The ASP Is expected to down at least 6% due to stronger ringgit against USD. The quantum of currency impact to the bottom line will be reflected in next quarter...
Bad, very bad...when cost hike meet with lower ASP...IT WOULD EXACT SIGNIFICANT PRESSURE ON GROSS MARGIN.
GOOD REASON TO BE PESSIMISTIC ON NEXT QTR RESULT...not because of emotional perception but back up by the sense of logic..
As I have said Evergreen is useless counter , revenue 260 million , net profit baru 15 million . Mieco just announced 101 million revenue , net profit 15 million too
Somestime you need trust this is evergrn luck. Its expand production but meet shortage log and glue price up. When completed expand production , the USD drop and Thailand machice down . Now heaven still want testing evergrn tolerence , market down and heavy rainning. Who can hold the share till last , who will become the winner and get rewards.
Sold all my Evergreen today. Cut loss at 73 sen. Lost around 30K. Have been collecting since May. My highest was 90 sen. Lowest at 77 sen. Today's price was not well supported. Maybe, someone's margin call. Tomorrow, there could be more.
Someone mentioned Mieco here. On one hand, kudos to Mieco for successfully turning around their operation. But a straight comparison with Evergreen is unfair as Mieco is 100% about Particleboard and Evergreen is like 70-80% MDF. MDF and PB are cyclical, as with most other biz. There are good years and bad. Both Mieco and Hevea went through bad patches when PB was not doing well and during those times, MDF was the better industry to be in. Now MDF is in a down cycle so Evergreen is looking a little off.
We cant see exactly how well Evergreen's PB section is doing but we can guess. If you compare their 3Q17 result Malaysia segment with 2Q17 result Malaysia segment, the difference is mostly attributed to their PB coming online. Revenue in 3Q is around RM20mil higher than 2Q. But 3Q we saw USD weaken against RM. Assume MDF revenue decrease by RM5mil. So we can assume RM25mil is revenue from PB plant. Now the profit difference between 3Q and 2Q is huge, at RM10mil. We can see about RM3mil is due to lesser forex loss and and depreciation is RM1mil lower. So we can say RM4mil is not due to PB. That leaves us with RM6mil profit which may or may not be 100% due to PB. Even if I take half of that, say only RM3mil additional profit is from PB, I still get a PBT margin of 12%. If RM4mil is from PB then the PBT margin is 16%. Mieco's PBT margin is 15%. Even at 12%, Evergreen's PB is not too far off from Mieco which I consider exceptional performance as Evergreen's PB plant was just newly commissioned. They can only improve further with experience.
So yes, as a whole, Evergreen may not be at its best now, but I would say their mgmt is top notch based on how quickly they were able to generate profit from a newly start up PB plant. Their MDF mgmt should be equally good if not better. It's just that the external factors such as monsoon season resulting in lesser logs supply and higher log prices are really squeezing their MDF margins. Nonetheless, their MDF is still making a profit and generating a lot of cash.
When Warren Buffet invests in a company, his top criteria is mgmt performance. He understands a biz has its ups and downs but if mgmt is solid, then he will just invest and forget about it as he invests for the long run
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Posted by onlyinvestment > 2017-11-15 08:49 | Report Abuse
Yes correct . Just let the share price do the talking . Wild guessing no use...