In this briefing:
- 🇯🇵 Japan: Moving Average Outliers – PKSHA, SanBio, Goldwin, ZOZO, Drugstores & ASICS
- Nintendo Offering & Buyback: The Import & The Dynamics
- NTT Docomo Share Cancellation
1. 🇯🇵 Japan: Moving Average Outliers – PKSHA, SanBio, Goldwin, ZOZO, Drugstores & ASICS
– MARKET COMPOSITE –
Source: Japan Analytics
ALMOST THREE-MONTH HIGH RECOVERY – The bear market rally is now in its second stage, and the market composite is now 14% above the Christmas Day low. The ‘market value’-based percentage above moving averages almost reached a new three-month on Thursday; the stock count version is lagging as usual.
STILL SOME UPSIDE – Using the three-month rate of change in this indicator, we are a few weeks away from generating a short-term sell signal, the last such trigger having occurred on 25th October.
– SECTORS –
SECTOR BREAKDOWN – The top six sectors remain domestic and defensive. REITs, Information Technology, Transporation and Utilities continue from our previous review with Restaurants and Healthcare replacing Media and Telecommunications. Equally predictable is the bottom half-dozen – Banks, Non-Bank Finance, Autos, and Metals remain from two weeks ago, with Construction and Retail replacing Chemicals and Other Materials.
– COMPANIES –
COMPANY MOVING AVERAGE OUTLIERS – As with the Market Composite and Sectors, the Moving Average Outlier indicator uses a weighted sum of each company’s share price relative to its 5-day, 20-day, 60-day, 120-day and 240-day moving averages. ‘Extreme’ values are weighted sums greater than 100% and less than -100%. We would caution that this indicator is best used for timing shorter-term reversals and, in many cases, higher highs and lower lows will be seen.
In the DETAIL section below, we highlight the current top and bottom twenty-five large capitalisation outliers, as well as those companies that have seen the most significant positive and negative changes in their outlier percentage in the last two weeks and provide short comments on companies of particular note.
PKSHA Technology (3993 JP) is currently the most extreme large capitalisation positive outlier and an excellent example of a -100 to 100 ’roundtrip’ in under two months. SanBio (4592 JP) is, again, the most extreme negative outlier, having topped the 13th January positive outlier list and is another ’round-tripper’. We also add the chart for ‘cockroach’ stock Leopalace21 (8848 JP) which no longer qualifies for inclusion in our tables, having lost 60% of its value in the last two weeks and 79% in less than a year.
Source: Japan Analytics
2. Nintendo Offering & Buyback: The Import & The Dynamics
On Friday 22 February 2019 after the close, Nintendo Co Ltd (7974 JP)announced (J) a Secondary Shares Uridashi Offering of 2,428,700 shares by five shareholder banks, with an overallotment of 364,300 shares. This will be a little bit over 2% of shares outstanding.
Applying a hypothetical 4% discount to the last traded price of ¥30,030/share, this is an ¥80bn Offering including greenshoe.
On the same day, Nintendo announced (E) a share buyback program to buy up to 1 million shares or up to ¥33 billion worth (whichever is reached first) to last from the business day immediately following the delivery date of the Offering shares (practically speaking, a day on or between 13 March and 18 March 2019) to 12 April 2019. Based on an average daily volume traded of 2.2mm shares, 10% participation would mean the buyback would take 5 days to complete. 5% would take 9 days. The company also announced (E) it would cancel 10 million shares on 29 March 2019. That may only be 45% of the post-buyback treasury share position, but it leads to another event investors should watch.
This is the first buyback Nintendo has announced in five years. The Nikkei article discussing the situation suggests that the possibility of supply/demand being weak is the reason for the buyback. The stated reason for the Offering as proposed by Nintendo in its Offering announcement, suggested a goal of increasing and diversifying the shareholder base.
The real reason why this selldown is happening – also noted in the Offering Document “reason for the offering” – is because of the heightened focus on policy cross-holdings highlighted in the changes to the Corporate Governance Code (especially Principle 1.4) which went live June 1 2018. The major changes were discussed in Japan’s Corporate Governance Code Amendments – A Much Bigger Stick for Activists and Stewards at that time, but the hint of how this might play out was discussed in Japan Crossholdings: Japan Exchange’s Sale of SGX Shares Sets A Precedent – Watch Closely from 1 April 2018. In an announcement after the close on the last day of the last fiscal year, Japan Exchange Group (8697 JP) announced it would sell down its 4.95% stake in Singapore Exchange (SGX SP) over the space of three years.
The fact that JPX was selling the shares was not important. The reasoning was. And JPX provided an example of how it should be done (as explained in the insight).
My words then still stand.
And JPX provided an example of how it should be done (as explained in the insight). The ramifications are significant.
The ramifications of this Offering are significant too. This is a lot more than just an offering by entities looking to take profits.
3. NTT Docomo Share Cancellation
On Friday 22 February after the close, NTT Docomo Inc (9437 JP)announced (E) that it would cancel 447,067,906 shares (11.82% of issued shares before the cancellation) of Treasury shares on the 28th of February.
The buyback has already occurred. This is largely technical. But it has an interesting side effect.
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