ASEFA ASEFA targets 2017 revenue growth of 10-15% and plans to bid for government and private jobs. It has backlog on hand of more than Bt1.8bn, of which it will book 70% this year. It has a budget of Bt10mn to open 10 new branches. (Thun Hoon, 02/02/17) Comment: Well if thats the case then […]
Read More →BAY BAY targets loan growth of 6-8% this year by focusing on corporate and personal loans. Ittargets NPLs to not be higher than 2.5% with bad debt of 1.4-1.5%. It expects 4Q16 bad debt tobe higher because of adding one more corporate loan. (Kao Hoon, 01/02/17) Comment: Part of me is still of the viewpoint […]
Read More →AGE AGE targets 2017 revenue growth of 30-35% supported by an uptrend in coal price. It has backlog of more than 500K tons which will be delivered in early 2Q17. It has budgeted Bt500mn to engage in the services business and plans to increase the number of its ships from 8 to 22. (Thun Hoon, […]
Read More →So its the year of the rooster and CLSA has come out with their usual As the Year of the Rooster dawns, casino shares may be your best bet in Hong Kong… Gambling and transport stocks will kick off the new lunar year on a stellar note, according to CLSA Ltd., an offshore unit of […]
Read More →BA BA expects 2017 passenger growth of 13-15% and revenue growth of 10% but expects profit to be stable from 2016 as oil prices will be coming back up. It plans to expand to China in February-March, flying to Guangzhou and Chongqing. (Kao Hoon, 30/01/17) Comment: We’ve heard rumours of a new private airport just […]
Read More →Notable Transactions Buy(s) THB 173 mn AJ – A shareswap between the Chairman/MD and the VP Side comment: The President of SIRI continues to buy shares, round 2? Sell(s) THB 220 mn AJ – A shareswap between the Chairman/MD and the VP GUNKUL – The DMD dumps a fair amount of shares
Read More →It’s earnings season and banks have come out with marginally better than expected #’s across the board, you could argue that they are being playful with their provisions/npl’s but #’s are #’s.
Read More →There’s quite a bit to digest in this latest quarterly letter from GMO, I’ve put in some snippets below but there’s far more thoughts and analysis in the paper itself. The overwhelming driver of the spike in productivity in that decade was the extraordinary growth in production of IT equipment, which grew at 10% real […]
Read More →Exports see marginal rise in 2016. Thailand’s exports rose for a second straight month in December, enabling the performance in 2016 to eke out a marginal growth of 0.45% in 2016, ending three years of contraction. (Bangkok Post, 25/1/17) Big-ticket infrastructure projects get PPP go-ahead. Seven big-ticket infrastructure projects worth 712 billion baht under the […]
Read More →AKR AKR expects 2017 revenue to grow 50% from 2016. It expects to book Bt1.9bn in revenue from transformers and Bt900mn from solar and construction. It expects to benefit from upcoming public bids. It expects to report net profit in 1Q17. (Kao Hoon, 27/01/17) Comment: If AKR will win this amount of projects then expect […]
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