If you want to play this Marco share or its warrant, jaga jaga sikit because the main shareholder, latuk apa itu, is a very shrewd man. susah nak handle.
The share price of timepiece and consumer electronics products specialist Marco Holdings Berhad had climbed up steadily from 14 sen in the beginning of this month to about 18 sen now. While its company warrant MARCO-WA had risen even more in percentage term than the mother share, chalking of gain of more than 50% in the month of May compared with about 30% gain for the mother share, punters are not overly excited with the warrant as MARCO-WA is trading at a significant discount to conversion.
Marco Holdings’ financial performance had been on a steady path of growth over the last few years. From a revenue of some RM60 million ten years ago, Marco Holdings managed to almost double its revenue to RM115 million in 2012. Even more impressive is the company’s consistent profit performance. Marco Holdings may be one of very few companies in Bursa Malaysia that had been able to record a decade of yearly profit growth. In the financial year ended 2012, Marco Holdings posted a net profit of RM14.4 million which is a slight increase over the RM13.7 million net profit achieved in 2011.
In the first quarter of 2013, Marco Holdings also managed to continue to chalk up growth in net profit to RM3.5 million as compared with RM2.8 million the corresponding period in 2012. According to notes accompanying the latest quarterly report, Marco Holdings is optimistic of the Group outlook in 2013 given its strong brand offerings for quality products despite the expected slowdown in Malaysian economy. Marco Holdings also announced a dividend of 8% per 10 sen ordinary share or 0.8 sen per share after the release of first quarter result last week. The ex-dividend date will be on 4 June 2013.
As buyer of MARCO-WA does not get to enjoy dividend payment, the discount of the warrant is not as large as it seems. However, even after deducting the 0.8 sen upcoming dividend payment, MARCO-WA is still trading at a slight discount. This would provide existing shareholders of Marco Holdings an opportunity to earn some risk free profit by selling the mother share and using the proceed to buy the warrant. As the ex-dividend date is just around the corner, there is no need to exercise the warrant immediately and thus Marco Holdings’ shareholders can just dispose the share and buy back the warrant while at the same time realize some cash for other use.
If an investor is bullish on the continued steady growth of Marco Holdings, he can also opt to buy MARCO-WA as a cheaper alternative and should in theory give its holder an excess 170% gain in percentage term compared to the mother share if the share price continues to rise.
WA still has the time factor of a year and with some discount premium. I think can punt for a try. small volume only.. May cost me some $$, treat as a lesson and fee if the worst happen. tq
Dear Kcchongnz. If I have 1000 units WA purchased at 0.05 and now converted to mother share. Cost to get 1000 mother share is (1000 x 0.10 + 1000 x 0.05 = rm150.) If the mother share is 0.15 or above I should be making a profit margin right.
Yes, theoretically you are right. If you send Wa for conversion and when the converted share come back say 2 weeks time and Marco's share price stays at 16 sen, you make one sen per share. If it does up higher than 16 sen, you even make more. However if Marco share comes down below 15 sen, then you lose.
The advantage of Wa is that you have the right to convert to Marco share but not the obligation. You can wait and see until Wa expires. So Wa besides the intrinsic value of 6 sen per share, it also has some time value.
As Wa is undervalued in relation to the underlying share, it is actually better to hold Wa, if you are interested in Marco's business. The business seems ok to me. However, just don't be too greedy because Robert Wong is not a simple person.
Since i have written a few posts on Marco warrant before, i think I should be responsible to write another post here.
My experience in investing in the Marco warrant is not a good one. Not easy trying to make some money from this laduk. I am glad I didn't lose much. I will avoid investing in any of his companies.
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