Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Affin Hwang Capital Daily Insight (LV) - 2 September 2015 - KLCI / ECONOMY - PMI

Top Calls

Strategy KLCI (NEUTRAL, maintain)

- 2Q15: 18th quarter of earnings downgrade

While corporate earnings jumped by 2.3% yoy and 8.9% qoq, corporate earnings forecasts were downgraded, for the 18th consecutive quarter. Our 2015E market earnings growth which started off at a promising 8.8% now stands at 2.4% and is approaching the 2014 growth figure of 0.6%. Amidst disappointing corporate earnings, market sentiment on the KLCI remains poor. Without any imminent re-rating catalyst, sharp capital outflows in the near term may push the KLCI below our 2015 year-end target of 1,600 (based on 14.7x 2016E earnings). Maintain Neutral.


Other Calls

Economy Manufacturing PMI

- Malaysias PMI fell further to 47.2 in August



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