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Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul><li>Brokers' top stock picks include CLAR, CICT, CNMC Goldmine, KORE, Wilmar, Parkway Life REIT, FLCT, and ST Engineering.</li><li>Analysts recommend buying Digital Core REIT due to increased rents and leasing strength, while optimistic about Oiltek's new orders for FY2025.</li><li>CGSI optimistic about Seatrium with new MOU for second bp FPU; OCBC boosts fair value. Citi downgrades SGX to 'sell'. PhillipCapital maintains 'accumulate' rating on BRC Asia, raises TP to $3.15. Maybank Securities maintains 'buy' rating on SingPost. DBS upgrades Elite UK REIT to 'buy'.</li></ul>

Brokers' top stock picks include CLAR, CICT, CNMC Goldmine, KORE, Wilmar, Parkway Life REIT, FLCT, and ST Engineering.Analysts recommend buying Digital Core REIT due to increased rents and leasing strength, while optimistic about Oiltek's new orders for FY2025.CGSI optimistic about Seatrium with new MOU for second bp FPU; OCBC boosts fair value. Citi downgrades SGX to 'sell'. PhillipCapital maintains 'accumulate' rating on BRC Asia, raises TP to $3.15. Maybank Securities maintains 'buy' rating on SingPost. DBS upgrades Elite UK REIT to 'buy'.

Singapore Market Roundup (14-Feb-2025): Brokers' top picks: CLAR, CICT, CNMC, KORE, Wilmar, Parkway Life, FLCT, ST Engineering.

SGX Market Strategist, Equity & Fixed Income, Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

Geoff Howie

SGX Market Strategist, Equity & Fixed Income

Asia’s leading multi-asset exchange

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

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With about 40% of listed companies and over 80% of listed bonds originating outside of Singapore as well as established linkages across the region and in Europe, SGX is Asia’s most international and connected exchange. Offering a full suite of derivatives products across Asian equity indices, commodities and currencies, SGX is the world’s most liquid international market for the benchmark equity indices of China, India, Japan and ASEAN.

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Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>kopi-C with BRC Asia’s CEO: "We’ve become the leader in Singapore’s reinforcing steel fabrication industry’" After becoming one of Singapore’s largest reinforcing steel fabricators through an acquisition, BRC Asia plans to extend its reach to other markets.</li><li>Incorporated in 1938, BRC Asia Limited ("BRC") is a leading Pan-Asia prefabricated reinforcing steel solutions provider headquartered in Singapore and listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange.</li></ul>

kopi-C with BRC Asia’s CEO: "We’ve become the leader in Singapore’s reinforcing steel fabrication industry’" After becoming one of Singapore’s largest reinforcing steel fabricators through an acquisition, BRC Asia plans to extend its reach to other markets.Incorporated in 1938, BRC Asia Limited ("BRC") is a leading Pan-Asia prefabricated reinforcing steel solutions provider headquartered in Singapore and listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange.

kopi-C with BRC Asia’s CEO: "We’ve become the leader in Singapore’s reinforcing steel fabrication industry"

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UOB Kay Hian

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<ul><li>BRC Asia reported lower 1HFY23 earnings of S$26.2m (-34% y-o-y, -48% h-o-h), dragged by lower project contractual offtake and an unfavourable product mix.</li><li>Management noted that Singapore’s construction sector is expected to recover from 3QFY23 onwards, backed by easing of the labour shortage and a strong pipeline of upcoming construction projects.</li><li>However, with no near-term catalysts as well as compressed volumes in 3QFY23, we maintain HOLD on BRC Asia but with a higher target price of S$1.73.</li></ul>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

BRC Asia reported lower 1HFY23 earnings of S$26.2m (-34% y-o-y, -48% h-o-h), dragged by lower project contractual offtake and an unfavourable product mix.Management noted that Singapore’s construction sector is expected to recover from 3QFY23 onwards, backed by easing of the labour shortage and a strong pipeline of upcoming construction projects.However, with no near-term catalysts as well as compressed volumes in 3QFY23, we maintain HOLD on BRC Asia but with a higher target price of S$1.73.Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

BRC Asia - Muted 1HFY23 Results In Line With Expectations; No Near-Term Catalysts

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events, Quiddity Advisors

David Blennerhassett

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Quiddity Advisors

Theme International Holdings / Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Commodities trader <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/theme-international-holdings-limited" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:6413:1" rel="noopener">Theme International Holdings (990 HK)</a> is up 670% since the inset of Covid, and that is after declining 52% from the July 2021 peak.</li>
<li>A sharp increase in iron ore prices since 2020 resulted in FY21 net income of HK$1bn against HK$146mn in FY19. Net cash is currently HK$4.2bn, 38% of Theme's market cap. </li>
<li>You Zhenhua is Theme's largest shareholder. Theme recently acquired a 6.6% stake in You Zhenhua-controlled Esteel, which in turn holds a 61% stake in <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/brc-asia-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:11410:1" rel="noopener">BRC Asia Ltd (BRC SP)</a>. </li>
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Commodities trader Theme International Holdings (990 HK) is up 670% since the inset of Covid, and that is after declining 52% from the July 2021 peak.
A sharp increase in iron ore prices since 2020 resulted in FY21 net income of HK$1bn against HK$146mn in FY19. Net cash is currently HK$4.2bn, 38% of Theme's market cap. 
You Zhenhua is Theme's largest shareholder. Theme recently acquired a 6.6% stake in You Zhenhua-controlled Esteel, which in turn holds a 61% stake in BRC Asia Ltd (BRC SP). 


Theme International Holdings (990 HK): Getting To Know You

<ul><li>The FTSE ST Small Cap Index consists of more than 50 stocks, with the majority of the constituents maintaining a market cap of between S$2 billion and S$200 million.</li><li>The FTSE ST Small Cap Index constituents have attracted S$250 in aggregate net institutional outflows in the 2022 YTD.</li><li>With the FTSE ST Small Cap Index generating a decline of 8% in total return in the 2022 year to 26 August, the 52 constituents have drawn in aggregate S$250 million of net institutional outflow.</li></ul>

The FTSE ST Small Cap Index consists of more than 50 stocks, with the majority of the constituents maintaining a market cap of between S$2 billion and S$200 million.The FTSE ST Small Cap Index constituents have attracted S$250 in aggregate net institutional outflows in the 2022 YTD.With the FTSE ST Small Cap Index generating a decline of 8% in total return in the 2022 year to 26 August, the 52 constituents have drawn in aggregate S$250 million of net institutional outflow.

Riverstone, Hour Glass & Chip Eng Seng Led Small Cap Index Fund Flows in YTD

Singapore

BRC Asia Limited designs, manufactures, and markets steel mesh under the BRC brand name.  The Company's products include non-standard and customized mesh, a wide range of prefabricated products including beam and column cages, complete prefabricated beam and column reinforcement, staggered mesh, twin wire mesh, and pile cap cages.

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BRC Asia Ltd (BRC SP)

Singapore Market Roundup (14-Feb-2025): Brokers' top picks: CLAR, CICT, CNMC, KORE, Wilmar, Parkway Life, FLCT, ST Engineering.

Analysts recommend buying Digital Core REIT and are optimistic about Oiltek and Seatrium's new orders, while Citi downgrades SGX, PhillipCapital...

Singapore Market Roundup

kopi-C with BRC Asia’s CEO: "We’ve become the leader in Singapore’s reinforcing steel fabrication industry"

kopi-C with BRC Asia’s CEO: "We’ve become the leader in Singapore’s reinforcing steel fabrication industry’" After becoming one of Singapore’s...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

BRC Asia - Muted 1HFY23 Results In Line With Expectations; No Near-Term Catalysts

BRC Asia reported lower 1HFY23 earnings of S$26.2m (-34% y-o-y, -48% h-o-h), dragged by lower project contractual offtake and an unfavourable...

UOB Kay Hian

Theme International Holdings (990 HK): Getting To Know You

For minority shareholders, it is disappointing when a company chooses to direct surplus funds towards buying a minority stake in an entity...

David Blennerhassett

Riverstone, Hour Glass & Chip Eng Seng Led Small Cap Index Fund Flows in YTD

The FTSE ST Small Cap Index consists of more than 50 stocks, with the majority of the constituents maintaining a market cap of between S$2 billion...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

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