ASIMAR wins ship building contract from Royal Thai Navy valued at Bt885m. Comment: Gov contracts kicking off. AUCT expects vehicles traffic thru auction yard accelerates as financial institution keen to purge repossessed vehicles by end of year, collab with Bank of Agri (BAAC) to open used car auction to serve bank customers, sees opportunity to […]

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Kia is considering building a car factory in TH capacity 250k units p.a., may sign agreement with government for plant construction as early as this year, Maeil Business Newspaper. positive WHA & AMATA. Comment: Ahhh finally a non CCP related company…. BDMS: holders approved raising foreign ownership limit to 30% from current 25% of total […]

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AGE is open for talks with new business partners, on 3 main businesses, logistics, alternative energy, and other sustainable business, after securing a 23.45% stake in QTC, sees growth in 2Q, especially coal business, after recoding 1.06m tons sales in 1Q, on track to meet 5.2m tons FY23 target. Comment: Coal demand isn’t disappearing, it […]

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AKR targets winning Bt200-300m of Bt500m EPC projects it plans to bid, eyes Bt3b bidding in transformer projects, with 10-12% winning rate. Comment: Even though I think the EV trend is bs purely because of basic engineering and science, if the government moves this way, Thailand does need to upgrade the entire grid system and […]

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AQUA files criminal case against Thanhoon Tabloid for distorting facts in its reporting in TPL, causing damages to >5,000 shareholders who own >140m shr. Comment: So they didn’t pay Thanhoon the usual 20-40k baht for the news articles? And what business AQUA actually do? Shine Bunnag was a well known stock punter (read: manipulator) back […]

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ADVANC’s upbeat 2Q ARPU after revamped airtime package, broadband deal (TTTBB) to conclude by end of 3Q. Comment: Disappointing earnings…and there is a major risk for ADVANC, that Telenor will send decent management to run true&dtac. AOT expects to receive permit for operating 3 airports (Krabi, Buriram & Udonthani) within 3-4 months, then propose cabinet […]

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AOT reported 2.37m passenger traffic during Songkran holiday, SAT1 concourse at SIA to cod by 4Q23 (end of Sept), mulls opening auction for commercial developer to develop 290 acres land to boost non-aero revenue. Comment: I’m still of the viewpoint that 2H23 is going to look incredible and that 2024 people will be surprised by […]

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AOT expects 2.37m passengers and 14K flights thru its 6 airports during Songkran. Comment: Every Quarter is going to look great until 2Q24. BEM said 420K trips at its mass transport services is above pre-covid, and traffic at its expressway network is back to 100%. Comment: Et voila… CK eyes 2 large pjs this year, […]

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AUCT upbeats on surging traffic thru auction yard driven by declining used cars price and larger volume of repossessed vehicles as banks clearing up NPLs. Comment: Urgh…was looking at this name again 2 months ago and it just jumped…well positioned to benefit from the higher number of vehicles going through their system BCH sees big […]

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ICHI mulls selling international franchise of its JPN restaurant, Oishi Biztoro, seeks to expand selling channel via multiple formats to expand coverage, plans to open 30 new restaurants over next 3 years as dine-in recovery, focus costs management to stretch margin. Comment: Because they haven’t done well with it.. KTB in collab with BJC to […]

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