Cahya Mata Sarawak Berhad 1Q net profit rising 35% Finance 14 May 2014
( Kuala Lumpur 14 May ) Cahya Mata Sarawak Berhad (CMSB, 2852, the mainboard industry shares ) in the first quarter of financial year 2014 ( ended March 31 ) to enhance the 35.39% annual net profit to RM38.896 million , compared to RM28.727 million.
Turnover from the same period last year, RM310.359 million, up 20.26% to RM373.239 million.
Supported by the cement , construction, road maintenance and property development businesses , CMSB financial year 2014 first quarter pre-tax profit achieved RM66.19 million, according to annual growth of 21% .
CMSB managing director Datuk Curtis (Richard Curtis) pointed out that the company's building and trade, construction and road maintenance , property business while obtaining a higher pre-tax profit rising 12%, 2% and 4428% respectively .
" Positive performance in the first quarter financial year 2014 results , which means that the performance of the financial year 2014 the company is expected to achieve steady growth ."
Pre-tax profit edged down 3 percent cement business , to RM20.44 million a year earlier to RM21.09 million, which is attributed to between February and March , the cement factory for repair and maintenance work.
Due to the increase in property sales , as well as the sale of the land before the quarterly profit recorded pretax profit CMSB property development business turnaround , from a year earlier loss of RM432,000, has a net profit of RM18.7 million.
Cahya Mata Sarawak (CMS MK) Technical Buy on Weakness Last price: RM9.86 Target Price : 10.85 Support: RM9.20 CMS’s share price has consistently traded above the long-term trendline over the last five months. Despite rebounding from the low of RM9.20 on 14 Apr 14, CMS was unable to sustain the muchneeded momentum in order to test the recent high of RM11.46. Given the lack of buying interest at the moment as well as the share price trading below both 10-day and 21-day SMA lines, we opine that the short-term outlook has a downside bias as the bearish crossover in Stochastic confirms further correction. Nevertheless, with the overall trend remaining on the upside, the weakness ahead should, in our view, be perceived as an opportunity to accumulate the share at a lower price. We expect CMS to test the immediate support of RM9.20. Thus, investors are recommended to accumulate at RM9.20-RM9.50. Upon normalisation of the selling pressure, CMS should resume trading towards the long-term uptrend line. Stop-loss can be placed below RM8.99.
STOCK IMPACT Slight hiccup for cement division due to repair and maintenance work carried out for its clinker plant in late-Feb 14. For the quarter, cement division recorded PBT of RM20.4m (-6.2% qoq, -3.1% yoy) against our full-year expectations of RM110m. Having said that, the cement division remained the mainstay of CMS, contributing up to 29% of the group’s profits. Going forward, we expect cement demand to be underpinned by SCORE initiatives as construction activities are expected to pick up to support the economic corridor. Furthermore, we forecast division margins to improve to 20% from 15% currently, largely driven by the recent 5-9% price hikes undertaken in Feb 14. Expecting steady profits from road concession. The road concession division suffered qoq contraction of -61% largely attributed to exceptionally strong works for state roads in the previous quarter whilst most instructed works carried out in 1Q14 have yet to be claimed. Looking ahead, we project a 3% uptick in 2015 segment earnings as its state road concession is due for another round of revision in Jan 15. We note that the current concession was last revised upwards by 9% in 2012. OM Sarawak (OMS) to commence operations soon. We gather that works for the ferroalloy facility is entering its final stages and the plant is expected to commence operations soon in 3Q14. We are excited about the JV prospects and forecast earnings contribution of RM63m from this project upon full production of phase 1 in late 2015. RECOMMENDATION Maintain HOLD… with unchanged SOTP-based target price of RM10.88, implying 2015 PER of 15x and dividend yield of 2%. Whilst we like the long-term fundamentals of CMS, we recommend a HOLD as its share price has risen by around 44% ytd and 200% since General Election in May13. Entry price: RM9.30. …with upside to our target price. Whilst we recommend a HOLD, we reckon there is potential upside to our target price as we have yet to impute the value of its planned Phosphate project (could be worth up to RM1.38/share) and its potential acquisition of Sacofa, a telecommunication infrastructure player in Sarawak.
RESULTS Cahya Mata Sarawak (CMS) reported 1Q14 revenue of RM373.2m (-15.1% qoq, +20.3% yoy) and net profit of RM38.9m (-40.8% qoq, +35.4% yoy). Despite 1Q14 results accounting for 19% of our numbers, we deem it broadly in line with expectations as 1Q is the seasonally-weakest quarter.
CAHYA MATA SARAWAK (CMS MK) 1Q14: Minor Hiccup For Cement Despite 1Q14 results forming up to 19% of our full-year expectations, we deem the results in line with expectations as earnings for the group are more back-end loaded. For the quarter, cement division suffered a minor hiccup due to maintenance works for its clinker plant. Overall, we remain positive on the group’s long-term fundamentals driven by its SCORE initiatives. However, we recommend a HOLD due to stellar share price performances. Target price: RM10.88. Entry price: RM9.30.
Go go go CMSB! Potential to be the biggest conglomerate in Sarawak one day! Contracts will continue to flow as CMSB has the biggest monopoly and SCORE will really catalyze its growth to be one of the biggest companies in Malaysia!
East_Tea, I mean CMSB also involved in o&g. Possible or not? I read somewhere, state gov wants to be directly involved also, but didn't mention CMSB by name.
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