Handshake between the State Bank and Commercial banks

At the meeting “Vietnam’s Enterprises – the Driving Force for the Country’s Economic Development”, SBV has issued an important declaration on interest rate policies. Particularly, commitment to support businesses and the announcements of many commercial banks showed the consistency and enforceability of the orientation.

HSG, NKG update – Impressive growth

HRC price bottoming in late-2015 and recovering in early 2016 brought about short-term benefits to Vietnamese coated steel makers in term of input price. Low inventory prices and increasing sales prices favoured Hoa Sen Group (HSX-HSG) and Nam Kim Group (HSX-NKG)’ performances in the last quarter.

PET – Q1 result updates

Although we have predicted that distribution segment would be facing challenges since 2016, PET’s Q1 business earnings were not so negative. In this quarter, PET’s revenue and PBT were VND2,318 billion (-7% yoy) and VND66.3 billion (+17% yoy).

DGW AGM note - Stop distributing Nokia (Microsoft) products, a big gap is left behind

In 2015, DGW’s sales and PAT dropped significantly due to unexpected change in sales of Nokia (Microsoft) brand. In 2015, DGW recorded sales and PAT at VND4,203 billion (-14% yoy) and 103.5 billion (-19% yoy). This decrease was caused mainly by distribution sales of Nokia (Microsoft) brand. This sales dropped 64% in 2015 since Microsoft changed the business strategy shifting from hardware to software.

PTB - Company report release on April 27th 2016

Phu Tai JSC operates in three main segments including (1) Stone production, (2) Furniture production and (3) Auto trading. Vast reservoir, favorable location for exploited activities, good market orientation, expanding production capacity are factors which would greatly support stone production segment, the main profit driver of PTB. Apart from stone production segment, earnings result is expected to improve thanks to (1) Stable growth rate of auto trading segment and (2) higher margin of furniture segment.

TCM - Company update report release on April 27th 2016

Recently, the price movement of garment and textile companies in general and TCM in particular has been less optimistic compared to the same period last year due to lacking of earnings growth and TPP news support. In more details, difficulties in fiber segment, the instability of Vinh Long operation and negative exchange rate movements are the main reasons that 2015’s earnings result of TCM could not meet expectations. Net revenue rose by 8.6% but NPAT lost 8.7%, achieved only 90.4% of 2015’s guidance. However, prospects for 2016 is relatively more positive when many businesses have found ways to improve operational efficiency.

SKG: A few high growing companies on Vietnam stock market

On April 25th, 2016, Superdong-Kien Giang High speedboat JSC (SKG-HSX) held 2016 Annual general meeting. Below are the summary notes from the meeting:

PGS – Core business activities has not demonstrated positive prospects

On 21/04/2016, Petrovietnam Gas South (HNX – PGS) organized Annual general meeting 2016.

In term of 2015 business results, revenue and profit after tax achieved slight improvement compared to plan (after adjustment in revenue) with 11% and 1% respectively, equivalent to VND 5,956 billion and VND 227 billion. Compared with 2014, PGS experienced the decline in both criteria with -20% yoy and -21% yoy respectively. However, gross profit margin significantly increased from 15.3% in 2014 to 19%. The reason came from new price mechanism from PVGas which helped PGS to deal with the drops in selling prices.

MWG - 3M business results updates: Continued to aggressively expand thegioididong and dienmayXanh chain

In the first quarter, MWG opened more 104 stores, including 82 stores of thegioididong and 22 stores of DienmayXanh. Besides, in 2015, they also launched over 220 stores of thegioididong and 49 stores of DienmayXanh. Therefore, with hundreds of new stores, MWG had an attractive growth in sales (+75% yoy) and PAT (79% yoy). Main contributions to MWG’s sales was still from new stores opening in 2015 and 2016.

Vietnam energy shipping picture – Better than expected

Amid the challenging theme facing bulk cargo shipping firms (Vosco, Vinaship, Nosco,…) where vessel freight (represented by BDI) is trading at the 30-year low level due to slowing down China and vessel supply surplus. Tankers business conversely has seen more resilient despite the storm of falling oil prices and FX volatility.

DHA - Conservative earnings guidance

As one of the companies in construction stone industry having good price growth since the end of 2014, Hoa An Joint Stock Company (HSX: DHA) received much attention from individual investors. Yesterday, at the 2016’s annual general meeting, DHA shared some important information relating to DHA’s operation and 2016’s guidance.

CTD – Q1 earnings jumped despite signs of growing payment pressure

Supported by impressive growth in its core business, CTD experienced an outstanding yet steady increase in stock price throughout 2015. However, the stock has become more volatile recently. In later days of March, CTD rocketed to over VND190,000/share but soon corrected to around VND166,000/share. Today, the stock started as high as 178,000/share but closed at the reference price. The Company published Q1 financial statement on Wednesday and announced today that it just sign 5 new contracts with a total value of VND5,453 bn.