Daily BriefsSouth Korea

Daily Brief South Korea: Celltrion Healthcare, Hanmi Semiconductor and more

In today’s briefing:

  • Alpha Generation Through Share Buybacks in Korea: June & July 2023
  • KOSPI Size Indices – Plenty of Overlap With Other Index Flows


Alpha Generation Through Share Buybacks in Korea: June & July 2023

By Douglas Kim

  • In this insight, we discuss the alpha generation through companies that announced share buybacks in Korea in June and July 2023.
  • We provide a list of 38 stocks in the Korean stock market that have announced share buyback programs in June and July 2023.
  • The top four market cap stocks that have announced share repurchases include Celltrion Inc, Celltrion Healthcare, Hyundai Elevator, and SFA.

KOSPI Size Indices – Plenty of Overlap With Other Index Flows

By Brian Freitas

  • The review period for the September rebalance of the KOSPI Size Indices started 1 June and will end 31 August. The changes will be implemented at the close 7 September.
  • We see 8 migrations from MidCap to LargeCap, 7 migrations from LargeCap to MidCap, 6 new adds to MidCap, and 16 migrations from SmallCap to MidCap.
  • Historically, stocks migrating from SmallCap to MidCap have outperformed stocks that are migrating between other categories.

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