Plans to buy more, after seeing strong visitor traffic at company's resort

Jupiter buys Sands China shares

Ben Surtees, a London-based money manager for Jupiter, this month bought shares of Sands China Ltd., a Macau casino operator, and Ace Hardware Indonesia Tbk, a hardware store-chain operator in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy.
2015-10-26
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Ben Surtees, a London-based money manager for Jupiter, this month bought shares of Sands China Ltd., a Macau casino operator, and Ace Hardware Indonesia Tbk, a hardware store-chain operator in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy.

That came after he bought noodlemaker Tingyi (Cayman Islands) Holding Corp. in August, and added to investments in food-packaging manufacturer CPMC Holdings Ltd. as it slid last quarter, he said.

“Markets did get very oversold during the summer on fears that the U.S. Federal Reserve is going to raise rates," said Surtees. His Jupiter Asian Fund has outperformed 94 percent of peers this month, and 73 percent over a year, data compiled by Bloomberg show. “We’ve been adding to our positions."

Asian stocks and currencies are rebounding in October, with a regional equity measure poised for its best monthly gain in six years, as futures markets suggest borrowing costs in the world’s biggest economy will remain near zero into 2016. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index traded Wednesday at 13.6 times estimated earnings, compared with a multiple of 12.4 times at last month’s low, data compiled by Bloomberg show.

Surtees plans to buy more Sands China shares, which he started accumulating early this month, after seeing strong visitor traffic at the company’s resort when visiting Macau during the Golden Week holiday.

While the city’s gaming revenue fell for 16 straight months through September amid a Chinese anti-graft campaign that scared away high-rollers, receipts from mass-market gamblers recovered about 2 percent in the third quarter versus the previous three months, according to Credit Suisse Group AG.

“A lot of the negatives are already in the price. Valuations have halved, Sands’ balance sheet is fairly sound and the dividend payout ratio is high,” Jupiter Buys Macau Casino.

While Surtees’ bet on Sands China is in sync with stock analysts who turned bullish on Macau casinos at a record pace this month, the fund manager took a contrarian view on Tingyi. Strategists cut their target prices by 18 percent on the maker of noodles since the end of June as earnings disappointed.

“Although Tingyi’s earnings has improved sequentially, the analyst community just wasn’t contented with the speed of improvement. After the release of the last quarterly results, the stock was sold off quite aggressively so we started buying,” Surtees said.

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