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Business Background Batu Kawan Bhd is a holding company, which through its subsidiaries, harvests palm trees and manufactures and sells rubber and chemical products. The firm organizes itself into three primary segments based on function. The plantations segment, which generates most of Batu Kawan’s revenue, cultivates and processes palm trees and processes the palm trees into both fresh fruit bunches and rubber products. The manufacturing segment sells a variety of chemical-based products including oleochemicals, industrial amides, rubber gloves, and esters. The property development segment engages in the development of commercial and residential property.
  sheldon I think the major shareholders think they can take the money to their graves - why so stingy? - payout ratio of only 42%. Also - the meagre payment have to wait until Mar 2016 before $ in the pocket 20/11/2015 12:00 sheldon Good & prudent management, steadily accumulating shares below its perceived value. 10/06/2016 15:47 sheldon They've crossed the Volga river. At 7% I think it's the largest %-wise of all the Malaysian listed companies. 21/06/2016 22:02 sheldon Buy - The management comes across as prudent & honest. Furthermore the co has bought back shares in excess of 7% of the total issue. 05/08/2016 19:52 gnimalu23 http://www.theedgemarkets.com/my/article/batu-kawan-makes-forbes-asias-fab-50-list-second-time 25/08/2016 14:51 sheldon If a knowlegeable director has complete faith in the company, what does it mean? Go get em yourself !!! 28/12/2016 00:19 sheldon 2 questions as I'm just curious about the Co's fundamentals - 1) What's the door gift for the AGM? & 2) What's on the menu? 19/01/2017 11:19 nooobieee CPO production increased 15% for the last quarter and the profit is close to 5,000 per tonne at the current price. guess what kind of report they will release next week? PS: CPO stockpile decrease 7.5% to only 1.5M 10/02/2017 14:20 sheldon If the CPO price is RM3k ++ per tonne, it would be mathematically impossible to register RM5k per tonne. Any way given the improvement in CPO price, I'm rubbing my hands in glee waiting for the last quarter results. I agree 100% that B.Kawan can give out more dividends, maybe 20 sen each quarter is not asking too much. 11/02/2017 23:05 sheldon 48.8 sen EPS - another quarter of sterling performance - may the management be blessed for their diligence, prudence and skill which we shareholders have benefited. 14/02/2017 20:57 nikicheong What is the point of a company like Batu Kawan? It just owns other businesses like KLK and not running its own operations. Also it owns 47% of KLK, it doesn't even worth that much based on market cap, how come? 24/04/2017 22:17 sosfinance Batu Kawan is undervalued. It does has its own biz (please check carefully, its own plantation and manufacturing), but small compared to KLK. KLK's market cap is about RM27b. B.Kawan 47% ownership is about RM12.7b. BKawan's market cap is RM8.2b @ RM19.00 per share. B.Kawan's existing biz is worth about RM2b (please check). So, BKawan's ownership in KLK will be RM6.2b (8.2 - 2) while it should be reflected at RM12.7b, it is undervalued at RM6.5b (12.7 - 6.2)(far better than the execution risk for IPP under construction, biz in the future, as it is a traded shares). BKawan DY is about 3.5%. That is why, the Company buyback as much as RM30m at about RM19+. Plantation is not in the limelight at the moment. Give it some time, it will close the gap. Even if we used the EV/mature ha, it is about RM50-55,000 per ha, it is on the lower band of RM60k - 100k per mature ha for large plantation companies listed. 03/05/2017 12:09  calvintaneng FANTASTIC RESULT A BULL RUN IN ALL PALM OIL STOCKS ON THE WAY HIP HIP HOORAY!!! 22/05/2017 23:13 sheldon The main issue plaguing Batu Kawan and the like is the spinners giving a bad name to CPO from the health angle even though it's proven that it's neutral at worst. I consume the cooking oil at home. Obviously the Malaysian eateries use palm oil in their cooking as well. I eat out most of the time and at mid-50s I'm still alive. Then they pick from the environmental angle. The lobbyists are going all out to paint a negative picture on CPO to probably help the soy industry. It appears that all these so-called good intentions has the same underlying motive - MONEY! 16/07/2017 12:14 sosfinance This stock (BKawan) reminds me of Charlie Munger's Daily Journal investment in Well Fargo in 2009, quietly, and ....... the rest is history. 17/07/2017 14:51 sheldon Feel the awesome power of trade blocks - http://www.thestar.com.my/business/business-news/2017/07/17/malaysia-and-indonesia-may-take-eu-plan-to-curb-palm-oil-imports-to-wto/ 17/07/2017 15:36 joetay @stock kingdom, i alrdy gave warning but still got jokers believe in chief joker @calvintaneng and refuse to acknowledge the signs. best is this @chongyu, claim to have 30 yrs experience in plantation industry but actually he doesnt know much after i probe him on fertilizer component prices. 15/08/2017 20:42  Stock Kingdom Calvin, your judgement on palm oil is totally out of way. Not only you don't know how palm oil estates run, you don't know palm oil industry. In fact, you also don't know the relationship between palm oil, soy bean oil, biofuel & crude oil. 17/08/2017 00:34 joetay @stock kingdom, thats why he is very quiet on palm oil stocks this week. anyway, those who buy on recommendations/advise do so at their own risks. best is to do own research and intelligence gathering. 17/08/2017 08:24 sheldon Anticipating with glee the usual big dividend announcement in Sep quarterly. Unfortunately it's a long fuse that is paid only in Mar 2018. 12/10/2017 16:19 sheldon These guys that run the show are extremely conservative but I've no complaints. The low dividend is more than adequately covered by the 7.6% shares bought-back. I have not come across any other PLC with such a significant treasury shareholding. 26/10/2017 12:29 DickyMe "Palm oil is a major industry in Southeast Asia. Indonesia and Malaysia employ 3.5 million people to produce 85 per cent of the world’s palm oil with export values exceeding US$40 billion annually." 3.5 million workers but 99% not Malaysians but foreign workers "With Southeast Asian economies in the balance – especially Indonesia and Malaysia – the fruit producers must address growing concerns about environmental and employee abuses without losing their competitive edge" Blatant open burning of plantation fields which causes environment pollution, land grabbing which contributes to homelessness and city squatting. and unemployment, when citizens are shoved aside in favour cheap foreign workers. Toxic greed have met divine intervention and soon palm plantation will follow the fate of rubber. 29/01/2018 10:16 DickyMe "The latest crisis to face the industry’s reputation came this week as European Union lawmakers on Wednesday agreed to draft measures that seek to phase out the use of palm oil as biofuel by 2021. The move sparked fear in smallholders, who account for about 40 per cent of global palm oil production. Hundreds took to the streets in Kuala Lumpur this week to protest against the EU’s changes, saying the decision threatens their livelihoods." IMPORTANT POINT OF INTEREST "...draft measures that seek to phase out the use of palm oil as biofuel by 2021. " 29/01/2018 10:24 sheldon I think the underlying motive is partly money. One research said that they should ban butter because the cows that produce the milk which is churned into butter, collectively has a fart that causes massive increases in greenhouse gases. Would they take such a drastic step to stop consumption and put a lot of farmers into the poor house? No way!!! 04/02/2018 22:59 sheldon I attended the AGM and came out feeling good about the co. According to the chairman, the Europe ban on palm oil in 2021 is only for the diesel content. They would require all members to vote (uncertain as to whether a unanimous or majority consent required). Any way there's a lot of vested interest at individual country level including Malaysia buying their goods and countries involved in the production of palm diesel. The following report explains the dynamics and reveal some relevant data. Read em.. https://www.transportenvironment.org/sites/te/files/publications/2016_11_Briefing_Palm_oil_use_continues_to_grow.pdf 19/02/2018 22:52  |
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