ThaiCapitalist research
So its the year of the rooster and CLSA has come out with their usual As the Year of the Rooster dawns, casino shares may be your best bet in Hong Kong… Gambling and transport stocks will kick off the new lunar year on a stellar note, according to CLSA Ltd., an offshore unit of […]
Read More →BA BA expects 2017 passenger growth of 13-15% and revenue growth of 10% but expects profit to be stable from 2016 as oil prices will be coming back up. It plans to expand to China in February-March, flying to Guangzhou and Chongqing. (Kao Hoon, 30/01/17) Comment: We’ve heard rumours of a new private airport just […]
Read More →Notable Transactions Buy(s) THB 173 mn AJ – A shareswap between the Chairman/MD and the VP Side comment: The President of SIRI continues to buy shares, round 2? Sell(s) THB 220 mn AJ – A shareswap between the Chairman/MD and the VP GUNKUL – The DMD dumps a fair amount of shares
Read More →It’s earnings season and banks have come out with marginally better than expected #’s across the board, you could argue that they are being playful with their provisions/npl’s but #’s are #’s.
Read More →There’s quite a bit to digest in this latest quarterly letter from GMO, I’ve put in some snippets below but there’s far more thoughts and analysis in the paper itself. The overwhelming driver of the spike in productivity in that decade was the extraordinary growth in production of IT equipment, which grew at 10% real […]
Read More →Exports see marginal rise in 2016. Thailand’s exports rose for a second straight month in December, enabling the performance in 2016 to eke out a marginal growth of 0.45% in 2016, ending three years of contraction. (Bangkok Post, 25/1/17) Big-ticket infrastructure projects get PPP go-ahead. Seven big-ticket infrastructure projects worth 712 billion baht under the […]
Read More →AKR AKR expects 2017 revenue to grow 50% from 2016. It expects to book Bt1.9bn in revenue from transformers and Bt900mn from solar and construction. It expects to benefit from upcoming public bids. It expects to report net profit in 1Q17. (Kao Hoon, 27/01/17) Comment: If AKR will win this amount of projects then expect […]
Read More →ALLA ALLA expects 2017 revenue to grow 30% from last year on the back of Bt400mn backlog, expects Bt300mn to be booked in this year. It plans to take part in crane providers for 3-4 clients in waste power plants (valued about Bt40-50mn/client). It is budgeting Bt150-180mn to expand its warehouse and factory. (Kao Hoon, […]
Read More →AJD AJD and partners set up two subsidiaries and is taking a stake of over 50%. It expects this to provide growth as well as lower risk from core business. (Thun Hoon, 25/01/17) AOT AOT expects passenger pass-through to reach 3.87mn with 23,000 flights on Chinese New Year. It says tourists from China dropped to […]
Read More →Mark Mobius @ Franklin Templeton is out with his 4Q review, and here’s his thoughts on Thailand and the link to the article for his thoughts on the rest of the Emerging Markets Thailand could see some weakness in economic activity due to the one-year period of mourning following the passing of its king in […]
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