Bplant announced four new appointments to its board today. Boustead Holdings Bhd deputy group managing director Izaddeen Daud is among the new board members. Izaddeen, as well as Boustead Holdings group finance director Fahmy Ismail and the group’s chief reinvention and strategy officer Ahmad Shahredzuan Mohd Shariff, have been named as non-independent non-executive directors of the plantation company. Meanwhile, Datuk Mustaffar Kamal Abdul Hamid has been appointed as an independent non-executive director.
Mikecyc might be right, 3 important directors moving to BPLANT, I think is not just to digitalise on plantation, I think there might be more bigger reasons, which is good for BPLANT & investors & shareholders.
Norazmi, Many IBs or analysts are still in denial mode and keeping citing insignificant issues and propagate negative sentiment to dampen the sector's prospect. For example, they blow the $2 per ton in cess out of proportion in the media. What is $2 per ton over a price of $4,200 ???? Those analyst with the Investment banks are real nuts and they know nothing about this sector.
Without disrespect to any parties. Planter's or growers will not faced any issues of paying the $16 cess { an increase of $2 from $14} if the average CPO price maintains at an elevated price level of between $ 3,600 - $3,800. Cpo currently is trading at between $ 4,000 - 4,200 per tonne { vs last year average $2,700 - $2,300 per tonne.
@Posted by Plantermen > Mar 12, 2021 8:15 PM | Report Abuse Agreed. The cess structure has already put up with consultation amongst CPO producers. No big deal!!!
Tht is their intention, actually if u look from positive perspective, if the price maintain at over 4k till year end, it would mean the CPO price exceeded expectations.. wait till after they done load in CPO stocks, their price forecast will be different... its matter of time...
The IBs and analysts who are still predicting and average CPO price for 2021 at $2,700 are out of touch of the market. Let's do a reverse calculation. Average price for Q12021 will likely end up to be $3,900. In order to stay at $2,700 as average for full year 2021,. The average price for Q2,3,4 will be $2,300 . Is it reasonable to see a plunge of CPO from $4,200 to $2,300 amid very low inventory , production bottleneck , elevated Brent , strong biodiesel mandate in Indonesia etc?
FCPO traded in Bursa for Apr to Dec 2021 is close to $4,300 (Apr) and $3,500 (Dec) . Are the anayst thinking the plantation CEOs are fools for not selling their future months harvest now with huge price gains? Do the analyst talk to the various leadership in the plantation industry to know the ground ? Or they just pluck numbers at the comfort in their office?
Suspect that MANY Analysis in CPO trades HAD a STRONG Mindset that the CPO Rm4,000 RESISTANCE will NOT BE BREACH . Now ..."These Analysis/Etc " are scrambling to review the "New" Target Prices. Expect movement over the Next few Weeks. ......
Simple logic lol , In fact IBS and analysts work for Investment funds and thus in order to make money they must buy cheap from the market and when they have collected enough shares then they will come out another story to push up the share price to attract the new buyers .By doing so ,they distribute their previous holding to the new buyers and therefore make money from the pricing differences . Frequently, this is the strategy practice by them to have proven very successful through out ! At the moment when it's known that CPO price above 4000 per ton and those Analysts not willing to update to the said new price but instead still stick to 2700 level is a solid proof that something fishy hidden behind . Guys,be patient,hold tight , wait for the quarterly report.
Anyhow ,KLSE is on rotational playing , when comes to the turn of plantation sector, it's very sure this is one of the darling counter.So be alert !!!!
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Posted by LossAversion > 2021-03-12 09:03 | Report Abuse
Up,up, up is the only way