It will benefit from the coming Samsung galaxy note2,note 10'1by this month end announcement.Indirect will increase more profitable and dividend paid out on financial year forecast.Keep the good stock come true.Lol
The market forecast the company's 2012 fiscal year net profit of up to $ 3.8 million ringgit net profit in 2013, compared with $ 5.6 million ringgit, but we think the new smart phone distributors contribution to make sites higher and enterprise systems, may make 2013 earnings appear surprise. "the management of the ECS predictable, with a product portfolio continues to expand, the second half performance is expected to strengthen further.
Stock valuation has been undervalued by the market Maybank added ECS stock dividend rate of 5.6%, and net cash of up to $ 2.3 million ringgit, the past five years, the compound annual turnover growth rate of 10.3%, net profit growth of 31.9%, and the past record of excellence. To this end, the bank is confident that the current stock valuation was undervalued by the market and by the market revaluation coming, to give a target price of 1 ringgit 78 cents, and is not rated.
ECS appointed as Google Nexus7 Tablet PC distributor in Malaysia. ECS appointed as Nexus7 Tablet PC reseller, will further develop the company's marketing mix, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ECS ECS Astar Sdn Bhd will be responsible for the distribution work in the proclamation. ECS began in March 2010, appointed as ASUS dealer. The company pointed out that this Nexus7 Tablet PC distribution network of resellers through Malaysia 3000. Google Nexus7 Tablet PC yesterday in Malaysia to promote. This product is jointly developed by Google and Asus. ECS Managing Director Hu Shan said: "to once again work for Asus, so we are proud to marketing innovative products, and show that they trust. Through cooperation, we can not only extended itself a combination of the Tablet PC, and can continue to develop With the increasing demand in Malaysia Tablet PC. '
During the last budget, Santa Claus (Najib) gave tax payers a RM200 rebate for purchase of a smartphone to be claimed next year. Will this have an impact on ECS, a market leader in ICT distributions in Malaysia which is expected to grow 8%-10% per year? I would think so. However, even discounting this, ECS is still a very attractive investment to me. Why? Since public listed less than 3 years ago, its annual revenue and net profit has been at the average of 1274m and 31m respectively. This translate to an earnings per share of 26 sen. It has a net tangible asset backing per share of RM1.47, debt free and cash of 38 sen per share in its balance sheet. The interesting things about ECS is relatively it doesn’t need much asset to carry out its business. Its fixed asset turnover is 180 times. Its inventories turnover in less than a month. Its reasonably good ROE of 18% is achieved with a high asset turnover of 4 times. More significantly, it has a very high ROIC of 28%. Think about you put money into a business, it gives you 28% return a year. Actually ECS impresses me most is its ability to generate cash. Last year ECS generated 56 m of cash flows from operations. ECS doesn’t require much capital expenses. Cash return was a whopping 50% of invested capital. Imagine that you put in money for a business and you get 50% return in hard cash a year. Isn’t that a good investment? But what is the market valuation of ECS? With a closing price of RM1.63 on 5th October, 2012, ECS is trading at a PE ratio of only 6.5, and a total enterprise value of 3 times EBITDA, very low indeed. Isn’t that dirt cheap?
Do not divorced from fundamentals.If ECS can meet the basic 6 standard fundamental requirement as below.Why not invest a portion or collect more during weakness ? Technically nearly hit records high,targeting to break high and higher just in time waiting. 1. cash on hand is strong enough to pay off all debts(Currently net cash). 2. high dividend that bond return. 3. diluted earnings per share 4. shareholders' funds returns (ROE) 5. value per share (NTA) over stock 6. Low PE rate. Have a nice trading day's ahead.Thanks
One thing good about this Datok Teo, the major shareholder of ESC. He does thing fast. Proposal, ex-date and settlement within a couple of months. No dilly dally. Same for Paramount on its corporate exercise, dividend or special dividend declaration.
For me.wait for the right opportunities and calculate value before looking at price.Looking for long term invest with great ideas are rare, so bet big when they come along and when have confidence in them.
ECS is a quiet stock. Hopefully, the bonus issue will make it more liquid. Its dividend yield is quite high while its PE is low. Its has zero borrowings and lots of cash in hand. This is a safe stock, good for the long term. What does ECS stand for? 1. Elitegroup Computer System, 2. Electronic Communication System 3. Elite Commerce Special. Do you know the answer?
I bought @RM 1.20 after Cold Eye article in NYSP using ECS@1.40 to demonstrate how to conduct FA. Therefor, after bonus 2 for1@RM 1.12 is consider high I think. Dividend yeild at 8 sen still possible?....better watch out for the coming quarterly report to have better picture. My 2sen opinion.
Outlook The lower consumer demand for Notebook PCs coupled with the higher price tag of the popular ultrabook has hurt the sales of its ICT distribution segment. Recently, the group has also started to distribute Google's Nexus 7 (tablet) to its IT channel retailers with the much anticipated ASUS Padphone 2 and iPad mini to come soon by early next year. We believe this will provide an additional revenue stream to the group in the future.
The company's largest shareholder is the Singapore-listed ECS Holdings (ECS Holdings, 41%), and Entertainment Park (Paramon, 1724, motherboard industry shares) Chairman Datuk the Zhang Changjiong (8.6%). The company is Malaysia's largest information technology products agent and distribution companies in Malaysia has over 2500 distribution points. Agents and distribution of products, including laptop computers, personal computers, copiers, software, network, telecommunications equipment, data storage, etc.. ECS distribution of more than 30 kinds of brands, including HP (Hewlett Packard), IBM (IBM), Cisco (Cisco), Microsoft (Microsoft), Apple (Apple), Dell (Dell), Samsung (Samsung) are world-renowned brands. In September of this year, the ECS Malaysia Asustek (ASUS) appointed as Nexus7 Google Tablet PC distributor in Malaysia, the company is optimistic about the future performance and outlook.
45 million of net cash It the past two years, turnover of more than 100 million 20 million ringgit net profit of 30 million, about 24 to 25 cents earnings per share, the PE ratio is between 5-6 times. Meanwhile, the company has an annual dividend of 8 cents, the weekly rate of about 5-7%, is a leader in technology stocks. As of June this year, the semi-annual report, the net income per share of 11.4 cents, the company has no debt, has net cash of 45 million ringgit, about 38 cents per share. The company recently announced 2 get 1 bonus shares, shareholders King held on October 10. (Shareholders has been approved by the King on Bonus Scheme) its share price by the bonus shares motivate currently record high floating. In a great variety of technology areas, such as investment, we must be careful to follow up its quarterly results to be evaluated. However, fundamental factors and its past record of shareholder returns to judge, ECS is worth the long-term ownership.
Its all true kcfan, been holding it almost 2 yrs. My worry is will it hold again if market started to lose steam, simply because its is consumer IT expenditure - people tend to hold back its spending when times are not good. Has anyone attempt to estimate the effect of RM200 rebate for ECS? Until now also got no news on how the rebates gonna works.
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Posted by KowChye > 2012-07-16 10:02 | Report Abuse
With more than 60M cash on hand, min capex. Wonder what they intend to use the cash for? Higher div of more that 8 sen currently given out?