Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

Equity Bottom-Up

It was reported in numerous Korean media today that the Trump administration plans to impose much higher tariff rates on Korean steel products and that this official announcement by the US government is likely to be made in the next few days (by end of September). The implementation of the much higher tariff rates is likely to be effective starting this year. On the back of this news, the major steel stocks in Korea are lower today: <ul>
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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/208" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:208:1">POSCO (005490 KS)</a> - down 4.0%</li>
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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/963" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:963:1">Hyundai Steel Co (004020 KS)</a> -…</li>
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It was reported in numerous Korean media today that the Trump administration plans to impose much higher tariff rates on Korean steel products and that this official announcement by the US government is likely to be made in the next few days (by end of September). The implementation of the much higher tariff rates is likely to be effective starting this year. On the back of this news, the major steel stocks in Korea are lower today: 

POSCO (005490 KS) - down 4.0%

Hyundai Steel Co (004020 KS) -…


Trump Administration Plans to Impose Much Higher Tariff Rates on Korean Steel - Impact on POSCO

Amareos

Federico Bagiotti, CFA

<figure class="editor-figure mceNonEditable"><img src="https://static-prod.smartkarma.com/images/media/000/032/491/original/Posco%2002%20Table.png?1504096742" class="editor-image img-responsive" data-smartkarma-image-id="32491"></figure>Having delivered a very good set of Q1 results in April and Q2 results in July – FY2017 revenues forecast to be up 13% vs 2016 and a near doubling of Net Income<a href="#_ftn1" target="_blank">[1]</a> - Posco’s stock price has rallied smartly over the past year and appears poised to break above the 2014 highs.Using crowd sourced sentiment indicators derived from up to 1 million sources daily across traditional and social media, we assess whether the prospects for Posco’s stock price are as promising as the recent price action…

Having delivered a very good set of Q1 results in April and Q2 results in July – FY2017 revenues forecast to be up 13% vs 2016 and a near doubling of Net Income[1] - Posco’s stock price has rallied smartly over the past year and appears poised to break above the 2014 highs.Using crowd sourced sentiment indicators derived from up to 1 million sources daily across traditional and social media, we assess whether the prospects for Posco’s stock price are as promising as the recent price action…

Korea / Special Sits, Pairs, Index Rebalancing, Clepsydra Capital

Sanghyun Park

Korea / Special Sits, Pairs, Index Rebalancing

Event-Driven

<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/991" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:991:1">Celltrion Inc (068270 KS)</a> said in a regulatory filing that it will have EGM at 10 AM on Aug 29 to decide whether it will move to KOSPI.<div class="content-highlight">Below is the link of this regulatory filing in DART.<a href="http://dart.fss.or.kr/dsaf001/main.do?rcpNo=20170821900093" target="_blank">http://dart.fss.or.kr/dsaf001/main.do?rcpNo=20170821900093</a></div>Apparently, a majority of Celltrion shareholders will approve KOSPI move. So, it now seems that this is almost a done deal. Of course, KOSPI move itself won't make much difference in terms of short trade volume. But what is important is that there is a very high possibility that Celltrion will be included in KOSPI200.Yes, KOSPI200 inclusion is a big thing. So, any trading opportunity here? Alright, let's find it out.

Celltrion Inc (068270 KS) said in a regulatory filing that it will have EGM at 10 AM on Aug 29 to decide whether it will move to KOSPI.Below is the link of this regulatory filing in DART.http://dart.fss.or.kr/dsaf001/main.do?rcpNo=20170821900093Apparently, a majority of Celltrion shareholders will approve KOSPI move. So, it now seems that this is almost a done deal. Of course, KOSPI move itself won't make much difference in terms of short trade volume. But what is important is that there is a very high possibility that Celltrion will be included in KOSPI200.Yes, KOSPI200 inclusion is a big thing. So, any trading opportunity here? Alright, let's find it out.

More Discussions on Impacts of Celltrion's KOSPI200 Inclusion

<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/16029" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:16029:1">Naver Corp (035420 KS)</a>'s founder Lee Hae-Jin tried to sell a small portion of his stake (110,000 shares or 0.3% of shares outstanding) representing 86 billion won on August 21st, but this deal failed to get completed due to lack of demand from institutional investors. This is likely to act as a near-term negative overhang on Naver shares. The block deal price was 763,037 won, a 2.3% discount to the closing price of 781,000 won on August 21st.  At the end of June 2017, the Korea National Pension…

Naver Corp (035420 KS)'s founder Lee Hae-Jin tried to sell a small portion of his stake (110,000 shares or 0.3% of shares outstanding) representing 86 billion won on August 21st, but this deal failed to get completed due to lack of demand from institutional investors. This is likely to act as a near-term negative overhang on Naver shares. The block deal price was 763,037 won, a 2.3% discount to the closing price of 781,000 won on August 21st.  At the end of June 2017, the Korea National Pension…

Naver's Founder Lee Hae-Jin's Block Trade Debacle - Trying to Seek An "Ownerless" Status?

Technical Analyst, Vermilion Research

Joe Jasper

Technical Analyst

Technical and Quantitative Research

Vermilion Research

Vermilion’s objective is to deliver timely, actionable, and unique technical research to professional investors through the application of our various technical indicators.

Our research strategists seek to highlight securities which we believe are at major inflection points, based on our various technical and quantitative indicators, and offer asymmetric risk/return profiles. Our unique research methodology, centered on relative strength, enables our strategists to deliver superior investment recommendations.

Our process begins by organizing the universe of actively traded stocks into discrete sectors, then into industry groups. We then apply our technical and quantitative tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sector or group, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. We provide a historical perspective that often reveals, through our long-term charts, how price patterns often repeat themselves over time.

Technical Analysis

<ul class=""><li>Global material stocks are strengthening led by a turnaround in the metals, the global materials sector displays a long-term, relative strength reversal. A variety of technical tailwinds make this an attractive theme. And in the latter part of this week’s Compass, we highlight actionable ideas in US-listed, foreign steel names: RIO, MT, PKX, TX, GGB, SID, and MTL.  Increase exposure.</li><li>The U.S. Health Care Sector has cooled off over the past month, with attractive Groups like biotechs and HMOs pulling back to support. This is a buying opportunity... see pages 8-10.</li></ul>

Global material stocks are strengthening led by a turnaround in the metals, the global materials sector displays a long-term, relative strength reversal. A variety of technical tailwinds make this an attractive theme. And in the latter part of this week’s Compass, we highlight actionable ideas in US-listed, foreign steel names: RIO, MT, PKX, TX, GGB, SID, and MTL.  Increase exposure.The U.S. Health Care Sector has cooled off over the past month, with attractive Groups like biotechs and HMOs pulling back to support. This is a buying opportunity... see pages 8-10.

Global Materials Sector, Led by Miners, Is Strengthening

South Korea

POSCO Holdings Inc. manufactures and distributes steel products. The Company produces crude steel, hot rolled steel, cold rolled steel, stainless steel, steel plates, wire rods, galvanized steel, electrical steel, and other related products. POSCO Holdings markets its products worldwide.

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POSCO Holdings (005490 KS)

Trump Administration Plans to Impose Much Higher Tariff Rates on Korean Steel - Impact on POSCO

It was reported in numerous Korean media today that the Trump administration plans to impose much higher tariff rates on Korean steel products and...

Douglas Kim

(Short Term) Bear Case for Posco

Having delivered a very good set of Q1 results in April and Q2 results in July – FY2017 revenues forecast to be up 13% vs 2016 and a near doubling...

Amareos

More Discussions on Impacts of Celltrion's KOSPI200 Inclusion

Celltrion Inc (068270 KS) said in a regulatory filing that it will have EGM at 10 AM on Aug 29 to decide whether it will move to KOSPI. Below is...

Sanghyun Park

Naver's Founder Lee Hae-Jin's Block Trade Debacle - Trying to Seek An "Ownerless" Status?

Naver Corp (035420 KS)'s founder Lee Hae-Jin tried to sell a small portion of his stake (110,000 shares or 0.3% of shares outstanding) representing...

Douglas Kim

Global Materials Sector, Led by Miners, Is Strengthening

Global material stocks are strengthening led by a turnaround in the metals, the global materials sector displays a long-term, relative strength...

Vermilion Research

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