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Dunamu (CEO Seok-Woo Lee) announced on the 7th the unlisted stock keyword, which was popular for a month in December 2020, on’Securities Plus Unlisted’, Korea’s first unlisted stock integrated transaction support platform designated as an innovative financial service by the Financial Services Commission.
Kakao Bank, Krafton, and SK Bioscience, which are regarded as one of the top IPOs in 2021, continued for three consecutive months from October 2020. In addition, attention was focused on SoluM, the first company to be listed on KOSPI this year.
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Kakao Bank achieved No. 1 in the category of interest items and views for the fourth consecutive month from September 2020.
Among the’three Kakao Brothers’ (Kakao Bank, Kakao Pay, Kakao Page), which are expected to lead the IPO market in 2021, they launched an IPO.
At the end of last year, Kakao Bank completed a paid-in capital increase of KRW 1 trillion, raising its corporate value to about KRW 9.3 trillion. After listing, the expected market capitalization is estimated at 10 to 40 trillion won.
Krafton, the developer of the popular game’Battleground’, reached second place in both the addition of interest items and views in December. Krafton, which has been selected as a supervisor and reorganized early, is expected to reach a market cap of 5 to 30 trillion won when listing is completed. On Face Games, one of the theme stocks of the game, is also steadily raising its name in the rankings.
In December, SK Bioscience was placed in the 3rd place for the addition of interest items and views. SK Bioscience has recently been approved for a domestic clinical trial for the Corona 19 vaccine’GBP510′. In addition, a number of bio-themed companies such as Prestige Biologics, Solgent, CTC Life Science, GNT Pharma, and Korea Chorus entered the rankings.
SoluM, an electronic component manufacturing company, remained in the 10th place in the list of interest items and 13th place in the number of views in November. SoluM’s public offering, which is expected to be listed on the KOSPI market in 2021, is about 87.7 billion won, and Mirae Asset, KB (KB), Hana, Shinhan, and Samsung Securities are co-hosts and are scheduled to begin the subscription process from the 21st.
Yanolja, which has continued to grow due to the increase in domestic travel and lodging demand since Corona 19, ranked 8th in both the addition of interest items and views. Yanolja is promoting an IPO for the first time among unicorn startups in Korea, and has grown by diversifying its business portfolio, starting with a platform strategy centered on super apps, entering the global PMS market.
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In addition, Viva Republica, a toss operator, elegant brothers, an ethnic operator of delivery, Hyundai Engineering, an affiliate of Hyundai Motor Group, Hyundai MNSoft, N3N, a specialized AI company, Body Friend, a massage chair manufacturer, Finger, a fintech company, LG CNS, an SI company, Carris, a manufacturer of PVC road safety products, Buno, a medical artificial intelligence solution company, and Seokkyung AT, a nano-materials company, are among investors.
On the other hand, Securities Plus unlisted, launched in November 2019, is a service that allows you to conveniently search and securely trade the items and transaction information of unlisted stocks on mobile. Due to rapid growth in a short period of time, it is possible to trade more than 5,000 stocks as of 7 days. The cumulative number of transactions was about 43,000 and the cumulative number of subscribers reached more than 300,000.
The company’s own company information discovery team provides information on unlisted items necessary for comprehensive investment decisions, and transactions are conducted in the Samsung Securities secure transaction system, and the parties to the transaction are verified as members of the secure transaction, or the seller’s stock ownership is proven. It has created an environment where you can invest with confidence, such as the ability to collect confirmed properties.
After continuing efforts to improve service scalability and user convenience, it was designated as an innovative financial service by the Financial Services Commission on April 1, 2020. With the launch of’Onboard’, a blockchain-based securities and fund management service, on December 21, 2020, the range of tradable stocks in Securities Plus unlisted during the first half of this year will be extended to unified stockholders, which account for most of the unlisted stocks.
Park Myung-ki, reporter at Hankyung.com Game Talk