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SET back to lethargy.

At the end of June 2025, I turned SET bullish for the first time in 3-4 years, the market did rebound nicely for a few months only to stall again of late.  Its gone back to a dominant trading-speculating stock mkt. here -with a very few large capitalized overvalued stocks attracting most all the attention and capital, while the rest is all but ignored! DELTA (222) as a prime example regularly is the most active traded stock on the SET -with its stratospheric p/e of 138 and minuscule stated annual dividend at 0.21%.   Its a sad state of affairs on the Thai stock exchange as it has some of the highest dividend yielding stocks anywhere, while ultra low interest is paid on Thai bank savings accounts (around 0.3%).  Hence, the so called "yield-gap" here has to be at a World record high, anywhere. I mostly blame the brokers here for not pointing this out more, vs. endless trading galore. 

Paul A. Renaud.
www.thaistocks.com
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Beyond Thaistocks.com More real reforms need to take place.

Thaistocks.com has always been about rational & value investing -since its inception in 1997.   For 3 years, I here stated to be overall Thai stocks' bearish -due to the Thai economy slowing, lack of  SET/Broker real reforms & excess mkt. speculation -not least uninspiring politics. 
I here identify stock picks to members on quality companies with very high dividends, often 7%.   With my life-long multicultural background and 40+ years of professional investor experience I at this site since 1997, make regular added added value unbiased comments.   (See latest articles below).    

I've been analyzing Thai stocks, full time, for over 3 decades... here have the highest so called "yield gap" anywhere along with a very firm currency.  Meaning, inflation is 0% (the world's lowest) while Thai banks barely pay 0.3% interest on their savings accounts.  Yet, if you get beyond institutional obsession with liquidity one can find -even growing Thai listed quality companies- which yield 6-8% in tax favored dividends.

But you would never know about this reading conventional biz news.  All along, the Thai Baht currency is among the world's strongest -on par with the ultra-strong Swiss Frank over the past fiscal year.   November 3rd 2025. 

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Impressive Update by Infoquest News Agency on FSMART.

Here below is an impressive update today, by Infoquest, as we see it quotes the MD stating profits of 448 mill. Baht for first 9 months, an increase of 44.5%  vs. same period last year, note for all of 2024 FSMART earned 430 mill. Baht net profit.  So no question, FSMART (6.50)
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Revenge of the Nerd, an investment strategy with less risk but timing uncertain.

We all here know how stocks on the SET are hugely price distorted and this for long already -and ever more of late.

Where most SET money/capital is punter/speculate driven much into say DELTA and new IPO's, which often trade-up on the first day or so only to then later collapse...

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MRDIYT or MR. D.I.Y. IPO disappoints.

Thailand just completed a major new international IPO, SET listed under symbol MRDIYT or MR. D.I.Y. HOLDING (THAILAND) PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED.  655 million shares were offered at 8.60 Baht. Same price for everyone!

It was a soft-flop as it opened weak and then just barely on its first traday...

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Thai Stocks, remains a speculating dominated stock Exchange.

As we continuously see, on the Thai Stock exchange it's the same old-saga, for so long -even getting worse...for now. 

The stock mkt. here is/remains ever so over dominated by speculating on way-overvalued very, very few big cap stocks, or new IPO's, while the rest is all but ignored....even so at 1/10...

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US margin-debt on stocks are at an absolute record high

US margin debt on stocks there, are at an absolute record scary high. (See graph below) As margin force-selling on daily mark-to-market is a very SEC mandated super strict rule!  Its called "Maintenance margin" and is one of the strictest US securities' law. For all the right reasons. The amount one can borrow is...

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