Dec 29

Mexico offers some good investment opportunities. Three ADRs from Mexico trade in the NASDAQ market. This post provides a brief overview of them:

1. Grupo Aeroportuario del Centro Nort SAB (OMAB) runs 13 airports in Mexico serving the metropolitan area of Monterrey, three tourist destinations (Acapulco, Mazatlán and Zihuatanejo), regional centers (Chihuahua, Culiacán, Durango, San Luis Potosí, Tampico, Torreón and Zacatecas) and border cities (Ciudad Juárez and Reynosa). OMAB’s dividend yield is 7.65% and the annual revenue has increased at about 12% in the last 5 years. On December 8, the company announced that December passenger traffic was down 13.3%.

2.Telefonos de Mexico (TFONY) is a fixed-line telecom and data services provider in Mexico. The current yield is 2.9%. TFONY is one of TheStreet.com’s Top Five All-Round Value stocks.

3.America Movil, S.A.B. de C.V. (AMOV) is a wireless communication services provider in Latin America. At the end of last year, AMOV had 153.4 million subscribers in 17 countries. AMOV is the largest holding in the iShares MSCI Mexico Investable Market Index Fund (EWW). AMOV pays a dividend of 1.63%.

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Oct 23

Mexico

Mexican stocks seem to be holding well compared to other emerging markets like Chile, Brazil,Argentina,etc. The MSCI Mexico Investable Market Index Fund ETF (EWW) is down year-to-date 17.21%.

The following table lists the ADRs from Mexico:

Company Ticker Sector
America Movil AMX Mobile Telecom.
Cemex CX Construct.&Materials
Coca-Cola Femsa KOF Beverages
Desarrolladora Homex HXM HouseGoods&HomeConst
Empresas ICA ICA Construct.&Materials
Fomento Economico Mexicano FMX Beverages
GRUMA GMK Food Producers
Grupo Aeroportuario del Centro Norte OMAB IndustrialTransport.
Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacifico PAC IndustrialTransport.
Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste ASR IndustrialTransport.
Grupo Casa Saba SAB Food &Drug Retailers
Grupo Radio Centro RC Media
Grupo Simec SIM Indust.Metals&Mining
Grupo Televisa TV Media
Grupo TMM TMM IndustrialTransport.
Industrias Bachoco IBA Food Producers
Maxcom Telecomunicaciones MXT Fixed Line Telecom.
Telefonos de Mexico TMX Fixed Line Telecom.
Telmex Internacional TII Mobile Telecom.
Vitro VTO Construct.&Materials

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Mar 10

Higher crude oil prices is a good thing for Mexico.Besides Mexico has always had a few dominant companies that monopolized their industry and make profits year over year.

So in order to invest in Mexico, an investor has many choices such as buying individual stocks, ETFs, Mutual Funds. Listed below are some of the choices via funds:

1.ETF
iShares MSCI Mexico Index Fund (EWW)
EWW has given positive returns for many years now.The ETF has a yield of about 1.88% and assets of about $1.3B. America Movil - a telecom provider is heavily weighted in this fund.

2. Closed-Ended Fund
Mexico Equity and Income Fund Inc (MXE)
Yield - 0.55%
Mkt Cap - $62M

3. Closed-Ended Fund
The Mexico Fund Inc. (MXF)
Yield - 2% Mkt Cap - $618M



Related article: http://adruniverse.blogspot.com/2008/02/mexico-airport-operators-adrs.html

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