We walked away from our small group meeting with HeveaBoard’s management feeling encouraged about the group’s near-term prospects.
Room for price adjustment… HeveaBoard currently exports circa 50% of its particleboard output to China. Management highlighted that there is room to raise its ASPs for particleboards to China, given the recent strengthening of yuan against US$. Besides, HeveaBoard is constantly working towards producing higher profit margin particleboard; it is one of the first two players in the market to introduce Non-Added Formaldehyde (NAF) Board, which will enable it to generate attractive profitability.
Better margin for RTA furniture… The new ready-to assemble (RTA) furniture plant has completed and started its trial production last week with earnings delivery expected by early FY18. This plant focuses mainly on veneer-based RTA furniture which is able to generate higher profit margin.
Tokyo 2020 acts as another catalyst… We believe there will be an increase in RTA sales by end-FY18 riding on preparation for Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Historically, sales volume growth tends to be higher 1-2 years before global sports events i.e. in FY14 for Rio 2016.
Cultivation of King Oyster Mushroom s by Jan-18… Heveagro will be able to harvest 3 tonnes of mushrooms per day. The company is looking to sell these mushrooms at around RM10/kg, a competitive price compared to the current market price of circa RM20/kg.
*1 tonne = 1000kg = RM10k. Production value of RM30k/day. I believe the cost (mainly labor cost) is very low and thus high margin.
I like this game. Now management realizing they screw up (or was it on purpose?) call HLIB for a meeting to push the price back up. They give info that RTA expansion line completed, China ASP can be raised due to stronger Yuan, etc.
Good thing. Nice game. We may head back to RM1.70 (if there is support from the FX also).
USD has continue weakened for past few weeks, why HL research team ignoring the fact? Secondly, why Hevea needs to sell mushroom at lower than market price?This will lead to cut throat battle.
For a worse management, pls refers to Willow... lol
Research report 2015 from MARDI: "The demand for mushrooms is increasing every year. However, the domestic production is unable to meet the demand. Thus, Malaysia has to import more than five tons of fresh and dried mushrooms yearly since 2009. The import increases every year and has reached more than 10 million tons in 2012, driven by higher demand from domestic market. Malaysia imports 2.71 million tons of fresh mushrooms valued at more than USD1.55 million.
The demand for mushrooms in Malaysia is projected to increase in line with the increase in population and consumption per capita due to their concerns towards health and other benefits. The demand is estimated to increase from 15,000 metric tons in 2010 to around 67,000 metric tons in 2020. Higher demand is expected for all three categories: the fresh, dried and mushroom-based products. Fresh oyster mushrooms are highly demanded by end users, while the shitake and button mushrooms are popular varieties for institutional consumers, especially hotels."
lordng, they are selling their mushroom at a lower price because currently this kind of mushrooms are fully imported from China I think many had mentioned this previously. its not a cut throat battle.
Maybe someone report to SC. MD badmouth his on company, EPF start accumulating at 1.48, MD then gives positive information to HLIB. Seems like a rigged game.
the boss told others that his company won't do well.....so silly....doing charity ar....go and open welfare centre la....wtf....good company but facing price pressure
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Posted by godhand > 2017-09-13 10:30 | Report Abuse
Also need ppl dumb enuf to sell only they can pull of this trick