Research on Thai Markets in general and the SET Index
Given the rising tensions in Iran leading to oil prices continuing to climb higher, the smart folks over at Thanachart put these charts together demonstrating the high correlation that the SET Index has with oil prices. This is due to the fact that the energy sector has the highest weighting within the SET.
Read More →Notable Transactions: BTS – The owner just bought THB 2.56 bn worth of shares BGH – The president continues to accumulate with another THB 20 mn worth of shares SYMC – Quite interesting to see a director of the board sell THB 20.5mn worth of shares. This company has secure cashflows for the next 10 […]
Read More →Jeremy Grantham, GMO’s Chief investment strategist, recently released his 4Q 2011 newsletter and its quite the read at 14 pages. He covers his thoughts on investing in general, capitalism today and investment observations for 2012 Some brief points to take away from it: Overpricing exists in debt markets such as the US and UK Stocks […]
Read More →So the flooding back in Thailand had a far worse impact on GDP versus what all analysts and economy agencies expected. The National Economics and Social Development Board (NESDB) reported the Thai 4Q11 GDP slumped -9.0% yoy, to the lowest in the past 53 quarters and much below the market estimate of -5.0% yoy. Compared […]
Read More →Notable transactions: BGH president bought another THB 83 million worth of shares BLAND owner continues accumulating shares SIRI executives continue to offload their shares!
Read More →I had begun creating this index since my role as an analyst at an investment management boutique firm here in Thailand, back in 2006, demonstrating how small & mid caps (SMCs) absolutely destroy large caps over time. What we wanted to prove was that year in year out, SMC’s would constantly outperform (albeit they didn’t […]
Read More →Notable transactions: The President of Bangkok General Hospitals (BGH) bought another USD 1.5 mn (total USD3.5 mn over 2 weeks) worth of shares in the company, fyi their business model over the past few years has been to simply acquire hospitals all over Thailand. BLA has seen its owners selling out of shares over the […]
Read More →Â Notable transactions: President of Bangkok General Hospitals (BGH) bought USD 2mn worth of shares in the company, interesting, and this despite the fact its trading @ 27x trailing PE Anant Kanjanapas has been accumulating shares in BLAND for the past few years, perhaps he’s looking to finally unlock the value in the company shares.
Read More →Global rallying continuing, ECB’s promise to provide essentially unlimited amount of funding to European banks has the bears running scared and the bulls out in full force. Quite interesting to see the weaker dollar reaction to all this.
Read More →A new weekly post that we’ll start putting up here. We track daily the trades of management from public companies here in Thailand. Despite what people say, if we see management selling shares its a red flag, I don’t care if they publicly say its for personal reasons, 99/100 times it means that they think […]
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