JKN expects positive earnings momentum continued in 4Q from strong media contents sales, tailwind from home shopping and health supplement products (C-Tria), aiming to scale back content sales revenue to 70% from 90%, commerce & others 30% to diversify risk. Comment: Well let’s see how far this can go. They don’t have the network that […]

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APCO upbeats 4Q sales after tap in online channel, aiming to expand market share from Bt 20b TH health supplements market, firms on 15% revenue growth this year. BH reported Bt221m, -80% yoy; missed Bt426m consensus. Comment: Or it grew 4x QoQ, annualise that and its cheap!! *note the sarcasm EA’s first shipment of energy […]

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BM anticipates solid turnaround 2H supported by recovery parts order from Kubota as workers migrated back from metro to province of domicile due to Covid, in talk Nestle to supply food trucks to create jobs for disables, Bt250m out of Bt500m backlog to realize in 4Q, expects to get more electrical conduit & telcos box […]

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GSB denied report that it’s paying Bt2b for 48.59% stake in AMANAH. Comment: That rumour was quickly dispelled within the day, next name is SAWAD – which hasn’t issued a press release denying the rumours. If so SAWAD may get into MTC’s business – motorbikes. AP may report 115-128% growth in 3Q NP to Bt1,330m […]

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Government Saving Bank (GSB) to buy 48.59% stake in AMANAH from IBANK in a Bt2b deal, while playing down a JV with SAWAD in car title loan business due to high capital requirement and may endure up to 5 years of losses, Tabloid. Comment: GSB are idiots. Amanah has no network, no franchise name, it’s […]

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Earnings are coming out and guess what? Generally everything is great QoQ! (though ex rubber players, absolutely rubbish YoY). This week we have: 1) The US elections…this will be amusing, I have bets on Trump. 2) Thailand’s anti-monopoly org will have a decision re CP’s Tesco acquisition…I have bets they’ll use their archaic system and […]

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Notable Transactions Buy(s) THB 84 mn NEWS – The Vicechairman of the BoD takes a larger stake in the co. Sell(s) THB 3.2 bn KBANK – A family member dumps shares. At these levels… STARK – This is a weird company, high market cap, not much activity, but a block sale still occurred…

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BGC – Singha following the CP playbook. So there is another capital increase occurring in the markets. This time its a consolidation play by Singha’s bottling firm, BGC.   My first thought seeing this headline was… “This is the perfect example of public companies that have access to capital buying up their competitors and taking over their […]

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AOT: expects loss continue next year as pandemic erodes passenger arrival, sees average month to date domestic passenger traffic back to normal above 100kpd but international arrivals remained low 700 passenger/day, CEO. IVL: completed acquisition of PET recycling plant in Poland, IMP Polowat. Comment: Cookie munster continues. Now when their spread cycle returns to the […]

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CHAYO: 33.6m new shares from stock dividend tradable tomorrow, October 30. Comment: And now with a higher equity base, will CHAYO have the 8alls to acquire high amounts of bad debt (should the Banks actually sell them into the market, we’re estimating some THB 500bn of official bad debts across the system by year end)  […]

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