APAC IPOs & Placements

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IPOs and Placements coverage across Asia Pacific

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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/visional-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:32977:1" rel="noopener">Visional Inc (4194 JP)</a>  is looking to raise up to US$609m in its Japan IPO.Visional Inc. is a human resources (HR) technology company based in Japan. The company operates BizReach, an online recruiting platform that helps to connect professional job seekers to direct employers and third-party recruiters. It also offers HRMOS, which is a cloud-based human capital management (HCM) platform.We like the company’s business but the high proportion of shareholders selling in the IPO coupled with large employee stock acquisition rights to be exercisable after a year will be an overhang on share price.In this note, we will look at Visional’s financials and operating data.

Visional Inc (4194 JP)  is looking to raise up to US$609m in its Japan IPO.Visional Inc. is a human resources (HR) technology company based in Japan. The company operates BizReach, an online recruiting platform that helps to connect professional job seekers to direct employers and third-party recruiters. It also offers HRMOS, which is a cloud-based human capital management (HCM) platform.We like the company’s business but the high proportion of shareholders selling in the IPO coupled with large employee stock acquisition rights to be exercisable after a year will be an overhang on share price.In this note, we will look at Visional’s financials and operating data.

Visional Inc IPO - Good Vision Muddled by Dilution and Selling Shareholders

Japan

MEITEC CORPORATION provides high-end engineering outsourcing services targeting the R&D sector in various industries such as automobile, telecommunication, semiconductors, consumer electronics, and industrial machinery.

TechnoPro Holdings, Inc. offers services and solutions in mechanical and electronic design, IT and software development, and wide range of technological fields through outsourcing. The Company also has presence in biological, chemical and construction management businesses.

OUTSOURCING Inc. provides outsourcing services for manufacturing companies. The Company mainly provides services for industries such as food, electric equipment, transport machine, chemical, and metal.  Outsourcing also provides worker dispatching service.

BeNext-Yumeshin Group Co. provides temporary help services. The Company provides personnel staffing services, technician staffing services, overseas staffing services, and other services. BeNext-Yumeshin Group also provides office building leasing, restaurants management, vocational training, and other services.

en-japan inc. provides Internet-based recruiting solutions. The Company provides recruitment information for job seekers. en-japan's web site allows member employers to access its database of job seekers. The Company also provides recruitment consulting services.

Funai Soken Holdings Inc. provides management and financial consulting services.  The Company, through its subsidiaries, also operates logistics information, publishing, and real estate businesses.

JAC Recruitment Co., Ltd. provides recruiting agency services. The Company focuses on international business area that includes job offers from foreign companies and overseas subsidiaries of Japanese companies.

Pasona Group Inc. manages companies that provide placement and staffing services for clients in the information technology sector.

NOMURA Co., Ltd. is a contractor of displays and interior designs.  The Company mainly plans and provides display services for commercial, cultural, and exhibition facilities.  Nomura produces displays, interior designs, and promotional and advertising materials.

WEATHERNEWS INC. provides custom weather forecasting services for a wide variety of clients.  The Company is a systems integrator for industrial quality weather monitoring systems.  Systems are designed around a client's individual requirement.  Weathernews provides content using a variety of technologies, including the Internet, television, radio, and cellular phone.

BlueFocus Communication Group Co., Ltd. provides public relation services and brand management services for corporations.  The Company's services include brand promotion, product promotion, hazard management, function management, digital media sales, and social responsibilities services.

Bluefocus Communication Group Co, Ltd. (300058 CH)

Huron Consulting Group Inc. is an independent provider of financial and operational consulting services. The company provides services to a wide variety of both financially sound and distressed organizations, including Fortune 500 companies, medium-sized and large businesses, leading academic institutions, healthcare organizations and the law firms.

Applus Services, S.A. provides certification services. The Company offers consultancy, engineering, inspection, non-destructive testing, technical assistance, and type approval.

Hays Plc provides specialist recruitment and human resource services for clients and candidates requiring permanent and temporary, professional and technical staff.

PageGroup PLC operates as a recruitment consultancy. The Company provides permanent, contract, and temporary recruitment services for executives, qualified professionals, and clerical professionals across a broad range of industries. PageGroup offers its services worldwide.

GlobalData plc provides research and consulting solutions for the healthcare, ICT and consumer industries. The Company offers insight and expertise to medical and pharmaceutical markets.

RITES Limited provides engineering services. The Company offers transport infrastructure consultancy, railway inspection, rolling stock leasing and maintenance, airport construction management, industrial and electrical engineering, and other related services. RITES serves customers worldwide.

CRA International Inc. is an economic and business consulting firm that serves a broad range of clients.  The Company provides legal and regulatory consulting and business consulting to clients such as law firms, corporations, government agencies, utilities, and national and international trade associations.

Centre Testing International Group Co Ltd provides testing and inspecting services for industrial products and consumer products. The Company's other services include life-science related and trade-related testing services.

ICF International, Inc. provides management, technology, policy consulting, and implementation services primarily to the U.S. federal government, as well as to other government, commercial and international clients.

Visional, Inc. develops application products. The Company develops a system that promotes industrial digital transformation and other services. Visional provides its services throughout Japan.

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Visional (4194 JP)

Visional Inc IPO - Good Vision Muddled by Dilution and Selling Shareholders

Visional Inc. is a human resources (HR) technology company based in Japan. The company operates BizReach, an online recruiting platform .

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