Thanks to Wealthwizard for sharing such great works with all of us. It helps more people to know the businesses & financial figures of these companies.
Sorry for delay in Part 3 which supposed to be out on Wednesday due to my personal tight schedule.
Also, I am writing letter (email) to the company to get some of the information in last few quarters & prices of CRC & HRC, as a shareholder of the company.
Hope they can reply me soonest possible to assist in getting more accurate figures when forecasting coming months figures.
Hi Chan, I don't have any idea what will company do or reply, it depend how management want to do.
Just want to share the example of Gadang, Tan Sri rejected the ideas of corporate exercises one year ago, now he changed his mind and share price went up from RM2.60+ to now RM3.
Fiamma was another extreme case, corporate exercise caused share price limit up the next day.
While it do no harm to the benefits of the major shareholder, corporate exercise is always useful tools or instrument in pushing the price.
(Though I see nothing changed in everything except more shares in hand)
Every time look at those news, it reminded me never trust whatever newspapers said. Always do homework to figure out the real picture. Don't just look at the surface. Try to filter the positive & consider the negative.
Now I understand what Fong Siling said in his book where a good company can only be discovered after lots of works done, no short cut.
Look at the annual returns stored at his study room (cover of his book), he knows the stories, the businesses & financial status of many PLCs, if not all.
Look at Peter Lynch & Warren Buffett, they are also studying lots of annual reports everyday before making any investing decision.
To make good money in investing, business sense is key factor, next is to prove the business sense is valid by looking at the company's news, management, financial figures & past records (profits & dividends).
just read page 31 - 37 (especially page 32) to have a feel on the production costs.
Malaysia being a fuel producer - natural gas, and assuming they use their own power generator in their plants....should have an advantage in the cost of production due to recent dip in fuel price.
At the same time, analysts say Mycron Steel Bhd, the producer of CRC, is making good progress following the closure of the Megasteel plant as reflected by its actively traded share prices lately.
The share ended 7.5 sen higher at 78.5 sen yesterday.
While Megasteel has a monopoly on the sale of HRC locally, it also ventured into CRC production a few years ago, thus creating an imbalanced playing field to other CRC players like Mycron Steel.
In Malaysia, CRC players are required to buy half of their HRC requirements from Megasteel while other HRC users, such as pipe makers, are required to buy all or a large portion of their HRC requirements from the company.
Shud be uptrending till the next qr. as next qr is expected to be excellent. Note tat at 80 sen,it has risen 300% frm the low of 20 sen. This ctr has outperformed annjoo in terms of %.
hmmm.... interesting... I sold Airasia when price was RM1.80 when everyone shouted here & there, some said more to come & some said too high, So history told me I made big mistake.
the mkt always price in the future.if only price in the past then every accountant will be super rich.
when demand increase (multi billions projects like HSR,Pan Borneo,etc and govt anti dumping duties) and cost decrease ( shut down of Megasteel leading to lower raw material costs),every investor worth their salt as well as some sharks....will flock to crc producers.
most people are singing good points about the share and its prospects when the world market loses more than 2% on Friday and sentiment around the world is getting negative. Let's see whether the black swan is going to swallow all the positive vibes or killed by one small company which produces metal. When zinc price continues to fall in the world market and the said company is operating in a tough environment since time immemorial, risk takers are happily taking up the shares not knowing that steel companies have never shown PE valuations higher than 6X due to the fact that steel companies are a boring industry and without much to shout about. Pls continue to sing good notes till the sharks are full and you need to wait a few more decades for your hard earned money to be redeemed.
if eps increase,even if pe is 6.share pr will increase. eps is a product of demand n supply,if demand far exceed supply,eps will increase. further,eps will increase due to lowered input costs.
Both CRC & HRC prices in China were increasing since end of June, up almost more than 16%, local prices have also increased steadily at slower pace, it will be wise to look at this segment rather than others' which are not so relevant and far indirect, say zinc, or even prices of those in US.
Also, success rate in investing based on historical PE for cyclical stocks is extremely low. Surrounding on-going events will play more decisive factors rather what had happened.
Make your own decision based on homeworks rather than look up to some others.
Don't praise too much on the effect of sharks, will tiger affraid of shark? Make yourself Tiger by learning more, assess what people said including mine, blindly follow will only lead you to far away from financial freedom in old age.
..it is more about capacity 'utilization rate' and 'flexibility' to adopt to latest technology due to smaller Capex fractions than the capacity itself.
EBITDA margin of Mycron which is far superior seems to have proven the point.
I am quite curious on why the core PPE of Mycron excluding the Land & Building valuation is higher than Cscstel despite the capacity being almost 3 folds higher..
(note: that is despite CRC's absolute value is higher, i mean it does not make sense if the margin is to be maintained theoretically...me no idea on the anti-dumping duties and to what level is freedom given to source HRC outside Malaysia...)
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yup...clearest opportunity.