Earnings should in all likelihood be in the neighborhood of the last quarter unless some big oversight in keeping records or deliberate cooking of the books.
i think contra players already fully cleared and scared off...after few days drop...now all are genuine players with holding power...hope the price stay stable and wait for result release....
As far as this counter concern short term very hard to say how the share price will move, however long term the growth prospects and solid fundamentals still intact.
2 months back when the share price dropped to $7+, those "so call experts" jump out to talk so much negative about it but today after 4 days price consolidation the price still around $8.8 ! Let the price do the talking.
As at yesterday refinery margin still stood firm at USD11.5+ and best still since beginning of July refinery margin had been staying above USD10 and Brent Oil price also stable above USD50, so if the figures can maintain until end of September then solid 3rd Qtr earning will be expected.
Usd11.50 is only the margin for Ron92 alone and that is Sgp benchmark. Similar with crude oil benchmarks i.e. WTI, Brent, Tapis etc., all having different prices. Overall refinery margin cannot just based on Ron92 margin since each refinery produces variety of products, some products high margin and some very low margin. Also, margin should also take into account of Cracking facility/ technology used in the plant. Not all refineries will enjoy the same margin. Higher the technology, more refined products can be extracted from each bbl of crude oil. Any sifu pls correct me if i m wrong.
Stock: [PETRONM]: PETRON MSIA REFINING& MKTG BHD Jun 22, 2017 01:41 PM | Report Abuse
Wow, just realized so many "experts" here talking about how oil price crash will erode Petronm's profit. Looks like everyone is worry about that. Believe it or not, I am still a believer and holding my shares in Petronm. I think time will tell who is right or wrong. As I said earlier, if you buy or sell Petronm's share based on oil price movement, my suggestion is to trade crude oil future.
I must admit that crude oil price movement does have impact to Petronm but the impact is only limited to its inventory holding (typically about 3 weeks) where management hedge half of it (makes sense to hedge as you source your crude from independent oil producer, unlike Shell Refining in the past where they don't hedge as they source from the parent co, this also explains the higher volatility of shell's profit)
I think the key to refining profit is still the refining margin where Jay pointed out correctly that 2Q17 refining margin is still better than 1Q17. Someone also pointed out that crude oil price crash from usd100/bbl in 2014 to 55 (average) and 44 (average) in 2015 and 2016 respectively but Petronm doesn't seem to be affected as it reported higher profit in 2015 (rm221m) and 2016 (rm238m).
Some of you may ask why? I attribute that to 3 factors, (1) refining margin is still the major profit driver, (2) whatever inventory gain and loss is 50% hedged, & (3) the inventory holding at any point in time is only 3 weeks, hence the inventory exposure is on 3 weeks rolling basis. That means the impact is limited to 3 weeks out of 52 weeks if oil price stabilizes after the sudden plunge. Oil price move up and down everyday, so refinery will have inventory gain or loss everyday. That is the reason why Petronm's 2015 & 2016 profit doesn't correlate with oil price crash.
And last but not least, I am still bullish on Petronm's retailing biz, which offers stable profit and growing volume. This is the jewel of the biz.
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Posted by probability > 2017-08-09 23:36 | Report Abuse
unclemau, too many variables unknowns like petron corp retail contribution, bataan refinery contribution etc,
its impossible for me to estimate