I bot PUC because of its RE business last year,,, mid 2017 comes out of e-wallet pulak,,, end of 2017 RE business no more,,, then come out with PW pulak,,, later e-wallet tak jadi,,, duno comes out apa pulak...
PUC will be buying the 33% equity interest in Pictureworks from several vendors including its group managing director and chief executive officer Cheong Chia Chou, who is a major shareholder in both PUC and Pictureworks. PUC will be buying the 33% equity interest in Pictureworks from several vendors including its group managing director and chief executive officer Cheong Chia Chou, who is a major shareholder in both PUC and Pictureworks.
KUALA LUMPUR: PUC Bhd is proposing to buy a third of the shares in a company that provides imaging services to Kidzania and Legoland for RM52.8mil under a plan to expand its advertising and media revenue base.
The acquisition of Pictureworks Holdings Sdn Bhd, PUC said in a filing with Bursa Malaysia yesterday, is expected to generate more than a quarter of the group’s future profit.
“The board has identified the imagery capture sector as new business segment to enable the PUC Group to expand its business portfolio and to diversify its revenue sources,” PUC said.
The acquisition will be settled via the issuance of new shares and cash.
PUC will be buying the 33% equity interest in Pictureworks from several vendors including its group managing director and chief executive officer Cheong Chia Chou, who is a major shareholder in both PUC and Pictureworks.
The company said Cheong and all parties connected to him will abstain from voting on the proposed acquisition.
To pay for the acquisition, PUC will be issuing 64.6 million new shares to the vendors at 32.2 sen each amounting to RM20.8mil.
A cash settlement of RM32mil will be made on a staggered basis upon meeting certain profit guarantee.
Shares in PUC, which had shot up almost 400% so far this year, was last traded at 32 sen.
PUC said Pictureworks has provided a profit guarantee of at least RM14.8mil for the financial year ending Dec 31, 2018 (FY18) and RM20.5mil in FY19.
Pictureworks and its subsidiaries (PW Group) are principally involved in the provision of imagery capture and distribution platforms for theme parks, leisure and entertainment industries as well as licensing of imagery systems.
It has offices in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and China. The company is the official imaging service provider for some of the major international theme parks and attractions such as Kidzania Kuala Lumpur, Legoland in Johor, Singapore Flyer, Hong Kong Disneyland resort and Shanghai Disney Resort.
At present, the PW Group imagery system services are being offered in theme parks, water parks, tourist attractions, holiday resorts, and other attractions totalling more than 30 sites.
“The proposed acquisition also provides PUC with the opportunity to tap into the PW Group’s large database of customers to cross sell PUC’s recently launched social marketing platform called “Presto” which aims to benefit shoppers and sellers with digital tools, creative rewards and marketing solutions,” it said.
PUC is targeting to complete the acquisition in the second quarter of next year.
It will also need to call for an EGM to seek shareholders’s approval for the proposed business diversification.
support at 0.31, but it under MA20, it break support line, it might go down further..downtrend sign and will touch at ard 0.29...hopefully im wrong.. T.T
Realistically speaking, Pictureworks I would still put forward a “current IPO listing value” of RM350-450m based on niched based, tech based platform, which is to say PUC basically paid RM52.8m for a stake that is technically worth RM116m-150m.
If the rumoured tie up with Tencent were to come into fruition as well, 50-60 sen is not out of range. Its pointless to judge PUC based on PER now. Look at the building blocks PUC has assembled, its well thought out business platform that leverages on their tech/media advertising base, links with Bersian which connects to a few thousand retailers, getting e-wallet license (no big deal really) but if the Tencent linkup is true, then the e-wallet has new meaning … the launch of Presto which is a better version of Groupon/Lazada ~ making the prospects of a flourishing and dominating e-wallet a possible reality. The acquisition of a meaningful stake in PW will give PUC a much better balance sheet and a better fundamentals moving forward. Suffice to say, the 33% stake is an excellent proxy should PW gets listed here or overseas later. Thus a valuation in the RM600-800m is not untoward.
PUC : according to my preliminary research and analysis, successful acquisition of Pictureworks will give PUC the first triggering point for rapid growth through appropriate M&A..s overtime ,and then becomes an international company...that could eventually turn into a "Malaysian Tencent-equivalent with smaller scale".....that is to say, it is an excellent bet for us if we notice the potential of it...and I am actually investing in new CEO more than the company...because I found him is a good Team Builder..that is paramount important for a potentially rapid growth technology company...
Be patience. People without patience please leave here and I would recommend HUAAN for you. Just wait for the few big announcements which will be announced before the end of May. We do not want to keep on bragging about the e-wallet, WeChat partnership and pictureworks but these are the facts. If you compare all the penny technology stocks, how many professionally managed companies are there in Malaysia?
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Posted by BlackBeard > 2018-01-12 15:34 | Report Abuse
50c let’s go