Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events, Quiddity Advisors

David Blennerhassett

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Quiddity Advisors

Event-Driven

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<li>Korean car rental play <strong><a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/sk-rent-a-car-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:16236:1" rel="noopener">SK Rent A Car (068400 KS)</a></strong> has announced a Tender Offer from<strong><a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/sk-networks-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:20578:1" rel="noopener"> SK Networks (001740 KS)</a></strong>, its largest shareholder with ~76%. </li>
<li>SK Rent shareholders have the option of receiving cash or SK Networks scrip. Appraisal rights are also afforded. </li>
<li>The shareholder vote is a lock. The current trade is the cash offer, which is trading tight to terms. </li>
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Korean car rental play SK Rent A Car (068400 KS) has announced a Tender Offer from SK Networks (001740 KS), its largest shareholder with ~76%. 
SK Rent shareholders have the option of receiving cash or SK Networks scrip. Appraisal rights are also afforded. 
The shareholder vote is a lock. The current trade is the cash offer, which is trading tight to terms. 


Korea / Special Sits, Pairs, Index Rebalancing, Clepsydra Capital

Sanghyun Park

Korea / Special Sits, Pairs, Index Rebalancing

Clepsydra Capital

Investigate special situations, pairs, and index rebalancing trades in Korea.

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<li>With just the SK Networks stake, both of these conditions are already satisfied. So, the key point will be how quickly the spread of the cash offer narrows next Monday.</li>
<li>We need to watch whether the spread for the exchange offer opens. As SK Networks is a K200 constituent, it's subject to short selling, making a Long Short play possible.</li>
<li>Worth noting, among the 24% minority shareholders, NPS and KIT hold a combined 15%, potentially leading to limited market circulation volume. This is something we should also be mindful of.</li>
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With just the SK Networks stake, both of these conditions are already satisfied. So, the key point will be how quickly the spread of the cash offer narrows next Monday.
We need to watch whether the spread for the exchange offer opens. As SK Networks is a K200 constituent, it's subject to short selling, making a Long Short play possible.
Worth noting, among the 24% minority shareholders, NPS and KIT hold a combined 15%, potentially leading to limited market circulation volume. This is something we should also be mindful of.


Fully Disseting SK Rent A Car's Hybrid Tender Offer Disclosure, Whose Cash Offer at a 5.7% Spread

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

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<li>We have a positive view of SK Networks' tender offer of SK Rent-A-Car.</li>
<li>SK Networks is trying to buy the entire SK Rent-A-Car which is enjoying solid growth in sales and profits. SK Networks plans to eventually delist SK Rent-A-Car.</li>
<li>The shareholders of SK Rent-A-Car have a choice of tendering their shares receiving cash (at the tender offer price of 13,500 won) or receiving shares in SK Networks.</li>
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We have a positive view of SK Networks' tender offer of SK Rent-A-Car.
SK Networks is trying to buy the entire SK Rent-A-Car which is enjoying solid growth in sales and profits. SK Networks plans to eventually delist SK Rent-A-Car.
The shareholders of SK Rent-A-Car have a choice of tendering their shares receiving cash (at the tender offer price of 13,500 won) or receiving shares in SK Networks.


SK Networks Launches a Tender Offer for SK Rent-A-Car

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>In this insight, we provide the major changes in NPS' stakes in 25 Korean companies in 3Q 2023.</li>
<li>In 3Q 2023, NPS reduced its stakes in the IT, construction, and contents related stocks. On the other hand, NPS increased its stakes in China's re-opening and cosmetics related stocks.</li>
<li>Five Korean cosmetics stocks that NPS net purchased in 3Q 2023 are up on average 12.8% from end of June 2023 to as of 6 October 2023. </li>
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In this insight, we provide the major changes in NPS' stakes in 25 Korean companies in 3Q 2023.
In 3Q 2023, NPS reduced its stakes in the IT, construction, and contents related stocks. On the other hand, NPS increased its stakes in China's re-opening and cosmetics related stocks.
Five Korean cosmetics stocks that NPS net purchased in 3Q 2023 are up on average 12.8% from end of June 2023 to as of 6 October 2023. 


Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One, Periscope Analytics

Brian Freitas

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One

Periscope Analytics

Periscope Analytics focuses on event-driven trades across Asia Pacific and provides comprehensive, timely and systematic coverage of index changes to major Asia Pacific indices in a structured manner.

The analysis includes forecasted inclusions and exclusions to all major Asian indices that have significant amount of tracking assets, including estimates of passive buy/sell flow on the stocks. The service also provides commentary and impact of market consultations, ground rule changes, and other events (IPOs, spin-offs, M&A) that could lead to index changes and passive flow.

Periscope Analytics works with multi-strategy hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, stat arb trading groups and long-only investors that invest and trade in the Asia Pacific region with the data being used to trade index rebalances, avoid pre-positioning and passive flow, and to time entry into and exit from stocks.

Event-Driven Trades Across Asia Pacific

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<li>The review period for the September rebalance of the KOSPI Size Indices started 1 June and will end 31 August. The changes will be implemented at the close 7 September.</li>
<li>We see 7 migrations from MidCap to LargeCap, 6 migrations from LargeCap to MidCap, 7 new adds to MidCap, and 17 migrations from SmallCap to MidCap.</li>
<li>Historically, stocks migrating from SmallCap to MidCap have outperformed stocks that are migrating between other categories.</li>
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The review period for the September rebalance of the KOSPI Size Indices started 1 June and will end 31 August. The changes will be implemented at the close 7 September.
We see 7 migrations from MidCap to LargeCap, 6 migrations from LargeCap to MidCap, 7 new adds to MidCap, and 17 migrations from SmallCap to MidCap.
Historically, stocks migrating from SmallCap to MidCap have outperformed stocks that are migrating between other categories.


KOSPI Size Indices - Plenty of Migrations to Attract Active Flows

South Korea

SK Rent A Car Co., Ltd. provides cars rental and leasing services. The Company also offers passenger car leasing, and other motor vehicles leasing services. SK Rent A Car also offers used cars distribution services.

SK Rent A Car (068400 KS)

SK Rent A Car: SK Networks' Tender Offer

Trading tight (0.8% gross spread) to the cash terms; and negative 5.1% to the share swap ratio. IF the cash spread were to widen materially, get...

David Blennerhassett

Fully Disseting SK Rent A Car's Hybrid Tender Offer Disclosure, Whose Cash Offer at a 5.7% Spread

This post fully dissects the disclosure about the hybrid tender offer, which combines exchange and cash offers, for SK Rent A Car by SK Networks,...

Sanghyun Park

SK Networks Launches a Tender Offer for SK Rent-A-Car

We have a positive view of SK Networks' tender offer of SK Rent-A-Car. The valuations based on EV/EBITDA is cheaper for SK Rent-A-Car versus SK...

Douglas Kim

What Did NPS Buy and Sell in 3Q 2023?

In this insight, we provide the major changes in NPS' stakes in 25 Korean companies in 3Q 2023. In 3Q 2023, NPS reduced its stakes in the IT,...

Douglas Kim

KOSPI Size Indices - Plenty of Migrations to Attract Active Flows

We currently forecast 53 migrations for the KOSPI Size Indices. There are stocks that are potential KOSPI200 adds in December and others that will...

Brian Freitas