In today’s briefing:
- Japan – Increase in Shorts & Potential Passive Selling in May
- Daiichi Sankyo (4568 JP): FY24 Ends on Strong Note; Initiates FY25 Guidance; ¥200B Buyback Announced
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Japan – Increase in Shorts & Potential Passive Selling in May
- There are a bunch of stocks that have underperformed the Nikkei 225 (NKY INDEX) and their peers and could be deleted from global passive portfolios in May.
- The deletion from passive portfolios will lead to a liquidity event at the end of May where passive trackers will need to sell multiple days of ADV.
- Shorts have been built up on all the stocks over the last few months and the extent of the positioning varies across stocks.
Daiichi Sankyo (4568 JP): FY24 Ends on Strong Note; Initiates FY25 Guidance; ¥200B Buyback Announced
- Daiichi Sankyo (4568 JP) announced better-than-expected Q4FY24 result, with all key parameters exceeding guidance. Q4 revenue increased 30% YoY to ¥429B, driven by 76% YoY growth in Enhertu product sales.
- For FY25, Daiichi Sankyo guided 9% increase in revenue to ¥1,750B. Core operating profit is expected to increase 8% to ¥210B, while net profit to decline 5% to ¥190B.
- In addition to the dividend of ¥60 per share for FY25, Daiichi Sankyo has announced buyback plan of 55M shares (2.87% of issued shares) for ¥200B.