Industry, Economic, General SET

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SET Streaming incorrect current dividend yields.

Always check the data! Thailand's SET Streaming which most everyone here uses, does not show the correct current dividend yields on most stocks. As it just omits interim dividends, yes already paid. We pointed this out to the SET, but not care...so on this, it is not what it is....

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DELTA stock follie, a discussion with Thai broker Analyst.

Here is a discussion I just had with a Thai broker analyst, post reading their newly released "buy" recommendation with a price target of 440 Baht:

As  long experienced investors here we are aghast how you can recommend Delta as a buy today, at this stratospheric high valuation?....

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SET index remains distorted.

The Thai stock exchange (SET) for some long time already, remains dominated by a very few big cap. stocks (mostly 1) which all but dominate trading volume galore and it's index movement. Today, at noon, as so often this uber- by far most active stock, is up 7.8% ... trading...

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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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Anyway you look it, a highly distorted Thai stock exchange.

Anyway you look at here its a highly price distorted Thai stock exchange.

Here shown is the Thai "SSet" index graph showing its performance over the past, say10 years. This is an index of 120-130 smaller cap. Thai stocks. Its exact number varies every six months just...

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Thai broker often poor behavior.

Today my letter was published in the BKK Post. Where I dare to raise the often poor broker behavior in enticing retail clients to just trade, rather then invest. While this ill-practice is never mentioned, its one reason the SET has stalled and retail investors all but gone.

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Thai Retail Investors dwindling.

From searching AI on Thai Retail investors participating it answered back exactly as follows:

"The trend is clear: Retail investors went from nearly half the Thai market → down to low-to-mid 30%. That’s a solid 10–15 percentage-point drop in just a few years. Foreign investors (and punters) are now the...

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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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Practice of some companies not following Foreign NVDR rights to new warrants.

More on the concerning newer practice of some companies now not following NVDR'r stated rights, despite residing in Thailand.

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