Financials & FinTech, EM & Southern Europe, Galliano's Latin Notes

Victor Galliano

Victor Galliano is an experienced equity banks analyst, having covered Latin America banks and non-bank financials for over 12 years, as well as more recently covering the Italian banks. He has worked in sell side equity research for 30 years in a career spanning Barclays, HSBC, BBVA LatInvest, Barings and NatWest.
The focus of the Galliano's Latin Notes Ltd product is to seek out mis-pricings in the market, on a bottom up basis and focused on long and short calls, in the LatAm and Southern European financials space. In addition, the product explores thematic research opportunities in the banking sector, including FinTech.
The investment style applied is generally value oriented, although Growth At Reasonable Price (GARP) strategies can also be used where appropriate. The aim is to develop more of a contrarian approach to investment research, looking to capitalise on overly sceptical or optimistic consensus views. In terms of valuation techniques, the focus is on PBV ratio to ROE, PE multiples and dividend yield, as well as the application of Gordon's Growth Model (GGM) and Sum of the Parts (SOTP) valuation.

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Galliano's Latin Notes

The focus of the Galliano's Latin Notes Ltd product is to seek out mis-pricings in the market, on a bottom up basis and focused on long and short calls, in the LatAm and Southern European financials space. In addition, the product explores thematic research opportunities in the banking sector, including FinTech. The investment style applied is generally value oriented, although Growth At Reasonable Price (GARP) strategies can also be used where appropriate. The aim is to develop more of a contrarian approach to investment research, looking to capitalise on overly sceptical or optimistic consensus views. In terms of valuation techniques, the focus is on PBV ratio to ROE, PE multiples and dividend yield, as well as the application of Gordon's Growth Model (GGM) and Sum of the Parts (SOTP) valuation.

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>The SoftBank share price rally is, in our view, based on optimism around the Arm IPO, the Yen’s relative weakness and recovering share prices of public companies in the portfolio</li>
<li>Nvidia’s emergence as a potential anchor investor in the Arm IPO has boosted SoftBank shares, yet there is still a big disparity between groups in terms of Arm’s potential valuation</li>
<li>Aside from a recovery in public tech companies’ shares, Yen weakness has supported SoftBank’s asset values; monetary policy moves now indicate the prospect of a stronger Yen versus the USD</li>
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The SoftBank share price rally is, in our view, based on optimism around the Arm IPO, the Yen’s relative weakness and recovering share prices of public companies in the portfolio
Nvidia’s emergence as a potential anchor investor in the Arm IPO has boosted SoftBank shares, yet there is still a big disparity between groups in terms of Arm’s potential valuation
Aside from a recovery in public tech companies’ shares, Yen weakness has supported SoftBank’s asset values; monetary policy moves now indicate the prospect of a stronger Yen versus the USD


SoftBank Group (9984 JP) – Reasons to Be Careful

Softbank Group

SoftBank Group (9984 JP) – Reasons to Be Careful