- Although YEELEE is undervalued, I will not to invest in YEELEE for following reasons: - No economic moat at all. - I did an informal survey to find out popularity of YEELEE's eagle oil, morningkiss and instant noodles. I asked my mother, mother in law, my wife, 5 other relatives and 4 colleagues that always cooking. Sadly to say, none of them use YEELEE's eagle. 2 of them never notice the eagle oil in supermarket. Few of them tried morningkiss before, but stopped using now. Some of them said YEELEE’s instant noodles not so nice. This means the competition is too high. People got plenty choices. - YEELEE is in price war with some competitors - I will still put YEELEE in the Reserved List because YEELEE obviously putting a lot of efforts and commitment to improve its market share, internal operation efficiencies, profit margin and financial condition.
Spritzer is one the brands carried by YeeLee. Cactus & Summer are the other brands in beverage category. Stevenlum81, read & study the annual report. Do your grocery shopping on weekend if you are serious about Yee Lee.
YES~~ Yee Lee, the latest quarterly EPS is RM 0.0547, 9 months EPS is 0.14, so estimated 2013 EPS is 0.18 which given PE 7.4.... considered cheap stock,... hopefully,management may increase dividend to RM 0.05....
A good result from Yee Lee. Improved profit margin yoy. Stockcrazy, this isn't a dividend stock. I prefer yeelee spending money to grow its business. FMCG is a competitive business. A consistent and good dividend policy can come much later.
There is a saying, “Never fall in love with a stock”. Unfortunately, I break this rule with Yee Lee for a reason you will know later.
Yee Lee recorded 53% paper gain from Jan to today closing price and paid 2 cent dividend less 25% tax, 0.5 cent dividend tax exempt. Without doubt, this is fantastic result for me.
Let understand more about Yee Lee and its business.
The big four players in FMCG trading business are DSKH, Lam Soon, Yee Lee & Tiong Nam. Hereby, I declare on owning shares in Lam Soon (direct & indirect) & Yee Lee. I worked in Lam Soon before I left 16 months back. I am not attached to Yee Lee & the reason I bought its shares last year was because of turnaround in its trading division.
Due to my interest in both companies, I can’t disclose any sales information. I can only share brand vs brand by product category in general.
Lam Soon is direct competitor to Yee Lee
Cooking Oil Knife vs Red Eagle
Detergent (Southern Lion is a subsidiary of Lam Soon) Top vs KIZZ
Dishwashing Paste Senang Hebat vs Sunglow
Oral Care Fresh White vs Morning Kiss
Now, let look into challenges in the year ahead. FMCG is a competitive industry and marketing plays an important role in sales, either sell in or sell out.
1. Perception is Reality.
Remember, brand principal spends its budget on A&P to sell a perception. Look at advertisement around you. What is the message? Happiness, Family, Convenient, Popularity. Yes, this is what we’re selling to consumer.
Marketing expenses will increase as the needs for brand positioning getting tougher. Consumer loyalty is most desirable but it’s an uphill battle. Consumers are fickle and can be tempted by sales promotion, either discount or free gifts.
The battle for products to be inside customer’s basket is main objective. Due to this, more & more companies employed weekend promoter to push products to consumer. It’s another costs.
To increase revenue, distribution contract is the lifeblood of trading business. P&G, Unilever, Colgate Palmolive, Johnson & Johnson and etc are the brand principals craved by everyone.
With intense competition, margin offered to brand principal is lower in order to win the contract (renewable). The competitive environment is tougher with exclusive partnership in the picture.
Some brand principals have exclusive partnership with a trading arm (or their own trading arm). Yee Lee = its own products & Spritzer Lam Soon = its own products & Southern Lion DKSH = its own products & Famous Amos Tiong Nam = F&N Cotra Enterprises = Vitagen, Marigold Peel Fresh
By now, you should realise I fall in love with my competitor, which I shouldn’t do..but it feels good to break the rule sometimes.
This book is the result of the author's many years of experience and observation throughout his 26 years in the stockbroking industry. It was written for general public to learn to invest based on facts and not on fantasies or hearsay....
Thong Wing Hoong
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Posted by Thong Wing Hoong > 2013-10-27 01:31 | Report Abuse
Yes..I agree with lc chong