It pointed out that both Malaysian Pacific Industries (MPI Hold, TP: RM10.80) and Unisem (Add, TP: RM3.60) have manufacturing facilities in China.
CIMB said that “We understand that the operations in China contributed approximately 25%-30% of MPI and Unisem’s total revenue in FY17.”
CIMB added that “However, both companies do not expect to see material impact from the tariff hike at this juncture, as they have diversified customer locations globally.”
CIMB said that “Moreover, we also learned that some of the customers are looking to reroute product shipment volumes to other distribution hubs in order to mitigate the impact from the US tariff hike. We currently have a Neutral rating on the Malaysian semiconductor sector.”
When the sell-down occurred, TA Research on Wednesday issued a report upgrading technology stocks to “overweight,” noting that growth is still seen in the sector despite the sell-down.
TA Research notes that the Bursa Malaysia’s Technology Index, which is down by some 25% in the year to date, presents some buying opportunities.
Kesm has priced in the worst scenario, where US-China tension escalate into a more intense conflict. Malaysian investors tend to overreact more than investors in other countries do.
PHLX semiconductor index was 1287.70 on 2 Januay. It ended with 1,265.25 last Friday. It was down only 1.7% compared to the value on 2 January. Kesm is down 24.1% compared to the stock price on 2 January.
It is very unlikely that Kesm's net profit will be down 40-50% even in the worst scenario in the future considering semiconductor industry is still growing.
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PHLX Semiconductor Index is very bullish now. The current PHLX Semiconductor Index is higher compared to the index value on 2 January. In contrast, Kesm is down 25% compared to the stock price on 2 January. It's too oversold.
When everyone knows the trade war will never happens, the stock price will be already high, so if you want to get much profit, you need to start buy the stock now.
Today semiconductor stocks were bullish. You need to follow the movement of other semiconductor stocks, not strangers here giving negative sentiment because strangers here can influence the stock price only for a short time.
meanwhile relaks la... kilang kesm tak akan ke mana mana... sentiasa buka...whether parti A atau parti B menang atau trump menang atau Xi menang.. sama juga .. kilang buka sentiasa :)
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Outperformers
GLOBETRONICS's net profit increased 293.26.% YoY
KESM' s net profit increased 12.05% YoY.
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Average performers
Vitrox’s net profit increased 9.18% YoY.
Inari’s net profit increased 8.83% YoY.
MMSV’s net profit increased 7.97% YoY.
Pentamaster’s net profit increased 4.60% YoY
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Underperformers
MPI’s net profit decreased 25.06%.
Unisem’s net profit decreased 37.62%.