Updates
Thailand Rice scheme payments begin – Farmers waiting for delayed rice-pledging scheme payments can begin claiming their money from today, coup-makers announced yesterday. (Bangkok Post, 26/05/14) Reform plans to be discussed today — The NCPO will meet with several economic experts and government officials today to launch a new policy plans to reform the economy […]
Read More →BAFS BAFS maintains revenue growth of 10% in 2014, even though it has reduced volume growth of refueling services to 4.5% YoY from 5% YoY after raising refueling services fee. It will invest in the fuel pipeline for Phase 2 of Suvarnabhumi and will conclude its investment plan in Myanmar and fuel pipeline project in […]
Read More →BGH Buys new hospital in Nakorn Pathom — BGH has announced the acquisition of Sanamchan Hospital, a 198-bed private hospital in Nakorn Pathom, plus its two hospitals. The investment cost is Bt3.66bnn (SET) Comment: And the growth machine for BGH continues, still think it can comfortably go to THB 20/share, just wait for the day […]
Read More →AGE AGE plans to generate 100MW from biomass power plant in 5 years. It expects to invest Bt7bn. Although revenue from the electricity business will be lower than from the coal business, net profit is expected to be similar. (Khao Hoon, 28/05/14) Comment: Well they are going to have to raise debt to quite high […]
Read More →BCP Only slight QoQ fall in EBITDA in 2Q14 — Although its refinery will be shut down for maintenance, BCP expects EBITDA for 2Q14 to only fall slightly compared to 1Q14. Even though EBITDA for refinery business will fall by 30%, revenue from its three solar energy phases plus the attractive adders, will help strengthen […]
Read More →ADVANC AIS to temper revenue view – Advanced Info Service (AIS) says it will revise down its revenue growth target from the previous 6-8% this year because the political stalemate is dragging down economic growth and hurting the mobile sector. But the country’s biggest mobile operator is still expecting positive growth. (Bangkok Post 26/05/14) Comment: […]
Read More →What the what? Everytime I travel something happens in this wonderfully odd country, and this time a coup (a longer post to come later in the week), anything to look forward to? Well the military is wiping the government posts clean and replacing each position with their own people, I don’t there are going to […]
Read More →Notable Transactions: Buy(s): THB 96mn A – Someone @ Areeya bought some thb 25 mn worth of shares, who? No idea b/c there’s no name on the SEC website just yet, have a look @ their chart, this stock just keeps growing and I have no idea why CPF – A director buys nearly THB […]
Read More →Thailand BoT says baht will continue to weaken as political instability continues, exports likely to benefit; while Thailand default risk is stable for now. (Krungtep Thrurakit, 16/05/14) BoT is concerned by the level of credit card debt, as it rose by 30% over the past year. The Chairman of the Credit Association said that some […]
Read More → BH/BJCHI/MEGA/NYT/TTCL MSCI will be calculating BH in its MSCI Global Standard starting May 30, while BJCHI, MEGA, NYT, and TTCL will be calculated in the MSCI Global Small Cap. (Khao Hoon, 16/05/14) Comment: Fantastic news for all companies involved especially the new ones BJCHI n MEGA‎ BKI BKI reported net profit of Bt627mn in 1Q14 and pay DPS […]
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