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The continued decrease in Thai exports doesn’t come as surprise for the following reasons: Soft commodity prices have declined (remember rice and rubber?) As a result of the 2011 floods, several manufacturers took their insurance payouts and shut down business Thailand’s major electronics export was Hard Disk Drives – Well we’re all one smart phones/tables/computer […]
Read More →CHOW CHOW says it is in the middle of talks with a new partner to expand into alternative energy business. Its solar farm in Japan has started operations and it expects to start booking revenue in 4Q14. (Thun Hoon, 17/11/14) CK CK reported 3Q14 net profit of Bt1.2bn after booking gains from sale of BMCL […]
Read More →Last week, foreign investors continued net buying in the Thai stock market for a 3rd day by +Bt73mn but returned to net selling bonds by -Bt707mn and continued net shorts in Index Futures for a 2nd day by 1,911 contracts. Today we major factor is the Thai 3Q14 GDP result, which  Bloomberg consensus expects the […]
Read More →Earlier in the month we posted that WHA and HEMRAJ was the deal that never happened, now things have taking a new turn… What’s happened? Over the weekend there was news that WHA would purchase the stakes of the majority shareholders of Hemraj (15% of HEMRAJ’s outstanding shares) @ a price range of THB 4.60-THB […]
Read More →Notable Transactions Buy(s) THB 77mn N/A Sell(s) THB 422 mn BLAND – With the REIT finally listed plus the fact that they don’t have any other sizeable assets to sell, there isn’t any new catalyst for BLAND to move. BROOK – Brook, one of the oddest companies on the market that no one really trusts. EE- The […]
Read More →The past few weeks have been their usual hectic period with listed companies reporting their 3Q14 #’s, see below for a summary of how each sector performed on a reported net profit basis. A few comments: The overall performance for the the market was crap the SET & MAI were -4.7% YoY%, and -0.4% on […]
Read More →Thailand Deputy PM asks for faster budget disbursement – Gen. Prawit Wongsuwan, a Deputy Prime Minister, has expressed his concern over an incomplete distribution of the financial assistance to rice and rubber farmers, which might affect the efficiency of the government’s economic stimulus package. (NNT, 12/11/14) Public Debt to GDP – The PDMO has reported […]
Read More →BANPU Power plants, coal at core of new Banpu plan : Banpul Plc is preparing a new five-year business plan in preparation for the current plan ending in 2015, the company has revealed. (The Nation, 14/11/14) Comment: For banpu to become an attractive investment again one of two these two things have to happen 1) […]
Read More →BEAUTY BEAUTY reported 3Q14 net profit of Bt81.3mn, +68.4% YoY. The company is preparing to launch a new marketing campaign in 4Q14 to stimulate sales and is confident that revenue will grow 30% YoY in 2014 with widen net profit margin to at least 20%. (Kao Hoon, 13/11/14) Comment: One of the few companies to […]
Read More →BKD BKD to book Bt400mn of current backlog in 4Q14. It is confident that revenue for the year will exceed its target of Bt1.1bn. It expects to know the bidding results of a new project worth Bt1bn this year. It has set a five-year plan targeting revenue growth of at least 20% per year. (Kao […]
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