Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Market Roundup | 15 May 2015


 FBMKLCI   1811.92   +4.37pts (+0.24%)      Volume 1.746b   Value RM1.845b
 
1) KLCI recovered from low of 1802.02 (-5.5pts) before late buying near close of TNB, PCHEM and MAYBANK ensured index closed at day’s high. Regions were firmer led by stronger tone from the US market overnight as HSI+2% on bets an exchange link with Shenzhen will start soon while NIKKEI+0.8%, ASX+0.6%. China+1.6% on concerns IPO could drain funds from secondary market. Industrial Products+0.9% outperformed boosted by PCHEM+2.7%, LAFMSIA+2.7% and HARTA+1.7%. Market breadth was positive as gainers inched losers by 411 : 358. Futures closed at 1805.5 (6.5pts discount).
 
2) Heavyweights : TENAGA+1.1% RM14.04, PCHEM+2.76% RM6.33, MAYBANK+0.43% RM9.32, BAT+1.85% RM64.92, IOICORP+0.95% RM4.25, GENTING-3.26% RM8.90, CIMB-0.67% RM5.96, AXIATA-0.6% RM6.75
 
3) DBT: XINGHE 72.667mil @ RM0.005 (3.09% PUC @ 92% discount), TOPGLOV 32.153mil @ RM5.17 (5.18% PUC @ 7.3% discount), YNHPROP 6.736mil @ RM2.0229 (5% Premium), YINSON 2.75mil @ RM2.90 (5.8% discount), BARAKAH 2mil @ RM0.85.
 
4) Situational:-
MALAKOF+0.00% RM1.80 – Malakoff the biggest IPO since 2013 ended at IPO price of RM1.80 with 313m shares traded to top the volume list. The company has six power plants in Malaysia with 5,346 megawatts of effective capacity and owns about 690 megawatts of net power production capacity overseas. Malakoff plans to increase its power generation capacity to 10,000 megawatt by 2020. It has set a target dividend payout ratio of at least 70 percent of net income starting January 2015.
 
5) Pintaras
9mths 03/2015        Tover +39.5% RM195.6m   Net +20.8% RM40.5m        EPS 25.1sen
                              11% below cons(f) RM60.6m
PBT grew by 18% to RM53.8million as compared to the previous corresponding period of RM45.7million which had included a non-cash employee benefits cost under ESOS of RM4.0million. Excluding the additional employee benefits cost, the percentage growth achieved was 8% for the respective period.
Revenue from construction division increased by about 47% to RM168.2million as compared to RM114.8million last year. Despite the substantial increase in revenue, PBT improved by 10% to RM45.5million as compared to the previous corresponding period of RM41.3million. This was primarily due to lower margins from a number of current challenging projects wear executing and a very much higher depreciation charge of  RM12.4million which is 38% increase as compared to previous corresponding period of RM9.0.
Sales from manufacturing division increased by 8% to RM27.4million as compared to previous corresponding period of RM25.4million. However,PBT was 6% lower at RM4.5million YOY.The decline in profit was mainly due to a combination of factors which included competitive pricing, higher material and operating costs.
Current order book remaining is at the low end of its regular range and the company will be looking to tender for contracts possible from the 11th Msia Plan.
Fairly valued at the moment (11.2x PE) with uncertain contract win despite tender book of RM2bn.
 
6) Market – Rotation in mid caps particularly the tech sector benefiting from weaken RM. KLCI to trade range bound next week btw 1800-1830pts.