CGS CGS cuts market share target for brokerage to 3% from 3.5% after the resignation of its marketing team. It is ready to become a holding company in October, and is interested in energy and telecommunication businesses. (Kao Hoon, 07/08/14) Comment: As is always the case, whenever a new brokerage firm pops up, brokers move around and […]
Read More →AAV TAA trims growth targets — Thai AirAsia (TAA) has scaled down its expansion this year, cutting targets for fleet growth and passenger volume to reflect sluggish demand triggered by the political unrest in much of the first half. The country’s largest low-cost carrier will take delivery of five Airbus 320 jets instead of eight […]
Read More →Yesterday the junta/government decided to waive visa fee’s for 3 months as part of an attempt to revive tourism. What has happened since, every hotel stock (centel, mint, erw) performed well, most airline names (aav, thai, nok) have performed ok too. Now this isn’t the first time that Thailand has done something to boost tourism, […]
Read More →I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Heinecke on two occasions and have been following MINT (its former ticker was RGR when I started working) and I’ve seen how MINT has grown and grown and grown to the point where Central Group mimic’s their business model with Centel, to the point where almost every Thai […]
Read More →ADVANC Newly installed AIS chief vows 4G fight – Speeding up acquisition of spectrum bandwidth is the biggest challenge facing the new boss of Advanced Info Service (AIS) as the company battles to maintain its status as the country’s biggest mobile operator. (Bangkok Post, 04/07/14) AQUA AQUA says profit grew in 2Q14. It said that […]
Read More →AOT AOT says 3QFY14 passenger traffic contracted 7% due to political problems and seasonality. Its MD expects performance to gradually recover in FY4Q14. It expects passenger traffic and revenue growth of 3%. The second phrase of Suvarnabhumi is waiting for NCPO decision. (Khao Hoon, 30/06/14) Comment: Having just flown back to Thailand last night, I […]
Read More →BGH Issuing bonds — BGH will issue unspecified currency convertible bond worth no more than Bt10bn with a tenure of ~5 years. The company will use the cash to fund investments. (SET, 19/06/14) Comment: Why?! They are net cash, why would the company bother to do this, wouldn’t a normal bank loan be cheaper? Nuts […]
Read More →AIT Backlog over Bt3.7bn. It is confident that 2014 revenue will meet target of Bt6.2bn. It aims to bid for new projects worth Bt7.6bn. It reported 1Q14 net profit of Bt199.17mn, +34.84% YoY after completing more projects. (Khao Hoon, 12/05/14) Comment: But on an EPS basis growth is half what was reported due to the […]
Read More →As usual for the monthly management trades, we’ll only show the transactions above THB 20 mn
Read More →Not directly related to the market but its interesting to see the latest numbers from Instagram showing that the #1 location in the world was Siam Paragon and that for the most instagrammed cities, Bangkok was #2, you can see below for the whole list. Now if I’m reaching for an investment case…well high number […]
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