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5,528 5,045 3,023 2.74 1381 1202 273 14.6 2,120 16.3 2.4 2.0
5,387 4,894 2,954 2.69 1791 816 270 14.3 2,069 15.9 2.4 1.9
2.6 3.1 2.3 1.7 -22.9 47.3 1.1 2.4 2.5 2.6 -1.2 4.2
Reversing the lackadaisical movement witnessed over the past few days, the bourse gained 2.6% to close the week at 5528 on the back of a 25 bps cut in policy rates by the Central Bank. Turnover increased to LKR2.7 bn during the week with trading in John Keells Holdings, Commercial Bank and Commercial Bank accounting for 32% of the weeks total. Gainers outpaced losers with Beruwela Walk Inn, Property Development and Tangerine Beach rising by 26.3%, 24.0% and 20.3% offsetting losses in Hunters & Company, SMB Leasing and Convenience Foods which declined by 10.9%, 10.0% and 9.1% respectively.
In global news, expectations that the Federal Reserve will announce a new stimulus plan to help bring life to a lethargic US economy boosted international markets during the week.
Global Markets
14-Dec 7-Dec
Sri Lanka - ASPI India - Sensex Pakistan - KSE 100 Taiwan Weighted Singapore - Straits Times Hong Kong - Hang Seng
Prime Lending Rate (Avg. Weighted) Deposit Rate (Avg. Weighted) Treasury Bill Rate (360 Days) Dollar Denominated Bond Rate LKR/US$ (Selling Rate) LKR/EURO (Selling Rate)
LKR Bn
Non-tax revenue Tax revenue Grants Total Revenue & Grants Recurrent Expenditure Net capital expenditure Total Expenditure Deficit Deficit as a % of GDP
JanSep 2012
81.8 629.5 14.4 725.7 851.8 356.9 1208.7 483.0 6.4%
Change
16% 7% 48% 8% 9% 32% 15% 27%
During the week, the Central Bank cut key policy rates by 25 bps while allowing the ceiling on rupee credit extended by banks to expire at end 2012. Accordingly, the Repurchase rate and the Reverse Repurchase rate of the Central Bank wasrevised down to 7.50% and 9.50% respectively. Consequently, the downward revision prompted treasury bill yields to fall across maturities with the 12 month yield declining as much as 41 bps to 12.45%, the 6 month yields falling by 32 bps to 11.78% while the 3 month yield fell by 35 bps to 10.44%.
Rates on Government Securities (T-Bills)
14.00 13.00 12.00 11.00 10.00 9.00 8.00 7.00 6.00
02.12.2011 06.01.2012 03.02.2012 24.02.2012 15.03.2012 03.04.2012 25.04.2012 18.05.2012 08.06.2012 27.06.2012 18.07.2012 10.08.2012 28.08.2012 19.09.2012 10.10.2012 09.11.2012 28.11.2012
91 Days
182 Days
364 Days
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month in long-dated Treasury securities beginning in January. Eurozone The Christmas rally seems to have taken a brief pause and understandably so after US stocks suffered from profit taking. However, the Eurostoxx 50 rose by 1.3% to close at 2631 at the end of the week with a rise in a German investor sentiment index boosting confidence. In economic news, Greece will begin to receive 34 billion in bailout aid through the European Financial Stability Facility in the coming days. Eurozone finance ministers approved the release of long-awaited aid payments after Greece came close to its target in buying back 31.9 billion in bonds. Meanwhile, euro zone manufacturing PMI data missed market expectations, while the services PMI surprised to the upside. In the banking sector, Spanish banks cut their reliance on ECB funding for the 3rd straight month, a similar trend has been seen with Italian banks. Asia Asian equities rose for the week on the back of improved economic data released from China which showed new signs of a possible economic rebound. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index rose by 1.1% led by gains in Nikkei, Straits Times and Hang Seng. After a positive report on industrial output growth of 10.1% from a year earlier and rising electricity production, the preliminary manufacturingpurchasing managers index from HSBC rose to 50.9 indicating a second straight month ofgrowth in manufacturing activity. Meanwhile, Japan has officially entered a recession in thethird quarter, as its economy shrank for a second straight quarter. An initial report that Page 3
Global Outlook
US US equities recorded a modest decline with the Nasdaq, S&P 500 and Dow Jones shedding 0.2%, 0.3% and 0.2% to close at 2971, 1414 and 13135 at the end of the week. Initial jobless claims fell 29,000 to a seasonally adjusted 343,000 for the week ended 8 December. Meanwhile, the US inflation rate stayed within the Feds target zone; November data from the US Labor Department showed a 0.3% drop in overall consumer prices in November and a 0.1% increase in core prices (excluding food and energy). Overall, annual consumer prices rose 1.8% as of November, with core prices up 1.9%. The Fed has stated that interest rates would remain low as long as the unemployment rate stays above 6.5% and the one to twoyear outlook for inflation remains below 2.5%. The US Fed has further announced it would buy $45 billion per
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DNH TOP 30
Company CSE CODE Share Price (LKR)
Sri Lanka Telecom Lanka ORIX Leasing AHOT Properties Dialog Axiata Softlogic Holdings Colombo Fort Land & Buildings Aitken Spence John Keells Holdings Commercial Bank Hemas Holdings Hayleys Hatton National Bank Distilleries Richard Pieris Eden Hotel Lanka Nawaloka Hospitals Kotagala Plantations Asiri Hospitals DIMO Kegalle Plantations Royal Ceramics Lanka WallTile Ceylon Glass Laugfs Gas VallibelOne National Development Bank DFCC Bank Sampath Bank Ceylon Leather Ceylon Grain Elevators Expolanka Holdings SLTL LOLC AHPL DIAL SHL CFLB SPEN JKH COMB HHL HAYL HNB DIST RICH EDEN NHL KOTA ASIR DIMO KGAL RCL LWL GLAS LGL VONE NDB DFCC SAMP CLPL GRAN EXPO 42.70 52.50 76.00 8.10 10.10 32.90 117.50 218.00 102.00 27.00 285.00 142.00 160.00 7.80 34.50 3.00 66.40 11.00 601.10 100.30 93.80 61.00 6.00 24.10 18.00 135.50 112.00 200.00 79.00 54.30 6.90
Valuation Guide
Net Profit (LKR mn)
2009
778 2,385 689 -12208 155 50 2987 5552 4304 935 2581 4352 2136 712 498 97 323 318 278 376 711 766 -61 528 N/A 2085 1713 2098 36
2010
3,943 7,023 2148 5047 971 2139 3428 9063 5524 1355 1128 4464 8308 2141 101 1071 668 262 2122 883 1374 990 579 853 N/A 2176 7137 3520 107 475 1768
2011
4,781 8,937 2,507 5,354 1022 2087 4711 11069 8048 1315 3845 5570 6138 2561 146 271 439 842 2697 682 1970 1135 686.4 930 3645 2941 2973 4173 44 455 1230
134 518
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DNH TOP 30
EPS EPS Growth (%) PE (X)
Valuation Guide
Price to Growth (X) 2011 2011 Dividend Yield (%) Shares in issue (mn) Market Cap (LKR bn)
2009
2010
2011
2009
2010
2011
2009
2010
SLTL LOLC AHPL DIAL SHL CFLB SPEN JKH COMB HHL HAYL HNB DIST RICH EDEN NHL KOTA ASIR DIMO KGAL RCL LWL GLAS LGL VONE NDB DFCC SAMP CLPL GRAN EXPO
0.43 8.32 9.71 -1.50 0.20 0.36 5.07 6.19 5.48 1.75 23.08 12.17 7.12 0.30 0.06 0.07 10.09 0.21 31.32 15.04 6.42 5.12 -0.06 1.36 N/A 12.70 9.73 13.21 1.05 2.23 0.26
2.18 8.08 8.02 0.62 1.06 6.37 8.44 9.81 7.20 2.35 9.03 12.49 27.08 0.87 1.92 0.76 20.88 0.21 239.06 35.32 12.40 8.87 0.61 2.20 N/A 12.81 19.20 22.21 3.12 7.92 0.79
2.65 13.17 9.71 0.64 0.62 7.15 9.14 11.63 10.58 2.35 33.60 15.58 18.92 1.21 2.76 0.19 13.71 0.67 303.87 27.28 17.78 13.77 0.72 2.40 3.35 16.48 10.94 26.46 2.68 6.46 0.54
-89% 275% 305% 324% 124% 82% 1% 5% 2% 16% 457% 35% -37% -276% -108% -189% 89% 137% 170% 112% 245% -23% -77% 131% N/A 74% 19% 39% -250% 355% N/A
407% -3% -17% -141% 438% 1653% 66% 59% 31% 34% -61% 3% 280% 190% 3261% 1004% 107% 3% 663% 135% 93% 73% -1049% 61% N/A 1% 97% 68% 197% 255% 199%
21% 63% 21% 3% -42% 12% 8% 19% 47% -0.1% 272% 24.8% -30% 39.2% 44% -74.7% -34% 214.6% 27% -22.8% 43% 55% 19% 9% N/A 29% -43% 19% -14% -18% -32%
99.1 6.3 7.8 N/A 51.1 90.5 23.2 35.2 18.6 15.4 12.3 11.7 22.5 26.0 603.5 43.6 6.6 53.0 19.2 6.7 14.6 11.9 N/A 17.7 N/A 10.7 11.5 15.1 75.1 24.3 26.0
19.5 6.5 9.5 13.1 9.5 5.2 13.9 22.2 14.2 11.5 31.6 11.4 5.9 9.0 18.0 3.9 3.2 51.3 2.5 2.8 7.6 6.9 9.8 10.9 N/A 10.6 5.8 9.0 25.3 6.9 9
16.1 4.0 7.8 12.7 16.3 4.6 12.9 18.7 9.6 11.5 8.5 9.1 8.5 6.5 12.5 15.6 4.8 16.3 2.0 3.7 5.3 4.4 8.3 10.0 5.4 8.2 10.2 7.6 29.4 8.4 12.8
0.76 0.06 0.37 4.14 -0.39 0.38 1.57 1.01 0.21 -126.48 0.03 0.37 -0.28 0.16 0.28 -0.21 -0.14 0.08 0.07 -0.16 0.12 0.08 0.45 1.10 N/A 0.29 -0.24 0.40 -2.09 -0.46 -0.40
2.0% N/A 1.3% 3.1% 1.3% 0.9% 1.2% 1.4% 2.6% 1.9% 1.4% 5.3% 1.9% 10.3% N/A 1.7% 3.0% 2.3% 6.7% 7.5% 4.3% 1.6% 6.0% 6.2% 1.7% 2.6% 8.9% 4.5% N/A N/A 1.7%
1,805 475 221 8,144 779 180 406 840 765 515 75 358 300 1,937 53 1,410 32 889 9 25 111 55 950 387 1,087 164 265 157 34 60 1,955
77.1 24.9 16.8 66.0 7.9 5.9 47.7 183.2 78.0 13.9 21.4 50.8 48.0 15.1 1.8 4.2 2.1 9.8 5.3 2.5 10.4 3.3 5.7 9.3 19.6 22.2 29.7 31.4 2.7 3.3 13.5
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1,241 1,421 17 19.7 1 11 823 20 50.6 40 6.3 9 8.9 11 -2.5 14 -0.7 0 0.5 -350 -1.7 11 -7.0 100.5 15 19.9 1 10 993 21 61.1 21 6.9 10 10.2 15 -3.4 36 -1.5 130 0.2 -60 -2 15 -7.0 104
1,617 2,014 2,057 2,399 2,836 14 20 1 15.8 25 20.2 1 22.6 2 20.5 1 3.4 17 20.7 1 5.9 18 20.9 1 6.7
1,148 1,282 1,537 1,813 2,193 16 69.1 13 7.6 10 11.3 11 -3.7 9 -1.4 -6 0.5 150 -2.2 12 -6.9 12 94.5 37 8.1 7 14.1 25 -6 62 -3.9 177 -1.4 -380 -2.9 29 -7.0 20 61.1 -35 7.1 -12 10.2 -28 -3.1 -48 -0.2 -94 2.7 -293 -4.1 45 -9.9 18 77.5 27 8.6 17 13.5 32 -4.8 67 -1.1 563 0.9 -67 -3.9 -5 -8.0 21 109 41 10.6 23 20.3 50 -9.7 -102 -4.6 318 -1.1 -222 -4.1 -4 -6.9
10 8 6 4 2 0
GDP Growth
GDP Growth
Population (mn)
Population
Imports (US$ bn) 4 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
BOP(US$ bn)
3 2 1 0 -1 -2 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Balance of payment 120 115 110 105 100 95 90
LKR/US$
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