Japanese Telcos Q4 FY24 review: Inflationary telco market

Japan’s mobile sector accelerated again in Q4 and we think is heading to above inflation. With both KDDI and DCM recently announcing price increases the environment is increasingly benign and should be helped by NTT’s recent acquisition of SBI Sumishin Net Bank. Our recent trip to Japan highlighted how positive the environment is; NTT stays our preferred pick, with KDDI closely behind.

PSA IT Services: Share Price Appreciation, Confident FY25 Forecasts an...

Lindsay Whipp reviews the recent earnings performance of the IT Sector and assesses their outlook for FY25. Orders are strong, backlogs are growing and there are some attractive valuations – particularly for IIJ.

NTT (Buy, TP: ¥215, +38%) NTT to acquire SBI Sumishin Bank and a mino...

As has been widely rumoured, NTT has offered to acquire up to 66% of SBI Sumishin Bank (7163-JP), in a bid to strengthen its financial services offering. The offer price (¥3,615) represents a 10% premium to yesterday’s price, but actually around 10% below today’s closing price.

Vital Signs: Actionable charts

In this product we rank the most positive and negative domestic stocks, filter the symbols by market-cap and trading volume, and then divide the companies into sectors and groups. We then manually look through charts leadership/changes, bottoms-up/top-down ideas, short-term patterns that may have long-term significance, etc. We believe you will find this product valuable as significant price and relative moves begin in the daily charts.

NTT (Buy, TP: ¥215, +38%) Q4 FY24 Quick Take: Topline ahead but profi...

NTT reported results today, following yesterday’s announcement to buy out the minorities of NTT Data. Revenue was better than anticipated with Global Solutions performing well and there were signs of improving mobile trends.

NTT (Buy, TP: ¥215, +44%) NTT offers to buy out NTT Data – Quick thou...

As rumoured, NTT has offered to buy out the minorities (~42.3%) of NTT Data via a tender offer, at a 34% premium, or ¥4,000 per share. This is a slightly lower premium than we would have expected and implies a transaction value for the minority stake of ¥2.4tn (USD 16.5bn). Quick thoughts below.

Global Fintech Industry May 2025

This report looks at the global fintech industry. Fintech as an industry involves the use of technology to compete with traditional financial institutions in the delivery of financial services. Fintech is an emerging industry whose applications are employed in a range of traditional industries. The report talks about the overall market size, expected growth rates as well current trends driving the growth in the industry. Companies can also be categorized as core and non-core, the former being th...

Visa Inc. Financial Factsheet - Growth, Valuation and Peer Comps

The report gives a detailed financial and operational snapshot of Visa Inc. as of Q2 FY25, based on company filings and independent analysis. It also lists most relevant peer group and their valuation vis-a-vis Visa Inc.

Vermilion Booster Shots: Attractive bottom-fishing stocks

For investors looking for bottom-fishing candidates; stocks that are breaking downtrends, exhibiting ascending reaction lows, and showing stabilizing relative strength.

PSA IT Services: Sector Strategy

Tariffs and the threat of a global economic downturn make the case for owning IT service companies even stronger, argues analyst Lindsay Whipp in this report, with productivity enhancement tools potentially to be in even greater demand.

Mastercard Inc: 1 director

A director at Mastercard Inc sold 15,775 shares at 550.156USD and the significance rating of the trade was 72/100. Is that information sufficient for you to make an investment decision? This report gives details of those trades and adds context and analysis to them such that you can judge whether these trading decisions are ones worth following. Included in the report is a detailed share price chart which plots discretionary trades by all the company's directors over the last two years clearly...

Vital Signs: Actionable charts

In this product we rank the most positive and negative domestic stocks, filter the symbols by market-cap and trading volume, and then divide the companies into sectors and groups. We then manually look through charts leadership/changes, bottoms-up/top-down ideas, short-term patterns that may have long-term significance, etc. We believe you will find this product valuable as significant price and relative moves begin in the daily charts.

Moody's Ratings assigns Aa3 rating to Mastercard's senior unsecured no...

Moody's Ratings (Moody's) assigned an Aa3 rating to Mastercard Incorporated's ("Mastercard") proposed senior unsecured notes issuance. The rating outlook is stable. The net proceeds from the debt issuance are expected to be used for general corporate purposes. RATINGS RATIONALE Mastercard's Aa3 ...

Vermilion Macro Vision: Sector Synopsis

STRATEGY Market dynamics remain risk-on, and our outlook remains bullish as long as the S&P 500 remains above 5850 and 5600-5670. Shorter-term, the S&P 500 remains above the prior bull flag support (currently 5900) that we have discussed over the past two weeks in our Compass reports, and is coiling for a likely breakout above 6100 resistance. As discussed throughout the first half of January in our Compass reports, we continue to believe that tariffs will mostly be used as a negotiation tacti...

Visa Inc: 2 directors

Two Directors at Visa Inc sold/sold after exercising options/gave away 36,791 shares at between 0.000USD and 349.768USD. The significance rating of the trade was 78/100. Is that information sufficient for you to make an investment decision? This report gives details of those trades and adds context and analysis to them such that you can judge whether these trading decisions are ones worth following. Included in the report is a detailed share price chart which plots discretionary trades by all ...

NTT (Buy, ¥240, +63%) Q3 FY24 Quick Take: Early signs of progress in ...

NTT closed 2% lower today as EBIT missed materially on higher-than-expected costs in Docomo’s mobile and enterprise arm.

Dropping Coverage

Abrdn New India Investment Trust: 1 director

A director at Abrdn New India Investment Trust maiden bought 2,000 shares at 788p and the significance rating of the trade was 68/100. Is that information sufficient for you to make an investment decision? This report gives details of those trades and adds context and analysis to them such that you can judge whether these trading decisions are ones worth following. Included in the report is a detailed share price chart which plots discretionary trades by all the company's directors over the la...

PSA Information Technology / IT Services: NTT Data (9613 JT) – The Dat...

Tags: NTT Corp (9432 JT), Equinix (EQIX US), Iron Mountain (IRM US), Amazon (AMZN US), Microsoft (MSFT US), Google (GOOG US), Digital Realty Trust (DLR US), QTS (owned by Blackstone (BX US)), CyrusOne (owned by KKR (KKR US) and Global Infrastructure Partners (pvt), Cyxtera (owned by Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (BIP US)), Cologix (pvt), Meta (META US), Apple (AAPL US), Oracle (ORCL US), Netflix (NFLX US), Money Forward (3994 JT), Digital Realty Trust (DLR US), DataBridge Group (DBRG US), N...

Japanese Telcos & Internet What to expect in 2025: Mixed

After 3 good years, 2024 was not great for the Japanese incumbents; with KDDI and SoftBank rising modestly and NTT falling, but all underperforming the Nikkei. In our view, risk is rising in Mobile, although we continue to see the sector as fundamentally undervalued. Rakuten performed well in 2024, but this was really to do with balance sheet risk easing on the back of cost cutting/refinancing rather than better traction in Mobile.