Mr Ooi, evidently you're wrong, your charts are wrong and your trading system is most unreliable. The fact is the price has fallen from 2.00 to 1.83 today since January 7. The price has fallen to a low of 1.77 in the last 4 weeks. At the time of writing the buying rate is 27%. It is futile and absurd to say your paroblic SAR is showing a buy signal now. If so, how do you explain the selling? It is no shame to admit that we're wrong when our mistakes are staring glaringly back at us. We're humans and we're not infallible. Investments entail risks and we've no one to blame but ourselves if we've made the wrong decision. Let's come down to Earth. Cheers.
Please check your chart, 1.76 is a strong support. Since day 1 when I recommend this stock, I advise investor to cut loss at 1.73 which is 3 bids below the support of 1.76.
Parabolic SAR is showing a buy sign, hence we should not cut loss unless the price is below 1.73.
FA and TA are two completely different strategies. I used to think I am right in my strategy and other strategies are wrong. But I think in finance and investment, nothing is right or wrong in each strategy. What is important is what are you good at and what works for you, consistently. Often we don't know much or are not good enough to say others' strategies are wrong. Of course sometimes things can be clearer, but not in this case. That is my opinion. I still like Ooi's strategy of buy good FA stocks, and entry (not exit for me) with TA.
Imf_hau, sorry unable to advise you. I'm not a chartist and I'm not good at TA. Always get it wrong. I'm a fundamental long-term investor with an average 10-year strategy. So I'm not affected by price fluctuations. Like many here I find this stock a good long term buy. As you can see, its price has been falling gradually and surely. I wouldn't be surprise if it keeps falling unabated until the powers that be decide that it has fallen enough to let it rise. Those who read charts must know that you are not the only ones reading them. It is the big boys with the financial muscles who call the shots. Charts can never predict how a stock will perform in the future.
at least you maintain ur stance and decisive type of trader. unlikely the teacher chicken trader, dare not to maintain stance... always ending with ???
You are FA investor, please do not comment on TA, You know nut about TA and write here like TA sifu. Did you use my system ? Are you sure that it is the most unreliable ? Do you lose money using my system ? Did you read the chart of Kfima ? Do you know about daily Parabolic SAR ? Is daily Parabolic SAR bullish now ?
Very disappointed with your post. You do not have substance, please do not act here like a TA Sifu.
otb , dont angry la.. but seriously, you bought kfima for almost 2 months already, still in losing position, all i have to say is... your TA is lousy. sorry for my straight forward... :P
No system is 100%, as long as your chance to win is > 51%, it is good enough. I do not worry about KFima, I can afford to cut loss at 1.73. We do not measure the performance in 2 months, I measure it in a bit longer term. Let me tell you a story. A worker getting his pay on daily basis is a financially poor worker. A worker getting his pay on monthly basis is a financially average worker. A worker getting his pay on yearly basis is a financially rich worker. Likewise, an investor counts his profit in a year is a rich investor. Do you want to be a rich investor or a poor investor ?
TA may call us to cut loss @ 1,73 but using business sense we should know that the value of business remains intact ( in fact is improving ) then why cut loss ? Cut loss should not be applied in Kfima ,and for it to drop to 1,50 which means 17% drop can you guess what will be for KLCI ,most likely below 1400. No, KLCI will not drop to this level unless something bad happen to our country.
In my view, as long as the company is making money and you know its value, why cut loss? Unless something bad happen to the company. If it really drop below 1.50, should buy gain because its value is still there. Cut loss is for those trading people who doesnt want longer term investment.
why so kind to promote any stock (unless you derive a benefit), & ended up all kinds of condemnations. the values of a stock is quite static until a major change of biz direction or global financial unheavels. just some syndicate push here & there for their own takings. having said that, all recommendations must end with.......caveat emptor!!
[KFima's 3QFY13 revenue increased marginally from RM117.4m in the previous corresponding year to RM119.5m in the current quarter (+1.8% y-o-y, -6.5% q-o-q) due to higher contributions from manufacturing and bulking divisions. Net profit rose to RM22.7m from RM14.8m y-o-y (+54.1% y-o-y, +19.4% q-o-q) with YTD earnings +11.4% despite declining CPO prices, and unexpectedly lower sales from the food division. The group‟s YTD performance has achieved 82% and 75% respectively of our FY13F revenue and net profit estimates which we assume would meet our full year forecast reaffirming our Outperform recommendation and TP of RM3.21.] For me what matters most for a company which has steady businesses and long enough record of performance is the free cash flow (FCF) it produces. FCF is what the company receives as hard cash each year less whatever capital expenses required for maintaining its competitive advantage and future growth. Hence it is clear that it is this FCF available that the company can pay dividend, pay down debts, increase its cash holdings, do some other investments, buy back shares. The table below shows its cash flows from the last 5 years in thousands: Year 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 CFFO 132346 139552 116823 59792 67049 Capex -26434 -24022 -19500 -23826 -32009 FCF 105912 115530 97323 35966 35040 Net income 116543 107502 86433 70627 43274 FCF/Revenue 22% 27% 24% 10% 11% Dividend per share,sen 8.0 7.0 5.0 3.0 2.5
One can see the consistent FCF produced by Kfima in the last 5 years in an increasing trend, with FCF about the same as its net income; and FCF above 20% of revenue. I think besides those tobacco, liquor, empat ekor etc companies, you probably won’t find this type of excellent FCF from any other companies. Notice also the rising trend of dividend payment made possible by the excellent cash flows? But how is the cash flows of Kfima for the last few quarters? The trailing twelve month net income attribute to common shareholders of Kfima increased by 14% to 92.2 m, or 34.4 sen per share after taking into the increased number of shares due to the ESOS. However for the 9 months ended fiscal year 2013 on 31 December 2012, CFFO decreased to 26.4m. FCF is negative for this period with capital expenses of 39m. This is mainly due to increased in receivables by 62m to 125.7m, and an increase in tax payment by 12m to 30m. However, its approximately 100 days of sales outstanding is actually its norm and last year’s low DSO is exceptional. Its net cash also reduced by about 10% accordingly, but with a net cash of 232m, its balance sheet is still very healthy. Hence for me this poorer cash flow may need to monitor a little, but it is not a concern for the time being.
Actually this company's bane is that it has wayyyy too much cash. If they deploy the cash for expansion or distribute to shareholder, he price will jump significantly.
Anyway I look left, look right all over KLSE, I cannot find a share with so excellent FA results selling at PE 6x... at PE 20x however there are plenty. :P
Kumpulan Fima produces 130m+ of cash from its operations each of the last two years. After spending about 25m each in capital expenses, it still has about 110m of cash left termed as free cash flow (FCF) as shown.
Example for last year, 26.8m dividend is paid out to common and minority shareholders, 51.6m was used to pay down debts, and still left with a lot of extra cash in the balance sheet. That is why you can see dividend payment increases every year and its debts getting lower and lower. Yeah, a lot of cash which will be handy when an investment opportunity comes around like buying more land for palm oil, making a positive net present value projects, buying an investment which can yield return of capital higher than the cost of capital etc. Or just distribute some special dividends to shareholders?
hi KCchongz, I know that DCF valuation method is suitable toderive intrinsic value for companies with stable postive cashflow every year. How would you value companies with volatile cashflow swinging between +ve and -ve (eg in early growth stages with a lot of acquisition etc in play) ? Appreciate your advise, I m looking at evergreen fibreboard as an example.
DCF analysis is an art. You use some assumptions. In your case, you still can do the same DCF with your assumptions. First year how much, the following years how much etc. If it is negative, then you assume the company borrow money, or issues shares in order to get the cash for growth. Eventually your assumptions would be the company is finally producing certain steady cash flows, with certain growth and terminal growth etc. Then you discount all these positive and negative cash flows back to the present value with certain discount rate. This will be a lot harder and much more subjective than a company which is already producing steady cash flows. But the point is, DCF is really an art which could likely be wrong. Hence it is advised that you must have a safe margin of safety above the calculated intrinsic value if you invest in that company.
Hi KC, thanks for the advise. Do you apply DCF analysis for all your studies or are there other methods you deploy depending on stock ? For example , I read about absolute P/E method of valuation from the book Active value investing in range bound market. What's your opinion on that method (If you;ve read the book) ?
houseofordos, yeah I do DCF analysis for all the shares I am interested to invest in. It is already built in my spreadsheet. It is the method used in finance (If you learn about finance then you will know what I mean). However I don't say it is a correct way to do when doing actual investing because there are also a lot of criticisms about this method, in particular the forecast future cash flows, the discount rate etc. As a matter of fact, few investors used them. But that is me. You don't have to be the same.
Regarding PE ratio method of valuation, whether absolute or relative, they have their advantages too, especially its simplicity and most people understand it. Some PE ratio method also incorporates other variables such as business risk, financial risk, earnings visibility, growth expectation, dividend yield etc which are quite good too. However, simplicity doesn't mean best too, does it? In fact I find they have a lot of short comings. EPS can be and often twisted, prodded and squeezed into various numbers depending on how you do the books. The result is that we often don't know whether we are comparing the same figures, or apples to oranges.
Hence I normally use a variety of ways to value a stock and when every method converges, then I will take the necessary action in investing.
gark, yeah, estimating future cash flows is the most hazardous endeavor and hence I agree with you many DCF valuations can be chucked into "longkang". The other thing is if DCF analysis is so exact and investors react to them, that the richest people in the world would be those university finance professors. But somehow if you find that a company's business is so good and you want to invest in it, don't you think you have to approximately have a feel of its value before having an idea what price you should pay for it? DCF is just one of the ways to have a feel of the value of a business. For me if I am interested in a good company and wish to invest it, I do some valuations using some conservative assumptions. And when I get the value, I still won't buy it unless it is selling at a comfortable margin of safety as advocated by Ben Graham. Ben's famous follower, Warren Buffet always talk about the value and price of an investment., even at the latest Berkshire Hathaway AGM recently. That is:
"a business with terrific economics can be a bad investment if the price paid is excessive."
Yes, DCF is not a definitive guide but mere a glimpse into the intrinsic value of the share. Share value can not be calculated, it is estimated. And most of the estimates is wrong, even warren buffet admits that hence he buys easy to understand business.
So I believe those TA signals, TP, over bought/sell etc etc is all 'noise'. If you cannot or not willing to keep the shares for longer term prospects (ie. short term gain) better don't touch it.
For me I rather approach purchasing of shares like I am buying the whole entire company. If the entire company looks good enough after doing due diligence, and have margin of discount then it is a good buy.
Buy shares like you buy steaks in the supermarket, buy when they are on sale. :)
What is the main objective of the management? The objective is to build value and then let the price reflect that value. Focusing on pushing up the share price instead of concentrating in improving the business is a unsustainable short-term measure, often compromising the interest of the minority shareholders. Read about "Conspiracy Theory: The true Enron story", you will understand what it means. At home, we have the examples of management too interested in share price rather than its business such as Octagon,MasterSkill, Permaju, Ivory, London Biscuits, KNM etc etc. Look who eventually suffer?
This book is the result of the author's many years of experience and observation throughout his 26 years in the stockbroking industry. It was written for general public to learn to invest based on facts and not on fantasies or hearsay....
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Posted by New Insight Sabah > 2013-02-27 11:54 | Report Abuse
Mr Ooi, evidently you're wrong, your charts are wrong and your trading system is most unreliable. The fact is the price has fallen from 2.00 to 1.83 today since January 7. The price has fallen to a low of 1.77 in the last 4 weeks. At the time of writing the buying rate is 27%. It is futile and absurd to say your paroblic SAR is showing a buy signal now. If so, how do you explain the selling? It is no shame to admit that we're wrong when our mistakes are staring glaringly back at us. We're humans and we're not infallible. Investments entail risks and we've no one to blame but ourselves if we've made the wrong decision. Let's come down to Earth. Cheers.