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March 26th, 2020

Forrester Reports: APT Satellite Holdings Experiencing Share Price Descent



Chris Forrester

Journalist Chris Forrester has filed a story at the Advanced Television infosite that Hong Kong-based (but Bermuda registered) APT Satellite Holdings share price has tumbled 32 percent in the past month and has not been helped by reporting a 14 percent fall in revenues for 2019.

APT, which operates the APSTAR fleet, reported HK$1.06 billion in revenues (€125 million) with profits falling 28 percent to HK$362.3 million.

APT said revenues had not been helped by additional local competitors entering the market (not named, but both Bangladesh and Indonesia are now competing for the satellite business). The Bangladesh satellite was launched in May 2018 but 2019 was its first full year of operations. Indonesia’s PSN-6 craft was launched last February.

The company warned that 2020 will be another challenging year with oversupply of capacity and tough competition.