07-11-2025VNINDEX1599.1-43.54-2.65% HNXIndex260.11-6.04-2.27% UPCOM116.750.530.46% VN301824.71-44.89-2.40% VN1001735.99-49.92-2.80% HNX30558.85-16.88-2.93% VNXALL2729.76-76.71-2.73% VNX503003.17-89.23-2.89% VNMID2239.14-64.04-2.78% VNSML1504.6-23.11-1.51% NLG – Profit margin is expected to expand thanks to the transfer of 15% of Izumi project shares
04-09-2025
: NLG
: Real Estate
: Giao Nguyen
Tags: NLG
- Nam Long recorded net revenue in 6 months of VND 2,064 billion (+352% YoY), NPAT-MI reached VND 208 billion (+209% YoY), thanks to handover at key projects such as Akari, Southgate and Nam Long Can Tho; gross profit margin recorded 43% in Q2/2025.
- Presales value in 1H2025 reached VND 3,334 billion, of which Q2 contributed up to VND 2,789 billion, led by Park Village (Waterpoint) subdivision and projects such as Can Tho, Akari, Mizuki, Izumi,...
- According to our estimates, Nam Long can record net revenue in 2025 of about VND 4,753 billion (-34% YoY) and NPAT-MI of VND 1,232 billion (up 1.3 times over the same period), in addition to the handover at key projects such as Waterpoint, Can Tho, Akari, also comes from financial revenue from the transfer of 15% of the Izumi project.
BMP - Q2 business results improved thanks to stable consumption, high selling prices and low input resin cost
03-09-2025
: BMP
: Materials
: Duong Tran
Tags: Plastic
- Q2/2025: Revenue improved thanks to high selling prices and stable consumption volume while profit margin continues to grow thanks to low input plastic prices.
- Accumulated net revenue and net profit in 6M/2025 reached VND 46,252 billion (+25.4% YoY, exceeding the plan by 5.9%) and VND 617 billion (+31.2% YoY, exceeding the plan by 24.1%, respectively).
- The price of PVC resin is anticipated to stay low in Q3 2025, supporting a strong profit margin and return on equity (ROE).
NT2 – Q2/2025 wholesale improvement of business result
29-08-2025
: NT2
: Power
: Nguyen Duc Chinh
Tags:
- In Q2/2025, NT2's revenue decreased slightly (-5% YoY), while the company's NPAT-MI increased sharply by 167% YoY.
- NT2's quarterly gross profit margin reached 17.6% (+11.7 pps YoY) thanks to high contracted volume (Qc) (+21% YoY) exceeding actual production and stable gas fuel prices.
- In 2025, NT2 benefits from an unusually high alpha rate and Qc output exceeding actual production, but this trend is unlikely to last and may return to 85–90% from 1Q2026.
- In Q3, we expect the company's output to improve, thanks to hydrological conditions that limit the level of hydropower output mobilized in the quarter, creating room for growth for the gas-fired group.
Update on Q2-2025 Business Performance and Valuation of Banking Sector
28-08-2025
: VCB, CTG, BID, MBB, TCB, VPB, ACB, STB, HDB, VIB, OCB
: Banking
: Tung Do
Tags:
- PBT in Q2-2025 of 27 listed banks reached nearly VND 89 trillion (+17% YoY), driven by credit growth, proactive bad debt recovery, and stable credit costs compared to the same period last year. For the first six months of 2025, PBT of these banks totaled VND 172 trillion, up 16% YoY, achieving 49% of the full-year 2025 PBT plan.
- Credit growth recorded a 10.0% YTD increase, marking a positive performance over the past five years and comparable to 2022 levels. This result fulfills approximately 62% of the initial credit growth target for the year. As of August 8, credit growth reached 10.2% YTD.
- Deposit growth of listed banks by the end of Q2-2025 reached 10.0%, aligning with credit growth after five quarters of lagging behind credit growth. Banks continued to promote mobilization through valuable papers channels (+25.0% YTD), increasing the proportion of valuable papers in the funding structure to 11.9% (compared to 10.3% in 2024 and 11.1% in Q1-2025), while deposit mobilization rose by 8.3% YTD.
- NIM industry-wide increased by 10 bps QoQ to 3.15%, though it remained nearly 40 bps lower than the same period last year. This development was supported by a clear improvement in the industry’s asset quality, with net formation of overdue loans (Group 2 and bad debts) significantly declining compared to previous quarters.
- Borrowers’ debt repayment capacity has shown broad-based positive improvement. The industry’s on-balance-sheet bad debt increased by only nearly VND 2 trillion compared to the previous quarter, and the industry-wide bad debt ratio decreased by 12 bps QoQ to 2.04%.
- The banking sector’s trading index surged in July and August (as of August 27) with gains of 11% and 18%, respectively, driving a YTD increase of 40%. The industry’s P/B valuation reached 1.83x, the highest in three years and above the five-year average of 1.71x, largely driven by the revaluation process of joint-stock commercial banks.
China macro in July 2025 showed weakness across all three growth pillars
28-08-2025
: VDS
: Macroeconomics
: Toan Vo
Tags: China
- Consumption remains soft and stimulus effects are fading. Retail sales rose 3.7% YoY and fell 0.14% MoM. The bright spot came from home appliances supported by the trade in program. The 2025 envelope is about RMB 300 billion, a little over two thirds has been disbursed, with the remaining tranche slated for October.
- Investment is weighed down by property. Fixed asset investment rose 1.6% YoY in Jan to Jul, below 2.8% YoY in H1. Real estate investment fell 12% YoY and new home prices declined 2.8% YoY. Offsets came from infrastructure at 3.2% YoY and manufacturing at 6.2% YoY; excluding property, FAI increased 5.3% YoY. Scope for further expansion is constrained by tight local government finances.
- Industrial production cooled. IP rose 5.7% YoY, the slowest since Nov 2024; manufacturing grew 6.2% YoY versus 7.4% YoY in the prior month. Extreme weather, softer external demand, and capacity reduction policies will weigh in the coming months.
- Exports are a near term prop but lack durability. Headline exports increased 7.2% YoY; ASEAN 16.6% YoY, EU 9.2% YoY, while the United States fell 21.7% YoY marking a third consecutive monthly decline. Recent gains largely reflect front loading ahead of tariff milestones; risks rise if the United States enforces a 40% tariff on suspected third country transshipment.
- Looking ahead, the key medium term signal is the Fourth Plenum in October which will set directions for the Fifteenth Five Year Plan 2026 to 2030.
VGI – Q2 and H1/2025: Maintaining a growth streak of more than 20% YoY for 7 consecutive quarters
27-08-2025
: VGI
: Telecommunication Services
: Anh Tran
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- VGI recorded a positive performance in Q2 with revenue/PBT/NPAT-MI growth rate of 21%, 76% and 185% yoy, respectively. The African region contributed the most with 51.4% of revenue thanks to the impressive growth rate (>50%) from market companies in Burundi, Mozambique, Tanzania and some other markets (Haiti, Cambodia, Timor-Leste).
- In H1/2025, VGI reached VND 20,170.9 billion in revenue (reaching 52% of the plan, equivalent to 51.7% of VDSC's forecast) and VND 3,976 billion in profit (completing 70% of the plan, equivalent to 42% of the forecast).
- In terms of segments, telecom services are still the core segment with a contribution of more than 80%. In addition, the digital service segment continued to perform well, notably the e-wallet segment with a growth rate of more than 80% in Burundi, Tanzania, and Cambodia. This segment is considered to have the greatest potential in this service category.
- 4G technology continues to be upgraded in the African market with a roadmap to increase coverage to 70% in Burundi, while 5G has officially been deployed in Southeast Asia, most recently in the Timor-Leste market.
HPG – Contributions from Dung Quat 02 gradually emerge
26-08-2025
: HPG
: Materials
: Thach Lam Do, CFA
Tags: Steel
- In Q2 2025, HPG reported revenue of VND 35.9 trillion (+34% YoY, +28% QoQ). Consumption volume of construction steel continued to improve, driven by demand from public investment projects and real estate developments, particularly in northern Vietnam. Notably, HRC consumption volume recorded significant growth following the operational launch of the Dung Quất 02 (DQ02) plant in March, operating at approximately 70% capacity in phase 1, with strong uptake from domestic flat steel manufacturers.
- In 2H2025, we expect the domestic market to maintain its recovery momentum, supporting the company’s sales volume. This will be driven by intensified construction activities, bolstered by the real estate market and public investment projects, alongside peak construction demand in Q4. Additionally, the official imposition of anti-dumping duties on hot-rolled steel imports from China (ranging from 23.1% to 27.8%, effective for five years) will alleviate pressure from imported steel and enable HPG to gradually capture a greater domestic market share.
Monetary Market Update August 2025: Balancing between monetary easing and FX stability
25-08-2025
: VDS
: Macroeconomics
: My Tran
Tags: VDS
- In August 2025, the SBV continued to support system liquidity, with outstanding collateralized lending peaking in mid-August before gradually declining thereafter.
- At the same time, banking system liquidity showed signs of stress in the first half of August and gradually eased afterward. As of August 22, the overnight VND lending rate had fallen to around 4.8%, still about 50 basis points higher than the USD overnight lending rate.
- Two notable policy developments during the month were: (1) Circular 23/2025, which allows a 50% reduction in required reserves for credit institutions that take over or provide support to weak banks, effective from October 1, 2025; and (2) the Government’s directive for the SBV to formulate a roadmap to pilot the removal of credit growth limits starting in 2026. Essentially, Circular 23 operationalizes provisions in the 2024 Law on Credit Institutions regarding the benefits granted to commercial banks undertaking compulsory acquisitions of weak banks (including VCB, MBB, VPB, and HDB), with the expectation of freeing up additional resources to restructure the so-called “zero-dong” banks.
- Following the SBV’s gradual increases in the central exchange rate in the previous month, market exchange rates rose more sharply in August, up 0.4–0.6% compared to the prior month. At one point on August 21, VCB’s selling rate even touched the upper bound of the trading band, before the SBV intervened by selling FX on a forward basis.
- In our view, the VND-USD interest rate differential and DXY fluctuations are not the main sources of exchange rate pressure at present. Instead, pressure on the dong stems not only from rising USD demand, but also from expectations of dollar hoarding in the context of the SBV’s ongoing monetary easing aimed at supporting growth.
Fertilizer industry – Q2/2025 business results are outstanding and 2H2025 is expected to grow strongly
22-08-2025
: DCM, DPM, BFC
: Fertilizer
: Hien Le
Tags:
- The Q2/2025 business results of fertilizer enterprises all recorded growth in revenue with the Urea, NPK, and DAP segments outperforming phosphate fertilizers. However, NPAT-MI has a differentiation from DAP>Phosphorus>Urea>NPK fertilizer enterprises mainly due to the growth of selling prices of DAP, Phosphorus>Urea and NPK fertilizers.
- Urea selling prices have grown while input prices have decreased mainly due to the influence of world selling prices. World selling prices have increased recently due to the following events:
- In June 2025, the Iran-Israel conflict disrupted Egypt's Urea supply chain, limiting regional supplies.
- After the conflict cooled down in August, the United States imposed reciprocal tariffs on urea fertilizer imports, which increased the price of urea in the United States, indirectly putting pressure on urea prices in the Middle East to increase.
- At the same time in August, India increased imports at high prices to help maintain the peak season in July-August accompanied by favorable weather conditions
- The selling price of phosphate fertilizer and DAP increased mainly due to the sharp increase in the cost of pushing from the price of raw materials, sulfuric acid.
- In 2H2025, we expect revenue to increase thanks to the growth in production and selling prices of fertilizers.
- The average selling price in 2H2025 of Urea fertilizer is expected to reach 13,000 VND/kg (+30% YoY), NPK price will reach 13,500 VND/kg (+10% YoY) and DAP price will reach 18,000 VND/kg (+30% YoY).
- Urea production increased thanks to exports to markets while domestic growth slowed down. NPK production increased due to stable demand from industrial crops as well as DCM's new marketing strategy and increased capacity from DPM. Imported fertilizer production also grew strongly thanks to high selling prices.
- In 2H2025, the gross profit margin of Urea fertilizer businesses is expected to grow more strongly than that of enterprises in the field of DAP and NPK fertilizers. The reason is that the selling price of Urea has increased while the cost of input materials, which is gas prices, tends to decrease. Meanwhile, for DAP fertilizer, although the selling price tends to increase, the cost of input materials such as sulfuric acid also increases accordingly, thereby limiting the ability to improve profit margins.
OCB – Non-interest income expansion supports profit growth
21-08-2025
: OCB
: Banking
: Trang To
Tags: OCB
- OCB’s Q2/2025 business results recorded positive growth, with key highlights including (1) Non-interest income expansion driven by fee income growth (notably, banca activities posted a solid recovery while corporate advisory activities grew strongly) and stronger off-balance-sheet bad debt recoveries, (2) Asset quality improvement as net formation of NPLs declined significantly and NPL coverage ratio was strengthened. However, credit activities showed no clear improvement as credit growth in 1H2025 was below the sector average (9.9% YTD) and NIM continued to narrow.
- For full-year 2025, we believe that OCB is unlikely to achieve its PBT target set earlier this year (over VND 5.3 trillion, equivalent to +33% YoY). However, PBT is still projected to post a positive growth of 14% YoY, supported by (1) 20% credit growth and (2) a strong 38% YoY expansion in non-interest income, mainly driven by fee income and bad debt recoveries.
- We are reassessing our valuation for OCB’s stock and will provide an update in the upcoming report.
VCB – Positive Profit Growth Outlook with Clear Drivers for NIM Improvement
20-08-2025
: VCB
: Banking
: Tung Do
Tags: Business Update Banks Private Placement
- VCB reported a PBT of VND 11.0 trillion in 2Q25, reflecting a +9% YoY and +2% QoQ increase, in line with expectations of VND 11.2 trillion. For the first half of 2025, PBT reached VND 21.9 trillion (+5% YoY), achieving 47% of the full-year forecast..
- The PBT growth in 2Q25 was primarily driven by a significant increase in income from the recovery of written-off bad debts (+560% YoY), FX trading income (+41% YoY), and a 48% YoY reduction in credit risk provisioning expenses. However, core net interest income remained flat due to NIM pressure, which contracted by 40 basis points (bps) YoY.
- ROAE slightly declined to 17.5% in 2Q25 (1Q25: 17.9%), marking the fourth consecutive quarter below 20%, reflecting slower profit growth. Book value per share (BVPS) stood at VND 25,600, corresponding to a current price-to-book (P/B) ratio of 2.51x.
- Business outlook highlights: VCB maintains its 16.3% credit growth target for 2025 and anticipates NIM improvement, driven by confidence in expanding its retail loan portfolio and increasing the proportion of medium- and long-term loans. The bank aims to enhance profit growth to restore ROAE to the 18-20% target range. The planned private placement to raise capital, initially targeted for potential completion by year-end, is now expected to be finalized next year.
- VCB’s one-year target price is set at VND 73,000 per share, based on projected PBT of VND 46.2 trillion (+9% YoY) for 2025F and VND 51.7 trillion (+2% YoY) for 2026F. Updated valuations and forecasts will be provided in subsequent reports.
PVT – Q2 2025 Results: Strong revenue growth, earnings pressured by weak freight rates and higher costs
19-08-2025
: PVT
: Oil & Gas
: Huong Le
Tags:
- PVT posted strong Q2/2025 revenue growth of +46% YoY to VND4.4tn, while NPAT-MI declined slightly by 2% YoY to VND294bn, as gross margin contracted 10ppt due to weaker international freight rates and higher depreciation.
- For 1H/2025, revenue reached VND7.1tn (+29% YoY) and NPAT-MI VND509bn (-2% YoY), fulfilling 69% and 74% of full-year targets. Gross margin dropped to 15.3%, weighed by softer freight rates and a 115% YoY surge in outsourcing costs.
- Domestic crude oil and LPG segments remain the stable pillars, supported by long-term contracts with BSR and KDK that ensure resilient volumes and margins. Meanwhile, oil product, chemical, and dry bulk segments face oversupply pressure and depressed freight rates.
- As of mid-2025, PVT has added three new vessels (Phoenix Gas, PVT Fortune, PVT Emerald), bringing total fleet to 61. The company also adopted a more cautious capex plan (~USD70mn) and is restructuring subsidiaries’ ownership to share risks while maintaining safe leverage at ~1.0x D/E.
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