Senior Credit Analyst, Lucror Analytics

Leonard Law, CFA

Senior Credit Analyst

High Yield Experts

Lucror Analytics

Lucror Analytics is a leading credit and ESG research specialist and a provider of technology solutions for differentiated fixed income strategies. Our roots are in bottom-up fundamental credit analysis with a specialization in high yield corporate credits from Europe, Asia and Latin America. We are one of few research specialists integrating ESG considerations with fundamental credit research through a dedicated ESG platform. Our ESG assessment covers five key criteria: Disclosure, E,S, & G Pillars, Controversies, ESG Impact on Credit and ESG Momentum.

Recognizing the importance and value-add of Factor Investing in fixed income, Lucror developed the Smart Quant Navigator (SQN), an intuitive platform that helps clients devise and implement factor-based strategies ranging from pure quant to active fundamental, with integrated ESG.

Our company has been at the forefront of developments in the fixed income markets, identifying opportunities and consistently delivering new products and value-adding solutions to clients. Lucror has close relationships with the largest and most reputable asset managers, family offices, hedge funds, investment and wealth managers globally.

Credit

<p><br/> The Asia HY Trade Book for July 2023 includes a summary of our recommendations, as well as our high-conviction ideas. The report also features relative-value charts and lists of the bonds across Asia (ex-Japan) HY and crossover credits.<br/></p>

  The Asia HY Trade Book for July 2023 includes a summary of our recommendations, as well as our high-conviction ideas. The report also features relative-value charts and lists of the bonds across Asia (ex-Japan) HY and crossover credits. 

Asia HY Trade Book - July 2023 - Lucror Analytics

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

Equity Capital Markets

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<li>Fadu's IPO price has been confirmed at 31,000 won (top end of the IPO valuation range). A total of 1,082 institutions participated, with a demand ratio of 362.9 to 1.</li>
<li>Fadu is one of the biggest IPOs in Korea so far in 2023. </li>
<li>Our base case valuation analysis suggests implied market cap of 2.2 trillion won or 43,676 won per share, which represents 41% higher than the IPO price.</li>
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Fadu's IPO price has been confirmed at 31,000 won (top end of the IPO valuation range). A total of 1,082 institutions participated, with a demand ratio of 362.9 to 1.
Fadu is one of the biggest IPOs in Korea so far in 2023. 
Our base case valuation analysis suggests implied market cap of 2.2 trillion won or 43,676 won per share, which represents 41% higher than the IPO price.


Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>In this insight, we highlight the pricing gap divergences of the major Korean holdcos and opcos in 3Q 2023.</li>
<li>Of the 38 pair trades, 22 of them involved holdcos outperforming opcos YTD and 16 of them involved opcos outperforming holdcos in the same period.</li>
<li>We highlight 38 pair trades that involve Korean holdcos and opcos.</li>
</ul>


In this insight, we highlight the pricing gap divergences of the major Korean holdcos and opcos in 3Q 2023.
Of the 38 pair trades, 22 of them involved holdcos outperforming opcos YTD and 16 of them involved opcos outperforming holdcos in the same period.
We highlight 38 pair trades that involve Korean holdcos and opcos.


Korean Holdcos Vs Opcos Gap Trading Opportunities in 3Q 2023

Managing Director, Zero One, Zero One

Vincent Fernando, CFA

Managing Director, Zero One

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<li>Nanya Tech management extrapolated on their recent results call that they believe 2Q23 was the bottom for the DRAM cycle.</li>
<li>We've updated our Nanya Tech financial model and estimates; we still see a short-term trade back to Nanya Tech's mid-June high. However, Elan Microelectronics is a Long with more edge.</li>
<li>While Nanya's comments indicated a more delayed recovery for Memory than Micron's recent guidance, overall the industry for Micron, SK Hynix, and Samsung appears to be turning a corner.</li>
</ul>


Nanya Tech management extrapolated on their recent results call that they believe 2Q23 was the bottom for the DRAM cycle.
We've updated our Nanya Tech financial model and estimates; we still see a short-term trade back to Nanya Tech's mid-June high. However, Elan Microelectronics is a Long with more edge.
While Nanya's comments indicated a more delayed recovery for Memory than Micron's recent guidance, overall the industry for Micron, SK Hynix, and Samsung appears to be turning a corner.


Memory Monitor: Nanya Management Provides More Color on DRAM Cycle Bottom; Elan a Long W/ More Edge

APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Ethan Aw

APAC IPOs & Placements

IPOs and Placements coverage across Asia Pacific

Aequitas Research

We cover all listing across the Asia Pacific along with follow-up placements. As of Dec 2020, our team had covered 539 IPOs with a hit rate of 73.5% and 685 placements with a hit rate of 66.8%.

We combine fundamental bottom-up views with our proprietary quantitative framework to provide a holistic coverage across new listings and placements. Our coverage includes pre-IPO notes before the deal is launched, follow-up analysis once the deal is live and post-listing trading analysis as well.

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/fadu-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:39896:1" rel="noopener">Fadu (440110 KS)</a> is looking to raise up to US$147m in its Korean IPO.</li>
<li>Fadu is a South Korean fabless semiconductor maker mainly engaged in flash storage technology innovation. Its core products are Enterprise Solid State Drive (SSD) and Enterprise SSDs.</li>
<li>In our previous notes, we looked at the company’s past performance and undertook a peer comparison. In this note, we talk about valuation.</li>
</ul>



Fadu (440110 KS) is looking to raise up to US$147m in its Korean IPO.
Fadu is a South Korean fabless semiconductor maker mainly engaged in flash storage technology innovation. Its core products are Enterprise Solid State Drive (SSD) and Enterprise SSDs.
In our previous notes, we looked at the company’s past performance and undertook a peer comparison. In this note, we talk about valuation.


South Korea

SK Hynix Inc. provides products and services for the electronic components industry. The Company manufactures semiconductors, such as dynamic random access memory (DRAM), NAND flash memory, and static random access memory (SRAM) chips.

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SK Hynix (000660 KS)

Asia HY Trade Book - July 2023 - Lucror Analytics

The Asia HY Trade Book for July 2023 includes a summary of our recommendations, as well as our high-conviction ideas. The report also features...

Lucror Analytics

Fadu IPO Book Building Results Analysis

Fadu's IPO price has been confirmed at 31,000 won (top end of the IPO valuation range). A total of 1,082 institutions participated, with a demand...

Douglas Kim

Korean Holdcos Vs Opcos Gap Trading Opportunities in 3Q 2023

In this insight, we highlight the pricing gap divergences of the major Korean holdcos and opcos in 3Q 2023. We highlight 38 pair trades that...

Douglas Kim

Memory Monitor: Nanya Management Provides More Color on DRAM Cycle Bottom; Elan a Long W/ More Edge

While Nanya's comments indicated a more delayed recovery for Memory than Micron's recent guidance, overall the industry for Micron, SK Hynix, and...

Vincent Fernando, CFA

Fadu IPO - Thoughts on Valuation

Fadu (440110 KS) is looking to raise up to US$147m in its Korean IPO. Previously, we looked at the company’s past performance and undertook a peer...

Ethan Aw

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