BoT says GDP growth could fall short. The Bank of Thailand has turned more pessimistic on this year’s economic growth, saying risks to its 4.4% forecast are tilted to the downside. Economic growth this year could be dampened by weak exports and tourism. (Bangkok Post, 01/12/18) Improving rice prices. Department of Foreign Trade says 11-month […]

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AAV AAV’s CEO plans to launch 10 new routes, nine international and one domestic. The company is targeting key potential markets such as China and India. (Thun Hoon, 7/12/18) Comment: They are just going to dominate the region with their lower costs. Again oil prices are key. BANPU BANPU is expanding its investment in a […]

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DELTA DELTA is seeing order flow from existing and new clients. The company expects revenue growth of 20% in 2019, boosted by capacity expansion in Thailand and India and rising demand for auto-related parts. (Thun Hoon, 6/12/18) Comment: And on top of that DELTA is taking the Thailand side private  KKP KKP’s CEO has a […]

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The Executive Talk: SVI PCL (SET:SVI) Becoming a global EMS play BANGKOK, Nov 30, 2018 – (ACN Newswire) – SVI PCL (SET:SVI) Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Pongsak Lothongkam discusses the company’s strategy and outlook in The Executive Talk (TET) by ShareInvestor.com. TET: How has the company evolved in terms of the types of products/services that it […]

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BANPU BPP, a subsidiary of BANPU, will start commercial operations of a solar farm in Japan. BANPU will begin to book revenue from this shareholding of 15.35MW in 4Q18. BANPU has total electricity production capacity of 2,100MW. It expects earnings of Bt8.8bn, supported by higher coal price and revenue sharing from the power plant business. […]

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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 […]

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Notable Transactions Buy(s)  THB 744 mn FNS – Now thats interesting. The MD just bought a substantial amount of shares. I wonder what’s going to happen here OCEAN – Share swap between new and old owners MK – Another share swap between new and old owners Sell(s) THB 437 mn MK – See above OCEAN […]

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AGE AGE targets coal sales volume of 4mn tons next year, 20% higher than this year. It expects coal sales volume to hit its target of 3mn tons this year and this will be a record high. Demand both at home and abroad is still growing. It has 3-4mn tons of backlog now and this […]

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Well here you go. Are these ridiculously high levels? For Thailand yes, compared to the region i.e. Indonesia and Malaysia where it reaches ~40% then no. But does it make sense when the USD offers higher yields than THB? To which one ponders, are the buyers just regionally focused and therefore have to put capital […]

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