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ASL Marine - Getting ambitious

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Publish date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013, 10:23 AM
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ASL is getting more aggressive by embarking on four build-to-stock AHTS in its Batam and Chinese yards, in view of the bottomed-out vessel prices. This can be a game changer for its shipbuilding business. Vessel sales and strong orders can catalyse the stock.

FY13 core profit was 10% below our forecast and consensus due to the higher tax rate of 18% (pre-tax loss from its subsidiary, Vosta). On a normalised tax rate (10%), the core profit would have met expectations. ASL declared a dividend of S$0.02. We cut our EPS by 4-8% for FY14-16 due to the higher taxes. We maintain our Outperform rating and target price (still based on 0.9x CY13 P/BV, its five-year mean).
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