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Last week, we have talked about the power of dividends. Today we are going to review a couple of examples to illustrate this incredible power of reinvesting dividends. This website is very useful to make some quick calculations. Total Dow Jones Industrial Average Return over the last 10 years is +181.6%. Annualised Dow Jones Industrial Average Return over the same period is +10.9%. But the really interesting part is to be found here: Annualised Dow Jones Industrial Average Re

For most of the start of the month, both Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh indexes have fallen synchronously. However, over the recent couple of days the two indexes have taken different paths once again and as usual (or at least this is what has happened over the last couple of years now) the HOSE index has outperformed Hanoi’s index. You can see the orange line crossing over the blue one over the last two days in our below graph. At Anh Thomas, we believe that the HNX index has more po

During the first half of this month of July, the Vietnamese stocks have generally gone up. The main indexes show this positive trend. As of the 15th of July, the HNX index was up by 2% and the HOSE index up by 2.5%. The banking sector is the still the sector with the lowest price to earnings ratio while the telecommunications sector has the highest price to earnings ratio. Stocks from the financial sector continue to represent the largest sector in terms of market capitalisat

January has been an interesting (and good) month for us. Despite the main indexes remaining mainly stable, our reference portfolio ended up the month with a rather impressive 2.9% raise. Keeping up the momentum from the previous year, the Vietnamese economy got off to a strong start in 2019 with many robust macroeconomic indices in the first month of the year. According to the General Statistics Office, the index of industrial production in January scored an expansion of 7.9%

February has been a hectic month, to say the least. Vietnam's stock markets have been heavily hit by the plunges on Wall Street that triggered a rout in equities worldwide. Vietnamese shares suffered large but luckily temporary losses. A couple days prior to Tết (the Vietnamese New Year), the VN index was down more than 10%. After this turmoil, indexes started to rise strongly notably supported by large-cap stocks such as PetroVietnam Gas Joint Stock Corporation shares (GAS).

After a really strong month of September, October has been much more mixed for the Vietnamese stock markets. This month witnessed a strong performance divergence between the two main Vietnamese indexes which is quite unusual. On the economic side, Inflation eased in October while the YTD CPI increase to 2.25% and annual growth soared to 7.5% in Q3 (Q2: 6.3% year-on-year) despite a protracted downturn in mining and oil output. Finally, rising inflows of FDI amid concerted effo

We are already in the second half of the month of October. A perfect time to have a quick look on the main Vietnamese indexes performance since the beginning of the month. Hanoi’s index has been outperformed by Ho Chi Minh index so far. HSX records so far a gain of +1.6% while HOSE index records an impressive gain of 2.9%. Since the beginning of the year, HSX is up by 36.6% while HOSE is up by a more modest but still massive 24.5%. #vietnam #stocks #indexes #performance #Octo