Overweight on O&G sector: Maybank

April 25, 2014

Here’s me stirring up the market.

Dateline 2014-04-19, Business Times:

Maybank Research maintains OVERWEIGHT rating on oil & gas (O&G) sector with top buys including Bumi Armada, Dialog, SapuraKencana Petroleum (SAKP), Perisai and Perdana.

It noted that interest is wide ranging but most funds tend to be bottom-up driven and stock-selective, seeing strong thematics such as rig building, drilling, OSV upcycles, Petronas capex driving the sector this year.

‘We met up with UK, Hong Kong and US funds during our marketing roadshows in February and March. The interest was across the board ranging from big-caps to small-caps depending on the fund mandate. Funds that have been less Malaysia centric continue to find it challenging to invest in the Malaysian Oil & Gas (O&G) stocks due to their premium valuations relative to the region.