EARTH KTB to send legal officers to investigate EARTH after it filed for bankruptcy with the Central Bankruptcy Court with total debt of Bt47.5bn, higher than its assets of Bt31.8bn (Bangkok Biz, 1/8/17) Comment: “Where did our money go krub?” FTE FTE signals brighter 2H17 earnings, driven by private and public projects with total […]
Read More →BCPG BCPG to invest in power plant business in Indonesia. The production power is 182 MW. It will record revenue in 3Q17. (Thun Hoon, 24/7/17) Comment: I do often worry about Thai companies buying commodity/power assets in Indonesia…but should this be a genuinely good purchase it does add to the theory that BCPG benefits as a state […]
Read More →AQ AQ sold 34,140 million private placement shares worth Bt1.7bn. It is progressing on selling more shares and believes that this is a good signal to negotiate with KTB. (Thun Hoon, 13/7/17) Comment: This was supposed to be an up and coming property firm a few years ago to only have fallen apart in the […]
Read More →ADVANC AIS is joining TCDC to build a new creative space in the heart of Bangkok named ‘AIS D.C.’ to be open to the public from July 13 at Emporium Mall 5th floor. (Kao Hoon, 5/7/17) BRR BRR is considering raising its revenue growth target of 30% for this year. 2Q17 is looking promising from […]
Read More →BTS BTS expects EBITDA margin for the Pink and Yellow Lines to increase to 64-69% in its final year and passenger numbers to grow 4.5-5.2% on average. (Thun Hoon, 21/6/17) CBG CBG is in talks with 3-4 retail operators in the UK to expand its business overseas. It expects to finalize the deal with 2-3 […]
Read More →AMATA AMATA visited Stockholm, Sweden to study its ‘Hammarby Sjostad’, or ‘Smart City’ project, and SAAB Group which manufactures fighter jets for Sweden, in the hopes of developing a Smart Aerospace City in Thailand. (Thun Hoon, 7/6/2017) CSS CSS expects to benefit from NBTC and MEA project to ground all power/cable lines along five main […]
Read More →Notable Transactions Buy(s) THB 589 mn TKN – After selling a fair amount of shares at mid 20’s he’s buying back quite a bit here. PACE – Well they have mahanakorn transferring…and then the supposed dean & deluca story…and then…well I just don’t buy this story MTLS – I am impressed by their growth numbers..but […]
Read More →BIZ BIZ announced 1Q17 earnings of Bt4.12mn, growing from 1Q16’s Bt0.39m, driven by higher sales and lower cost. It plans to launch new products. It plans to continue transferring Bt350mn in work on hand. (Thun Hoon, 17/05/17) Comment: I am curious to hear about this business BRR BRR reports 1Q17 net profit growth of 221% […]
Read More →Notable Transactions Finally there’s been a fair amount of movement on both the buys and sells Buy(s) THB 138 mn GLOBAL – This director seems to believe rather strongly in the company at this price. Sell(s) THB 201 mn PACE – What’s going on here? SAMART – Looks like SIM and the continued delay of Cambodia […]
Read More →AJD AJD expects to benefit after NBTC announced distribution of 4mn digital coupons on Mar 2. It expects 1Q17 performance to be robust. It targets set-top box sales of 600,000 units this year. (Thun Hoon, 20/03/17) Comment: The difference between AJD and FSMART is that AJD will recognise sales 1x when a machine is sold […]
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