Daily Brief Industrials: Benefit One Inc, Keisei Electric Railway Co and more

In today’s briefing:

Benefit One (2412 JP): Thoughts on the Potential Minority Offer Price
Last Week in Event SPACE: Pasona/Benefit One, EOFlow, Swire Pacific, Hankook & Co, Toyo Construction
The Goose that Takes Out the Golden Egg Dies. Manager Should Explain How the Goose Can Grow Bigger

Benefit One (2412 JP): Thoughts on the Potential Minority Offer Price

Dai Ichi Life Insurance (8750 JP)‘s pre-conditional tender offer for Benefit One Inc (2412 JP) has a total value of JPY285,733 million (JPY1,800 per share).
The offer structure is that Pasona Group (2168 JP) will receive JPY1,800 less TOB tax benefits. Minorities will receive JPY1,800 plus the proportionate share of Pasona’s TOB tax benefits.
Our estimated minority offer price is JPY2,086 per share, which is 15.9% higher than the JPY1,800 floor price and 9.1% higher than the last close price.

Dai Ichi Life (8750 JP)‘s proposal suggests more upside to Benefit One (2412 JP)‘s minorities than originally thought, and less upside (but still a chunk) to Pasona Group (2168 JP).
It’s all over for EOFlow (294090 KS), as Medtronic Plc (MDT US) folds it tent.
Cho Hyun-Sik (eldest son of Cho Yang-Rae, Chairman of Hankook & Company (000240 KS) has joined MBK Partners in making a partial Tender Offer for Hankook & Co.

In the long run, making Oriental Land, which is more profitable, a consolidated subsidiary through TOB would contribute to expanding Keisei’s corporate value.
Keisei’s foreign shareholder ratio is 27.4%. It seems premature for the rotating president to change at once the company’s tradition of maintaining 40-year relationship with Oriental Land as an affiliate.
Keisei should explain how it will develop its relationship with affiliate to increase corporate value, and what its business strategy would be if it were to sell its shareholding instead.

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