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NOL, TAT HONG: What analysts now say....
CIMB-GK advise investors to accumulate NOL after recent stock sell-down ... but Credit Suisse downgrades NOL to 'neutral'
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FIRST CHINA FINANCIAL: Major financial services player in HK
HONGKONG - IN A boardroom with an ocean view, we met Mr Wang Wenming, the chairman of First China Financial Group whose office is in Tsim Sha Tsui in Kowloon....
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SINOTEL: What AmFraser, SIAS, Westcomb now say....
Three analysts released their reports yesterday (Oct 26) after returning from China where they visited Sinotel Technologies’ office and one of its worksites. Excerpts from their reports:.
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MAN WAH: Insights into its business at major fair
MAN WAH HOLDINGS recently posted a commendable set of results - net profit for the third quarter ended 31 December 2008 grew 14.7% to HK$56.2 million. Yet many investors in Singapore se...
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My memories of SOK CHUANG
WHEN I HEARD news that Chew Sok Chuang, 54, had suddenly passed away, I was dazed, felt numbed pain, then the tears welled. She was someone I had known, and liked, on the job in the financial industry.
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BALTIC DRY INDEX is shooting up
THE BALTIC DRY Index is shooting up, which spells good news for stocks of buik shipping companies everywhere, including Cosco and STX Pan Ocean in Singapore.
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COSCO: FY08 earnings hit by S$61-m provision on doubtful debts
COSCO SINGAPORE, which has controlling interest in seven mainland Chinese shipyards and operates a dozen dry bulk carriers, experienced a rapid growth of its business last year, but warns th...
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YANGZIJIANG: Why no cancellation of dry bulk orders?
LEADING CHINESE shipyard Yangzijiang has posted stellar FY08 results – a near doubling in both top and bottom line - revenues jumped 91% yoy to reach Rmb 7.4 billion while ea...
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YANGZIJIANG: Higher revenue in 2009
IF THINGS pan out the way he sees it, Mr Ren Yuanlin's company will be stronger, bigger and rolling in cash over the next two or three years. Such optimism in the current gloom may be just pure hope, or delusion, ...
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RICKMERS MARITIME: 2.25 US cents dividend for Q4
THE unit prices of shipping trusts have fallen so much that the dividend yields look unbelievable. Trouble is, they are based on past payouts. Who's to know for sure if the payouts are sustainable in the f...
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INDOAGRI: FY08 EBITDA up 102%
INDOFOOD AGRI-RESOURCES posted a 101.9% increase in its earnings before interest, tax, depreciation & amortization to RP3.1trillion (S$479 million) last year
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LEEDEN: A galloping profit workhorse
LOOKING AT the chart above, one can quickly recognize 2004 as a turning point in Leeden's part of profitability.
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KARRIE INTERNATIONAL: A HK company that has tea with investors
ONCE A year, individual investors of Karrie International get a chance to have tea with the management at a hotel....
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RICKMERS MARITIME: 2.25 US cents dividend for Q4
THE unit prices of shipping trusts have fallen so much that the dividend yields look unbelievable. Trouble is, they are based on past payouts. Who's to know for sure if the payouts are sustainable in the f...
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TECHCOMP: Forex woes in FY08 but 1H09 will be strong
SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT makers are known for their resilience to business downcycles, so why did Techcomp record a sharp year-on-year earnings fall in FY08?...
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STOCK CHALLENGE: 'Level 13' leads for the first time with 14% gain
AFTER FOUR months of our current Stock Challenge, Level 13 has sprung a surprise, overtaking everyone with a 14% gain in his portfolio.
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HI-P: Exceeding $1 b in sales for first time in 28 years
AFTER HE had covered details of his company’s stellar FY’08 performance, Mr Yao Hsiao Tung spoke about the challenges that lay ahead. They sounded all too familiar – order slowdown, increase...
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LEGG MASON: Opportunities in every asset class except cash
INVESTOR BEHAVIOUR (now) is consistent with their behavior at prior important lows. Investors as a group are, unfortunately, their own worst enemies when it comes to making money in the market....
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CHINA ZAINO: Q&A with analysts
According to a Frost & Sullivan report, China Zaino had a market share of 35.8% in 2006. That may be more than two years ago and the market share may have increased or decreased since, but the company can s...
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ASL MARINE: Order book is a whopping S$663 million !
ASL MARINE Holdings started out in 1974 trading scrapped steel materials and successfully morphed into a vertically integrated marine company in the 1980s with it core business in sh...
