Contact Information: Investor Relations Contact: Hawk Associates, Inc. Antonella Montagna and Frank Hawkins Phone: 305-451-1888 E-mail:
Providential Holdings Launches Open Market Share Buy Back Program
Initial Shares Were Repurchased at Market Price Earlier This Week
| Source: Providential Holdings, Inc.
LOS ANGELES, CA and HANOI, VIETNAM--(Marketwire - June 19, 2008) - Providential Holdings,
Inc. (OTCBB : PRVH ), which operates in merger and acquisitions consultancy,
financial services, energy and resources, real estate development and
invests in special opportunities, announced that it initiated a share buy
back program, in which the company had purchased 100,000 shares in the open
market yesterday, and will continue to do so from time to time.
Providential Holdings' CEO Henry Fahman said, "Providential Holdings has a
strong future and we feel confident about its potential for revenue and
earnings growth. Initiating the stock buy back program has allowed us to
take advantage of our stock's attractive price point. We feel that the
current stock price does neither reflect our company's potential nor our
stock's long-term investment value."
Fahman continued, "Our pipeline of deals is steady and growing, we continue
to capture the interest of Vietnamese enterprises that wish to go public,
and our investments in real estate in that country have proven to be smart
value-based decisions as confirmed by the growing interest in that field.
Despite recent inflationary and trade balance pressures, Vietnam's economy
continues to make headlines due to its growth prospects going forward, and
foreign interest there is at an all-time high. With 60% of Vietnam's
population under the age of 25 and a favorable long-term secular trend,
Vietnam offers tremendous opportunities for investors. For these and other
reasons, we strongly feel that Providential's potential is not being
accurately perceived by the market at this time."
About Providential Holdings, Inc.
Providential Holdings and its subsidiaries engage in a number of diverse
business activities, the most important of which are merger and
acquisitions advisory services and investing in the rapidly growing
economies of Vietnam and Asia. As part of its activities in Vietnam,
Providential has been hosting seminars in conjunction with the Nasdaq Stock
Market, the Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce and Industry and leading U.S.
investment banking firms to help Vietnamese companies go public and raise
capital through the U.S. financial markets. For more information on
Providential Holdings, visit http://www.phiglobal.com.
A profile is available at: http://www.hawkassociates.com/profile/prvh.cfm.
For investor relations, contact Antonella Montagna, Hawk Associates, at
305-451-1888, e-mail: Providential.Holdings@hawkassociates.com or
http://www.hawkassociates.com. For free e-mail alerts, visit:
http://www.hawkassociates.com/about/alert.
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