The National Economics and Social Development Board (NESDB) reported that the Thai 2Q12 GDP expanded +4.2YoY%, improving from the +0.4% YoY in 1Q12 and on a quarterly basis expanded +3.3% QoQ. Chart 1: Thailand quarterly & Annual GDP Growth YoY% Chart 2: Thailand’s Quarterly GDP Growth YoY% Key drivers appear to be: Consumption +5.9% Investments: […]
Read More →Notable Transactions Buy(s): BLA – The Chairman of Bangkok Life Assurance buys THB 20 mn worth of shares BLAND – K. Anant continues to accumulate shares, watch this one closely Sell(s): PJW – A director offloads THB 100 mn baht worth of shares, but post sale the price still goes up 20% hmm. Other: BLS […]
Read More →With the lack of global central bank news to sway markets over the past week, the SET continued its rise upwards this year. The Industrials sector have been performing well this month on the back of continued improvement post the floods 4Q11 last year. Going forward with the European summer holidays over expect to begin […]
Read More →Positive(s): Thai Car exports in July were at a record high with 94,838 units Continuing the Draghi put rally, the Spanish IBEX trades higher each day this week and closes at 4 month high. It takes the Italian MIB index with it. Excluding commodities SET listed companies reported YoY Net profit growth of 32% Negative(s): […]
Read More →Paper & Printing Materials! Eh?! But its true Paper & Printing Materials grew 213% YoY and 84% QoQ, only two companies are TCP and UTP are listed within the sector and off the top of my head I have no idea how this came to be. The worst performing sectors were anything commodity related (Energy, […]
Read More →Need ideas for investments? Look no further than these names here, I’ve looked at MACO and QLT in the past and found them to both be well run companies but for liquidity reasons neither were investable unfortunately. SST well…leveraging up ones balance sheet to buy Au Bon Pain and Dunkin Donuts…not sure. As for WORK, […]
Read More →Its positive to see the SET relaxing its draconian listing requirements. The number of IPO’s in Thailand have been very low for the past few years with half (3) of the listings this year being property funds. Hopefully this relaxation in holding co’s will expand the number of new choices here in Thailand. Kannikar Chalitaporn, president […]
Read More →Master Ad Plc (MACO) was established in 1988 with registered capital of 600,000 baht by Noppadon Tansalarak, who still serves as CEO today. The company began by providing advertising services through stationary billboards and has since expanded into many other forms of out-of-home (OOH) media and entertainment services. Mr Noppadon discusses the company’s strategy and […]
Read More →We’ve liked the change in management in KTC at the end of last year from a CEO who enjoyed using company funds and marketing girls for his own amusement to K. Rathian, who is well-known for being strict with spending and strong on ethics within the industry. To us the investment thesis is fairly straightfwd: […]
Read More →World news has thankfully been quiet for the past few weeks b/c of the olympics and European politicians on their summer holidays. Sector wise, financials were hit on the back on short term profit taking while the industrials sector (mainly are export manufacturers) had a stellar week on the back of strong earnings announced during […]
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