Financially the company did not perform that well in the past 2 quarters. I think some investors was hoping for a boost in the profit level upon completion of the acquisition of Great Platform back in February. Based on the documents provided, Great platform recorded a revenue of RM53.5mil and PAT of RM4.1mil for the period of Aug16 to Apr17 (9 months). This translated to an average rev of RM18mil and PAT of RM1.4mil per quarter. Mieco paid RM58.6mil for the company.
However, the most recent quarter indicates that while the acquisition had help increase the company total revenue by 27%, it failed to increase the profit and worst they actually recorded losses. EBITDA margin fell from a high of 21% last year to only 4% in 3Q18. The acquisition of Great Platform had also increase the depreciation charges (from RM4.4mil to now RM7.3mil) and finance cost (from only RM1mil to RM4.4 mil) substantially. This resulted in the company posting a loss of RM6.8mil vs profit of RM15.6mil.
If you are interested in the company, it would be better for you to wait for the next quarter result to come out. Currently we are still not sure whether the bad performance in 3Q18 is permanent (the low profit margin is here to stay) or if the result is just a one off event.
If you are already invested in the company, you need to be prepare to face some volatility as some investors might be a bit worried of the future financial results. It would be advisable for you to diversify your portfolio first. I think there are still some furniture/ particle board manufacturers that are currently still profitable and trading at a not so high valuation.
If you are looking to divest your portfolio outside of the furniture industry, i would recommend them to look at MBMR.
The company is a direct proxy to Perodua via its 22.6% interest in the company. Valuation is cheap at only 5.9x PE (based on target FY18 PATAMI of RM145mil. 9m PATAMI is already RM106mil). PB is low at only 0.6x BV. 4Q18 results is expected to be higher than 3Q18 and last year's 4Q17. And FY19 growth will be driven by the still high demand of new Myvi and the launch of the new SUV in 1Q19.
Hope Mieco will start posting better results in 4Q18. I think some investors got burnt investing in the company when it was trading at above RM1. With better results, hope the company share price can recover back.
commonsense, ya some investing in price RM1 sure worried the company going on. me just in 0.34 100Lot for invest. any command to keep or force to sell. TQ
I think you need to reassess back your position. When you bought the shares at 34 sens what was the reason? Does your thesis still stands? I think you most probably have bought it before the 2Q18 result was announce.
If you go through the note of 2Q18, the losses for the quarter was mainly due to gross margin compression attributed to soft selling price of the companies product, higher cost of materials and also a pre operating cost of the new line.
I think you should only hold to the stock if you believe that the profit margin can improve back to FY17 level in 3Q18. Because if it doesn't and it still post a loss in 3Q, i think some investors might decide to shift their position to other companies.
I personally think their operational profit margin will still remain compressed (at least for next quarter). In addition, the bottom line will also be effected by the higher depreciation and finance cost (due to the acquisition of Great Platform).
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Posted by InvestorKING > 2018-08-16 19:51 | Report Abuse
Actually Mieco current fair value is at 0.75. The price had dropped from 1.20 to 0.39 previously.