DELTA plunges as market misreads 150 billion baht exchangeable bond as share issuance

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Shares of Delta Electronics (Thailand), or DELTA, fell sharply on market concerns over a 1.5 billion US dollar exchangeable bond issued by its parent company. Some investors interpreted this as DELTA preparing to issue new shares, causing dilution, or as a large block preparing to be sold through a big lot. But when the transaction structure is examined, the bond issuer is Delta Electronics Int'l (Singapore), an existing shareholder of DELTA, not the Thai company DELTA itself, and the securities to be delivered upon exercise are existing DELTA shares already held by this shareholder, not newly issued shares. DELTA's registered and issued share counts therefore do not increase, and earnings per share, or EPS, is not diluted. The bond is split into two tranches. The one-year tranche is worth 500 million dollars with an initial exchange price of 266.80 baht per share, 15% above the reference price. The five-year tranche is worth 1 billion dollars with an initial exchange price of 301.60 baht per share, 30% above the reference price. Both exchange prices remain above DELTA's current market price, so investors have no incentive to exercise the exchange immediately. If fully exercised at the initial exchange prices, the bonds would involve roughly 172.09 million DELTA shares, or about 1.38% of all issued shares, which the company clearly states are shares the shareholder already holds. However, saying this deal has no effect on the share price at all may not be entirely correct, because institutional investors who buy the exchangeable bond may engage in delta hedging by selling or shorting some of the underlying shares, depending on each investor's strategy and constraints. That is pressure from investors' risk management, not a full sale of the major shareholder's stake. In the long term, there is still a risk that the number of shares circulating in the market will increase if bondholders exercise and then sell the shares they receive, but this must happen after the exchange conditions become worthwhile, not as automatic selling on the day the bond is issued. So what investors should watch is how much short-term pressure the hedging transactions create, and whether DELTA's share price will rise to 266.80 baht or 301.60 baht, giving bondholders an incentive to exercise.

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Delta Electronics Int'l (Singapore) is the issuer of the $1.5bn exchangeable bond over existing DELTA shares it holds, but the article does not judge the impact on the issuer itself.

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