Many businesses buy back bonds before maturity

Gelex Group Corporation (GEX) has just announced the purchase of 150 billion VND of bonds before maturity. Specifically, Gelex spent 45.4 billion VND to buy back bonds with the code BONDGEX/2020.01. This is a 3-year bond lot, maturing on July 22, 2023 with an issued volume of 200 billion VND, the remaining volume is 11.7 billion VND.

At the same time, Gelex has completed the early repurchase of VND 104.9 billion of bonds of lot BONDGEX/2020.02. This is a 3-year bond lot, maturing on July 23, 2023. The remaining value of this bond is VND 17.1 billion. In total, since the beginning of the year, Gelex has repurchased about VND 350 billion of bonds.

Many businesses continue to buy back bonds before maturity

Or recently, Son Ha International Joint Stock Company (SHI) also informed that the SHIH212400 bond lot was issued on July 28, 2021 and matured on July 28, 2024. The total issuance value of this bond lot is 280 billion VND. By December 21, 2022, SHI sent Official Dispatch No. 146/CV-SH regarding the proposal to buy back bonds before maturity and was approved by bondholders. Accordingly, SHI will buy back bonds in 5 installments, starting from January 18, 2023 and ending on December 29, 2023. Thus, on January 18, SHI bought back 15% of the bond face value, equivalent to 42 billion VND, in accordance with the schedule agreed with bondholders.

Previously, on February 17, Dong Duong Real Estate Investment Joint Stock Company announced a series of early bond buyback transactions. Specifically, from December 31, 2022 to February 6, 2023, the company bought back a portion of 5 bonds issued in mid-March 2020 ahead of schedule. These bonds have a term of 48 months, will mature in March 2024 and have an interest rate of 12%/year. The total buyback value at par value is VND 400 billion, accordingly, the remaining bond value is VND 800 billion...

Credit rating company FiinRating predicts that the corporate bond mobilization channel will not be able to recover in scale strongly and vibrantly until the end of the first half of 2023. The reason is that interest rates will need time to decrease. From there, the bond channel will become attractive again compared to other alternative investment channels, especially compared to bank savings interest rates and products such as certificates of deposit.

In addition, policy measures to intervene through bank credit, remove legal barriers to real estate and directly issue bonds are still in the discussion and design phase. In case they are implemented from the second quarter of 2023, mobilization activities may have the opportunity to start recovering from the beginning of the third quarter of 2023...

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