This counter should be reliable and one of the biggest electrical cable manufacturers. Saw many countries are expending their power plant especially in Asia region.
Insider news here. The upper management are taking loans after loans to pay off their other loans especially those of their helicopters. And since the change of the upper most management people, which happens to be close friend of the group's big boss, they will continue to run the lose making subsidiary just to satisfy the big boss.
If I am you, I'd stay far away from this counter, cms is a better options. This group's management is doomed since the previous managing director left.
Personally, the only segment making Top & Bottom line is from the cable business, other ventures are bleeding. Funds are being used to cover the losing division and this is not healthy. Insiderss is right in pointing out that. The beneficial owners are " negotiating" for their peaceful minds and this include the businesses involved. I believe they will remain low profile until the next PM comes on board.
nibbling and holding, the richest man will orchestra an event soon. As long as the cable business is churning enough cashflow and T&B line, its good to have a look.
agreed, volume all of a sudden spiking up and shares are down so as usual inside knowledge means QR will be bad and they will still be xxx around with the Indonesian project and not coming out with any pro active measures to attract some of the large allocations that the Sarawak govt has put up in the budget. Do not get me wrong, I am not a back bencher pretending or claiming to do a better job but these people are qualified, get paid, surely they cannot just watch the co share price drop from 1.90 in 2016 Nov to what it is now and not do something about it. Please no comment about I should have sold etc, I am not as clever as you guys
QR result just out, profit yoy almost jump up 100%. But its share price almost meltdown today, the market punished those with outstanding result, ironically.
Any future turnaround of the company will highly be dependent on the outcome of its helicopter division in particular the Eurocopter EC225 Super Puma the largest in its 9-helicopter fleet. The company was somewhat unlucky when it first took delivery of the EC225 back in Apr 2016. During the same month there was a crash in the North Sea that killed 13 people on board which led to the grounding order of all Ec225 by European Aviation Safety Agency in June 2016. No income was ever recorded for the asset. However, the company is still obliged to pay the financial costs relating to it.
It does not help also that most of its other business are also recording negative growth in terms of revenue and profit. In particular, the cable business which saw a decline of sales and profit by 33% and 52% respectively.
In terms balance sheet, the company has RM606mil of current liabilities (of which RM437.1mil are debt) but only RM450mil of current asset (of which only RM36mil is cash). The company will most probably try to refinance the debt but given the upward trend of interest rates, they will have to pay higher interest rate cost in the future. This will depress the PBT margin even further. If refinancing fails, the company will need to try to raise the capital via assets sales or equity capital raising (for this type of quantum right issue will be the best option).
If you are looking to diversify your portfolio outside of Sarawak Cable (due to the perceive weaker market outlook), I would recommend you to look at MBMR.
MBMR is a direct proxy to Perodua via its 22.6% interest in the company. Valuation is cheap at only 5.5x PE (based on target FY18 PATAMI of RM145mil. 9m PATAMI is already RM106mil). PB is low at only 0.5x BV. 4Q18 results is expected to be higher than 3Q18 and last year's 4Q17.
For FY19 growth will be driven by the still high demand of new Myvi and the launch of the new SUV in 1Q19 and also the new Alza in 2H19.
Please go through the analyst reports (https://klse.i3investor.com/servlets/stk/pt/5983.jsp) and do your own analysis before making any decisions. Most analysts have a TP of above RM3 for the company with Hong Leong being the lowest at RM3.13 and Maybank the highest at RM4.18.
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