Telco/Internet specialist

Kirk Boodry

Redex Research

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<p>KDDI's new pricing is the closest that Japan has come to a pre-pay service since Vodafone bought Japan Telecom in 2001 whilst its Starlink announcement gives all four mobile operators a satellite option.</p>

KDDI's new pricing is the closest that Japan has come to a pre-pay service since Vodafone bought Japan Telecom in 2001 whilst its Starlink announcement gives all four mobile operators a satellite option.

Japan Telecom Sector - Read Across from KDDI’s Pricing and Starlink Announcements

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

<p>In last week's <em>Int'l Compass</em> (Sept. 2), we highlighted emerging markets (EEM-US, Shanghai Comp) and Japan (TOPIX, TOPIX Small) as areas of bullish interest, with short-term bullish inflections suggesting the tide was turning in favor of these markets. This remains the focus in today's report, and especially on Japan; bullish price inflections and breakouts have started to proliferate, which suggests this could be the start of a broad-based rally for Japan in the weeks and months ahead.</p>

In last week's Int'l Compass (Sept. 2), we highlighted emerging markets (EEM-US, Shanghai Comp) and Japan (TOPIX, TOPIX Small) as areas of bullish interest, with short-term bullish inflections suggesting the tide was turning in favor of these markets. This remains the focus in today's report, and especially on Japan; bullish price inflections and breakouts have started to proliferate, which suggests this could be the start of a broad-based rally for Japan in the weeks and months ahead.

Buy Japan On This Breakout ; TOPIX Breaking Out To 21-Year Highs; Actionable Theme: Growth Sectors

<p>The telecom sector seems like a notable winner with a change in political leadership.  Pushing through mobile price reductions was one of the few policy successes for the Suga administration and record low approval ratings meant a revival of the issues was never entirely off the table. New leadership without historical ties to the regulator is an improvement. We remain positive on Japanese telecoms with Buy ratings for NTT, KDDI and Softbank.   </p>

The telecom sector seems like a notable winner with a change in political leadership.  Pushing through mobile price reductions was one of the few policy successes for the Suga administration and record low approval ratings meant a revival of the issues was never entirely off the table. New leadership without historical ties to the regulator is an improvement. We remain positive on Japanese telecoms with Buy ratings for NTT, KDDI and Softbank.   

Japan Telecoms - Surprise Resignation of the Prime Minister Should Ease Regulatory Pressure

Pan-Asia Index Flows & Special Situations, Quiddity Advisors

Janaghan Jeyakumar, CFA

Pan-Asia Index Flows & Special Situations

Quiddity Advisors

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Event-Driven

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<div>JPX-Nikkei 400 is composed of common stocks whose main market is the TSE1, TSE2, JASDAQ, and Mothers sections (which will become the Prime Market, Standard Market, or Growth Market next April) of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. This is a free-float-adjusted market-value-weighted (capped) index composed of 400 constituents selected based on several factors including market capitalization, trading value, operating profits, and ROE.</div>
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<p>A periodic review is conducted by the Index providers, the JPX Group and Nikkei Inc, in August every year. This review is conducted using the final business day of June as the base date. </p>
<p>Quiddity provides quantitative research on pre-event basket strategies surrounding this Index Rebalance event and others. The rebalance of 2021 took place yesterday. It was discussed in <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/the-2021-jpx-nikkei-400-rebalance-another-year-another-mess-bigger-but-smaller" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="insights:55716" rel="noopener">The 2021 JPX Nikkei 400 Rebalance. Another Year, Another Mess - Bigger, But Smaller</a> - there were lots of large names deleted because of covid-related writedowns and losses, and in typical JPX Nikkei 400 construction fashion, I expect most of them will be back in the index three years from now after they have rebounded. </p>
<p>Below is a look at the lists of potential Inclusions and Removals for the JPX-Nikkei 400 Rebalance to come in August 2022. </p>
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JPX-Nikkei 400 is composed of common stocks whose main market is the TSE1, TSE2, JASDAQ, and Mothers sections (which will become the Prime Market, Standard Market, or Growth Market next April) of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. This is a free-float-adjusted market-value-weighted (capped) index composed of 400 constituents selected based on several factors including market capitalization, trading value, operating profits, and ROE.


A periodic review is conducted by the Index providers, the JPX Group and Nikkei Inc, in August every year. This review is conducted using the final business day of June as the base date. 
Quiddity provides quantitative research on pre-event basket strategies surrounding this Index Rebalance event and others. The rebalance of 2021 took place yesterday. It was discussed in The 2021 JPX Nikkei 400 Rebalance. Another Year, Another Mess - Bigger, But Smaller - there were lots of large names deleted because of covid-related writedowns and losses, and in typical JPX Nikkei 400 construction fashion, I expect most of them will be back in the index three years from now after they have rebounded. 
Below is a look at the lists of potential Inclusions and Removals for the JPX-Nikkei 400 Rebalance to come in August 2022. 


JPX-Nikkei 400 Rebalance 2022: Leader Board End-Aug 2021

Equity Bottom-Up

<p>Rakuten Q2 21 results were mixed with better revenue as core businesses did well but steeper losses as mobile spending grew. The company has not changed broad guidance that peak losses will come in FY21 but roaming costs appear to be a larger issue than we thought with an impact on both margins and the timing of new user acquisition. That makes slippage in network deployment targets slightly more problematic although there should also be some offset from good results in eCommerce which grew YoY despite lapping the very strong lockdown quarter.</p>

Rakuten Q2 21 results were mixed with better revenue as core businesses did well but steeper losses as mobile spending grew. The company has not changed broad guidance that peak losses will come in FY21 but roaming costs appear to be a larger issue than we thought with an impact on both margins and the timing of new user acquisition. That makes slippage in network deployment targets slightly more problematic although there should also be some offset from good results in eCommerce which grew YoY despite lapping the very strong lockdown quarter.

Rakuten (Neutral) - Q2 21 Results Reaction: Roaming Costs Have Become a Big Deal

Japan

Softbank Corporation provides mobile phone telecommunication and networking services. The Company offers mobile communication opening, short messaging function opening, video function opening, and other services. Softbank also provides mobile phones.

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Japan Telecom Sector - Read Across from KDDI’s Pricing and Starlink Announcements

KDDI's new pricing is the closest Japan has come to a pre-pay service since Vodafone bought Japan Telecom in 2001 whilst its Starlink announcement...

Kirk Boodry

Buy Japan On This Breakout ; TOPIX Breaking Out To 21-Year Highs; Actionable Theme: Growth Sectors

Japan (TOPIX, TOPIX Small) was a big focus for us last week, and it remains the focus in today's report; this could be the start of a broad-based...

Vermilion Research

Japan Telecoms - Surprise Resignation of the Prime Minister Should Ease Regulatory Pressure

The telecom sector wins with political change. Mobile price cuts were one of the few policy successes for this PM and record low approval meant a...

Kirk Boodry

JPX-Nikkei 400 Rebalance 2022: Leader Board End-Aug 2021

The next annual rebalance for the JPX-Nikkei 400 Index will be in August 2022. With roughly a year to go, we take an early look at the leader...

Janaghan Jeyakumar, CFA

Rakuten (Neutral) - Q2 21 Results Reaction: Roaming Costs Have Become a Big Deal

Rakuten posted solid eCommerce/Fintech results but these are overshadowed by mobile operating losses. The good news is peak losses should fall in...

Kirk Boodry

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