Everyone knows that Hevea's fundamentals are good so just ignore people like buckbunny & saltedfish. Can u find anything not good about this company?
Invest in a good growth company is better and most importantly coupled with exciting catalysts ahead. It's exciting to watch out for the new gourmet fungi business Heveagro. I believe it will command double-digit profit margins growth also. This may become the third core business for Hevea after particleboard and RTA divisions.
Hevea will spend RM 48m on CAPEX this year 2017. The breakdown is as the following:
- RM 20m will be used in the RTA sector to build a new factory and to acquire new machineries for the 7.7 acre industrial land that we had just acquired for RM13.5 million. - RM 13.5m to pay for the purchase of 7.7 acres land for expansion - RM 10.5m to build new climate controlled gourmet fungi cultivation facility - RM 4m will be allocated for further upgrading works for our particleboard sector.
Small bilis selling...volume is low with 533k+ done at the moment. This is by far the lowest volume since 18-20 Apr. Most likely are those who bought post price surge without settling.
Today was my 3rd Hevea AGM. Agree with tzehming, I do think the MD is capable, prudent & most of all, honest. He did discuss the rationales behind the investment in mushroom. Production will only come in beginning of FY18.
Come on lah. Share more news from AGM. What about expansion? Did they talk about the third particleboard manufacturing line? When does it come online? Same with the additional RTA factory being built on the adjacent line - any timeline for commencement of operations there? What is their tone for the outlook of the company in the near to mid term?
nikicheong, you have a lot of good questions. The MD was very welling to answer questions before, during and after the AGM. You should have been there. Give me a bit of time to recollect what he said and try my best to answer you later.
Expansion – They have earmarked RM 48m on CAPEX this year 2017. The breakdown can refer to Specter's posting on 30/5.They will have their hands full for the next 2-3 years and will not consider any more expansions or M&A.
The third production line - My understanding from the MD is this line is for lamination. It gives a better value and hence commands a better price. It will boost selling price but not in quantity. The company strategy is to generate profit from pushing up the product value but not by producing more.
BTW,both particle board & RTA are closed to full capacity. It is hard to increase RTA production capacity mainly due to shortage of labour.
When does it come online? Same with the additional RTA factory being built on the adjacent line - any timeline for commencement of operations there? - Can't recall anything on that. My guess is operations are in progress.
outlook of the company in the near to mid term? - Personally, I concur with the management to consolidate their positions on particleboard & RTA now before the Gourmet fungi cultivation come onboard. All the measures taken by the management mean that earnings and dividends for the next 2-3 years shall be sustainable.
Frustrating to see price keep going down after the rather good quater report,hope price can stay above 1.30 before final dividend- ex date.If drop below 1.30 again,will find way to buy more and most likely have to keep for long long time liao!!
Since the last publicly published interview, CEO mentioned Hevea would not increase more production line in the near term...from that mouthpiece, I've already speculated their strategy is to grow the company organically. Personally, I believe this is a better strategy because it could improve profit margins further just by improvising automation and production cost control. This will simply improve efficiency, costings hence better profitability until the next big move for the company. These are sustainable in the mid-term 2-3 years ideally under the next 8 quarters therefore I believe that the recent diversification move into gourmet fungi is good because further growth continuation must be through either production capacity increase or diversification. They chose diversification in this case.
I also believe the board will want to maintain the company's financial strength particularly with the surplus cash holdings to mitigate risks & to reward shareholders via dividends in the mid-terms while retaining shareholders' support going forward with the rest of the diversification moves. Judging on the CAPEX breakdown, we can almost figure out the main focus is on its RTA division with the bulk of the money spent 33.5m out of 48m that's 70% of CAPEX.
It's going to spend RM 10m out of 48m that's 20% of CAPEX. Second focus will be on the new venture gourmet fungi Heveagro. Still the RTA division makes the most money (62% revenues of the company) with double-digit profit margins and Japan as the main target market. Japanese economy gradual growth also contribute to better importation but if u read the annual reports 2016 published recently, the better export growth markets of Hevea recorded are led by Australia, China, France, Brunei & UK markets in better percentage rankings order respectively. The rest of the geographical market destinations have recorded decreased sales led by Malaysia, UAE & India. The Japan & Korea remained almost unchanged. The most remarkable decrease was in Malaysian market where the sales dipped 62% compared to previous year 2015.
The company is in good hands because the turnaround plan has recorded spectacular growth and strong financial strength until today. This could have caused certain quarters to envy and Hevea being an eye-sore to them. Therefore, these people have to resort to personal and small-minded attacks against Hevea and its key people. Just look at the recent corporate earnings of the many listed companies, many have not fared well compared to Hevea. The company's Q1 2017 has recorded a strong 25m net profits already, for the next 3 quarters I believed it can attain a better cumulative profits than in 2016.
Farge168, past 2 days have recorded less than 1m volumes which is deemed to be quiet. Today might as well under 1m volumes. These are small players transacting. My advice to others is to wait for business announcement from Hevea. Dividends are fixed, just watch out for announcements on the business growth plans ahead.
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Posted by specter > 2017-05-29 19:10 | Report Abuse
it's obvious the rabbit wants Hevea so badly lol becoming so regular now