Steel (Overweight/Maintain) Hyundai Steel announces merger with Hyundai Hysco Hyundai Steel to merge with Hyundai Hysco: Deal to be finalized on July 1 st , 2015 News Comment Merger likely to create only limited synergies April 9, 2015 Recommended strategy: Buy POSCO st Daewoo Securities CCo.,o., Ltd. Hyundai Steel to merge with Hyundai Hysco; Deal to be finalized on July 1 [Steel/Non-ferrous metal] On April 8th, Hyundai Steel announced it has decided to merge with Hyundai Hysco. Hyundai Hysco shareholders will receive 0.8577607 shares of Hyundai Steel for each existing Hyundai Seung-hun Jeon Hysco share they own. Dissenting shareholders will be able to exercise appraisal rights at +822-768-2713 W72,100 per share for Hyundai Steel and W63,552 per share for Hyundai Hysco, which are,
[email protected] respectively, 9.2% and 6.4% lower than current share prices. The 2,667,762 shares Hyundai Hysco owns in Hyundai Steel will be allocated to Hyundai Hysco shareholders, which will have the same impact as cancelling 2% of treasury shares. As a result, the merged company will have 133,445,785 shares outstanding (rather than 136,113,547 shares). Merger likely to create only limited synergies In our view, the merger effects are more psychological than tangible. While the merger does have some benefits, we also see several negative effects that could partially offset the positives. We believe potential merger synergies between the two companies were mostly realized after Hyundai Hysco spun off its cold-rolled coil (CRC) division to Hyundai Steel in December 2013.