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ORTEX is a global financial data and analytics platform providing real-time securities lending and short interest data, index rebalance data, holdings and insider transactions, trading signals, corporate actions and news,  stock machine learning and factor scores and other analytics. The majority of the data are downloadable and accessible through APIs.

Equity Derivatives

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentari / Equity Derivatives

<ul><li>Defensive options positioning dominated the week of June 29.</li><li>Put demand surged across financials, technology, and industrials.</li><li>A handful of names bucked the trend with extreme call-side conviction, creating sharp sentiment divergences.</li></ul>

Defensive options positioning dominated the week of June 29.Put demand surged across financials, technology, and industrials.A handful of names bucked the trend with extreme call-side conviction, creating sharp sentiment divergences.

Options Weekly: Bears Take Cover: Earnings Hedges and Crash Put-Buying Define a Volatile Week

Japanese Turnaround Situations, Short-Ideas, Azabu Research

Michael Allen

Japanese Turnaround Situations, Short-Ideas

Azabu Research

Azabu Research is a publishing and consulting firm focused on distressed equities in the Japanese market. We specialize in turnaround strategies, corporate combinations, divestitures, and restructuring.

Publisher of the Tokyo Turnaround Letter, which conducts the most thorough research possible of publicly available information, including forensic tests for fraudulent overstatement of assets and understatement of liabilities, as well as rigorous market and industry analysis to assess the underlying strengths of the company’s products or services, the appropriateness of the company’s turnaround strategy, and the skill of its current management team. The average length of a report exceeds 25 pages of text and tables, excluding any disclosures or executive summaries.

We have more than 30 years of experience in applying this process to distressed equities in Japan. Additionally, subscribers have free access to detailed, yet easily navigated earnings models for the target company as well as the top five comparable companies, and unlimited access to the analyst for follow-up questions.

Azabu Research also conducts be-spoke research on a project basis, and provides consulting services to companies looking to restructure, divest, make acquisitions, go public, or improve investor sentiment toward their stock.

Independent Research and Consulting Firm

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Consensus is stuck on legacy impairment risk, but NPLs have normalized, and real story is a business model that creates multiple paths to high exceptional asset growth and low overhead.</li>
<li>Internet banking is set to grow profits 60% annually and the Investment Banking segment is growing faster and more profitably than most rivals. </li>
<li>The U.S. office blowup is being over-extrapolated. Exposure is down to 2.2% of loans and US office rents are rising and vacancies falling.</li>
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Consensus is stuck on legacy impairment risk, but NPLs have normalized, and real story is a business model that creates multiple paths to high exceptional asset growth and low overhead.
Internet banking is set to grow profits 60% annually and the Investment Banking segment is growing faster and more profitably than most rivals. 
The U.S. office blowup is being over-extrapolated. Exposure is down to 2.2% of loans and US office rents are rising and vacancies falling.


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Senior Bank Analyst - Japanese Banks, Windamee Research

J. Brian Waterhouse

Senior Bank Analyst - Japanese Banks

Windamee Research

Japanese Banks

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

Deposit growth at the 111 banks that are members of the Japanese Bankers Association (JBA) rose +9.7% YoY in February 2021, or by ¥74.454 trillion (US$683.1 billion), marking the third month in succession that bank deposits have achieved the highest YoY growth level ever recorded.  Deposits at all banks grew by ¥2.956 trillion (US$271.2 billion) in February alone to a new record level of ¥838.224 trillion (US$7.690 trillion) and represented the 173rd consecutive month of YoY deposit growth for all JBA member banks.As the fiscal year-end approaches, banks are becoming increasingly concerned about the current state of their computer systems and their ability to handle a surge in deposit and loan rollovers on Wednesday 31 March.  Extra staff have been scheduled to operating departments and, according to local financial media, all leave cancelled at some regional banks in order to ensure that the banks do not suffer a similar fate to that of Mizuho Bank which suffered four highly embarrassing computer systems failures last month in the space of two weeks (please refer to Smartkarma Insight <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/mizuho-financial-group-8411-jp-deja-vu-all-over-again" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="insights:48688" rel="noopener">Mizuho Financial Group (8411 JP):  Deja Vu All Over Again</a> for further details).The banking sector has enjoyed a relief rally since the start of the year, noticeably outperforming the Topix index for the first time in several years.  However, trees do not grow to heaven, and bank rallies tend to peter out in 90 days or so.  Having passed the ‘Ides of March’ perennial waypoint after which most Japanese bank rallies peter out, investors are already starting to take profits in the sector and seeking out areas of the Japanese stock market where the fundamentals are strong enough to support sustained outperformance.  Meanwhile, awash in cash, with margins under relentless pressure and core earnings deteriorating, the Japanese banking sector faces an increasingly clouded future in an ongoing near-zero interest rate environment.“Caveat Emptor!”  (May the Buyer Beware) remains our advice to would-be investors in Japanese bank stocks for 2021 and beyond.

Deposit growth at the 111 banks that are members of the Japanese Bankers Association (JBA) rose +9.7% YoY in February 2021, or by ¥74.454 trillion (US$683.1 billion), marking the third month in succession that bank deposits have achieved the highest YoY growth level ever recorded.  Deposits at all banks grew by ¥2.956 trillion (US$271.2 billion) in February alone to a new record level of ¥838.224 trillion (US$7.690 trillion) and represented the 173rd consecutive month of YoY deposit growth for all JBA member banks.As the fiscal year-end approaches, banks are becoming increasingly concerned about the current state of their computer systems and their ability to handle a surge in deposit and loan rollovers on Wednesday 31 March.  Extra staff have been scheduled to operating departments and, according to local financial media, all leave cancelled at some regional banks in order to ensure that the banks do not suffer a similar fate to that of Mizuho Bank which suffered four highly embarrassing computer systems failures last month in the space of two weeks (please refer to Smartkarma Insight Mizuho Financial Group (8411 JP):  Deja Vu All Over Again for further details).The banking sector has enjoyed a relief rally since the start of the year, noticeably outperforming the Topix index for the first time in several years.  However, trees do not grow to heaven, and bank rallies tend to peter out in 90 days or so.  Having passed the ‘Ides of March’ perennial waypoint after which most Japanese bank rallies peter out, investors are already starting to take profits in the sector and seeking out areas of the Japanese stock market where the fundamentals are strong enough to support sustained outperformance.  Meanwhile, awash in cash, with margins under relentless pressure and core earnings deteriorating, the Japanese banking sector faces an increasingly clouded future in an ongoing near-zero interest rate environment.“Caveat Emptor!”  (May the Buyer Beware) remains our advice to would-be investors in Japanese bank stocks for 2021 and beyond.

Overall lending, in terms of loans outstanding, is now relatively static, even though YoY growth rates remain comparatively high at around +5.7%pa.  End-February 2021 loan outstandings have drifted back to June 2020 levels, that is to around to the time of the surge in new lending as Japan came out of its first COVID-induced nationwide lock-down.While the Japanese bank sector has enjoyed a rally since the beginning of the year on the back of a weakening Yen, the start of the roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines and a steepening of the long-bond yield curve (albeit from negative territory to closer to zero), the fundamental outlook for the banks remains clouded.  Technically, having passed the ‘marker point’ for the end of perennial bank rallies, namely 15 March (“The Ides of March”), we expect the sector to weaken on reducing volume as we approach the fiscal year-end in Japan.The first quarter of CY2021 has been a fun ride for holders of the more liquid Japanese bank stocks, but trees do not grow to Heaven and stock prices do not rise for ever  –  especially Japanese bank stocks.“Caveat Emptor!” (May the Buyer Beware) remains our advice to would-be investors in Japanese bank stocks for the remainder of 2021 and beyond.<section class="figure"><figure class="editor-figure mceNonEditable"><img src="https://static-prod.smartkarma.com/images/media/000/196/406/original/JBanks-2021-0323-TPXvsTPNBNK-2015-2021.jpg?1616476627" class="editor-image img-responsive" data-smartkarma-image-id="196406"></figure></section>

Overall lending, in terms of loans outstanding, is now relatively static, even though YoY growth rates remain comparatively high at around +5.7%pa.  End-February 2021 loan outstandings have drifted back to June 2020 levels, that is to around to the time of the surge in new lending as Japan came out of its first COVID-induced nationwide lock-down.While the Japanese bank sector has enjoyed a rally since the beginning of the year on the back of a weakening Yen, the start of the roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines and a steepening of the long-bond yield curve (albeit from negative territory to closer to zero), the fundamental outlook for the banks remains clouded.  Technically, having passed the ‘marker point’ for the end of perennial bank rallies, namely 15 March (“The Ides of March”), we expect the sector to weaken on reducing volume as we approach the fiscal year-end in Japan.The first quarter of CY2021 has been a fun ride for holders of the more liquid Japanese bank stocks, but trees do not grow to Heaven and stock prices do not rise for ever  –  especially Japanese bank stocks.“Caveat Emptor!” (May the Buyer Beware) remains our advice to would-be investors in Japanese bank stocks for the remainder of 2021 and beyond.

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

Major global indexes (MSCI ACWI, ACWI ex-US, EM, and EAFE) continue to hold above critical support levels and market dynamics remain largely positive. Until this changes, we believe global equities are headed higher in the coming weeks and months. Additionally, we are reiterating our overweight recommendations on small-caps and value as we believe outperformance from these areas is likely to continue.

Major global indexes (MSCI ACWI, ACWI ex-US, EM, and EAFE) continue to hold above critical support levels and market dynamics remain largely positive. Until this changes, we believe global equities are headed higher in the coming weeks and months. Additionally, we are reiterating our overweight recommendations on small-caps and value as we believe outperformance from these areas is likely to continue.

Global Equity Strategy: Small-Caps and Value Stocks Remain in Focus

Japan

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. manages financial operations for its subsidiaries. The Company provides commercial banking and a variety of financial services.

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (8316 JP)

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Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (8316 JP)

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We are reiterating our overweight recommendations on small-caps and value as we believe outperformance from these areas is likely to continue.

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