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Tenaga Nasional - Khazanah's slight disposal BUY

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Publish date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012, 04:07 PM

- We reiterate our BUY call on Tenaga Nasional (Tenaga), with an unchanged DCF-derived fair value of RM8.15/share, which implies an FY13F PE of 11x and a P/BV of 1.3x.

- Khazanah Nasional plans to sell up to 60 million shares or an estimated 1% stake for RM408 million in Tenaga, Business Times reported today. This will reduce Khazanah's stake in Tenaga to 34%, still the largest institutional investor after EPF at 14%. The selling price of RM6.80/share for Tenaga's shares is 2% lower than the closing price of RM6.92 yesterday. 

- Business Times also reported that CIMB Group Holdings Bhd and Deutsche Bank are the joint bookrunners on the share sale.

- In our view, the equity disposal does not affect Tenaga's fundamentals. Additionally, Khazanah, which had an equity stake of 38% in Tenaga in August 2009, has been gradual in its disposals, which we understand are to improve its liquidity in the market. 

- We note that coal prices has risen from US$80/tonne last month to US$90/tonne currently due to the winter season, but this is likely to decline early next year given a expectations of softer demand from China. Hence, we maintain Tenaga's FY13F-FY15F net profits, which assume all-in coal prices at US$90/tonne.

- We continue to like Tenaga as the group's long-term earnings prospects are supported by the group's likelihood in securing upcoming new power plant capacities of up to 3,000MW. Furthermore, the group's near-term earnings are more transparent given that electricity and natural gas prices are stable until mid-2013.

- The stock currently trades at a P/BV of 1.1x, at the lower end of the 1x-2.6x range over the past 5 years. Tenaga also offers an attractive FY13F PE of 10x, compared with the stock's three-year average band of 9x-16x.  

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