4819 Digital Garage
- Jan 25
- 1 min read
DG diversifies into internet business related areas such as payment, advertising, and venture investment. Equity method affiliate of Resona Holdings
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DG diversifies into internet business related areas such as payment, advertising, and venture investment. Equity method affiliate of Resona Holdings
"Digital Garage (4819.T) is one of those Japan “stub” trades that everyone has known about, and in the past had attracted Oasis to be a huge shareholder. On most simple SOTP math, you can conservatively mark the Kakaku. com stake + cash/investments + implied value for the payments/platform business and it starts to look like a negative-EV situation. DG trades around 7x P/CF (4–5x EV/FCF) which is a large discount to Asia and global fintech infrastructure co's.
...I keep coming back to the “Resona put.” A major Japan bank now owns over 30% and just recently paid a huge premium to last price for it. They are building distribution + product around DG cashless payments. If the stock keeps trading…