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Courts Asia - Trouble in Malaysia

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Publish date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013, 07:53 PM
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Deteriorating consumer sentiment in Malaysia and a shift in product mix in Singapore have depressed Courts' profitability. We are more worried about the slowdown in Malaysia as its woes in Singapore look transitory.

2Q14 EPS came in below, meeting 15% of our full-year estimate and 17% of consensus - while 1H14 EPS formed just 30% of our forecast. We slash our EPS estimates by 27-29% to reflect lower sales in Malaysia and lower profits in Singapore. We also raise our discount rate from 8% to 9%, leading to a huge decline in our residual income-based target price. We downgrade Courts to Neutral from Outperform.
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