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Largest Chemicals Public Companies in South Korea
Benchmark revenue and EBITDA valuation multiples for public comps like
LG Chem, Ecopro, Cosmo Advanced Materials, SK Discovery Co and Samyang Holdings.
 | LG Chem Ltd manufactures and sells a variety of chemicals, electronics, and energy storage products. The company operates through five segments, including Petrochemical, LG Energy Solution, Advanced Materials, Life Science, and Others. The Petrochemical segment produces ABS, PC, PE, PP, acrylics, alcohols, synthetic rubber, special resins, and olefins. LG Energy Solution supplies small batteries, automotive batteries, and energy-storage batteries. The Advanced Materials segment provides engineering and display materials, cathode materials, separators, and RO filters. The Life Science segment offers growth hormones, vaccines, diabetes treatments, and pesticides, while Common & Others covers corporate management, sales, and R&D activities. | $220 | +74% | $17B | $32B | 1.0x | 7.5x | ||
| Ecopro Co Ltd is engaged in the battery materials business, mainly serving the lithium-ion battery industry. The company operates through two reportable segments: Battery Materials business and Other business. The Battery Materials business segment focuses on cathode materials, the core components used in lithium-ion batteries, and also covers precursors, lithium, and recycling activities related to the cathode materials business. | $97 | +233% | $13B | $14B | 6.4x | 173.6x | ||
| Cosmo Advanced Materials & Technology Co Ltd is a Korea-based company engages in the manufacture and distribution of audio and video products and toners. Its products include lithium cobalt oxide (LCO), toner, iron oxide, release film, adhesive film, an insulation film, supporting tape, audio, and video tapes. | $36 | +64% | $1B | $1B | 4.1x | 96.9x | ||
| SK Discovery Co Ltd is engaged in various business fields, including environment-friendly materials, vaccines/pharmaceuticals, energy/chemicals, and real estate development. The company operates in six segments, which include the Blood product business, the Gas business, the Green Chemicals Business, the Life Science Business, the Investment sector, and the Other division. The majority of its revenue is generated from the gas business segment. | $34 | -- | $628M | $4B | 0.6x | 6.1x | ||
| Samyang Holdings Corp is involved in chemical, consumer food stuff, bottle and ion exchange resin business. The company has primarily Chemical business and Food business segments. Chemical business segment comprises engineering plastics for automotive, electronic and machine parts, manufacturing, and selling of ion exchange resins and industrial fibers, services related to the development of materials for displays, semiconductors. The food business segment consists of food material and foodservice distribution business. The firm promotes and sells its products under the Q.one food stuff brand. | $39 | -- | $305M | $731M | 0.3x | (12.6x) | ||
| LK Chem is an other unclassified chemical product manufacturing category in korea. The group engaged in developing, manufacturing, and selling chemical materials precursors and ligands used in the thin film deposition process in the semiconductor industry. Its products include high-k materials for forming high-k dielectric films used in the atomic layer deposition (ALD) process and low-k materials for forming low-k dielectric films, and other precision chemical materials such as perovskite, a photovoltaic material based on synthesis, charge transport layer materials, and others. | $26 | -- | $165M | $148M | 11.1x | 33.5x | ||
| Dongsung Chemical Co Ltd manufactures and supplies chemical materials necessary based on polyurethane technology. The main products of the company include heavy equipment parts, automobile materials, functional solvents, organic peroxides, shoe materials, living materials, construction materials, and others. | $3 | -- | $137M | $150M | 0.2x | 1.6x | ||
| Median | $36 | +74% | $628M | $1B | 1.0x | 7.5x |
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