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William Nestuk
  • William Nestuk

PSA Capital Goods / Technology: AI Lifts Automation

PSA’s automation and robotics analyst William Nestuk reviews the performance of automation stocks this year and explains why this month, AI has lit a touchpaper to strong performance by names in the sector.

Pelham Smithers
  • Pelham Smithers

PSA Japan Market Strategy: Market Implications from Takaichi's Suprise...

The Japanese stock market’s take on the surprise victory of Sanae Takaichi in the LDP Presidential race suggested that it wasn’t so much a repeat of the “Koizumi Boom” from 20 years ago, but rather a brand new “Takaichi Boom”, and we saw the Nikkei 225 jump +4.8% to just under 48,000. Pelham Smithers compares and contrasts the impact and flags “Takaichi Stocks”. Importantly, market valuations suggest further upside.

Pelham Smithers
  • Pelham Smithers

PSA Strategy: Japan Stock Market Quarterly for 2025 Q4

For almost three years the Nikkei 225 has been tracking its performance from the 2003~5 bull market, albeit at levels some 3.3x higher In this report, Pelham Smithers discusses the similarities and asks three key questions: (1) Can we continue to track 2005 through the rest of the year; (2) Whatever happens in Q4, should we fear or be hopeful for 2026? And (3) Who are the upcoming winners and losers.

Garvit Bhandari
  • Garvit Bhandari

Biometrics Scan Software Industry Report June 2025

This report looks at the Biometric Scan Software industry globally. The Biometric Scan Software industry comprises companies that develop software for biometric technologies such as fingerprint, iris, retina and face-recognition identification systems. 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 those that exclusively engage in biometric so...

Pelham Smithers
  • Pelham Smithers

PSA IT Services / Application Software: Spending on Business Services ...

In this review on Japan’s spending on business software, Pelham Smithers notes how small it is as a percent of GDP. This trend is likely to change with sharp growth expected ahead.

Pelham Smithers
  • Pelham Smithers

PSA Technology: Japanese AI Stocks Revisited

At first glance, it feels like the Japanese stock market has reacted unusually slowly to the surge in AI infrastructure stocks in the US. Pelham Smithers flags winners on this theme.

Pelham Smithers
  • Pelham Smithers

PSA Technology: Nvidia Unveils NVLink Fusion

With Nvidia unveiling its NVLink Fusion upgrade to the NVLink data transmission system at the Taiwan’s computer show Computex 2025, Pelham Smithers flags key beneficiaries.

Pelham Smithers
  • Pelham Smithers

PSA Information Technology: FY24 Q4 Preview for Big 3 IT Firms

Ahead of results on 28 April, Pelham Smithers previews the outlook for Japan’s Big 3 IT firm’s FY24 and what might impact the FY25 guidance numbers.

Pelham Smithers
  • Pelham Smithers

PSA Strategy: Japan Stock Market Quarterly for 2025 Q2

In this quarterly strategy report, we look to evaluate where we are with regards the bull market conditions, and where those indicators might be headed, factoring in the downside risks, from Trump tariffs and the US economy, BoJ actions, Japanese earnings and valuations.

Dave Nicoski ... (+2)
  • Dave Nicoski
  • Ross LaDuke

Vermilion Int'l Compass: Global Equity Strategy

Major Top for the U.S. Dollar (DXY) = Risk-On Our outlook remains bullish on global equities (MSCI ACWI). We have been bullish since early-November 2023, save for a two month period from late-July to late September 2024 when we were neutral. We discussed in last week's Int'l Compass (Feb. 13, 2025) how both ACWI-US and the S&P 500 were coiling just below all-time highs, likely setting up for major breakouts; the breakouts are here. We also believe the U.S. dollar (DXY) and Treasury yields have ...

Pelham Smithers
  • Pelham Smithers

PSA Technology: Semiconductor Industry 2025 Outlook

Following the recent results season where several leading semiconductor and SPE companies globally produced either disappointing results or guidance, we look at where the semiconductor industry is at present, where it looks to be headed in 2025 and identify opportunities in the Japanese IC / SPE space.

LOGN LOGITECH INTERNATIONAL S.A.
005930 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO. LTD.
TSFA TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO. LTD. SPONSORED ADR
WDC WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION
TER TERADYNE INC.
ORCL ORACLE CORPORATION
ON ON SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
NVDA NVIDIA CORPORATION
MU MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC.
LRCX LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION
INTC INTEL CORPORATION
GOOGL ALPHABET INC. CLASS A
COHR COHERENT INC.
AMAT APPLIED MATERIALS INC.
NFLX NETFLIX INC.
MRVL MARVELL TECHNOLOGY GROUP LTD.
7751 CANON INC.
9697 CAPCOM CO. LTD.
6383 DAIFUKU CO. LTD.
7735 SCREEN HOLDINGS CO. LTD
5803 FUJIKURA LTD
6861 KEYENCE CORPORATION
6501 HITACHI LTD.
000660 SK HYNIX INC
6920 LASERTEC CORP.
6728 ULVAC INC.
6723 RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
6902 DENSO CORPORATION
6701 NEC CORP.
7731 NIKON CORP.
7201 NISSAN MOTOR CO. LTD.
7105 MITSUBISHI NICHIYU FORKLIFT
6963 ROHM CO. LTD.
9984 SOFTBANK GROUP CORP.
6758 SONY CORPORATION
6857 ADVANTEST CORP.
8035 TOKYO ELECTRON LTD.
7203 TOYOTA MOTOR CORP.
AIR AIR PARTNER PLC
5930 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
AMZN AMAZON.COM INC.
AMD ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC.
AAPL APPLE INC.
MSFT MICROSOFT CORPORATION
STM STMICROELECTRONICS NV
00981 SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING INTERNATIONAL CORP.
AVGO BROADCOM INC.
3993 PKSHA TECHNOLOGY INC.
6600 JT KIOXIA HOLDINGS (6600 JT)
ASO ACADEMY SPORTS AND OUTDOORS
CRSR CORSAIR GAMING
WOLF WOLFSPEED INC
TSE: 2980 SRE HOLDINGS CORP
688728 GALAXYCORE INC
688234 SICC CO LTD
6526 SOCIONEXT INC
6526 JT SOCIONEXT (6526 JT)
ARM ARM HOLDINGS PLC
ACCL DOLOMITE HOLDINGS LTD
Pelham Smithers
  • Pelham Smithers

PSA Information Technology: NEC (6701 JT) FY24 Q2 Results

With the FY24 Q2 performance deemed a miss on consensus estimates, Pelham Smithers reviews the divisional performance and notes the improving contributions by the IT Services segment. Perhaps more importantly, is news that NEC has decided to buy in the minorities of NEC Networks, and we provide our estimates on costs and reduction in minority interest payments.

Pelham Smithers
  • Pelham Smithers

PSA Strategy: Japan Stock Market Quarterly 2024 Q4

When the BoJ raised rates in March, it had been 17 years since it had last done so, though the world was very different then. While the July rate hike was unlikely to move the economic needle, the question now is what else might follow the subsequent financial market maelstrom. Pelham Smithers discusses the outlook for Japan’s macro environment, what new fiscal policies the new PM might introduce, how the BoJ might react and the all-important trend in corporate earnings. This then leads us to...

4676 FUJI MEDIA HOLDINGS INC.
6754 ANRITSU CORPORATION
7751 CANON INC.
4519 CHUGAI PHARMACEUTICAL CO. LTD.
4751 CYBERAGENT INC.
4755 RAKUTEN INC.
3107 DAIWABO HOLDINGS CO. LTD.
8473 SBI HOLDINGS INC.
6954 FANUC CORPORATION
4324 DENTSU GROUP INC.
6861 KEYENCE CORPORATION
4902 KONICA MINOLTA INC.
6988 NITTO DENKO CORP.
7752 RICOH COMPANY LTD.
6869 SYSMEX CORPORATION
3064 MONOTARO CO. LTD.
5801 FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO. LTD.
5715 FURUKAWA CO. LTD.
7205 HINO MOTORS LTD.
6501 HITACHI LTD.
6305 HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO. LTD.
7267 HONDA MOTOR CO. LTD.
7012 KAWASAKI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD.
9107 KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA LTD.
6971 KYOCERA CORPORATION
8316 SUMITOMO MITSUI FINANCIAL GROUP INC.
6503 MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP.
5632 MITSUBISHI STEEL MANUFACTURING CO. LTD.
5706 MITSUI MINING AND SMELTING COMPANY LIMITED
6966 MITSUI HIGH-TEC INC.
6902 DENSO CORPORATION
6701 NEC CORP.
6594 NIDEC CORPORATION
7201 NISSAN MOTOR CO. LTD.
4666 PARK24 CO. LTD.
6268 NABTESCO CORPORATION
2371 KAKAKU.COM INC.
9984 SOFTBANK GROUP CORP.
8136 SANRIO COMPANY LTD.
6758 SONY CORPORATION
5802 SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD.
6762 TDK CORPORATION
6976 TAIYO YUDEN CO. LTD.
6315 TOWA CORPORATION
7203 TOYOTA MOTOR CORP.
4208 UBE INDUSTRIES LTD.
8698 MONEX GROUP INC.
3774 INTERNET INITIATIVE JAPAN
3765 GUNGHO ONLINE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
2160 GNI GROUP LTD.
3659 NEXON CO. LTD.
3445 RS TECHNOLOGIES CO. LTD.
6269 MODEC INC
3769 GMO PAYMENT
68900 FERROTEC CORPORATION
9519 RENOVA
4385 MERCARI INC.
3993 PKSHA TECHNOLOGY INC.
3626 JT TIS INC
9434 SOFTBANK CORP.
TXG 10X GENOMICS INC CLASS A
TGIF 1933 INDUSTRIES
7071 AMVIS HOLDINGS
78320 BANDAI NAMCO
45870 PEPTIDREAM INC
4443 JT SANSAN (4443 JT)
3491 JT GA TECHNOLOGIES
3394 JT MONEY FOWARD
4480 MEDLEY
RRRP3 3R PETROLEUM OLEO E GAS
6532 JT BAYCURRENT CONSULTING (6532 JT)
3697 JT SHIFT INCORPORATED (3697 JT)
4483 JMDC
4180 JP APPIER GROUP
TSE: 2980 SRE HOLDINGS CORP
4194 VISIONAL INC
9552 M&A RESEARCH INSTITUTE
123F 123FAHRSCHULE SE
9616 JT KYORITSU MAINTENANCE (9616 JT)
9552 JT M&A RESEARCH INSTITUTE (9552 JT)
6544 JT JAPAN ELEVATOR SERVICES HOLDINGS (6544 JT)
6200 JT INSOURCE (6200 JT)
2154 JT OPEN UP GROUP (2154 JT)
William Nestuk
  • William Nestuk

PSA Industrials / Capital Goods: Fujikura (5803 JT) Riding the AI Them...

Fujikura’s share price performance has been impressive, surging three-old YTD, boosted by AI-related data centre demand. Analyst William Nestuk reviews the FY24 Q1 performance, flags where there is upside but also notes capacity contraints.

MarketLine Department
  • MarketLine Department

Asteria Corp - Company Profile and SWOT Analysis

Summary Asteria Corp - Company Profile and SWOT Analysis, is a source of comprehensive company data and information. The report covers the company's structure, operation, SWOT analysis, product and service offerings and corporate actions, providing a 360˚ view of the company. Key Highlights Asteria Corp (Asteria) is developer of software, technological products and related services. The company's major products include Asteria Warp, Handbook, Platio, Gravio, Lino, SnapCal. It is also involve...

Pelham Smithers
  • Pelham Smithers

PSA Technology: Hitachi (6501 JT), Microsoft (MSFT US) in AI Collabo...

Pelham Smithers reviews this collaboration and ponders the success of Hitachi’s Lumada platform with a few that valuation upside is warranted.

Pelham Smithers
  • Pelham Smithers

PSA Technology: A Review of NEC's (6701 JT) FY25 Targets

Pelham Smithers reviews NEC’s mid-term management targets and discusses what the firm needs to do to achieve them. He also discusses the launch of NEC’s AI platform Blue Stella and compares it with Hitachi’s Lumada, Fujitsu’s uvance and Mitsubishi Electric’s Serendy.

 PRESS RELEASE

Hitachi Energy supports long-term operation of largest HVDC-connected ...

Hitachi Energy supports long-term operation of largest HVDC-connected wind energy project in U.S. Multi-year agreement provides service solutions to the SunZia Transmission Project, linking New Mexico’s wind farms to Arizona’s grid, increasing renewable energy to Western States Zurich, Switzerland, May 07, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hitachi Energy announced that it has signed a multi-year agreement with Pattern Energy to support its high-voltage direct current (HVDC) technologies for the SunZia Transmission Project. The link will connect the 3,515-megawatt (MW) SunZia Wind project in New ...

 PRESS RELEASE

Hitachi Energy announces over $100 million in modernization and upgrad...

Hitachi Energy announces over $100 million in modernization and upgrade of power transformer factory and facilities in Quebec, Canada Projects in Varennes and Montreal partly funded by the Government of Quebec to increase speed to market to meet accelerating global energy transition demand ---- Establishment of a state-of-the-art testing facility for large power transformers and a high-voltage direct current (HVDC) engineering and design center which will create around 70 jobs, to enable capacity expansion Montreal, Canada / Zurich, Switzerland, April 29, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hitac...

 PRESS RELEASE

Hitachi Energy to invest additional $1.5 billion to ramp up global tra...

Hitachi Energy to invest additional $1.5 billion to ramp up global transformer production by 2027 Capacity expansion will increase speed to market to meet accelerating global demand, address long-term customer investments and create over 4,000 jobs -- Investments span across Europe, the Americas, and Asia leveraging existing global footprint -- Around $180 million in a new state-of-the-art transformer factory in Finland, a key location for clean technology development for renewables and industrial electrification Zurich, April 23, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hitachi Energy today reveal...

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