Daily Brief South Korea: KT Corp, Korea Kolmar Holdings, LG Household & Health Care-Pref and more

In today’s briefing:

Foreign Ownership Limit Stocks in Korea: KT Is Again in the Limelight
Korea Kolmar Holdings: Shares Cancellation of 17% of Market Cap + Deep Discount to NAV
Discussing the Currently Widened Pref-Ord Disparity in Korea

Foreign Ownership Limit Stocks in Korea: KT Is Again in the Limelight

KT’s foreign room has been rising since early September last year. If this trend continues, it will likely approach the inclusion borderline of 15% within a month or two.
This trend is expected to continue for the time being as the tough relationship between the KT CEO and the government seems unlikely to be resolved in the short term.
The February inclusion is pretty tight, but May seems like we could be looking out for it.

On 10 January, Korea Kolmar Holdings (024720 KS) announced that it plans to cancel 1.1 million shares to be acquired through redemption of redeemable convertible preferred shares.
Korea Kolmar Holdings currently has a market cap of 314 billion won so this share cancellation represents nearly 17% of its market cap.
This large shares cancellation should have a positive impact on Korea Kolmar Holdings’ share price. It is also trading at 40% discount to its NAV.

Many of the PREFERRED shares in Korea entered the short-term oversold territory versus ORDINARY (on a 20-day moving average).
The liquidity boom that started in the local bond market at the beginning of the year seems to have led to the relative outperformance of ORDINARY.
We should consider collective trading, which utilizes the oversold condition across the entire PREF zone, rather than an individual approach to a specific PREF at this point.

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