Technics yesterday announced that it has won two contracts worth SGD6.6m of EPCC work for the supply of compressors for Diamond development project blocks off Vietnam and for a compressor package at Arthit, which is a gas field 230km offshore in the Gulf of Thailand.
High margin contracts. Technics' EPCC segment is the higher-margin side of the business, where we estimate EBITDA margins to be about 24% compared to 18% for Contract Engineering. With the carve-out of the Norr Offshore Group (NOG) ongoing, we see a greater part of Technics' business being in EPCC, pushing up overall margins.
No change to estimates. As these contracts form part of our order win assumptions, we are holding our estimates steady. We continue to expect 16% topline growth for the EPCC segment this year. However, because of the deconsolidation of NOG and their addition into associate income, we are expecting a 25% overall revenue fall in FY13F. Bottom line growth is expected to be slightly slower this year at 5.5% due to the dilution of NOG, but this should accelerate to 10.5% in FY14F as the Vietnamese yard ramps up operations.
Maintain Buy with TP SGD1.15. We maintain our Buy call with a TP of SGD1.15, based on 12x FY13F EPS. At the current price, Technics is yielding 5.2% based on our 6¢ dividend expectation. We are awaiting 1Q13 results release tonight.