Do any one know what are the other income in the Q1 quarter report they refer to ? I notice although the Appasia revenue is significant increase for last 3 quarter, however without "other income" appasia are unable to make any profit.
The company has never been able to deliver a full year profit for the past 10 years. 2017 saw the company’s revenue jump substantially which was mainly due to the launch of their new ecommerce platform.
That being said, the high revenue from the ecommerce business did not translated to a more consistent profit to the group. Profit to shareholders is still lumpy with 9m18 registering a profit of around RM600k only. However, if you exclude all the one-off items (impairments, write off, gains on disposal etc), the 9m18 result would have been a negative of RM200k. Investors need to be prepared for the company to still post core net losses in the FY18 and potentially in FY19 as well.
Still not sure how the company will be able to compete with the likes of Lazada, 11th Street, Shoopee and Mudah which all are expecting to invest more aggressively in their platform development in 2019. Lazada alone (which is backed by Ali Baba) is expected to spend more than RM1bil in capex for 2019.
If you are looking to diversify your portfolio outside of AppAsia (due to its weak earnings outlook), I would recommend you to look at MBMR.
MBMR is a direct proxy to Perodua via its 22.6% interest in the company. Valuation is cheap at only 6.9x PE (based on target FY18 profit of RM145mil. 9m profit is already RM106mil). PB is low at only 0.7x BV. 4Q18 results is expected to be higher than 3Q18 and last year's 4Q17.
FY19 growth will be driven by the still high demand of the new Myvi and the newly launched SUV Aruz and also the newly revamp Alza in 2H19. The recent announcement of closure and potential disposal of the loss-making alloy wheel manufacturing business alone is expected to boost the company’s profit by an additional RM20mil. I am projecting a profit to shareholder of RM170 mil for FY19 which at the current price values MBMR at only 5.9x PE.
Please go through the analyst reports (https://klse.i3investor.com/servlets/stk/pt/5983.jsp) and do your own analysis before making any decisions. There are 8 analysts in total covering the stock with most of them having a TP of above RM3 (all have a buy rating). The average TP for the 8 analysts is around RM3.50.
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Posted by Oliveoil > 2018-08-20 11:05 | Report Abuse
Expecting good QR?