Thoughts on recent market conditions and some company results

 

Hong Kong Markets

-The most common phrases heard these days will be regulation, attractive point to enter for the long term, crash is not over, time to switch over to trends that government are in favour of.

Personally i feel that all of such phrases are very accurate. Instead of worrying when the regulations saga would be over, a more holistic thinking would be 

1) Am I ok with the regulatory risk adding more volatility to my portfolio ?

If yes then its fine, if no then do the appropriate actions to reduce such risks (perhaps when 1 bought the shares they might have missed out on the regulatory risk but most people should know of such risk)

2) Short Run vs Long Run

Eventually in the long run there will be much more regulations down the road like a marathon. Thinking that the regulation is over would likely be a wrong thinking

Company Results

9982(Central China Management) : Results released on 16 August, a mid year dividend declared to a yield of around 4.7% and assuming a 2H similar to 1H, PE will be around 7. Overall results decent, though industry is relatively small and the macro environment as well as its major industry subset (property) being full of negative news. I don't foresee any improvement in share price in the near term anyway, just hoping that the company continues a growth of 10-20% each year.

9983(Central China New Life): Results released on 12 August,. Share Price has been on a free fall since then, logging close to 10% in less than 3 trading days. Results wise there is nothing surprising as it has been guided previously that there is a 40% increase in net profit. Current Forward PE is around 13 with a mid year dividend of around 2%. Overall due to property sector in a negative mood due to fears over more curbs and Evergrande going concern, the property service sector which has been seen as some sort of tech related sector and a possible government clampdown sector target has seen weakness in the share price of its industry. For the company, moving forward they would have to show if they are able to achieve their targets set in the lifestyle sector as well as how they make the best of their ipo proceeds. Some challenges is expected as Henan is still coming out of the impacts of the floods as well as combating delta variant hence some of its tourist attractions and areas remain closed. 

Singapore Markets

-Overall it seems like a decent set of results from blue chips, especially banks, the STI has maintained at above 3000 which seems to imply that there is little fears of delta variant being priced into the markets as a negative sentiment. Dividends have increased as well which seem to signal a better economic sentiment.

Company Results

Nanoflim Technology : Massive Sell down after its results released on 13 August 2021, Despite a slightly higher government incentive and grants, results are still broadly lower than in 1H 2020. Even with an optimistic view of 12 cents this year and attaching a 20% growth in earnings year on year. At a share price of $4, this is still relatively over valued as i am paying around 33 PE for 20% growth.  Alongside the recent resignations, it seems like there are still much more falling potential in share price.

Uni Asia Group: Intra Day Sell down of around 5% after results released on 13 August, has the results being bad? Depends on whose view 1 is taking. If the views of a couple of brains that i have seen they think that its average to below average. According to KGI, they think that its good and have revised the target price upwards. They have projected 2021 profits of 12.4 million USD while Uni-Asia has clocked a profit of

Personally i think that results are bad but because its bad, it can only get better. Given how current charter rates are going, i am expecting when the 3Q update to be released there is a huge jump in average charter. In fact i am expecting not less than 20k assuming the index holds at minimally June levels. Any thing below a 20k would be a fail.

As such, i estimate the 2H earnings should be around 19 million USD (Base assumption)

This equates to a roughly full year EPS of around 0.46 sgd. A pe of around 3 at current price.

While i believe that the company is undervalued at current market conditions, unfortunately, currently i will not be making any purchases. 

I felt that the company could have given a better guidance in its segments like other shipping companies. However, such lack of information provides a value hunting ground for any who are willing to take the risk. After all, at a lousier scenario of 1H = 2H results, its 5 pe.