In today’s briefing:
- YUUUGE Modec (6269) Offering To Stay Listed in TSE Prime – Effectively a Re-IPO
- MODEC (6296 JP): A US$535 Million Secondary Offering
- Modec Placement – Deal Seems a Little Opportunistic but Not Particularly Expensive
- Aadhar Housing Finance IPO Trading – More Loved by Institutional Investors than Retail
- Belstar Microfinance Limited Pre-IPO Tearsheet
YUUUGE Modec (6269) Offering To Stay Listed in TSE Prime – Effectively a Re-IPO
- In March, Modec Inc (6269 JP) announced the TSE had said Modec at 29.3% (end-Dec-23) was below the required 35% tradable shares level required for continued listing on TSE Prime.
- It announced a “Basic Plan” to comply with the criteria which involved convincing one of the three major corporate holders to sell some. They needed to sell about 6%.
- Mitsui E&S has announced it will sell 32%, and 37% including greenshoe. This is overdoing it in a huge way. Mitsui E&S is getting out. This is a re-IPO.
MODEC (6296 JP): A US$535 Million Secondary Offering
- Modec Inc (6269 JP) has announced a secondary offering of up to 25.2 million shares (including overallotment). The largest shareholder, Mitsui E&S Holdings (7003 JP), is the seller.
- MODEC’s goal with the secondary offering is to reconfigure its shareholder mix to have a diverse base of shareholders who support its long-term strategies and a better tradable share ratio.
- Looking at recent large Japanese placements is instructive for understanding the potential offer price. The pricing date will likely fall between 22 and 28 May (likely 22 May).
Modec Placement – Deal Seems a Little Opportunistic but Not Particularly Expensive
- Mitsui E&S Holdings (7003 JP) is looking to raise approximately US$451m through a secondary follow-on offering, via selling approximately 21.9m shares (32% of TSO) of Modec Inc (6269 JP)’s stock.
- The deal is a large one to digest at 81 days of three month ADV.
- In this note, we will talk about the placement and run the deal through our ECM framework.
Aadhar Housing Finance IPO Trading – More Loved by Institutional Investors than Retail
- Aadhar Housing Finance(AHF) raised around US$360m in its India IPO, via selling a mix of primary and secondary shares.
- AHF is focused on the low income housing segments (ticket size less than INR1.5m) in India. It offers a range of mortgage-related loan products.
- We have looked at the company’s performance and valuation in our past notes. In this note, we talk about the trading dynamics.
Belstar Microfinance Limited Pre-IPO Tearsheet
- Belstar Microfinance Ltd (3624918Z IN) is looking to raise US$156m in its upcoming India IPO. The bookrunners on the deal are ICICI Securities, Axis Capital, HDFC Bank, SBI Capital Markets.
- Belstar Microfinance (Belstar) is a non-banking finance company (NBFC) in India with a focus on furnishing micro-enterprise loans.
- As per the CRISIL report, the firm was the ninth largest NBFC – Micro Finance Institution (NBFC-MFI) in terms of assets under management (AUM) as of Dec 2023.
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