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Regarding 2 articles in Bangkok post lately "Investors wary of SET Potential" and "Brokerage advice clients..." The finger is regularly pointed at outside forces on why the local bourse is so bad -all year long. Mostly blaming foreign & outside events, but this so leaves 3 fingers pointing back. I.e. some weaknesses from within, which few there seem to address. Maybe its time to do some inward looking. Also, its a market of stocks here more than a stock-market and neither of these articles mention dominant export related stocks where a few companies here are doing rather well due in part being globally competitive -besides benefiting from Baht weakness currency. Many such pay high dividends as well. October 5th: There is a highly successful company listed here which actually benefits earnings wise, from the tame Thai economy -and even more so from the unsustainable Thai consumer debt..., paying 5% dividends (or 8 times more then Thai bank deposit rates). Surely as well as a prominent exporter, all over the world, in a defensive industry, so reaping higher profits margins, yet never pointed out by brokers here nor the press, nor here, alike. Again: one never knows about these here or most elsewhere -with all the endless macro comments to nauseam September 20 2023: The SET vacillates along with no new real positive drivers. Yet, here I've just done a considerable research job with 2 master articles -for members. This on a very successfully exporter in a defensive industry which is benefiting from triple positive demographics: Baby-boomers aging, ever more people glued on smartphones and computers, not least the much underreported "Myopia generation". Not least yielding over 5% in current dividends, while growing and benefiting from any Thai Baht currency weakness.
Regarding the very alarming high level of Thai consumer debt: Little has been said about consumer finance companies which eagerly facilitate all this -at high profit margins. We ask, as examples, do these always show the exact annual percentage levied on such and shown in clearest terms? Do they allow instant and easy early repayment -with no penalties? A consumer indebted person wanting to pay off his/her loan here is often told to "come back another day as first need to tabulate the amount still owed”. These stalling and other such tactics need to be addressed by the regulators. Soft, or not, predatory lending practices prevail and better consumer loan protections need to be forthcoming. Today July 1, The SET recovered nicely late last week all on seemingly more clear politics now and a new Govt. forming. Market can deal with good and bad news, but abhor uncertainty. Foreign institutions are not likely to come back until more clarity is present which appears is now starting to happen and next week should demonstrate this more. The last few weeks was a great time to pick up fundamental solid stocks/companies, as everything got sold off with the punters & speculators taking on a real "beating and spanking". Today June 20th, at the opening the SET index was down nearly 12 points most only because speculative DELTA (99) stock was designated the strict "T2", which means cash-balance only. A flag the SET puts on speculative stocks which are moving up or down too fast for no real fundamental reason. DELTA has been a highly speculated stock for long time, regularly in the top 5 most active list, if not the most active. Much influencing the SET-index along with mkt sentiment...especially during these more fluid times. DELTA is hugely overvalued at a trailing p/e of 79! In the past the SET was too lame designating it as such but this seems to have changed of late. Note how the MAI and sSET index, hardly move today showing how wild DELTA sets the tune too much, on SET benchmark index moves. Quality & long established listed companies which yield 6-7% tax-favored dividends & growing. With the Thai elections on May 14th and some changes likely for the better I dare to to remain positive on my pruned list of 7-9 high dividend choices...shared with contributing members along with good reasons why they are as well likely growth stocks in years to come. *** All stock investors fear so called “value traps” i.e. “Wall Flowers” -which rarely flourish -stock price wise. Fair enough. But the opposite is true as well -rarely explained! Inefficiently priced value choices. Where brokers and institutions' alike only consider large cap. stocks, ignoring the rest... a practice here for decades. Only because their handicap on demanding high trading liquidity. Most individual investors don’t have this constraint and so have a true -long in making- mkt. pricing inefficacy, advantage! Here that makes all the difference -as such are "less filling & taste great" choices. Often paying double the SET averaged in dividend yields, like around 5%. While many have superior long term growth rates along with less correlation to Western markets. I know them here like few others. On the Thai IPO market/process: While IPO's have been stale of late here, one should ask why? In the past these were routinely overpriced by Investment Bankers only to be saved on the first days' of trading due to speculators dominating. Post the first few days nobody knows, nor tabulates how they have fared 3,6 or say 12 months later.
Things can be a bit off on the Thai stock market -while ***Thai brokers are overall just average, as are their stock choices. In stock-markets however this can be a real advantage as it often means mis-pricings to take advantage of! In US and other markets, now out of vogue, this is more difficult as there are ample good brokers besides plenty smart investors & analysts there...hence difficult to beat them. Less so in Thailand. US stocks as well appear out of favor for now as I have argued since late 2021. Its unfortunate that many expats and others do not grasp this and just assume "things in life which could be better are often best avoided". Not so in stock markets where aberrations can truly be an investor advantage. As here shown for 25 years. Presently, Thai stocks as I pick them have a rather low mkt. correlation with the US/EU. October 11 2022.
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Why are US stocks and others in general doing rather well, while (its) economies are barely recovering? Stocks appear overvalued to those whom don't understand that valuations' are inversely related to the level of interest rates, which have gone to zero or even negative in some developed countries. Stock prices are often driven by liquidity and sentiment buoyant in these dire times -but getting better with a CV19 vaccine roll out, en masse. Stock markets are always forward looking. As/if US interest rates increase both in the US and in Thailand this will work against stock prices, especially highly valued technology stocks. But at the same time, economies are now coming back due to massive vaccination in the developed world now taking place along with plenty of pent-up demand besides government mega-spending. How sustainable this is, is yet to be seen. In the meantime the key is to own fundamental solid companies which pay high dividends, my forte on location, since 1989.
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"In SE Asia there are many great stock investor opportunities due to the mega institutions most only chase big companies. In fact some 70% of the Thai economy is generated by smaller or mid-sized firms. Hence there are real "diamonds in the rough"...and these "taste great and are less filling"... but you will not find them in billion dollar institutional portfolios' and rarely advocated by Thai brokers nor written up in the local biz. press." Paul A. Renaud.
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I know it like very few others here.. despite many traps for some of us its the right and rational way to higher investor returns over time -along with often lower than market volatility.
We are not stock promoters and never receive fees/payments of any kind from any company we follow or view positively here, or otherwise! I focus 100% on what I do best which is finding high dividend stock "gems" and then so shared to our members. Reputation of companies is key to investing and here my 30 years experience, besides objectivity, is paramount. ****
For 30 on location I have with focus, passion, high ethics and determination excelled giving viewpoints as seen from the Thai stock value investors' point of view.. The many years continued model portfolio's track record -as witnessed by our members all along- is validated as follows:
Calendar Years: 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014:
% change each year: 88% (14)% 82% 32% 42% (40)% 55% 50% 17.8% 45% (year 2012), 12.8% (year 2013), 37.95% (year 2014)
Simple average, over past 12 years: 34.7 %, per year.
Geometric average, over past 12 years: 28.8 %, per year.
Above shown track record is with no financial leverage...no stock shorting or hedging/puts which larger portfolios employ. I realize, this is "armchair investing" and not necessarily my own, yet it's all based on documented model portfolio to contributing members all along. Of course future returns will go down and up and there are never guarantees. Past performance is never a guarantee to future returns and since 2016 smaller and mid cap stock have overall much lagged the SET index, as I here have started to point already 3 years ago. This lagging has continued well into late 2019. But the covit-19 horror has become a game changer and a new order emerged....since I here called the bottom in early April 2020, Thai smaller cap stocks have been performance stars!
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Paul A. Renaud
from Morgan Stanley USA, to over 30 years on location analyzing the Thai stock market.
"Devoted to growth, low valuations and high dividends." " Integrity is my competitive advantage".
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