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Noble Group - Agriculture losses a surprise

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Publish date: Fri, 17 May 2013, 04:12 PM
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Although we were bracing for a seasonally quiet quarter, Noble's 1Q13 earnings disappointed as a perfect storm sent the agriculture segment into losses. Gestation costs for its expansion into new metal products weighed further on margins.

1Q13 profit met just 9% of our FY13 forecast and 10% of consensus. We cut our FY13-15 EPS by 16%-25% for slimmer margins, lowering our target price to S$1.14 (10.1x CY14 P/E, 0.5 s.d. below its 5-year mean). Downgrade from Outperform to Neutral. We expect share price weakness, but the stock should find book value support at S$1.05.
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