Brokers recommend trading individual electronics stocks, highlighting DELTA and SMT as key beneficiaries of AI tailwinds

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Analysts recommend an investment strategy of trading individual electronics stocks around earnings cycles, highlighting DELTA and SMT as standout plays benefiting from AI and data center technology. Nattapon Kamthakrua, Assistant Managing Director of the Investment Analysis Department at Yuan Ta Securities (Thailand) Company Limited, told Than Hoon that the electronics sector is a group with outstanding profit growth in the Thai stock market, with all five companies under coverage having forward orders spanning roughly one to two production cycles, and he expects the group's third-quarter 2026 results to grow continuously both quarter-on-quarter and year-on-year. DELTA stands out in cooling systems and power-related components, while KCE is expanding into humanoid technology and HANA is focusing on solid state cooling technology for data centers. SMT stands out for its ample remaining production capacity and its chance to swing back to profit after a loss in 2025. However, the P/E of electronics stocks is higher than the SET average of about 15 to 16 times, with DELTA trading at roughly 60 times 2027 earnings, KCE at about 50 times, and SMT at around 19 times. The analysts therefore recommend speculative buying of DELTA, KCE, CCET, and HANA, and a buy on SMT. Meanwhile, Sureeporn Teewasuwet, Assistant Managing Director of the Securities Analysis Department at Finansia Syrus Securities Public Company Limited, told Than Hoon that demand from the AI and data center groups has come in very strong, pushing prices of components, chips, memory, and PCBs higher, and this is expected to benefit the operating results of the three electronics companies under coverage from the third quarter of 2026 through the first half of 2027. DELTA is expected to begin recovering in the third quarter of 2026 both quarter-on-quarter and year-on-year, with a chance of setting a new record high in the fourth quarter of 2026, with a target price of 290 baht. KCE is expected to benefit from a roughly 10% increase in printed circuit board selling prices, fully recognized for a full quarter, with a target price of 61 baht, while HANA has a target price of 53 baht. She also warned investors to watch the risk of more new supply entering the market in the second half of 2027, which if it balances with demand would pressure prices of components, chips, memory, and PCBs downward and drag the electronics group's operating results into a correction in 2028 before returning to a normal growth cycle in 2029.

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