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Consumer Discretionary / Industrials

Henry Kwon

Equity Bottom-Up

CPNG's shares declined by 9.3% on May 13, the day following its 1Q21 earnings release, but has since recovered its loss as of close on May 17. A key question should be whether this represents a dead cat bounce, or whether it represents the beginning of a sustainable share price recovery?Without reliable technical parameters established, we mainly rely on two factors, namely Fibonnaci retracement levels and a DCF analysis based on current consensus forecasts to determine how much growth CPNG would have to generate in order to justify its current share price levels.<ul>
<li>$39.95 represents the stock's 78.6% Fibonacci Retracement level which became resistance since it was breached on May 6 on intra-day basis and confirmed on May 7 close.</li>
<li>Taking current consensus 3-year EBITDA and Free Cash Flow Forecasts, with a 20% target Debt ratio in the mix, a DCF analysis suggests that current share price level would be sustainable on a terminal growth range of 9.6-10.1%. A terminal growth rate of 2% would suggest a $5.00 share price, on the other hand.</li>
</ul>In a flattening yield curve environment, we believe the market would not have much objections to 8-9% terminal growth assumptions at a practical level even though analysts would sound alarm bells. However, at this juncture we believe investors should pay heed to whether inflationary concerns will continue to lead to a steepening yield curve, thereby creating continuing headwinds for CPNG's share price performance over the next 3 to 6 months.

CPNG's shares declined by 9.3% on May 13, the day following its 1Q21 earnings release, but has since recovered its loss as of close on May 17. A key question should be whether this represents a dead cat bounce, or whether it represents the beginning of a sustainable share price recovery?Without reliable technical parameters established, we mainly rely on two factors, namely Fibonnaci retracement levels and a DCF analysis based on current consensus forecasts to determine how much growth CPNG would have to generate in order to justify its current share price levels.
$39.95 represents the stock's 78.6% Fibonacci Retracement level which became resistance since it was breached on May 6 on intra-day basis and confirmed on May 7 close.
Taking current consensus 3-year EBITDA and Free Cash Flow Forecasts, with a 20% target Debt ratio in the mix, a DCF analysis suggests that current share price level would be sustainable on a terminal growth range of 9.6-10.1%. A terminal growth rate of 2% would suggest a $5.00 share price, on the other hand.
In a flattening yield curve environment, we believe the market would not have much objections to 8-9% terminal growth assumptions at a practical level even though analysts would sound alarm bells. However, at this juncture we believe investors should pay heed to whether inflationary concerns will continue to lead to a steepening yield curve, thereby creating continuing headwinds for CPNG's share price performance over the next 3 to 6 months.

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