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Willas-Array Electronics / Equity Bottom-Up

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Turnaround Specialist Pivoting to Higher-Margin Business: After a significant loss in FY24, Willas-Array demonstrated a strong turnaround in FY25, returning to profitability. This was driven by a strategic decision to prune low-margin, high-risk customers and focus on more profitable segments.</li>
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Challenging Revenue Trajectory Amidst Industry Cyclicality: The company faces a persistent headwind of declining revenues over the past several years, as evidenced by a negative 3-year revenue CAGR of -12.67%. This reflects intense competition and the cyclical nature of the electronics component market.</li>
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Strategic Shift to Value-Added Services: Management is actively shifting the business model from a traditional component distributor to a strategic partner offering engineering and design solutions. This move, supported by its ultimate holding company, Shanghai YCT, aims to create a competitive moat and embed itself deeper within customer operations.</li>
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Turnaround Specialist Pivoting to Higher-Margin Business: After a significant loss in FY24, Willas-Array demonstrated a strong turnaround in FY25, returning to profitability. This was driven by a strategic decision to prune low-margin, high-risk customers and focus on more profitable segments.
  
Challenging Revenue Trajectory Amidst Industry Cyclicality: The company faces a persistent headwind of declining revenues over the past several years, as evidenced by a negative 3-year revenue CAGR of -12.67%. This reflects intense competition and the cyclical nature of the electronics component market.
  
Strategic Shift to Value-Added Services: Management is actively shifting the business model from a traditional component distributor to a strategic partner offering engineering and design solutions. This move, supported by its ultimate holding company, Shanghai YCT, aims to create a competitive moat and embed itself deeper within customer operations.
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Primer: Willas-Array Electronics (WAE SP) - Aug 2026

Invest for a Sustainable Future, Impact Capital Asset Management

ICAM

Invest for a Sustainable Future

Impact Capital Asset Management

Established in August 2020, Impact Capital Asset Management Pte. Ltd. (ICAM) was conceived by seasoned professionals Deepak Mawandia and Atul Tetambe. Both have accumulated a wealth of knowledge and experience from their extensive tenures in the financial sector. In 2019, ICAM secured its RFMC license and subsequently introduced a technology-centric venture fund. By 2021, with the acquisition of its CMS license, ICAM witnessed steady growth in its assets under management. Presently, ICAM manages a portfolio exceeding USD 1 billion, diversified across various countries. Central to ICAM’s foundation is a commitment to offering a platform singularly dedicated to the best interests of its investor clients. The combined expertise of Deepak and Atul firmly establishes ICAM as a notable entity in the wealth management field.

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul><li>Singapore-listed exposure to new-age hardware is concentrated in the enabling layers beneath visible end-products.</li><li>Robotics, autonomous systems, drones, advanced mobility, AI hardware, and space technologies all depend on semiconductors, reliability testing, precision components, qualified subsystems, and scalable manufacturing support.</li><li>SGX exposure is best understood through the infrastructure behind advanced hardware systems, rather than through the end-products alone.</li></ul>

Singapore-listed exposure to new-age hardware is concentrated in the enabling layers beneath visible end-products.Robotics, autonomous systems, drones, advanced mobility, AI hardware, and space technologies all depend on semiconductors, reliability testing, precision components, qualified subsystems, and scalable manufacturing support.SGX exposure is best understood through the infrastructure behind advanced hardware systems, rather than through the end-products alone.

Singapore’s New-Age Hardware Enablers: Infrastructure Layer Behind New-Age Hardware Systems

SGX Market Strategist, Equity & Fixed Income, Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

Geoff Howie

SGX Market Strategist, Equity & Fixed Income

Asia’s leading multi-asset exchange

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

Singapore Exchange is Asia’s leading and trusted market infrastructure, facilitating the exchange of capital and ideas to create value for people, businesses and economies. As a multi-asset exchange operating equity, fixed income and derivatives markets to the highest regulatory standards, SGX is a vertically integrated business that provides listing, trading, clearing, settlement, depository and data services.

With about 40% of listed companies and over 80% of listed bonds originating outside of Singapore as well as established linkages across the region and in Europe, SGX is Asia’s most international and connected exchange. Offering a full suite of derivatives products across Asian equity indices, commodities and currencies, SGX is the world’s most liquid international market for the benchmark equity indices of China, India, Japan and ASEAN.

As Asia’s pioneering central counterparty, SGX is globally recognised for its risk management and clearing capabilities, and was one of the first globally to adopt the Principles for Financial Market Infrastructure.

Headquartered in AAA-rated Singapore, SGX has over 800 employees including offices in Beijing, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, New York, Mumbai, San Francisco, Shanghai and Tokyo.

<ul><li>In August, multiple signs of an improving outlook for manufacturing and trade, have included a four-month high in ASEAN Manufacturing PMI expectations, a projected recovery in Singapore's manufacturing sector driven by strong electronics demand, and a significant month-to-month rebound in Singapore's Industrial Production in July.</li><li>Since 6 August, the iEdge SG Adv Manufacturing Index has rebounded 5%, recovering most of the declines in the first week of the month.</li><li>For the month through to 28 August, the top-performing actively traded stocks in the iEdge SG Adv Manufacturing Index included SATS, UG Healthcare Corporation, Medtecs International Corporation, Thai Beverage, and Willas-Array Electronics (Holdings).</li></ul>

In August, multiple signs of an improving outlook for manufacturing and trade, have included a four-month high in ASEAN Manufacturing PMI expectations, a projected recovery in Singapore's manufacturing sector driven by strong electronics demand, and a significant month-to-month rebound in Singapore's Industrial Production in July.Since 6 August, the iEdge SG Adv Manufacturing Index has rebounded 5%, recovering most of the declines in the first week of the month.For the month through to 28 August, the top-performing actively traded stocks in the iEdge SG Adv Manufacturing Index included SATS, UG Healthcare Corporation, Medtecs International Corporation, Thai Beverage, and Willas-Array Electronics (Holdings).

Manufacturing and Trade Show Signs of Improvement in August

IPOs and Catalysts/Events, Global Equity Research Ltd

Arun George

IPOs and Catalysts/Events

Uncompromised, Independent, Conflict-Free Research

Global Equity Research Ltd

Global Equity Research was started in 2017 by a group of experienced research professionals. It was founded on a passionate belief in the importance and the need for uncompromised, independent, conflict-free research. We aim to provide differentiated and actionable primary and bottom up fundamental research.

Event-Driven

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<li>Unsurprisingly, the independent financial advisor (IFA) considers <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/wt-microelectronics-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:19712:1" rel="noopener">WT Microelectronics (3036 TT)</a>'s S$1.93 offer for <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/excelpoint-technology-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:1774:1" rel="noopener">Excelpoint Technology (EXLP SP)</a> to be fair and reasonable. We think that IFA’s valuation approach is sound. </li>
<li>The key condition is approval from shareholders and regulatory authorities (Taiwan pending). The scheme meeting is scheduled for 3:00 pm on 10 August. </li>
<li>We continue to think that offer is attractive. At the current price and for the 15 September payment date, the gross and annualised spread is 0.5% and 3.1%, respectively.</li>
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Unsurprisingly, the independent financial advisor (IFA) considers WT Microelectronics (3036 TT)'s S$1.93 offer for Excelpoint Technology (EXLP SP) to be fair and reasonable. We think that IFA’s valuation approach is sound. 
The key condition is approval from shareholders and regulatory authorities (Taiwan pending). The scheme meeting is scheduled for 3:00 pm on 10 August. 
We continue to think that offer is attractive. At the current price and for the 15 September payment date, the gross and annualised spread is 0.5% and 3.1%, respectively.


Excelpoint’s Scheme Meeting on 10 August, IFA’s Opinion

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/wt-microelectronics-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:19712:1" rel="noopener">WT Microelectronics (3036 TT)</a> will offer S$1.93 in cash and a final FY2021 dividend (ex-div date: 28 April, payment date: 13 May) of S$0.088 for a total consideration of S$2.018.</li>
<li>The key scheme conditions are shareholder approval and Court approval. The scheme meeting will be held sometime in late June to early July.</li>
<li>The offer price represents a 10-year share price high. At the last close of S$1.96, the gross and annualised spread for a mid-Sep effective date is 3.0% and 7.1%, respectively.</li>
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WT Microelectronics (3036 TT) will offer S$1.93 in cash and a final FY2021 dividend (ex-div date: 28 April, payment date: 13 May) of S$0.088 for a total consideration of S$2.018.
The key scheme conditions are shareholder approval and Court approval. The scheme meeting will be held sometime in late June to early July.
The offer price represents a 10-year share price high. At the last close of S$1.96, the gross and annualised spread for a mid-Sep effective date is 3.0% and 7.1%, respectively.


Excelpoint’s Privatisation Offer from WT

Hong Kong

Willas-Array Electronics is principally engaged in the distribution of electronic components and the provision of engineering solutions. The company offers a wide range of electronic components for industrial, audio and video, telecommunications, home appliance, lighting, electronic manufacturing services, and automotive segments. It was established in 1981 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.

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Willas-Array Electronics (WAE SP)

Primer: Willas-Array Electronics (WAE SP) - Aug 2026

Turnaround Specialist Pivoting to Higher-Margin Business: After a significant loss in FY24, Willas-Array demonstrated a strong turnaround in...

αSK Primers

Singapore’s New-Age Hardware Enablers: Infrastructure Layer Behind New-Age Hardware Systems

Singapore-listed exposure to new-age hardware is concentrated in the enabling layers beneath visible end-products. Robotics, autonomous systems,...

ICAM

Manufacturing and Trade Show Signs of Improvement in August

In August, multiple signs of an improving outlook for manufacturing and trade, have included a four-month high in ASEAN Manufacturing PMI...

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX)

Excelpoint’s Scheme Meeting on 10 August, IFA’s Opinion

We continue to think that offer is attractive. At the current price and for the 15 September payment date, the gross and annualised spread is 0.5%...

Arun George

Excelpoint’s Privatisation Offer from WT

WT will offer S$1.93 in cash and a final FY2021 dividend of S$0.088 for a total consideration of S$2.018. At the last close of S$1.96, the...

Arun George

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