KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 29): PUC Bhd's net profit for the second quarter ended June 30, 2019 (2QFY19) grew 13.44% to RM2.63 million, from RM2.32 million in the corresponding quarter last year, following higher sales from its OmniChannel segment and a RM3.93 million write-back on impairment losses on trade receivables.
In a bourse filing, the group said earnings per share (EPS) declined to 0.12 sen, from 0.16 sen previously.
Quarterly revenue rose 7.21% to RM17.64 million, from RM16.45 million in the corresponding quarter last year.
The group attributed its higher quarterly net profit to higher sales of out-of-home advertisements spaces recorded by its OmniChannel business segment, as well as a write-back on impairment losses on trade receivables amounting to RM3.93 million that PUC had managed to collect from previously impaired trade customers.
For the first half of the year (1HFY19), cumulative net profit nearly doubled to RM4.41 million, from RM2.67 million in the corresponding period last year — with cumulative EPS rising to 0.21 sen, from 0.18 sen last year.
However, 1HFY19 revenue inched downwards to RM30.45 million, from RM32.07 million last year.
In a statement, the group said this was the result of the normalised contribution from its FinTech segment, as 2QFY18 captured the commercialisation of technologies sources from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology.
"Amidst the challenging market, PUC Group continued our 'Ventures' spirit in 2019 to forge strategic collaborations with relevant partners to further solidify Presto digital ecosystem. To date, we have onboarded various digital services to Presto, including online marketplace, food delivery, movie and air ticket purchase, as well as a digital game, named Grabbit.
"The soon-to-join Presto Travel services will extend the offering range and are expected to drive traffic to the ecosystem. We are also enhancing the financial element of the ecosystem via introducing credit and more payment features for greater user exposure. Integration among these services will continue to be seen to create more positive feedback loops within Presto ecosystem," said group managing director and chief executive officer (CEO) Cheong Chia Chou.
At Bursa Malaysia's noon break, the counter was unchanged at seven sen, valuing the company at RM153.05 million, with 9.34 million shares traded.
Upcoming new unmanned influencer shopping mall at quill mall. Leading by JD.com (one of china leading online store beside taobao)
I believe this is connected to today announcement from PUC. They will be using Presto universe ecosystem in this first of it kind unmanned shopping mall in Malaysia!
Malaysia a step closer to going cashless, says Visa KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 20): Digital payments are becoming the preferred payment method in Malaysia, with 70% of consumers preferring to visit merchant sites that accept digital payments compared to those that only accept cash, according to the Visa Consumer Payment Attitudes Study 2018. In a statement today, Visa Inc said among the merchant categories that consumers expect higher usage of digital payments are large shopping malls (65%), supermarkets (60%) and bill payments (57%). "Over half of the respondents expect their use of digital payments to increase over the next year," it said. Visa said the respondents believe the digital payments are convenient, hassle free and accepted widely. They also believe that going cashless offers better payment security and allow them to track their expenditure better, it said. However, for small transactions, the respondents still prefer paying with cash. Visa country manager for Malaysia Ng Kong Boon said the financial services corporation sees a similar trend based on its VisaNet data, where the total value of consumer spending on Visa and number of transactions have shown double-digit percentage increase year-on-year. "There are, however, continued opportunities for growth as cash still accounts for more than 60% of consumer spending in Malaysia," he said. Ng said Visa has been focusing its efforts on expanding merchant contactless acceptance in Malaysia, adding that the nation is now one of the fastest growing countries in Asia Pacific in terms of contactless payment usage. "To date, we have enabled contactless payments acceptance in major merchant categories such as petrol stations, supermarkets, quick service restaurants and laundromats. "We are confident that our goal of becoming a cashless nation is moving a step closer because merchants and consumers appreciate the frictionless payments experience brought about by digital payments," he said.
Yes. Confirmed. You can see their share price to new low again. Mr Tew, I respect you for many reasons as you have a lot of winning share except PUC and some other pennies. You should know PUC CCC boss is a con man. After PP, he will do RI. He will make all ikan bilis die and he 坐享其成。
CCC is a real con man. How many retailers loss money in his stocks ? Picture work also owed by him ... He keep mentioned how pw is benefit to PUC. But think it carefully. He is the founder of pw, if it is so profitable why he want it to become 100 % subsidiary by PUC which shareholding is so dilute
the management doesnt seems to be trustworthy. I dont think they care their shareholder. Shareholder that i am referring to are those who chose to invest into the company and not those ‘ttader’.
If you are a trader, you can trade on any stocks without taking into account of the management trustworthiness. For investor, it will be important and wether they can generate value for their shareholders.
It is hard to trust the management when they keep on doing PP (to god know who ) and at a lower and lower price which raise lesser money. If they PP to some funds who can hold to stabilize the price, probably understandable and raise more money out of it.. or maybe no funds trust them as well.. Seeing your shareholding being diluted that way will be hard especially for ikan bilis shareholders. Losing money is one thing, the manner the money being lost is another thing. Again from investor point of view
CCC disposed his shares again while doing a private placement - ridiculous. Stock price is hitting 12-month low, could be 36-month low. Some signs to sell this stock because the price will go lower.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 29): PUC Bhd's net profit for the second quarter ended June 30, 2019 (2QFY19) grew 13.44% to RM2.63 million, from RM2.32 million in the corresponding quarter last year, following higher sales from its OmniChannel segment and a RM3.93 million write-back on impairment losses on trade receivables.
In a bourse filing, the group said earnings per share (EPS) declined to 0.12 sen, from 0.16 sen previously.
Quarterly revenue rose 7.21% to RM17.64 million, from RM16.45 million in the corresponding quarter last year.
The group attributed its higher quarterly net profit to higher sales of out-of-home advertisements spaces recorded by its OmniChannel business segment, as well as a write-back on impairment losses on trade receivables amounting to RM3.93 million that PUC had managed to collect from previously impaired trade customers.
For the first half of the year (1HFY19), cumulative net profit nearly doubled to RM4.41 million, from RM2.67 million in the corresponding period last year — with cumulative EPS rising to 0.21 sen, from 0.18 sen last year.
However, 1HFY19 revenue inched downwards to RM30.45 million, from RM32.07 million last year.
In a statement, the group said this was the result of the normalised contribution from its FinTech segment, as 2QFY18 captured the commercialisation of technologies sources from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology.
"Amidst the challenging market, PUC Group continued our 'Ventures' spirit in 2019 to forge strategic collaborations with relevant partners to further solidify Presto digital ecosystem. To date, we have onboarded various digital services to Presto, including online marketplace, food delivery, movie and air ticket purchase, as well as a digital game, named Grabbit.
"The soon-to-join Presto Travel services will extend the offering range and are expected to drive traffic to the ecosystem. We are also enhancing the financial element of the ecosystem via introducing credit and more payment features for greater user exposure. Integration among these services will continue to be seen to create more positive feedback loops within Presto ecosystem," said group managing director and chief executive officer (CEO) Cheong Chia Chou.
At Bursa Malaysia's noon break, the counter was unchanged at seven sen, valuing the company at RM153.05 million, with 9.34 million shares traded.