FPT has just announced the completed deal transferring partial ownership of FPTRetail to financial investors. Accordingly, 6 million shares, equivalent to 30% of FPTRetail whose charter capital was VND200 billion at the end of Q2 2017, were sold to funds related to Dragon Capital and VinaCapital. FPT subsequently owns 55% shares of its retail business at the moment, which means FPTRetail remains a subsidiary under FPT Corporation. Therefore, the gain from the divestment might not be recognized as an extraordinary profit until further divestments are completed by FPT.
As the continuous development of the world derivative market together with the needs of Vietnam stock market to launch new products to serve the diversified needs of investors, derivative stock market after 3 years cherished is about to be put into operation in this 2017 with the first two products are Future stock index contract and government bond future contracts. In the first phase, the trial run of these two products may not be attractive, but will create new milestones for the market.
The increase in passengers has helped boost the volume of both airlines in H1 2017: VJC +22% YoY, and HVN + 6% YoY.
In July, penny stocks appeared attractive as according to our statistics, 127 out of 236 stocks valued lower than VND10,000, outperformed the market. Besides, stocks enjoying three-digit growth rates in July included HAI, HAR, SPI, and CMC which are also penny stocks.
Phu Tai Corporation (HSX: PTB) has put the Phase 1 of Phu Cat wood processing plant already into operation on August 1st.
Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has announced application of tariff amounting to VND1,855,790/ton on imported DAP fertilizer. Given the latest market price of Chinese DAP fertilizer (which accounts for 80% of imported DAP fertilizer) at VND9,100/kg, the product price may increase by 20% to VND11,000/kg. Looking at current domestic DAP prices of around VND9,500/kg, we expect a stronger consumption for domestic DAP products.
Real estate result updates for Q2 2017_Part 2
Until August 1st, 612 listed companies on HSX and HNX exchanges has announce their Q2 business result. While the results of some sectors are influenced by a single stock like BVH (Insurance), PVD (Oi & Gas), VJC (Travel & Leisure), stocks in other sectors has displayed a clear trend.
H1 business results of almost real estate companies have been revealed. Contrary to Dat Xanh (DXG) and Novaland (NVL), Vingroup (VIC), Khang Dien (KDH) and Nam Long (NLG) continued to have solid revenue from the hand-over of their core projects. However, the NPAT growth was diversified among these companies. While NVL recorded negative number, NLG and KDH saw an increase in NPAT thanks to financial incomes. In H2 2017, we expect that continuous deliveries in completed projects will encourage core business result, especially Dat Xanh and Nam Long.
Vietnam shipping company performance continued to be plagued by prolonged weak demand, which was compounded by H1 2017 fuel cost increase. On average, Vietnam petroleum shipping stocks posted 15% increase in revenue but 22% decline in the bottom line over the first six months of 2017.
Vietnam’s manufacturing PMI drifted down to 51.7 in July from 52.5 in June. The decline in the headline index was partly driven by slower increases in output and new orders. This is also the case with new export orders, which is in line with our observations in recent import growths (3mma import growth has been stable at 31% in July 2017).
RongViet Research has just released Q2 2017 Result Update Report on Coteccons Construction JSC (CTD-HSX) with the following overview and recommendation:
"CTD is an outstanding construction contractor in the domestic market and the company has proven the power to win the largest bids as well as the internal resources to satisfy clients’ demand in terms of design capacity and progress. Despite the market concerns over the peaking housing sector, we anticipate a sustainable growth in other segments of the real estate market including industrial, commercial and infrastructure, which will manage to keep the construction demand growth. Subsequently, as the leading firm, CTD is able to develop new growth drivers as well as to skim the most profitable jobs in the market. The company is going to adapt to a new revenue structure, which allows them to diversify their portfolio and maintain a decent growth rates over the next three-year period.