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[헤럴드경제=신동윤 기자] JYP Entertainment (hereinafter referred to as JYP), which hit bottom in the domestic stock market and has recently shown a rebound, was evaluated as still the most undervalued entertainment company. Based on this, the target stock price was also adjusted upward by more than 20%.
Lee Ki-hoon, a researcher at Hana Securities, raised the target stock price for JYP from 78,000 won to 94,000 won in a report on the 28th. This is the second upward revision of the target price this month.
Researcher Lee Ki-hoon said, “The stock price rose 37% in two weeks after the third quarter earnings announcement, but surprisingly, it is still the most undervalued agency.” He added, “The degree of undervaluation is low in that they receive similar valuations even though their operating profit ratio is more than twice that of SM. “It’s significant,” he said.
In addition to the good performance in the third quarter, expectations for the group Stray Kids’ tour are high, so there is ample room for an increase in the stock price.
Researcher Lee said, “Stray Kids’ North and South American tour schedule has exceeded market expectations,” and “Considering Stray Kids’ tour cities and schedule, at least five more tours will be added.”
He added, “If tours in Korea and Japan are added in the second half of next year, the tour scale is expected to be about twice that of this year.”
Park Jin-young, the head of JYP Entertainment and a singer with 30 years of experience, is holding a press conference with Korean reporters and local reporters in Los Angeles (LA), USA, on the 21st (local time). [연합]
In addition, “Given that this is the first large-scale South American performance, we expect sales of MD (products) linked to the tour to be maximized,” he said. “Considering this, next year’s sales will be KRW 706.6 billion, 23% more than this year, and operating profit will rise 27% to KRW 1654. “It is expected to reach billions of won,” he explained.
Thanks to positive evaluations from securities companies, JYP’s stock price is showing strong performance in early trading today.
According to the Korea Exchange, as of 9:37 am, JYP’s stock price on the KOSDAQ market is trading at 74,600 won, up 1.50% from the previous trading day.
JYP’s stock price, which started trading at 75,000 won, up 2.04% from the previous day’s closing price, rose to 76,200 won during the day.
The upward trend in JYP’s stock price on this day appears to be led by net buying by foreign investors. As of 9:30 a.m. (tentative), foreign investors are purchasing 2 billion won worth of JYP stocks.
Meanwhile, as JYP’s stock price, which had fallen to around 40,000 won this year, rose to the mid-70,000 range, showing a clear upward trend, what singer and producer (PD) Park Jin-young, the majority shareholder of JYP, said a year ago while appearing on a YouTube channel is attracting attention.
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Last November, PD Park said this while appearing on a live broadcast on the famous economic YouTube channel ‘Suka World’.
This is once again really good timing. The only problem is that I don’t have any personal property. If I really had extra money, I would definitely buy our company’s stock.
What singer Park Jin-young and JYP Entertainment PD said while appearing on the economic YouTube channel Shuka World
About two months later, over the two days of January 17th and 18th, PD Park purchased 60,200 shares of JYP stock. The average unit price of JYP stocks purchased by PD Park is around 83,000 won, and the total size is about 5 billion won. Through this over-the-counter purchase, PD Park’s stock holdings in JYP increased to 5,462,511 shares, and his shareholding increased from 15.22% to 15.37%.
However, when PD Park bought JYP shares, JYP’s stock price had already fallen by nearly 40% from its peak in July of last year (141,100 won).
JYP’s stock price, which has not stopped falling since then, hit ‘bottom’ at 43,500 won as of the closing price on September 10th. It is a drop of 76.09% from the peak point.
The favorable global situation is also cited as the reason for the recent upward sloping curve in JYP’s stock price.
As Korea-China relations improve, expectations that K-pop can advance into mainland China are also growing. Seongman Yoo, a researcher at Leading Investment & Securities, said, “As China expands the visa-free entry period, the possibility of resumption of full-scale cultural exchanges between Korea and China increases.” He added, “The Dear You Bubble Platform, of which JYP Entertainment is the second largest shareholder, will also begin full-scale service in mainland China from the first half of next year.” “It begins,” he explained.
From Trump risks, entertainment stocks are classified as a safe industry. Kim Jong-min, a researcher at Samsung Securities, said, “The U.S. share of the music export market is increasing significantly,” and pointed out, “The industries that can grow while avoiding Trump’s tariff policy are entertainment and content companies with a fandom advantage.”
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