There are 2 main operations from logistic player's perspective- transport and warehouse. Transport is pretty much everyone's cup of tea - small individual owner to last mile delivery companies. This space is quite crowded and cut throat. Warehouse is TNLOGIS's competitive advantage and it has very high entry barrier for competitors. In addition, I am also attracted to their strategic landbank which is pending right moment to be monetized.
Joker SBB with 1,000 units purchased. TNLOGIS's FCF was -ve for the last few years, cash is channel towards expansion and servicing loan interests. What's the Management/Board trying to accomplish by purchasing 1,000 units from market?
Drove from PG - KL today and spotted 14 TNLOGIS trucks/lorries/vans of various sizes along NSE. Some large trucks are quite new too. Looks like business volume is growing healthily. Hopefully this will help lifting the profit margin in upcoming quarters.
Earn money also wont give you la masuk pocket sendiri by giving themselves huge bonuses and curi sini sana by not reporting. After that report sucky report. Once price low enough buy the entire stake and take private
Mind to elaborate your assessment of lousy management ?
Was it due to they are growing the business by building new warehouses and adding trucks to expand its regional network between Singapore-Thailand route? Or was it they are still waiting for better timing to monetize and unlock their land/warehouse assets ?
I agreed with @nnMM. This is part of growing pain in expanding Logistic and Warehouse Services Segment.
In fact revenue for logistics segment register steady increase QOQ. Quarterly EBITDA also see bottoming up in Q3FY18 & Q4FY18 after trending down QOQ since beginning of FY2017. While Investment & Property segment is still a wildcard. Logistic segment should see clearer sky ahead in FY19.
@biker2b : hope you can you teach me as well..i see bursa announcement - director dispose, but acquired by TNTT realty. what does it mean when director dispose and the private vehicle acquire it? why do they do that?
@jibbie, there are many possibilities why directors decided to transfer shares from personal (direct ownership) to company owned by them (indirect ownership). May be due to tax planning, estate planning, corporate exercise, restructuring, etc. I wouldn't lose any sleep guessing what's the reason behind this move, as long as the major shareholders did not reduce his/her total interest in shares.
In addition, do not look at individual bursa announcement in isolation. Best is to compare multi-year annual report to get a better sense of ownership changes. For TNLOGIS, over the last 3 years, direct ownership of one of the major shareholder increased from 16.3% (2015) to 18.1% (2016) to 20.2% (2017). Whereas total indirect interest in share increased from 45% (2015) to 47% (2016) to 48.9% (2017).
I wouldn’t able to answer why they transferred from 1 entity to another. But the trend is quite obvious YOY.
ahh.. tqvm biker2b. appreciate your sharing. i've been holding more than a year. so sad to see price keep dropping. their revenue increasing, but the overhead costs bring down the profits. think the share price will go up again once they regain shariah status. high gearing now, not many interested
Sure, gearing is quite high. Interest Expenses is edging up YOY. It's all down to good debt vs bad debt. Bankers/Financiers are conservative in nature. I reckon they have done their due diligence and convinced about the risk/return profile before approving more loans to TNLOGIS.
Wondering where is that genius uncle came up with 2/3 revenue is from property development.
According to segment reporting in annual/quarter reports property segment only contributing :- FY2018 : 22% of full year revenue FY2017 : 21% of full year revenue FY2016 : 23% of full year revenue
Masuk waran 4.5 sen.skg trend waran hampir 6 bulan expired terbang spt taliwrk wa ,hohup wa dan menang wa.TNLOGIS waran dalam proses mengaum dan mungkin lebih 10 sen nanti
Khabar baik winwin.terkini sata masuk KPJ waran harga 8.5 sen winwin.apapun agak berhat-hati kot2 trend waran naik semakin lemah.saya hanya main waran yg hampir expired sebab kalau menjadi boleh untung lebih 200 peratus macam taliwork waran dari 2.5 sen terbang sampai 11.5 sen.begitu j7ga hohup waran dari 2.5 sen jumaat lepas naik sampai 11 sen.harap winwin dapat untung nanti.
ALIBABA Group opened an office in Bangsar South, Kuala Lumpur, last Monday — a reflection of the group’s commitment to Malaysia. While he was in town for the opening, executive chairman Jack Ma met Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad in Putrajaya for an hour.
This is seen as an affirmation of the new government’s support of the development of the Digital Free Trade Zone (DFTZ), which was initiated by former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.
When the DFTZ was unveiled in March last year, logistics counters such as CJ Century Logistics Holdings Bhd, GD Express Carrier Bhd (GDex), Tiong Nam Logistics Holdings Bhd and TASCO Bhd rallied on Bursa Malaysia with their share prices climbing to all-time highs in the following months.
But investor reaction to the latest developments seems muted despite the reassurance that the DFTZ is on.
“The surge in logistics counters after the announcement of DFTZ [last year] was overdone, in my opinion. Several of them have been gradually sold down after the initial spike,” Hong Leong Investment Bank analyst Andrew Lim tells The Edge.
While the DFTZ is undoubtedly a catalyst for the logistics sector, Lim says the current environment is too competitive as companies are aggressively cutting prices to secure a piece of the e-commerce pie.
He says the volume of e-commerce is growing but this has not translated into higher earnings as companies are gaining business at the expense of thinner profit margins.
“Overall, we are not expecting anything big this year, and we are ‘neutral’ on logistics counters. Talk of a boom in e-commerce has been going on for a while now but we have yet to see this reflected in companies’ earnings,” Lim says.
The competition aside, some logistics companies are incurring higher costs as they expand their operations and venture into new segments to gear up for the anticipated surge in e-commerce activity upon the completion of the DFTZ.
This was a recurring theme cited by most logistics companies — which had largely reported lower-than-expected results — during the first-quarter corporate earnings season.
GDex reported a 67% year-on-year drop in net profit to RM2.62 million in its third quarter ended March 31 (3QFY2018), which was mainly attributed to its ongoing investment in networks, sorting facilities, fleet and technology for network expansion to maintain its competitiveness.
CJ Century’s net profit dropped 45% year on year to RM2.64 million in its 1QFY2018 ended March 31, partly due to the set-up costs of its courier services venture, marking the group’s entry into the business-to-consumer (B2C) segment as it diversifies from its traditional business-to-business (B2B) operations.
Tiong Nam’s logistics division remained in the red with a loss before tax of RM1.9 million for its full FY2018 ended March 31, against a pre-tax profit of RM20.8 million in FY2017, amid higher operating expenses stemming from the expansion of its warehousing capacity and overseas distribution centres.
Affin Hwang Capital Research senior associate director Loong Chee Wei says the decline in logistics stocks is largely a sentiment issue, following the disappointing corporate results.
“When these companies expand their warehouses, depreciation sets in, and in the case of CJ Century and Tiong Nam with their new parcel delivery operations, there will be running costs while they are working on ramping up their revenue.
“It will take time for them to reap the benefits of their expansion plans as there needs to be a certain level of volume before they break even,” Loong says.
He adds that the DFTZ will be a significant long-term catalyst for logistics players but it will not translate into earnings in the immediate term.
Affin Hwang is “neutral” on the transport and logistics sector, says Loong, amid several emerging risks, including a possible trade war between the US and China and higher crude oil prices.
Loong has a “buy” call on CJ Century and Tiong Nam due to their relatively attractive price-earnings valuations of 19.53 times and 14.96 times respectively, compared with the high PE valuations of the likes of GDex (82.22 times) and Pos Malaysia (33.12 times).
“Valuation-wise, CJ Century and Tiong Nam are attractive but this year will still be challenging for them. They are both expanding and adding a new B2C stream to their traditional B2B and cargo business, which will take some time to build,” says Loong.
CJ Century executive director Edwin Yeap says that e-commerce has seen significant growth, even without the involvement of the DFTZ.
In fact, CJ Century has expanded its fleet of trucks from 30 to 130 in the past six months alone, after launching its courier service in November last year.
“We have seen a tremendous pickup in volume from e-commerce activities, not just because of Alibaba or the DFTZ,” Yeap says. The e-commerce penetration rate in Malaysia is lower than that of its regional peers, he adds.
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Read somewhere mentioning Amway is one of their key customer.