Singapore Stock Market News

Nam Cheong - Reality bites II

StockFanatic
Publish date: Mon, 06 Apr 2015, 10:14 AM
StockFanatic
0 10,452
Welcome to Stockfanatic Singapore stock market and regional market news. This is a platform to share Singapore stock market and regional news to investors / man in the street. Investors can also look forward to analyst reports and brokers recommendations. Stockfanatic's Singapore stock market and regional news blog, home of investors one stop news station.
Taking our cue from its lacklustre sales in 1Q15, we downgrade Nam Cheong from Add to Hold. We concede that we were over-bullish in expecting Nam Cheong to sustain its 2014 sales momentum. We previously expected it to sell around 30 vessels p.a. in 2015-17. We now expect Nam Cheong to sell 19-22 vessels in 2015-17, which would bring sales to 2012 levels (the year of recovery for the OSV sector). This, coupled with the scaling back of shipbuilding gross margins from 17.7% to 17%, leads us to cut FY15-17 EPS by 7-23%. Our target price, still based on 7.5x CY16 P/E (1 s.d. below the 5-year mean of small/mid-cap oil services companies), drops accordingly. We would revisit the stock upon stronger-than-expected vessel sales and earnings.
Read more »
Related Stocks
Market Buzz
Discussions
Be the first to like this. Showing 0 of 0 comments

Post a Comment