The heads of four leading Vietnamese companies met with shareholders yesterday to allay fears amid tumbling share prices.
Investors fired more than 30 questions at bosses of the Refrigeration Electrical Engineering Corporation (REE), the Cables and Telecom Materials Company (SAM), the Gemadept Corporation (GMD) and the Kinh Do Corporation (KDC).
Top of investor concerns was falling prices - despite seemingly sound business performances and potential investment plans.
Sacom General Director Do Van Trac said three factors were chiefly to blame for declining stock values - the State’s macro-economic policies (such as the State Bank of Viet Nam’s decree 03), business results and investor confidence.
He said the most noticeable feature of the Vietnamese stock market was the imitative behaviour of investors.
"Vietnamese investors often follow each others’ decisions, which has a negative influence on share prices," said Trac.
"Investors cannot blame their losses on market factors, they must look to themselves. They should be patient and believe in their companies’ future, rather than just off-loading shares when they find prices go down, which makes the situation worse."
Trac added that he hoped the shareholder meeting would convince investors either to sell their shares or hold onto them.
GMD General Director Do Van Minh said prices had been inflated beyond their real value and that it was only normal to expect them to find their own level.
He said that GMD’s true share price lay between VND160,000 and VND180,000. Next year, if GMD profit’s grow by 30 per cent, as anticipated, investors could expect stock values to rise accordingly.
Investors also raised the issue of foreign ownership, which currently stands at 49 per cent of REE and GMD.
Investors asked if the companies intended to issue more shares to attract greater foreign investment to hike prices.
Minh said: "If the company issues more shares, we will try not to sell directly to foreign strategic shareholders in order to force them to buy on the stock exchange. This can make prices higher."
Trac said foreign investors now owned 40.3 per cent of SAM’s shares. He said if they wished to buy a larger stake in the company they would have to do it through the stock exchange. However, he doubted strategic shareholders would sell.
The chairwoman of REE Management Board, Nguyen Thi Mai Thanh, said her company would only issue more shares as part of its business plan.
On this issue investors expressed concerns about investment in real estate.
Thanh affirmed that REE’s main investments were in property and finance. She said profits from real estate investments this year would be VND100 billion (US$6.2 million), accounting for one-third of the company’s total targeted profit.
Source: VNS
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Friday, August 31, 2007
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Foreign investors reduce stakes in two companies
Deutsche Bank has announced the sale of 19,560 shares in the Ho Chi Minh City Infrastructure Investment Joint Stock Co, reducing its stake from 5.04 percent to 4.97 percent.
The bank continues to hold nearly 1.5 million shares in the company.
The Cable and Telecommunications Materials Co (SAM) also announced that Wareham Group Ltd’s stake in the company had been reduced from 12.68 percent to 10.51 percent.
Amersham Industries Ltd also now holds 4.2 million shares in SAM, a 7.8 percent stake, 1.66 percent lower than before.
Source: VNA
The bank continues to hold nearly 1.5 million shares in the company.
The Cable and Telecommunications Materials Co (SAM) also announced that Wareham Group Ltd’s stake in the company had been reduced from 12.68 percent to 10.51 percent.
Amersham Industries Ltd also now holds 4.2 million shares in SAM, a 7.8 percent stake, 1.66 percent lower than before.
Source: VNA
Friday, June 22, 2007
Where are billion dollars to be injected?
Vietnamese people heard recently that foreign investment funds are planning to pour several billion dollars worth of capital into Vietnam. And a question has been raised about where the huge capital is to be injected in, as there seems to be no more room for foreign investors.
Foreign investors now hold 49% of shares in big companies, including AGF, BMP, SAM and TAY, and 30% in STB. Under the current regulations, foreign ownership must not be higher than 49% in local joint stock companies, and 30% in local joint stock banks, which means foreign investors have no more opportunities to buy shares of the companies.
Meanwhile, the room for foreign ownership in other companies is also nearly running out: the foreign ownership in BT6 is 48.96%, CII 48.98%, SJS 44.98%, and VNM 46.26%. Especially, REE and SHC “have been well in advance of the age” as the two companies have sold 55.47% and 56.5% of shares respectively to foreign investors
Dang Huu Chau, former student of Tokyo University, who is now the securities broker for many Japanese tourists/securities investors in Vietnamese stock, also said that the share items of which the foreign ownership hits the ceiling level of 49% or 30% are the ones that can bring the fattest profit. Many Japanese investors want to make investments in these blue chips, but they cannot because there is no more room for them.
The Securities Brokerage Division under the Saigon Securities Incorporated (SSI) also said that many foreign investors could not buy the share items they want though they placed orders three weeks ago.
In fact, foreign investors still can buy some blue chips, but just in small volume as the room in these companies is nearly running out. However, as for foreign investment funds, the small volume is not worth their disbursement.
Don Lam, Director General of Vina Capital stressed that only when Vietnam offers more room for foreign investors, can the market become more bustling.
Raising the foreign ownership ratio in local companies proves to be the best solution to lure more foreign capital into Vietnam. However, the State Securities Commission (SSC) has recently stated that the Government of Vietnam does not think of this issue right at this moment. As such, several billion dollars worth of investment capital are still waiting to be injected in Vietnam.
Foreign investors believe that opportunities will come in several months, when a lot of big companies make IPOs. They also heard that SSC is compiling a new regulation on foreign investors’ management, which may allow foreign investment funds to open branches in Vietnam sooner than that stipulated in WTO commitments. However, analysts have warned that there would not be many chances for them, as the companies that make IPOs operate in the fields that limits foreign ownership, including banking, telecommunication and finance.
These companies include Vietcombank, BIDV (banking), MobiFone and Vinaphone (telecommunication).
In May 2007, foreign investors doubled the investment in Vietnam’s stocks: they injected $150mil in stocks in May, while the figure was $80mil in April, equal to the sum of money they poured into Vietnam in December 2006, and February 2007 (Source: Vietnam Monitor 2, June 8, 2007, HSBC Hong Kong).
Garry Evans, the stocks analyst of HSBC, who has been keeping close watch over Vietnam’s stock market, has advised investors to remain cautious with their deals, and not to become aggressive buyers at this moment, since the P/E Index proves to be too high: 34. The analyst said that investors should wait for the IPOs to appear in August, October and December.
However, a lot of foreign investors cannot keep patient as they were advised, as they have been put under hard pressure to disburse funds’ capital. Investment funds from the Republic of Korea, for example, have successfully raised $1bil worth of capital and they now compete with others in capital disbursement. Korean investors are the ones who won the right to buy most of Bao Viet’s shares at the recently held auction.
The analyst has named some share items that foreign investors can still buy in, FPT, VHS, PPC, PVD, SJS and ITA (the foreign ownership in these companies is below 20%). If the HCM City Securities Trading Centre (HSTC) does not offer more commodities, the foreign capital flow will not be able to increase.
Meanwhile, HSTC has reported that it has just received the applications for listing from few companies. At this moment, it seems to be not the right time to list, when the daily trading value is just VND500-600bil ($31.25mil).
Source: VNE
Foreign investors now hold 49% of shares in big companies, including AGF, BMP, SAM and TAY, and 30% in STB. Under the current regulations, foreign ownership must not be higher than 49% in local joint stock companies, and 30% in local joint stock banks, which means foreign investors have no more opportunities to buy shares of the companies.
Meanwhile, the room for foreign ownership in other companies is also nearly running out: the foreign ownership in BT6 is 48.96%, CII 48.98%, SJS 44.98%, and VNM 46.26%. Especially, REE and SHC “have been well in advance of the age” as the two companies have sold 55.47% and 56.5% of shares respectively to foreign investors
Dang Huu Chau, former student of Tokyo University, who is now the securities broker for many Japanese tourists/securities investors in Vietnamese stock, also said that the share items of which the foreign ownership hits the ceiling level of 49% or 30% are the ones that can bring the fattest profit. Many Japanese investors want to make investments in these blue chips, but they cannot because there is no more room for them.
The Securities Brokerage Division under the Saigon Securities Incorporated (SSI) also said that many foreign investors could not buy the share items they want though they placed orders three weeks ago.
In fact, foreign investors still can buy some blue chips, but just in small volume as the room in these companies is nearly running out. However, as for foreign investment funds, the small volume is not worth their disbursement.
Don Lam, Director General of Vina Capital stressed that only when Vietnam offers more room for foreign investors, can the market become more bustling.
Raising the foreign ownership ratio in local companies proves to be the best solution to lure more foreign capital into Vietnam. However, the State Securities Commission (SSC) has recently stated that the Government of Vietnam does not think of this issue right at this moment. As such, several billion dollars worth of investment capital are still waiting to be injected in Vietnam.
Foreign investors believe that opportunities will come in several months, when a lot of big companies make IPOs. They also heard that SSC is compiling a new regulation on foreign investors’ management, which may allow foreign investment funds to open branches in Vietnam sooner than that stipulated in WTO commitments. However, analysts have warned that there would not be many chances for them, as the companies that make IPOs operate in the fields that limits foreign ownership, including banking, telecommunication and finance.
These companies include Vietcombank, BIDV (banking), MobiFone and Vinaphone (telecommunication).
In May 2007, foreign investors doubled the investment in Vietnam’s stocks: they injected $150mil in stocks in May, while the figure was $80mil in April, equal to the sum of money they poured into Vietnam in December 2006, and February 2007 (Source: Vietnam Monitor 2, June 8, 2007, HSBC Hong Kong).
Garry Evans, the stocks analyst of HSBC, who has been keeping close watch over Vietnam’s stock market, has advised investors to remain cautious with their deals, and not to become aggressive buyers at this moment, since the P/E Index proves to be too high: 34. The analyst said that investors should wait for the IPOs to appear in August, October and December.
However, a lot of foreign investors cannot keep patient as they were advised, as they have been put under hard pressure to disburse funds’ capital. Investment funds from the Republic of Korea, for example, have successfully raised $1bil worth of capital and they now compete with others in capital disbursement. Korean investors are the ones who won the right to buy most of Bao Viet’s shares at the recently held auction.
The analyst has named some share items that foreign investors can still buy in, FPT, VHS, PPC, PVD, SJS and ITA (the foreign ownership in these companies is below 20%). If the HCM City Securities Trading Centre (HSTC) does not offer more commodities, the foreign capital flow will not be able to increase.
Meanwhile, HSTC has reported that it has just received the applications for listing from few companies. At this moment, it seems to be not the right time to list, when the daily trading value is just VND500-600bil ($31.25mil).
Source: VNE
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Foreign owned accounts at securities companies on the rise
More and more foreign investors have decided to make money on Vietnam’s stock market. Statistics show that the number of foreign owned accounts opened at securities companies is increasing.
According to the HCM City Securities Trading Centre (HSTC), nearly 5,000 foreign owned individual accounts have been opened at HSTC member securities companies. The owners of the accounts mostly are Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese and Singaporean. The largest number of foreign investors on Vietnam’s stock market proves to come from Japan.
Nguyen Hong Nam, Deputy Director General of the Saigon Securities Incorporated (SSI), said that some 2,000 foreigners’ accounts had been opened at SSI, 70% of which are Japanese owned.
BVSC, DVSC and Rong Viet all have reported an increased number of new foreign individual accounts, which account for 30% of the new accounts. Experts said that the new wave of foreign investment had been refreshing the stock market.
Vietnam’s stock market has become attractive in the eyes of foreign investors. Vietnam’s national economy is performing well, while the stock market is developing, which promises more profitable investment deals than developed markets.
In fact, the profit made by foreign securities investors in Vietnam has been increasing considerably. In his recent visit to Vietnam, John Stuttard, the Lord Mayor of the City of London, said that the gigantic development of the stock market had caught the special attention of British financial investors.
Nguyen Chi Trung, Director of the Brokerage Division under the Rong Viet Securities Company, said that if foreign investors kept trading as currently, the stock market would rally. Now, foreign investment funds are increasing their demand for securities, and they are especially targeting the IPOs of many big banks and corporations scheduled for the coming time.
VinaCapital said that it had estimated the sum of money to be disbursed, and has given a forecast about the auctioning price of Bao Viet shares. Mekong Capital has presented its third fund before the public, the $100mil Vietnam Azalea, which will focus on equitised companies in Vietnam. Mekong hopes to close the fund soon and begin the investment period, expected for the end of May.
Experts said that the demand of foreign investors was increasing. However, they will have to restructure their investment portfolios and look for new commodities, as there is no more room for foreign ownership in big companies like REE, SAM, STB and VNM.
Source: VNE
According to the HCM City Securities Trading Centre (HSTC), nearly 5,000 foreign owned individual accounts have been opened at HSTC member securities companies. The owners of the accounts mostly are Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese and Singaporean. The largest number of foreign investors on Vietnam’s stock market proves to come from Japan.
Nguyen Hong Nam, Deputy Director General of the Saigon Securities Incorporated (SSI), said that some 2,000 foreigners’ accounts had been opened at SSI, 70% of which are Japanese owned.
BVSC, DVSC and Rong Viet all have reported an increased number of new foreign individual accounts, which account for 30% of the new accounts. Experts said that the new wave of foreign investment had been refreshing the stock market.
Vietnam’s stock market has become attractive in the eyes of foreign investors. Vietnam’s national economy is performing well, while the stock market is developing, which promises more profitable investment deals than developed markets.
In fact, the profit made by foreign securities investors in Vietnam has been increasing considerably. In his recent visit to Vietnam, John Stuttard, the Lord Mayor of the City of London, said that the gigantic development of the stock market had caught the special attention of British financial investors.
Nguyen Chi Trung, Director of the Brokerage Division under the Rong Viet Securities Company, said that if foreign investors kept trading as currently, the stock market would rally. Now, foreign investment funds are increasing their demand for securities, and they are especially targeting the IPOs of many big banks and corporations scheduled for the coming time.
VinaCapital said that it had estimated the sum of money to be disbursed, and has given a forecast about the auctioning price of Bao Viet shares. Mekong Capital has presented its third fund before the public, the $100mil Vietnam Azalea, which will focus on equitised companies in Vietnam. Mekong hopes to close the fund soon and begin the investment period, expected for the end of May.
Experts said that the demand of foreign investors was increasing. However, they will have to restructure their investment portfolios and look for new commodities, as there is no more room for foreign ownership in big companies like REE, SAM, STB and VNM.
Source: VNE
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