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Thursday, July 1, 2021

[Humbled Investor] CTOS Digital Berhad - IPO

With Creador backing as the substantial shareholder, CTOS is said to going for an IPO listing with a premium valuation of 60x.

Based on last screening, there are less than 10 companies in Bursa with atleast RM2bil market cap that is trading at more than 60x PE.

Here are some of the analysis that we have done and hopefully this would help you to make a better informed decision. Closing date for this IPO is 6 July 2021 5pm.

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Saturday, June 12, 2021

[Humbled Investor] Property Sector



Property transactions in Malaysia is expected to continue seeing low volumes of transactions due to the prolonged pandemic lockdown, weak buyer sentiment, political uncertainties and etc.
 
However, market will always factor in 6-12 months ahead. With the recent rise in commodity/asset prices/inflation rate and huge money supply in the market, some predict that the next theme of recovery will be in property sector.
 
With the extension of HOC and rising target for daily vaccination, will property counters make a comeback?
 
Some of the counters like Ecoworld and SP Setia are already showing uptrend in terms of share price. Before Covid-19, property counters have been trading at price-to-RNAV of around 0.6x. But now in average the P/RNAV ratio has risen to 0.7x due to Covid impact.
 
Here's a list of analyst TP on a few big property players in Malaysia right now. With the expected earnings recovery after pandemic and potential upcoming election, what is your pick right now?
 
UEMS has been trading at a huge RNAV discount of up to 85% by RHB while UOA Dev is supported with good yields. Some of the companies are trading at sub P/B ratio of 0.5x which is quite attractive.
 
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Sunday, April 11, 2021

[Humbled Investor] Recovery play: Maybulk!

The Malaysian Bulk Carriers Berhad (MBC) Group is the largest drybulk shipowner in Malaysia engaged in international shipping. The MBC Group presently owns and operates a fleet of vessels which includes dry bulk carriers and product tankers.

Let's see what are the prospects and risks for Maybulk.
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Sunday, March 21, 2021

[Humbled Investor] Turnaround story – Scope Industries Berhad

Scope Industries Berhad (“Scope”) is mainly involved in Electronic Biz, specifically in printed circuit board (PCB) assembly for more than 25 years (contributed 67% of FY2020 total revenue). Over the years, PCB division has expanded into completed electrical and electronics product assembly for reputable OEM manufacturers and MNC companies.

Scope also involved in cultivation of palm oil business but its not so profitable so we will not be focusing on palm oil segment today.

What is so interesting in Scope? Scope has seen a drastic change to its major customers from FY2019 to FY2020. (Pic 2) Scope lost most of its key customers in FY2019 but substituted with one customer that contributed RM8.7mil to its FY2020 revenue.

Coincident or not, revenue from Taiwan also contributed the same amount of revenue as Customer A of RM8.7mil in FY2020. (Pic 3) So who is this big Taiwan customer anyway?
If we drilled down into the top 30 shareholder list, we will find the emergence of a new shareholder in FY2019 annual report, namely Inventec Appliances Corp (“Inventec”) with 32mil shares, being top 5 major shareholder.

Who is Inventec? Inventec is public listed company in Taiwan with market capitalization of about RM14bil (equivalent to the size of QL Resources, its big..). Inventec is an ODM manufacturer involving in making AirPods, notebook computers and mobile devices.

Why Inventec is interested in Scope? Due to trade war, Scope (who might be the new OEM manufacturer to Inventec) stands a good position in Malaysia to be benefited from US-China trade war. In any case, Scope has been expanding its capacity since FY2019 where it has done a private placement in 2019 and invested RM13.8mil and RM6.09mil in FY2019 and FY2020 to upgrade its production facilities, including purchase of new machinery and construction of additional production area in existing factory.

Scope also changed its strategy to focus more on high quality products and started to manufacturer box-build products for new customers which complements their PCB business. It is likely the change in strategy is because of the newly secured customer – Inventec.

What are the benefits of Inventec joining the party? With more incoming orders, Scope has recently announced a private placement in September 2020 (with an issue price of RM0.175) where part of the placement of RM7mil is earmarked for capacity expansion which involves setting up a new factory for its PCB business. However, Scope only predicted that the expansion will only cost around RM10mil from the September 2020 announcement. But the new factory is actually cost more than that and this is where 19 March 2021 announcement (Friday) came in.

Proposed rights issue and ESOS – Scope has announced a 2 for 1 rights issue at an issue price of RM0.175, represent a discount of 32.35% to TERP based on 5 day VWAMP! (last private placement only represented about 9.5% discount) This is a huge discount for existing investors.

But who are the main beneficiary? – In the announcement, Inventec has actually entered into an SPA whereby Inventec will buy out all the right issue shares from the 2 major shareholders which will then raised Inventec major shareholdings from existing 4.2% to 10% (minimum scenario) or 7.3% (maximum scenario) without accounting for ESOS dilution. Besides, understand from theedge articles back in February 2019 that the Inventec’s cost to acquire Scope’s shares is at RM0.15 per share. (Pic 4) Therefore, we can say that the entry price for Inventec is around RM0.15 to RM0.17 per share.

With Inventec new undertakings to subscribe the rights shares in full, this will further boost existing investors’ confidence in addition to the expansion plan that Scope is going to embark on. Scope is currently constructing a new factory building to increase its existing production floor space by 154,000 sqft from 145,200 sqft to 299,200 sqft on a 2.5 acres land in Parit Buntar, Perak which is next to its existing factory. Scope Group envisages that the cost to put this production facility in operation, including the machinery and equipment, is approximately RM36 million.

Will there be further rights issue going forward? Given that the issue price has been fixed at RM0.175, it is likely that all existing shareholders will subscribe the rights shares to enjoy the upside now as it is currently trading at RM0.295, representing more than 60% guaranteed gain if the price stay unchanged. Under the maximum circumstances where RM50mil could be raised, together with the existing RM7mil private placement that has been raised previously, it is unlikely that there will be another cash call going forward with the new factory cost of about RM36mil. In the short term, investors might react negatively like usual to rights issue announcement, but long term wise, Scope will be another interesting counter to monitor although the valuation is not cheap at the moment.

The commitment for expansion can be seen in the increase in labour worker. Since July 2020, Scope has employed additional 453 workers for PCB business from 720 workers to 1,173 workers as at 28 Feb 2021 (an increase of 63%).

What are the other upside of Scope? Scope has also hired experienced managers to improve production flow and reduce production cycle time (production efficiency could be improved). Besides, if we look at historical financials, we can observe that 2 quarters revenue in FY2021 has already surpassed FY2020 revenue and FY2019 revenue by 25% and 57%. (Pic 5) This shows that despite pandemic, Scope revenue has actually improved yoy and even better in FY2021.

What are the risks? Moving forward, Scope Group expects more supervisors and assembly workers are required in line with its Electronic Business expansion. Staff costs and operational expenses need to be controlled to sustain or improve the profit margin. Scope has been loss making since FY2019 and could return back to profit in FY2021. 
Another risk would be the high concentration risk from increased Inventec orders.

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Sunday, March 7, 2021

[Humbled Investor] SCH Group Berhad ("Hextar Industries Berhad")

By renaming to Hextar Industries Berhad recently, SCH (which is 31% owned by Hextar Holdings Sdn Bhd) is in a better position to market their products under Hextar brand.

With the issuance of new shares through rights issue, the proceeds of RM155mil will be used for repayment of borrowings (21% of proceeds) and working capital use (78%) in the expansion of fertilizers business (Peninsular Malaysia and Sabah) as well as purchase of industrial products such as forklifts, batteries, inverters and solar panels.

Even though SCH Group has diversified their business into fertilizer and equipment rental business, profitability of the group has not seen a significant improvement mainly due to MCO which impacted the heavy equipment and equipment rental services. Despite fertilizers business being an essential services, the profit margin of this segment is still below average which dragged down overall margin of the Group.

With the support of Hextar brand (being the market leader with 30% market share in the agrochemical market) and high barrier of entry into this market due to stringent process for product certification, SCH or Hextar Industries seems to be in a good position to expand bigger especially with the placement exercise.

Stock price has been rather stable since September 2020 with minimal discount to NTA.

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Sunday, February 21, 2021

[Humbled Investor] Malayan Cement Bhd - MCEMENT

[Why MCEMENT is considered a deep value stock that worth your second look?]

[Upside]

1. M&A Synergies (operational, distribution and logistical synergies) resulted in improvement in profit margin. The cost synergies should reflect better than current valuation in the future.

2. Economy recovery would revive property and construction sectors which will then increase demand for cement.

3. Cement has a short shelf life of 3 months. Better inventory management will help to accomodate with incoming demand from the revival of various big infra projects.

4. Cement price will be better managed after sector consolidation (with MCEMENT remains as the market leader with 60% market share).

5. Technical chart wise, the 20-years chart showed a huge support at RM1.80 level and YTL acquired Lafarge (nka MCEMENT) at RM3.75. MCEMENT currently trading at RM2.36.

6. Potential to turn net profit in the next few quarters.
 
[Downside]

1. Demand remains sluggish if MCO continues
with further delay in property/infrastructure projects

2. Coal price has increased from 10-year low of RM210/MT to RM350/MT. However, MCEMENT might be able to transfer the increase in production costs to customers as MCEMENT now has better bargaining power against its customers after sector consolidation.

3. Market risk and volatility risk due to low public shareholding spread at 22.95% (excluding ASB).

4. Huge amount goodwill contributing 35% of total assets which are subject to annual impairment review. However the risk of further impairment is relatively low. This is because the goodwill arising from the acquistion of Lafarge Aggregates back in 2004 amounting to RM9mil has been impaired downwards to RM1.4mil as of June 2020 (-85% impairment) due to the lack of synergies to the existing business.

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Sunday, February 7, 2021

[Humbled Investor] Malaysia Smelting Corporation - MSC

[Humbled Investor] Malaysia Smelting Corporation - MSC

[10 Key reasons on why you should relook at MSC]

1. Even without the participation of institutional investors, MSC has surged 230% with minimal selling pressure. When big insti funds starting to notice MSC, potential gains might further be unleashed.

2. Straits Trading, the parent company of MSC (with 54% shareholdings in MSC) has gained more than 80% in less than 3 months.

3. MSC is also dual listed in Singapore. Current share price surged to 71sen. Arbitrage can be applied here.

4. Production curb and output cuts by Top 1 and Top 2 refined tin producers in the world (PT Timah and Yunnan Tin) back in 2019 and first half of 2020 has successfully balanced out the oversupply situation in 2020. Smelters in Yunnan Tin have also taken maintenance downtime to compensate for the shortfall of raw material.

5. Recently in 2021, Myanmar military coup + LME market dwindling tin inventories might have just squeezed the tin supply even further and resulted in tin shortage/deficit. Hence, tin prices could possibly stand above 20k as supply is struggling to meet resurgent demand.

6. Global tin demand is recovering, due to the rising electronic sales as more people stay at home due to the pandemic. With the rollout of 5G networks and EV which require at least 25% more chips and hence demand for tin soldering (which is the biggest use of tin) in order to connect components.

7. China's internal supply dynamics seem to be struggling to keep up with current demand, let alone finding sufficient mine resource to meet future soldering demand.

8. Tin remains as the metals most impacted by new technology with its wide application and storage capability in terms of battery storage. Tin improves conductivity and tin foils could be used instead of copper anode in replacing lithium-ion batteries.

9. MSC Tin Mining segment is expected to contributed positively which is attributed by its new mine at Sungai Lembing and increased daily average production at existing mines. Both are currently operating at full capacity.

10. Both Butterworth and Pulau Indah smelters of MSC are in operations (albeit at 25% capacity for new smelter but refurbished with better efficiency) which will increase refined tin output to meet current high demand.

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