During crisis, a consumer may not able to afford luxury products but still need to eat and drink to survive. Therefore, an investor may consider 48 Food & Beverage (F&B) stocks in Singapore, especially those defensive growth stocks. In this article, you will learn from Dr Tee on 9 Singapore F&B Giant Stocks which are efficient in making money with food as essential products (consumer staples) but having mixed impacts during COVID-19 stock crisis. Bonus for readers who could read the entire article: a strategy to eat and drink for free for lifetime. 1) Supermarket F&B Stocks – Sheng Siong (SGX: OV8) – Dairy Farm International (SGX: D01) 2) Restaurant F&B Stocks – Japan Foods Holding (SGX: 5OI) – Old Chang Kee (SGX: 5ML)

Listed on Bursa Malaysia, KLCCP Stapled Group is a diversified REIT with a particular focus on offices. It owns a number of iconic and prime assets in the Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC) including Petronas Twin Towers, Suria KLCC shopping mall, and Mandarin Oriental, Kuala Lumpur. Suria KLCC is a well-known tourist attraction in the city that drew more than 48 million visitors in 2019 alone. The share price of the group was rather resilient in the past few months although the country was caught in a perfect storm of COVID-19, political turmoil, and a crash in oil prices. I attended the KLCCP’s AGM to find out how the REIT planned to navigate the rough waters ahead. Here are eight things I learned from the 2020 KLCCP Stapled Group AGM: 1. The group’s revenue improved marginally b

Jardine Group is not just a company, it is a giant group with nearly 200 years of business history (started in 1832, then controlled by Keswick family for many generations till now).  Jardine group of companies cover many industries, eg. engineering, automotive, properties, hotel, supermarkets, etc. Jardine group has 7 giant stocks (Jardine Matheson, Jardine Strategic, Jardine Cycle & Carriage, Astra, Hongkong Land, Dairy Farm, Mandarin Oriental Hotel), all are falling to very low optimism (mostly with optimism <10%) over the past 2 months of global stock crisis.  Since 5 of Jardine giant stocks (except Mandarin Oriental Hotel and Astra International – listed in Indonesia) are 30 STI component stocks (contributing to about 15% weightage), it has the strongest inf

In the past 2 months, investors have been selling off Hospitality Trusts (HTs) listed on SGX due to travel restrictions imposed by governments around the world to stem the spread of COVID-19. There are 6 HTs listed on SGX, namely:ARA US HTAscott Residence TrustCDL HTEagle HTFar East HTFrasers HTWhile all hotels will suffer revenue decline due to the travel restrictions, not all HTs will be impacted by the same extent. One important factor affecting the impact on HTs is their operating models. Traditionally, hotels have been owned and operated by the same party, but there are increasingly more investors who wish to invest in hotels but might not have the expertise or time to manage them. Thus, hotels might be owned by one party but operated by another, with revenue-sharing agreements betwee

The 1st quarter of 2020 was not so great for stocks as the severity of COVID-19 global spread became apparent. Actually, according to CNN, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), which began in 1896 and is one of the oldest and most watched indexes, just closed out its worst ever quarterly start to a year, dropping 23.2% It should come as no surprise that the strongest stocks in Singapore have also been significantly impacted. In the 1st quarter of 2020, the STI has fallen an even steeper 24.3%. On top of that it doesn’t even take into consideration that the US dollar has gained nearly 6.6% against the Singapore dollar in the 1st quarter of 2020. Read Also: What Past Market Crashes Can Teach Investors About The 2020 Crash That We’re Currently In By the time you read this, Singaporeâ