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Daily Brief Quantitative Analysis: Naspers & Prosus: Risk off Trade Puts Pressure on Discounts and more

In today’s briefing:

  • Naspers & Prosus: Risk off Trade Puts Pressure on Discounts, NAV Update for Q2 FY24 Released
  • ASX Short Interest Weekly (Sep 29th): Liontown, BHP, Macquarie, NAB, Santos, Fortescue Metals


Naspers & Prosus: Risk off Trade Puts Pressure on Discounts, NAV Update for Q2 FY24 Released

By Charlotte van Tiddens, CFA

  • During the last two weeks both discounts have widened by more than 1 percentage point, likely driven by risk-off sentiment as opposed to idiosyncratic factors. 
  • Management have released the NAV update for Q2 of FY24. Naspers’ NAV can be found here and Prosus’ NAV here.
  • During the quarter, Prosus’ discount widened by 4.2 percentage points to 39.8% and Naspers’ discount widened by 3.6 percentage points to 46.6%, erasing cross-holding unwind gains.

ASX Short Interest Weekly (Sep 29th): Liontown, BHP, Macquarie, NAB, Santos, Fortescue Metals

By Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

  • We analyzed the changes in short interest of ASX Stocks as of Sep 29th (reported today) which has an aggregated short interest worth USD16.0bn.
  • We tabulate league table for top short by value and short as multiple of ADT, as well as weekly increases & decreases in short value, short as multiple of ADT.
  • We highlight short interest changes in Liontown, BHP, Macquarie, NAB, Santos, Fortescue Metals, Woodside Energy, Evolution Mining.

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