GREATER CHINA Sector Automobile Weekly: PV sales down 4.8% yoy, missing estimates. Maintain MARKET WEIGHT. Top BUYs: CATL, Desay SV, and Geely. Top SELL: GAC. INDONESIA Update Bank Central Asia (BBCA IJ/BUY/Rp10,850/Target: Rp12,000) Strong loan growth continues; asset quality remains solid. MALAYSIA Update SD Guthrie (SDG MK/HOLD/RM4.88/Target: RM4.75) Plantatio...
GREATER CHINA Update Alibaba Group (9988 HK/BUY/HK$87.20/Target: HK$95.00) Key takeaways from Apsara Conference 2024. INDONESIA Update Gojek Tokopedia (GOTO IJ/HOLD/Rp63.00/Target: Rp70.00) Competition in live e-commerce to intensify. MALAYSIA Sector Consumer Sector trades at -1SD to its five-year mean but given its defensiveness, it is likely to underperform on a relative ba...
GREATER CHINA Sector Automobile Weekly: PV sales rebound by 14.7% yoy, beating estimates. Maintain MARKET WEIGHT. Top BUYs: CATL, Desay SV, and Geely. Top SELL: GAC. Consumer 2Q24/1H24 results wrap-up: Lowered expectations; disciplined operations matter. INDONESIA Update Sido Muncul (SIDO IJ/BUY/Rp680/Target: Rp900) ...
KDCREIT clocked positive rental reversion of more than 40% for a major renewal contract in Singapore in 2Q24, a reflection of strong demand and tight vacancy locally. Large colocation leases with longer WALE of 3-4 years led to the astronomical positive rental reversion. The growth momentum is sustainable as capacity remains tight and it has several large colocation leases expiring in 2H24 and 2025. KDCREIT would benefit from rate cuts in 2025. Maintain BUY with a higher target price of S$2.28.
After Powell’s Jackson Hole speech on 23 August, we see a turning point starting with a US Fed rate cut in Sep 24 and lower rates heading into 2025. In the Singapore market, REITs and the property sector should benefit, as should highly-geared companies and those looking to recycle capital. Our current forecasts have incorporated lower NIMs for banks which we believe are protected by their high dividend yields.
GREATER CHINA Strategy Alpha Picks: August Conviction Calls We expect stimulus to be announced in August and add COSCO Shipping Ports, Haier Smart Home, and KE Holdings to our BUY list and add SELL call on WuXi Bio, and XPeng. Small-Mid Cap Monthly Reiterate BUY on Crystal amid share price pullback; eyes on interim dividend surprise. Sector Automobile ...
KEY HIGHLIGHTS Results CapitaLand Ascott Trust (CLAS SP/BUY/S$0.90/Target: S$1.30): 1H24: Strength from Japan and the US; weakness from Australia. iFAST Corp (IFAST SP/HOLD/S$7.50/Target: S$8.03): 2Q24: Steady AUA growth; ePension on track. Keppel DC REIT (KDCREIT SP/BUY/S$1.90/Target: S$2.09): 1H24: Singapore provides strong positive rental reversion. Upgrade to BUY. Mapletree Industrial Trust (MINT SP/BUY/S$2.27/Target: S$2.78): 1QFY25: Steady execution in Singapore; focused on expansion i...
GREATER CHINA Results Contemporary Amperex Technology (300750 CH/BUY/Rmb189.35 /Target: Rmb250.00) 2Q24: Earnings in line while revenue misses. Maintain BUY. Update Weichai Power (2338 HK/BUY/HK$13.16/Target: HK$16.00) Upgrade from HOLD to BUY on strong stimulus policy. Raise target price from HK$12.50 to HK$16.00. INDONESIA Results Unilever Indonesia (UNVR IJ/HOLD/Rp2,490/Target: Rp2,700) 2Q24: Weakness and market share loss due to reoccurring boycot...
iFAST’s 2Q24 earnings of S$16m (+346% yoy, +10% qoq) were above expectations, with 1H24 forming 53% of our full-year estimate. The HK ePension division and record AUA (+19% yoy, +6% qoq) continued to drive strong 2Q24 performance. According to the latest schedule published, two MPF trustees have been onboarded, while the remaining are expected to onboard from Sep 24 to end-25. Maintain HOLD with a 5% higher target price of S$8.03 (S$7.64 previously).
1H24 results were above our expectations. KDCREIT clocked strong positive rental reversion of more than 40% for a major renewal contract in Singapore in 2Q24, a reflection of strong demand and tight vacancy locally. Revenue contribution from Singapore grew 6.6% yoy in 1H24. KDCREIT benefits from the extremely tight vacancy rate of 1.0% in Singapore and is expected to maintain healthy and positive rental reversion in 2H24. Upgrade to BUY. Target price: S$2.09.
GREATER CHINA Update Xtep International Holdings (1368 HK/BUY/HK$5.00/Target: HK$7.20): Weak offline sales in 1H24; more conservative tone on full-year targets. INDONESIA Update Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BBRI IJ/BUY/Rp4,840/Target: Rp5,800): Focus on restructuring micro segment; to grow corporate segment instead. MALAYSIA Update Alpha IVF (ALPHA MK/BUY/RM0.315/Target: RM0.40): Alhaya is humming along nicely. Maintain BUY and target price of RM0.40. Malakoff Corporation (MLK MK/BUY/RM0.825/Target:...
KDCREIT has made its maiden foray into Japan by acquiring a 98.47% effective interest in a freehold shell & core data centre at West Tokyo in Japan for ¥23.4b (S$201.0m). The acquisition is fully funded by JPY-denominated debt at a cost of below 2%. It is accretive to DPU by 1.1% and should be completed in 3Q24. KDCREIT provides 2025 distribution yield of 4.9% (DCREIT: 5.9%, MINT: 6.2%). Maintain HOLD. Target price: S$1.98.
Update Keppel DC REIT (KDCREIT SP/HOLD/S$1.91/Target: S$1.98) Making its maiden foray into Japan. Sembcorp Industries (SCI SP/BUY/S$4.77/Target: S$7.49) Looking through the noise – still an attractive renewables play. TRADERS’ CORNER First Resources (FR SP): Trading BUY Frasers Centrepoint Trust (FCT SP): Trading BUY
Core data centre hubs in the US, such as Northern Virginia and Silicon Valley, are benefitting from rising AI demand from public cloud providers and AI companies. Vacancy is tight in Singapore but new demand is being diverted to the neighbouring state of Johor in Malaysia. Our preferred BUYs are DCREIT (Target: US$0.80) and MINT (Target: S$2.78) due to their focus on the US market. CLAR’s (Target: S$3.44) exposure to data centres is smaller, but it is looking to expand.
GREATER CHINA Initiate Coverage BYD Electronic (285 HK/BUY/HK$37.35/Target: HK$47.70) Robust multi-year growth cycle driven by content gains and GenAI themes. Update Pinduoduo (PDD US/BUY/US$133.88/Target: US$200.00) Fostering overseas expansion to mitigate regulatory uncertainties. INDONESIA Update Jasa Marga (JSMR IJ/BUY/Rp5,250/Target: Rp7,300) Progress in JTT equity financing. MALAYSIA Sector Technology ...
GREATER CHINA Strategy Alpha Picks: July Conviction Call Adding ASMPT, Innovent, Poly Property Services, TAL Education and Trip.com to our BUY list; hedging with SELL call on BYD. Small/Mid Cap Highlights Crystal International (2232 HK/BUY/HK$3.95/Target: HK$4.76) 1Q24 preview: Expecting interim DPS to more than double. INDONESIA Strategy Alpha Picks: Outperformance In Jun 24 And 2Q24 Our picks are BMRI, BBRI, EXCL, BSDE, TLKM, ACES, BBTN, CMRY, SIDO and JSM...
GREATER CHINA Economics PMI Manufacturing PMI below 50% for a second month. Strategy China And Hong Kong Property Major SOE developers saw sales rebound in June; policy support for Hong Kong tourism weaker-than-expected. Sector Macau Gaming Jun 24 GGR down 12% mom, missing expectations. INDONESIA Results Vale In...
DCREIT continues to increase geographical diversification by acquiring an additional 24.9% stake in a Frankfurt data centre and a 10% stake in an Osaka data centre. Data centres in Germany and Japan expanded by 19ppt yoy to 33% of annualised rent. Aggregate leverage increased slightly by 0.7ppt yoy to 35.1%, while the average cost of debt eased 0.8ppt qoq to 3.9%. DCREIT provides a 2025 distribution yield of 6.3% (KDCREIT: 5.2% and MINT: 6.3%). Maintain BUY. Target price: US$0.85.
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