Steel counters such as Annjoo, Ssteel, Masteel & Lionind are now taking a breather. Is now a good time to buy, add position or to sell steel stocks?
The correction is taking place for various obvious reasons. The gas price hike which takes effect on 1st January, 2018 will somehow impact on their bottom lines.
The Malaysian Iron and Steel Industry Federation (MISIF) has on 4th December, 2017 informed the press that the natural gas consumed is the second highest production cost component for the industry. The gas price hike is expected to result in an additional cost of about RM200 million per year for the industry.
Can this cost be passed on to customers? Construction companies and developers are their main customers.
The properties are in serious oversupply situations. The shopping malls, condominiums and shop offices are over-built everywhere in big cities. We are now in a stage where properties were completed but there are no takers. The last time the same took place was in Port Dickson in 1997.
The reality of today is that there are presently RM40-45bil worth of properties completed looking for takers. Developers may need a few years to clear their stocks. Developers have deferred launches of new development and many opt to go into hibernation.
Can the construction sectors sustain the demand for steel products? The future earnings of steel stocks remain to be seen. When there are arising uncertainties, these steel stocks are not likely to continue to climb.
Can readers tell which theme play will dominate 2018?
These are the stocks that will benefit from Strong USD
Companies that import Goods in USD buy sell to domestic market in Ringgit
So buy cheaper USD imports & sell to Higher Value Appreciating Ringgit
1) Companies that import all its milk, coffee & others
So Dutch Lady, Nestle & Johortin gone up in price. Pm Corp/Mui should do well because it deals with Chocolate which needs milk, cocoa & coffee.
Mui imports its goods from overseas
Starbucks coffee of Bj Corp will do well
2) OPCOM. Opcom's last quarter result was impacted by strong USD import for materials. So weak dollar means Opcom should benefit
3) Poultry that import feedstocks & plantation that import fertilizer
2018-01-21 19:56
agree Calvin.. poultry will be the trend as well.. pwf is a good company and lagging in share price too.. good company
2018-01-21 20:10
This article is misleading. Steel industry have long product, sheet product, pipe, billet, so many product. Rebar top 3 use most electricity. Only Ann joe use blast furnace that will be impacted by gas price imcrease
2018-01-21 22:01
Fear Trend
Can take a look at poultry industry for strengthening of ringgit
Source: One of the Telegram group analysis
*Pwf summary business*
Pwf is an integrated poultry business which include boiler breeding farming, layer farming and feed manufacturing
*Fundamental and business wise*
1) current pe is trading at 9 compare to their peers cab and ql trading at 10/37 respectively
2) nta of 1.49, which is trading at 47.5% discount from it's current share price
3) profit margin of 6/7%. By number itself, it may be low. But compare to their peers dbe, ql, cab, they are also trading around that number except dbe is at lower edge.
4) current ratio of less than 1. Not too favourable I would say. But they are still generating huge operating cash flow (in fact more than their earnings 29 million cash from operation compare to 16 million of profit. Mainly is good inventory and debtors management)
4. Comment on debt. Debts of 153 million is high but the mounting debt is due to the expansion plan of rm 100 million to convert the open house system into in-house system. Personally, ql have been so successful is due to converting their open house to in house. Open house system is vulnerable to weather and virus. In house system advantage is to mitigate any potential virus like Newcastle, etc and to avoid any weather to interrupt their business. With in house system, they are able to control the ventilation system (as for birth growth they will need minimum wind within it). This productivity will eventually reduce their feed conversion ratio. Recently they have added new boiler farms in perak as well.
5. Profit - if we were to look at their profit since 2013, there is a tremendous growth of cagr around 21.2% for past 4 years. If include the 5th years it will be cagr of 124.34%
6. Revenue - latest quarter of 93 million which is highest revenue throughout their history..:see_no_evil:
7. Dividend yield of 3%. Average. Dividend payout ratio of around 70 to 80% last three years. Based on their payout and 2016 given special dividend, if their profit were to increase this year, we may see more payout to shareholders.
Reason that it may be good for the 1st half of 2018.
1) ringgit has been appreciating compare to USD. Their raw materials are all imported cost which will be beneficial to them.
2) price of eggs are increasing for all grades. Check out jabatan perkhidmatan veterinar for the latest price.
3) commodity price especially for soy bean, feed and corn. Which all three has been going down as well. Can Google for the chart and price.
Technical chart wise
- support of rm1/0.98. if break this week may see it going lower. They have a strong resistance at 1.09. if break it we may see it hitting the next resistance of 1.15. good thing is there is no inverse hammer candlestick within the chart which we can roughly say not many contra players in it to buy low and sell high on the same day itself.
- short term ma 14 had already cross 25 but still struggling to cross ma 50.
Risk
1. Monitor the myr and usd. As long as USD and myr is trading at 3.8 to 4.10, my opinion is it wont be significant impact.
2. Significant impact will be rise of their commodity prices as well as the drop in the eggs price. Monitor it if there is any significant drop.
Opinion
- please do own research before buying. If you are buying, hold it for mid term and let it bear fruit if the assumptions are correct. This is not a speculative counter.
2018-01-21 19:44