OCK main biz is an independent owner, operator and developer of multitenant communications real estate (project cost is about RM500m in towerco since 2016) + also a service provider for telcos (provide management services to >25,000 towers in Indonesia and Malaysia) [besides solar energy & trading of telco equipment] - the towers OCK owned increased from about 100 towers to around 4,000 towers over the last 4 years.
As reference, American Tower is currently trading about PE of 64x.
OCK intend to list its towerco biz when it reach 5,000 towers. The balance 1000 towers will mainly comes from new construction of 500 units in Myanmar and acquisition of >500 towers in Vietnam.
OCK (as a shareholders) invested more than RM300 m equity in towerco biz.
@Sosfinance how can you quote American Tower PE as reference to OCK? American Tower EPS (earnings per share) growth for the last 5 years was +15.9% vs. OCK -8.7% (negative EPS). Not to mentioned the size of towers >170k towers & OCK has less than 4k (now). You are comparing a whale with ikan bilis....
Also, OCK Group Bhd only has a market cap of RM466m how can OCK (as a shareholders) invested more than RM300m ????? Is your facts right kah?
Please NOT mislead people and make them lose hard earn money....
Platypus88 - I agreed on your views on OCK but at the same i would like to clarify for SOS, just to be fair to him. Back in 17, OCK acquired SEATH for USD50 mil (RM223 mil) with approx. 2,000 towers. Now they have additional 500 towers in Vietnam since the acquisiton, with additional cost of RM20.5 mil. Vietnam alone, they already invested almost RM250 mil. They have others towers that they owned in Malayisa as well.
But still, is so wrong to compare to peers like American Tower. Even they are not comparable to their local player like EDOTCO.
One thing to note is that American Towers continues to be an active acquirer on all the telco companies around the world. But as they keep acquiring, u will see that it will give an immediate boost to the profits. However, this is not the case for OCK, as they build, their profitablity is getting lesser. Something that you need to consider. Something not right
Perhaps they are raising fund to acquire more towers. Normally capital intensive projects, first few years, profits are lower mainly due to depreciation and cost of borrowings. EBITDA has grown from RM60m to RM100m over last few years, not too bad.
EBITDA is a better metric than net income for OCK because once built there will be not much maintenance CAPEX and tower can last a long time and its kinda like real estate with rare zoning approved. Also you have to look at tenancy ratio and OCK currently has a tenancy ratio of ~1.5< (lazy to check) but it has been trending upward but not much.
Wish all of you happy investment in this counter. Good luck over the 5G potential in future following the active acquisitions of communication tower companies around the World and the expansion of tower business of this company.
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Posted by Life1nvest > 2019-07-24 14:53 | Report Abuse
@sosfinance
thanks for you support