If you are a trader, this might be a good opportunity for your trading profits because the hype may be able to push up prices or cause abrupt changes in the stock prices. But if you are a long term investor, the same old rules apply. Do your proper research on the fundamental performances of the business and compute the intrinsic value of the stock to understand if the current market prices truly reflects the value of the stock. Because a hype usually results in emotional and irrational decisions by the retail investors, pushing prices up more than what they are worth now. And without actual statistics on the performance of this new revenue stream for the companies, no one knows for sure what the future entails. We do not know how much earnings growth this new revenue stream can bring about. It can be risky if we just jump into the hype blindly because prices can just crash any time.
Singtel’s stock has been on a downward trend since 2015. After the digital bank licence announcement, Singtel saw a slight upward trend for the first time since the last 5 years. But is this upward trend going to continue? Well, we cannot say for sure now as no one can predict the future. What we know based on statistics is that we do not see consistently increasing revenue, gross profit or net profit. And these are just one of the many indicators we look out for. How much this new revenue stream can bring about to Singtel in its 40% stake in the consortium with Grab is still unknown. According to the press release by Grab, the digital bank is expected to launch in early 2022 so we are still pretty much in the early stage.
As for Sea Limited, there is a lot of hype around this tech stock even before the digital bank announcement was released. I would say the current market price is overvalued for now at the point of writing this article. Of course there is a lot of potential for Sea Limited but I will not add a position for longer term investing purposes until there is a price correction.