Updates
ALLA to bid for 2-3 power plants’ crane projects, worth Bt100m each, results in 2Q21, in talks with potential JV in solar cells business. BTS and STEC under BSR Joint Venture mulls bidding for Bt122b West Orange Line, while BEM will bid alone. Comment: BEM is basically CK… INTUCH’s lawyer up and in the process […]
Read More →I still hold to the viewpoint that everything is going to look better QoQ until 2H21, and as such the markets will rally. In Thailand – the protests are priced in, hence the drop in the past 2-3 weeks plus the usual regional fund outflow. It’s earnings season time, latest one today is CPN which […]
Read More →BAM may report strong 3Q at Bt1.76b, +100% yoy, and may book Bt1b gains from asset sales in 4Q, Tabloid. Comment: Highly possible given that nothing really happened in 2Q20 BTS’s Bt8.6b green bond were 3.3X oversubscribed. Comment: Going down the ESG route. HMPRO sees less than 20% drop in profit this year, plans one […]
Read More →Notable Transactions It is earnings seasons and therefore quiet in terms of management transactions until the 15th November. Buy(s) THB 7.7 mn N/A Sell(s) THB 8.5 mn N/A
Read More →US trade move ‘won’t hurt Thai exports’: GSP suspension imposes ordinary tax rate. The Commerce Ministry insisted yesterday the announcement by US President Donald Trump to suspend preferential trade benefits for 231 Thai products under the so-called Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) won’t much affect Thailand’s export to the US. Bangkok Post Phuket chamber lobbies […]
Read More →JKN expects positive earnings momentum continued in 4Q from strong media contents sales, tailwind from home shopping and health supplement products (C-Tria), aiming to scale back content sales revenue to 70% from 90%, commerce & others 30% to diversify risk. Comment: Well let’s see how far this can go. They don’t have the network that […]
Read More →APCO upbeats 4Q sales after tap in online channel, aiming to expand market share from Bt 20b TH health supplements market, firms on 15% revenue growth this year. BH reported Bt221m, -80% yoy; missed Bt426m consensus. Comment: Or it grew 4x QoQ, annualise that and its cheap!! *note the sarcasm EA’s first shipment of energy […]
Read More →BM anticipates solid turnaround 2H supported by recovery parts order from Kubota as workers migrated back from metro to province of domicile due to Covid, in talk Nestle to supply food trucks to create jobs for disables, Bt250m out of Bt500m backlog to realize in 4Q, expects to get more electrical conduit & telcos box […]
Read More →GSB denied report that it’s paying Bt2b for 48.59% stake in AMANAH. Comment: That rumour was quickly dispelled within the day, next name is SAWAD – which hasn’t issued a press release denying the rumours. If so SAWAD may get into MTC’s business – motorbikes. AP may report 115-128% growth in 3Q NP to Bt1,330m […]
Read More →Government Saving Bank (GSB) to buy 48.59% stake in AMANAH from IBANK in a Bt2b deal, while playing down a JV with SAWAD in car title loan business due to high capital requirement and may endure up to 5 years of losses, Tabloid. Comment: GSB are idiots. Amanah has no network, no franchise name, it’s […]
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