Very interesting discovery by the Maybank IB team.
16,908 ha freehold land worth more than its mkt cap GENP is one of the largest freehold land owner in Peninsular Malaysia (PM) with 16,908 ha, with 61% located in Johor, 18% in Malacca & Negeri Sembilan, 18% in Kedah & Perak, and 3% in Selangor (ie. Sepang). GENP continues to carry these valuable assets at their book values. As these lands were amassed progressively since 1981, and strategically located on highly populated areas of the west coast of PM, we estimate these freehold land to be worth MYR7.25b or 1.5x GENP’s current market cap.
Its 10,397 ha Johor land is worth MYR5,656m GENP has remaining 10,397 ha of freehold land in Johor, of which 2,555 ha (or 6,311 acres) are located in the Iskandar region, making GENP one of the largest landowner in Iskandar. GENP has two active township projects in Johor - at Kulai and Batu Pahat. Since the 1990s, GENP has been monetising some of its prime estate land via property developments. Its freehold landbank offers good inflationary hedge GENP has focused on aggressively growing its oil palm planted area from 48,710 ha in 2003 to 138,301 ha in 2022, translating to a CAGR of 5.4%. As land values in Malaysia appreciate, most of GENP’s oil palm expansion over the last two decades shifted to Indonesia. Naturally, the oil palm division is the larger profit contributor, accounting for 67%-95% of its yearly group core PBIT over the past 10 years, with the balance contributed by the property division. In the past, the property division has helped to weather the earnings of the group during periods of low oil palm profits.
The history repeat itself. It was the same injection of Empire Resort that spoil the party previously. Unless if this baby turnaround start making profit and self sustaining otherwise expect the same to happen again 🥲
Just a small correction and i'm sure there will be good news coming very soon. The price will be above 5 and keep on moving upward. FF will thanks those who sell bcoz they need more cheap ticket. Cheers ; P
Ha ha I had said this biggest risk is from funding other business….owned by major shareholder. This is a GOVERNANCE ISSUE…….IN A PROPER RUN COMPANY THIS WOULD NOT HAPPEN. INDEPENDENT MEMBERS OF THE BOARD ARE NOT INDEPENDENT OR STRONG ENOUGH …
I am pretty sure that there is no cost control Empire Resorts…they pay themselves exorbitant salaries and ask other independent company to pick up cost …quite shameful actually.
Run by crooks….can’t put it any other way. In companies that have good governance investment is only made if it is going to be beneficial to shareholders ….in this company the ceo and directors are not independent…that why we have the highest paid CEO….in an underperforming company that has delivered negativd shareholder returns over a considerable period …not withstanding CV19
Insiders pushed the price to above 5 and than dumped it knowing this announcement will be made …..there is lot,of insider dealing in this counter as there is lack of governance. This is not the first time! We had with Taurx …price shot up and there was massive selling of share in relation to cruise business not owned by Genting)
On the positive side ….think of the psychological side of this action particularly the timing….. price was rallying in anticipation of the results so best time to correct the price is now. Insiders will buy the shares the results are likely to be very good and price will rally again …..this time perhaps after 25 Feb! What the foreign investors make of this game who knows some of the institutions are very touchy on governance matters and this action may be costly. We also have Taurx in all this which big boss can use to activate price rise! The game goes on. Just sharing my thoughts!
On all this nice to have solid counters like Gamuda and Yinson to name a couple …with good governance ethics on the polar opposite we had Serba who pretty much had discounted share placements when the CEO wanted funding for his expensive holidays 😂😂
In the context of things this equity investment by GenM sends the wrong optics and the financial cost of it is not too significant ….as some will be used to pay bank loan and GenM will see some benefit of this. The key driver still worth watching how Empire Resort is performing …..Can anyone in this forum shed some light ? Is it improving and likely to be profitable in 2023?
Keyman….the Kenanga are referring to Genting Malaysia price discount 0f 5% from 3.07 to 2.90 and not Genting ….! It is a mistake ….GenM is the investor and not Genting
The impact is minuscule but it is all about a morality of these type of transactions! So unethical …why would a business increase its investment in business which is loss making and to make it worse does not have controlling stake even though it owns 89 % the private entity of mr Lim controls the board! That’s the issue. Bursa should definitely look at these sort of transactions as they destroy confidence in the market!
As I have been repeating for umpteen months since Aug 2019, this LimCo(kTaHi cannot be trusted...I wrote to several local funds in the Top 30 shareholders listing in Genm AR also none replied to my proposal for an EGM to block the 1st empire deal...
Fortunately I have funneled a large chunk of my hard-preserved $ undiminished by rich Bolehland bandits into the Tokyo exchange & have the great satisfaction of seeing my Nomura, Dentsu & 7 other investments up respectably since purchase...
切记,富不过三代,创业难,守业更难,genting hong kong can file bankruptcy protection, anything can happen. Don't worry, my wife is holding genting. I also don't wan it to go down. Just my 2 cents.
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Thank you very much SAVE, STAMPID54 & MG9231 for your positive comments.