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Plantations - Undervalued Sabah planters

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Publish date: Tue, 01 Oct 2013, 11:52 AM
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Sabah estates appear to be in demand, judging from the recent acquisitions by FGV and Boustead. In this piece, we scout for listed Sabah palm oil players that are trading at EV/ha valuations close to or below the recently transacted estates' prices.

If this buying spree continues, some of the smaller listed Sabah planters could be targeted. We came up with a list of seven listed companies that may be undervalued (Figure 1), based on only two criteria:

(1) the bulk of their estates are in Sabah, and

(2) they trade at attractive EV/planted ha (below the recently-transacted prices of estates in Sabah).

We maintain our Neutral rating and our top picks First Resources, Wilmar and IOI.
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