The performance of the JV entity in the current quarter included another write-back of impairment loss of RM66.15 million. Please check the quarter report, the net profit has been inflated by the impairment write back.
Hiap Teck Venture Berhad, the Company, is currently engaged in discussions with Lembaga Hasil
Dalam Negeri (“LHDN”) on certain audit findings for the Years of Assessment (“YA”) from 2013
to 2019 involving additional tax assessments and penalties of up to RM13.5 million. Based on legal
advice obtained, Management has been advised that HTVB has merits in maintaining its stand on
the audit issues raised by LHDN. This matter is ongoing and has yet to be concluded at the time of
the issuance of this quarterly report
nomaikai_nomaikai @ The performance of the JV entity in the current quarter included another write-back of impairment loss of RM66.15 million. Please check the quarter report, the net profit has been inflated by the impairment write back.
Ans : Do you understand what do you mean impairment write back ?
Just be careful when reading comments from a free forum. Net profit is higher because of the write back and there is a potential tax issue. If remove the write back, this quarter net profit is not as rosy as reported. I let all the readers to calculate this yourself, if you remove the one time write back, what the actual figure should be.
Just need to confirm whether the 66 mil impairment is for the Hiaptek portion alone or not. I think it is likely not because the last quarter could still earn RM 20 mil and this quarter operated for 2 months, couldnt be losing so much although the steel price was lower but it will be good if anyone can confirm with the management.
The JV entity’s continued investment in plant and equipment to enhance cost efficiencies will further improve contributions to the Group. In its latest project development, the JV entity has completed the first 100,000 MT of its planned 400,000 MT coke oven plant in June 2021. The second 100,000 MT will complete in October 2021 with the next 200,000 MT targeted to complete by the second quarter of 2022. The coke oven plant will significantly reduce the JV entity’s production costs and improve its profitability. Moving forward, the JV also sees exciting opportunities as China continues to pursue its carbon emissions targets and production restrictions, and relying more on imports for general purpose items.
"For the full financial year (FY21), Hiap Teck’s net profit saw a whopping jump to RM163.43 million from RM4.29 million in FY20. Twelve-month revenue rose 15.98% to RM1.08 billion from RM932.87 million.
“Despite all the challenges, the group recorded its highest profits ever with a profit after tax of RM163.5 million for FY21."
China’s squeeze of the world’s supply of steel suggests that shortages of many products will continue until the post-pandemic demand and supply stabilize.
Car companies, for instance, are already trying to cope with a crunch in the supply of semiconductor chips; a Ford executive told CNBC that steel, too, is now part of a “new crisis” of raw materials.
In 2019, the US made 87.8 million tons of steel, according to the World Steel Association—less than a tenth of China’s 995.4 million tons of output. So while American steelmakers are now making more steel than they have since the 2008 financial crisis, it’ll be a while before they can fill the shortfall that China’s cutbacks will create.
Can go see see Prestar, EPS few quarters more than 7 cents already. Some more the company JV with Posco one of the largest steel company in the world. By the same time, the company is one of the largest shareholders of Tashin(listed steel company). Overall, I feel Prestar is super undervalued.
Above are my personal opinions, not buy call or what. Don’t blame me ya.
I prefer upstream steel company which is doing export business.
Local market is still weak. In near future, I believe China steel listed companies will have corporate activities in other countries (possible in Malaysia too)
hiaptek Malaysia only operated for one month during the may-July quarter due to mco....we can expect 2- 3 times profit the next quarter? Since operation started back mid aug
@mrbusiness Prestar itself is more toward OEM in my opinion as they partner with Murata (future trend) as Murata involve in warehouse automation and prestar provide part I believed. As more and more warehouse automation will be needed in future. By the same time, prestar can be benefited from upstream steel supply as they own some of Tashin and Posco-MPKC.
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Walao eh...fantastic results!!