Wilcon Depot company (WLCON) has just been recently announced to be included on the Philippines Blue chip Index (PSEI) where it will be considered as one of the best companies on the market. The sudden upsurge in prices confirms bullishness of the market today as it managed to move up by 8.10% with price at Php 31.35 for the day.

With the recent disclosure from the Philippine stock Exchange, Wilcon will replace the Lopez led company FGEN which in turn drop by -7.69%. The most probable reason for its removal from the index is due to its recent Follow on offer (FOO) from an international investor with US-based private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR).

Wilcon will be included in the PSE Blue chip index by October 11, 2021. According to the announcement “In view of the results of the tender offer exercise for First Gen Corporation shares, FGEN will be removed from the PSEi and will be replaced by Wilcon Depot, Inc”

It could be remembered that the new rules for PSEI inclusion for public float will be at a minimum of 20%. After the follow on offer of FGEN, its public float was reduced to 18.74% only.

The PSE market index (PSEI) managed to break above 7000 level today and close at 1.09% gain, as optimism towards the slowing Covid19 cases for the past few days slowly drop down. It was the first time that lower than 10k cases was recorded yesterday. There was also some good news on slowdown of inflation to 4.8% for the month of September.

The index managed to close at 7057, first time again since July this year, but still got net foreign selling at -356.04Million.

For the Blue chip Index Globe telecom (9.51%) led the index sector together with continues movement from Robinsons Retail Holdings (RRHI, 4.98%) and Converge ICT (CNVRG, 4.76%)

1GLO 9.51%

2RRHI 4.98%

3CNVRG 4.76%

4AP 4.61%

5ACEN 3.68%

6SMPH 3.05%

7GTCAP 2.76%

8ALI 2.30%

9BLOOM 2.21%

10SMC 2.14%

11JGS 1.89%

12BDO 1.78%

For the index sector services and property led the market with all indexes going to Green positions.

Philippine Inflation Eases to 4.8%

The Philippine inflation data could have added positive sentiment to the Market. This months inflation rate at 4.8% is much lower as compared to last month at 4.9%. According to reports this was due to slower transport inflation results at 5.2%. This current level for September is however still outside the governments target of 2-4%. The global prices for Oil products is threatening this value as the country starts to open up as demand is slowly increasing.