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Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Hong Leong Finance - Stock calls

Date Analyst Company Last Target Call Valuation
02/28/19 Lim & Tan Hong Leong Finance 2.71 0 Buy
04/26/19 Lim & Tan Hong Leong Finance 2.8 0 Buy

Ho Bee - Stock calls

Date Analyst Company Last Target Call Valuation
02/26/19 Lim & Tan Ho Bee 2.51 0 Buy
03/28/19 UOB Kay Hian Ho Bee 2.5 2.79 Buy RNAV (30% discount)
04/01/19 Lim & Tan Ho Bee 2.52 0 Buy

Stock calls for 21 May 2019

Date Analyst Company Last Target Call Valuation
05/21/19 phillip China Everbright 0.385 0.5 Buy PER9x
05/21/19 Amfrasers CSE Global 0.49 0.58 Buy Sum of parts, PER12.5x FY19, PB2.1x FY19
05/21/19 Kim Eng Frasers Centrepoint Trust 2.4 2.6 Buy
05/21/19 phillip Penguin 0.44 0.61 Buy PER5x FY19 (ex-cash)
05/21/19 phillip SATS 5.08 5.47 Accumulate DCF, PER24x FY19
05/21/19 UOB Kay Hian SATS 5.08 5.05 Hold
05/21/19 DBS Vickers SATS 5.08 5.44 Buy DCF & PER22x FY20
05/21/19 phillip SHS 0.174 0 Cease coverage
05/21/19 OCBC SIA 9.3 11.02 Buy
05/21/19 UOB Kay Hian SIA 9.3 9.6 Hold
05/21/19 DBS Vickers SIA 9.3 10.8 Buy PB0.95x FY20
05/21/19 CIMB UMS 0.62 0.55 Reduce

US companies petition to Trump to stop the tariffs.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/20/nike-adidas-sign-letter-to-trump-urging-against-tariffs-on-footwear.html

The US says that China will be hurt more because of the tariffs and the US will win the trade war.

If this is true, why are the US companies complaining on behalf of China?

Are these US companies being paid by China government?

Singapore is slowing down rapidly.

https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/singapore-first-quarter-gdp-1-2-2019-growth-000244709--business.html

Singapore 1st QTR GDP growth is almost at a decade low.

http://sg-stock.blogspot.com/2019/05/singapore-nodx-fell-at-double-digit.html

http://sg-stock.blogspot.com/2019/05/why-did-sg-have-change-of-heart-real.html

When our government suddenly spoke for China, I knew something was amiss.  I expected the weak GDP number to surface soon after our FM's speech.

Do not subscribe to Luckin coffee ipo! Why? - Part 2

Luckin has fallen below its Ipo price of $17 in a few days.

We told you guys not to subscribe and we're proven right.

http://sg-stock.blogspot.com/2019/05/do-not-subscribe-to-luckin-coffee-ipo.html


Inverse relationship between China A50 and RMB. - Part 2

Blue line: China A50
Black line: USD/CNY (RMB)

http://sg-stock.blogspot.com/2019/03/inverse-relationship-between-china-a50.html

As stated previously, China A50 and RMB have an inverse relationship.

Why?

The rationale is very simple.  When RMB depreciates, it will result in investors' forex losses and this will prompt investors to pull money out of China A50.  When the investors sell China A50, they will convert the RMB back into their local currencies and result in weakening RMB.

Therefore, if investors can predict the future RMB trajectory, they can predict the future movement of China A50.

RMB is expected to depreciate in a US-China trade war.  Therefore, the decline in China A50 is a known consequence.

Monday, May 20, 2019

The western semiconductor shares are falling.

https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/chips-down-huawei-u-blacklisting-knocks-eu-semiconductor-090003209--finance.html

The western semiconductor shares are falling because of Trump.

These western chip-makers are losing the Chinese market permanently and no other market can make up for the losses.

https://sg-stock.blogspot.com/2019/05/huawei-will-replace-us21b-chip-orders.html

The western chip-maker share prices are highly overvalued without Chinese market revenues.

Huawei has revealed its own mobile operating system (Hongmeng).

https://www.huaweicentral.com/hongmeng-is-huaweis-first-ever-self-developed-operating-system/

Many analysts didn't believe that Huawei had its own mobile system.  Huawei had just released the name of its operating system (Hongmeng) and started to develop it since 2012.  The US has underestimated the Chinese.  The Chinese have a saying - Always prepare for a rainy day!

Google will regret its move to restrict Huawei to use google because Hongmeng is developed by using Linux and not Java (Android).  This will prompt many developers to develop applications using Linux because it is a truly decentralized programming language.  Besides, Linux is widely used in the networking servers sector.

http://sg-stock.blogspot.com/2019/05/it-will-be-hard-for-google-to-access.html

It will be hard for Google to access the Chinese market in the future.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-tech-alphabet-exclusive/exclusive-google-suspends-some-business-with-huawei-after-trump-blacklist-source-idUSKCN1SP0NB

This proves that Google is just another state agent like MS.

Therefore, Huawei should focus on supporting another open-sourced mobile platform.  I would recommend Huawei to work with Linux mobile platform because Linux has built up the mobile platform and community already and it will sync with the desktop and server platforms without a hitch.  There also won't be any intrusive mobile advertisements like the android system.

https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/pureos-mobile/

Yes! I'm a Linux supporter and I would like my smartphone to be on Linux too.

South Korea is giving a stupid excuse to switch to linux.

https://www.engadget.com/2019/05/19/south-korea-linux-switch/?yptr=yahoo

South Korea is a developed and rich nation, unlike some developing countries.  Therefore, South Korea is switching to Linux because of security risks posed by Microsoft (MS).  Coincidentally, SK is dumping MS after our posting about MS security risk.  The IT cost is never a concern to SK because it pays a lot more to keep US forces in the country.

http://sg-stock.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-us-is-going-to-impose-blanket-ban.html

SK just doesn't want to be held hostage by the US and give the NSA & FBI unbridled access to the sensitive intelligence through MS.

Sunday, May 19, 2019

Will US attack Iran? Yes!

From my understanding of the US unilateralism culture, the US will launch some precision types of attacks against Iran.  In other words, the US will engage Iran in some restricted battles and not launch a full-scale war against Iran if history is a prologue.

Why?

The US will always engage wars with oil-rich countries and Iran happens to be an oil-producing nation.  The US sanctions against Iran will not yield the desired outcome that the US wanted.  Please see the example below.  Therefore, the US has decided to take some further action.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3010478/iranian-fuel-oil-shipped-violation-us-sanctions-unloaded-china

The US has a plan to deploy 120,000 military personnel and aircraft carrier strike force to the Middle East and this is not a show of force to deter Iran from carrying some threats against US targets in the region.  This is the usual US modus operandi (Intelligence fabrication and battle preparation).

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/14/politics/us-troops-middle-east-iran/index.html

https://www.apnews.com/c13d7c2ce4a1429bad83d5482f9193f3

The large deployment is similar to the force size deployed to attack Iraq in the past.  However, Iran is much larger than Iraq and the US will not fight the war with Iran on the ground but will launch air attacks to decimate the nuclear facilities and key installations.

The US will be able to tighten the sea surveillance and make things difficult for Iran to ship its oil with the large deployment.  However, Iran can still sell its oil through Turkey and Pakistan.  We must not forget that Pakistan has an oil pipeline that connects to China and China will continue to buy oil from Iran.  Furthermore, it is difficult for the US to stop Iran oil trading by land because Pakistan and Turkey are at loggerheads with the US.

In order to remove the threat by Iran to block the Strait of Hormuz, the US will definitely attack Iran to eliminate the threat permanently.  Although Iran and the US declared that they didn't want to fight with each other, both nations were just engaging in deceptions to distract each other but were, in fact, preparing for the ultimate battles.  After the restricted battles, the US will demand Iran to come to the negotiation table to avoid any further escalation.

I hope I'm wrong in my military analysis because I do not want to see this outcome since ordinary Iranians will suffer greatly in this "war".

Saturday, May 18, 2019

China has started to sell US treasuries. - Part 3

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-markets-yuan-pboc/chinas-central-bank-wont-let-yuan-weaken-past-7-to-the-dollar-sources-idUSKCN1SN0NT

China's central bank has announced that it will defend the RMB at 7.  Technically speaking, the central bank will intervene at the 6.95-6.99 range.  What will the central bank do?

The central bank will continue to sell and stop buying the US treasuries to support the RMB.  The explanation had already been provided in our previous post.

https://sg-stock.blogspot.com/2019/05/china-has-started-to-sell-us-treasuries_17.html


Baltic dry index - 1040

Today, Friday, May 17 2019, the Baltic Dry Index climbed by 8 points, reaching 1040 points.
Baltic Dry Index is compiled by the London-based Baltic Exchange and covers prices for transported cargo such as coal, grain and iron ore. The index is based on a daily survey of agents all over the world. Baltic Dry hit a temporary peak on May 20, 2008, when the index hit 11,793. The lowest level ever reached was on Wednesday the 10th of February 2016, when the index dropped to 290 points.
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Related stock: Sembcorp Marine, Cosco & Pan ocean.

US rig count - 987


Related stock: Keppel Corp, Sembcorp Marine & Cosco.

Friday, May 17, 2019

Hong Kong pro-democracy activists are a bunch of ungrateful people!

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/us-secretary-state-mike-pompeo-005842713.html

Why did I say that?

When HK was under UK's administration for 99 years, all the HK governors were appointed by the UK and the Hongkongers had no voting right for 99 years.  After the 1997 handover, these HK pro-democracy activists started to appear and clamour for voting right to select the HK governor.  Why?  It is pretty obvious that the western countries are behind this and these activists have sold their souls to the western paymasters.  These people are truly ungrateful.

Furthermore, the UK government emptied the HK's coffer before the handover in 1997.  After the 1997 handover, the asian financial crisis happened a few months later and HK was defenseless as it had no money to fight off the speculators in the currency and stock markets.  China's GDP in 1997 was below US$1t and its foreign reserve was around US$150b.

During that time, China infused HKMA with more than US$80b without hesitation to fight off the currency and stock predators.  HK would become a 3rd world province if not for China's generous help especially when China didn't have a huge coffer (only US$150b) in 1997.

After crossing the hardest time in 1997, the HK activists started to disown China. What kind of moral values the HK activists are trying to inculcate to the next generation? Is it right to burn the bridge after crossing it?  Can we disown our parents after getting help from them?

HMI - Stock calls

Date Analyst Company Last Target Call Valuation
01/23/19 phillip HMI 0.540 0.77 Buy
02/13/19 UOB Kay Hian HMI 0.535 0.73 Buy DCF
02/14/19 phillip HMI 0.550 0.77 Buy DCF
05/14/19 Kim Eng HMI 0.540 0.68 Buy DCF, PER27x FY20
05/15/19 phillip HMI 0.530 0.73 Buy DCF
05/15/19 CIMB HMI 0.530 0.68 Add DCF
05/15/19 UOB Kay Hian HMI 0.530 0.73 Buy DCF
05/16/19 Kim Eng HMI 0.545 0.66 Buy DCF

Hi-P - Stock calls

Date Analyst Company Last Target Call Valuation
01/08/19 Kim Eng Hi-P 0.965 0.68 Sell PB0.8x
02/22/19 DBS Vickers Hi-P 1.05 1.12 Hold PER10x FY19
02/25/19 Kim Eng Hi-P 1.14 1.22 Hold PB1.5x
03/13/19 Lim & Tan Hi-P 1.75 0 Avoid overvalued
04/09/19 Kim Eng Hi-P 1.63 1.22 Sell PB1.5x FY19
05/06/19 DBS Vickers Hi-P 1.44 1.41 Hold PER12x FY19
05/06/19 Kim Eng Hi-P 1.44 1.22 Sell PB1.5x FY19

Haw Par - Stock calls

Date Analyst Company Last Target Call Valuation
02/28/19 Lim & Tan Haw Par 12.39 0 Buy

Stock calls for 17 May 2019

Date Analyst Company Last Target Call Valuation
05/17/19 DMG & Partners Bumitama 0.7 0.62 Neutral
05/17/19 DBS Vickers CapitaCommercial 1.93 2.1 Buy DCF, PB1.15x
05/17/19 phillip City Developments 8.63 11.82 Buy RNAV (30% discount)
05/17/19 phillip Comfortdelgro 2.54 2.72 Accumulate DCF, PER16.8x FY19
05/17/19 OCBC Frasers Centrepoint Trust 2.45 2.61 Buy
05/17/19 DMG & Partners Frasers Centrepoint Trust 2.45 2.25 Neutral
05/17/19 CIMB Frasers Centrepoint Trust 2.45 2.55 Add DDM
05/17/19 DMG & Partners Mindchamps 0.66 0.83 Buy DCF
05/17/19 OCBC SATS 5.22 5.35 Hold
05/17/19 phillip Sembcorp Industries 2.55 3.75 Buy Sum of parts
05/17/19 CIMB SIA 9.4 10.14 Hold PB0.9x CY19
05/17/19 Phillip Singtel 3.14 3.31 Accumulate Sum of parts, EV/Ebitda7x FY20
05/17/19 Amfrasers Uni-Asia 1.13 1.86 Buy Sum of parts, PB0.6x FY19, PER9.5x FY19
05/17/19 DBS Vickers Yanlord 1.44 1.47 Hold PER6x FY19/20
05/17/19 CIMB Yongnam 0.169 0.33 Add