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.

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Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Share buybacks by primary listed companies 11 - 17 Aug 2023 Institutions were net buyers of Singapore stocks over the five trading sessions through to Aug 17, with S$256 million of net institutional inflow, while 21 primary-listed companies conducting buybacks with a total consideration of S$36 million.</li><li>On Aug 15, QAF joint group managing director and executive director Lin Kejian acquired 450,000 shares at an average price of S$0.79 per share.</li></ul>

Share buybacks by primary listed companies 11 - 17 Aug 2023 Institutions were net buyers of Singapore stocks over the five trading sessions through to Aug 17, with S$256 million of net institutional inflow, while 21 primary-listed companies conducting buybacks with a total consideration of S$36 million.On Aug 15, QAF joint group managing director and executive director Lin Kejian acquired 450,000 shares at an average price of S$0.79 per share.

Wilmar’s Kuok Khoon Hong acquires 9 million shares

<ul><li>Union Gas Holdings’ Teo Hark Piang ups stake to 8.05% Seatrium, Wilmar International, Singapore Airlines (SIA), UOL Group and DBS Group led the net institutional inflow for the five sessions.</li><li>With over 40 years of operating track record, Union Gas Holdings’ three key businesses comprise liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), natural gas, and diesel.</li></ul>

Union Gas Holdings’ Teo Hark Piang ups stake to 8.05% Seatrium, Wilmar International, Singapore Airlines (SIA), UOL Group and DBS Group led the net institutional inflow for the five sessions.With over 40 years of operating track record, Union Gas Holdings’ three key businesses comprise liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), natural gas, and diesel.

Union Gas Holdings’ Teo Hark Piang ups stake to 8.05%

<ul><li>Share buybacks by primary listed companies 26 May - 1 Jun 2023 Institutions were net sellers of Singapore stocks over the five sessions with S$93 million of net outflow following the preceding five sessions of S$4 million of net inflow.</li><li>The consideration of the acquisitions totalled S$11,721,000, increasing Kuok’s total interest in the company from 13.19 per cent to 13.24.</li></ul>

Share buybacks by primary listed companies 26 May - 1 Jun 2023 Institutions were net sellers of Singapore stocks over the five sessions with S$93 million of net outflow following the preceding five sessions of S$4 million of net inflow.The consideration of the acquisitions totalled S$11,721,000, increasing Kuok’s total interest in the company from 13.19 per cent to 13.24.

Wilmar chief Kuok Khoon Hong adds to his stake

<ul><li>Share buybacks by primary listed companies 28 Apr - 4 May 2023 DBS, UOB, Thai Beverage, OCBC and Keppel Reit led the net institutional outflow for the four sessions.</li><li>Oxley Holdings has also been conducting share buybacks this year, buying back 12.5 million shares on the current mandate which represents 0.30 per cent of its issued shares (excluding treasury shares).</li></ul>

Share buybacks by primary listed companies 28 Apr - 4 May 2023 DBS, UOB, Thai Beverage, OCBC and Keppel Reit led the net institutional outflow for the four sessions.Oxley Holdings has also been conducting share buybacks this year, buying back 12.5 million shares on the current mandate which represents 0.30 per cent of its issued shares (excluding treasury shares).

Oxley executive chairman Ching Chiat Kwong raises stake

<ul><li>The iEdge SG Advanced Manufacturing Index is comprised of 110 stocks that drew 20 cents in every dollar that went to work into the Singapore stock market in 1Q23.</li><li>The Index constituents that booked the highest net institutional inflow proportionate to quarter-end market cap in 1Q23 included Acesian Partners, ISDN and Frencken, while averaging a 28% total return.</li><li>The iEdge SG Advanced Manufacturing Index booked S$52 million of Net Institutional Inflow in 1Q23.</li></ul>

The iEdge SG Advanced Manufacturing Index is comprised of 110 stocks that drew 20 cents in every dollar that went to work into the Singapore stock market in 1Q23.The Index constituents that booked the highest net institutional inflow proportionate to quarter-end market cap in 1Q23 included Acesian Partners, ISDN and Frencken, while averaging a 28% total return.The iEdge SG Advanced Manufacturing Index booked S$52 million of Net Institutional Inflow in 1Q23.

Mixed Moves of Manufacturing Stocks in 1Q23 

Singapore

Wilmar International Ltd. is an agribusiness company. The Company is involved in oil palm cultivation, edible oils refining, oilseeds crushing, consumer pack edible oils processing and merchandising, specialty fats, oleochemicals and biodiesel manufacturing, and grains processing and merchandising. Wilmar also manufactures and distributes fertilizers and owns a fleet of vessels.

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Wilmar International (WIL SP)

Wilmar’s Kuok Khoon Hong acquires 9 million shares

Share buybacks by primary listed companies 11 - 17 Aug 2023 Institutions were net buyers of Singapore stocks over the five trading sessions...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

Union Gas Holdings’ Teo Hark Piang ups stake to 8.05%

Union Gas Holdings’ Teo Hark Piang ups stake to 8.05% Seatrium, Wilmar International, Singapore Airlines (SIA), UOL Group and DBS Group led the...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

Wilmar chief Kuok Khoon Hong adds to his stake

Share buybacks by primary listed companies 26 May - 1 Jun 2023 Institutions were net sellers of Singapore stocks over the five sessions with S$93...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

Oxley executive chairman Ching Chiat Kwong raises stake

Share buybacks by primary listed companies 28 Apr - 4 May 2023 DBS, UOB, Thai Beverage, OCBC and Keppel Reit led the net institutional outflow for...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

Mixed Moves of Manufacturing Stocks in 1Q23

The iEdge SG Advanced Manufacturing Index is comprised of 110 stocks that drew 20 cents in every dollar that went to work into the Singapore stock...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

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