Thai Stock Market Roundup February 18, 2019

– JASIF announced a dividend payment of ฿0.23/share, ex-dividend Mar. 1st.

– JAS’s 2018 profit skyrocketed 83% to ฿4.9 billion, handed out a dividend payment of ฿0.28

– SMART reported a ฿22 million of deficit in 2018, narrowed the loss from last year’s ฿74 million.

– Lower revenue in 2018 pressured SMM to face a deficit of ฿183 million.

– RS boasted a 55% growth in profit to ฿516 million, boosted by MPC while giving a ฿0.20 dividend payment. The ex-dividend date is Feb. 28.

– MAJOR’s profit hiked 8% in 2018 to ฿1.28 million, offered ฿0.70 dividend, ex-dividend April 23.

– Thailand’s 2019 economic outlook expected a favorable pace of GDP growth at 3.5-4.5%.

– AOT’s “Nitinai” reaffirmed the continuation of “Master Plan” while asserted that Terminal 2 was necessary to solve the congestion in landside.

– Foreign Investors and Institutions continued their selloff for another ฿963 million baht, plunged SET from positive territory to close slightly lower.

– SET closed slightly lower at 1,635.71 points, decreased 1.23 points or 0.08% with ฿34.3 billion in value. Asian markets were buoyed from the positive sentiment of trade talk between the US and China last week which will continue the talk in the US this week as well. However, the trading session in the Thai market is a bit dull due to overlapping of the holiday tomorrow while the US market is closed for President Day as well.

 

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