In today’s briefing:
- NEC Networks (1973 JP) Next To Last Showdown – NEC Lowers Minimum, Bumps Tiny, Ignores Synergies
- Pentmaster (1665 HK): Malaysian Parent’s Offer For Pseudo Dual-Listing
- ECM Weekly (22nd Dec 2024) – LG CNS, Kioxia, Vishal Mega, IGI, Sai Life, Ventive, Paras
- Japan: Potential Passive Selling in February
- Unloved Japan Roundup-Rohm, Taiyo Yuden, Kose
- KOSPI Size Indices: Overlap Between Global Passive Selling & Downward Migrations
NEC Networks (1973 JP) Next To Last Showdown – NEC Lowers Minimum, Bumps Tiny, Ignores Synergies
- On Friday, NEC Corp (6701 JP) raised the price for its Tender Offer on Nec Networks & System Integr (1973 JP) from ¥3,250 to ¥3,300.
- It also lowered the minimum to 10.153mm shares (6.82%). It had proposed to do so earlier but NESIC demanded a bump, and NEC didn’t want to.
- Now it’s bumped. That’s the “final price.” But it still does not include “a fair allocation of a portion of the value that cannot be realised without an acquisition.”
Pentmaster (1665 HK): Malaysian Parent’s Offer For Pseudo Dual-Listing
- In Pentamaster Corp: In The (EV) Driver’s Seat in February last year, I discussed Pentamaster Corp (PENT MK)‘s supply of semiconductors testers to the electric vehicle business.
- A quirk of PENT was that its pseudo dual-listed twin – Pentamaster International (1665 HK) – trades at a significant discount.
- In a not altogether surprising move, PENT is now seeking to take PI private by way of a Scheme at HK$1.00/share, including a HK$0.07/share dividend.
ECM Weekly (22nd Dec 2024) – LG CNS, Kioxia, Vishal Mega, IGI, Sai Life, Ventive, Paras
- Aequitas Research’s weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.
- On the IPO front, all of the India listings managed to do well, while Kioxia Holdings (285A JP) managed to provide steady returns as well.
- On the placements front, there were only a few deals in India, led by Mankind Pharma.
Japan: Potential Passive Selling in February
- Currently, 9 stocks could be deleted from global passive portfolios in February. The deletion will lead to liquidity events where trackers will need to sell multiple days of ADV.
- There has been a buildup on shorts on few stocks with minimal positioning in the other stocks. That could change once the calendar ticks over to 2025.
- Kokusai Electric (6525 JP) is a potential inclusion to the Nikkei 225 (NKY INDEX) in March and this deletion could provide liquidity to enter a position ahead of that announcement.
Unloved Japan Roundup-Rohm, Taiyo Yuden, Kose
- Solar power will be cheaper than fossil fuels and EVs will be cheaper than ICE vehicles, but you can’t make either without the parts that Rohme excels in.
- Tesla is up 201% on speculation about its FSD, but Taiyo Yuden, which makes critical parts in FSD systems is down systems, is down 43%.
- Kose is down 49%, largely on China woes, but China is no longer big enough to be a problem, and Japan and other regions growth should start to take over.
KOSPI Size Indices: Overlap Between Global Passive Selling & Downward Migrations
- The review period for the March rebalance of the KOSPI Size Indices commenced on 1 December and will end on 28 February.
- A quarter of the way through the review period, we forecast 37 migrating stocks. Among new listings, 1 could be added to LargeCap, 3 to MidCap and 2 to SmallCap.
- Four downward migrations were deleted from a global index in November. Now, three more downward migrations could be deleted from the same global index in February.
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