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Daily Information Update – Japan Securities Inc (July 16th, 2019) July 16th, 2019 Table of content 1. 80% of State-owned groups earn profit in H1, says CMSC 2. Shares move against regional trend on low liquidity 3. FDI firms to be listed soon: Ministry of Finance Table Table content of 4. Aviation quandary as airlines wait to enter Vietnamese market 5. Three Vietnamese firms among Asia’s top 100 power performers 6. Vietnam 5-star hotels revenues rise on strong demand 7. Aviation market slows down 8. CMG: Change of the plan for the use of proceeds from the bond issuance 9. TPBank and UnionPay to expand card and QR Code payment in Viet Nam JSI Research Team 1 th Daily Information Update – Japan Securities Inc (July 16 , 2019) Market Analysis 1. 80% of State-owned groups earn profit in H1, says CMSC This will be part of the CMSC's task to fulfil its "The committee will build a transparent, creative goals and plans this year, Hung said. and effective business environment in order to promote the overall strength and role of State- owned enterprises as economic leaders “The committee will consolidate organisational contributing to regulating, directing and structure and personnel and tighten its co- developing sectors in each period, gaining the operation with these relevant agencies and objectives of socio-economic and enterprise corporations to assess operational efficiency and development,” Anh said. financial disclosure as well as restructuring, equitisation, divestment and listing on the stock market,” he added. Under a 2018 decree establishing the CMSC, the committee is responsible for managing State capital in corporations and groups that are After receiving 19 corporations and groups from entirely owned by the State, in joint stock the Government and a number of ministries last companies and in limited liability businesses with year, the CMSC worked with each corporation to State investment and multiple members. understand difficulties and proposals, thereby accompanying enterprises to ensure economic efficiency, preserve and develop the State capital. These corporations and groups were previously run by five ministries, including the ministries of Finance, Industry and Trade, Transport, Evaluating the results of production and business Agriculture and Rural Development, and performance of corporations and their affiliated Information and Communications. They are now companies, Hung said there were 16, or 80 per under the management of the CMSC. cent, of 19 corporations and groups which made profits in the first half of this year, completing over 50 per cent of the annual plan. Four of the The 19 groups include the Viet Nam National Oil total achieved or exceeded 50 per cent of the and Gas Group (PetroVietnam), Vietnam annual plan for the State budget. Electricity (EVN), Viet Nam National Coal and Minerals Holding Group (Vinacomin), Viet Nam National Petroleum Group (Petrolimex), Viet Nam Regarding the process of restructuring, National Chemical Group (Vinachem), Viet Nam equitisation and State divestment, Hung said the National Tobbacco Corporation (Vinataba), Viet committee has collaborated with relevant Nam Post and Telecommunication Group (VNPT), agencies to deal with difficulties and problems. MobiFone, Vietnam Airlines, Airport Corporation of Viet Nam (ACV), Viet Nam Railway, Viet Nam “This process has been implemented in Expressway Corporation (VEC), Viet Nam National accordance with legal regulations and Shipping Lines (Vinalines), Viet Nam Forest transparency, however it is still slow compared to Corporation (Vinafor), Viet Nam Northern Food the plan.” Corporation (Vinafood 1), Viet Nam Southern Food Corporation (Vinafood 2) and State Capital According to Chairman of CMSC Nguyen Hoang Investment Corporation (SCIC), Viet Nam Rubber Anh, the committee has defined its role not only Group (VRG), Viet Nam National Coffee with the task of monitoring, controlling and Corporation (Vinacafe). exercising ownership rights of the State capital, but is also responsible for bridging State-owned enterprises and legislative bodies, drafting and promulgating development policies and strategies. JSI Research Team 2 th Daily Information Update – Japan Securities Inc (July 16 , 2019) 2. Shares move against regional trend on low liquidity On the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE), the added to the VN30 basket (which tracks the top VN-Index edged down 0.29 per cent to close 30 biggest shares by market value and liquidity on Monday at 972.53 points. HOSE) in July. On the Ha Noi Stock Exchange, the HNX-Index also The market was cushioned by growth of some inched down 0.23 per cent to end the session at banks, including Vietcombank (VCB), up 1.8 per 105.61 points. cent, Techcombank (TCB), up 2.2 per cent, and Vietnam Prosperity Bank (VPB), up 0.5 per cent. Both markets increased marginally last week. Mobile World Investment JSC (MWG) also rose by Liquidity was below the average of the last 20 more than 3 per cent. sessions, totalling 174 million shares worth VND3.9 trillion (US$168 million) on the two The US stock market continued to set a historic exchanges, down 7 per cent in volume and 3 per peak last week but this did not have a positive cent in value compared to Friday's figures. impact on the Vietnamese securities market as the cash flow in the market was weak, according to Widening declines of some heavyweight stocks analysts at Sai Gon-Ha Noi Securities JSC. drove the market down. Banking stocks rallied in recent sessions, with Vingroup (VIC) and its property arm Vinhomes shares of Vietcombank surpassing its 2008 peak (VHM) decreased by more than 1 per cent each. and continuing to climb. This is expected to Food and beverage firms such as Vinamilk (VNM), support the market in the near future, they wrote Sabeco (SAB) and Masan Group (MSN) slipped in a daily report. between 0.7 per cent and 2.4 per cent. Foreign investors continued to be net buyers on Viet Nam's biggest listed steel company Hoa Phat Monday but their net buy value decreased sharply Group also gave up more than 2 per cent. to just VND6.2 billion, down 98 per cent compared to Friday's value. Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BID) and insurer Bao Viet Holdings (BVH) also declined despite news that the two shares will be JSI Research Team 3 th Daily Information Update – Japan Securities Inc (July 16 , 2019) Macro & Policies 3. FDI firms to be listed soon: Ministry of Finance According to the ministry's six-month report on The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of the equities market, there will be a framework to Planning and Investment will also work together supervise the FDI firms when they are listed. to develop a mechanism to closely monitor the trading of FDI firms' shares. Some FDI firms have transformed into joint-stock companies from limited-liability ones, but there is In other markets such as South Korea, Japan, no policy to make them list shares on the stock Singapore and Thailand, a number of FDI firms are market. listed on the stock markets and there is no difference or discrimination between foreign- At the end of May, the Ministry of Finance and the invested firms and domestic firms. State Securities Commission asked for opinions from the ministries of Planning and Investment, Justice and Public Security about the proposal. 4. Aviation quandary as airlines wait to enter Vietnamese market Leading tour company Vietravel said in April that are overloaded so another airline might be it had applied for a license to launch Vietravel redundant." Airlines, based in the central province of Thua Thien – Hue Province. It said the initiative seeks to The nation's biggest airport, Tan Son Nhat complete its ecosystem, taking advantage of its International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City, large customer base. served 38 million passengers last year against a designed capacity of 25 million, while the Noi Bai Vietstar Airlines, a military-run aviation company, International Airport in Hanoi needs two runways has been pursuing a commercial license for years, repaired because they have been overused. and the government has said it can grant it only when the Tan Son Nhat International Airport Major airports in the country have reported finishes a new terminal and parking lot. capacity overreach. Data from the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) shows that the Da Tran Trong Kien, chairman of local resort and Nang International Airport is exceeding its seaplane operator Thien Minh Group, last capacity by 13 percent, despite going through an month established an aviation company, two upgrade and the the Cam Ranh International months after a joint venture plan with AirAsia Airport in Nha Trang Town is doing so by 20 collapsed. percent. Anticipating aviation market growth, Vietnam's It is estimated that the country would need $2.4 largest private business conglomerate, Vingroup, billion to upgrade all civilian airports, but most of plans to cooperate with a Canadian group to the new terminals are still in the planning process. train 400 pilots and mechanics a year. Another issue with approving new airlines is the Experts have expressed concerns over the limited capability of authorities to manage country's infrastructural capacity to serve the aircraft. In April, a request by the fifth Vietnamese increasing number of aircraft. carrier, Bamboo Airways, for permission to expand its fleet was met with overreach concerns. Nguyen Thien Tong, former faculty head of aeronautical engineering at the Ho Chi Minh City The CAAV, which was not confident the carrier University of Technology, said: "Existing airports could manage the expansion also said that the JSI Research Team 4 th Daily Information Update – Japan Securities Inc (July 16 , 2019) authority itself could only manage a maximum of In the initial period, the new airlines might be 256 aircraft, while Bamboo Airways's new jets willing to accept losses to attract customers, but in would bring this number to 277.