BA SEC punishes top BA shareholders. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has imposed fines totaling Bt500mn against three major shareholders of SET-listed Bangkok Airways Plc (BA), including billionaire Prasert Prasarttong-Osoth, for share price manipulation. (Bangkok Post, 19/1/19) Comment: Isn’t it silly? Not the SEC, the founder(s) of BDMS and BA. Their official paper net […]
Read More →AOT AOT has budgeted Bt15bn to pay dividend of Bt1.05 per share, XD on Dec 13. The board gave the nod to another four-year term for the president of AOT, Nitinai Sirismatthakarn. (Thun Hoon, 3/12/18) Comment: And so tourism has recovered…what quite turnaround in emotions for the tourism related names AUCT AUCT expects revenue growth […]
Read More →BA BA believes that VISA fee exemption will not be very effective, as it is just a short-term stimulus and the process is convoluted. It recommends the government exempt visas altogether, which will encourage tourists to make decisions more rapidly. It is negotiating with a European company to jointly bid for Suvarnabhumi’s duty free space. […]
Read More →BA BA says it will miss its revenue growth target of 7-10% this year because of high fare competition. It expects 3Q18 results to grow QoQ supported by high season It expects passengers to grow by 4-6% this year. (Kao Hoon, 31/8/18) Comment: And they’ve been hit with the higher oil prices, but benefited from […]
Read More →Byron Wein August 2018 His latest monthly letter is outttt and here’s a few interesting snippets and a link to the rest of the piece Today there are fewer public companies in the U.S. than at any time over the last 40 years. The peak year for public markets was 1996, when over 8,000 companies […]
Read More →BA BA is partnering with three groups to submit a bid to operate the duty-free zone in Suvarnabhumi Airport, competing with King Power. The result of the auction is expected to be announced within the next three months. Management guided that 2Q18 earnings will improve YoY on higher traffic growth. It expects 2018 revenue growth […]
Read More →BA BA expects 2Q18 revenue to be good, with advanced bookings up 11 .%The company plans to raise its revenue growth target for 2018 to 7-10 %and continue to expand codeshare with other airlines .It expects cabin factor to reach 70 %this year and will expand its fleet to accommodate more flights to Chiang Mai. […]
Read More →Potential Changes to the SET50 and SET100 These names have not been confirmed yet but brokers are expecting that these will be the changes. SET50 Expected Additions: BGRIM, DELTA, ESSO, KTC, RATCH Expected Deletions: BCP, KCE, PSH, TPIPP, WHA SET100 Expected Additions: BLA, ERW, MBK, PRM, PTL, RS, THANI, VGI Expected Deletions: ANAN, BA, BIG, […]
Read More →BA BA to service air charters between Koh Samui and major Chinese cities, which it expects will drive load factor to 70%. It plans an aviation kitchen in Chiang Mai as well as a maintenance office. It targets greater than 5% revenue growth in 2018 and is not concerned about higher oil prices since it […]
Read More →ANAN ANAN believes 2018 revenue will grow by 18% to Bt28.3-34.3bn, even though transfers of Ashton Asoke have been delayed. It says it is willing to return the money if the project is not able to be transferred by the scheduled date. It also says 95% of its customers are willing to wait for transfers […]
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