Stock picks

UOB's Lim Suet Ling: Dufu Technology Corp BhdThe company is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of hard-disk drive (HDD) disk spacers. Dufu’s growth is underpinned by enterprise HDD demand especially from cloud and data centres.

THE Malaysian stock market has had a rocky performance so far this year.

Weighed by domestic political concerns and Covid-19 woes, Bursa Malaysia has turned out to be one of the worst-performing bourses in Asia year to date, with the benchmark FBM KLCI having lost about 7% since the start of 2021.