Share price is still in its "infancy"! Long way to grow...:)
When we are looking at: 1. Apparel capacity to grow from 14 million pcs to 40 million pcs 2. COMPLETELY NEW Knitted Fabric Mill with a production capacity of 200 million yards per annum. This new business will also give the existing business competitive and comparative advantages and will generate new business revenues at a later stage.
@ chanchinchong, nothing is sure in stock investments, the company results may vary from Q to Q, up and down, up and up, or down and up, etc., no body can tell exactly, not even super investors like W. Buffet...
That's why they always advise to go for Long-term investment, because in the long run, a good fundamental stock should outperform average or bad stocks, to give better returns...
Buy and forget.... Islamic funds will buy again once regain Syariah Compliant Status by end of Nov.... Dumb dumb hold for the completion of the dual expansions. It will bear fruits when the revenues doubling or tripling up....just be patient and invest for the long term...
According to one source, the company is waiting for major deposits in Non Syariah compliant institution to mature, somewhere in 1st Q of 2018, exact date not revealed, then withdraw in place in some Islamic Bank to regain Syariah complaint status. The reason they waited out till maturity of the said deposit is :-
1. to avoid pre-mature withdrawal and loss of interest accrued from the said deposit
2. to create selling pressure and press down price in the interim..so some insider can collect, then when regain Syariah status can goreng
Just ridiculous. Since major dual expansions are underway, the CFO would be stupid to place deposits on long term as the funds are required in the short term.
I also have source that said it will ensure the regain of syariah complaint status in the coming review..
I have doubts too, the company need to spend tens of millions on the ongoing expansions and construction works, why would they put the extra cash money into long-term FD, and then take loans to finance their factory construction works, recruitment and training of personnel, sales and marketing activities, etc., the loan interest rates are generally higher than the FD interests...
Please read explanatory note no 14 and 15 of the Audited account ended 31/07/2017
14.DEPOSITS WITH FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS GROUP COMPANY 2017 2016 2017 2016 RM’000 RM’000 RM’000 RM’000 Fixed deposits 3,185 2,343 - - Short term placements 39,062 56,630 17,606 56,630 42,247 58,973 17,606 56,630 The currency profile of deposits with licensed financial institutions is as follows: GROUP COMPANY 2017 2016 2017 2016 RM’000 RM’000 RM’000 RM’000 Ringgit Malaysia 39,679 58,973 17,606 56,630 Vietnam Dong 2,568 - - - 42,247 58,973 17,606 56,630 Included in the Group’s fixed deposits is an amount of RM610,018 (2016: RM591,761) which is pledged as security for banking facilities granted to a subsidiary. The effective interest rates per annum of the deposits with financial institutions at the end of the reporting period are as follows: GROUP COMPANY 2017 2016 2017 2016 % % % % Fixed deposits 3.00 to 3.30 3.00 to 4.00 - - Short term placements 2.60 to 3.43 3.12 to 3.48 2.60 to 3.43 3.12 to 3.48 15. CASH AND BANK BALANCES The currency profile of cash and bank balances is as follows: GROUP COMPANY 2017 2016 2017 2016 RM’000 RM’000 RM’000 RM’000 Ringgit Malaysia 15,607 8,952 1,445 939 US Dollar 45,419 39,562 5,475 21 Chinese Renminbi 1,273 473 - - Vietnam Dong 293 - - - Others 15 23 - - 62,607 49,010 6,920 960
Deposits are short term deposits.. Cash and Bank Balances may even don't have a tenure...
I don't believe your source, at the same time, I don't even fully believe my own source ...on a scale of 1 to 10 (with 1 being utter bs and 10 being horses mouth)...i give it a 6.
According to your source, the company will do the necessary to fulfill the Syariah Compliance status, somewhere in Q1 of FY2018 (1.Aug. to 31.Oct.2017), this actually coincide with the target date to regain its Syariah Compliance Status sometime in Mid-Nov.17...!
On further thoughts, I think his source could be right, because in the first place why did Prolexus lost it's Shariah Compliance status if it was so easy to avoid it? The FD maturity date could be one of the causes, if prematurely withdraw the FD they would lose the interests earned, maybe as much as 6-digits figure, then the mgmt would have to explain to their BOD and shareholders...
@R40s, not so easy before, as in the Q ended April there was uncertainty about the Vietnam project's scale. I can't recall the ratio but it was substantially higher than 33.3%. However this time the ratio is much, much closer, at around 33.8%. They need to place out a very small portion of their cash into Islamic FD. I think just RM1.5mil would suffice already.
I'm not counting on it, mind you, but it's not so far fetched as you make it seem.
Exactly that's what I said, few months ago probably due to certain events happened unexpectedly and the wrong timing of their FD maturity date that they had to forego their Shariah status instead of losing a few hundred thousands interests earned. The management's priority is to make more profits (mind you that the last Q3 net profit was merely Rm1.59M, the few hundred thousand interests meant a lot to the Q3 results)...
Now that they are in a more comfortable position, they could just rearrange their financial resources and reschedule their FD periods to coincide with the next Shariah Compliance tests, it should be easy for them...
Prolexus Berhad is listed on the main market of Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad since 1993. The Group has more than 40 years of experience in apparel manufacturing with manufacturing facilities in Malaysia, China and Vietnam (ready in 2018). We are specialised in high performance sports apparel for world-renowned sportswear brands. With the current workforce of more than 3000 employees, our annual capacity is 14 million pieces and it is projected to reach 40 million pieces upon completion of the expansion plan in Vietnam.
With an ever-increasing demand for innovative, high-quality, performance sports apparel all over the world, Prolexus Group is preparing itself to soar towards even greater heights, by expanding upstream into textile manufacturing. Prolexus Textile Park in Kluang, Johor, of which the Group’s fabric mill will be situated, will have an annual capacity of up to 200 million yards of knitted synthetic fabric, to meet the demand of a global social movement for dynamic, sports-inspired lifestyles. We will be a one-stop textile and apparel provider."
14 million pcs of apparel to 40 million pcs... Completely new fabric mill....annual capacity 200 million yards....
Paktua73, You said you visited "the factory" in Vietnam. What factory? Did you visit the Prolexus factory under construction in Vietnam? How is the progress ..?
I think the Vietnam factory initial production capacity still is 4.5M pc/yr according to their original plan. But the new factory space can accommodate up to 26M pc/yr, and when demand increases, they will be able to quickly add more sewing machines, in stages, to meet the increasing new orders...
Original Vietnam capacity was 15 million pcs.... Initial capacity was assumed @30%.... IF 30% is maintained, initial capacity can ramp up to 7.8million pcs... 4.5 million pcs out of planned capacity of 26 million pcs is too liitle....and not justifiable... don't forget the Kluang Fabric Mill should have production ahead of the Vietnam factory...which would help the apparel manufacturing to be very competitive as fabrics would be sourced internally...
Whatever it is...the future is bright ...just a matter of time..
After all, the big money is in the waiting....just quote Charlie Munger.. hehe..
Skliew, Thanks for your informative reply, you are right that the original planned capacity of the Vietnam new factory was 15M pc/yr, so the initial startup at 30% utilization rates means 4.5M pc/yr, that's what the RI abridged prospectus had stated...
Then later they changed the building plan with larger factory space to cater for 26M pcs instead of 15M pcs capacity, which is the reason why the construction was delayed because the revised building plan need to be resubmitted for approval. But I believe even with bigger factory, they won't fully install all the machines at one go, otherwise it would face the big problem of ridiculously underutilized rates not justifiable as you said...
The biggest bottleneck of the expansion plan is the building construction, once the building is ready, installation of additional machines should be relatively fast and easy, so the company will be able to meet the increasing demands quickly...
As for the fabric mill, the Company has made the right decision to prioritize the mill construction and also enlarge the production capacity. I think their Taiwanese JV partner Meng Chuan has a big role in the decision, because the fabric mill capacity cannot be easily increased like adding sewing machines, and MC being a very established player in this sector will help to market the fabrics produced, after taking care of their own internal consumptions.
So the fabric mill will contribute a lot to their sales revenues, and give higher profit margins from their apparel products. Bright future for Prolexus...
R40s, Thank you for your analysis. The Vietnam factory changed in the design from RC structures to Steel structures. It is much faster to build a steel structure factory than an RC structure factory. Skilled and abundant labour for textiles manufacturing are available in Vietnam. Since the Kluang fabric mill will start production ahead of the Vietnam apparel factory, and the company is pulling up their socks in marketing by recruiting more higher pisitions and capable marketing personnels, I believe the company would not want to waste time in ramping up the utilization rate of their installed capacities.
Additionally, with the capacity in place, the company would be able to take in BIG ORDERS from the ODM manufacturers...
Without the capacity, the company might have lost a lot of big orders in the past ... Don't forget that the customers are world leaders in the sport wears.... the orders could be sizeable.....
Prolexus had lost Nike's big orders to MagniTech in the past year simply because their factories were already running full at over 90% capacity (as stated by the Company last year), they got caught off-footed with no more capacity for additional productions while Nike and other big customers experienced a sales boom... Imagine their pains when they reluctantly declined the big orders and then went to their competitors...
So it was a hard lesson learned, this time they decided to get ready, to net the big orders coming to them in future...
Not only is Prolexus expanding apparel manufacturing capacity by almost 3 folds from 14 million pcs per annum to 40 million pcs by venturing into Vietnam, the new Kluang fabric mill (200 million yards per annum capacity) will make Prolexus stands above many others, ahead in competition. It becomes a ONE STOP manufacturer and more cost efficient. Big orders will come its way and the capacity could be utilised faster than anticipated.
No worries on quality and technicalities. Prolexus is smart in partnering Men Chuen Fibre co ltd from Taiwan, a very experienced textile manufacturer, fabrics and apparel, and OEM to many renowned brands such as Adidas, Nike, Puma....
Men Chuen holds 11% equity in Trans Pacific Textiles (TPT), the vehicle for the dual expansions and it has an option to increase their equity to 20+%...Men Chuen will provide not only all the technical advice and more importantly the check and balance...
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....
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Congrats to all who buy between RM1.12 - RM1.18. Let's hope we have put the RM1.10s behind us, and push on towards RM1.30s.
For now I will let this go on autopilot. Won't sell until or unless the fundamentals change or can get 50% in 6 mths.