Someone is defending it at 2.55 most probably an IB. Long expiry date (SEP 2024)for the 100 mil warrants issued. When the expiry date draw near kena lah ko 🤣🤣
India is the largest importer of Malaysia’s CPO and they really need our help as Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan, Salman Khan, Kajol, Priyanka Chopra, Deepika Padukone etc needs help urgently. Their Capati and Tossie does not taste the same without Mabel Oil.
Right now Malaysia can only be able to export about four million tonnes to the country. Sarawak, please work harder, we need to increase another 2 million tonnes.
Mabel Oil Production: MPOA 1-20 October 2023 Peninsular Malaysia: (+) 4.83% Sabah: (+) 4.26% Sarawak: (-) 0.54% East Malaysia: (+) 2.99% Total Malaysia: (+) 4.14%
Already November 28 qtr results pun xberani release. I think must be bad. Taan ardy reported 31% lower profit but give 15 sen div which is very generous. The worst thing that can happen to SOP is reporting lower profit and give 4 sen div 🤔
Very low div yield as compared to other plantation Cos. Hope it doesn't issue any more ESOS further diluting its earnings. Does not reward shareholders unlike Taan etc. !
Based on the delivered CPO price for October and November and the future price for December 2023 the earnings for qtr ending December 31 2023 could be worse than the previous Qtr !
Sarawak Oil Palms (SOP) is a Bursa plantation company. From a ROE perspective, it performed as good as my reference Bursa plantation company – KLK. From a fundamental perspective, it looks like a good company. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KhboTCMdEg
But is it a good investment? A good investment in one that can enabled you to make money. So you have to buy when the price is reasonable. Its current market price is about half its 5 year peak. Its LTM ROE is also about half its 5 year peak. https://i.postimg.cc/G2gjFDDC/SOP.png You might think that there is no margin of safety. But its average dividend yield over the past year was about 3.5%. On the balance of probability, it is a company worth digging further into.
Everyone followed SOP while covid... Everyone still wanna follow SOP postcovid because exagriculture minister educated drink palm oil good for healthy so palm oil good selling now:)
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).
Results for Q1 2024 : Net profit +80% yoy on the back of higher production and lower cost of production. Operating cashflow for Q1 is a massive +299.4M! Excellent results
The group is implementing an effective recovery strategy to enhance its production, which includes cost control measures and a replanting program. However, the industry will still face challenges due to global economic conditions and the declining prices of commodities.
CPO is over $4,000 again ! Without extraordinary losses, predominantly upstream plantation should do very well this year . I am back to plantation sector in a big way …
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Posted by titan3322 > 2023-10-18 17:07 | Report Abuse
Don't expect too much on the next qtr results it will probably be the same or worse than the preceding qtr !