IN WHAT could end up being its largest acquisition to date, AEM Holdings' S$99.7 million buy-out bid for contract manufacturer CEI comes at an opportune time for the fast-growing company to extend its leadership in the industry.

Analysts from CGS-CIMB Research and DBS Group Research have maintained their “add” and "buy” calls on AEM after the company offered to privatise circuit board maker CEI at $1.15 a share on Jan 11. See: AEM offers to buy CEI at $1.15 per share  See: AEM's Loke is on a deal-making spree The...

Loke Wai San, better known as the executive chairman of AEM Holdings, seems to be in an acquisitive mood, as he moves to take stakes in other companies within the broader electronics manufacturing sector. Within just two months or so, Loke, who also manages the private equity firm Novo Tellus C...

FRESH from a 70.8 per cent price gain on the market last year, electronics services provider AEM Holdings on Monday launched a S$99.7 million buy-out bid for mainboard-listed contract manufacturer CEI Ltd.

AEM Holdings, which is on a roll riding the up-cycle of the semiconductor industry, is offering to privatise circuit board maker CEI at $1.15 per share, valuing the target at $99.7 million. Existing CEI shareholders are given three choices. They can take all $1.15 in cash. Or, they can take 97.75 ce...

ELECTRONICS services provider AEM Holdings has launched a S$99.7 million buy-out bid for contract manufacturer CEI Ltd, in a voluntary conditional offer on Monday.

The upcoming rollout of Covid-19 vaccines here will accelerate the rebound of small- and mid -cap stocks (SMC) and they are expected to catch up with larger caps on attractive valuations, says DBS Group Research analyst Ling Lee Keng in a Jan 5 note.  The hospitality and retail sectors, in part...

CGS-CIMB analyst William Tng says he is “positive” on the outlook for the tech sector in 2021. This, he says, is due to the acceleration of digitalisation of many work processes during the Covid-19 pandemic, which has led to higher demand for IT-related infrastructure. “At the same time, there...

What a year 2020 was, with the coronavirus upending industries, supply chains and the livelihoods of many. On Dec 31, 2020, the last trading day of the year, the benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) slid 25.41 points or 0.89% to 2,843.81 points at the closing bell.  Year-on-year (y-o-y) this is ...

Maybank Kim Eng analyst Lai Gene Lih is recommending Hi-P International’s investors to accept the $2 per share privatisation offer tabled on Dec 18 by chairman Yao Hsiao Tung. The offer price is 10.5% above Hi-P’s last traded price of $1.81 before the offer was announced on Friday morning. The $...