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Investment Strategy
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Shop for Nation coming soon, but where? U.S. stocks plunged yesterday due to political game leading to twists and turns of presidential election results, having negative sentiment on SET Index. Foreigners are still net sellers, while institutional buying is not as strong as before since there is no more LTF buying. Investors have to watch economic stimulus measures and budget, especially Shop for Nation that is more likely to be launched. These measures would have positive sentiment on commerce plays like CRC, property rental plays like CPN and SF, and property funds and REIT that has revenue from shopping mall leasing. Property stimulus measures are also likely (e.g. interest expense reduction for homebuyers), benefiting many property plays; we favor ORI and AP. We sell STGT to take profit (resulting in 28% gain) and sell DIF while switch to CPN and ORI by 10% each. Top picks are CPN, ORI, and TU.
Outperformers during Shop for Nation
Source: ASPS Research
SET Index 1,250.15 Change (pts) 7.16 Market Cap (Million B) 56,520
Net Trading Value by Investor Type (Million B) Foreign -3,469.49 Proprietary -583.22 Institutional 2,988.73 Retail 1,063.97
RESEARCH DIVISION
Asia Plus Securities
Therdsak Thaveeteeratham Fundamental Investment Analyst on Capital Market,
Technical Investment Analyst License No: 004132
Paradorn Tiaranapramote
Fundamental Investment Analyst on Securities License No: 075365
Takit Chardcherdsak
Fundamental Investment Analyst on Securities License No: 087636
Wanapruk Komonwitayatorn
Fundamental Investment Analyst on Securities License No: 110506
Pawat Pattrapong
Quantitative Analyst Assistant
SET Index is supported by not many factors, while foreigners are still net sellers. We recommend selective buying for stocks benefiting from surrounding factors. Top picks are CPN, ORI, and TU. We sell STGT (to take profit) and DIF and switch to CPN and ORI by 10% each.
October 7, 2020
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Trump recovered, but stock markets not rebounding Global markets are keeping an eye on the U.S. presidential election on November 3, the battle between U.S. President Donald Trump and Joe Biden (former vice president during Obama's term) in the next 28 days, especially these issues:
Trump has recovered from COVID-19. After he announced his infection with COVID-19 on October 2, he has gradually recovered, left the hospital, and returned to the White House. Yesterday, he stated he is ready for the next debate on October 15 and he is putting the economic stimulus package phase 2 worth US$2.2tr on hold until after the November 3 presidential election. The delay weakened U.S. stock markets Dow Jones (-1.34%) and NASDAQ (-1.6%) and gold price (-2%) yesterday.
Bloomberg's latest poll suggests that Biden is still taking a lead over Trump and Democrat is likely to win a majority both in the Senate and the House. Currently, Republican has a majority in the Senate with 53 seats (versus Democrat's 45 Senate seats), whereas Democrat has a majority in the House of Representatives with 232 MP seats (versus Republican's 198 MP seats).
U.S. Presidential Election Poll
Source: Bloomberg
We believe Joe Biden is very likely to become U.S. new President and implement Democrat's policies as follows:
Democrat is supporting clean energy (e.g. electric cars) and coal usage reduction, which would keep coal price low and adversely affect coal plays (BANPU, LANNA)
Democrat is supporting trade. Trade protectionism measures against China would soften. Biden considers bringing the US back to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) consisting of 11 countries. Import tariff may be lowered. However, Biden will still proceed with trade war with China, seeing that China is aggressively developing 5G
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network and Chinese tech may catch up with U.S. tech. Chinese tech industry – from downstream production (e.g. Huawei, ZTE, and CCTV plays DAHUA and HIKVISION) to upstream production (e.g. chipmaker SMIC) – is still projected to be pressured by the US in the long run.
Democrat will raise taxes. Corporate tax will be hiked from 21% to 28% (still lower than 35% before Trump's tax cut), while would hurt market earnings. Goldman Sachs expects Biden's interest rate hike to decrease 2021 EPS of S&P500 by US$20 or 12% from US$170 to US$150, probably triggering fund outflow from U.S. markets. Meanwhile, fund flow may switch to Asian markets (including Thailand), both direct investment (machinery and factory) and indirect investment (money market, e.g. stocks).
U.S. Presidential Election Poll
Source: Bloomberg
Statistically, during the past three U.S. presidential elections, SET Index and U.S. markets fell 7.5% and 4.1% on average in the one month before election but then rebounded in the one week before the election by 2.9% and 5.8% on average.
S&P500 Return During U.S. Presidential Elections
Source: Bloomberg / ASPS Research
Basic Policy Republican Democrat
o Slogan • Keep America Great • Rebuild America
o International
Trade
• Tariff and non-tariff protectionism policies against
worldwide trading partners to minimize trade deficit.
• Preferring bilateral to multilateral trade deals
• Seeing that China has unfair trade policies with
the US, similar to Republican.
• Interested in CPTPP agreement
o Minimum
Wage
• Disagreeing with minimum wage hike
(since mid-term election) that may increase
operating cost for SMEs.
• Hiking minimum hourly wage from US$7.25
to US$15.
o Corporate
Tax• Cutting corporate income tax from 21%.
• Hiking corporate tax from 21% to 28%
(lower than pre-Trump rate of 35%).
o Personal Tax• Cutting personal income tax for
medium-income people from 22% to 15%• Hiking corporate tax ceiling from 37% to 39.6%
o Environment• Not supporting greenhouse gas emission rules,
withdrawing from the Paris Agreement
• Supporting environment conservative investment
with US$2tr budget in four years.
o Health Care • Not supporting government health insurance • Supporting government health insurance
o Refugee• Not supporting Dreamer right for immigrant youths
to study and work in the US
• Supporting immigrant youths Dreamer rights
to study and work in the US.
o Infrastructure• US$50bn budget for infrastructure development
(e.g. road, bridge, railway) in rural areas.• Developing infrastructure (e.g. road, airport, bridge).
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SET Return During U.S. Presidential Elections
Source: Bloomberg / ASPS Research
Shop for Nation coming soon, but where? In the final quarter of 2020, the government is pushing forward economic stimulus measures focusing on household consumption for all consumers (low-medium-high income) as follows:
Some packages were launched in September, e.g. Half-Half co-payment and extra B500 welfare card allowance for low-income people with the total budget of B51bn (0.5% of GDP).
Yesterday, the cabinet approved One Tambon One University scheme worth B16.3bn, employing 60,000 people to work in government, private, and local segments with the help of a university in each tambon.
Speaking of measures expected in October-December, the Center for Economic Situation Administration (CESA) will implement a measure similar to Shop for Nation at the meeting today. Participating consumers can submit receipts from spending on goods and services under this measure for tax deduction (originally up to B15,000). Statistically, Shop for Nation boosted spending in the economic system by B17-22.5bn
SET Return During U.S. Presidential Elections
Source: Bloomberg / ASPS Research
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2015 25-31 Dec 2015 (7 days) Domestic goods & services 15,000 22,000 0.13%
2016 14-31 Dec 2016 (18 days) Domestic goods & services 15,000 17,000 0.10%
201711 Nov - 3 Dec 2017
(23 days)Domestic goods & services 15,000 22,500 0.13%
201815 Dec 2018 -15 Dec 2019
(1 month)Car tile, books & OTOP goods only 15,000 12,000 0.07%
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During Shop for Nation, SET Index rose 0.81% on average and the following sectors tended to outperform the SET: tourism (+3.9%), commerce (+1.43%), transportation (+1.22%), and property (+1.14%). However, fundamentals of the tourism-hotel sector are still dull amid COVID-19, so we reiterate UNDERWEIGHT. Tourism plays (ERW, CENTEL, MINT) already rallied and they are now overvalued, so we reiterate Switch. We still recommend speculating on retail plays, especially those benefiting from Shop for Nation, e.g. CRC, CPN, SPVI, and CPALL.
Outperformers during Shop for Nation
Source: ASPS Research
For property stimulus measures, the Government Housing Bank (GHB) was proposing two support measures for people affected by COVID-19 to new finance minister Arkom Termpittayapaisith: 1) Halving housing loan rate – From the housing loan rate of 2.99%, GHB
requests the finance ministry to help pay 1.50% in compensation for homebuyers.
2) Two-gen loans – GHB is proposing for 70-year two-generation loans worth B10bn to help people have home sooner than before.
These measures have positive sentiment on property plays (AP, ORI).
Government stimulus plays: ORI, CPN, TU SET Index rose 7.16 pts or 0.58% yesterday, mainly driven by energy and petrochemical plays that boosted SET Index by 1.53 pts and 0.21 pts, respectively. Oil production facilities in Gulf of Mexico has been temporarily shut down due to hurricanes, pressuring oil supply.
Meanwhile, foreigners were still net sellers at B1.2bn (15th day, totaling over B22bn), while institutional funds were net buyers at B2.9bn (second day).
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Oil prices are still rising inconsistently, while foreign buying is not returning yet. We recommend stocks that have solid fundamentals and benefit from government economic stimulus measures (focusing on medium- to high-income people) that already underwent correction. Top picks are ORI, CPN, and TU.
ORI([email protected]) – 3Q20 presales B7.5bn, falling 32%yoy and 14%qoq. Thus, 9M20 presales were B19bn and made up 88% of ORI's target of B21.5bn (versus our projection of B20bn). 4Q20 presales are projected to enjoy positive momentum from 3Q20, driven by nine projects worth B14bn; 4Q20 presales are expected at B7bn, boosting 2020 presales beyond ORI's target and our forecast. Valuation is still favorable with upside almost 20% and dividend yield almost 7%p.a.
CPN([email protected]) – CPN's businesses already passed the lowest point and recently start to improve, mainly from the shopping mall business that is recovering better than expected. Traffic almost rebounds back to normal. CPN is providing smaller rental rate discount, from 30-50% to 25% now. Tenants are leasing CPN's leasable spaces, so occupancy rate rebounds to 92%. If Shop for Nation takes effect for the rest of this year, CPN will be able to give smaller discount. It plans to open three new malls in Ayutthaya, Sriracha, and Chanthaburi in 2H21-2022. It will also sell leasehold rights in four malls to CPNREIT, probably within end-2020 or the latest in February 2021. Having 50% upside, we recommend gradually accumulating.
For TU, see Market Talk yesterday.
SET vs Sector Return 2019 SET vs Sector Return 2020ytd
Source: ASPS Research Source: ASPS Research
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Market Talk Top Picks
Source: ASPS Research
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Date Avg. Cost Last
DOHOME 21 Sep 20 10% 14.50% 13.10 15.00 15.00 44.46 1.01 14.80
DOHOME is expected to show strongest profit in 3Q20. Gross margin is projected
to grow. New store is opened with business model focusing on customer need,
boosting market share.
DCC 30 Sep 20 10% -7.03% 2.56 2.38 3.10 13.60 6.10 2.25DCC's 3Q20 profit is expected to grow further. Sales growth in July-August
already reached 3Q20 target.
TU 6 Oct 20 10% 1.39% 14.40 14.60 17.00 13.81 4.25 13.70TU's 3Q20 net profit is expected to grow 5.6%qoq and 31.9%yoy (far beyond forecast). Red Lobster restaurants in the US are reopening as
normal. Chilled-frozen food business is rebounding.
DIF 29 Sep 20 10% -3.62% 13.80 13.30 N.A. N.A. 7.85 13.10DIF is an infrastructure fund, a good safe haven amid SET fluctuation. Dividend
yield expected over 6%p.a
STGT 26 Aug 20 10% 28.00% 68.75 88.00 100.00 12.69 3.15 88.00
STGT's 3Q20 net profit is expected to jump 258.8%qoq and 2,965.8%yoy and
make a new high for the second quarter thanks to a continuous rise in rubber
glove selling price.
MCS 25 Sep 20 10% 0.00% 12.80 12.80 17.70 7.20 6.74 12.50MCS has high cash in hand and good liquidity. It may consider capital decrease.
2021 EPS is expected to rise from B1.86 to B1.95.
INSET 24 Sep 20 10% 1.81% 3.32 3.38 4.18 12.91 3.10 3.20INSET's 2020 profit is estimated to grow 23.8%. 2021 profit has wide upside
from new business opportunities in data center, 5G, and mass transit.
MTC 29 Sep 20 15% -1.30% 51.17 50.50 57.00 20.81 0.72 47.75MTC's 3Q20 profit is expected to make a new high, driven by continuous net loan
growth after lockdown easing.
NER 5 Oct 20 5% 3.03% 3.30 3.40 4.40 6.55 6.11 3.00NER benefits from China's rapid economic recovery thanks to good COVID-19
infection control. Plus, it has a new rubber processing facility.
WORK 30 Sep 20 10% 8.33% 10.80 11.70 12.00 37.87 2.11 10.80WORK jumped 60% in one month during debut of 10 Fight 10 Season 1. 10 Fight
10 Season 2 is coming soon, while WORK has limited downside now.
Stocks WeightAccumulated
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2020F
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Beta Portfolio
Yesterday we cut BEM from our portfolio and switch to TU
Today we sell STGT to take profit and cut investment in DIF from our portfolio and switch to CPN and ORI by 10% each
Accumulated returns since our recommendation Stock Classification
Accumulated returns Accumulated returns since beginning of the year
Stop Profit 28.0%
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Positive Factor, 55%
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STGTDOHOME
INSETMTC
WORK
DIF
Min,0.387350794
Beta Portfolio, 0.812709156
Max,1.643275356
SF, -0.04%AP, -0.10%
RJH, -0.19%
MTC, -0.21%BCH, -0.27%
TVO, -0.28%KBANK, -0.29%
RS, -0.39%EGCO, -0.53%TKN, -0.54%
TTW, -0.65%BEM, -0.72%
MAJOR, -0.81%TPIPL, -0.89%
IVL, -0.91%CPF, -0.95%
PSH, -0.95%AOT, -1.35%
MCS, -1.52%WHA, -1.95%
BTSGIF, -2.63%PTTEP, -2.96%
STEC, -3.09%CRC, -3.56%
JMART, -3.92%DIF, -4.87%
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STGT, 4.43%NOBLE, 4.40%
BAM, 3.40%DCC, 2.84%
INSET, 2.56%RATCH, 2.44%
DOHOME, 1.91%SEAFCO, 1.67%
CENTEL, 1.53%STA, 1.40%BCP, 1.39%COM7, 1.38%
BDMS, 1.32%LH, 1.26%
GULF, 1.18%WORK, 0.89%EASTW, 0.85%
SVI, 0.84%ADVANC, 0.80%
TU, 0.67%CPALL, 0.65%ROBINS, 0.60%
SCCC, 0.56%THCOM, 0.51%BBL, 0.46%SCC, 0.44%EA, 0.43%
BGRIM, 0.31%POPF, 0.28%TFG, 0.27%AMATA, 0.25%BCPG, 0.24%PTT, 0.22%AAV, 0.20%INTUCH, 0.19%KSL, 0.18%NER, 0.17%CPN, 0.16%KKP, 0.15%SPVI, 0.14%SAT, 0.12%PYLON, 0.06%
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XD Par decrease New listing - MAI > Services New listing - MAI > Property & Construction
MODERN @B0.05 SLM B0.50 par (from B25, "SP") K&K Superstore Southern (KK) 230m shrs Sirakorn Pcl (SK) 460m shrs, B0.50 par
B0.50 par (IPO 69m shrs @B0.88) (IPO 115.348m @B0.80)
New shares trading Last trading day
W 2,817.392m shrs (xr) SANKO-W1 XE New shares trading
S5013P2012D 50m units SANKO-W1 1:1w @B1.00 ("SP", final) BROOK 1.598m shrs (w)
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