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| Previous Close | 10,055.00 |
| Open | 10,180.00 |
| Bid | 9,793.00 x 0 |
| Ask | 9,818.00 x 0 |
| Day's Range | 9,763.00 - 10,195.00 |
| 52 Week Range | 2,609.50 - 10,665.00 |
| Volume | 16,223,200 |
| Avg. Volume | 16,467,762 |
| Market Cap | 17.47T |
| Beta (5Y Monthly) | 1.20 |
| PE Ratio (TTM) | 12.27 |
| EPS (TTM) | 800.04 |
| Earnings Date | May 17, 2021 - May 21, 2021 |
| Forward Dividend & Yield | 44.00 (0.44%) |
| Ex-Dividend Date | Sep 29, 2020 |
| 1y Target Est | 13,753.00 |
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SoftBank’s Outlook Raised to Stable at Moody’s Amid Asset Sales
(Bloomberg) -- SoftBank Group Corp.’s outlook was raised to stable from negative at Moody’s Investors Service, which cited progress with the Japanese company’s asset monetization program.Moody’s also affirmed its long-term corporate family rating on SoftBank at Ba3.The move came on a day when SoftBank said it had bought back $2.25 billion of dollar and euro bonds. That completed a tender offer the firm had announced last month that it would use to repurchase up to that amount, part of a multi-billion dollar asset sale and monetization program unveiled in early 2020.Moody’s cut SoftBank by two notches last year and voiced concerns over its large asset recycling activity and unfolding investment strategy. The credit assessor has continued to give its view on the company even though SoftBank has asked it not to provide ratings.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2021 Bloomberg L.P.
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SoftBank Group Corp. -- Moody's changes SoftBank Group's outlook to stable; affirms Ba3 ratings
Rating Action: Moody's changes SoftBank Group's outlook to stable; affirms Ba3 ratingsGlobal Credit Research - 08 Mar 2021Tokyo, March 08, 2021 -- Moody's Japan K.K. has affirmed the Ba3 corporate family rating (CFR) and senior unsecured rating of SoftBank Group Corp. (SBG), as well as its B2 subordinate rating.Moody's has also changed the outlook to stable from negative.RATINGS RATIONALEThe change in the outlook to stable from negative reflects the progress of SBG's asset monetization program since it was announced in March 2020. Moody's estimates that most of the reinvestment went into tradeable shares of listed US technology companies through SB Northstar LP.The stable outlook reflects Moody's expectation that SBG's portfolio value is not deteriorating but changing, with its market value-based leverage (MVL) expected to range between 23% and 29%, and that the company will maintain good liquidity with its substantial cash balance.Governance is a key rating consideration, with concerns that include (1) the scope and pace of changes on its balance sheet as strategies shift; (2) SBG's strong appetite for investments, which could be funded by complex financial arrangements with limited transparency; and (3) its dependence on its CEO and founder Masayoshi Son when it comes to key investment decisions, which presents key-person risk.
- Bloomberg
Coupang’s $3.6 Billion IPO Shows U.S. Is King for Tech IPOs
(Bloomberg) -- South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang Inc.’s initial public offering is on track to be the largest listing by a Korean company in a decade. And, like most of the major tech offerings these days, it’s happening in New York.There are three big reasons that explain why the U.S. is a better pick for the e-tailer backed by SoftBank Group Corp.’s Masayoshi Son. Perhaps most significantly, New York offers a considerable valuation premium. It also has a deeper, more liquid market, and allows uneven voting rights that would benefit Coupang’s founder, Harvard Business School drop-out Bom Kim.The U.S. has been the destination of choice for mega tech IPOs, with 2020’s biggest debuts Airbnb Inc. and DoorDash Inc. both listed in New York. Chinese e-commerce giants such as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and JD.com Inc. also went public there. Coupang is seeking to raise up to $3.6 billion in its IPO and could garner a value of more than $50 billion. That would make it the largest float by a Korean company since Samsung Group took its insurance unit public at home in 2010.Had the loss-making e-commerce firm listed in Korea -- which from this month will allow unprofitable companies to go public -- Coupang could have fetched a maximum valuation of just $10 billion, according to Suh YongGu, a marketing professor at Sookmyung University.“The history of capitalism in South Korea is short, so Koreans don’t ascribe high valuations to loss-making companies,” said Suh.South Korea’s stock market is less than 70 years old, and is dominated by chaebols, or family-controlled industrial groups. In fact, SK Bioscience Co., a unit of SK Group, one of the county’s largest chaebols, will be the latest to have a stock market presence when it goes public this month. The maker of AstraZeneca Plc’s Covid-19 vaccine for Korea, is seeking to raise $1.3 billion ahead of its March 18 listing, according to Korean-language Seoul Economic Daily Monday.Korean investors’ appetite for their homegrown entrepreneur-led startups, however, will be tested in coming months with IPOs by Krafton Inc., the creator of hit game PUBG, and the country’s biggest mobile-only bank Kakao Bank. Unlike Coupang, those firms are profitable.Coupang has lost money in the last three years, recording an accumulated deficit of $4.12 billion as of December, according to its filing. Thanks to the surge in online shopping during the pandemic, however, it managed to nearly double its revenue to $12 billion last year.A $51 billion valuation would put Coupang among the five most valuable companies in Korea, of which Samsung Electronics Co. is the biggest. Korea’s other big startups with growing clout in e-commerce -- the $58 billion Internet conglomerate Naver Corp., and the $39 billion messaging app Kakao Corp. -- are both listed in Seoul, but were both profitable when they went public. The two are backed by entrepreneurs and not linked to the chaebols like Samsung Group.In fact, Coupang’s listing in the U.S. will allow it to exceed the combined market value of the six chaebol-owned retailers trying to expand their presence in e-commerce -- E-Mart Inc., Lotte Shopping Co., GS Retail Co., Shinsegae Inc., BGF Retail Co., and Hyundai Department Store Co..Liquidity is another allure of the U.S. market, allowing companies to raise funds frequently through secondary share sales. Korea’s stock market, at a total value of $2.12 trillion, is a fraction of the $44.2 trillion of the U.S., according to Bloomberg data.“It’s easier for investors to exit” their stakes in the U.S., said Seo Sang-Young, an analyst at Kiwoom Securities in Seoul. “And the trading volume is much larger.”And finally, a U.S. listing gives founders more power.Korea doesn’t allow uneven voting rights, favored by tech firms like Alphabet Inc. and Facebook Inc., who see it as a way for founders to focus on the long-term. But the U.S. does, even if the ownership structure is itself not without controversy, as it lacks shareholder protections. Kim, Coupang’s 42-year-old founder, will end up with 76.7% of the company’s voting rights with just 10.2% of its outstanding shares.“We would have liked Coupang to list in Korea,” said Kim Sung-gon, a spokesperson at Korea Stock Exchange. “But we respect the company’s choice.”Korea IPO Boom Year Kicks Off With Coupang FloatStill, missing out on the chance to buy into one of the country’s hottest companies in the biggest Asian company IPO since Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s $25 billion New York listing in 2014 is rankling the retail investors who have come to dominate Korea’s stock market since the pandemic spread.“There is certainly regret among retail investors that they cannot buy into the IPO,” said Kim DongJoo, the CEO of Iruda Discretionary Investment, a Seoul-based investment firm catering to retail investors seeking to buy foreign stocks.Largest IPOs by Korean Companies:Coupang prides itself on its same-day or at least pre-dawn deliveries. It is also giving its warehouse staff and 15,000 full-time delivery workers a total of $90 million in pre-IPO stock, a unique largess that comes at a time when the deaths of a string of couriers from overwork as online orders soared is causing a national uproar.“We believe we are the first company in Korea to make our front-line employees stockholders,” Kim said in a letter to shareholders in Coupang’s IPO filing.Five Coupang warehouse workers have died in the past year, according to the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, a major labor organization. On Saturday, a Coupang delivery driver was found dead in an incident which Yonhap News said showed symptoms his colleagues attributed to overwork.Coupang said in a statement on Monday that the deceased worker had “worked around four days a week on average and worked about 40 hours for the past 12 weeks.” It added, however, that it would “make efforts to thoroughly protect the health and safety of workers.”(Updates with Coupang’s statement on a worker’s recent death in the last two paragraphs)For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2021 Bloomberg L.P.
