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SET's ignored dividend horses. Vs. DELTA galore.

The Thai stock exchange offers some of the highest so called "yield-gap" stocks -anywhere in the world!  But its very distorted by just a very few stocks, most notably DELTA, getting all the action. Take a look here:

March 24, as just one example was a recovery day on the SET, so lets look at some numbers:

--DELTA by far and then some was the most active at 10,143 Bill. Baht traded. (DELTA p/e is 145, vs. SET average p/e at 16.1) 
--PTT second most actively traded stock was 3,554 Bill. Baht.
--GULF third most actively traded at 3,324 Bill. Baht.
--PTTEP forth most actively traded at 2,537 Bill Baht.
 
The SET index as a whole on March 24 traded 73,737 Bill Baht, so DELTA alone made up 13.7% of
the entire SET volume of more than 639 SET listed companies (not including MAI)!   The next 3 most
active stocks here do not even come close to the total trading Baht volume of the (regular) single top traded stock.  It begs the question why is DELTA stock so not a SET designated can trade on "Cash balance" only??  Here its not a stock exchange, more like for long, a DELTA stock glamor exchange.
 
This so very for long is...
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More real reforms need to take place on the Thai SET, by regulators and its brokers.

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. 
Yet, 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 here since 1997, post regular added added value unbiased comments.   (See latest articles below).     

I've been analyzing Thai stocks, full time, for over 3 decades... here we have the highest so called "yield gap" anywhere along with a very firm Baht currency.  Meaning, inflation is 0% (the world's lowest) while Thai banks barely pay 0.3% interest on Bank 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 while trading at very low often single digit p/e ratio's

But you would never know about this reading conventional biz news.  A stock or country where the news is poor or unfavorable, but now getting less so can in fact be a good investment. This is how I see things now going...

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How DELTA stock crowds out the SET market here.

Here is how seniors of one broker answered me, when I asked why is DELTA not T1 or T2 SET flagged, as its over speculated on:

"DELTA can surge without hitting T1 because:
-The activity is not considered abnormal yet
-Volume and trading behavior
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PRM keeps slowly creeping -up for good reasons.

As here concluded high oil prices do not necessarily mean higher profits for PRM but, but likely more demand for storage and buffer as oil is now now a more valuable commodity!

This in fact is the more sophisticated and durable version of my PRM...

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Notes from the International Investor view point.

I here for some time argue that broadly US stocks are rolling-over where long bull markets rarely just collapse, instead it's a "slow death" gradually i.e.into a meaningful mkt. correlation -or worse.   

The AI/mega-cap concentration going into this conflict was extreme — the S&P was...

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China -and the new world dis-order.

 

China may/should well be a beneficiary in time on this new World (dis) order. Yet I dare to observe, once again brought on by the US.

China has a few very big things going for it: 1) it has accumulated the world’s largest excess reserve of oil—about 1.2 billion barrels,...

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I just asked AI, about PRM.

I just now asked "Claude" AI, on this insane Thai dividend record yield-gap mkt. distortion on going here.

It totally agreed and then some calling these "orphan stocks" whose valuations are immensely distorted it went on almost climaxing on this issue, comparing it to a similar...

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