In today’s briefing:
- Not Promptly Retiring Treasury Stock Has Increased the Market Cap of Japanese-Style Calculations
- World Buys Mitsubishi Clothing Business
Not Promptly Retiring Treasury Stock Has Increased the Market Cap of Japanese-Style Calculations
- The fact that few companies promptly retire treasury stock is the reason for the large gap between market capitalization including treasury stock and market capitalization calculated without including treasury stock.
- It’s odd that EV/EBITDA of a company will be smaller after cancelling treasury shares than before, but this shouldn’t be too much trouble for institutional investors who analyze it closely.
- Although this gap may widen for more companies as more cross-shareholdings will be bought back with treasury stock, the increase in share repurchases is a favorable development.
World Buys Mitsubishi Clothing Business
- World may finally have found the key to real growth after years of trying to build a fashion retail business in shopping centres, but with limited success.
- The big problem was that it didn’t have the supply chain skills to compete with the big retailers like Uniqlo and Adastria.
- Buying the supplier that helped grow those same chains means World now has a real chance to enter the big leagues.
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