Category Archives: YZ-Offshore & Marine

Keppel Corporation – Is the merger still on the cards?

Posted on February 4, 2021 by Brennen

Just recently, Keppel Corporation announced a huge loss of $506m for FY2020, which resulted in its share price sliding for 6 consecutive days from $5.70 to $4.90 on 1 February 2021. Since then, it has been struggling around the $5.00 … Continue reading →

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Taking stocks of Year 2020

Posted on December 20, 2020 by Brennen

Year 2020 has been a year of frightful year. Following the fruitful ending for year 2019, most of us were hopeful that the prosperity would follow through into year 2020. Just the opposite. It was nightmarish not long after the … Continue reading →

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Keppel Corporation

Posted on November 17, 2020 by Brennen

[Background – It has been extremely tumultuous for Keppel Corp (Keppel Corporation) in the past 12 months. Its share price has been going through huge swings both in the up and down directions. Until very recently, the general share price … Continue reading →

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Sembcorp shareholders’ hands are tight

Posted on June 23, 2020 by Brennen

It has been more than a week since the submission of a proposal to SGX by Sembcorp Industry and her subsidiary Sembcorp Marine (SCM) to raise fund of $2.1b for the SCM, and for the demerger between the two entities. … Continue reading →

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Demerger of Sembcrop Industries (SCI) & Sembcorp Marine (SCM)

Posted on June 13, 2020 by Brennen

On 8 June 2020, Sembcorp Industries (SCI) and its subsidiary, Sembcorp Marine (SCM), jointly announced a proposal of $2.1 billion renounceable rights issue for SCM. This involves a 5:1 rights issue to existing SCM shareholders as well as Temasek Holding … Continue reading →

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Keppel Corporation

Posted on October 25, 2019 by Brennen

What a pleasant surprise! Temasek Holdings (TH) through its wholly owned subsidiary, Kyanite Investment Holdings, is proposing a partial offer to acquire 30.55% of Keppel Corporation to increase its shareholding from its current shareholding of 20.45% to 51.0%. Based on … Continue reading →

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Walking away from a corporate bond deal

Posted on October 2, 2017 by Brennen

I came across an article on the newspaper yesterday morning that Ezion Holdings will be having a meeting with bondholders this coming Monday to present a debt restructuring plan. It reminded me that corporate and perpetual bonds were selling like … Continue reading →

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Technology destroyed some traditional businesses (3): Keppel Corp & Sembcorp Marine

Posted on July 10, 2017 by Brennen

The share price of Keppel Corp ended today at $6.42. It has lost about 35%-40% its steady state value of about $10 per share 3-4 years ago.  Everyone knows that the reason for this was due to the collapse of … Continue reading →

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Capital reduction

Posted on April 30, 2017 by Brennen

We all know that for a company to operate, there is always a need for capital. Capital can come in the form of cash input from the owners of the company and, if the company has been profit-making, funds can … Continue reading →

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It’s time to take stock of how our stocks performed this year

Posted on December 30, 2016 by Brennen

At the close of calendar year 2015, the STI ended at 2882.73. And today, the last day of trading for year 2016, the STI ended at 2880.76. In effect, the STI lost less than 2 points or less than 0.07% … Continue reading →

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