Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One, Periscope Analytics

Brian Freitas

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One

Event-Driven

Delta Electronics Thailand  / Event-Driven

Last evening post market close, the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) announced the results of the semi-annual review of the SET50 index with the changes taking effect after the close of trading on 30 December.<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/bangkok-commercial-asset-management-public-company-limited" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:28442:1" rel="noopener">Bangkok Commercial Asset Management (BAM TB)</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/com7-pcl" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:27411:1" rel="noopener">Com7 PCL (COM7 TB)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/delta-electronics-thai-pcl" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:20912:1" rel="noopener">Delta Electronics Thai (DELTA TB)</a> have been included in the index, replacing <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/banpu-power-pcl" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:23631:1" rel="noopener">Banpu Power PCL (BPP TB)</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/irpc-pcl" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:19051:1" rel="noopener">IRPC PCL (IRPC TB)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/wha-corp-pcl" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:104:1" rel="noopener">WHA Corp Pcl (WHA TB)</a>. This was our base case scenario, though DELTA had the lowest probability of index inclusion.Terrible timing! <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/delta-electronics-thai-pcl" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:20912:1" rel="noopener">Delta Electronics Thai (DELTA TB)</a> has gained 543.72% since it was deleted from the SET50 index at the June review, while <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/banpu-power-pcl" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:23631:1" rel="noopener">Banpu Power PCL (BPP TB)</a> has gained just 2.99% since it was included in the index at the June review. Not implementing this change in June would have led to the SET50 index return being over 3.5% higher than its actual return.One-way turnover for the rebalance is 4.92%. The impact of the changes does not appear like a lot, but the active funds trading ahead of implementation date could cause the stocks to move around a lot compared to their peers.This Insight is labelled Bullish as we expect DELTA to outperform its peers post the inclusion in the SET50 index. The stock could move lower post implementation date due to its higher valuations.

Last evening post market close, the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) announced the results of the semi-annual review of the SET50 index with the changes taking effect after the close of trading on 30 December.Bangkok Commercial Asset Management (BAM TB), Com7 PCL (COM7 TB) and Delta Electronics Thai (DELTA TB) have been included in the index, replacing Banpu Power PCL (BPP TB), IRPC PCL (IRPC TB) and WHA Corp Pcl (WHA TB). This was our base case scenario, though DELTA had the lowest probability of index inclusion.Terrible timing! Delta Electronics Thai (DELTA TB) has gained 543.72% since it was deleted from the SET50 index at the June review, while Banpu Power PCL (BPP TB) has gained just 2.99% since it was included in the index at the June review. Not implementing this change in June would have led to the SET50 index return being over 3.5% higher than its actual return.One-way turnover for the rebalance is 4.92%. The impact of the changes does not appear like a lot, but the active funds trading ahead of implementation date could cause the stocks to move around a lot compared to their peers.This Insight is labelled Bullish as we expect DELTA to outperform its peers post the inclusion in the SET50 index. The stock could move lower post implementation date due to its higher valuations.

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events, Quiddity Advisors

David Blennerhassett

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Quiddity Advisors

Last Week in Event SPACE: Tokyo Dome, LG Corp, Kerry Express, Sogou, Adways

Asean-focused. Ex-Head of Thai Research

Athaporn Arayasantiparb, CFA

Asean (Thailand) Focused Independent Research

M Corp Review

M Corp is led by Athaporn Arayasantiparb who served as Head of Research for UOB and ANZ in Thailand and was an award-winning telecoms analyst at UBS in 2010 (AsiaMoney Thailand category) and Regional Strategist for DMG in Singapore. Prior to that, he also served as Kasikornbank credit analyst and scholar. He has a total work experience of 17 years, of which 14 were in research and 4 in research management roles. He started his career as an engineer for PTT and currently manages family investments. He holds an MBA from Stern (NYU) and CFA Charter since 2006. Apart from IPO Radar, which focuses on future listings, MCorp Review also provides six on-going thematic series ranked by frequency in descending order, namely: 1) Silicon Stories (technology) 2) Sathorn Series (financial services) 3) Thai-Coons (billionaire origin stories) 4) Reality Check (data-driven, investigative) 5) Thai Media Spotlight; and 6) Thai Macro Watch (global market drivers).

Cross Asset Strategy

Initially, the worst part of the pandemic appeared to be behind us in April, but the situation changed in September when waves of infected Burmese workers crossed into Thailand without proper health checks. We address this and other developments in this review, namely:<ul>
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Thailand Focus. At least, four companies provided good perspective to the risk and opportunities created by COVID-19, such as: 1) Entry of Big Tech; 2) high unemployment amongst the young; and 3) market share consolidation.</li>
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Government aid. Prior to his resignation, Finance Minister Preedee Daochai focused on cutting costs for consumers and avoiding more debt, even as his successor focuses on job creation.</li>
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Needle opportunities. The asymmetric global recovery means that demand for medical products such a surgical gloves, needles, and syringes remain very strong. TM and STGT  remains the spotlight. </li>
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Domestic travel has become increasingly important to the sector, accounting for 60-70% in the near term, with rising concentration at top tier hotels who discount.</li>
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Playing the Global Themes. As Europe is hit by a second wave and China re-opens for business, we look at a few Thai stocks that tend to benefit or lose out from global themes in the short to medium term. (Winners: TVO, Asia Soft, TNR. Losers: CRC, MINT)</li>
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Initially, the worst part of the pandemic appeared to be behind us in April, but the situation changed in September when waves of infected Burmese workers crossed into Thailand without proper health checks. We address this and other developments in this review, namely:

Thailand Focus. At least, four companies provided good perspective to the risk and opportunities created by COVID-19, such as: 1) Entry of Big Tech; 2) high unemployment amongst the young; and 3) market share consolidation.

Government aid. Prior to his resignation, Finance Minister Preedee Daochai focused on cutting costs for consumers and avoiding more debt, even as his successor focuses on job creation.

Needle opportunities. The asymmetric global recovery means that demand for medical products such a surgical gloves, needles, and syringes remain very strong. TM and STGT  remains the spotlight. 

Domestic travel has become increasingly important to the sector, accounting for 60-70% in the near term, with rising concentration at top tier hotels who discount.

Playing the Global Themes. As Europe is hit by a second wave and China re-opens for business, we look at a few Thai stocks that tend to benefit or lose out from global themes in the short to medium term. (Winners: TVO, Asia Soft, TNR. Losers: CRC, MINT)


Thai Corona Crisis (December): The Looming Shadow of Myanmar

Thai Equity - Bottom-up - Equities, Pi Securities PCL, Thailand

Pi Research

Thai Equity - Bottom-up - Equities

Leading, full-service investment firm in Thailand

Pi Securities PCL, Thailand

Pi Securities is a well known securities company with 40 years experience in the industry, serving more than 60,000 clients. We offer one - stop service providing full range of financial products and services including extensive Brokerage, Proprietary Trading (Equities and Bonds), Advisory Services, Structured Products.

Moreover, our new research team tailored for institutional clients to focus on mid to small cap of Thai equities and trading strategies. Our services offered to our premium clients also include arrangement of company or site visits to with the managements of Thai listed companies.

Note: Effective on 1 March 2022, Country Group Securities PCL changed its name to Pi Securities

Equity Bottom-Up

We came out from WHA’s analyst meeting om 20th Nov with positive tone as we  anticipate 4Q20 earnings to reach the highest level of this year supported by 1.) revenue recognition from asset monetization worth Bt4.6bn to WHART and HREIT, 2.) equity income that will normalize to the pre-pandemic level given increasing utility dispatch mainly from petrochemical sector and less impact from FX loss, and, 3.) Increasing land transfer unit to 350-400 rai mainly in Vietnam.<div>• Positive tone from analyst meeting</div><div>• Report 3Q20 net profit at Bt429m (-25%YoY -21%QoQ), Excluding extra items, core earnings would be at Bt442m (-45%YoY -4%QoQ). YoY contraction pressured by a decrease in land transfer units and utility dispatch.</div><div>
 
</div>We maintain our BUY rating and target price at Bt4.20 derived from 20.2xPE’21E, World real estate sector.

We came out from WHA’s analyst meeting om 20th Nov with positive tone as we  anticipate 4Q20 earnings to reach the highest level of this year supported by 1.) revenue recognition from asset monetization worth Bt4.6bn to WHART and HREIT, 2.) equity income that will normalize to the pre-pandemic level given increasing utility dispatch mainly from petrochemical sector and less impact from FX loss, and, 3.) Increasing land transfer unit to 350-400 rai mainly in Vietnam.• Positive tone from analyst meeting• Report 3Q20 net profit at Bt429m (-25%YoY -21%QoQ), Excluding extra items, core earnings would be at Bt442m (-45%YoY -4%QoQ). YoY contraction pressured by a decrease in land transfer units and utility dispatch.
 
We maintain our BUY rating and target price at Bt4.20 derived from 20.2xPE’21E, World real estate sector.

WHA: Expect Earnings to Hit the Highest Level of This Year in 4Q20

<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/scg-packaging-public-company-limited" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:28684:1" rel="noopener">SCG Packaging (SCGP TB)</a> listed today on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET). No big bang opening day for the stock as it opened at the highs and quickly sold off to trade a tick or two above its IPO price of THB 35/share for most of the day.<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/scg-packaging-public-company-limited" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:28684:1" rel="noopener">SCG Packaging (SCGP TB)</a> traded 329.77m shares on the day at a VWAP of THB 35.9505. Bulk of the volume traded in the opening auction at THB 37.At the close of trading, SCGP traded at THB 35/share, probably supported by the greenshoe. That gave <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/scg-packaging-public-company-limited" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:28684:1" rel="noopener">SCG Packaging (SCGP TB)</a> a full market cap of THB 148.874bn placing it at rank 20 among the SET50 constituents and ensuring its market cap was more than 1% of the market cap of the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/stock-exchange-of-thailand-set-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:22915:1" rel="noopener">Thailand SET Index (SET INDEX)</a> - 1.16% from our calculations. With a free float of 29.51%, the stock met all conditions for Fast Entry into the index.SET has just <a href="https://www.set.or.th/th/market/files/constituents/SET50_100_H2_2020_revised.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> the changes to the SET50 Index where <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/scg-packaging-public-company-limited" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:28684:1" rel="noopener">SCG Packaging (SCGP TB)</a> has been added and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/thanachart-capital-pcl" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:297:1" rel="noopener">Thanachart Capital (TCAP TB)</a> has been deleted. The changes will need to be made at the close of trading on 27 October.The inclusion also affects the stocks to be included and excluded at the regular index review in December.

SCG Packaging (SCGP TB) listed today on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET). No big bang opening day for the stock as it opened at the highs and quickly sold off to trade a tick or two above its IPO price of THB 35/share for most of the day.SCG Packaging (SCGP TB) traded 329.77m shares on the day at a VWAP of THB 35.9505. Bulk of the volume traded in the opening auction at THB 37.At the close of trading, SCGP traded at THB 35/share, probably supported by the greenshoe. That gave SCG Packaging (SCGP TB) a full market cap of THB 148.874bn placing it at rank 20 among the SET50 constituents and ensuring its market cap was more than 1% of the market cap of the Thailand SET Index (SET INDEX) - 1.16% from our calculations. With a free float of 29.51%, the stock met all conditions for Fast Entry into the index.SET has just announced the changes to the SET50 Index where SCG Packaging (SCGP TB) has been added and Thanachart Capital (TCAP TB) has been deleted. The changes will need to be made at the close of trading on 27 October.The inclusion also affects the stocks to be included and excluded at the regular index review in December.

Thailand

WHA Corp PCL is a built-to-suit distribution center and factory developer in Thailand.

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WHA Corp Pcl (WHA TB)

SET50 Index Rebalance: DELTA to Buy

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Brian Freitas

Last Week in Event SPACE: Tokyo Dome, LG Corp, Kerry Express, Sogou, Adways

The weekend is here! Pour yourself a coffee, grab a comfortable seat, and sift through a brief summary of insights on various events discussed...

David Blennerhassett

Thai Corona Crisis (December): The Looming Shadow of Myanmar

Just when Thailand is ready to leave the COVID-19 scene, Myanmar pulls them back in with a new outbreak. The Thai government comes up with new...

Athaporn Arayasantiparb, CFA

WHA: Expect Earnings to Hit the Highest Level of This Year in 4Q20

We came out from WHA’s analyst meeting om 20th Nov with positive tone as we anticipate 4Q20 earnings to reach the highest level of this year...

Pi Securities PCL, Thailand

SCG Packaging Listing & SET50 Inclusion

SCG Packaging listed on the SET today and finished flat on the day. That was enough to warrant inclusion in the SET50 index. TCAP will be deleted...

Brian Freitas

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