Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Due to the sharp appreciation of Hana Micron's share price this year, its valuation discount to companies such as HPSP has narrowed substantially. </li>
<li>Samsung Electronics is one of the major customers of Hana Micron. Samsung recently reported that it has successfully secured the right to supply advanced memory chips to NVIDIA.</li>
<li>We do not believe Hana Micron's valuations are attractive right now. Rather than chasing after its shares, we would rather wait for its shares to retreat (20-30%) a bit.</li>
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Due to the sharp appreciation of Hana Micron's share price this year, its valuation discount to companies such as HPSP has narrowed substantially. 
Samsung Electronics is one of the major customers of Hana Micron. Samsung recently reported that it has successfully secured the right to supply advanced memory chips to NVIDIA.
We do not believe Hana Micron's valuations are attractive right now. Rather than chasing after its shares, we would rather wait for its shares to retreat (20-30%) a bit.


Hana Micron: Semiconductor Chips Packaging Company With Solid Fundamentals and FOMO Trading

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events, Quiddity Advisors

David Blennerhassett

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Quiddity Advisors

Event-Driven

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<li>US graphics chip designer <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/nvidia-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:5891:1" rel="noopener">NVIDIA Corp (NVDA US)</a> has, to date, sourced HBM3 chips exclusively from <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/sk-hynix-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:16955:1" rel="noopener">SK Hynix (000660 KS)</a>.</li>
<li>Shares in <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/samsung-electronics-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:191:1" rel="noopener">Samsung Electronics (005930 KS)</a> promptly popped ~6% last Friday on news it had been added as a supplier to NVIDIA.</li>
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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/hana-micron-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:1464:1" rel="noopener">Hana Micron Inc (067310 KS)</a>, which boasts Samsung as its largest customer, similarly jumped, and is up 45% in the past week. Too much too quickly?</li>
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US graphics chip designer NVIDIA Corp (NVDA US) has, to date, sourced HBM3 chips exclusively from SK Hynix (000660 KS).
Shares in Samsung Electronics (005930 KS) promptly popped ~6% last Friday on news it had been added as a supplier to NVIDIA.

Hana Micron Inc (067310 KS), which boasts Samsung as its largest customer, similarly jumped, and is up 45% in the past week. Too much too quickly?


Hana Micron's Boost From Samsung/Nvidia Agreement

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

Sanghyun Park

Korea / Special Sits, Pairs, Index Rebalancing

Clepsydra Capital

Investigate special situations, pairs, and index rebalancing trades in Korea.

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<li>Two SOL sector ETFs are unique in that they only include companies positioned upstream. This results in a group of smaller-sized constituents, which can have a greater flow impact.</li>
<li>Once the universe is established, constituent selection and weight adjustment are determined exclusively using full/float market capitalization. As a result, flow trading can be highly predictable.</li>
<li>Although they have lower AUM, the five Semiconductor constituents could still face a significant flow impact during this one-day flow event due to their much lower DTV.</li>
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Two SOL sector ETFs are unique in that they only include companies positioned upstream. This results in a group of smaller-sized constituents, which can have a greater flow impact.
Once the universe is established, constituent selection and weight adjustment are determined exclusively using full/float market capitalization. As a result, flow trading can be highly predictable.
Although they have lower AUM, the five Semiconductor constituents could still face a significant flow impact during this one-day flow event due to their much lower DTV.


Preemptive Flow Trading Opportunities with the Fastest-Growing Sector ETFs in Korea

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One, Periscope Analytics

Brian Freitas

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One

Periscope Analytics

Periscope Analytics focuses on event-driven trades across Asia Pacific and provides comprehensive, timely and systematic coverage of index changes to major Asia Pacific indices in a structured manner.

The analysis includes forecasted inclusions and exclusions to all major Asian indices that have significant amount of tracking assets, including estimates of passive buy/sell flow on the stocks. The service also provides commentary and impact of market consultations, ground rule changes, and other events (IPOs, spin-offs, M&A) that could lead to index changes and passive flow.

Periscope Analytics works with multi-strategy hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, stat arb trading groups and long-only investors that invest and trade in the Asia Pacific region with the data being used to trade index rebalances, avoid pre-positioning and passive flow, and to time entry into and exit from stocks.

Event-Driven Trades Across Asia Pacific

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<li>There are 12 inclusions and 12 exclusions for the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/kosdaq-150-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:31077:1" rel="noopener">KOSDAQ 150 Index (KOSDQ150 INDEX)</a> at the June rebalance to be implemented at the close on 9 June.</li>
<li>Most of the inclusions were expected, but there are quite a few surprises among the deletions. The impact on the deletions will be higher than that on the inclusions.</li>
<li>The adds have outperformed the deletes and there has been another leg up in the last couple of weeks. Expect the trend to continue till implementation week.</li>
</ul>


There are 12 inclusions and 12 exclusions for the KOSDAQ 150 Index (KOSDQ150 INDEX) at the June rebalance to be implemented at the close on 9 June.
Most of the inclusions were expected, but there are quite a few surprises among the deletions. The impact on the deletions will be higher than that on the inclusions.
The adds have outperformed the deletes and there has been another leg up in the last couple of weeks. Expect the trend to continue till implementation week.


KOSDAQ150 Index Rebalance Preview: A Dozen Changes in June

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<li>Enchem (348370 KS) is in a bit tricky situation. Applying the KRX's review period calculation criterion to Enchem satisfies the minimum listing requirement.</li>
<li>So, we should consider Enchem's addition odds quite high. Enchem's inclusion will pave the way for Sungwoo Hitech (015750 KS) to leave the Index.</li>
<li>We have ten adds/deletes, and WYSIWYG Studios (299900 KS) leads the adds for the passive impact, whereas JNTC Co Ltd (204270 KS) will suffer the most relative to ADTV.</li>
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Enchem (348370 KS) is in a bit tricky situation. Applying the KRX's review period calculation criterion to Enchem satisfies the minimum listing requirement.
So, we should consider Enchem's addition odds quite high. Enchem's inclusion will pave the way for Sungwoo Hitech (015750 KS) to leave the Index.
We have ten adds/deletes, and WYSIWYG Studios (299900 KS) leads the adds for the passive impact, whereas JNTC Co Ltd (204270 KS) will suffer the most relative to ADTV.


KOSDAQ 150 Rebalancing: Complete List of Candidates, Including Enchem

South Korea

Hana Micron Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and sells semiconductor packages for memory and non-memory semiconductor products.  The Company also produces USB flash drive (UFD), a mobile storage devices which can substitute floppy disk drives.

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Sanghyun Park

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Hana Micron: Semiconductor Chips Packaging Company With Solid Fundamentals and FOMO Trading

We do not believe Hana Micron's valuations are attractive right now. Rather than chasing after its shares, we would rather wait for its shares to...

Douglas Kim

Hana Micron's Boost From Samsung/Nvidia Agreement

Hana appears expensive. On the surface. Yet forecast figures are impressive as Hana rides on Samsung's coatails. At a 6x and 4.7x FY24E and FY25E...

David Blennerhassett

Preemptive Flow Trading Opportunities with the Fastest-Growing Sector ETFs in Korea

This post presents preemptive flow trading opportunities with the currently fastest-growing sector ETFs in Korea, both of which got listed late...

Sanghyun Park

KOSDAQ150 Index Rebalance Preview: A Dozen Changes in June

There are 12 adds/deletes for the KOSDAQ150 in June. Most of the inclusions were expected while there appears to be discretion used in choosing the...

Brian Freitas

KOSDAQ 150 Rebalancing: Complete List of Candidates, Including Enchem

This post has a complete list of ten adds and deletes, including Enchem and Sungwoo Hitech, in the upcoming KOSDAQ rebalancing in June.

Sanghyun Park

This post presents preemptive flow trading opportunities with the currently fastest-growing sector ETFs in Korea, both of which got listed late...