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





Sunday 26 April 2020

Stock Review – YSPSAH (7178) (Y.S.P.SOUTHEAST ASIA HOLDING BERHAD)

Bursa Malaysia - 7178
Bloomberg - YSP:MK
Yahoo - 7178 .kl
Webpage - http://www.yspsah.com/Home/Home.asp


Sector : Health Care
Sub Sector :Pharmaceuticals


Revenue :

YSPSAH revenue mainly consists are from two segment as below.

1)  Manufacturing

Manufacturing of Pharmaceutical products.

2) Trading

Import, export and trading in various kinds of pharmaceutical, traditional herbal and veterinary products.

Pie chart below shows YSPSAH revenue distribution for financial year 2018.


From the pie chart above, YSPSAH main business focus on manufacturing of Pharmaceutical products which stands 85 % of the 2018 revenue.




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

5 Years Annualise Growth of Revenue
8.63 %
9 Years Annualise Growth of Revenue
9.29 %

YSPSAH had very consistence revenue growth rate of around 8 %.
YSPSAH operating margin is around 12 over the past 9 years expect in 2015 it had high operating margin of 17.83.

Nett Profit

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



5 Years Annualise Growth of Nett Profit
12.60 %
9 Years Annualise Growth of Nett Profit
10.55 %

From the graph there is a significant increase in nett profit since 2015 with 75% of nett profit grow in 2015. The nett profit surge is mainly due to the goods and services tax (GST) implemented by the government in April 2015 where its customer stocked up the pharmaceutical products to avoid paying the GST. Besides that YSPSAH also had an unrealised gain of RM 6.7 million and RM 5.9 million for 2015 and 2016 respectively. While on other year between 2010 – 2018 period YSPSAH unrealised gain / loss on foreign exchange rate is between RM 0.5 million to RM 1.0 million. In 2017 YSPSAH had unrealised lose on foreign exchange of RM 6.6 million which drag the nett profit down by 27 % in 2017.

Assets and Liabilities


From the chart above, YSPSAH assets increase over time while liabilities reduce from 2010 to 2016 and increase from 2017 to 2018. In 2018 there is an increase in borrowing from RM 19,848,000 (2017) to RM39,655,000 (2018).

Trade Receivables

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



From the comparison above, YSPSAH trade receivable increase over time. Percentage of trade receivables past due from 2011 – 2018 have a range of 16 % to 31 % with lowest in 2016 which is 16.69% and increase after 2016 to 24.75 % in 2018.

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.

YSPSAH had interest coverage ratio of 23.10.

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.

YSPSAH cash ratio maintain above 1 for the period except 2011 which the cash ratio is 0.92. In 2018 YSPSAH has RM 76,641,000 in cash and equivalent while have RM 39,655,000 of total borrowing.

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.

YSPSAH current ratio generally inverse over time but in 2017 there is a drop in current ratio from 5.89 (2016) to 4.63 (2017) and recover to 5.21 in 2018. YSPSAH having current ratio well above one which mean they are financially strong in short term.

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) – 222

YSPSAH days sales of inventory had increase from 192 in 2010 to 250 in 2012 before drop back to 222 in 2018 on average took 222 days to sell their products.

2)  Trade Receivable Turnover (Days)

9 Years Trade Receivable Turnover (Days) – 85

YSPSAH trade receivable turnover had shown a downward trend from 100 days in 2010 to 78 days in 2018.

3)  Trade Payable Turnover (Days)

9 Years Trade Payable Turnover (Days) – 35

YSPSAH trade payable turnover would be constant around 35 days. YSPSAH trade payable turnover is less than trade receivable turnover hence YSPSAH required some cash for the cash flow.

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

YSPSAH earning per share increase significantly in 2015 and drop in 2017. The main reason of the significant increase and loss was due to gain (2015) and loss (2017) in the foreign currency exchange.

2)  Dividends per share

YSPSAH had pay dividend consistently every year since 2010. YSPSAH dividend payout ratio is not consistent it range about 0.3 to 0.6 over 2010 – 2018. In 2017 despite lower earnings per share YSPSAH continue give high dividends to the shareholders, dividend payout ratio of 0.57.

3)  Net total assets per share

YSPSAH net total assets had growth consistently since 2015.

Director’s Remuneration

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


YSPSAH director’s remuneration average stands 4.70% of total salaries expense and about 11.68 % on average of the operating profit.


YSPSAH director’s remuneration does not reduce despite poor performance in 2017 which make percentage against operating profit increase to 17.62 %. The percentage against total salaries expenses also has increase from 4% in 2010 to 12 % in 2008.

Market Report

Date
Research House
Target Price
25-02-2020
2.21
26-02-2020
3.00

Average Target Price
2.605



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