The 2020 buyback consideration was led by STI stocks DBS Group Holdings, Wilmar International, Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, Yangzijiang Shipbuilding (Holdings) and Singapore Technologies Engineering.
Of Singapore’s 50 most traded stocks in 2020, 12 stocks saw their 2020 trading activity more than double from 2019 levels. UG Healthcare and Medtecs Internatinal generated exponential returns. Top Glove, Riverstone, Keppel DC REIT, Sheng Siong, Wilmar International, Mapletree Industrial Trust and UMS were also generating positive returns in 2020, while Singapore Airlines, SATS and CapitaLand Retail China Trust the three decliners.
Market participants have ushered in the first session of 2021 with 8% average gains for Singapore’s 3 newest SGX Mainboard-listed stocks – GHY Culture & Media, Credit Bureau Asia and Nanofilm Technologies International. oday’s gains brought the trio’s average returns since their respective debuts to 49%.
4 of the STI’s 10 strongest performers in the 4Q-to-date ranked highly for the Value factors in early 2H20. These 4 stocks were Jardine Matheson, Sembcorp Industries, Jardine Strategic and CapitaLand. UOL Group and Yangzijiang Shipbuilding also ranked highly for the Value factor.
GHY Culture & Media, an entertainment business that focuses on the production and promotion of dramas, films and concerts in the APAC region, made its debut on the SGX Mainboard.
Combined, the 10 most traded Catalist stocks in the 2020 year-to-14 Dec have seen more than S$50 million in turnover a day and include as many as five healthcare-related stocks – Medtecs International, UG Healthcare, Biolidics, Clearbridge Health and Hyphens Pharma.
Credit Bureau Asia, the largest provider of credit bureau services within Singapore and the sole credit bureau in Cambodia and Myanmar, made its debut on the SGX Mainboard.
With a 15.8% price gain and 16.2% total return in the month of November 2020, this was the strongest month of gains for the Straits Times Index (STI) since May 2009. DBS, OCBC and UOB which make up approximately 40% of the STI averaged 21% total returns with net institutional inflows of S$1.5 billion.
The AUM of the 2 ETFs that track the STI - SPDR® STI ETF and Nikko AM STI ETF took 17 years to reach the S$1 billion milestone in June 2019, and just 17 months to further reach the S$2 billion threshold.
Investing in the STI Reserve List as it stood at the end of 2019, with equal weightage to the 5 stocks has so far generated a 2% decline in total return in 2020, compared to the STI’s decline of 7%.
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