RE: yep7 Sep 2018 12:05
There’s a Chinese stock always worth owning even when you’re pulling out of the market, according to one of the world’s largest investors.
UBS Asset Management’s Bin Shi has been buying shares of Tencent Holdings Ltd. while also raising cash to a record, saying concern over China’s gaming clampdown has gone too far. Tencent, which is among the largest holdings in the $6.1 billion China fund that Shi helps to manage, can offset some of that worry by growing overseas or selling more ads, he said. The stock dropped 3.1 percent Thursday in Hong Kong, for a two-day loss of 7.1 percent.
A string of bad news and poor sentiment across Chinese assets has put Tencent, which more than doubled in value in 2017, on course for its worst year on record. UBS Asset is taking the long road, making the most of lower valuations to bet that Tencent will launch another winner like WeChat, its ubiquitous instant messaging and payment app with more than a billion users.
“Investors have turned overly pessimistic,” Shi said in an interview in Taipei, adding that the stock looks undervalued. “Tencent needs to prove itself again. I think it’s one product-launch away from breaking through.”