"Further to Listing's Circular No. L/Q 67137 of 2013, kindly be advised that ECM's entire issued and paid-up share capital after the Proposals will be quoted with effect from 9.00 a.m., Monday, 18 March 2013. " from Bursa.Meaning that next monday reopen. personal 2cent predicted the value RM0.60. ^^
Bursa takes long time to review the proposal... some times it might takes few months. So, no one will know when Bursa will reply to ECM regarding their proposal to lift up from PN17. With the good quarterly results that ECM shown, there should not be a problem for it to lift up from PN17
Looking at previous AGM announcement, they had said would be end of last year. Better get it done before next AGM......otherwise will kena kau2 from minority shareholders.
On 29th March 2013, the free float of ECM was 27.73%. As of 25th May 2013, Lim and Azman owned 48.2% of ECM. Since then, LIm, Azman and Kali have been accumulating ECM shares. You can expect the free float of ECM to be much less by now. Look at what happened to HL Capital. On 13th September 2013, the free float of HL Cap was 2.16%. HLCap was 1.70 in January 2013. Today, a year later, it is 12.80. If the same thing happens to ECM as what happened to HLCap, you can expect ECM to go on a helluva ride. Keep your fingers crossed. If it comes out of PN !7 (no reason why it shouldn't), you won't be looking at a RM1 share anymore.
That might be possible... But ECM business is not the same as HLCap. HLCap has big fun to support but not ECM. So, even though the free float share is getting lesser, it doesn't mean the price will shot up. Maybe I can give a good example of free float share which is less in market (SAM Engineering). The company is making money and the free float share is low. But the price still can not increase as no much people interested on it.
Financial services companies ECM Libra Financial Group Bhd and MAA Group Bhd are in a peculiar situation. Unlike most Practice Note 17 (PN17) companies on Bursa Malaysia, ECM Libra and MAA are not financially distressed but are profitable and have plenty of cash.
The reason they are in PN17 status is that they have ceased to have a major business following the disposal of their core assets. Time is running out for some of these cash-rich firms and they may face delisting as they have yet to secure major businesses or meet other necessary criteria.
What makes it more difficult for these companies to shed the PN17 status are the restrictions they face as financial holding companies (FHC).
These firms are not at liberty to acquire any other businesses as Section 114 of the Financial Services Act, 2013 (FSA) requires an FHC to deal only in financial services or related businesses.
A year after the divestment, ECM Libra has neither secured major business nor met the conditions to bring it out of PN17 status. The company made a loss of RM52 mil in its fourth quarter ended Jan 31, 2013 due to the disposal of its investment banking business.
However, the financial services provider could still be on track to shed its PN17 status based on its recent earnings record.
Does that mean it is a counter to pick up now and wait till end year? Is this company really doing that good?
I'm an ECM unit trust holder and the performance were a disappointment for me. Waited till the maturity date and I make a lost from it, reason given was they can't get back their invested fund or something like that. Luckily it was not much so I just left my units hanging there for awhile already.
Studying the changes in substantial shareholders & directors holding, they have been steadily increasing their shareholdings. Which makes me wonder one of two things; they are betting the lifting of PN17 status soon or consider taking the company private and de-listing from KLSE.
Both will be good: If lifting of PN17 - Stock will go up, look at Adventa last week. If Buy-Out - normally priced at 1.2 times of NTA; this will indicate a price of around RM1.70
Before I throw everything I have into ECM; are there any other thoughts? Please advice.
Both will be good: If lifting of PN17 - Stock will go up, look at Adventa last week. If Buy-Out - normally priced at 1.2 times of NTA; this will indicate a price of around RM1.70
If Ecm is going to be taken private and then get de-listed from KLSE, well, there's not much to be said. But Ecm has no debt; it's cash-rich and each share is back by about RM1.11. It's in financial services. Now take a hard look at the principal shareholders. Study the shareholding changes and estimate how much they have accumulated. If and when it comes out of PN 17, yes, it may go to 1.70 but will you take profit at 1.70? Unless I'm forced to, I won't sell. Good luck to all of us.
This stock is not moving, it has value but taking too long to get to it's full potential. Wondering to sell and move to other counters that are also under value but are on the way up?????
ECM has got over 28 million Pelikan shares. With the recent run-up of Pelikan shares price of about RM0.50 from recent prices, ECM is able to realize gains of over fourteen million Ringgit. Translating to about a RM0.05 increase in ECM NTA per share. I would expect the price of ECM to go up correspondingly but this is not happening. Wonder why????
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Posted by jtpc2006 > 2013-03-11 16:16 | Report Abuse
when will all these exercises be over? still suspended for the repayment and consolidation.