Singtel is a very funny and weird stock. In late December 2018 to early Jan 2019, the share price dropped below S$3 per share when it was making quarterly profits of over S$680Mil. However, when it was announced recently that Singtel had made a huge loss of <S$668Mil> for its second quarter results, its share price dropped only slightly from S$3.30 to S$3.18 which is a mere decline of only <3.64%>. I am not sure whether shareholders of Singtel recalled that in March 2019, Singtel had just subscribed to a rights issue of S$730Mil worth of additional shares for Bharti Airtel for working capital purpose to assist the Indian Telco to fight a bruising price war with Reliance Jio.
The current losses was due to the adverse ruling by Supreme Court of India over the government's computation of "Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR)" whereby license fees and spectrum usage charges are payable....
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