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<a href="https://smartkarma.com/entities/taiwan-cement">Taiwan Cement</a> is undergoing a significant strategic transformation, pivoting from a traditional cement manufacturer to a diversified green technology conglomerate with a focus on low-carbon materials and green energy.</li>
  <li>Recent acquisitions in Europe and Turkey (Cimpor and OYAK) are set to diversify revenue streams and mitigate the impact of the persistent weakness in the Mainland China cement market.</li>
  <li>While the company faces near-term profitability challenges in its core cement business and execution risks in its new energy ventures, its dominant market position in Taiwan and strategic pivot towards sustainability offer long-term growth potential.</li>
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Taiwan Cement is undergoing a significant strategic transformation, pivoting from a traditional cement manufacturer to a diversified green technology conglomerate with a focus on low-carbon materials and green energy.
  Recent acquisitions in Europe and Turkey (Cimpor and OYAK) are set to diversify revenue streams and mitigate the impact of the persistent weakness in the Mainland China cement market.
  While the company faces near-term profitability challenges in its core cement business and execution risks in its new energy ventures, its dominant market position in Taiwan and strategic pivot towards sustainability offer long-term growth potential.
This content is AI-generated and displayed for general informational purposes only. Please verify independently before use.

Primer: Taiwan Cement (1101 TT) - Aug 2026

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

Index Rebalance

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<li>The changes to a global index in August will be announced pre-market open Thursday and will be implemented at the close of trading on 31 August.</li>
<li>The big market moves since the last rebalance result in many changes with the final number dependent on the day picked to compute market cap and free float market cap.</li>
<li>The forecast adds have outperformed the forecast deletes over the last 1, 2 and 3 months but near-term performance has been far from awesome due to the momentum unwind.</li>
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The changes to a global index in August will be announced pre-market open Thursday and will be implemented at the close of trading on 31 August.
The big market moves since the last rebalance result in many changes with the final number dependent on the day picked to compute market cap and free float market cap.
The forecast adds have outperformed the forecast deletes over the last 1, 2 and 3 months but near-term performance has been far from awesome due to the momentum unwind.


Global Index: Potential Changes in August for Asia Pac

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<li>There could be 2 changes for the Yuanta/P-Shares Taiwan Top 50 ETF in September - one is high probability and the other is right at the cusp.</li>
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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/king-slide-works-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:7130:1" rel="noopener">King Slide Works (2059 TT)</a> is being added to a global index this month, so the ETF inclusion will come hot on the heels of that.</li>
<li>The impact on the stocks is pretty big with passive trackers needing to buy between 1.3-5.5x ADV in the adds and sell between 3.4-6.4x ADV in the deletes.</li>
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There could be 2 changes for the Yuanta/P-Shares Taiwan Top 50 ETF in September - one is high probability and the other is right at the cusp.

King Slide Works (2059 TT) is being added to a global index this month, so the ETF inclusion will come hot on the heels of that.
The impact on the stocks is pretty big with passive trackers needing to buy between 1.3-5.5x ADV in the adds and sell between 3.4-6.4x ADV in the deletes.


Taiwan Top 50 ETF Rebalance Preview: Another Inclusion for King Slide

Asia Pac ECM and Index Rebal, Shenton Research

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Asia Pac ECM and Index Rebal

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China Biotech

Shenton Research

Shenton Research is an independent Asia Pacific equity specialist. Our quantitative research covers index rebalancing flows, alongside exchange data analytics accross Asia Pacific. On the equity capital markets side, we focus on Asia Pacific ECM, especially biotech and TMT. Our lead analyst is frequently cited by international media.

Quantitative Analysis

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<li>We analyzed the changes in short interest of TWSE Stocks as of Sep 4th. The aggregated short interest was USD41.2bn.</li>
<li>We tabulate league tables for top short by value and short as multiple of ADT, as well as weekly increases &amp; decreases in short value, short as multiple of ADT.</li>
<li>We highlight short interest changes in Shin Kong Financial, Taiwan Cement, Wiwynn, Winbond Electronics, LARGAN Precision.</li>
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We analyzed the changes in short interest of TWSE Stocks as of Sep 4th. The aggregated short interest was USD41.2bn.
We tabulate league tables for top short by value and short as multiple of ADT, as well as weekly increases &amp; decreases in short value, short as multiple of ADT.
We highlight short interest changes in Shin Kong Financial, Taiwan Cement, Wiwynn, Winbond Electronics, LARGAN Precision.


TWSE Short Interest Weekly (Sep 4th): Shin Kong Financial, Taiwan Cement, Wiwynn, LARGAN Precision

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<li>We analysed the earning revision of component stocks of MS-Taiwan in the past month.</li>
<li>We tabulated stocks with the top impact on index's EPS, stocks' EPS revision, and revenue revision.</li>
<li>We highlighted EPS revision on Innolux, King Slide Works, Formosa Plastics, TSMC, Nanya Technology, Phison Electronics, Winbond Electronics, Yang Ming Marine.</li>
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We analysed the earning revision of component stocks of MS-Taiwan in the past month.
We tabulated stocks with the top impact on index's EPS, stocks' EPS revision, and revenue revision.
We highlighted EPS revision on Innolux, King Slide Works, Formosa Plastics, TSMC, Nanya Technology, Phison Electronics, Winbond Electronics, Yang Ming Marine.


MS-Taiwan Index Earning Revision (Aug): Innolux, King Slide Works, Formosa Plastics, TSMC

Taiwan

Taiwan Cement Corporation manufactures and markets cement.  The Company's products include Portland cement, high strength cement, oil well cement, and sludge treatment agents.  Through its subsidiaries, the Company also operates in transportation, construction, and information products businesses.

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Taiwan Cement (1101 TT)

Primer: Taiwan Cement (1101 TT) - Aug 2026

Taiwan Cement is undergoing a significant strategic transformation, pivoting from a traditional cement manufacturer to a diversified green...

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Global Index: Potential Changes in August for Asia Pac

The global index changes were announced using D1 as the cutoff. 99% hit rate across Asia Pacific, so no surprises. Big price changes in the stocks...

Brian Freitas

Taiwan Top 50 ETF Rebalance Preview: Another Inclusion for King Slide

There could be 2 changes for the Yuanta/P-Shares Taiwan Top 50 ETF in Sep. King Slide Works is also an add to a global index this month. Passives...

Brian Freitas

TWSE Short Interest Weekly (Sep 4th): Shin Kong Financial, Taiwan Cement, Wiwynn, LARGAN Precision

We analyzed TWSE short interest report for the past week and highlighted short interest changes in Shin Kong Financial, Taiwan Cement, Wiwynn,...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

MS-Taiwan Index Earning Revision (Aug): Innolux, King Slide Works, Formosa Plastics, TSMC

We analyzed MS-Taiwan's consensus for Aug 2026 and highlighted changes of EPS in Innolux (3481 TT), King Slide Works (2059 TT), Formosa Plastics...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

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