Q1 2017– 0,136 S$– SGX:B9S
CosmoSteel Holdings Limited is a Singapore-based investment holding company. The Company’s segment includes Energy, Marine, Trading and Others. Its Energy segment includes oil and gas; engineering and construction; petrochemical, and power. Its Marine segment includes shipbuilding and repair. Its Trading segment includes traders purchasing goods and on-sell to end user customers. Its Others segment includes other industries, such as the manufacturing and pharmaceutical sectors. It offers various products, such as Pipes, Flanges, Forged Fittings, Outlet Fittings, Buttwelding Fittings and Others. Its pipes product includes electric fusion welded and spiral welded. Its flange product includes socket weld and threaded. Its forged fittings product includes elbow and Tee (equal, reducing and cross). Its outlet fittings product includes Nipple Olet and Buttweld Olet. Its Others product includes Plates and I Beams. Its services include fabrication capabilities, and validation and testing. – Google Finance.
1. The company is currently a net-net with an adequate margin of safety:
a)
- P/NCAV < 1x
- 0,46x ✓
- MoS = 54 %
Assessment of margin of safety:
CosmoSteel makes it through the net-net checklist without any difficulties. Beyond that statement there are five additional facts that in my opinion makes CosmoSteel at the current share price a good addition to a diversified portfolio of net-nets
First, CosmoSteel is today selling at a large margin of safety to NCAV, 54 %. In addition, looking at recent reports that margin of safety seems to be quite solid since the NCAV burn rate for QoQ is positive (2,3 %) and YoY only slightly negative (-2,4%). Second, regarding historical profitability. Although the company has posted negative results for the last two years (mainly due to the historically low oil price) that has not been the case historically. During the period 2014-2007 the company had an average profit margin of 6,5%, with a high of 10,5 % (2007) and a low of 3,5 % (2014). Third, regarding valuation in relation to historical average operating profitability. Taking into account the two last year’s negative results, the valuation multiples still look quite appetizing. The company’s 5y and 10y average operating earnings in relation to the current enterprise value amount to 7x and 4x respectively. Fourth, regarding capital allocation. The company has during the last nine years continuously paid a dividend to shareholders and although there has been some historical dilution of shareholders there is currently an active share buyback mandate for 10 % of the shares outstanding. Fifth, regarding ownership structure. Insiders together own about 16,7 % of the shares outstanding. That ownership is mainly related to the two brothers Ong Tong Yang and Ong Tong Hai which serve as directors of the company. Their father is the founder of CosmoSteel and he still serve as the CEO of the company. The Ong family definitely have skin in the game since the current value of their total ownership amounts to 4,7x their total annual compensation.
2. The risk of permanent loss is low:
2.1 The risk of bankruptcy is low (criterion a) or b) must be met):
a)
- Debt/Equity < 25 %
- 15 % ✓
b)
- Z-score ≥ 3
- 2,4 X
2.2 The company’s business model has historically been profitable (criterion a) or b) must be met):
a)
- Positive retained earnings:
- 43,8M S$ ✓
b)
- Positive aggregate operating income for the last ten years:
- 89,3M S$ ✓
3. The company does not have a shareholder unfriendly capital allocation:
- Shareholder yield TTM ≥ -2 %
- Dividend yield TTM = 4,2 %
- Net buyback yield TTM = 0 %
- = 4,2 % ✓
Disclosure: The author is long SGX:B9S when this analysis is published. Also note that SGX:B9S is a micro-cap stock (28 M$ in market capitalization). The trading is illiquid.
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