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Investment summary
- Good outlook for electronic components in 2Q24 and 2H24 despite several challenges. The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), IDC and Gartner expect semiconductor sales to achieve 17-20% growth in global semiconductor revenue in 2024. Backing the growth are recovery in the consumer electronics market and a booming AI industry, plus the AI-smartphone and AI-PC replacement cycle to drive overall smartphone demand. Canalys forecasts global smartphone shipment growth of 4%, and IDC expects 2.8% growth in 2024. Global automotive sales continue modest growth, but price wars make EVs challenging in the short-term. Both S&P Global Mobility and ING research forecast growth in 2024 global new car sales: the former at 2.8% and the latter at 2.6%.
- Thai electronics earnings to improve in 2Q24 and recover strongly in 2H24. Based on the improved outlook for smartphone shipments and global car sales in 2H24, we believe sector earnings will begin to improve in 2Q24 and then recover strongly in 2H24. Driving this growth will be strong demand from new AI-smartphones and the AI-PC replacement cycle, coupled with improved EV sales. Additionally, capacity expansions, such as DELTA's commercial startup of DELTA Plant 8, HANA's expansion in silicon carbide and RFID and KCE's greater high-margin product production, will support earnings momentum in 2H24.
- SETETRON (-0.9% YTD) has outperformed the SET index (-7.9% YTD) due to the positive sentiment brought by the strong share price performance of global technology companies, backed by the rapid adoption of generative AI technologies that has shoved up demand for advanced semiconductors and AI-related hardware. We believe the positive momentum will continue in 2H24, which is the sector’s high season, aided by capacity additions as well as the benefit from the depreciation of the baht against the USD.
- Selective on the sector. Top picks: KCE is our top pick in the sector for two reasons: 1) 2024 net profit is forecast to grow 32% (far above peers); and 2) its valuation is still discounted versus its 5-year historical average PE of 32.4x. .
- Key risks are changes in customer purchasing power, prolonged geopolitical unrest, resumption of the US-China tech war and exchange rate volatility. Key ESG risks are labor management and suppliers (S).
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