no use, You could be barking up wrong tree. accounting profits probably got to do with hedging policies, accounting policies with stocks, formula for fixing prices, marketing and maintenance...and stability of crude prices.
suregain > Apr 4, 2017 09:37 PM | Report Abuse
Wow, crude oil heading up.. Hopefuly wti can reach usd52
last monday I already predicted weekly api and eia inventory report will start to surprise on the upside, but the strong oil price is still a positive surprise
as I also said before, crude oil price will mainly affect inventory gain/loss. more important is to look at the margin which is the difference between crude oil price (input) and refined product price (output)
estimated inventory gain/loss or refining margins are all just rough indicators for the upcoming results. but at least we know the sales price to end user (retail price) and raw material input cost (crude oil price) which is quite standard, unlike some funny steel companies whose cost was higher than expected as they couldn't get the supply and sales price got pressed down by customers due to lack of pricing power
Ron95 (RM): 1.75/1.75/1.70 vs 1.80/1.95/1.90 vs 2.10/2.30/2.30 Asia Tapis spread: 4.90 vs 6.78 vs 8.47 Asia Minas spread: 9.36 vs 11.03 vs 11.95 Crude oil closing price: 49 vs 56.8 vs 52.8 Gasoline (petrol) closing price: 148 vs 166 vs 170
Ron95 (RM): 1.75/1.75/1.70 vs 1.80/1.95/1.90 vs 2.10/2.30/2.30 Asia Tapis spread: 4.90 vs 6.78 vs 8.47 Asia Minas spread: 9.36 vs 11.03 vs 11.95 Crude oil closing price: 49 vs 56.8 vs 52.8 Gasoline (petrol) closing price: 148 vs 166 vs 170
the way I interpret it, there are a few factors supporting it
1. higher retail price is better for topline revenue 2. higher margin spread is good for margins 3. for potential inventory losses, Petron seems to only hold around 1 month inventory and I'm not sure how much is split between crude and processed products. if you notice, gasoline price still increase qoq so any inventory losses shouldn't be significant 4. last quarter margin surge is not exactly due to inventory gains because inventory cannot be stated higher than cost, it's more of a timing benefit
e.g. they bought crude oil back in Sept for Oct sales, crude price is cheaper 1-2 months ago but in Oct, government fixed retail price at 1.80 because of increasing oil price trend in Sept, so technically Petron benefit by buying cheaper and selling higher
so similarly when crude price started to drop in early Mar, but Mar retail price is already fixed (Ron 95 at 2.30) so timing wise Petron didn't lose out as whatever stock they bought back in Jan/Feb for processing, they still get to sell it at 2.30 (which was determined when average price is around 56)
the only time when they lose out is like past week when retail price is revised down as oil price retraced but raw materials were bought before Mar when oil price was higher. so my theory is only a sustained downtrend would result in significant inventory losses qoq but looking at oil price now, it seems to be back up so that may not hit them much
overall I'm not greedy, an EPS of 25-30c is good enough. I think what scares away investor is the quarterly volatility. annual results are quite stable at around 80c EPS. if looking to invest longer term, any swing in quarterly results wouldn't matter plus annual free cashflow over market cap is almost 20%
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Posted by suregain > 2017-04-01 07:23 | Report Abuse
Oil price up further.. Next mon petron good show