* STK: Bold 2025 guidance
* FPT: Management confident in strong 2025 growth driven by AI, data center expansion - Analyst Meeting Note
* HDB: Positive 2025 outlook with strong profit growth guidance - Analyst Meeting Note
* Macro Update: Trade activities remain strong despite Tet holiday
* Thermal power Sector: Strong mobilization for gas, coal in 2025
* HPG: DQSC2, infrastructure spending to drive double-digit growth - Update
* NT2: 2025 NPAT to jump more than 5x YoY on sales volume growth - Update
* POW: 2025 NPAT to grow modestly given first-year losses at NT 3&4 - Update
* PPC: Poised for growth with higher volume, higher fixed price in PPA - Update
* QTP: Higher power demand to fuel growth, high yields ahead - Update
* Market wrap: VN-Index sees minor decline of 0.1%

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Market wrap: VN-Index sees minor decline of 0.1%

The VN-Index saw a minor decline of 0.1% (-1.5 pts) on Wednesday to close the trading day at 1,266.9.

Today, the Government proposed revising the 2025 socio-economic development plan, setting an ambitious GDP growth target of at least 8%, a significant shift from the 6.5%-7% range approved by the National Assembly in November 2024.

Across the index, there were 209 gainers, 226 laggards, and 93 stocks unchanged. Total trading volume declined compared to the previous trading day to USD442.0mn.

* Banks comprised seven of the top ten stocks weighing on the index. These were BID (-1.1%), VCB (-0.4%), MBB (-1.3%), TCB (-0.8%), CTG (-0.5%), ACB (-0.8%), and VIB (-0.7%). LPB (+0.9%) and STB (+0.4%) gained.  

* Multiple industrial goods & services tickers posted strong gains, including GEE (+6.9%), GEX (+1.7%), VTP (+3.9%), and VSC (+1.9%).  

* Large-cap basic materials stocks HPG (-0.9%), NKG (-2.0%), GVR (-0.5%), and DGC (-0.1%) fell.  

* VIC (-0.1%), FPT (-0.3%), airline HVN (-0.7%), and utility companies POW (-0.4%) and PGV (-1.8%) were some of the key performers from various sectors.

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