i've hold this share at RM0.59 since 2016, re-enter few times at average RM1.10, my target price atleast RM1.80 above. good dividend payout, better rate than FD :)
RJ87, certain buy will gain and certain not. But as long cmpny makes money, no need to worry. When rest of tech stock trading above value, investor will come buy whats attractive to them.
OK before I can write my analysis and research I have to disclose that I bought over 1 million shares of DUFU in February this year. The reason I did is below.
One thing people keep harping about is how SSD is on the rise while HDD is in the decline. My research says otherwise. Here are some facts.
HDD is cheaper per GB than SSD. The price difference ratio is 5 to 1. People might say that in the future SSD will get cheaper. Maybe but it isn't possible in the next 3-4 years because of one big factor raw material cost.
The raw material used to make SSD is Silicon. However it is also the same raw material that is used to make motherboards, CPU's, smartphone chips, and also Solar panels. What that means in the same raw material that SSD is based on is literally being used by a lot of high growth industry. Since there is a high demand for the raw material for SSD chips the price of the raw material will be high and will not go down. In fact that price of Silicon has steadily been going up and up this year. You can check it out for yourself here.
So HDD is not going to be downtrend for a few years because while SSD prices stay high companies still need data storage in fact they need a lot of data storage. Research "Big Data" for anybody who wants to understand what I am talking about. With a price ratio of 5 to 1 all the big companies will be buying HDD in large amounts for their data centers.
Now we go into why DUFU is doing great while other HDD manufacturers in Malaysia is not doing so well.
I recommend you all check out Western Digital and Seagate quarterly reports not just their earnings reports but the whole thing and you will realize that a large reason for their Earnings growth in the past year or two is HDD sales but a specific type of HDD sales. It is a new technology of HDD which is called "Helium Filled Hard Disks." Just read up on this tech to understand why HDD drive sales while growing the number of units sold isn't really growing.
Thus Western Digital and Seagate is introducing Helium Filled HDD drives into the market and their storage capacity is big going into the 12TB range. Whats great about the new Helium HDD drive sales is they are just barely fulfilling their current orders of these drives. Their isn't very many for the consumer market. Just go to Low Yat or any Tech Stores in Malaysia and ask if they have High Capacity Helium Filled HDD drives and none of them will have any in stock.
Which brings me to DUFU because if you all read companies annual reports including the management reports you will find that DUFU is the only HDD maker in Malaysia making Helium Filled HDD drives. Hence their earnings have been great compared to other HDD makers in Malaysia.
Combine the lower original cost per GB of buying the disk drives, and the lower power cost and you have companies like Google gobbling up Helium HDD drives the moment they become available. It wouldn't surprise me if companies like Western Digital and Seagate have a back order for Helio Drives.
Chan Yee Fong's comment on while Dufu is wrong --- " Which brings me to DUFU because if you all read companies annual reports including the management reports you will find that DUFU is the only HDD maker in Malaysia making Helium Filled HDD drives. Hence their earnings have been great compared to other HDD makers in Malaysia."
Dufu manufacture spacer ring and spinner which cater to all types of HDD. Just that the bigger Neraline HDD used more pieces of spacer rings. For Nearline Hdd, with 8 disc in a HDD, Dufu now supply 7 pieces of spacer ring instead of 1 spacer ring compared to small HDD. Agreed that the Nearline HDD is the growth area arising from expansion of IOT, Cloud, Server storage.
Copied from Annual Report of Dufu
Looking Ahead 2018 We expect to achieve our goals through our continued focus on driving profitable volume performance, applying pricing discipline and controlling costs. We still believe in driving a profitable volume growth. Despite the declining unit sales of global shipment of Hard Disk Drives (“HDD”), the demand for HDD storage has not. In fact, total capacity shipments continue to set records with average capacities of HDDs have almost been skyrocketing in recent years. The long-term future of HDDs likely rests with high capacity HDDs, especially in data centers and in particular for the growing mass content in the clouds. Today, the robust growth in the net storage capacity for high capacity HDDs that serve primarily the cloud storage applications is made possible by adding the number of disks and heads. This bodes well for Dufu considering that the anticipated volume growth of HDD spacers correlates with the trends in number of disks required in a single HDD.
I did not see your name appearing in shareholder list holding of 1 mil shares unless you held thru nominees.
I have written of Dufu undervaluation but noone believe until now
Hi Investor 9999 in reply to your points. Please go to page 16 of the annual report you just copied and check out this paragraph.
And all this is made possible by the continual trend of HDD makers increasing the numbers of disk media to drive up hard drive capacities using various platform such as “helium filled enclosure” HDD. Thankfully for us, orders from our customers involved in the HDD industry remain strong as our spacers grew in tandem with the increase in the number of disk media required in a single HDD. This recent development enforces our belief that mechanical hard drives are here to stay and we shall continue to invest in capex and time in supportive of our customers’ strategy to develop products that serve the HDD market which we believe our revenue stream in this segment will continue to grow moderately in the coming years.
Now I would like you to look at all the other HDD component manufacturers in Malaysia like JCY and look through all their annual report from 2016 till today and do a keyword search for "Helium" or even "Heli".
DUFU is the only one in the HDD manufacturers or even HDD component makers in Malaysia that has the word Helium in their financial statement. In fact there is a specific wording in the statement you pasted, "High Capacity HDD" which DUFU talks about. That statement is also lacking in all the other HDD manufacturers financial statements. All the other HDD makers in Malaysia want to be involved in the new "High Capacity HDD" components sales but DUFU is the only one in Malaysia doing actual sales on that area of the HDD market.
It is good you called me to be more precise and I should have said that "DUFU is the only HDD component manufacturer in Malaysia that makes something used with Helium filled drive technology."
But the rest of my points on the cost of SSD and HDD is still reasonably accurate including the cost of SSD not going down due to the price of that raw material.
That's because that research doesn't exist anywhere I had to do it myself and run the numbers on total Silicon and Silicate supply and demand. Those number is on a definite uptrend. Then compare those same raw material demands with Aluminum the main raw material for HDD which is less volatile and much more flat than Silicon.
Though I do believe I made one other inaccurate statement on my second post I should have left SSD out of the power usage equation because SSD is still more power efficient per GB than even Helio HDD's.
For your second statement I did say I bought DUFU in February. The annual report would have included big shareholders of the company from December 2017. I would not be listed at the time the report was written.
To prove that I am a legitimate share investor I'll give you the name of previous companies where I bought large quantities.
Check out BP Plastic Annual Report from the financial year 2013 till 2015 you'll see my name in a couple of those reports. Or if you are able to go back further. Check out the the company MOLAC (Malaysia Online Access) before they got bought over by the Berjaya group in 2007 if I remembered correctly. My name appears on their final 2006 annual report before it happened.
Investor 9999, who say people don't? I start collecting since last year Feb and made few rounds of money...Large stake in in Feb this year too. But that's only 10% of what Chang Yee Fung invest. Small timer unlike you big timers.
i had sold mine and have no shares now, so i will be natural here
in terms of earnings, i dont expect dufu will have bigger growth more but will just sustain it, at pe10, the stock seems still cheap compare to sector pe but in term of volume, its not big
if price move >1.50, it have overly bought and anytime to consolidate soon. its dangerous to enter for new buyer but its good to take profit for short trade
for long hold, it depends on your own TP
i sold early but never regret, collecting 20% gain less than a month is already good.
SuperPanda,congratulation that you have exited with a cash profit. You could have made more profit if you stay longer, but considering you hold the counter for such a short period of time, you have done well in your investment.
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