Notable transactions: BGH – The President continues to buy a massive amount of shares TTA – The Mahagitsiri family is a new majority shareholder SIRI – The President has now accumulated over 120 mil shares in the past month TPC – Shareholders selling their company to SCC
Read More →Recently Exxon Mobil (EM) sold 99% Exxon Mobil Yugen Kaisah (EMYK) to Tonen General (TG) in Japan. What we see here is simply that EM is continuing its broadbased strategy to reduce its stake in the downstream business and focus more upon the upstream petroleum business because of its better margins. This has an impact […]
Read More →Sony (digital cameras) has recently moved its largest camera production site in the world out of the Hi-Tech Industrial Estate in Bang Pa-in, Ayutthaya province to its facility in Amata Nakorn, Chonburi. It is also planning to build a new production plant at Amata Nakorn. NEC TOKIN Electronics (Thailand) Co Ltd located at Navanakorn Industrial […]
Read More →Ploy has returned from her two week vacation and has graced us with her latest thoughts on the market. Enjoy! While I was away, the US dollar index reached the Y-resistance in the chart and has backed down ever since. I stated previously that the breakout above the Y-resistance (which was above 82.20-82.40 then) would […]
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 →In January the SET Index performed extremely well and far above what we expected, unlimited funding for bankrupt countries with only 1% funding has seen liquidity pile into equity markets globally. The Thai Banking sector has underperformed because of the unclear deposit – B/E charges for the FIDF debt repayment issue.
Read More →UBS put out an extremely good paper demonstrating where the growth areas are in Thailand. In summary it shows how the provinces have grown far faster than Bangkok city in the past 15 years primarily due to manufacturing becoming a more prominent part of the economy here. This merely proves what a lot of us […]
Read More →“Floods? What floods? Thailand will be safe forever, people love this country, companies will always come here for business!” That’s the normal rhetoric from the government/politicians etc. etc. etc..and even from myself most times, albeit with a small disclaimer that the above won’t be the case unless the government acts to show that it is taking […]
Read More →Markets are still soaring, YTD up 3.3% with all sectors in the green and only financials underperforming because of the Thai government wanting to transfer the FIDF debt burden from the government’s balance sheet to the Bank of Thailand’s balance sheet. Looks like the LTRO from the ECB is working its liquidity wonders similar to […]
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.
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