Daily BriefsSouth Korea

Daily Brief South Korea: Hyundai Motor Securities, Lotte Chilsung Beverage Co, MNC Solution and more

In today’s briefing:

  • Hyundai Motor Securities Announces a Rights Offering Involving a 49% Shares Dilution
  • Lotte Chilsung Beverage – Its Land in Seochogu, Seoul Is More Than 3x Its Market Cap
  • MNC Solutions Pre-IPO – Thoughts on Valuation – Defensively, Would Ideally like a Further Discount


Hyundai Motor Securities Announces a Rights Offering Involving a 49% Shares Dilution

By Douglas Kim

  • Hyundai Motors Securities announced a rights offering worth nearly 200 billion won involving a 49% shares dilution. 
  • The amount of shares dilution is excessive which is likely to result in a share price weakness in Hyundai Motor Securities in the coming weeks.
  • The expected rights offering price for now is 6,640 won per share which is 24.5% discount to the closing price on 26 November.

Lotte Chilsung Beverage – Its Land in Seochogu, Seoul Is More Than 3x Its Market Cap

By Douglas Kim

  • Lotte Chilsung Beverage’s land in Seochogu, Seoul is estimated to be worth more than 3x its market cap. 
  • In the past several weeks, there have been increasing concerns about the overall debt pressures at the Lotte Group.
  • Lotte Group may be considering on selling some of its assets including Lotte Rental, Lotte Capital, and Lotte Chilsung Beverage’s Seochogu land. 

MNC Solutions Pre-IPO – Thoughts on Valuation – Defensively, Would Ideally like a Further Discount

By Clarence Chu

  • MNC Solution (MNC KS) is looking to raise US$200m in its Korea IPO.
  • MNC Solutions (MNC) supplies high-precision control components for maritime and aviation weaponry, and travel devices for stabilization to the defense industry.
  • In our previous note, we looked at the firm’s past performance and undertook a peer comparison. In this note, we discuss our thoughts on valuation.

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