SingTel (Buy, TP: S$ 4.4, +83%) SingTel’s market cap now fully covered by stake in Bharti; could a Buyback narrow the SOP discount?
With Bharti in sight of US$100bn market cap and SingTel languishing after the abortive sale of a stake in Optus, SingTel’s stake in Bharti is now worth the same as SingTel’s entire market cap. This also means that SingTel’s SOP discount is at all-time highs of 50%. In this note we look at how management could address this through buybacks, and what the accretion impact of selling stakes in Bharti to buy back SingTel shares would be.Singapore Telecommunications is engaged in the operation and provision of telecommunications systems and services, and investment holding. Co. provides a range of multimedia and Information and communications technology solutions, including voice, data and video services over fixed and wireless platforms. Within both Singapore and Australia, Co. provides mobile communications, data and Internet, national telephone, information technology and engineering, sale of equipment, international telephone and pay television. Co.'s key businesses include: Group Consumer, Group Digital L!fe, and Group Information and communications technology.
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