To be conservative, let start with worst case scenario for Petronm profit estimation. First we start with inventory/stock loss calculation
1. Worse case inventory/stock loss (Management stated in AGM they keeps 18-21 days stock) – I assume 22 days
Stock loss = 48k barrels x 22 (48.2 – 52.95)
= USD -5.016mil
= RM-21.57mil
2) Lower Refinery margin (lower down from USD5.3 to USD5.0) in a quarter (based on its regular throughput per day of 48k). Management also told us in AGM that its refinery currently running at around 60%.
= 4.368mil barrels X USD5.0 (estimated profit margin per barrel)
= USD 21.84mil
= RM 93.91mil
Throughput data from 2016 AR as shown in figure below (91 day in Q2 X 48k = 4.368 mil barrels)
3) Lower retails segment contribution (even though Ramadan month was in June and Q2 is 91 days as compared to 90 days of Q1), but let’s assume it performs 5% lower than Q1’17
= 100 mil (part 1 article assume 105 mil)
Net Gross Profit = -21.57mil + 93.91 + 100
= 172.34mil (part 1 article estimate 186.9mil)
4) Assuming higher operating cost and same finance cost of 5% more than Q1’17 (from Q1 report), Q2 operation cost and finance cost is = 36.33 mil
Net Profit = (172.34-36.33) mil = RM136.01 mil.
(Actually it should has lower finance cost in Q2 as last quarter it paid up 56 mil of loan that lead to lower interest cost)
Assume the same tax rate of 26.9% as per last quarter,
New possible lower or worse case Net Profit = RM136.01mil deduct 26.9% tax
= RM99.42 mil
RM99.42 mil --> EPS of 36.83 sen.
From this media release, Petron group profit is P2.6 billion and this translate to RM221 millions. From Q1 data, Petronm contributed about 30% of the overall net income. From estimated RM99.42 mil net profit, its contribution will rise to about 45% (99.42/221 x 100). This is the worse case scenario profit that I can think off for Petronm. The possible reasons higher contributions of Petronm on the overall Petron Corp profit are as below:
1. 45-days shut down of refinery
2. High inventory loss in Petron Corp (Philippine) as it refinery shutdown for 45 days (its Bataan refinery rated capacity is 180kbpd which should keep higher number of stock)
3. Overhead cost in refinery factory (due to it still needs to pay salary, electricity bill etc during the shut down)
Although market sentiment is weak, affecting petron share price under correction. but, it also give opportunity for late comer that miss previous rally to have chance to join at current relatively bargain entry level now.
The most important factors influencing refinery profitability are include refined product cracks, the costs of other feedstocks and blendstocks, and the sweet-sour crude oil spreads, the Gasoline and diesel cracks.
Currently, Petron feed-stock cost, crude oil, also under correction, render support for Petron profit margin.
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Though a little late, KYY and OTB should learn by now, Petronm is an extremely undervalued counter that they can really make more than others based on the healthy balance sheet and good dividend.
In addition, the price of the stock can double within very short span of time.
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Posted by Intergritytrader > 2017-08-11 09:37 | Report Abuse
Another 10% shoot down for CD... duno how many 10% CD can go