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Singapore IPOs: Why I No Longer Cover Every Listing

Some readers may have noticed that I have not been writing about every Singapore IPO since last year. The simple reason is that life has become busier. Between my day job, an increasingly packed travel schedule, family commitments and desire to play more golf, I have become much more selective about how I spend my time.  Writing detailed IPO reviews takes time — reading prospectuses, analysing financials, comparing valuations and understanding the competitive landscape. While I still enjoy investing and writing, I no longer feel the need to cover every IPO that comes to market. Instead, going forward, I will probably focus only on IPOs where I am seriously considering investing my own money or where there is something particularly interesting that is worth discussing. I suspect this will make the blog more useful as well. Rather than writing about every deal, I can spend more time sharing my thoughts on the handful that I believe deserve attention. That bring...

IPO Performance Analysis


(source: Shareinvestor.com)

Let us take a quick look at performance of the IPOs covered by this blog since 07-07-07.

After the recent bloodbath early this week, RH Energy, China Sports and Yongxin (rated 3 Chillis) still trade more than 90% above its IPO price. Well done :) Most of the IPOs are currently trading 20% to 60% above its IPO price with only Finance One below water.

As mentioned in my blog, Fair Value can be a very tricky thing and it seemed that after the bloodbath, the shares have actually dropped to my fair value?! Is my fair value then the correct value and earn me the right to boast about them? Of course not but it just happen that most of the stocks are trading within or close to my 'fair value' range right now. My definition of Fair Value is : Whatever the market deemed is the fair value will be the fair value. My fair value is just a guide for me to know when to take profits as market can be overly depressed or overly exhuberant most of the time.

And the top 3 performing IPOs as of 5 Aug 2007 are ......

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