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Tuesday, 28 April 2020

Stock Review – FAVCO (7229) (FAVELLE FAVCO BERHAD) - 2

Bursa Malaysia - 7229
Bloomberg - FFB:MK
Yahoo - 7229 .kl
Webpage - http://www.favellefavco.com/


Sector : Industrial Products and Services
Sub Sector :Industrial Engineering

Company Profile:

FAVCO comprises of two international brands, Favelle Favco and Kroll. FAVCO owned the world largest hammerhead crane and largest luffing tower crane.

FAVCO have 7 operating facilities around the world, Australia, Malaysia, Denmark, United State of America, China, Singapore and United Arab Emirates.

Revenue:

FAVCO revenues divided into two location, inside Malaysia and outside Malaysia. 


From the pie chart above, FAVCO market segment is about 45 % domestic market and 55 % international market.


Bar chart above shows revenue and operating margin of FAVCO from 2010 to 2018.

5 Years Annualise Growth of Revenue
-7.04 %
9 Years Annualise Growth of Revenue
-0.09 %

FAVCO is in declining business its revenue had decrease significantly from its peak in 2015. FAVCO 5 years annualise growth of revenue is -7.04 %.

The drop in revenue in cranes business might had cause FAVCO diversified into intelligent automation business on 3rd July 2018 by invested RM 137,000,000 in the acquisition of 70 % of Exact Group.

Nett Profit

Bar Chart below shows FAVCO nett profit from 2010 – 2018.


5 Years Annualise Growth of Nett Profit
1.08 %
9 Years Annualise Growth of Nett Profit
10.56 %

FAVCO nett profit had lesser impact on the revenue drop for the recent year while maintaining positive annualise growth of 1.08 % for the past 5 years mainly because FAVCO able to increase its operating profit margin from 12.98 in 2015 to 16.08 in 2018.

Increase of operating profit might cause by FAVCO penetrate into small crane market and rental fleet.

Assets and Liabilities


FAVCO assets had growth at a constant rate at 9.6 % per year over the past 9 years while the liabilities is growing at a lower rate of 5.4 %.

Trade Receivables


FAVCO have high trade receivable past due that of around  70 % of the trade receivables in 2010 and drop to 50 % in 2018. This high trade receivable past due had put FAVCO on financial risk if not handle in proper manner and default could happen when the economy is able.

Financial Ratio

There would be few financial ratios to be look at here:

1) Interest Coverage Ratio (Green Bar Chart)
2) Cash Ratio (Blue Line Chart)
3) Current Ratio (Red Line Chart)


1) Interest Coverage Ratio

Interest coverage ratio measure how capable the company pay off the existing debt. With an interest coverage ratio above one mean the earnings before interest & tax (EBIT) is able to pay of the full amount of the financial cost of the year.

Despite lower EBIT in the recent year, FAVCO manage to maintain a high interest coverage ratio which mean FAVCO had low financial cost in the recent year.

2) Cash Ratio

As cash is the most liquid assets of the company, cash ratio is use to determine company ability to pay off short term liabilities using cash. Cash ratio above one indicates that company able to settle all current liabilities using available cash.

FAVCO cash ratio had increase over the period however FAVCO cash ratio is still below one. FAVCO current only managed to cover 60 % of its current liability with cash.

3) Current Ratio

Current ratio measures ability of the company to pay off short term obligation (current liabilities). Current ratio above one means the company able to pay off the current liabilities with current asset.

FAVCO current ratio had increase over the years and it is above one.

Turnover in Days

Let look into three types of turn over as follow:

1) Inventory Turnover (Blue Line)
2) Trade Receivables Turnover (Red Line)
3) Trade Payable Turnover (Green Line)



1) Days Sales of Inventory



9 Years Days Sales of Inventory Median (days) – 135


FAVCO days sales of inventory show a U shape which means FAVCO inventory (cranes) are very selling fast in 2013 (100 days) when the Malaysia construction is at its peak and slowly down to 165 days in 2018.

2) Trade Receivable Turnover (Days)

9 Years Trade Receivable Turnover (Days) – 131

FAVCO trade receivable turnover is quite consistence over the period with the average of 131 days

3) Trade Payable Turnover (Days)

9 Years Trade Payable Turnover (Days) – 135

FAVCO trade payable turnover pretty much following it days sales of Inventory. In 2018 FAVCO manage to get the trade payable turnover (145 days) higher than the trade receivable turnover (131 days). FAVCO is less likely to have problem with the cash flow despite 50 % of the trade receivables are past due in 2018.

Per Share Analysis

1) Earnings per share (sen) (Blue Bar)
2) Dividend per share (sen) (Red Bar)
3) Net total assets per share (Green Line)


1) Earnings per share



FAVCO earnings per share slow a decrease since year 2016.


2) Dividends per share

Although decreasing earnings since 2016, FAVCO still maintaining high dividend per share to the shareholder. In year 2016 - 2018 FAVCO management had decided to use 44% to 53 % of the earning to pay out as dividend while before that the dividend payout ratio is just around 18 % to 28 %.

3) Net total assets per share

FAVCO net total assets had growth consistently since with a rate of 11.02% per annum over the past 5 year.

Director’s Remuneration

Some company paid high remuneration to director despite low profit. Let see how much is FAVCO director’s remuneration in comparison to staff fee and operating profit.



On average FAVCO director remuneration is around 4.7 % of the total salaries expenses.

FAVCO director’s remuneration does not reduce despite poor performance since 2017 which make percentage against operating profit increase to 17.63 % instead of 11.68% on average.

Market Report

Date
Research House
Target Price
27/2/2020
3.41
27/2/2020
3.74
26/2/2020
3.65

Average Target Price
3.60





Wednesday, 22 April 2020

Stock Review – CHINWEL (5007) (CHIN WELL HOLDING BERHAD) – 4

Bursa Malaysia - 5007
Bloomberg - CWH:MK
Yahoo - 5007 .kl
Webpage - http://www.chinwell.com.my/


Revenue :

CHINWEL revenue consists are from two segment as below.

1) Fastening Products

Manufacturing and trading of screws, nuts, bolts, steel bar and other fastening products.

2) Wire Products

Manufacturing of precision galvanised wire, annealing wire, bright wire, hard drawn wire, PVC wire, bent round bar and grill mesh
Pie chart below shows CHINWEL revenue distribution for financial year 2019.


From the pie chart above, CHINWEL main business focus on manufacturing of fastening products.


Bar chart above shows revenue and operating margin of CHIWEL from 2010 to 2019.


5 Years Annualise Growth of Revenue
7.00 %
10 Years Annualise Growth of Revenue
6.35 %

From the chart above year 2011 and year 2018 post the highest revenue growth 24 % and 23 % respectively. In 2011 CHINWEL had high revenue growth rate because of higher demand of the fasteners product in the EU market. While in 2018 there is increase of steel bar product in the local market.

The line chart above showed the operation margin for CHINWEL. In the period of 2010 -2019 the operating margin of CHINWEL ranges from 5.41 to 14.7 with the median of 10.62. CHINWEL operating margin is mainly affected by the raw material cost.

Nett Profit

Bar Chart below shows CHINWEL nett profit from 2010 – 2019.


5 Years Annualise Growth of Nett Profit
5.22 %
10 Years Annualise Growth of Nett Profit
63.01 %

The high 10 years annualise growth rate of nett profit is mainly because high growth rate of from 2010 to 2012 period. 5 years annualise growth rate of the company are more reasonable to use to predict the growth rate of the company.

There is a significant drop in nett profit in 2013, 57%, this is mainly due to the competition of the fasteners product globally which force CHINWEL to reduce the sale price. 2013 operating margin is 7.32 which is 3.05 lower than the median of 10.62.

Assets and Liabilities



From the chart above, CHINWEL assets increase over time while liabilities reduce over time. CHINWEL is able to increase the assets (cash, properties, plants and equipment, trade receivables) on the other hand reduce it liabilities (borrowings, trade payable).

Trade Receivables

Let compared trade receivable of CHINWEL against trade receivable past due every year.


From the comparison above, CHINWELL trade receivable increase over time, the trade receivable past due increase as well. Around 30 % to 40 % of trade receivables of CHINWEL are past due. If CHINWEL unable to collect back the trade receivables past due, they would be impaired and cost a loss in CHINWEL account.


Financial Ratio

There would be few financial ratios to be look at here:

1) Interest Coverage Ratio (Green Bar Chart)
2) Cash Ratio (Blue Line Chart)
3) Current Ratio (Red Line Chart)


1) Interest Coverage Ratio


Interest coverage ratio measure how capable the company pay off the existing debt. With an interest coverage ratio above one mean the earnings before interest & tax (EBIT) is able to pay of the full amount of the financial cost of the year.

CHINWEL had lowest interest coverage ratio which is 6.54 on 2010. In 2015 and 2017 the EBIT is almost 70 times the financial cost.

2) Cash Ratio

As cash is the most liquid assets of the company, cash ratio is use to determine company ability to pay off short term liabilities using cash. Cash ratio above one indicates that company able to settle all current liabilities using available cash.

CHINWEL cash ratio increase over time and reach a cash ratio above one in 2016. CHINWEL cash ratio show it able to pay off all short term debt using cash and in 2019 annual report show all CHINWEL borrowings are short term. In 2019 CHINWEL had RM 89,163,518 of borrowings and cash & equivalent of RM 124,216,804. CHINWEL borrowings in 2019, 62.73 % are in local currency, Ringgit Malaysia and 37.27 % in US Dollar.

Investors can have a piece of mind and do not worries about strengthening of USD against Ringgit Malaysia would increase the borrowings. This is because as of 30 June 2019 CHINWEL had cash in term of US Dollar is USD 35,734,608 and borrowing in term of US Dollar is USD 33,232,678. This would remove the currency risk.

3) Current Ratio

Current ratio measures ability of the company to pay off short term obligation (current liabilities). Current ratio above one means the company able to pay off the current liabilities with current asset.

CHINWEL had the current ratio above one hence it able to pay off it current liabilities with current asset.

Turnover in Days

Let look into three types of turn over as follow:

1) Inventory Turnover (Blue Line)
2) Trade Receivables Turnover (Red Line)
3) Trade Payable Turnover (Green Line)


1) Days Sales of Inventory


10 Years Days Sales of Inventory Median (days) – 189

CHINWEL on average took 189 days to sell their products. As we can see in 2013 the it took 219 days hence the CHINWEL had to reduce the operating profit margin to sell their products.

2) Trade Receivable Turnover (Days)

10 Years Trade Receivable Turnover (Days) – 91

On Average CHINWEL took 91 days to collect back the money from credit sales

3) Trade Payable Turnover (Days)

10 Years Trade Payable Turnover (Days) – 18

CHINWEL trade payable turnover is decrease year by year. This means that CHINWEL need to pay their suppliers on shorter credit term compare to the credit term given to the customer. CHINWEL might have cash flow problem if this is not manage properly. CHINWEL unable to get longer credit term from supplier might harm the business in long term.

Per Share Analysis

1)  Earnings per share (sen) (Blue Bar)
2) Dividend per share (sen) (Red Bar)
3) Net total assets per share (Green Line)


1) Earnings per share

CHINWEL earnings per share growth steadily except for the year 2011 – 2012 where the earning is increase growth is 400 % and 150 %. This growth mainly because of tariff ruling of European Union (EU) where EU imposed a five year anti-dumping duty up to 85 % on imports of iron and steel fasteners originating in China. This strong demand from EU has improve operating margin of for 2012.

2) Dividends per share

CHINWEL had pay dividend annually for the past 10 year. From 2014 onward CHINWEL has dividend payout ratio of around 40 %

3) Net total assets per share

CHINWEL net total assets per share have a linear growth rate.

Director’s Remuneration

Some company paid high remuneration to director despite low profit. Let see how much is CHINWEL director’s remuneration in comparison to staff fee and operating profit.


CHINWELL director’s remuneration average stands 10.53% of total salaries expense and about 6.58 % on average of the operating profit.


Summary of Industry Comparison


Sunday, 17 March 2019

Stock Review – HIGHTEC(7033)(KUMPULAN H&L HIGH-TECH BERHAD) -2

Bursa Malaysia - 7033
Bloomberg - H&L:MK
Yahoo - 7033 .kl
Webpage - http://www.hlhightech.com/


Company Profile


HIGHTEC specializing in the innovation of plastic injection mounting solutions; which are in Automotive, Consumer Goods, Electrical, Industrial and Medical.

1) Operating Segment

HIGHTEC has four major operating segments which are:

1) Manufacturing & Trading – 70.73 % of 2018 revenue
2) Property Development – 11.22 % of 2018 revenue
3) Plantation – 9.63 %  of 2018 revenue
4) Investment – 8.42 % of 2018 revenue

Asset turnover of the operating segments are:

1)  Manufacturing & Trading – 0.39
2) Property Development – 0.51
3) Plantation – 0.28
4) Investment – 0.02

Investment segment is having the most of non current asset gain for 2018 which is 77.49 % of the non current asset gain.

CONS:
รจ The lowest asset turnover ratio segment having the high non current asset gain.

2) Geographical Information

HIGHTEC is operated in three major location which are:

1) European countries – 49.64 % of 2018 revenue
2) Malaysia – 45.96 % of 2018 revenue
3) South East Asia – 2.72 % of 2018 revenue
4) Others – 1.67 % of 2018 revenue

Financial Statement



The Investment Properties had increase from RM 55,016,281 (2017) to RM 55,845,731 (2018),of the increment RM 765,550 (92.30 %) are from fair value adjustment.


Of the RM 3,054,727 trade receivables, RM 1,679,230 (54.97 %) are trade past due compared to 38.74 of the trade receivable past due in 2017.

HIGHTEC had increase in cash and deposit with licensed financial institutions from RM 16,000,377 (2017) to RM 17,616,060 (2018), 10.1 % increase.

PROS:
รจ HIGHTEC had 10.1 % increase in cash and deposit with licensed financial institutions.

CONS:
รจ 54.97 % of trade receivable had past due



HIGHTEC borrowings had reduced from RM 4,747,845 (2017) to RM 3,575,397 (2018), 24.69 % decrease.


There is significant increase in deferred tax liability from RM 4,257,925 (2017) to RM 6,126,376 (2018), 43.88 % increase. These increase in deferred tax liability is due to increase of fair value gain on investment properties from RM 1,451,907 (2017) to RM 2,980,814 (2018). If the investment properties is sales next year HIGHTEC had to pay the deferred liability.

PROS:
รจ HIGHTEC loans and borrowings had reduced by 24.69 %

CONS:
รจ Deferred tax liability had increase by 43.88 % mainly due to increase of fair value gain of investment property.

Financial Ratio

Description
2018
2017
Different
Gross Profit Margin
0.40
0.38
+0.02
Net Profit Margin
0.15
0.25
-0.10
Interest Coverage Ratio
32.58
28.78
+3.79
Effective Tax
0.47
0.20
+0.27

HIGHTEC increase of effective tax because of additional of deferred tax liability on real property gain which is RM 1,528,907. If the figure remove HIGHTEC effective tax rate is 23.63 %.

Warrant

HIGHTEC had no warrant.

Dividend and Bonus Issued for the past five year

HIGHTEC had constant dividend for the past five year from 2014 – 2018 with the average dividend of RM 0.033 with the dividend yield of 2.34 % base on HIGHTEC stock price of RM 1.28 on 15/3/2019.

CONS:
รจ HIGHTEC had dividend yield of average 2,34 % for the last five year which is lower than fixed deposit rate of 3.15 %

Estimated Price

IVKLS Price : RM 1.25

Peers

1) SCH
2) PNEPCB
3) HLT
4) KEIHIN
5) WONG
6) SANICHI
7) JASKITA
8) PASUKGB
9) YBS
10) MQTECH