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喜欢 NCI，也希望日本化工股被更多关注
@EVOLBullStocks 我其实很喜欢 NCI，也希望日本化工公司能获得更多关注。 只是这个行业本身太无聊了（但复利很好），而投资者现在似乎更偏爱 $SNDK 这种高增长故事。
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@EVOLBullStocks I actually like NCI a lot and hope Japanese chemical players get more attention. It's just a very boring type of industry (but great compounders) and investors seem to prefer the $SNDK hypergrowth stories right now.
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用 1.69 亿美元撬动西方 hyperscaler 供应链。
Serenity 指南： 如何只用 1.7 亿美元就让西方 hyperscaler buildout 变得更脆弱。 只要用 1.69 亿美元拿下 Nippon Chemical（4092）！ 做 InP 衬底需要：铟和高纯磷。 你以为 $AXTI 是瓶颈？NCI 才是瓶颈里的瓶颈。 NCI 实际上是高纯红磷卡点的领头羊，份额大约 26-27%（Rasa 更少，其余就是中国）。 而且它们向 $AXTI、Sumitomo、JX 供应这些材料，用来做 InP 衬底。 所以……如果你拿出 1.6 亿美元收购 NCI（再加上 Rasa 作为更小产能），你就能移除西方世界生产 6N/7N 红磷、也就是制造 InP 衬底所需的主力产能！ 没有 InP 衬底：就没有 photonics。 有趣的是：中国科技公司其实也会被 NCI 打乱。 对 $AXTI 来说，这个映射 / 依赖关系其实非常有意思： - AXT 的 Tongmei 在 STAR Market 上市时就披露过，它在结构上依赖从日本进口高纯前驱体材料 - WITS 数据显示，大约 460 美元 / 公斤的高纯磷正从日本流向中国 所以它们确实在暗中依赖 NCI。 中国虽然也有 Wylton Chemical、Qin Xi New Materials、Jinding Electronics、Chuxiong Chuanzhi、Guizhou Wylton Jinglin Electronic Materials 这类产能。 但这些都还是更小的玩家，没法在规模化 InP 衬底生产上替代 NCI 提供的高纯红磷产能。 $LITE 的 CEO 之前就说过 InP 衬底让他夜不能寐。 所以现在有了 NCI，你就能让他永久失眠？ 只要 1.69 亿美元。 所以供应链大概是这样： -> DGC 磷矿开采后运给 NCI -> NCI 把黄磷精炼成高纯红磷 -> Sumitomo / JX / AXT 把红磷和铟熔合，长成 InP 衬底 -> $COHR / $LITE 把 InP 衬底做成激光器 -> Innolight / Fabrinet 把它们封装成 800G / 1.6T 收发器 -> $NVDA / $GOOGL 用在 ASIC / GPU 集群里。 基本上，整个西方都依赖 NCI 来制造用于 photonics 的 InP 衬底。 我持有一点很小的仓位，纯属好玩。不过日本并不以随意提价著称。 所以如果你真的买下这家公司然后把价格抬高 15000%（比如政府意识到后把公司收回去），大概率会碰到监管问题，比如 FEFTA…… 也许提价 30-50% 还能压缩一下 forward P/E？但大概率不会最后变成 $AXTI 那样。 不管怎样，这家公司按大概 1.6 亿美元市值定价，本身就是一个巨大的国家安全风险。 至于基本面，它们市净率 0.54、forward P/E 11.4，所以其实也可能是被低估了。 TLDR： -> 它是下一个 $AXTI 吗？不是。 -> 它是不是西方 hyperscaler buildout + photonics 里一个未知的结构性瓶颈和关键漏洞？是。 -> 还有没有重估空间？ 只要回到 1 倍市净率，立刻就有 80-85% 的上涨空间。如果再给它更高的 forward P/E，可能更多。 总之，用 1.69 亿美元找到 hyperscaler 供应链里的一个主要失效点，挺好玩的。
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A Guide by Serenity: How to Cripple the Western Hyperscaler buildout with just $170m. Just take over Nippon Chemical (4092) with $169m! For InP substrates, you need: Indium and High Purity Phosphorus. Thought $AXTI was a bottleneck? NCI is the bottleneck of the bottleneck. NCI is actually the leader of the high purity red phosphorus chokepoint holding 26-27% of the market share (Rasa has less share, then the rest is China). And they export to $AXTI, Sumitomo, JX that need it to make InP substrates. So… if you have $160m to spend to acquire NCI (plus Rasa as smaller capacity), you can remove the leading Western world’s production of 6N/7N red phosphorus needed to make InP substrates! And without InP substrates: no photonics. Fun fact: China’s tech companies would get pretty disrupted with it too by NCI. For $AXTI, the mapping/reliance is actually pretty interesting: - AXT's Tongmei outlined its structural reliance on importing high-purity precursor materials from Japan on their STAR Market listing - WITS data showing ~$460/kg high-purity phosphorus flowing from Japan into China So they secretly do depend on NCI. China does have capacity like Wylton Chemical, Qin Xi New Materials, Jinding Electronics, and Chuxiong Chuanzhi, Guizhou Wylton Jinglin Electronic Materials as well. However, they’re all smaller players so can’t make up for high purity red phosphorus capacity provided by NCI for InP substrate production at scale. $LITE CEO already said inp substrates keeps him up at night. So now with NCI, you can give the guy permanent insomnia? For just $169M. So here's what the supply chain looks like: -> DGC phosphate rock mine and ships it to NCI -> NCI refines Yellow Phosphorus into High Purity Red Phosphorus -> Sumitomo / JX / AXT melt the Red Phosphorus with Indium to grow InP Substrates -> $COHR / $LITE fab InP substrates into Lasers -> Innolight/Fabrinet package them into 800G/1.6T transceivers -> $NVDA / $GOOGL use them for ASIC/GPU clusters. And basically, the entire West depends on NCI to make InP substrates for photonics. I hold some very small positions, just for fun. However, Japan is not well known for price hiking. So you’d probably run into regulatory problems eg. FEFTA if you bought the company and hiked prices 15000% (like government seizing back the company once they realize)… Maybe 30-50% hikes is possible to compress fwd p/e? But very likely wont end up like $AXTI. Regardless, this company is a massive, massive national security risk priced at ~$160m. As for fundamentals, they’re trading at .54 book value and a forward P/E of 11.4 so it’s probably undervalued anyway. TLDR: -> Is it the next $AXTI? No. -> Is it an unknown structural bottleneck + critical vulnerability of the Western hyperscaler buildout with photonics? Yes. -> Is there still room for re-rating? Just reverting to Book Value of 1 is immediate 80-85% upside. Maybe more if you give it multiples past 11 fwd p/e. Regardless, it’s fun to find a major point of failure in the hyperscaler supply chains for $169m.