(04-03-2014, 03:00 PM)valuebuddies Wrote: Regarding to those points Greenrookie highlighted below:
1. large amount of share options for directors and executives - all have been fully converted and as of 31.12.2013, there are no outstanding share options in issued. The share options granted to the executive in year 2008 totalling 19,032,000 options which is less than 4% of the total shares in issued, and the exercise price of S$0.07 approximates the quoted price at the issuance date. In short, I think the company is fair enough to the minority shareholders.
2. after prospectus, there is no info on major customers, but I think customers are still concentrated - Yes, the LCD business is still concentrating, I suspect the major customer is Sharp but I can't be sure. And in the latest results announcement, we know that the major customer will cease to involve in the procurement process which results in uncertainty over the sustainability of the future orders.
3. business direction - IMO having factories in China not only reduces the overall productions and operation costs, but also to stay close to its customers as I believe that it's products should ultimately be delivered to other factories in China as well.
On the financial information side, I noticed a significant drop in revenue and EBITA from 4Q2013 announcement, but it still produces a decent US$0.62c EPS for Q4 and US$2.41c EPS for FY2013, which translates into PE of 4.7. It maintained the interim and final of US$0.005 and US$0.007 respectively which is approximately 50% payout (this is not high).
The good things about this company is the huge net cash (about S$11.5c versus share price of S$14c), generous dividend yield (more than 10% yield), fabulous gross margin (more than 20%), low PE and below book valuation.
My only concern would be the significant concentration on 1 major customer. Unlike UMS, we have very limited information on this major customer and it could be just a time bomb as likely it will turn into losses without the support from this major customer.
I would appreciate if fellow members can contribute your views over this company, meanwhile I will continue to put this under my high priority watchlist.
1. Yes, there are no more options outstanding. I too, think the options are fair as the exercise price is approximately at the market price when they were given in 2008.
However, the company recently called for a new share purchase mandate again. The shares issued, Treasury shares outstanding, and the total share capital (shares issued + treasury shares) in the past 3 yrs are:
2011 2012 2013
Shares issued 483,048,221 459,842,221 474,362,221
Treasury shares 21,306,000 44,512,000 29,992,000
Total share capital 504,354,221 504,354,221 504,354,221
As you can see, the treasury shares fluctuate substantially. This is because the company does share buy backs (a lot of buybacks were done at approximately $0.07-0.1 in 2012), then uses the treasury shares when the options are exercised.
Nothing wrong with that, but it does mean that future dilution cannot be ruled out. With the recent share repurchase mandate, I think they are planning on issuing options again.
To be conservative, I tend to use the total number of shares when calculating NAV as this is constantly 504,354,221. As long as the treasury shares are not cancelled, I include them in my calculations, although admittedly, this is not normal practice. I do so as the company has a record of using the treasury shares as such.
2. The future earning power of the company, IMO, is the major question mark. As noted in AR2013, the major customer has cut orders drastically. The management themselves admit that any improvement in earnings from the LCD backlights division is unlikely to cover the drop in earnings from the parts and accessories division.
Also, in 2013, 8 million units of backlights are manufactured for smartphones, while 32 million units are for the gamesets, digital cameras etc.
As management rightly and honestly pointed out, the smartphones will likely see some resilience or even increase in orders, but the 32million units have been decreasing over the years. Gamesets and digital cameras are just getting replaced by smartphones.
This for me, is the biggest worry.
Backlights division barely matched 2012 results only because a client made additional orders in the 2H.
What happens in 2014?
If backlights do poorly, parts and accessories is ALREADY doing very poorly in 2013, and the office automation, although showing improvement, is still negative and in any case, is insignificant, then the results for 2014 may be very ugly indeed.
3) The financial figures you quoted doesn't take into account the 2 extraordinary items:
- Gain on bargain purchase of USD 2mil
- Payout from the disposal of CD Suzhou. This sum is parked under "other operating income". I don't think theres a breakdown of how much exactly, but it should be the bulk of the $4mil or so as the other components of "other operating income" is interest income, which is not large.
So I would take into account that $6mil of the profit is "extraordinary"
That means a NP of $5.3mil only! As opposed to $11.3mil currently.
The redeeming factor is they are poised to receive the last instalment from the disposal of CD Suzhou in 2014, which is about SGD $5.4mil, or USD $4.312mil. In other words, there will be a substantial "Extraordinary item" for 2014 as well to prop up earnings.
Overall, I think the markets are too fixated on the high dividend yield. Remember each time u receive dividends, the "value" of the company drops as cash is used to payout.
I will stay on the sidelines and wait for it to dip to closer to $0.11-$0.12 range before reassessing again.
(Yes, I know that is very substantially lower than NAV but I feel a much larger MOS is required considering the variables, and the near certainty that 2014 is going to be a tougher year for the company than 2013)
Any suggestions of this company being worth $0.2-0.29 based on CURRENT VALUATIONS, imo, is way off the mark.
(There's an earlier link where someone did a very simple analysis of the book value alone to derive that figure)
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