Brief Thailand: Asian Equities: Notwithstanding the Global Turmoil, EPS Estimates Are Surprisingly Strong and more
In this briefing: Asian Equities: Notwithstanding the Global Turmoil, EPS Estimates Are Surprisingly Strong Inflation Shock, Not Fear: Navigating the New Cross-Asset Regime Shift Thailand Short Interest Weekly (Mar 20th): True, Intouch, Thaifoods, CH. Karnchang, Srisawad, True Pan-Asia Alpha Signals: Korea & Taiwan Dominate, India Underperformance Deepens APAC Healthcare Weekly (March 22) – Hengrui, Microport Neuro, Celltrion, Samsung Bio, Sun Pharma 1. Asian Equities: Notwithstanding the Global Turmoil, EPS Estimates Are Surprisingly Strong Since the beginning of the Iran War, the MSCI Asia ex Japan index has declined 12%. But remarkably, consensus EPS estimate for Asia ex Japan has increased 1.42%. The earnings upgrades are led by Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan and China. Technology, energy, process industries and basic materials figure prominently among the top 20 sectors with upgrades. Consumer services and retail figure prominently among the sectors with largest downgrades. Analysts seem complacent about disruption to tech hardware, process industries and basic materials from energy and input shortages. 2.