Daily Brief Consumer: Prosus NV, ASICS Corp, Toyota Motor, Blue Moon Group Holdings, Alimentation Couche-Tard , TSE Tokyo Price Index TOPIX and more

• Discounts likely set for a re-rating as market continues to overreact to appointment of CEO amid good set of results.
• The discounts of both Naspers and Prosus have continued to widen since the appointment of Fabricio Bloisi to Group CEO was announced in May (effective 10 July).
• At the end of June, the group released its strongest set of results in years, delivering on consolidated ecommerce profitability ahead of target.

• A group of shareholders aims to raise around US$1.3bn via selling around 11% of ASICS Corp (7936 JP).
• In our earlier note, we talked about the placement and ran the deal through our ECM framework.
• In this note, we talk about the updates and share price performance since then.

• Aequitas Research’s weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.
• On the IPO front, the coming week  to see two more listing, with both likely to do well.
• On the placement front, Japan continued to dominate the ECM flows, with India, Taiwan and Australia joining in.

• Blue Moon started with a kitchen spray cleanser in 1994, but now focuses on liquid detergents in China
• While they have strong marketing and scale, their competitive advantages are weak compared to domestic competitor Liby
• Intensifying competition and various factors have led to a decline in Blue Moon’s market share, raising uncertainty about their future in the industry

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• Alimentation Couche-Tard is a global leader in convenience stores and gas stations, with a stable and recession-resistant business model.
• The company has a strong management team focused on consolidating the fragmented c-store industry and generating solid free cash flow.
• ATD stock is trading at a reasonable multiple with potential for mid-teens FCF per share growth, making it an attractive long-term investment opportunity.

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• The fact that institutional investors consider whether a company has zero female board members when voting has led to decrease in the number of companies with zero female board members.
• Since fewer companies have zero female board members but a minority of companies have at least two female board members, achieving 30% female board members seems somewhat of a hurdle.
• While tenure and concurrent service of female board members are problematic, the starting point is to ensure that women have  a 30% voice on the board and to promote diversity.