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Evergrande woes hit Japan’s toilet, air-conditioner and paint manufacturers

September 21, 2021 by David Barret Leave a Comment

September 21, 2021

By Hideyuki Sano

TOKYO (Reuters) – Concern that China Evergrande may default https://ift.tt/3nS9CzB on its mountain of debt hit shares of toilet maker Toto and other Japanese firms that are seen vulnerable to a further slowdown in China’s property development.

Toto lost 6.1 % on Tuesday, extending its fall since Thursday to 14.8%, on the perceived risk of exposure to Evergrande, which investors fear could miss debt payment later this week.

“There are rising and widely reported concerns about fund flows at leading local developer China Evergrande Group, whose business scale suggests to us it is very likely one of TOTO’s major customers,” said Arisa Katsuyama, analyst at Morgan Stanley.

“Year-to-date debt defaults by real estate companies in China, not just China Evergrande, already exceed the cumulative figure for the past 10 years as tighter regulations bite,” she said, adding investors should bear in mind the risk Toto may have to book loan loss reserves.

China accounted for about 30% of Toto’s profit last year but the firm’s spokesperson said it could not comment on specific transactions including whether it has deals with Evergrande.

Other potential suppliers to Chinese house builders and constructors were also caught in the melee, with air-conditioner manufacturer Daikin losing 4.7%.

Almost a quarter of Daikin’s air-conditioner sales came from China in the last financial year, compared with 13-16% in previous years.

Paint maker Nippon Paint Holding, for which China is by far the largest market, slid 7.5%.

Manufacturers of construction machines, which have long benefited from the construction boom in China, also suffered, with Komatsu losing 5.4% and Hitachi Construction Machinery shedding 5.5%.

Investors also dumped SoftBank Group, a big investor in Alibaba and other Chinese tech firms, on fears Beijing will continue to tighten its grip on them.

SoftBank Group shares lost 5.0% as U.S.-listed Alibaba shares hit a two-year low on Monday.

Tomoichiro Kubota, senior strategist at Matsui Securities, said the damage could spread to more companies if China’s slowdown becomes more evident.

“It looks like Chinese authorities are clamping down on outright lavishness, which seems to have support from the Chinese public. That has some resemblance to Japan’s post-bubble era, when expensive house prices were considered bad for ordinary people.”

While many Japanese firms rely on Chinese demand, Japanese institutional investors have relatively limited exposure to Chinese assets.

Japan’s biggest investor, Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), had exposure of 9.673 billion yen ($88.31 million) to Evergrande as of March, 5.9 billion yen in bonds and 3.7 billion yen in stocks, out of its 186.1 trillion yen ($1.70 trillion) assets.

($1 = 109.53 yen)

(Reporting by Hideyuki Sano and Shinji Kitamura; Editing by Robert Birsel)

Source Link Evergrande woes hit Japan’s toilet, air-conditioner and paint manufacturers

David Barret
David Barret

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