Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

Douglas Research Advisory

Event-Driven

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<li>In the past several days, there have been an increased speculation in the local media about a potential M&amp;A fight for T'Way Air between Yearimdang Publishing and Daemyung Sono Group. </li>
<li>The difference in ownership of T'Way Air by Daemyung Sono Group and Yearimdang Group is only 3.2%, which could lead to an intensified management rights dispute. </li>
<li>According to local sources, Daemyung Sono Group has recently contacted several law firms to review plans to potentially conduct a tender offer on T'Way Air. </li>
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In the past several days, there have been an increased speculation in the local media about a potential M&amp;A fight for T'Way Air between Yearimdang Publishing and Daemyung Sono Group. 
The difference in ownership of T'Way Air by Daemyung Sono Group and Yearimdang Group is only 3.2%, which could lead to an intensified management rights dispute. 
According to local sources, Daemyung Sono Group has recently contacted several law firms to review plans to potentially conduct a tender offer on T'Way Air. 


T'Way Air: Increasing Possibility of an M&A Fight Between Yearimdang and Daemyung Sono Group

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.

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<li>It’s unclear if this will turn into a tender offer battle like Korea Zinc, and we need to assess both sides’ financial strength carefully.</li>
<li>Today’s reports suggest Sono has more financial flexibility than T'way Holdings, but we should be cautious. T'way Air might also consider buying back shares with borrowed funds.</li>
<li>T'way Air has fewer institutional investors and more available float than Korea Zinc, suggesting significant price swings and an attractive trading setup, as seen in today’s volume spike.</li>
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It’s unclear if this will turn into a tender offer battle like Korea Zinc, and we need to assess both sides’ financial strength carefully.
Today’s reports suggest Sono has more financial flexibility than T'way Holdings, but we should be cautious. T'way Air might also consider buying back shares with borrowed funds.
T'way Air has fewer institutional investors and more available float than Korea Zinc, suggesting significant price swings and an attractive trading setup, as seen in today’s volume spike.


Digging into Today’s Potential T'way Air Tender Offer Saga

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>There are 5 migrations from MidCap to LargeCap, 4 LargeCap to MidCap, 3 new additions to MidCap, 9 SmallCap to MidCap, 11 MidCap to SmallCap, 3 new additions to SmallCap.</li>
<li>The migrations from SmallCap to MidCap have outperformed the stocks migrating between other segments by a huge margin over the last few months.</li>
<li>Given the huge outperformance and looking at how the migrations have performed historically, we'd expect the stocks migrating to MidCap to underperform post implementation of the changes.</li>
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There are 5 migrations from MidCap to LargeCap, 4 LargeCap to MidCap, 3 new additions to MidCap, 9 SmallCap to MidCap, 11 MidCap to SmallCap, 3 new additions to SmallCap.
The migrations from SmallCap to MidCap have outperformed the stocks migrating between other segments by a huge margin over the last few months.
Given the huge outperformance and looking at how the migrations have performed historically, we'd expect the stocks migrating to MidCap to underperform post implementation of the changes.


KOSPI Size Indices - Changes in March & Implications

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>We believe that Jeju Air is in a sweet spot right now. Jeju Air is one of the major beneficiaries of the travel resurgence in Asia.</li>
<li>Jeju Air is a potential inclusion candidate in the KOSPI 200 index in 2023. There are 42 companies in KOSPI 200 which have lower market cap than Jeju Air. </li>
<li>Outbound travel from Korea recovered strongly with 6.6 million outbound tourists from South Korea in 2022, up 436% YoY. However, this is still 77% lower than the figure in 2019. </li>
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We believe that Jeju Air is in a sweet spot right now. Jeju Air is one of the major beneficiaries of the travel resurgence in Asia.
Jeju Air is a potential inclusion candidate in the KOSPI 200 index in 2023. There are 42 companies in KOSPI 200 which have lower market cap than Jeju Air. 
Outbound travel from Korea recovered strongly with 6.6 million outbound tourists from South Korea in 2022, up 436% YoY. However, this is still 77% lower than the figure in 2019. 


Jeju Air: A Big Beneficiary of Travel Resurgence in Asia + A Likely Inclusion in KOSPI 200 in 2023

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<li>The ETF operator (TIGER)'s index tracking conformity was high enough to create trading opportunities aimed at the rebalancing flow.</li>
<li>Flow/Price directions were mostly synched with only a few exceptions. Of particular importance is that the price impact was substantial compared to the passive flow size. </li>
<li>The yield of the tradable names suitable for a basket based on the projected passive impact size was 4.51%.</li>
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The ETF operator (TIGER)'s index tracking conformity was high enough to create trading opportunities aimed at the rebalancing flow.
Flow/Price directions were mostly synched with only a few exceptions. Of particular importance is that the price impact was substantial compared to the passive flow size. 
The yield of the tradable names suitable for a basket based on the projected passive impact size was 4.51%.


WISE Theme Indexes Rebalancing: Conformity of Passive Flow to Price Return

South Korea

Tway Air Co., Ltd operates as an airline company. The Company offers flight, hotel, car booking services. Tway Air also provides reissuance of ticket, baggage, airport, and in-flight services. Tway Air serves customers worldwide.

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T'Way Air (091810 KS)

T'Way Air: Increasing Possibility of an M&A Fight Between Yearimdang and Daemyung Sono Group

In the past several days, there have been an increased speculation in the local media about a potential M&A fight for T'Way Air between Yearimdang...

Douglas Kim

Digging into Today’s Potential T'way Air Tender Offer Saga

This post dives into today’s potential T'way Air tender offer saga, unpacking the local media reports that circulated in the market throughout the...

Sanghyun Park

KOSPI Size Indices - Changes in March & Implications

The changes to the KOSPI Size Indices were announced on Friday. Stocks migrating from SmallCap to MidCap have bigly outperformed and going by...

Brian Freitas

Jeju Air: A Big Beneficiary of Travel Resurgence in Asia + A Likely Inclusion in KOSPI 200 in 2023

Jeju Air is in a sweet spot right now as it is one of the major beneficiaries of the travel resurgence in Asia. Jeju Air is also a potential...

Douglas Kim

WISE Theme Indexes Rebalancing: Conformity of Passive Flow to Price Return

This post provides the noteworthy points of the passive flow/price impact correlation from yesterday's rebalancing of WISE's three thematic indexes

Sanghyun Park

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