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)

Singapore Exchange is Asia’s leading and trusted market infrastructure, facilitating the exchange of capital and ideas to create value for people, businesses and economies. As a multi-asset exchange operating equity, fixed income and derivatives markets to the highest regulatory standards, SGX is a vertically integrated business that provides listing, trading, clearing, settlement, depository and data services.

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.

As Asia’s pioneering central counterparty, SGX is globally recognised for its risk management and clearing capabilities, and was one of the first globally to adopt the Principles for Financial Market Infrastructure.

Headquartered in AAA-rated Singapore, SGX has over 800 employees including offices in Beijing, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, New York, Mumbai, San Francisco, Shanghai and Tokyo.

Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Actively traded high-turnover stocks in 2023 YTD This year, close to a quarter of Singapore’s 100 most actively traded stocks have registered double-digit percentage growth in daily trading turnover from their respective 2022 levels.</li><li>This saw the stock rank among the 85 most traded stocks so far this year, after ranking just outside the 170 most traded stocks in 2022.</li></ul>

Actively traded high-turnover stocks in 2023 YTD This year, close to a quarter of Singapore’s 100 most actively traded stocks have registered double-digit percentage growth in daily trading turnover from their respective 2022 levels.This saw the stock rank among the 85 most traded stocks so far this year, after ranking just outside the 170 most traded stocks in 2022.

Vibrant activity among top traded stocks on SGX

Jardine Cycle & Carriage / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>With the narrowest monthly percentage trading range since Feb 2015, the STI consolidated in April, taking its total return for the first four months of 2023 to , which was also the precise mid-point between the total returns of the FTSE Asia Pacific Index at 3.3% and FTSE ASEAN All-Share Index at 0.8%, in SGD terms.</li><li>Keppel Corporation, Jardine Cycle & Carriage and CapitaLand Investment led the STI in April, averaging 9.0% total returns, bringing their 4-month total returns to 34.3%, 18.5% and 5.4% respectively.</li><li>The STI ended April with a 1.3% total return, bringing its total return for the four months ending April to 2.1%.</li></ul>

With the narrowest monthly percentage trading range since Feb 2015, the STI consolidated in April, taking its total return for the first four months of 2023 to , which was also the precise mid-point between the total returns of the FTSE Asia Pacific Index at 3.3% and FTSE ASEAN All-Share Index at 0.8%, in SGD terms.Keppel Corporation, Jardine Cycle & Carriage and CapitaLand Investment led the STI in April, averaging 9.0% total returns, bringing their 4-month total returns to 34.3%, 18.5% and 5.4% respectively.The STI ended April with a 1.3% total return, bringing its total return for the four months ending April to 2.1%.

Keppel Corp, Jardine C&C and CapitaLand Invest Led STI in April 

APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Clarence Chu

APAC IPOs & Placements

IPOs and Placements coverage across Asia Pacific

Aequitas Research

We cover all listing across the Asia Pacific along with follow-up placements. As of Dec 2020, our team had covered 539 IPOs with a hit rate of 73.5% and 685 placements with a hit rate of 66.8%.

We combine fundamental bottom-up views with our proprietary quantitative framework to provide a holistic coverage across new listings and placements. Our coverage includes pre-IPO notes before the deal is launched, follow-up analysis once the deal is live and post-listing trading analysis as well.

Equity Capital Markets

Keppel Infrastructure Trust / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/keppel-infrastructure-trust" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:456:1" rel="noopener">Keppel Infrastructure Trust (KIT SP)</a> is looking to raise S$125m (US$96m) in its primary placement.</li>
<li>The proceeds in the deal will be used to partially pay down its bridge loan, the latter used in a series of acquisitions made by the REIT in 2022.</li>
<li>Including the preferential offering, the deal would be a large one to digest at 9.4% of the REIT’s current mcap and 89.3 days of three month ADV. </li>
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Keppel Infrastructure Trust (KIT SP) is looking to raise S$125m (US$96m) in its primary placement.
The proceeds in the deal will be used to partially pay down its bridge loan, the latter used in a series of acquisitions made by the REIT in 2022.
Including the preferential offering, the deal would be a large one to digest at 9.4% of the REIT’s current mcap and 89.3 days of three month ADV. 


Keppel Infrastructure Trust Placement - Very Well Flagged, Should Expect Some Short Covering

<ul><li>The STI generated a 2.4% total return over the first 15 weeks of 2023, with 20 gainers, one stock unchanged and nine decliners.</li><li>The five strongest performers of the STI in the YTD included Sembcorp Ind, Keppel Corp, Genting Sing, Keppel DC REIT and Mapletree Log Tr, with the five stocks averaging 22% total returns, while the decliners were led by CityDev, YZJ Shipbldg, ThaiBev, Singtel and HongkongLand, which averaged a 6% decline in total returns.</li><li>Following a 73% total return on S$220 million of net institutional inflow in 2022, Sembcorp Industries has generated a 27% total return on S$90 million of net institutional inflow.</li></ul>

The STI generated a 2.4% total return over the first 15 weeks of 2023, with 20 gainers, one stock unchanged and nine decliners.The five strongest performers of the STI in the YTD included Sembcorp Ind, Keppel Corp, Genting Sing, Keppel DC REIT and Mapletree Log Tr, with the five stocks averaging 22% total returns, while the decliners were led by CityDev, YZJ Shipbldg, ThaiBev, Singtel and HongkongLand, which averaged a 6% decline in total returns.Following a 73% total return on S$220 million of net institutional inflow in 2022, Sembcorp Industries has generated a 27% total return on S$90 million of net institutional inflow.

STI Maintains 2.4% YTD Total Return as GDP Growth Slows 

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Sumeet Singh

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements

Mapletree Logistics Trust / Equity Capital Markets

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<li>Mapletree Logistics Trust (MLT SP) plans to raise around US$150 (S$200m) to partially fund the acquisition of logistics properties in Japan, Australia and South Korea.</li>
<li>We have earlier covered the previous six placements for the REIT since 2017. Most of the past deals have done well except for the two most recent ones.</li>
<li>In this note, we will run the deal through our ECM framework and talk about deal dynamics.</li>
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Mapletree Logistics Trust (MLT SP) plans to raise around US$150 (S$200m) to partially fund the acquisition of logistics properties in Japan, Australia and South Korea.
We have earlier covered the previous six placements for the REIT since 2017. Most of the past deals have done well except for the two most recent ones.
In this note, we will run the deal through our ECM framework and talk about deal dynamics.


MLT Placement - Small Deal but Recent Deals Didn’t Do Well

Singapore

Keppel Corporation Limited's core businesses are offshore and marine, infrastructure, property investment and development, telecommunications and transportation, energy, and engineering.

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Keppel Corp (KEP SP)

Vibrant activity among top traded stocks on SGX

Actively traded high-turnover stocks in 2023 YTD This year, close to a quarter of Singapore’s 100 most actively traded stocks have registered...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

Keppel Corp, Jardine C&C and CapitaLand Invest Led STI in April

With the narrowest monthly percentage trading range since Feb 2015, the STI consolidated in April, taking its total return for the first four...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

Keppel Infrastructure Trust Placement - Very Well Flagged, Should Expect Some Short Covering

Keppel Infrastructure Trust (KIT SP) is looking to raise S$125m (US$96m) in its primary placement. The proceeds in the deal will be used to...

Clarence Chu

STI Maintains 2.4% YTD Total Return as GDP Growth Slows

The STI generated a 2.4% total return over the first 15 weeks of 2023, with 20 gainers, one stock unchanged and nine decliners. The five strongest...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

MLT Placement - Small Deal but Recent Deals Didn’t Do Well

Mapletree Logistics Trust (MLT SP) plans to raise around US$150 (S$200m) to partially fund the acquisition of logistics properties in Japan,...

Sumeet Singh

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