Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Morning Call | 24 July 2012

MORNING CALL                                       24 JULY 2012

FLOWS;

BUYS:    Dialog, Maybank, JCY

SELLS:    TNB, UEMLand, YTLC

Technical Stock Alert;

MMC (RM2.50) - its share price continues to languish despite the successful exercise of  unlocking of assets in the listed company beginning with Gas Msia earlier this year and potential listing of Malakoff next year. The company still trades at a significant discount to its sum of parts value of RM3.20. The degearing should help reduce its debt burden which has been a major draw back at earnings levels. Coupled with its PDP agreement for the MRT and tunneling contract, we expect a better 2H. We rate it an accumulate especially as the price approaches its strong 52 week support levels of RM2.40.

CMS(2.70) - a low valuation stock with interesting investing themes: 1) being the main player in the cement, steel and construction sectors of East Malaysia, CMS is the prime beneficiary of the government's policy to develop the Sarawak & Sabah corridor (SCORE): 2) recent investors'
interest in cement stocks as seen by the performance of LMCement and Tasek Cement; 3) a potential unlocking of its value through privatization or M&A exercise or outright sale of company by its major shareholders. Company has started buying back its own shares at prices from 2.58 to 2.70. Stock trades at 6.6x PER, 0.66x p/bk and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. Stock broke out recently from its resistance band and has a potential upside target of 3.30. Buy
(PT)