If you have a few companies, and all your products are going to ship out, are you going to use your own ship or u ask others to ship for you. That is the main reason why. Recently they are getting more and more from Thheavy. You already know what i mean. Hehe.
@ Alamandaamanda..Maybulk exit the tanker and drybulk market at ngam2 the right time...now, a big portion of income derived from PACC Offshore, their associate co with OSV fleet.
Hubline basically still the same core biz..vessels in use or being dry-docked, still encounter operational costs.
@ qinger..best of luck..fingers crossed that if u do severe ties with Hubline, u'll find a better "partner"..maybe u may wanna revisit Hubline when the tanker/drybulk market is on the uptrend...
Overall,to be involved in the shipping industry either as investor or owner, to at least know how the Greeks ride the cycles would give you an advantage.
@ qinger, i suggest u survey 1st for potential new "partner" while keeping the existing one..it can't go much worse rite? dont rush into selling and reinvesting just for the sake of wanna get rid of your old "partner". take your time..but dont take too long lah..ok good luck
Haha. Good luck to all investors. Playing in stocks is just like trying to grab some $ from a passing by tornado. Is either we grab some from it or we bring away by tornado itself.
My basis of investment is base on the company NTA,since the company is not under PN17,i am quite optimist the share price should be increase back as well. There is a lot of PN 17 company which being traded higher than Hubline price,something not right. The current NTA is 0.12 cents.
blugz83.. good luck ~ i have the same thinking as you but i believe there wont be any movement soon unless their quarterly result are positive. for the time being, i will be investing somewhere else :)
It may take longer time than expected to recovering from shipping business. Since demand for shipping is lower than supply. Hoping the hubline management have contegency plan for it..hurmss
Folk, Hubline in last qtr March 2013, reported the loss on scrapping of four older vessels is RM 26.2 million. Hubline may have to scap further in coming qtrs. Even though hubline do not scrap the vessels, auditors may press for potential impairment loss on those older vessel value in current financial year ended 30 Sep 2013.
Anyway, the current price of 5 sen look attractive compared with Net Asset @ 30/3/13 at 19sen (on assumption no future warrant conversation).
Now the Syrian, Arabian, and some countries issue are a bit tight, any unhappy things happen (internal war), petrol price will surge up. If the world crude oil price go up, imagine the running cost of vessels will go up by how many percent. That is the most important killing point for vessel companies that we have to take care about.
Two main issues - 1st, profit margin alr very low (market too challenging), 2nd, Running cost keep increasing. If we can identify these 2 issues, we can predict the future of hubline.
I very agree with greatdreamer, NTA is very high for hubline. 0.19 and looks very attractive. Hopefully hubline will go up faster, because NTA is calculated from its vessels price. Indeed delay year by year, the value of vessels becomes more little.
Just like we buy a taxi, the car will get older and older by year, originally if we buy 60k, after 5 years, maybe it will only cost 25k if we want to sell out the taxi. If the money we earn from bringing passenger is just enough to cover the petrol and toll and enough for daily life. After a few year, do we see any new potential in this taxi ? Taxi is still taxi. That is the main reason why after so many years, the price of hubline still didnt go up much.
Especially when the GST go up by 7%, watever we buy goes up 7%, the vessels maintainece cost and running cost increase by 7%. Hubline could be sweating handling all these issues. Hopefully the management can standby to handle this expanses issue nicely, otherwise the loan interest from the bank could be quite tiring for the financial report of hubline.
The saddest thing is Richard let go his own stock. As a director,we are the one who is most clear of our company's situation, if we can see potential in this stock (at least in short term), and we alr hold it for so long time, are we going to let go at a loss ? Haizzzz..... wat to do..
One critical issue sometimes come to our mind. If we are a major shareholder of any company, we hv the right to make "selection and tender" decision in our company, and we are happy in our zone.
So when we buy back our share, it is just strengthen our percentage in this company. It does not really mean the price will go up. (except golden finger, that is another story).
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Posted by alamandaamanda > 2013-07-22 15:27 | Report Abuse
If you have a few companies, and all your products are going to ship out, are you going to use your own ship or u ask others to ship for you. That is the main reason why. Recently they are getting more and more from Thheavy. You already know what i mean. Hehe.