Ascendas-hTrust

4th quarter results is out , dpu incteinc 25.5% to 1.72 cents due to divestment gain from China property.
If Without this divestment gain, NPI is down 8% to 23.7m.

Together with 3rd quarter dpu of 1.41 c nts ,total 3.13 cents has been declared and XD will be on 16 May.

NAV has also rises from 86 to 92 cents.

Not a call to buy or sell.

The recent acquiring of 98.7% stake in KY-Heritage Hotel Dongdaemun for KRW72.1 billion ($89 million).

 The 215-room four-star hotel sits on a plot of freehold land in Dongdaemun, a major shopping and tourist seems quite well receive by the market.

 The company mentioned that this purchased is dpu accreditative.

 Also in early January , the company has divested two China hotel properties, Beijing Novotel Sanyuan and Ibis Beijing Sanyuan, for a total of RMB 1.16 billion ($235.9 million) in cash.

 With the money gathered from the selling of these 2 hotel properties in China, the company would be able to use part of the proceeds to pay for the new acquistion in Korea. The company may payout some of the gains from this divestment to reward shareholders with a special dividend.

Looking through the Financial results for past few years, the Total Revenue seems to be generally increasing from 214.28m (2013) to 224.43m in 2017.

Net income is not consistence as in 2013 it was generating  16.68m and has been drifted lower to 8.10m in 2017.You may want to look further into the detail for this declining net income figure.

Gearing looks fine which is below 35%.

Cash flow has also been generally declining .

Average dividend of 5.48 cents.
Yield is about 6.5%

NAV of 85.6 cents.

I have roughly workout the fair value using DDM and derive the value of about 87 cents.

The current price of 81.5 cents may still present a potential upwards of about 6.7% to reach 87 cents.

Perhaps, the capital gain might not be that great! I think investor are purely invest for the constant yearly yield of about 6.5%.

Not a call to buy or sell.

Trade/Invest base on your own decision.

Quote : Jeremyowtaip -

1. Recent sale of China hotel properties at good premium to unlock value for unitholders.

2. NAV per share after divestment of China properties is increased thus leading to an attractive P/B ratio below 1.

3. Some possible ways the trust may utilise the divestment proceeds include paying higher distributions or a one-off special distribution seen as a return of capital to unitholders. Also, the trust may utilise the proceeds to pare down debts and decrease gearing. The trust may also utilise the proceeds for AEIs of existing properties and/or for new acquisitions. Or can channel the proceeds into all of the above mentioned with different weightings for each depending on the manager.

My take is that no matter which ways the divestment proceeds are utilised, the manager should provide a sound basis to their unitholders why it chooses certain way to use the proceeds.

For example, if it chooses to do a new acquisition that is not so attractive as compared to previous China hotel properties it has divested paying too high a price for the new property which has less attractiveness. Then, we ask ourselves this question. Why exit the China hotel properties at a premium only to re-enter another new property with less attractive future prospects? This would be doing one good decision followed by one bad decision to negate the previous good effect.

If it chooses to pare down strategically some of the existing debts to increase the average weighted length of time to debt expiry in view of potential rise in interest rates. Maybe this is a good decision.

If it chooses to reward unitholders with higher one-off distributions, it is a neutral option depending how they do it. If most of the proceeds are used towards rewarding unitholders, it may help to boost their unit price higher on a short term basis when a higher distribution attracts investors to this trust. But when the buffett has already ended, what comes after next? Any more growth? If not, then it is just a short term fever with no longer term positive effects of increasing distribution on a one-off basis.

Do not get me wrong. I am not saying rewarding unitholders is always wrong. But overdoing it just to boost up the unit price on a shorter term basis may not be as optimal compared to growing the trust on a long term basis providing sustainable increase in distributions over time. Unitholders will be happy only for a short while with a buffett treat as compared to a trust or REIT which really can sustain their growth in distributable income for a very long time to come giving out better and better treats (which may not be buffett standard but still relatively good standard treats).

In conclusion, AHT has done an impressive job with the divestment of the China hotel properties at good premium gains. Let's see how they use the divestment proceeds. I believe this is more important to watch for than the ongoing price movements of this trust. Of course, if the trust proves it can use the proceeds in a very good and sound way, then buying it at the current price now is good. If otherwise, even if one can supposedly get it cheap at less than P/B ratio of 1, think again is it really a great wonderful catch.

Dyodd

Ascendas Hospitality Trust (“A-HTRUST”) was listed in July 2012 as a stapled group comprising Ascendas Hospitality Real Estate Investment Trust (“A-HREIT”) and Ascendas Hospitality Business Trust (“A-HBT”), established with the principal investment strategy of investing, directly or indirectly, in a diversified portfolio of income-producing real estate used predominantly for hospitality purposes, as well as real estate related assets in connection with the foregoing. The asset portfolio comprises 11 quality hotels with over 4,000 rooms geographically diversified across key cities in Australia, China, Japan and Singapore; and located close proximity to central business districts, business precincts, suburban centres, transportation nodes and iconic tourist landmarks. A-HTRUST is managed by Ascendas Hospitality Fund Management Pte. Ltd., the manager of A-HREIT, and Ascendas Hospitality Trust Management Pte. Ltd., the trustee-manager of A-HBT. A-HTRUST is sponsored by Ascendas Land International Pte Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ascendas Pte Ltd.

StarHill Reit

The DpU for 3rd quarter drops 7.6% to 1.09 cents versus 1.18 cents last year.

Looks like retail rental is still facing difficulty in raising their rental rate.

NAV 92 cents.
Price 70 cents
 Estimated annual DPU of 4.4 cents
Yield is about 6.3%

Not a call to buy or sell.
Pls do your own due diligence.

These are my findings for Starhill Global REIT. Starhill Global REIT as they described themselves on their website is a REIT which currently has a portfolio of 11 properties used primarily for retail and office uses.

Their flagship properties are Wisma Atria and Ngee Ann City located in Orchard Road of Singapore. They have grown in their portfolio from their two flagship properties to now total of 11 properties located across KL Malaysia, Chengdu China, Tokyo Japan, Perth and also Adelaide Australia. Thus, they are now diversified into different geographical regions.

For this sharing, I will do a comparison of Starhill Global REIT versus CapitaMall Trust, a very familiar Singapore large retail REIT which is also the first listed REIT in Singapore. Since Starhill Global REIT derives majority of their revenue from retail tenants and less so from office tenants, it is still a reasonable comparison against CapitaMall Trust.

 I will compare their compounded annual growth rates (CAGRs) in three different important metrics over the past 11 years since 2006 to 2017.

 These three important metrics are net property income, distributable income and value of investment properties. The exact period of comparison may differ slightly due to different reporting timings of their full year results. Nevertheless, it is still kept to not more than half a year difference in both their period of comparison.

First, we look at the net property income growth. For CapitaMall Trust, it's net property income has grown at a CAGR of 7.42% over the past 11 years from 2006 to 2017. For Starhill Global, it's net property income has grown at a CAGR of 9.2% over a similar period.

Next, we look at the distributable income growth. For CapitaMall Trust, it's distributable income has grown at a CAGR of 8.02% over the past 11 years. For Starhill Global, it's distributable income has grown at a CAGR of 7.2% over a similar period.

We look now to the value of investment properties growth. For CapitaMall Trust, it's value of investment properties has grown at a CAGR of 6.1% over the past 11 years. For Starhill Global, it's value of investment properties has grown at a CAGR of 7.29% over a similar period.

Just to have some perspective on the size of these two retail REITs currently. The value of investment properties held by CapitalMall Trust as of Dec 17 is around $8.77 billion while the value of investment properties held by Starhill Global REIT is around $3.15 billion. We can see that the latter is less than half the size of the former in terms of the value investment properties held in it's portfolio.

 Thus, we are comparing a much bigger retail REIT player CapitaMall Trust which is focused on a Singapore retail mall market to a smaller global retail REIT player Starhill Global which is diversified across retail mall markets in different geographical regions.

In terms of net property income growth, Starhill Global has delivered close to 2% higher CAGR than CapitaMall Trust over the past 11 years which is significant. In terms of distributable income growth, Starhill Global loses marginally in less than 1% point to CapitaMall Trust in the CAGR of distributable income.

Perhaps CapitaMall Trust is slightly more efficient in growing and managing it's cash available for the purpose of distributions despite producing a slightly lower growth in it's profitability as a retail landlord as compared to Starhill Global.

If we look at the growth in value of investment properties, Starhill Global REIT has been growing at a higher compounded annual rate at about 1% higher than CapitaMall Trust. This is not surprising due to the former which is a smaller retail player as compared to the latter with room to grow faster.

The larger the investment property asset size a REIT owns, the slower growth it will likely experience as it needs to look to acquire more properties and also properties of larger value quantum as it grows larger in order to match it's previous growth rates.

 Also, the value of investment properties may fluctuate at times and properties in different geographical regions may be subjected to different valuations depending on the property market conditions affecting property valuations in the different regions and subsequently the growth in value of investment properties.

A possible question to ask here is how do the valuations and the growth in valuations of retail mall properties in Singapore compare against that in KL Malaysia, Chengdu China, Tokyo Japan and the two places of Australia that Starhill Global REIT has properties in? Is a diversified strategy in this sense better than a Singapore focused strategy?

Other metrics of comparison such as overall occupancy rate and gearing are about similar for both retail REITs at more than 90% and about 30 plus % respectively. Thus on an overall basis, Starhill Global REIT a geographically diversified retail REIT player compares favourably to CapitaMall Trust a large established retail REIT based in Singapore.

Starhill Global REIT is currently trading at $0.72 and has a $0.91 NAV per unit and a distribution yield of about 5.99%. CapitaMall Trust is currently trading at $1.98 and has NAV per unit of $1.92 and distribution yield of about 5.64%. It seems that Starhill Global REIT is currently trading at a cheaper valuation versus CapitaMall Trust even though both are comparable in terms of their growth performance on net property income, distributable income and value of investment properties over the past 11 years.

Hi Sporeshare, I attached below a link to the Straits Times article which summarises what are the current developments in Starhill Global REIT which caused their overall drop in gross revenue, net property income and DPU for most recent performance.

The reasons given were due to:
1. the effects of straight-line rental adjustments.
2. higher withholding taxes for Malaysia and Australia properties.
3. weaker contributions from offices.
4. disruption of income from ongoing asset redevelopment works at Plaza Arcade in Perth.
5. lower revenue at Myer Centre Adelaide Australia.

The CEO of Starhill Global REIT commented that their Singapore retail portfolio has remained stable while new take-ups for office space were encouraging.

Also, the asset redevelopment works on Plaza Arcade and Lot 10 will likely be completed this first quarter meaning for the rest of this year, these two properties can start to contribute to revenue and net property income etc. again.

The chairman of Starhill Global REIT also made similar comment that earlier initiatives to rejuvenate the portfolio has been timely and the REIT will be in a good position to ride any retail sector upturn.

If we look at the reasons given for the recent few quarters weaker results and the replies by the CEO and Chairman, we should ask a question. Do these guys know what they are doing and are what the various actions they are carrying out currently for this REIT and unitholders make sense to grow the distributions for the long term?

As far as I can observe, some factors were not within their control to be fair to the management. Things like straight line rental adjustments and higher withholding taxes on Malaysia and Australia properties. This maybe one of the thing to look out for when investing in overseas properties. If Singapore has a comparatively lower tax on retail properties, then perhaps a Singapore focused retail property portfolio maybe better.

But then again, there maybe certain tailwinds found in overseas retail mall markets which may not be present in Singapore especially if the growth element in retail mall market in our saturated tiny red dot is going to be limited going forward.

The CEO commented recent new office take ups were encouraging. Also, both CEO and Chairman thinks that sacrificing a few quarters of lower net property income and DPU to redevelop their Australian assets at this timely moment will ensure the assets there can capture the ride in retail sector upturn.

Thus, I think it is only fair to give the REIT another few more quarters to see whether there is any improvement in their metrics such as gross revenue, net property income, distributable income and DPU. This will tell us whether what the management is doing currently really is of good foresight in terms of future benefits for the unitholders. Next few quarters, there are no more excuses such as asset redevelopment works affecting their performance.

 Let's see whether their performance picks up from here going forward in order to make a fair opinion on them. As of now, the various reasons given are reasonable in my opinion to explain why their various metrics are performing weaker.

Straits Times article Business section: Starhill Global Reit's DPU down in Q2 

http://www.straitstimes.com/business/starhill-global-reits-dpu-down-in-q2

To ride on the return to better profitability going forward......Let me also do a comparison against Suntec REIT to see how Suntec REIT pits against both CapitaMall Trust and Starhill Global REIT for the past 11 years. Then there is also Mapletree Commercial Trust also another touted good performer which is also a retail-office hybrid landlord to compare against. I am getting quite excited here.

I have tabulated Suntec REIT and Mapletree Commercial Trust's (MCT) growth performance to compare against Starhill Global REIT and CapitaMall Trust (CMT). However, for MCT, it was only listed from April 2011 onwards. As such, I have taken only the period from 2012 to 2017, a five year period of growth for MCT to compare against the rest.

Net property income CAGR for 11 years (5 years for MCT)
CMT = 7.42%
Starhill Global = 9.2%
Suntec REIT = 6.23%
MCT = 18.7%

Distributable income CAGR for 11 years (5 years for MCT)
CMT = 8.02%
Starhill Global = 7.2%
Suntec REIT = 9.71%
MCT = 25.5%

Value of investment properties CAGR for 11 years (5 years for MCT)
CMT = 6.1%
Starhill Global = 7.29%
Suntec REIT = 9.87%
MCT = 16.56%

The current gearings for these four REITs are quite close hovering around 35% plus minus 1 to 2 % points. Thus, they are financially geared about similar levels currently after rendering their respective historical CAGR growths in the past period considered.

If we ignore the duration of period considered, clearly the winner here is Mapletree Commercial Trust (MCT). But, it would not be a fair comparison since the period considered for MCT is only most recent 5 years which the retail and office markets long way back and recent 5 years may have seen changes thus affecting the growth rates at different periods in time.

The big question is whether going forward can MCT continue to grow at current CAGR? This is because the property asset size of MCT is also by no means smaller than some of the rest in this comparison. Thus, to give it some fairness even if the period of growth considered is only recent 5 years, it really has made impressive double digits CAGRs on it's various metrics on a large property asset base.

Suntec REIT seems also quite good in terms of growing it's distributable income and value of investment properties at close to 10% CAGR over the past 11 years winning over Starhill Global REIT and CMT by a large margin. The only thing is that the net property income CAGR for Suntec REIT loses out to the latter two despite having grown faster in it's distributable income and value of investment properties.

Perhaps, it is worth investigating further for interest why Suntec REIT did not grow it's net property income at higher CAGR over the past 11 years? Is it a matter of difficulty in keeping property expenses low? Is it the gross revenue are not growing as fast due to generally lower rental income rates on it's properties over the years?

In conclusion, I see Mapletree Commercial Trust as experiencing strong growths in net property income, distributable income and the value of their investment properties even though their growth considered is only most recent 5 years. If it can continue at current or close to current CAGR for these various metrics over next few years, it may really become a clear winner in this segment of retail-office landlord space. Starhill Global REIT may not be a stark winner against it's peers in this comparison. However, it is definitely also not a loser trailing behind it's peers in terms of growth performance.

My picks as follows according to their growth performance.
1st = MCT
2nd= Suntec REIT
3rd (tie up) = Starhill Global REIT and CMT

Reasoning as follows: I like MCT for it's current high growth rate. I look forward to it's future developments whether it can continue to maintain the current high growth rate from it's future growth strategies. If it can do so, this is really one of the best performer in this retail-office landlord space.

Suntec REIT I like how it has rewarded unitholders well over time in terms of it's high growth rate in distributable income and growing it's property asset base through itself and also forming joint ventures with others. The only thing I would wish they could improve upon is to grow their net property income in step with their overall growth. If I am considering Suntec REIT, I will watch their future net property income closely for signs that they are growing their rental income on their properties well and also managing their property expenses more efficiently.

Starhill Global and CMT are lagging slightly behind the above two picks. If their growth going forward can be more exciting with their ongoing growth strategies, then I will upgrade my opinion on either or both of them to be on par or higher than MCT or Suntec REIT.

These are the unit price, NAV per unit and distribution yield for these four comparisons currently.

Unit price vs (NAV per unit)
MCT = $1.56 vs ($1.37)
Suntec REIT = $1.92 vs ($2.119)
Starhill Global REIT = $0.72 vs ($0.91)

CMT = $2 vs ($1.92)

Distribution yield
MCT = 5.77% (annualised based on 9M results)
Suntec REIT = 5.21%
Starhill Global REIT = 5.99% (annualised based on 1H results)
CMT = 5.64%

In terms of trading at cheap valuations, this is the ranking I give based on unit price vs NAV per unit and also their current distribution yield.

1st = Starhill Global REIT
2nd (tie up) = Suntec REIT and CMT
3rd = MCT

This proves the point that good things do not come cheap. MCT may rank as best growth performer in it's various important metrics considered earlier, it also comes with a not so cheap price tag. But, a thing worth considering is that if MCT can continue to grow at current growth rates, perhaps at an annualised distribution yield of 5.77% is still worth some nibbling.

If a bear market should come soon, at least one will now know which are the strong growth performers that can be snapped up at a rare discounted price. There are certainly more REITs to compare against these few whether in similar retail-office landlord sector or other REIT sectors and I am sure this is not the end to the comparison in this REIT universe as one may just be surprised that there maybe even better performers out there than MCT.

PS: I will hope a bear market comes soon and then shopping for REITs will be a real bargain as discounts will be everywhere even for excellent REITs. My target buy-in prices will be the lower the better for these few REITs mentioned. {

jeremyowtaip}

some exchange discussion:

Gearing ratio is average relative to other similar players. Though I don't like to see it go up to max 45%.

But of cos if it's needed, they could still gear up for acquisition or even raise rights for funding, happy to participate as long as its yield lucrative.

To me most impt is the reit manager, a strong track records are impt.

To buy a retail reits under 1x PB is hard to find in current market environment and of course we cannot compare to capital mall reits, investor pay a premium for them.

For me buy a below 1x PB is always nice to have with a 5-6% yield.

Yup! For REITs, we look at their gearing. The allowed limit REITs can geared up to by MAS ruling is maximum 45% for credit rated REITs and 35% for non-credit rated REITs. Gearing is calculated by taking the total borrowings divided by total assets expressed as a %. These gearing limits have been revised to current allowed limit. It used to be even higher in the past. Thus, a lower gearing limit ensures REITs maintain a safe reasonable debt level and do not over leverage excessively which can be risky.

For Starhill Global REIT, it's gearing is currently close to 35% which is comparable to many REITs in Singapore too. There are some REITs with even lower gearing but around 30% to 40% is where you will find most REITs tend to maintain their gearings.

35.3 % gearing is normal. Other reits as high as Kepple Reit 38.7%, Viva Trust 39.8%, Soilbuild Reit 40.6%, MLT 37.8% etc..

China Sunsine

 First, we look at the compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) in revenues for China Sunshine for the past 5 years from 2013 to 2017.

  Total Revenue - is the sum of cash inflows, increase in operating accounts such as receivables and occasionally, unrealized gains generated in the course of Company's Business activities.

 Total revenue has been increasing in double digits growth of almost 50%(CAGR) which is superb. The total revenue has grown from $353M to $562m.

 Next, we are looking at the Net Income which is growing at a multiple of almost 4 times which is $16M from 2013 to a whopping $70.1m for 2017.

Now , we are going to take a look at the Normalized diluted EPS - Normalized Net Income divided by the diluted weighted average share outstanding. It is growing at a CAGR % of 40% which is amazing from 3.3 cents from 2013 to 12.8 cents from 2017.

Next on to their efficiency. China Sunsine's return on assets (ROA) and return on equity (ROE) have maintained well from 2013 to 2017. In fact, I looked at their past trend these two return Metricsand they have maintained well at current levels of ROA (above 25%) and ROE (above 22%). We must realise that it is not easy to maintain the ROA and ROE in any business while it is growing it's assets and shareholders' equity through time. To be able to maintain the same level or even increase the level of ROA and ROE would mean the business has high efficiency. China Sunsine justdemonstrated their high efficiency in their businesses. If they can continue to maintain these same levels of returns, I will be even much more impressed with them.

ROA - is a measure of company profitability relative to total assets. It is calculated by dividing Tax Effective EBIT ( earning before interest and tax) by average total assets over a twelve months period.

ROE - is a measure of company profitability relative to total equity. It is calculated by dividing Tax Effective EBIT ( earning before interest and tax) by average total equity over a twelve months period.

Now on to their liquidity. We see that China Sunsine just got much better at their cash conversion cycle. Now on to their liquidity. We see that China Sunsines just got much better at their cash conversion cycle. The number of days in their cash conversion cycle has decreased significantly over the past 5 year meaning that it takes them much lesser time in number of days to convert cash on hand into even more cash through their operations.he number of days in their cash conversion cycle has decreased significantly over the past 5 year meaning that it takes them much lesser time in number of days to convert cash on hand into even more cash through their operations.
It is taking lesser nos of days to collect the cash from 121 days to 101 days.

We now look at how their balance sheet has changed over time.. I will tabulate the comparison of some important metrics between close to 5 years ago (2013) versus latest financial report (2017).

Current ratio = 1.67 (2013) vs 3.69 (2017) . It measures the company's ability to cover current debts with current assets.It it calculated by dividing total current assets by total current liabilities.

Quick ratio = 1.30 (2013) vs 3.14(2017). It measures the company's ability to cover current debts with liquid current assets. It is calculated by dividing the sum of the cash, short term investments, and account receivable by total current liabilities.

Net Profit Margin = 4.53 (2013) vs 12.46 (2017)

EBITDA Margin = 11.61 ( 2013 vs 21.14 (2017)

I also noticed that they are now a net net company with their current assets more than their total liabilities. 
Total Current Assets - $292.607m vs Total Current Liability of $79.139m.

The Operation cashflow has a great improvement from $27.59m to $79.37m.

Net Change in Cash inflow from $7.11m to $45.56m

I have roughly workout the intrinsic fair value for EPS for past 4 years (2013 - 2017) with CAGR of 40% and discount factor of 25% to come up with a value of $2.51.
I would further factor in a further discount of 20% i.e.$2.51 X 0.8 = $2.00.

The current price of $1.49 may present a further upwards potential of 34% to reach $2.00.

If using the Cash flow to work out the intrinsic value for past 4 years with CAGR of 50% and a discount factor of 25% we may roughly drive the fair value of $1.828.
Let say we factor in another 15% discount which is $1.828 x 0.85 that would give us a estimated fair value of $1.56.
The potential to rise from current price of $1.49 to $1.56 is another 7 cents..Some may like to consider to take this as a opportunity to take profit . Dyodd

TA wise, it is on a uptrend mode direction.

Looks bullish and it may likely continue to retest $1.50 . Breaking out if $1.50 with smoothly + good volume it may likely heading  higher to $1.55 and above.
Not a call to buy or sell.
dyodd.

China Sunsine Chemical Holdings Ltd., an investment holding company, engages in the manufacture and sale of rubber chemical products in the People's Republic of China, rest of Asia, the United States, Europe, and internationally. The company offers rubber accelerators, anti-oxidant agents, vulcanizing agents, anti-scorching agents, and insoluble sulphur used for the production of tires and other rubber related products, such as shoes, belts, and hoses. It is also involved in the production and supply of heating power, including preparation and implementation of the project; and hotel and restaurant business. The company offers its products under the Sunsine brand name. It primarily serves the tire companies. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Singapore. China Sunsine Chemical Holdings Ltd. is a subsidiary of Success More Group Limited.

Venture - Chiong ah

5th May :Venture -After toughing the low of $18.50 , it has managed to bounce off and stay above $19 level. This is quite positive.

On Friday, it has form a nice hammer shape candlestick chart pattern, looks bullish to me!

 It may likely an indication of a rebound is going to happen ! Looking good to cross the hurdle at 20.20 and propel to drive it higher towards 21.00 .

 Not a call to buy or sell. Pls dyodd. 3

30th April - Venture has again turned lower by another 45 cents to close at $20.95. Looks rather shaky and critically landed on the 200 days Moving Average.

Will it be able to stay above this 200 MA or breaking down would be quite ulgy and may see further selling down pressure.

The selling volume seems to have subsided which might be a good indication that selling down pressure is slowing down .. I think a technical rebound may happen soon!


Not a call to buy or sell.

Please do your own due diligence.


 27 April - Unfortunately, Dow didn't help to safe this counter from sliding further. It is now trading near it's support level at 21 level which is quite close to it's 200 days Moving Average.

It seems to have bounce-off and staying above this 200MA. Breaking down would be super bearish!

Short term wise, it is rather oversold and may likely see a technical rebound . 20 days MA has crossed below 50 days MA, Which indicates that it is now on a downtrend mode.

Not a call to buy or sell.
Dyodd

Venture - looks like today we may likely see strong rebound after being sold down drastically for the past few days from $26.98 to a low of 19.84 before closing higher at $22.20. What an exciting roller coaster ride for both the Investor and trader . With Dow overnight closing positively due to better earnings, this counter may likely get lifted.

quote : Dow surges more than 200 points, Facebook and AMD jump after crushing earnings Facebook shares surged 9.1 percent after the company posted better-than-expected earnings and revenue for the first quarter. Advanced Micro Devices also posted earnings that topped expectations, sending its stock up about 14 percent. The strong quarterly numbers also lifted the S&P 500 and Nasdaq by 1 percent and 1.6 percent, respectively.( cnbc.com)

Yesterday, it has managed to bounce-off from the 200 days moving average and rises to close higher at $22.20. This is a short term reaction whereby Bull is taking control of the Bear.

Immediate resistance will be at $24.00 or $24.38 which is coincide with 100 days moving average. Breaking out of this level with great volume, that may drive the price higher towards testing the 50 days moving average at $27.00/

 not a call to buy or sell. please do your own due diligence.

Venture Corporation Limited, together with its subsidiaries, provides technology services, products, and solutions in the Asia Pacific. The company operates through Electronics Services Provider, Retail Store Solutions and Industrial, and Components Technology segments. It offers manufacturing, product design and development, engineering, and supply-chain management services to the electronics industry. The company also designs, manufactures, assembles, distributes, and trades in electronic, mechanical, and computer related products and peripherals; manufactures and sells terminal units; develops and markets color imaging products for label printing; designs, integrates, and trades in electronic security systems; and develops and supports information systems. In addition, it engages in the provision of manufacture, design, engineering, customization, and logistics and repair services; manufacture, design, fabrication, stamping and injection, metal punching, and spraying of industrial metal parts, tools, and dies; and design, customization, and marketing of tool-making and precision engineering solutions. Further, the company manufactures plastic injection molds and moldings with secondary processes and subassembly; and provides manufacturing services to electronics equipment manufacturers, as well as offers management services. Additionally, it imports and exports electronic parts, components, equipment, devices, and instruments. Venture Corporation Limited was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Singapore.

Hi-P

Hi-P - The company bought back share for the past 2 days.

Yesterday it bought back 400,000 share at $1.46/1.47 per share.

 Another share bought back 761,20 share at 1.47-1.50 per share. Looks like the company is trying to support the share price from going lower.

 (http://infopub.sgx.com/Apps?A=COW_CorpAnnouncement_Content&B=AnnouncementLast12Months&F=FWOSLC1WALXI63U8&H=5fe681a63266cf7695a559f7d8965e42f3996dbb9db28f99daecf57033758728)



http://infopub.sgx.com/Apps?A=COW_CorpAnnouncement_Content&B=AnnouncementLast12Months&F=YJSTH4ZPZFHQLQF4&H=f3014d631c303cacce6071a73717ee7e059257d9e6173271d44ca31f2b2caec5


Shares of Apple hit an all-time high after famed investor Warren Buffett revealed that he purchased 75 million shares during the first quarter.

I think the purchased of Apple share by WB has helped to safe Dow from going under its 200 days Moving average. It was trading down 100 points before rising 300+ points due to WB purchased news.This is quite a positive  move in diverting Dow from falling further. 


With this purchased by WB good news, it has also helped the tech counter to rise : The Nasdaq composite rose 1.7 percent to close at 7,209.62, its first positive day in the last three sessions. The index was led higher by the aforementioned rally in Apple, a 1.4 percent gain in Facebook and a 2.4 percent boost in Google-parent Alphabet.

The Dow Jones industrial average closed 332.36 points higher at 24,262.51 thanks to a 3.9 percent rally in Apple's stock, which jumped after famed investor Warren Buffett revealed that he bought millions of shares of the iPhone maker in recent months. By the closing bell, Apple had posted a gain of 13.45 percent for the week, its best since October 2011.

The S&P 500 rose 1.2 percent to finish at 2,663.42 after falling 0.4 percent earlier in the day, buoyed by a nearly 2 percent gain in tech, which led all 11 sectors for gains.

quote : cnbc.com

From TA point of view, Hi-P has been drastically selling down after touching the high of $2.79 on 16th Mar 2018. It has gone down to hit $1.45 before closing one cent higher at 1.46. This is super bearish.

The current price of 1.46 is staying below all its SMA lines such as 20,50,100 & 200 days moving average. The first obstacle is to challenge and cover the Gap at about $1.62 level in order to rise further.

Breaking out of $1.62 with ease, that may likely propel to drive the price higher towards $1.70 level and then to challenge the $1.79/$1.80 level which is also coincide with its 200 Days moving average.

Not a call to buy or sell.

please do your own due diligence.

Bearish Counters Such as Best World, Venture,Hi-P, Sembcorp Marine

Best World - The current price is Trading below it's 20 & 50 days Moving average looks rather bearish.

If $1.47 cannot hold then it may likely continue to go lower towards 1.40 then 1.30.

Venture - After touching the high of $29.65 in 13rd April, it has since fallen off sharply to hit the low of _18.50 yesterday. This is super bearish!  TheThe curr price of $19.75 is trading below it's 20, 50, 100 & 200 days micing average which may likely see a temporary lifting/rebound from here. It may continue to slide further down if the recent los of 18.50 cannot hold. 

Hi-P : After touching the high of $2.79 on 14 March it has since corrected sharply to hit the low of $1.45 yesterday. This is super bearish!

The current price of $1.57 is staying below it's 20,50,100 & 200 days MA. Things does not look rosy. It may get a temporary rebound ..pls dyodd.

Sembcorp Marine - this counter has risen most probably due to oil price and analyst painted a GD picture. Fundamental wise ,it is still lacking far away from it's golden days . The rolling EPS is 3.9 cents . PE is 70 times.

I think it Look expensive to me.

The current price is staying below its 20,50 & 100 days  moving average ,which is quite bearish .If 2.05 is broken down then we may see the price slide down further towards $1.88 .

Not a call to buy or sell.

Trade/invest base on your own decision.