Congratulation! Calvintaneng, your Jtiasa and Taann rally today while other stocks remain flat after their quarter results.These so called fundamantally stocks will only go up 1 week in the month of their quarter results.
11 March marks the 4th anniversary of COVID-19 pandemic. We pay tribute to the plantation sector that has contributed immensely during the pandemic. While not undermining the sacrifices by the front-liners and others in the fight against COVID-19, this sector has played its part in ensuring food security, job security, and health security not just for the nation but the world over. Despite rising cost challenges and falling output, the sector still made huge monetary contribution of >MYR23b over the past 4 years in various forms of direct and indirect taxes, and contributions.
*>MYR23b in “social” contribution to the grateful for*
Between 2020 and 2023, the plantation sector has contributed approx. MYR6.1b in windfall profit levy, MYR3.7b in export duties, MYR1.3b in MPOB CESS (see Fig.1), MYR0.2b in Prosperity Taxes, >MYR6b in Sabah and Sarawak Sales Taxes (our back-of-the-envelope estimates), and easily >MYR6b in corporate income taxes and individual taxes (by the smallholders) to the Malaysian government . The sector is said to be among the highest tax contributor in terms of total taxes (including windfall profit levy, export duties, CESS, and Sabah and Sarawak Sales Taxes, in addition to corporate taxes). Monies collected by the government were channelled to (among others) nation building and running of many social programmes including free COVID vaccinations given to the people and cash handouts given to the needy during the pandemic.
*Food & health security roles often taken for granted*
Palm oil holds more than 50% market share in the global vegetable oils trade. Hence, its continuous availability is crucial to global food security as well as health security. Throughout the pandemic, palm oil exports never stopped as the government allowed palm oil cultivation to proceed.
Besides food use, the continuous availability of palm oil and palm products also meant there was the much-needed ingredients to make personal cares and cleaning products such hand wash, soap, laundry detergents, hand sanitisers, etc that the world desperately needed in its fight against the highly infectious COVID-19 virus.
*Job security for the locals as well as guest workers* Many people lost their jobs at the start of the pandemic and had to draw down their hard-earned life savings to make ends meet. Prior to the pandemic, the sector has a strong workforce of 437,400 in Malaysia comprising local and guest workers. During the pandemic, the plantation sector was among the few granted special approval by the government to operate. Social distancing at workplace was inherent in the estates given that one worker typically covers more than 10 hectares of estates, providing a naturally safe working environment. Workers were even given free COVID vaccinations by their employers. At the height of the pandemic, outsiders had limited access to the staffs’ housing quarters and estate operations to ensure the safety of their workers and families. While country borders were mostly closed initially, guest workers remained employed throughout and were paid decent wages (plus incentives) that allowed them to repatriate the much-needed income to provide for their families back home (presumably equally affected by the pandemic).
Let's watch if Taann can break out from 4.10. On cargo surveyors' data, shipments of Malaysian palm oil products for March seen rising between 20.5% and 29.2% compared to February, according to Intertek Testing Services and AmSpec Agri Malaysia. Palm oil future close@4392, 2nd day higher than 4320, let see if can sustain tomorrow. If flag pattern breakout confirmed, with roughly measurement of 1st leg (4300-3840=460), 2nd leg potential uptrend can be 4150+460=4610.
FCPO: On cargo surveyors' data, shipments of Malaysian palm oil products for March likely jump between 11.77% and 29.2%, said Intertek Testing Services, AmSpec Agri, and SGS. Meanwhile, Reuters estimated stockpiles likely fall by 6.65% mom to an 8-month low of 1.79 million tons at the end of March.
Yes, closed 4.29, +4.13%. Thanks to TAANN and 22 other green stocks to offset 12 red stocks, my portfolio made new all time high again today. Thank-you Mr Market!
Malaysia palm oil stock level fell 10%............ Malaysian palm oil futures were below MYR 4,280 per tonne, falling for the second session after hitting MYT 4,360 last week due to weakness in rival edible oil on the Chicago Board and a fall in palm olein on the Dalian. A drop in crude oil prices also weighed sentiment, as bets grew that the ongoing Middle East conflict would be contained. Traders were also cautious as the Eid al-Fitr festive buying nears its end. At the same time, they anticipated crucial economic data from key buyer China, including Q1 GDP figures and March industrial output and retail sales. Limiting the downside momentum was fresh data from the industry regulator showing Malaysia's palm oil stocks at the end of March fell 10.68% mom to an 8-month low of 1.71 million metric tons. Crude palm oil production gained 10.57%, while palm oil exports climbed 28.61%. On cargo surveyor data, shipments of Malaysian palm oil products for April 1-15 rose about 9.0% from the same period in March, Intertek Testing Services said.
1st interim dividend 15sen (last year 10sen) Final/2nd dividend 20 Sen (last year 15 sen) I believe total dividend FY24 shall be 35sen. This give rise to 9% DY! It’s hard to find this elsewhere.
Encouraging results … actually , I was expecting a 10 Sen dividend so 15 is a nice surprise. This share is still cheap considering a couple of years ago it went as high as 6.15 - I’ll use the div to buy more.
CPO is over $4,000 again ! Without extraordinary losses, predominantly upstream plantation should do very well this year . I am back to plantation in a big way …
Ta Ann is a Bursa Malaysia timber cum plantation company. Since Oct last year, its price had gone from about RM 3.30 per share to as high as RM 4.30 per share. Today it is down to RM 3.80 per share. Does this represent an investment opportunity?
I would consider Ta Ann a wonderful company in the Buffett sense. There were topline and bottom-line growths. It had diversified into the plantation sector delivered a big part of the growth.
The are signs of improving operating efficiencies as exemplified by the gross profitability, asset turnover, and leverage. It is financially sound and had been able to create shareholders’ value. https://i.postimg.cc/L4zhzgkD/Chart-6.png My valuation as shown in the Chart shows that there is more than 30% margin of safety. Surely Ta Ann cannot be a value trap. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5J2ZJkqKHw
RISE OF DIESEL PRICE BY 52% CAUSED PROPERTY, CONSTRUCTION AND OTHERS CUT INTO THEIR PROFITS, BETTER BUY EAST MALAYSIA OIL PALM STOCKS DUE TO NO DIESEL PRICE SPIKE, Calvin Tan
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