengthening. </li><li>Avoid Australian banks. </li></ul>See the attached report for a complete list of our recommendations from this list.

Actionable Charts from Smart Karma’s Most-Searched Tickers.We ran through a list of the most frequently searched tickers on the SmartKarma platform using the Discovery Tool.  Notable themes include:Add exposure to Energy and Materials. Financial stocks are strengthening. Avoid Australian banks. See the attached report for a complete list of our recommendations from this list.

Semiconductor & Technology Specialist, Ingenuity

William Keating

Semiconductor & Technology Specialist

Ingenuity

Our focus is exclusively on in-depth research & consulting in the broader semiconductor industry. We focus on the key players, namely Intel, Micron, Qualcomm, Apple, Samsung, NVIDIA, AMD, TSMC & Global Foundries - as well as some of the lesser known, but nonetheless critical, companies such as ASML (for EUV), Mellanox, Cavium, Xilinx etc. We specialise in their products, roadmaps, process technologies, competitive advantages & threats etc. We also help our clients understand the implications of new and emerging technologies, e.g. 3D X-Point, 3D NAND, Carbon Nanotubes, Autonomous Driving, Graphene, Silicon Photonics, Wafer-Level Optics, Artificial Intelligence, FPGA, GPU, ASIC etc. 

Semiconductor Analysis & Research

According to the latest forecast from SEMI, details <a href="http://www.semi.org/en/wafer-shipments-forecast-increase-2017-2018-and-2019" target="_blank">here</a>, silicon wafer shipments are set to increase 8.2% in 2017, up from 3.2% in 2016. Furthermore, the sector is forecast to grow a further 3.2% in 2018 and 3.6% in 2019."Silicon shipment volumes are expected to ship at historic highs for this year and into 2019," said Dan Tracy, senior director of Industry Research &amp; Statistics at SEMI. "The expectation is for steady annual growth due to the proliferation of connected devices required for…

According to the latest forecast from SEMI, details here, silicon wafer shipments are set to increase 8.2% in 2017, up from 3.2% in 2016. Furthermore, the sector is forecast to grow a further 3.2% in 2018 and 3.6% in 2019."Silicon shipment volumes are expected to ship at historic highs for this year and into 2019," said Dan Tracy, senior director of Industry Research &amp; Statistics at SEMI. "The expectation is for steady annual growth due to the proliferation of connected devices required for…

Silicon Wafers- The Golden Goose That Keeps on Giving

Japan

Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. produces and distributes synthetic resins and other chemical products such as fertilizers. The Company also manufactures electronic materials such as semiconductor silicon, synthetic, and rare earth quartz. Shin-Etsu Chemical operates in Japan and overseas.

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The Week That Was In North Asia@Smartkarma: Dr. Jim Walker's 2018 Strategy, Bitcoin Crash, & BLASH

There was a lot of action in the Japanese and Korean stock markets in the past week. As US 10 Year Treasury bond yield continues to roar higher,...

Douglas Kim

Names that Are Hated and Loved by the Street in Japan....

It has been a while since we updated the "Hated by the Street" screen. So we thought it would be good to see which names made the list. Usually we...

Custom Products Group

Which Companies Tend to Revise Company Guidance in January / February....

We are entering the period when Japanese company love to tweak their full-year guidance in front of the fiscal year-end in March. We looked back...

Custom Products Group

Popular Stocks, Attractive Charts

Actionable Charts from Smart Karma’s Most-Searched Tickers.We ran through a list of the most frequently searched tickers on the SmartKarma platform...

Vermilion Research

Silicon Wafers- The Golden Goose That Keeps on Giving

According to the latest forecast from SEMI, details here, silicon wafer shipments are set to increase 8.2% in 2017, up from 3.2% in 2016....

William Keating

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