In 2021, corporate bond yields were at their lowest level in history at just 7.86 per cent a year. The interest rate may have d a bottom and will support corporate bond yields inching up in 2022.
As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads nationwide and is gradually considered an endemic disease that could be treated at home, demand for medicine has increased sharply. Pharmaceutical enterprises is expected to benefit from the situation.
Experts forecast that the stock market is entering an uptrend period after the Tet holiday, as experienced from historical statistics in previous years.
Even though capital flows from exchange traded funds (ETFs) were not active in December, they are expected to return to the market in 2022, said SSI Research.
SSI Research said that gross profit margin of Hoa Sen Group (HSG) and Nam Kim Group (NKG) may decline to 15.5 per cent and 11.3 per cent, respectively, in 2022.
Container shipping cost in Viet Nam has increased fourfold, even eightfold on certain high-demand routes compared to pre-pandemic level, said a logistics report by SSI Research.
The cement industry is forecast to see a significant increase in domestic sales in 2021, driven by investment in infrastructure, foreign direct investment inflow and the recovery of the real estate market.
The banking sector is still worth an investment in 2021 on expectations the Vietnamese economy and business community will recover as the pandemic is under control, experts have said.
Domestic beer consumption in the second half of the year is expected to improve over the first six months, while next year the beer industry can grow by 20 per cent compared to the low base this year.
Viet Nam has some great advantages while competing with regional countries in attracting capital flows moving out of China after the Covid-19 pandemic, experts have said.