
SK海力士在美国上市的股票周三将面临考验,因为此前限制该公司及其关联方和管理层出售股票的锁定期即将结束。这可能是市场进一步质疑内存行业繁荣能持续多久的又一个因素。
Hynix Inc.’s US-listed shares face a test on Wednesday, when a lockup that prevented the firm, its affiliates and management from selling shares expires, another potential catalyst for a market already questioning how much further the memory boom can run.
虽然目前没有迹象表明SK海力士计划像一些亚洲人工智能公司那样再次发行股票,但该公司在美国的存托凭证(ADR)在周一跌幅最大。
While there’s no indicationthat SK Hynix is planning to return to the market with an additional issuance — like some Asian artificial intelligence names did recently — the company’s American depositary receipts fell the most in three weeks on Monday.
截至周二收盘,这些ADR的溢价率为38%,在彭博社追踪的主要亚洲发行商中最高,并且尽管近期有所回调,仍比其上市价格高出20%以上。
The ADRs trade at a premium of 38% to the Korean shares as of Tuesday’s close, the highest among major Asian issuers tracked by Bloomberg, and remain more than 20% above their listing price despite a recent pullback.
任何额外的供应都会在该溢价水平上考验需求,因为投资者对内存芯片行业的前景和日益激烈的竞争感到担忧。
Any additional supply would test demand at that premium, just as investors are fretting over the outlook for the memory-chip boom and rising competition from.
在截至9月的三个月里,SK海力士、美光科技和三星电子的股价下跌了7.7%至33%。
Shares of SK Hynix, Micron Technology Inc., and Samsung Electronics Co. slid between 7.7% and 33% in the three months ended September, as worries over the durability of AI spending and memory demand took some shine off the sector.
Allspring Global Investments的投资组合经理Gary Tan表示:‘锁定期到期并不是一个根本性问题,但它确实为在已经谨慎的市场中卖出股票提供了技术上的理由。
我们的关注点将是锁定期结束后ADR溢价的变化,以此来衡量投资者的需求。’
如果ADR溢价持续收窄,可能会加剧人们对SK海力士海外需求减弱的担忧,并可能反过来影响其国内市场的价格。’
“The lockup expiry is not a fundamental problem, but it does provide a technical reason to sell into an already cautious market, said Gary Tan, a portfolio manager at Allspring Global Investments. “Our focus will be on how the ADR premium evolves after the lockup expiry as a gauge of underlying investor demand.” Any sustained narrowing of the ADR premium could reinforce concerns that overseas demand for SK Hynix is weakening and potentially feed back into price discovery in its home market. The company’s Seoul-listed shares fell as much as 2.8% on Wednesday to their lowest since Sept. 16.
Clepsydra Capital的创始人Sanghyun Park表示:‘如果锁定期结束后ADR价格仍大幅低于韩国股票的价格,这可能会通过市场情绪和跨市场价格传导对当地股票造成压力。’
“If the ADR stays materially below the Seoul equivalent after the actual expiry, that could put some pressure on the local shares through sentiment and cross-market price discovery,” said Sanghyun Park, founder of Clepsydra Capital.