Shares & Derivatives
Why Hour Glass Should Aggressively Buyback Its Shares
By The Good Investors  •  January 8, 2021
With a chronically depressed share price, loads of cash and an ability to self sustain its business, share buybacks seem a good fit for Hourglass. Singapore-listed luxury watch retailer The Hour Glass (SGX: AGS) has frustrated shareholders for a few years now. Its share price peaked at S$0.88 in 2015 and has been bouncing sideways since. Today, Hour Glass’s shares trade at just S$0.80 each. The curious thing is that Hour Glass’s business fundamentals have actually improved since 2015. While many traditional brick and mortar retailers have struggled due to the introduction of e-commerce, this luxury watch retailer has bucked the trend.  The reason is that the supply of Swiss luxury watches is tightly controlled. Hour Glass has long-standing relationships with brands such as Rolex and Patek Phillipe, giving it near-exclusive rights in Singapore to sell their highly coveted models. As such, watch collectors who want to buy first-hand watches in Singapore have little choice but to come to Hour Glass....
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By The Good Investors
We are Chong Ser Jing and Jeremy Chia, and we started The Good Investors in the aftermath of The Motley Fool Singapore’s closure in late 2019. We both have a passion for stock market investing and believe deeply in enriching society through our investing activities. One way we can do so is through investor-education. The Good Investors is our personal investing blog and will serve as a free platform for both of us to openly share our investing thoughts with you.
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