FA wise LiiHen is ok. If u believe that MYR will continue to weaken, then investing in LiiHen, hevea is ok. If you believe MYR has bottomed out, then the prospect of LiiHen is less exciting. Subject to your own macro view.
when directors buy stocks, it means they have confidence in the company. when directors sell stocks, means they need money for personal things.no need to panic
they only dispose above 3.1. Lets face it, this is a slow grow stock now, will grow, just slowly, if suddenly fly above 3.1 and 3.2 i director sure dispose abit lah. Wait 3.04 etc to buy
If FED raise the interest rate for US, will it affect this counter? Good effect:interest rate raised ,hot money flow to us,US dollar appreciated,Liihen's product become cheaper,sales increased Bad effect: interest rate raised,money savings increased,consumption decreased,Liihen's sale dropped Which effect will affect this counter more?
I would want to know whether I know what kind of risks I will be taking. I want to take minimal risk for high returns. I want to have my margin of safety or error factored in my decision.
Last year was exceptional due to higher USD. In fact, high USD shielded its from decline in bedding division in June quarter 2016. Do I expect higher USD going for bull run into the future, say 5-years? A sensible answer from anyone should be you don't know. Given the already high USD, any successive higher USD every year is akin to a bull climbing a wall. By the way, didn't BNM and minister said our RM is undervalue? So, forex risk is high.
How about the manufacturer's ability to raise price and production volume in the future? I don't have much info. Did Lii Hen raise price recently or due to revise it not too long into future? Was the improvement in the past years due to growth in volume exported? Who is main customers, how many % each contributes, how sticky they are, who do its customers target? I don't have a lot of info to analyse. But 3 positive points I noted. USA economy is growing albeit slowly in the past few years. Housing formation in the USA is still healthy. Trump existing known policy is expected to cause economy and inflation in USA to go up more rapidly in the next few years. Main risks I identify include increasing competition from furniture players, probable set-back in any of its division such as bedding as happened in June 16 quarter, commodity nature of the product and sudden decline of this cyclical industry.
Cost. Lii Hen said main concern is cost. Increasing cost and labour shortage. It is increasing automation. This is long run positive. In short run, the issues remain. Will cost increase unproportionately in the short run? Minimum wage has increased for one, and another is fuel cost. I don't know whether wood prices have increased or not and whether Lii Hen can pass the increase cost over to its customers? Even if it can, there is time lag. Lii Hen is right to go towards direction of automation.
ROE in 2015 is early teen. In 2014, in single digit. Not impressive.
Cash flow is good.
How about MOAT? Perhaps it has good in house designer which understands its customers really well which mitigates the commodity nature of its products? Long term relationship and management experiences? Doesn't seem to amount to a lot of moat to me.
So do I want to own Lii Hen? I got to check further some of the things I lacked info and why its ROE is low. But based on the results for the past 5 years, there hasn't been any downturn except in 2013. So business has been good. Furniture is considered quite a necessity but lack of moat. Net profit margins were 8% and 13% in 2014 and 2015, which reflects nature of business.
Now I know the risks based on imagination if I buy Lii Hen, what sort of return will I get? Is current PE of 8 to 10x considered low? What was its average PE in the past? What has been built in this price i.e. performance in 2015 is expected to repeat into many years in the future. So if I pay this price, I have to pray that the forex is favourable for that many years, USA continues to grow and market is happy paying current PE. To conclude, I will not buy at current price.
I sold my holdings at 3.17 yesterday at a loss. After analysing what to expect this qtr, I think it is highly probable that the result will lack + my analysis which revealed my short of info adding to the existing risks inherent in this stock.
I bought this stock after reading KYY's comment. When I purchased it, I did only superficial research, now I suffered.
funny to see many ppl damn coward hahahha..... there's no way you would know the or guess correctly the next qtr profit hahahhaha.... the problem is you unable to tolerate market fluctuations.....
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