Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Nearly 30 years of experience in the Korean/Asian equity research. Major sectors coverage include the following:
- Technology 
- Consumer 
- Special Situations/Deep Value Plays
- Tender Offers/M&As
- Holdcos/Stubs
- Asian Unicorns/Private Companies

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

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Event-Driven

It was reported after the market close today that <a href="https://finance.naver.com/item/news_read.nhn?article_id=0004593532&amp;office_id=008&amp;code=003920&amp;page=&amp;sm=title_entity_id.basic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hahn &amp; Co</a> (a large private equity firm in Korea) has acquired the controlling stake of <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/namyang-dairy-products-co" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:16249:1" rel="noopener">Namyang Dairy Products Co (003920 KS) </a>from the founder and related parties. Hahn &amp; Co paid 310.7 billion won for a 52.63% (0.379 million shares) of Namyang Dairy, which currently has a market cap of 316 billion won. Prior to the sale, Namyang Dairy Chairman Hong Won-Sik had a 51.68% stake in the company. <div class="content-highlight">
Over the next 2-3 years, we believe Namyang Dairy Products' shares could rise nearly 100%+ from current levels, which would suggest market cap of 632 billion won or 878,000 won. This represents a P/B multiple of 0.7x, which is at the high end of the P/B multiple for the company in the past four years. 
With Hahn &amp; Co getting rid of the bad corporate governance problems and infusing the company with better professional managers, we believe Namyang Dairy Products could be an excellent turn-around story and the valuation multiples could rise to the historical high levels. 
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It was reported after the market close today that Hahn &amp; Co (a large private equity firm in Korea) has acquired the controlling stake of Namyang Dairy Products Co (003920 KS) from the founder and related parties. Hahn &amp; Co paid 310.7 billion won for a 52.63% (0.379 million shares) of Namyang Dairy, which currently has a market cap of 316 billion won. Prior to the sale, Namyang Dairy Chairman Hong Won-Sik had a 51.68% stake in the company. 
Over the next 2-3 years, we believe Namyang Dairy Products' shares could rise nearly 100%+ from current levels, which would suggest market cap of 632 billion won or 878,000 won. This represents a P/B multiple of 0.7x, which is at the high end of the P/B multiple for the company in the past four years. 
With Hahn &amp; Co getting rid of the bad corporate governance problems and infusing the company with better professional managers, we believe Namyang Dairy Products could be an excellent turn-around story and the valuation multiples could rise to the historical high levels. 


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