gcke which segment of harbour is facing chip shortage? harbour's main business activities are maritime shipping and integrated logistics. and its pe is way lower compared to its peers freight and tasco. it also has a higher eps compared to peers in this industry
This logistic company is quite well managed. Company just reported profit of 13.98m for its 3rd quarter. The cumulative 9Mths profit is 35.4m and this has exceeded one whole year profit of 26.6m for 2019. The company has cash 152m, investment securities 25.6m and other current assets 34.9m. These add up the liquid cash to 213.2m. This number is impressive. Its short term borrowings is 29.5m and long term debts is 36.8m ,Therefore total debts is 66.3m and the gearing is manageable. Company has 249m retained earnings and pay 1sen dividend. It has strong balance sheet and sound financial ratio. Share price is on the uptrend but the volumn traded is not very great. Market is always in favour of gloves, plantation, oil n gas and lately steel but NOT logistic counters. Hopefully, someday it will shine. 30/05/2021 1:12 PM
Freight Management Holdings (FMH) is also a logistic company that is well managed and in the same category with Harbour. The company has just reported profit of 6m for the 3rd qtr and the cumulative 9 months profit is 18.4m. This compares less favourably with Harbour that announced 13.98m and cumulative 9 months profit of 35.4m. These profit performance numbers are vastly different.
FMH company has cash 47m and long term debts of 57.7m and short term borrowings of 33.5m which adds up the total borrowings to 91m. Again these numbers compare acutely unfavorably with Harbour that has 213.2m cash and borrowing of 66.3m FMH company has reserve retained earning of 192m whereas Harbour has retained earning of 249m. It pays 2 sen dividend and Harbour pays 1 sen. It balance sheet is weaker and free cash flow from operation is lesser and its gearing is higher compare with Harbour. Despite its less attractive numbers yet FMH is trading at RM1.78 and has a market capital of RM497m whereas Harbour is sadly trading at 90sen and a market capital of 360m.
Basing on these numbers of comparison i believe someday Harbour which is currently unknown, unrated and not cover by analyst will someday move closer to FMH when the public investors get to know this lesser known company.
My TP is rm 1.30-rm 1.40.Ship got luck.3 consecutive time ship never sunk(bring losses).SYS and Armada.If this I bought maybe will be 4 consecutive will win.Ship ramp the bad luck off.Philip say he buy tht.
the most underrated logistics company in bursa should be SURIA
much better EPS compare to Harbour at it's peak before pandemic kicks in, huge NTA discount, NTA is almost 3x the price still much better DY than Harbour even at it's weak performance year of 2020 cash > borrowing, very insignificant financial cost to be deducted from profits (much better debt position than Harbour)
while HARBOUR's price is moving up, SURIA should move even further up, SURIA is moving slower behind HARBOUR as of today, hopefully will chase up tomorrow
Thank you for your sharing. However, a few things should also be pointed out. Suria's pre2019 EPS has to be diluted through the bonus issue of 1:5 and is not the best indicator of current performance.
Currently, Harbour's rolling 4 qtr EPS stands HIGHER, at 9.74(PE10.99) compared to Suria's at 9.01 (PE12.54). Harbour is also enjoying 3 consecutive quarters of growth in both revenue and profit after tax, whilst Suria is experiencing a shrinkage in revenue for 3 consecutive quarters.
During harsh economic conditions, the company that is able to report a growing PAT and perform better than its peers usually comes out of the economic downcycle stronger than before.
While NTA is a good measure of the BOOK value of a company, it is simply a collateral of the company to be used in the case of privatisation or financial distress, not capital gains.
The DY of Suria is indeed better at 2.92% compared to harbour's 0.93%. However, this is easily compensated by Harbour's much higher ROE == 8.7% compared to Suria's very low ROE of 2.79%.
One can expect higher capital gains in harbour than Suria. Thank you.
I believe the smart investors here know HARBOUR is worth way more, a simple method of valuation is the relative valuation. This is done through the assumption that every other company in the industry is correctly priced except for the company being analysed. Taking Freight (PE = 23.98) and Tasco (PE = 23.07) as reference, HARBOUR should be priced at PE*EPS = (23*9.74)/100 = RM2.24. Even if we take a 30% discount to accomodate for HARBOUR's smaller size and volume, it should still be priced atleast RM1.568 ceteris paribus. Thank you.
@Mrspeaker thanks for the argument, I am kinda agree with your EPS argument, good argument indeed. But I strongly disagree the way you overlooked NTA.
Warren Buffett himself emphasized a lot on NTA. in some extend you are right, "it is simply a collateral of the company to be used in the case of privatisation or financial distress", which is is 2 very important consideration for investment. refer to MMCCORP, never say never to privatization. as for financial distress, it also can happen, good to have protection by NTA. Personally, I am against buying any company above NTA, not because I think they don't worth it in the future, but why buy at their future value, while there are many good company like SURIA that is hugely discounted in their current value, you can gain hard if hit privatization jackpot. at the same time price still move up in the market. In case of any crisis, says profitability cannot be sustained anymore, the value of the company is still there in the form of NTA.
The company's shipping division that has been underperformed in the past will make a strong contribution to the group result due to fire up shipping rate this year
for simplicity, HARBOUR's fair value based on industry relative valuation is RM2.24 at PE23. Even if we take a 30% discount to accomodate for HARBOURs smaller size and volume, it should still be priced at RM1.6 ceteris paribus
2 comparable peers of HARBOUR are FREIGHT and TASCO. 2 of them have an average PE~21. The respective EPS and traded PE are listed below.
HARBOUR EPS= 9.74, PE = 11.5 FREIGHT EPS =3.5, PE 22.84 TASCO EPS=5.16, PE = 21.32
From here we can see that HARBOUR is severely undervalued (at half the price it deserves) despite having the highest profit margin = 9.2%. It also has a healthy ROE of 8.7%.
The concept of relative valuation is that the industry peers are valued correctly and the company being analyzed is not.
This means that for HARBOUR to be valued correctly ceteris paribus, is for its PE = 21, i.e. share price to be RM 2.04.
Since charter rates are still on the rise, and both domestic and international trades are on a positive trajectory, I foresee HARBOUR's earnings to overperform for the coming quarters. Thank you
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gcke which segment of harbour is facing chip shortage? harbour's main business activities are maritime shipping and integrated logistics. and its pe is way lower compared to its peers freight and tasco. it also has a higher eps compared to peers in this industry