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SIA Group - Tiger trap

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Publish date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014, 05:35 PM
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Singapore Airlines (SIA) eventually announced that it would consolidate Tiger Airways (Tiger) by converting all perpetual convertible capital securities (PCCS) and subscribing to its rights issue. We forecast that SIA will inject capital of SGD 247mn into Tiger and control 71.1% of the LCC when the deal is completed sometime in 2HFY15.

As Tiger cut its bases in the Philippines, Indonesia and Australia, it has become a LCC based only in a small and competitive Singapore, sharing the market with SIA, Silkair and Scoot. A turnaround of its business remains tough, in our view.

Despite the SIA-Tiger consolidation (as we expected), we do not expect a Tiger-Scoot brand merger to happen nor for SIA Group's pan-Asia LCC ambitions to bear fruit. We are concerned about SIA's long-term strategy.

We cut our earnings forecasts on both Tiger and SIA due to Tiger's larger-than-expected losses in 2QFY15 and worse-than-expected outlook. We downgrade Tiger to Underperform with a new price target of SGD 0.23, based on an unchanged multiple of 2x FY15E PBR. We cut SIA's price target to SGD 8.90, based on a lower multiple of 0.8x FY15E PBR, given its strategy muddle.
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