By NST Business - June 5, 2017 @ 10:08am KUALA LUMPUR: Technology empowerment company Sedania Innovator Bhd is set to create a five-pronged business model with its acquisition of an established syariah-compliant financial technology (fintech) platform, As-Sidq.
The acquisition is targeted for completion in the second half of this year.
Sedania’s existing business model encompasses four segments: core and intellectual property-protected airtime share (ATS), Internet of Things (IoT), green technologies and big data analytics.
As-Sidq is a Tawarruq commodity trading system that uses prepaid telecommunication airtime credit as the traded commodity.
The electronic and fully-automated As-Sidq system is used by 21 financial services companies in Malaysia, including financial institutions and cooperatives, to facilitate Islamic financing.
As-Sidq has processed more than 300,000 transactions worth more than RM25 billion to date.
Sedania managing director Datuk Azrin Mohd Noor said As-Sidq had only facilitated Islamic banking transactions for personal financing thus far.
“Upon its merger with Sedania, pending shareholders’ approval, we wish to grow the current business model to also include other components of financial transactions such as factoring, hire purchase and credit cards,” he told NST Business.
The As-Sidq acquisition will provide Sedania with a guaranteed net profit of RM1.5 million a year for this year and next, ensuring the company’s positive cash flow and sustaining its turnaround plan.
While pursuing opportunities in emerging technologies, Sedania’s core ATS business will be retained and is projected to be back on the growth path this year, in line with the turnaround of the telecommunication (telco) sector.
“We are excited to collaborate with established and expansion-focused telco partners for our ATS platform, such as U Mobile which is constantly adapting new product offerings to suit user preferences.
“We intend to run more campaigns with U Mobile as well as other telcos this year as we roll out new services such as data and network sharing.
“These new offerings will complement the ‘conventional’ credit sharing and propel new user markets onto our ATS platform,” said Azrin.
Sedania has also made great strides in its IoT venture, where its wholly-owned IDOTTV Sdn Bhd in December last year entered into a strategic partnership agreement with Iscada Net Sdn Bhd to jointly provide IoT smart devices in designated buildings that allow instant connectivity with the Fire and Rescue Department.
“We are on track to complete the installation of 6,000 sites before year-end. We are confident of capturing other opportunities and partnerships for our IoT and green technology segments to sustain our performance,” added Azrin.
Sedania posted a RM200,000 net profit in the first quarter ended March 31, compared with a net loss of RM800,000 a year ago, driven by strong delivery of its IoT contract.
The company’s revenue jumped 243.3 per cent to RM6.1 million versus RM1.8 million a year ago, boosted by new contributions in the IoT and green technology segments.
some people think that directors selling are bad. anyway if directors don sell those stocks to some bankers, sm, fm, who you expect to push for you? o.o
directors selling so what? please don't tell me directors sell LIONIND so it can't go up, also don't tell me directors buy parkson so it can't go down, LOL...
Posted by Investar2862 > Aug 3, 2017 03:30 PM | Report Abuse
Price stay above Ichimoku cloud after breakout. Major technical indicators are positive - bullish. RSI and SSTO has not reached overbought level yet - room for price to move up further.
Current Support at 0.330 R1 = 0.375 R2 = 0.425 R3 = 0.465
Technical Buy: SEDANIA (0178) Author: PublicInvest | Publish date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017, 09:36 AM
Target Price: RM0.365, RM0.395 Last closing price: RM0.340 Potential return: 7.3%, 16.1% Support: RM0.310 Stop Loss: RM0.285 Possible for bottom fishing. Without creating new lower-low, consolidation phase seemingly came to an end and SEDANIA’s share price is potentially heading into a wave of uptrend. Improving RSI and MACD indicators currently signal reasonable entry level, with anticipation of continuous improvement in both momentum and trend in near term. Should resistance level of RM0.350 be genuinely broken, it may continue to lift price higher to the next resistance levels of RM0.365 and RM0.395.
However, failure to hold onto support level of RM0.310 may indicate weakness in the share price and hence, a cut-loss signal.
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Posted by shortinvestor77 > 2017-08-09 10:36 | Report Abuse
The result should be positive. Only question how well is it? Third Q is confirmed good result since we have fintech company.