Daily Brief Japan: Lintec Corp, Keisei Electric Railway Co, Tauns Laboratories, Hitachi Construction Machinery, Okinawa Cellular Telephone, GDEP ADVANCE , TSE Tokyo Price Index TOPIX, Geekly Inc and more

• Lintec Corp (7966 JP) is a maker of printed adhesives, stickers, seals, labels, barcodes strips, etc. They also do adhesives for optical products and LCDs/electronics. That’s 80-90% of OP.
• Nippon Paper Industries Co L (3863 JP) owns 32%. Today they announced they are selling 30%, worth ¥112bn or so at last price. It’s big. 60x ADV. 
• Lintec today announced Q1 earnings, which are probably a trifle light. They also announced a buyback of up to 10.55% of shares to mitigate the impact of the offering. Better.

• Nippon Paper Industries Co L (3863 JP) is looking to raise US$600m in an upcoming secondary sale of shares in Lintec Corp (7966 JP).
• This sale is part of Nippon Paper’s balance sheet optimization plans, as laid out in their medium term plan 2030.
• In this note, we will talk about the placement and run the deal through our ECM framework.

• Lintec Corp (7966 JP) has announced a secondary offering of 17.1 million shares (19.7 million including overallotment), valued at around US$0.6 billion (US$0.7 billion including overallotment).
• The offering will enable Nippon Paper Industries Co L (3863 JP), the largest shareholder, to sell all its directly owned shares.
• The offering, as a percentage of outstanding shares, is the sixth-highest, and, in terms of ADV, the fifth-highest among large Japanese placements since 2021.

• Keisei Electric Railway Co (9009 JP) is the main beneficiary of the Narita Airport capacity expansion. More travelers means a higher ridership rate. 
• It now trades at 12x PER, share price normalized post COVID. Trades at a discount compared to Shinkansen operator like East Japan Railway Co (9020 JP) 
• The short-term impact may be a little negative, but the mid- to long-term should be very positive. 

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• Towns Co., Ltd. reported a 22.9% decline in sales to 14,369 million yen and a 49.2% drop in operating profit to 4,200 million yen for the fiscal year ending June 2026.
• The decline is primarily due to a significant contraction in the domestic market for single COVID-19 test kits, where the company holds a 42% market share.
• Despite the downturn, the market for influenza test kits grew nearly 20%, and sales for the fiscal year ending June 2027 are projected to rise by 16.4%.

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• De Facto Independence Realized via Rebranding and Parent Exit: The transition from the “Hitachi” name to LANDCROS Corporation in April 2027, coupled with Hitachi Ltd.’s complete exit through the sale of its remaining 21,462,310 shares on August 19, 2026, marks the end of parent-subsidiary constraints. This allows the company to operate with unprecedented agility, though it faces a near-term capital headwind with a ¥34.0 billion defensive share buyback to absorb the supply overhang.
• Shifting from Closed Ecosystems to Open Automation: Rather than fighting Caterpillar and Komatsu in a capital-intensive race to build a closed proprietary automation stack, the company is betting on open architecture. The strategic partnership with Pronto signed on July 16, 2026, integrated with the Wenco fleet management system, offers brownfield mine operators a highly flexible, OEM-agnostic alternative that lowers the barrier to entry for automated haulage systems (AHS).
• Aggressive Post-Deere Infrastructure Rebuild in the Americas: Rebuilding an independent dealer network from Newnan, Georgia, since the 2022 Deere split has been highly cash-absorbent. The company is actively mitigating these distribution gaps through targeted regional expansions, such as the newly formed Hitachi Construction Machinery Latin America SpA in Chile aiming for ¥150 billion in revenue by FY2030, and the July 23, 2026 Letter of Intent with Yanmar Holdings to co-develop compact equipment.

• Total mobile revenue growth and communication facility usage efficiencies boost earnings – The company had a strong start to FY3/27, with OP surging to ¥5.83bn (+25.6% YoY) on sales of ¥22bn (+6.8% YoY).
• Initiatives to prioritize customer LTV (Lifetime Value) – including measures for long-term subscribers – enhanced customer loyalty and drove a third straight quarter in churn declines.
• Price revisions also helped growth. These factors were augmented by communication facility usage efficiencies and one-off factors such as declining retroactive settlements, raising OPM 4 percentage points to 26.5%. 

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• GDEP Advance (TSE: 5885) is a Tokyo-based company focused on AI system incubation, expecting a 27% revenue increase by May 2027.
• The company provides advanced server machines and solutions for AI, visualization, and big data challenges.
• GDEP partnered with NVIDIA in 2007 and went public on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in June 2023.

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• Listing means validating corporate value through market value, and choosing listing market expands opportunities to increase market value. Companies changing markets to maintain listing that lead to declining market value.
• When transitioning to a market with lower trading liquidity, strategies for maintaining and increasing market value (shareholder value) after the market change should also be discussed in the board meetings.
• Since maintaining a public listing, delisting, or changing stock exchanges are matters that affect shareholder interests, conducting thorough discussions is one of the board directors’ fiduciary duties.

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• Geekly, a recruitment agency for IT, web, and gaming sectors, is expected to achieve record performance by May 2027.
• The company uses its proprietary ‘OLG’ system for effective talent-employer matching and has a diverse customer acquisition strategy.
• Growing demand for IT professionals and a successful listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in February 2026 have contributed to Geekly’s business expansion.

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