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Singapore’s Largest Consumer Staples Stocks Returned 34% in YTD

24 April 2019

In 1Q2019, Consumer Staples was the second-best performing sector with +13.9% total return, reversing the -2.9% total return in calendar year 2018. It was also amongst the top net buy sectors for the quarter, garnering total institutional inflows of S$61.5 million. The 5 best performers in the YTD were: Indofood Agri Resources (+46.6%), QAF Ltd (+44.4%), Thai Beverage PCL (+38.0%), Golden Agri-Resources (+20.4%), and First Resources (+19.5%).

5 SGX Largest, Best-Performing IT Stocks Averaged 45% YTD Total Return

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23 April 2019

In 1Q19, IT was the best-performing sector on SGX with a total return of 28.6%, after registering a total return of -16.3% in calendar year 2018. It was also among the top net buy sectors for the quarter, garnering total institutional inflow of S$100.5 million. Among the 20, the 5 best performers in the YTD were: Hi-P (+65.0%), TPV Tech (+46.2%), Innotek (+41.0%), Venture (+37.9%), and CSE Global (+36.8%).

10 SGX Stocks with China Exposure Rebound 25% in 2019 YTD

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18 April 2019

Singapore’s 10 largest capitalised stocks that report majority revenue to China, have all gained in 2019 YTD, averaging 25% total returns. The strongest of the 10 stocks in 2019 YTD were Hi-P International, China Aviation Oil Singapore and Yangzijiang Shipbuilding. The three stocks are also amongst Singapore’s largest stocks in the Information Technology, Energy and Industrials Sector.

2019 March Quarter Earnings Schedule for STI Constituents

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18 April 2019

The constituents of the benchmark STI are expected to report their latest quarterly or full-year results in the coming weeks. The STI has generated total returns of -6.5% and 9.6% in 2018 and in the 2019 YTD respectively. With a combined market capitalisation of S$535 billion, the 30 constituents of the index have averaged Price-to-Earnings (P/E) and Price-to-Book (P/B) ratios of 18.9x and 1.9x respectively.

2019 March Quarter S-REIT Earnings Schedule

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17 April 2019

SPH REIT kick-started the latest quarterly reporting season for S-REITs earlier this month with the release of its fiscal second quarter results ended 28 February 2019. This was followed by First REIT and Keppel DC REIT, which unveiled their results last week and yesterday respectively. Soilbuild Business Space REIT will announce its results today. The rest of the S-REITs and Business Trusts are expected to release their earnings over the next few weeks.

SGX 5 Largest, Best-Performing Developers Averaged 22% YTD Total Return

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10 April 2019

Real Estate Developers (excluding REITs) was the 3rd best-performing sector in March, with a total return of +2.7%. March was also the 3rd straight month of positive returns for the sector, after it registered total returns of +0.7% and +7.8% in Feb and Jan respectively. In the 2019 YTD, the 5 best-performing, largest capitalised real estate developers were: Hong Fok (+34.6%), OUE (+23.8%), CapitaLand (+18.6%), Yanlord Land (+17.2%), and UOL Group (+16.0%).

DBS, OCBC & UOB Rallied 6%, Leading Last Week’s STI Gains

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08 April 2019

Last week DBS, OCBC & UOB led the STI’s 3.4% gain, with the 3 banks averaging a 6.1% gain. This has brought the average 2019 YTD total return of the 3 banks to 8.6%, and their 5 year average annualised total return to 10.3%. Shareholders have been rewarded with the 3 banks maintaining an average dividend yield of 4.0% for the past 6 months, which represents the longest period of time in their recent history that their yields remained at or above the key 4.0% level.

Gold Grabs Spotlight on Recent Economic Outlook

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03 April 2019

In its January report, the World Gold Council said it expects increased market uncertainty, expansion of protectionist policies, and the Fed's more neutral monetary policy stance to make gold increasingly attractive to investors as an effective portfolio diversifier and hedge against systemic risk. SGX offers investors opportunities to participate in the gold sector through 3 mining stocks – CNMC Goldmine, Wilton Resources and Anchor Resources – and the SPDR Gold Shares ETF.

March 2019 SGX Share BuyBack Consideration Led by OCBC, Hong Fok & ST Engineering

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02 April 2019

In March 2019, 27 SGX primary-listed stocks repurchased as many as 50 million shares with a total consideration of S$54 million. 5 stocks commenced new buyback mandates in the month of March 2019: Hong Fok Corporation, Kimly, Aspen (Group) Holdings, MDR & GRP. Relative to outstanding shares, Hong Fok Corporation bought back 0.77% of its shares during the month.

SGX 5 Best-Performing S-REITs Average 20% Total Return in 2019 YTD

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02 April 2019

Analysts have noted revived investor interest in S-REITs since late last year, driven by a flight to safety amidst the uncertain outlook for US-Sino trade negotiations, the hunt for higher yields, and as global equity markets remained volatile. In the YTD, the five best-performing S-REITs were: Sasseur REIT (25.0%), Capitaland Retail China Trust (19.4%), Keppel-KBS US REIT (18.2%), Mapletree Logistics Trust (17.6%), and Mapletree North Asia Commercial Trust (17.6%).

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