Proposed Name Change to Spur Interest of Formis Resources? Published on Saturday, 02 August 2014 22:08 Written by Jess Lu
The share price of Formis Resources Berhad has been trading within a relatively modest range of between 70 sen and 85 sen over the last few months. The more active of the company’s two warrants, FRB-WA was also bouncing between 15 sen to 20 sen during this period. Even the announcement by the company on 30 May of a substantial turnaround in financial performance had little impact on the share price. Nevertheless, the company recently proposed a name change to “Omesti Berhad”. This is subject to shareholders’ approval in the company’s upcoming Annual General Meeting.
Formis Resources is predominantly an information technology company. It also holds stake in a few listed companies including subsidiaries Microlink Solutions Berhad and Diversified Gateway as well as substantial stake in Ho Hup Construction Company. In the financial year ended 31 March 2014, Formis Resources recorded a net profit of RM30.9 million on the back of RM351.6 million in revenue. This represented a substantial turnaround of the net loss of some RM40.2 million achieved in the previous financial year. Net asset value per share of Formis Reources stood at 65.7 sen.
According to the notes accompanying the financial report, Formis Resources attributed the substantial improvement to gain on dilution of equity interest in an associate of RM13.43 million, gain on fair value adjustments on other investments, increase in share of profits from associates by RM4.09 million, and contribution from newly acquired subsidiary Microlink Solutions. Formis Resources is also confident of positive performance in the coming financial year as new products and services have been launched during the current financial as part of the Group’s ongoing initiatives to expand its business offerings. Efforts will continue in exploring, identifying and pursuing potential business partnerships with synergistic businesses domestically and as well as internationally.
The interest in Formis Resources had in the past been linked to its substantial stake in Ho Hup. The company still holds 51.4 million shares in Ho Hup representing a stake of close to 17% as at June 2014. The presence of Dato’ Thong Kok Kee’s Insas Berhad in both companies as substantial shareholders can activate interest.
Formis Resources have two company warrants where the out-of-money FRB-WA attracts much more interest than the in-the-money FRB-WB. This may be due to higher number of warrants outstanding in FRB-WA. The accumulation of FRB-WA, which carries an exercise price of 96 sen by the company’s Managing Director cum Group Chief Executive Officer Dato’ Gan Nyap Liou @ Gan Nyap Liow a while back had led to rally in the share price. While the share price of Formis Resources had retreated significantly, the warrant price did not decline as much and this has resulted in the higher valuation of FRB-WA which now trades at a premium of close to 60%. FRB-WB has been thinly traded and its valuation has also gone up with the decline in mother share price.
While FRB-WA would still attract punters’ interest due to its relatively high gearing, investors may be better off buying directly into the mother share as it is now trading at the lower end of the price range for the last six months. While the change of company name may not mean much fundamentally, it can sometimes lead to a change in perception and there may be just traders hoping such change can lead to higher share price.
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