"Overall, the company is evaluating the best way to optimise our cash that we have and capital that we are going to invest, to get the best return in all the sectors that we are. It is a sizeable capex and the company has strong cash position. We have spoken to both local and internal banks to possibly seeking for funding, rather than issuing any new share capital," he said.
My interpretation: 1) our cash not enough for the funding of Silterra + PING 2) we can't find the PP buyer 3) hope we can borrow money from banks
I believe EU and rest of Developed Countries will be in recession soon ( extremely High Oil price causes Demand Destruction ) High Interest Rate needs to contain run away inflation...budget will be mostly buying military hardware to boost Nato frontline with Russia and spending to resupply Ukraine War Machine. Dnex is stucked between 2 knives ( IC and Oil demand destruction )and a very hard Rock (Putin )
@SinGor, i wouldn't call it demand destruction but rather demand reduction. Oil is still a primary need for energy, transportation, raw material and the likes. Sure, I agree that war leads to economic recession because the only industry that benefits directly are weapons industry, but life has to go on, albeit restrictive spending. As for IC, Silterra will depend mainly on long term supply contract with its partner's network supply chain to lock-in sales.
talk so much no use.. dnex don't have big shareholders.. so the stocks is floating outside.. and outsider won't hold it for longer period of time. if no big PP holder.. this stock won't go to PE15. end of story.
no use you sell the story at here. all here hold stocks 1 not holding for long time. better you go write up proposal and go ask some rich guy buy and hold..
wah masih atas 1.00 bila mahu sampai 1.30 makin lama makin banyak akan beratur menjual makin lama makin kurang akan membeli sentuh 1.00 bawah 0.90 akan mari good luck
hanya berbicara waktu lapang maaf jika ada silap kata.
Dnex is slowing down? The answer is correct !!!! Dnex is high chances to fall to 0.20 ! Dnex is money making company but may run out of gases needed to produce chip!Every semiconductor use neon gas.Ukraine supply 60% world supply.Intel and amd say have stock to last for few month.I dont know about DNEX. How dnex gas supply or dont use neon gas at all.
Chip shortage to plague automotive through to 2023 and beyond.
The semiconductor shortage is far from over and the industry must continue pushing forward regardless. By Jack Hunsley
The pandemic has had a profound impact on the automotive industry. However, one significant hurdle has been the disruption caused to the world’s semiconductor supply, worsened by the pandemic, but ultimately driven by global demand for technology.
The most recent suggestions claim that the shortage is unlikely to ease in 2022 and could even still be impacting the industry as far out as 2024. Such a hurdle would have been devastating at any time in the automotive industry’s history. However, in the context of upcoming decarbonisation goals, autonomy development and increasing consumer expectations on shared and connected mobility, the crisis could not have come at a worse time.
Chip crunch into 2024 could fuel more profits for automakers By Breana Noble The Detroit News Feb 27, 2022
Automakers could be riding strong pricing from limited inventories because of the semiconductor shortage into 2024 — and they have no intentions of returning to the old ways.
An excess demand over the supply of new vehicles — crimped by too few microchips needed for electric components in vehicles from driving assistance functions to infotainment — drove average transaction prices to record highs in 2021, padding automakers’ balance sheets and their workers’ profit-sharing checks.
Conditions are likely to moderate this year, analysts say, but the constraints probably won’t be resolved for another couple of years as the world awaits more capacity to come online.
“I don’t think it’s going to be until all the way to 2024 where inventories are back to pre-crisis levels,” Colin Langan, lead automotive analyst for Wells Fargo & Co., said during an Automotive Press Association webinar in Detroit. “That’s good news for the automakers that should see good pricing and great news for the dealers that will continue to see above-average new vehicle margins.”
Stellantis NV on Wednesday rode strong pricing and cost-cutting efforts to a $15.1 billion net profit in 2021, nearly triple the 2020 combined earnings of its predecessors, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV and French Groupe PSA. Its 11.8% adjusted operating margin exceeded its 10% forecast, despite losing about 20% of its planned production for the year.
The automaker is predicting another year with a double-digit margin in 2022, though just 3% growth in the North American market, which helped fuel last year’s earnings.
“The size of the markets will be mostly managed by the supply of the semiconductors,” CEO Carlos Tavares said during an earnings call. “We believe the situation is going to move in the right direction. ... Hopefully things will get better. It will be slow. It will take time. 2022 is not going to be, from that perspective, the year where we can say we’re back to normal.”
Stellantis’ North American dealer inventory decreased by 186,000 units in 2021, sending average transaction prices in the Unites States up roughly 20% to around $47,000. There are signs of recovery, though: Globally, the automaker’s inventory in December was down 59% year-over-year to 791,000 vehicles, but that was up almost 100,000 vehicles from September.
Consulting firm AlixPartners LLP found 8.2 million vehicles weren’t produced last year because of the chip shortage as well as disruptions from semi and ship transportation and labor challenges. About 505,000 vehicles already have been lost this year, with Japan being hit the worst followed by North America and Europe. The result is 58% of last year’s inventory, and vehicles being sold within three weeks or fewer.
Earlier this month, General Motors Co. reported it had made $10 billion in profit in 2021 and surpassed its forecast, while Ford Motor Co. met its guidance and posted a net income of $17.9 billion.
GM CEO Mary Barra at Wolfe Research Virtual Global Auto, Tech and Mobility Conference on Wednesday said GM will “never go back” to past inventory levels.
“We are working to build every single vehicle we can build because the demand is so strong,” Barra said. “We do expect a favorable pricing environment to continue as inventories are going to take well beyond 2020 to rebuild.”
Dan Hearsch, managing director in the automotive and industrial practice at AlixPartners, however, cautions against the idea of a “new normal.”
“Automakers are really forced to cooperate with each other,” Hearsch said of conditions today. “Nobody can cheat, because nobody can make enough vehicles to drive demand. When supply catches up, when things bounce, and then when demand does fall off, because this is a cyclical market and eventually it will fall off, then we’ll get back to the more typical fluctuations.”
Ford also has changed its retail model in response to the results seen in 2021. It’s incentivized vehicle orders and wants them to account for a greater portion of U.S. sales — versus having customers buy off dealership lots — to keep pricing strong. Orders used to represent 5% of sales. In January, 37% of retail sales were orders.
But automakers do want more semiconductors to keep their plants running and get vehicles in the hands of customers.
“I was up until 11 o’clock last night — normal night for an auto executive these days. It’s transient. It’s frustrating. It’s painful,” Ford CEO Jim Farley said during the Wolfe Research conference. “Whether it’s dealers or us, no one likes to have unfinished inventory sitting around. It is ungodly expensive and our industry has put up with that for far too long.”
The number used in vehicles has doubled since 2017, and electric vehicles use more than their engine-powered counterparts, according to IHS Markit Ltd. That could jeopardize the ramp-up of EVs, according to AlixPartners.
Ford is re-evaluating its entire portfolio in light of the situation, Farley said. In November, it signed a non-binding agreement to collaborate on production and technology advancements with semiconductor supplier GlobalFoundries Inc.
Stellantis in December signed an agreement with iPhone contract manufacturer Foxconn Technology Group to create four new families of chips that will cover more than 80% of its semiconductor needs and use the same kind used in smartphones, laptops and other consumer electronics that make up 95% of the semiconductor industry. Production, however, won’t begin until 2024.
GM also is working with a list of semiconductor companies on co-development, sourcing and manufacturing, helping to drive predictability in the supply chain.
”Automotive took a little longer than some of those other markets to realize its rules had changed,” Amsrud said. “It wasn’t Ford competing with GM for capacity. It was Ford competing with LG and Apple and all these other guys for capacity, and I think that was the thing that really showed how intertwined the systems had become.”
Tomorrow (25 Mac) is the last trading day before the expiry date (28 mac) of CA. Today is the last trading day for CA, closing at 3.5 sen. Dnex at today's closing price of 1.04, premium for CA is 0. Settlement price for CA is calculated based on 5-day average closing price of Dnex before CA expiry date (i.e. avrage closing prices of this whole week). As Monday to Thursday's Dnex clsong prices are 1.03, 1.03, 1.03, 1.04. If tomoorow Dnex price closing at 1.07, the 5-day average closing price is 1.04. My guess is RHB (IB) will try to control Dnex share price tomorrow to close at 1.07 or below so that premium for CA is zero or positive and they don't have to make any cash payout for seltlement of CA.
Chang206, you are spot on. What do you think of the effect to the mother's share price from the next two Call warrants, CC - exercise price @RM1.00 ratio 4:1, CD - exercise @RM1.18 ratio 5:1, both to be expired on 29/4?
@KingDavid, it is still too early to estimate how much Maybak IB will manilateDnex share price to save their warrants CC & CD expiring on 29/4. At current Dnex share price of 1.07 and warrant price for CC at 4.5 sen and CD at 3 sen, the Premium of CC is 11 sen and CD is 20 sen. Premium of a warrant varies with current Dnex share price and warrant price. Looks like we have more to worry about CC before expiry end of next month as it has lower premium. as Dnex share price rises, premium will fall and vice versa, assuming warrant price remains unchanged. Then 5 trading days before expiring of the warrant, IB likely to start manipulate to control Dnex price to reduce its CC premium to zero or positive. If premium is 0 or +ve, the warrant get burnt on expiry. If premium -ve, then IB has to pay out cash for settlement. Assuming CC price unchanged at 4.5 sen at the end of next month before its expiry date, then mostly likely Maybank will try to manipulate to control Dnex share price at about 1.17 (1.07+0.10) before CC & CD expire on 29/3.
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