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Sunday, May 24, 2020

[Mi Technovation] Why I did not invest in Mi last year? What's Mi competitive advantage? 4 reasons stated below

7 Things You Need to Know about Mi Equipment Holdings Bhd before ...

Episode 5: Mi Technovation Berhad (Mi) 

Malaysian semiconductor companies are involved in the mid to lower end of the value chain, serving foreign semiconductor manufacturers, brand owners, integrated circuit developers and fabricators. They can be divided into three groups.


The first group comprises OSAT companies such as Unisem, Globetronics, Inari Amertron and MPI, which mainly provide outsourced services, including assembly, packaging, fabrication and testing.


The second group consists of ATE manufacturers like ViTrox, Elsoft, Aemulus, MMSV, VisDynamics and Pentamaster, which serve the OSAT companies and other multinational semiconductor manufacturers.


The third group comprises the likes of JF Technology and FoundPac, which design and manufacture high-performance test sockets and other materials for OSAT companies and semiconductor firms.

Today, we will be discussing about the rising star as an ATE manufacturer - Mi Technovation Berhad (Mi). Mi involves in designs, develops, manufactures, and sells wafer level chip scale packaging (WLCSP) sorting machines for the semiconductor industry. Its primary product is the Mi series WLCSP sorting machine used for die sorting from wafer to carrier tape for bare die, bump/flip chips, and WLCSP. 

Why I did not invest in Mi Tech in 2019?

1. Recurrence of revenue

Back then when I analysed Mi in July 2019, I noticed that there is no recurrence of revenue. If we look at the revenue breakdown by customers, 2 customers who contribute more than 10% of revenue in 2019 are completely 2 different customers compared to the other 2 customers in 2018 and 2017 respectively. 

However, I realised that Mi's customers do not incur capex as often as every year to replace the equipment. Therefore, the bigger the customer base acquired, the higher the sales considering that the customers will not buy their equipment every quarter.

As at the end of 2019, Mi have approximately 53 active customers, comprising OSATs and IDMs, which their five largest customers accounted for 59.5% of total revenue in 2019. Despite ongoing trade tensions which cause delays in capex investment decisions, sales momentum managed to pick up in the second quarter of 2019 onwards owing to strong demand from customers in Taiwan and China as a result of the growth in capital investments from certain OSATs in advanced/wafer level chip scale packaging.

2. Tax holiday ended in January 2019

In FY2018, the effective tax rate was 0.3% as the new equipment products were entitled to tax holidays under the pioneer status incentive. However, the tax incentive was going to expire in January 2019, subject to further renewal of five years. As there is no certainty on getting the renewal for tax incentive, I have a second doubt on investing in this company. 

Fortunately, Mi Equipment has successfully renewed its pioneer status for a further 5 years from 18 January 2019 to 17 January 2024. The tax incentive is beneficial to the company for the next 4 years as the effective tax rate would remain low. However, this only applies to Mi Equipment Sdn Bhd. Given that Mi Autobotics is expected to contribute 15% to 20% of total revenue in FY2020 from its operation in Batu Kawan plant, the taxation charge might increase and lower down the bottom line.

3. Depreciation will commence when PPE is ready for use

Once the factory building in Batu Kawan and Bayan Lepas start operation, I know that the factory building will start to depreciate. Depreciation will hurt the accounting profit quite significant in future despite it being a non-cash item. 

However, depreciation can also be viewed as the return on asset. The ability of a company to generate higher returns than the depreciation rate, the company is said to be earning a decent rate of return from the assets owned.

Mi's Competitive Advantages

1. High margin business

Mi has maintained a gross profit margin of more than 45% and net profit margin of ~ 30%. This is due to continuing innovation of products by the company. With the new engineering centre in Taiwan and Korea ready to operate by mid 2020, R&D is expected to double up to RM2 million as indicated by Management. As Mi's products are all exposed to technological obsolescence, R&D is unavoidable.

By venturing into advance automation and robotic solution with AI, new launched products such as Oto and Kobot series are expected to bring in new source of income for Mi and their respective margin is expected to be high as well given the high technology embeded in their products. 

2. Increased Production Capacity

Production capacity in Bayan Lepas will increase by 4 times and the machines manufactured will increase from 12 machines per month to maximum of 45 machines per month.

Batu Kawan plant has been completed in Feb 2020 and is expected to commence operation in second quarter of 2020. 

3. Strengthening USD beneficiary

Given that MYR will continue to be weaken with the political uncertainty, Mi has an advantage as most of the sales are transacted in USD. Approximately 93% of our revenue are denominated in USD while their costs are mostly denominated in MYR (64%) and USD (17%).

4. Good management

Interestingly, Group CEO and CFO are husband and wife, and Mr. Oh holds a significant stake in the company at 68% as at 9 April 2020. Therefore, the interest of management is said to be align with the shareholders. Besides, the dividend payout is relatively high at 56% and 46% (FY2018 and FY2019) as compared to the dividend payout ratio of a fast growing company that I would imagine. 

Pandemic impact and what's going forward

In 1Q2020, revenue has reduced by 48% and gross profit margin reduced to 40% due to higher material costs. Higher headcount costs and higher depreciation charge has also resulted in reduction of net profit margin.

Due to MCO, the company is operating at 25% from 1 April to 20 April, 50% from 21 April to 3 May with full operation from 4 May onwards. Although Management represented that there is no significant reduction or deferment in orders, there is little visibility going forward as their customers are adopting a wait-and-see approach and their order visibility is only up to 6 weeks.

At the bright side, Mi is in the right industry trend and the long term outlook is fairly positive given the adoption of technology based hardware and higher usage of chips from demand for medical devices and disinfectors. 

In addition, Oto series (specialised AI enabled machines) produced by Mi Autobotics has received 2 orders from US. Going forward, Management expects the sales momentum for AI machines such as Oto and Kobot series to continue as more factories require installation of automation solutions and more companies heading towards the adoption of Industry 4.0 due to pandemic. 

New product - Engeye series is in the final development stage. It is expected to be sell to healthcare, hospitality, education and manufacturing industries. This is align with the company's motive to reduce the reliance on semiconductor industry and diversify to other industries to stay competitive and be sustainable in the long run.

All in all, Mi is a great business in the right industry. But in terms of valuation with  the current PE ratio of 29, it is considered fair value compared to peers. With ROIC of 17.6% and net cash position, the company is fundamentally sound and any fall in share price is worth investing for medium term.

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Thursday, May 7, 2020

Is share buyback really beneficial to the company? 11 Facts about Share Buyback

Is share buyback really beneficial to the company? 11 Facts about Share Buyback


Take KRONO for example, has proposed a share buyback which is pending approval at the forthcoming AGM. Krono is planning to buy back 10% of its shares in the market, equivalent to 52.2 million of shares.

Assuming an average price of RM0.70, the company would have to fund a total value of RM36.5 million either via its own cash or bank borrowings.

However, given that the total value of purchased shares should be the lower of
(i) 10% of total issued shares; and
(ii) the retained earnings balance of RM55 million in FY2019 (RM47 million in FY2018),
the company would have sufficient cash balance of RM57 million to buy back maximum of 10% of the total issued shares.

The purpose of share buyback is to reduce / cancel the purchased shares or retain the purchased shares as treasury shares and sell those shares at a higher price in future.

Normally, the board will only buy back its own shares when they deemed that the current market price is trading below the company's INTRINSIC VALUE.

So, what is the impact then?

Advantages:


1. Earnings of the company might increase if the treasury shares are then resold to Bursa at a higher price, realizing the potential gain without affecting the number of issued shares in the company.

2. P/E will decrease. As the number of shares consolidated, the Earnings per shares (EPS) will increase assuming the shares purchased are subsequently cancelled. As such, P/E ratio will decrease with the prices remain unchanged.

3. Increase shareholders' value by distributing the purchased shares as share dividends, as a reward to the shareholders.

4. Enhance investors' confidences. More often that not, if the company is willing to buy back its own shares, meaning even the Board thinks that the company is currently undervalued. And investors will be hopeful that the share price will soon reflects its true value. The investors' confidence will be further strengthened if the board of directors continue to buy the company's shares using their own money instead of company's funds.

5. Since Krono has been on its M&A spree, the company can also offer its purchased shares as a non-cash consideration when acquiring its target company. This is also another way to unlock the value of purchased shares if the share price now is higher than the price of the purchased shares. Working capital of the company can be preserved.

6. Purchased shares can be offered as VSS schemes to the employees where the employees can exercise the shares at a much cheaper price once the price has rebounded higher. This would preserve the EPS without increasing the number of shares in the company (usually exercising shares from VSS would dilute the EPS).

Disadvantages:


1. Investment opportunities might arise and if the company has used up its own financial resources to buy back its own shares, the company would have missed the rare opportunity that may emerge in the future.

2. Net asset (i.e. equity) of the company will decrease. If the company uses its own cash to buy back the shares, the assets will reduce and the purchased shares will be classified as treasury shares, which is a contra-equity account.

3. If the directors are so confident in the prospects of the company, the directors should buy more shares using their own money as the company's funds should be used for investing purposes or business expansion instead of share buyback.

4. Bottom line of the company will be impacted negatively. Interest income would reduce if the company is using cash to buy back the shares. Interest expense would increase if the company is funding the share buy back through external borrowings that bear interests.

5. Share buyback, in our perspectives, is indicating that there is no use of the excess financial resources owned by the company and is therefore wasted on buying back its own shares. However, this can be counter back if the share price is relatively low and will be resell at a higher price later in future.


All information provided here should be treated for informational purposes only. It is solely reflecting author's personal views and the author should not be held liable for any actions taken in reliance on information contained herein.

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Tuesday, May 5, 2020

4. How to determine the right value for POTENTIAL growth stock like MSC?? Don't miss it! [PART 2]

MSC logo

Episode 4: Malaysia Smelting Corporation Berhad (MSC) [PART 2]


Today, we will be discussing about the key challenges faced by MSC and the financial aspects of MSC.

Previously in Part 1 (Episode 3), we discussed about the business model of MSC and its future growth prospects. We discussed how MSC's production capacity is set to increase as high as 50% annually from 40,000 tonnes per year to 80,000 tonnes per year.

If you missed the previous post, you may refer to the link here (would recommend you to read the previous article to have a full picture of MSC) 

Link here: https://humbledinvestor.blogspot.com/2020/05/3-is-tin-mining-sunset-industry

1. What are the weaknesses found on MSC?

Weakness here means the challenges faced by MSC. Basically, there are 2 key risk factors faced by MSC which are the (i) fluctuation of global tin prices and (ii) forex risks. However, do note that both of the risks here is non-controllable by MSC as the prices are adjusted based on macroeconomic factors.

(i) Let's talk about the global tin prices. If we look at the tin prices extracted from LME for the past 10 years (looking at a longer horizon), we noticed that the tin prices is at near to historical low level. This is identical to MSC's share price for the past 10 years. We could deduce that MSC share price correlate with tin prices. But what we should concern about is the price of tin moving forward. If the price of tin continue to go up, MSC share price will follows. And of course the price of tin would be determined by the demand and supply in the market. Let's find out more. 


LME tin prices for last 10 years


MSC share price 10 years

According to ITA ("International Tin Association"), China, being one of the biggest importer of tin in the world, is set to import more tin and returning to normal levels of imports after reviving the economy from the COVID-19 lockdown.


Based on latest customs data, China imported 4,000 tonnes of tin-in concentrates in March 2020, an increament of 11% y-o-y while refined tin imports reached 1,180 tonnes. This has surpassed the largest monthly imports since January and February last year, indicating higher demand from China.

Due to the outbreak, Indonesian tin miner PT Timah will delay exports of refined tin and reduce its monthly output by 20% to 30% because of reduced demand. This represents the supply cut. With the recovery of demand and the supply cut by the top 2 tin miner in the world (PT Timah), we expects the tin price to slowly recover. However, no signs of production cut by MSC so far. Reasons for this may find in this article as explained by MSC's CEO himself: https://www.thestar.com.my/business/business-news/2019/09/14/mscs-tin-output-to-remain-firm-despite-global-cuts

In conclusion, we expect the price of tin to recover in the next half of 2020 provided the corona virus outbreak can be contained.

(ii) MSC is exposed to foreign exchange risks mainly in USD and SGD. The USD forex risks are minimised as majority of the purchases and sales are transacted in USD.

In order to mitigate the risks to an acceptable level, MSC uses derivatives such as forward tin contracts and forward currency contracts to manage the risks.

Besides, lack of available land for mining, short period of mining lease and small area of mining tenement granted by state authorities are some of the key challenges faced in tin mining industry in general.

2. How did MSC perform over the past 10 years?

Over the last decade, the century-old tin mining and smelting group reported five years of losses, totalling nearly RM300 million, and five years of profits, amounting to RM200 million. It suffered losses in 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2015, and made a profit in 2009, 2011, 2013, 2016 and 2017. In contrast, it enjoyed 14 straight years of profitability after it was listed on Bursa Malaysia in 1994.

Based on the chart below, briefly we can see that the net profit margin is improving. 
However, we will not go into details on the past performance. Instead, let's discuss future expected performance.


financials for the past 10 years

Once the new smelter in Pulau Indah ready to commence operations, the management will expect high operating costs as they will continue to operate the old smelter and new smelter in parallel (at the same time), with only one generating revenue. This is to ensure that the day-to-day operations is not disrupted by the new smelter in case of any technical issues.

MSC's CEO, Mr. Patrick Yong expects the doubling of operating expenses will affect its bottom line, until the operations at Pulau Indah stabalised which he expects would be by end of 2020.

Not only that, with the high capital expenditures spent on acquiring the new smelting facility at RM130 million, purchasing the plant for RM50 million and spending for refurbishment for RM80 million. These costs that have been incurred will be capitalised as PPE and will start to depreciate once the facility is ready to use which is expected in 2020. This will trigger depreciation charge which will further reduce the net profit although it is only an accounting impact.

3. Is the management reliable? Please discuss and analyse about the management of MSC.

This company has a little bit of history in their management profile over the last 10 years. As we gathered, there are 15 resignations happened to their board of directors over the past 4 years. This include CFO which has been changed 4 times. The reshuffle of management with NED, NINED, CEO, CFO, COO and secretary has been a good drama for the past 4 years. 

However, with Mr. Patrick Yong on board as CEO since 2016, would give the market more confidence over his management style. He was the managing director of M Smelt (C) Sdn Bhd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of MSC. He has more than four decades of experiences in global business operations in several business areas including leadership, research and development of international marketing and sales organisation.

In one of The Edge article Dec 2018, he reassured to his investors on the company's prospect and explained that when the CEO of the company is continuously buying shares but with small volume, it represents the CEO's confidence in the company. This is what he said: "Personally, I have a lot of confidence in this company. The industry’s prospects and business outlook are tremendous."

Unfortunately, he does not hold substantial interests in the company, he only holds 0.07% or 278,000 shares in MSC as 29 March 2019. 

4. How to value MSC? What is the fair value of MSC?

This time, let us look from another perspective to value the company. Previously, I have mentioned the key advantages / opportunities of MSC (after the new smelter commence its operation) which I will summarised as follows:

i) operational cost will reduce
ii) annual production capacity will increase by 50%
iii) labour cost will reduce
iv) carbon footprint will improve
v) Overheads will increase before new smelter become fully operational
vi) the land in Butterworth can either be developed or sell at a gain

I would like to focus on the last point here.

In Sept 2018, MSC and its 53% shareholder, Straits Trading (STC) have signed an MOU to jointly explore options on UNLOCKING the value of land owned by both parties in Butterworth, Penang. What is interesting here is that this land is not referring to the old smelting plant which spans 13.9 acres, but rather this land is a neighbouring adjacent land to the smelting plant totalling 26.2 acres. On a combined basis, we are looking at a combined land area of sizeable 40.1 acres.

With the MOU in place, there is a better collaboration between MSC and its majority shareholder in unlocking the value of this prime land with great redevelopment potential and maximizing the returns for both parties.


According to 2018 Annual Report, there are 3 options where both parties are considering which are:


1. joint ventures with partners (I assume is developers) to develop the land 
2. Develop the land on their own
3. Land sales

For your further information, the land is FREEHOLD land and is in close proximity to Penang Sentral which is the key transportation hub for Penang connecting railway, ferry and bus service. It also has a panaramic view of Penang Island as shown in the picture below. Furthermore, following the PTMP (Penang Transport Master Plan) implementation, the transportation infrastructure will improved significantly.


Attached is the Penang's map and the location of both land parcels.


Penang map

This means that the land has the potential to be valued as TOD (transit-oriented development) which could fetch higher value compared to normal land due to appealing location to wide range of investors and developers. In Feb 2020, Mr. Patrick Yong has explained that MSC will not be involved in the development of land itself, but rather STC will take over the projects as they have the know-how and experiences in this sector. Besides, he also said the development land has been approved as "mixed development" and initial works has already started on the ground.

The Butterworth land would then be revalued upwards. As at 31 December 2018, the land held for development is valued at RM78.654 million as shown in the FY2018 Annual Report.


Net tangible asset per share of RM0.89, compared to current price RM0.715, has a upside potential of ~25%, without factoring the full operational value of the new ISASMELT smelting plant YET.


Let me know your thoughts on this and if there is any points I missed out or you would like to highlight to me. But all in all, I would think MSC has a great potential in near future and MSC is definitely a great company to invest in, at a fairly cheap price. 

Simple valuation metrics for your reference:

ROE: 9%
ROA: 4%

PE ratio: 8.54
NTA per share: RM0.92

Current ratio: 1.59 (healthy)
Dividend payout: 24% (Preserve cash for investment)
Gearing: 0.9 (High capex for new smelter)

“Today, very few people know about tin smelting. This is not something that you can start today, stop tomorrow, and then restart production the day after tomorrow as you like. If the equipment is not being used, it will start to rust. It is a very high-barrier-to-entry and labour-intensive business.” Mr. Patrick Yong explains.


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Friday, May 1, 2020

3. Is tin mining a sunset industry? Here's 7 reasons why MSC will be a growth stock in near future [PART 1]

Malaysia Smelting Corporation Berhad's logo

Episode 3: Malaysia Smelting Corporation Berhad (MSC) [PART 1]

Malaysia Smelting Corp (MSC) is the world's third-largest refined tin maker. It is currently dual listed on Bursa Malaysia and Singapore Exchange. MSC is 54.8% owned by Singapore oldest companies - The Straits Trading Co Ltd.

Today we will be discussing MSC's future growth prospect. Note that there are not many analysis (on MSC) covered by any famous blogger or fund manager / investment bank that I knew of but I think this company will be the one of the stock worth investing, either from a value investing perspective or growth investing perspective. Let's find out why.


1. What is MSC's business model?


The revenue of the company can be categorised into 3 segments:

i) tin mining;
ii) tin smelting; and
iii) sales of refined tin metal and by-products.

Tin smelting involves smelting of tin concentrates and tin bearing materials and the production of various grades of refined tin metal. However, note that less than 10% of the smelter's inputs are from MSC's own mines. The remaining 90% of tin ore (raw materials) are sourced from locally and outside of Malaysia. 


The process of tin smelting starts from the tin mines. Tin ores will be extracted from the mines and then processed into tin-in concentrates. Tin-in concentrates are then converted into refined tin metal products through the tin smelting process using the smelter.


2. What is the usage of tin and how is the demand? Isn't tin mining a sunset industry?


Tin is used in various products ranging from food packaging to smartphones, electric vehicles and solar cells.


While there is a rapid growth of solders due to wide application of tin and the rise of semiconductor industry today, there will be further usage of tin especially in the emerging lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles. Tin metal which is recommended to be used in the batteries for electric vehicles (for example, Tesla battery pack) is mainly due to the potential increase in energy storage capacity which will then improve the charging rate of the battery. 


The increase in energy storage capability of tin leads to other areas of growth such as renewable energy generation and storage, as well as advanced computing and robotics.


The Group CEO, Mr. Patrick Yong predicted that the future demand is expected to come from new applications in energy-storage technologies. In particular, the demand will be coming from the rise of tin usage in lithium-ion batteries as more automotive manufacturers push for electric vehicles.


According to International Tin Association (ITA), tin is called the ‘spice element’ because a little of it is present everywhere in ways that are essential to our quality of life. Tin use in vehicles is a good example.



tin used in vehicles


Below are the tin prices extracted from LME (London Metal Exchange) from 2015 to today:



LME tin prices

The average tin prices are as follows (extracted from KLTM Kuala Lumpur Tin Market):


2015 - USD16,068/tonnes 

2016 - USD17,867/tonnes (11% y-o-y)
2017 - USD20,036/tonnes (12% y-o-y)
2018 - USD20,067/tonnes (0.15% y-o-y)
2019 - USD18,616/tonnes (-7% y-o-y) 


More recently tin demand has been significantly impacted by macroeconomic shocks, first the US-China trade war and now the covid-19. According to ITA, it will take some time to recover inevitably, although there are good reasons to expect a strong rebound.
Having said that, Mr. Patrick Yong said that the cost of mining will prevent tin price from falling below the global average mining cost, which he believed is around USD15,000/tonnes, for hard rock mining. In fact, ITA has predicted the upper range to be around USD25,000/tonnes. Therefore, it is not difficult to guess where the betting man is putting his money given the near-to-all-time-low tin prices. 
The longer-term future looks very promising, with very significant opportunities in new electronics technologies and in energy opening up for tin towards 2025-2030.
3. Other than the demand of tin, is there any other growth prospects for MSC?

Since year 1902, MSC has been using outdated reverbatory furnaces for tin smelting operations. The smelting plant is located at Butterworth, Penang and is now more than 100 years old. The old smelting furnaces involves a multi-stage procedures which is not operationally efficient. 


In mid 2016, MSC has acquired an existing production facility in Pulau Indah, Klang for RM50 million. The purpose for this is to relocate its smelting operations from Butterworth to Pulau Indah. Not only that, the management aimed to retrofit the smelting plant in Klang to be one of the most modern tin smelter which equipped with ISASMELT TSL (top submerged lance) technology. To be exact, when MSC bought over, it is said that they have found this brownfield opportunity whereby the plant that is being acquired is itself in the form of LEAD smelter, already installed with the latest TSL technology furnace. (As such, lower time cost needed to complete the new facility in Pulau Indah)




This is where things get a little bit interesting. 


With the cutting edged TSL technology, MSC aimed to be one of the lowest-cost smelting facilities company in the world. The ISASMELT process is a energy-efficient smelting process. The furnace uses natural gas as fuel and involves only single stage melting. With the commissioning of the new smelting facility which is expected to be on track and operational in the near term (2020), this will definitely improve the smelting process efficiencies and the operational costs will be significantly reduced.


According to Group CEO Mr. Patrick Yong, the new smelter will boost extraction yields and the annual production capacity will increase from 40,000 tonnes per year to 80,000 tonnes per year with an increment over 50%, WITHOUT incurring any additional capital expenditure going forward.


Not only that, the new furnace will be utilising renewable energy with rooftop solar panels and tapping heat from the furnaces, recycling energy from operating thermal wastage. This will significantly reduce the carbon footprint. With that, MSC will gain goodwill advantage especially dealing with European customers.


The plant in Butterworth will still be in service to ensure problem-free production. MSC expects full migration of smelting activities to the new plant to be completed by 2020. Having said that, labour costs will be significantly reduced. Reduction in manpower has resulting in laying off workers with VSS amounting to RM15 million given to 550 employees. 


In addition, the location of the new smelter is very strategic as Pulau Indah is located beside the most busiest shipping route in the world, the Straits of Malacca. Pulau Indah is  the industrial hub for many companies include Tadmax, Scientex, Kawan Food, MISC, IKEA distribution centre. The strategic location will benefit MSC as the LME (London Market Exchange) warehouse is also located at Port Klang.


However, given that the plant in Butterworth will still operate as usual before new smelter is fully operational, the management expect overheads to increase as they run two smelting plants at the same time. 


Once the move is completed, the management expects to be operationally efficient. At the same time, the land located in Butterworth can be either developed or sell off and make a handsome gain which will improve the group's cash flow and potentially a special dividend will be paid.


As a summary:


i) operational cost will reduce
ii) annual production capacity will increase by 50%
iii) labour cost will reduce
iv) carbon footprint will improve
v) Overheads will increase before new smelter become fully operational
vi) the land in Butterworth can either be developed or sell at a gain

With that, where do you think this company will be heading to over the next 5 years?

In the next episode, more information will be shared such as what are the external factors which could significantly affect MSC, how does the company performed throughout the years, what are the risks involved and how does management react to mitigate the risks? 


Management leadership, global tin prices, forex risks, mining licenses, dividend payout, competitor analysis, valuation of MSC etc will be shared in the next article.


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