Posts byJun Yuan

My name is Jun Yuan, and I am the owner of The Singaporean Investor. I am a full-time retail investor and trader since April 2017, and in this website, I'd be sharing with you my personal analyses of Singapore-listed companies, along with advices relating to investing, as well as trading.

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e.l.f. Beauty Inc.: The Numbers Behind the Beauty Company

e.l.f. Beauty Inc. (NYSE:ELF) is a multi-branded beauty company that offers inclusive, accessible, clean, vegan, and cruelty-free cosmetics and skincare products. Currently, the company’s catalogue of products are branded under the following: e.l.f. Cosmetics, e.l.f. SKIN, Well People, Keys Soulcare, and Naturium. As suggested in the title of the post, you will learn about the beauty company’s key financial performances as well as its debt profile reported in the last 4 years (i.e., between FY2019/20 and FY2022/23). On top of that, I will also be sharing with you whether its current traded price is considered to be ‘cheap’ or ‘expensive’, and also my ‘fair value’ price of the company based on its 4-year valuation…

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The Impact of Online Shopping, Work from Home, and High Interest Rates on the Singapore REIT Industry

The first REIT was listed on the Singapore Exchange back in 2002. Since then, there are now more than 40 REITs for retail investors to choose from. These REITs are popular among retail investors for its high distribution yield (between 5-6% on average). However, the Covid-19 pandemic back in 2020 saw new habits being formed, including online shopping and working from home (which disrupted the retail and office industries respectively). Coupled with the current high interest rate environment (with interest rates set to stay higher for longer due to the stubbornly high inflation), many retail investors are concerned about the viability of REITs as an investment option to build their income portfolio. In today’s post, you can find my personal opinion on each of these concerns…

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What You Need To Know about the ‘Magnificent Seven’ in the US Market

‘Magnificent Seven’ in the US market is a term coined by analysts from the Bank of America Corporation to refer to the following 7 companies (by alphabetical order): Alphabet Inc, Amazon.com Inc, Apple Inc, Meta Platforms Inc., Microsoft Corporation, NVIDIA Corporation, and Tesla Inc. You can learn more about each of these companies in terms of its businesses and how they generate their revenue, along with a highlight of their latest financial results in this post…

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The 11 Sectors Making up the S&P 500 Index

Most people know that the S&P 500 Index tracks the performance of the top 500 American companies by market capitalisation, and that 8 out of 10 of the top 10 companies are technology companies. However, many people are not aware that the companies within the index are from 11 different sectors, and that you have the option to invest in individual sectors (through the indexes that track them). In this post, you will learn what each of the 11 sectors are, along with some basic information about them…

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Is Futu Holdings Ltd a ‘Buy’?

Futu Holdings Limited (NASDAQ:FUTU) is in the business of offering market data, financial news, interactive social features, and investor education on its digital platforms Futubull as well as MooMoo (the latter should be very familiar to us Singaporean investors.) In this post, let us find out more about the US-listed company by looking at its financial performance and debt profile to find out whether the company is a ‘buy’…

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Which Singapore-Listed Bank Had the Best Q3 and 9M FY2023 Results?

Now that all 3 Singapore-listed banks (in DBS, UOB, and OCBC) have released their business updates for the 3rd quarter, as well as for the first 9 months of FY2023, let us put their financial results and ratios side-by-side to find out which bank had the most resilient results this time round. On top of that, you’ll also find out which bank is currently the ‘cheapest’, and the ‘most expensive’ by comparing their current valuations (based on their traded prices at lunch break this afternoon, 14 November 2023)…

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A Summary of OCBC’s Q3 & 9M Business Update

Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (SGX:O39), or OCBC for short, is Singapore’s longest established bank. Apart from its home country where it is headquartered, the bank is focused in other countries including Malaysia, Indonesia, and Greater China. Currently, it has a network of more than 420 branches and representative offices in 19 countries and regions. This morning (10 November), the Singapore-listed bank released its business update for the 3rd quarter, as well as for the first 9 months of FY2023 ended 30 September, and we will be looking at its key financial figures and ratios in this post…

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EC World REIT’s Q3 and 9M FY2023 Results: What You Need to Know

EC World REIT (SGX:BWCU) is a China-based REIT which invests in e-commerce and port logistics properties located in the country. Trading for the REIT is voluntarily suspended since end-August, and troubles are mounting with every passing month due to cashflow problems. You can read more about it in this post, together with the essential about the REIT’s latest results released last evening (07 November), particularly its latest financial performance, portfolio occupancy, and its debt profile…

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DBS’ Business Update for Q3 & 9M FY2023 – What You Need to Know

Besides being the biggest bank in Singapore by total assets, DBS Group Holdings Limited (SGX:D05), or DBS for short, is also a leading financial services group in Asia with a presence in 19 markets, and a focus on 3 key markets – Greater China, Southeast Asia, and South Asia. This morning (06 November), the Singapore-listed bank have made available its business update for the 3rd quarter, as well as for the first 9 months of FY2023 (ended 30 September), and you can find my review about it in this post…

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