The weekly 4 Stocks This Week column on DollarsAndSense was started in 2017 with a simple objective was simple: to provide a convenient read each week for busy investors to stay updated with what is happening on the Singapore Exchange. 4 Stock This Week is not a recommendation from us to buy or sell any of the stocks that wke feature. Its purpose is to highlight interesting stocks that investors should be aware of, rather than to analyse these stocks. For this week’s edition, instead of the usual coverage of four stocks, we’ll do a year in review of the other 51 instalments of 4 Stocks This Week that our team has written in 2019. Over the past year (51 weeks), we’ve covered 123 SGX-listed stocks, 4 ETFs and 8 Daily Leverage Certificates. The most covered stock was Sas

As most Singaporeans know, the local food & beverage (F&B) space is cut-throat industry. High rent and start-up costs, relative to the thin margins, are the contributing factors to why the industry is unforgiving. Naturally, with this mentality, local investors also tended to shun the sector entirely.  However, investors that scour hard enough might just discover the hidden gem that most would let slip. ST Group Food Industries Holdings (ST Group), the latest of the F&B counters to list on the Singapore Exchange, could be on such prime example.  About ST Group  Headquartered in Australia, ST Group is an established F&B Group with a diversified portfolio of six internationally popular brands, namely, “PappaRich”, “NeNe Chicken”, “Gong Cha”, “Hokkaido Baked C

These days, it is extremely tough being a food and beverage (F&B) vendor in Singapore due to increasing rental, labour and raw materials cost pressures. In this cut-throat environment, turnaround of stallholders are rife, resulting in lesser visibility and operational uncertainty.   Despite the highly competitive and challenging F&B environment, the operator and manager of food courts and coffee shops – Koufu Group (Koufu) reported a rather solid 1Q19 and had recently been receiving rather positive recommendations from the street.   Defensive Earnings  The top line grew at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of four percent to $223.8 million in FY18. In 1Q19, revenue continued to increase 4.9 percent to $57.8 million, boosted by a 9.2 percent and 0.7 percent growth in