HSI warrants active in face of volatile markets
THE markets were volatile last week on concerns of the trade war between the US and China, resulting in a whopping 1.63 billion units of warrants traded, valued at RM302.2 million. As the Hang Seng Index (HSI) futures fell 4.1% week-on-week (w-o-w) from 31,450 to 30,147 points, HSI warrants dominated the warrants space, comprising 65.8% of total warrants turnover. The top five warrants in value traded were all HSI warrants with a good mixture of calls and puts, although HSI puts came up on top.
Put warrant HSI-H4A was the top traded warrant for the week with RM73.4 million traded. At the end of the week, investors sold back 3.5 million units of HSI-H4A, which gained a whopping 43.2% w-o-w. As the HSI fell towards the end of the week, investors took profit on the put warrants and started to accumulate call warrants. Call warrants gain in value as the underlying increases, whereas put warrants gain in value as the underlying declines, potentially allowing investors to profit from both a long or short view.
On single stocks, Sapura Energy’s share price enjoyed some relief last week as the oil and gas support services provider secured a contract from Mubadala Petroleum to build an integrated gas processing platform facility on the offshore waters of Sarawak. The share price closed up 8.3% to RM0.520 last Wednesday (March 21) and gained another Warrant name
HSI-H4A SAPNRG-C58 HSI-C1X HSI-C3C HSI-H2W Value (RM mil)
116.5 96.5 73.1 67.7 60.9 Issuer
3.8% to RM0.540 on Thursday (March 22) as investors reacted to the news. The share price ended the week at RM0.550, up 14.6% w-o-w.
SAPNRG-C58 was the top traded single-stock warrant in terms of volume with 96.5 million units traded. Bargain hunters who have earlier accumulated this warrant can be seen taking profit in the second half of last week as the warrant bid price jumped 75% w-o-w to RM0.035.
Another single-stock warrant, HENGYUAN-CM, was also active as its underlying shares Hengyuan Refining fell 11.2% w-o-w to RM7.80. The warrant saw 54.8 million units changing hands last week. Hengyuan has not been having a good year as the share price is down 52.1% year-to-date. Hengyuan’s share price rallied the whole of last year, hitting a high of RM19.20, but has
since been on a steep decline.
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