After the listing of a subsisdiary of Felda in june last year, MSM holdings berhad, which was takeover by BN cronies from the hand of reknowned billionaire Roberk Kuok. whose core business is operating in sugar refinery with an individual IPO offering price of RM 3.38 and has surged to RM6+ within 3 days of trading in bursa malaysia. It has now remained stable in the range between RM5.10-RM5.20. There is 10 lot remained in my portfolio and made an unrealised gain of RM 1,820.00 based on the pricing of RM5.20/share. As a long term investor like me, I would hold it for long term to generate dividend income for such a good dividend counter like MSM.
The holding company Felda is going to be listed in upcoming June. Its core business activities includes plantations, refinery of oil palm and sugar refinery within Malaysia and some offshore land and plantation investment. The main reason is to unlock the value of the company and invite foreign investor to participate in investing in Bursa to encourage groundfield investment through foreign direct investment (FDI). Besides, it is in lines with economic transformation program to help those employee in rural area generate bonus and provide them with ESOS scheme to share the fruitful growth returns of the business. Let us look into the fundamental of the share based on bookbuilding offer price of RM4.65 with a par value of RM1.00. It will be the third largest share cap plantation company in the world and top ten heavyweight share cap listed in Bursa Malaysia.
(1) Based on the prospectus, it made a pre-tax
profits of RM804.3 million in 2009 doubled from 2005. Its revenue has jumped by almost two-thirds to RM11.8 billion in the same period. Which means it represent a P/E ratio of 18x of its earnings. With the significance growth on its book, there maybe some windows dressing made on the financial statement to encourage participating in investment though.
(2) Compared to pure plantation stock like IOICorp, whose P/E ratio is 16x. The pricing of Felda IPO is a little overvalued. However, the stock price is abit hard to determine since it is not a pure plantation stock, it has land investment and some offshores investment in Asia, Europe and South America. Fluctuation of FOREX may need to take into account.
(3) Besides the IPO of facebook which will be issued in upcoming month, there are also indonesia based plantation stock Bumi Utama to be listed in (IDX). Based on analyst research, the plant of Bumi Utama is younger than Felda existing oil palm tree, which means after getting funds from the IPO. Felda may incur large amount of CAPEX to replant its plant. Oil palm would have to wait at least 5 years to become a "cash cow" assets. This may deter foreign investor from investing in Felda.
(4) Since it is a government backed company, Koperasi Felda is owning 51% stake of the company directly and indirectly. Government may not want the share price to plummet on first day of trading. This may depress the employee of koperasi felda, which means government may pump in money to the stock on the first few days.
(5) Election is around the corner, which means government may try to preserve the share price. Felda employees vote is threshold importance to them. Otherwise, opposition party may take out the issue to attack BN cronies. Their throne will not be secured.
Based on the above issue, I personally think that the fundamental of the company may not be very optimistic. However, based on other factors considered, it is a good hit and run share for the first few days of trading. It is similar to PCHEM and MSM. Although is little overvalued, but market will still have confident for them in long run since they are government owned. I personally applied 20 lots of the share through MITI which is half of my personal net worth with the IPO pricing of RM4.65/share.