Daily BriefsSouth Korea

Daily Brief South Korea: Dentium Co Ltd, KakaoBank and more

In today’s briefing:

  • Dentium: An Undervalued Corporate Activist Target + Likely Inclusion Candidate for KOSPI 200 in 2023
  • KakaoBank- The Only One

Dentium: An Undervalued Corporate Activist Target + Likely Inclusion Candidate for KOSPI 200 in 2023

By Douglas Kim

  • We believe Dentium is an attractive stock to own right now. It has an excellent combination of strong growth in sales and profits and discounted valuations.
  • Driven by its strong share price appreciation in the past year, Dentium now has become a strong candidate for a potential inclusion in KOSPI 200 index in 2023.
  • There is a growing probability that Dentium could be targeted by corporate activists to pressure the company to cancel treasury shares and provide higher dividends. 

KakaoBank- The Only One

By Daniel Tabbush

  • There is only one large, liquid, listed, internet bank in all of the Asia-Pacific markets
  • Earnings have been strong, with uplift in NIM and loan balance to support this
  • Regulatory change to provisioning not likely to affect this bank, but big peers

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