Asean-focused. Ex-Head of Thai Research

Athaporn Arayasantiparb, CFA

Athaporn served as Head of Research for UOB and ANZ in Thailand and was an award-winning telecoms analyst at UBS in 2010 (AsiaMoney Thailand category) and Regional Strategist for DMG in Singapore. Prior to that, he also served as Kasikornbank credit analyst and scholar. He has a total work experience of 22 years, of which 19 were in research and 9 in research management roles. He started his career as an engineer for PTT and currently manages family investments. He holds an MBA from Stern (NYU) and CFA Charter since 2006.

Apart from IPO Radar, which focuses on future listings, MCorp Review also performs financial advisory services for TKC Services and provides 11 other on-going thematic series ranked by frequency in descending order, namely:

1) Snippets (news-driven);
2) Sathorn Series (financial services);
3) Silicon Stories (technology); 
4) Thai-Coons (billionaire origin series);
5) Reality Check (data-driven, investigative);
6) Thai Media Spotlight;
7) Political Pit Stop; 
8) Telecom Review; 
9) Thai Macro Watch (read-through from foreign events);  
10) Small Cap Diary; and
11) Property Grid

There are also 3 limited-time series driven by specific events or locations, namely:
1) Thai Corona Crisis;
2) South Series; and
3) Mechanics and Details (deal forensics).

PTTEP (PTTEP TB): Good Proxy to Rising Crude Oil Price

PTTEP (PTTEP TB): Share Price Highly Correlated to Crude Oil Price

Snippets #17: PTTEP's Winner Curse, Huawei's Crisis

Big Brother (Season Premiere): Empire of Oil

The CIO's Corner: QE Unwinding, Laggards, & Rejuvenators

Asean (Thailand) Focused Independent Research

M Corp Review

M Corp is led by Athaporn Arayasantiparb who served as Head of Research for UOB and ANZ in Thailand and was an award-winning telecoms analyst at UBS in 2010 (AsiaMoney Thailand category) and Regional Strategist for DMG in Singapore. Prior to that, he also served as Kasikornbank credit analyst and scholar. He has a total work experience of 17 years, of which 14 were in research and 4 in research management roles. He started his career as an engineer for PTT and currently manages family investments. He holds an MBA from Stern (NYU) and CFA Charter since 2006. Apart from IPO Radar, which focuses on future listings, MCorp Review also provides six on-going thematic series ranked by frequency in descending order, namely: 1) Silicon Stories (technology) 2) Sathorn Series (financial services) 3) Thai-Coons (billionaire origin stories) 4) Reality Check (data-driven, investigative) 5) Thai Media Spotlight; and 6) Thai Macro Watch (global market drivers).

Equity Bottom-Up

<p>Arguably, no stock comes closer to mimicking oil prices in Thailand than PTTEP and its parent company PTT, aka largest stock in Thailand. Brent oil prices dropped from 2017 year-end levels of US$70/bbl to a low of US$62/bbl this month before rebounding to current level of US$65/bbl. In fact, it seems that apart from oil stocks and CP All, none of the big cap stocks seem to be doing well in Thailand these days. CP All's continued rise seems to be related to news flow in the banking sector <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/reality-check-xii-how-much-upside-can-cp-all-squeeze-from-a-new-banking-venture" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="insights:17835">Reality</a>…</p>

Arguably, no stock comes closer to mimicking oil prices in Thailand than PTTEP and its parent company PTT, aka largest stock in Thailand. Brent oil prices dropped from 2017 year-end levels of US$70/bbl to a low of US$62/bbl this month before rebounding to current level of US$65/bbl. In fact, it seems that apart from oil stocks and CP All, none of the big cap stocks seem to be doing well in Thailand these days. CP All's continued rise seems to be related to news flow in the banking sector Reality…

PTT E&P

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