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profit- I agree ...this company has too much going for it to stay at this level. The chinese economy is growing at a tremendous rate and this company is getting its share of the market in the travel industry. With China getting the olympics .....a huge influx of travel inbound should begin. IMO this one goes high. Maybe to .75 in the mid term and higher long term.
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SXPT*** .25(great bet here for a quarter imo) Monster growth ........
China has just beaten tourism giant Italy and is ranked fourth in the number of visitors. According to statistics from the World Tourism Organization (WTO)'s 2004 report (PDF), 41.8 million people visited China last year, while Italy had 37.1 million visitors.
China has long been seen as a mysterious, exotic nation. From the earliest traveler, Marco Polo, to modern-day backpackers, travelers have always seen China as the place to go. Though China had once closed its borders to the West, recent statistical results published by the China National Tourist Office show China cordially welcomes Western visitors.
In 2004, the number of foreign visitors grew by 48 percent compared with the previous year, with over 16 million more travelers. And according to WTO statistics published in January 2005, the Asia and Pacific region saw an increase of 50 percent (34 million) in 2004. In other words, China's tourism growth counted for almost half the increase of the entire region.
The increasing number of foreign tourists indicates the popularity of Chinese destinations. But what triggered the sudden tourist boom in China?
Geopolitical factors may be responsible. China's political environment has changed and the country has transformed itself to connect with Western countries. Along with swelling economic growth, infrastructure has been built and the transportation network is well linked, making travel more accessible and convenient.
Increasing commercial activity between China and the West has drawn businessmen to China, not only for business but for pleasure as well. And friendly prices for accommodations and food compared with Western destinations has also helped raise China's standing. Italy, however, is losing its competitiveness because of the higher expense of travel within the country, as well as for accommodations.
As a vast country, China is a place for explorers to experience a diverse culture. Plus, intact natural beauty and rural scenery make for a unique and distinct destination for foreign explorers.
In recent years, new attractions have been marketed by the Chinese government to draw more tourists, including historical sites and rural areas where minority populations are living. Although these attractions have brought economic benefit to the government, there is a price to pay.
The lack of exploration regulations have led to the deterioration of the environment and exploitation of natural beauty. Travelers have disturbed the lives of rural and minority peoples; their once peaceful and simple lifestyles are no longer as the people themselves have become a part of the attraction. This endangers the indigenous cultures. In addition, scenic areas have been polluted with rubbish and the construction of hotels has damaged the natural environment and aesthetic beauty.
With the 2008 Olympics approaching, the number of tourists is predicted to grow on a much larger scale. But facing overwhelming numbers of tourists and underlying problems, is China ready?
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**SXPT** .22 X .25 Under Wall St.'s radar....1.3m FLOAT **SXPT**
Cheap might be a word associated with Chinese exports, but it hasn’t been used for some time to refer to Chinese stocks, which trade here as American depositary receipts (ADRs). Yet of the 11 stocks I looked at, the average price-to-earnings ratio based on estimated 2005 earnings is a scant 15.8.
Of course it should be noted that few of these companies have wide followings on Wall Street, so the earnings estimates come from a limited number of analysts; in several cases, it’s just one. Still, it seems reasonable to assume that the stocks are cheap, at least by historical standards. Even if the Street is being too optimistic by 10%, the group would still be cheap relative to the market.
What’s more, Chinese companies are likely to benefit from an explosive economy for years to come. Bolstered by strong exports, infrastructure improvements and an expanding middle class, China has average GDP growth of 9.3% over the past two years, more than double the U.S. growth rate.
Slow it down Meanwhile, the Chinese government is taking steps to prevent the type of hyper-growth that often precedes a prolonged downturn, such as what Japan experienced. If the government succeeds in maintaining GDP growth in the high single- to low double-digit range, there’s every reason to believe that Chinese companies will continue experiencing robust growth as well.
Strong growth and cheap prices is an attractive one-two combination on Wall Street, and one that's increasingly difficult to find. Consequently, when you come across such a find, you want to exploit it to the fullest. How best to do that in this situation?
One way is to invest in country-specific mutual funds. There are several tied to China, but most are littered with relatively high fees.
Another way would be to buy shares in one of the new Chinese exchange-traded funds, the iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index Fund (FXI, news, msgs) or the PowerShares Golden Dragon Halter USX China Portfolio (PGJ, news, msgs). The former invests in stocks listed on the Chinese and Hong Kong markets, while the latter invests in Chinese companies trading on U.S. exchanges. Both give investors simple ways to diversify their assets without having to spend much time researching individual companies. That’s a feat made more difficult when investing in overseas companies given different accounting rules, limited availability of information, etc. On the downside, the ETFs are heavily concentrated in a few industries.
Or investors can simply buy a number of individual Chinese ADRs. Though this approach offers less diversity, it’s relatively cost-effective and allows you to pick and choose the most appealing candidates. Considering that foreign stocks most likely make up a small percentage of your overall portfolio, this trade-off might be worth the added risk. If so, here are some stocks worth considering.
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Very small float osf 1.3M------>Fast track IPO when taking over this shell a few months back:
Sino Express Travel Limited (OTC:SXPT), a leading travel service provider in the greater China, today announced its unaudited financial results for the quarter ended December 30, 2005.(I expect the Co. to get off the pinks in short order)
A Highlights for the fourth quarter of 2005:
Net revenues were US$1.75 million Gross profit was US$204,154
Pro forma combined financial statements for the fourth quarter of 2005: The pro forma Net revenues were US$2.18 million The pro forma Gross profit was US$241,177
"We are pleased to announce a solid fourth quarter performance. The Sino team will continue focusing on its long-term development plan in the New Year. As we execute our expansion strategies in the greater China, we expect 2006 will be a year of high growth in profits and sales in this fragmented industry," commented Xia Chen, Chief Executive Officer of Sino Express.
**Undervalued** Cheap might be a word associated with Chinese exports, but it hasn’t been used for some time to refer to Chinese stocks, which trade here as American depositary receipts (ADRs). Yet of the 11 stocks I looked at, the average price-to-earnings ratio based on estimated 2005 earnings is a scant 15.8%
Of course it should be noted that few of these companies have wide followings on Wall Street, so the earnings estimates come from a limited number of analysts; in several cases, it’s just one. Still, it seems reasonable to assume that the stocks are cheap, at least by historical standards. Even if the Street is being too optimistic by 10%, the group would still be cheap relative to the market.
What’s more, Chinese companies are likely to benefit from an explosive economy for years to come. Bolstered by strong exports, infrastructure improvements and an expanding middle class, China has average GDP growth of 9.3% over the past two years, more than double the U.S. growth rate.
Slow it down Meanwhile, the Chinese government is taking steps to prevent the type of hyper-growth that often precedes a prolonged downturn, such as what Japan experienced. If the government succeeds in maintaining GDP growth in the high single- to low double-digit range, there’s every reason to believe that Chinese companies will continue experiencing robust growth as well.
Strong growth and cheap prices is an attractive one-two combination on Wall Street, and one that's increasingly difficult to find. Consequently, when you come across such a find, you want to exploit it to the fullest. How best to do that in this situation?
One way is to invest in country-specific mutual funds. There are several tied to China, but most are littered with relatively high fees.
Another way would be to buy shares in one of the new Chinese exchange-traded funds, the iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index
Encompassing all components of Travel & Tourism consumption, investment, government spending and exports is expected to grow 5.4% (real terms) and total $6.2 trillion in 2005. The ten-year annualized growth (2006-2015) forecast is 4.6% per annum illustrating the outlook for strong long-term growth.
Olympics in 2008 as well....there will be a heavy increase in travel from now all the way leading up to the events.Venues are currently being built now.Huge growth opportunity for SINO I am holding on tight!
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Sino Express Travel is an US pinksheets listed company with a corporate vision to offer a complete, flexible, hassle free and personalized travel experience to travelers all over the world. Our services are delivered via acquisitions of and mergers with reputable and established travel companies across Asia who share our vision and desire to improve their operations via long-term investments and co-operative ventures. The resulting synergy will enable these companies to realize their potential and make the leap from good acquisitions to great companies.
People At Sino Express, we respect talent and consider their working culture and ethics to be the most valuable asset of each acquisition. Accordingly, 'People' are also the most important criteria when identifying potential acquisitions. In particular, we value innovative management and individuals with long-term visions for their businesses.
Passion We desire to sense true business passion from our potential acquisitions' management. We believe passion translates to dedication to improvement and ultimately breed fierce competitiveness, stability, progress and optimum results.
Performance Sino's growth and return strategy is to acquire well performing businesses and enable them to realize their potential and make the leap to being a highly contributing member of our Group. In our search for potential target acquisitions, solid "Performances" and opportunity for growth is an important criterion in our decision making process.
Potential One of Sino's commitments is to help our acquisitions to achieve their long-term goals. More importantly, these growth plans will also have to demonstrate strong fundamentals, sound market research, defensible market position, feasibility in resources planning and high growth potential.
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*SXPT* Email from company(Additional Due diligence included)
Dear xxxxx,
Thank you for your encouragement and questions regarding Sino Express Travel. PKF International was appointed as our external auditor in November 2005. They are responsible for Sino's US GAAP audit work and financial governance.
Sino Express has aggressive growth plans for 2006 which we believe will be in the interests of our shareholders. Moving to a higher trading market is also part of the plan.
Sino Express Travel is entering into a strategic alliance with International Travel Systems Inc. (ITS), a wholly owned division of Wing On Travel (Holdings) Limited.
Wing On is one of the largest Asian travel companies listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange.
ITS will offer its B2B trading systems to Sino's hotel rooms resellers and to enhance Sino's online travel booking system www.v222.com.
Xia Chen, CEO of Sino Express Travel commented, "The ITS trading platform will provide our resellers with real time pricing, availability and analytic information on our hotel rooms inventory. The revamp of our online hotel and flight booking site will significantly enhance our service offering for our clients."
This partnership makes Sino Express Travel Ltd the third travel operator in Asia to adopt the ITS system following Wing On Travel and China Hotel Net (CHN), two other major travel and hotel booking service providers in the Greater China region. Xia Chen further commented, "Sino Express will stay committed to its technology adaptation in order to provide more competitive services.
The technology upgrade will also provide Sino with future business opportunities with other users of the ITS system."
Acquisition Strategy *SXPT*
Sino Express Travel is an US pinksheets listed company with a corporate vision to offer a complete, flexible, hassle free and personalized travel experience to travelers all over the world. Our services are delivered via acquisitions of and mergers with reputable and established travel companies across Asia who share our vision and desire to improve their operations via long-term investments and co-operative ventures. The resulting synergy will enable these companies to realize their potential and make the leap from good acquisitions to great companies.
*China * BOOMING---> Demand: Encompassing all components of Travel & Tourism consumption, investment, government spending and exports is expected to grow 5.4% (real terms) and total $6.2 trillion in 2005. The ten-year annualized growth (2006-2015) forecast is 4.6% per annum illustrating the outlook for strong long-term growth. Visitor Exports: The continued strength of the Pound and Euro against the US dollar, is expected to push Visitor Exports to nearly $820 billion in 2005 or real growth of 7.3%
Here are the recent numbers: A Highlights for the fourth quarter of 2005:
Net revenues were US$1.75 million Gross profit was US$204,154
Pro forma combined financial statements for the fourth quarter of 2005: The pro forma Net revenues were US$2.18 million The pro forma Gross profit was US$241,177
"We are pleased to announce a solid fourth quarter performance. The Sino team will continue focusing on its long-term development plan in the New Year. As we execute our expansion strategies in the greater China, we expect 2006 will be a year of high growth in profits and sales in this fragmented industry," commented Xia Chen, Chief Executive Officer of Sino Express.
**Undervalued** Cheap might be a word associated with Chinese exports, but it hasn’t been used for some time to refer to Chinese stocks, which trade here as American depositary receipts (ADRs). Yet of the 11 stocks I looked at, the average price-to-earnings ratio based on estimated 2005 earnings is a scant 15.8%
Of course it should be noted that few of these companies have wide followings on Wall Street, so the earnings estimates come from a limited number of analysts; in several cases, it’s just one. Still, it seems reasonable to assume that the stocks are cheap, at least by historical standards. Even if the Street is being too optimistic by 10%, the group would still be cheap relative to the market.
What’s more, Chinese companies are likely to benefit from an explosive economy for years to come. Bolstered by strong exports, infrastructure improvements and an expanding middle class, China has average GDP growth of 9.3% over the past two years, more than double the U.S. growth rate.
I believe this China play will be a steady riser all the up throgh the Olympics in 2008
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Another green day.....runway is clearing for the big take-off.Take SXPT very serious.Can someone tell me what looks better for a buy and hold...I challenge anyone!!!!
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I'm testing a theory of mine. This is just to test my theory and not to bash anyone or any stock. I know right now it's in an uptrend and I believe this stock will go up tomorrow by a penny...maybe a few pennies. But, I believe it will drop the following day and possibly start a very small down trend (won't know until after tomorrow).
Again, just testing a theory out. GLTA
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HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 1, 2006--Sino Express Travel Limited (OTC:SXPT - News), and a major travel agency in Hong Kong, announced today that they have formally entered into a letter of intent to establish an alliance between their respective B-C businesses. V222 ("www.v222.com") from Sino Express will be a major operator in this Joint Venture.
Sino Express will own the majority of this joint venture (51%). The partner and joint venture management will own the remaining capital. The new company is projected to generate annual revenue of USD $1.1 million in 2006. Prior to the joint venture, V222 alone was projected to generate annual revenue of USD $250,000 in 2006.
Future planning is to expand the network to the rest of pearl delta region in southern China by establishing agreements with phone facility agents frequented by domestic travelers. The expanded network will provide more convenient travel services to domestic citizens and migrant workers by acting as a sales and logistic agent for V222. Guangzhou city alone has up to 1000 phone facility agents servicing mainly local residents and migrant workers. Official statistics indicate there are more than 114 million migrant workers in China, of which at least 30 million are working in the industrious southern China region. Due to the high GDP growth in the recent years, most of them have adopted the custom of taking long vacations and traveling back home during public holidays.
"This joint venture is a further step towards the enhancement of both company's shareholders value, and would be a contribution to the quality of travel services for the greater China tourism," commented Xia Chen, Chief Executive Officer of Sino Express.
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