Saturday 22 October 2011

Stocks to watch: Tenaga, Maxis, Tanjung, Daibochi

KUALA LUMPUR: Investors will sitting on their hands over the weekend as they focus on the summit of European leaders to resolve Europe’s debt crisis. A decisive framework to reach basic agreements over the weekend would bolster investor confidence.

On Wall Street, the S&P 500 posted its third straight week of gains on Friday Oct 21, lifted by optimism before this weekend's summit and strong earnings from blue-chip stocks.

The Dow Jones industrial average was up 267.01 points, or 2.31%, at 11,808.79. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was up 22.86 points, or 1.88%, at 1,238.25. The Nasdaq Composite Index was up 38.84 points, or 1.49%, at 2,637.46.

Reuters reported important differences still separate major players France and Germany in solving Europe's debt crisis, but with two summits scheduled for next week, investors took an optimistic view that a resolution will soon be reached. Buying was also motivated by fear of missing a sharp move if basic agreements are reached over the weekend.

At Bursa Malaysia, stocks to watch are TENAGA NASIONAL BHD [], Maxis Bhd, TANJUNG OFFSHORE BHD [], Daibochi Plastic and Packaging Industry Bhd and SILK Holdings Bhd.

Tenaga will announce its financial results for the fourth quarter ended Aug 31, 2011 but analysts expect it to record another quarter of losses due to the shortage of gas supply from Petroliam Nasional Bhd, forcing it to burn the more expensive oil and distillate.

RHB Research Institute had maintained its Underperform call on the power company with an unchanged indicative fair value of RM4.74 based on unchanged target CY12 price-to-earnings ratio of 12 times.

“Due to ongoing gas shortage from maintenance at Petronas’ liquefied natural gas plants and delays for the Bekok C bypass, Tenaga will likely record a loss in 4Q, possibly close to that seen in 3Q (net loss RM460 million),” it said.

Tenaga, meanwhile, has proposed to issue RM5 billion in Islamic debt notes to finance the development of the 1,010 MW coal fired power plant in Manjung, Perak. The tenure is 28 years.

Meanwhile, Maxis expects significant gains from the provision of its 3G radio access network to U Mobile Sdn Bhd under the country’s first landmark network sharing and alliance agreement for an initial period of 10 years.

This arrangement also included long-term evolution (LTE) sharing, depending on the availability of the spectrum and TECHNOLOGY []. The collaboration was a milestone in the local telecommunications industry in the sharing of active telco systems and operating frequency spectrum.

Tanjung Offshore Bhd was awarded a RM27 million contract by Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd to provide three offshore support vessels (OSVs) for up to two primary years.

Tanjung said its unit Offshore Services Sdn Bhd had been awarded the contract on Oct 20.

Daibochi Plastic and Packaging Industry Bhd’s net profit fell 5.8% to RM4.54 million in the third quarter ended Sept 30, 2011 from RM4.82 million a year ago mainly due to a lower contribution from the property segment.

Its revenue declined 5.2% to RM67.66 million from RM71.42 million mainly due to the reduction in the sales in the packaging segment. Earnings per share were lower at 6.04 sen compared with 6.40 sen. It declared an interim dividend of 3.0 sen per share.

SILK’s unit Jasa Merin (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd has been awarded a contract extension worth RM23.5 million by Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd to provide one anchor handling tug supply vessel.

SILK said the primary three-year contract had been extended for another 12 months, which started on Oct 4. It expected the extension to contribute positively to its earnings for the financial year ending July 31, 2012.

PROTON HOLDINGS BHD [] plans to collaborate with China’s Hawtai Motor Group to set up a joint venture (JV) company there as part of Proton’s strategy to make China as one of its major manufacturing hub, especially for left-hand-drive vehicles.

MELEWAR INDUSTRIAL GROUP BHD [] has proposed a two-call rights issue of up to 151.17 million rights shares to raise RM27.46 million. The rights issue would be at an indicative issue price of RM1 per rights share on the basis of two rights shares for every three existing shares held on an entitlement date to be determined later.

China group awarded US$1.5b JAKS contract

NANNING (China): JAKS Resources Bhd has awarded a US$1.5 billion (RM4.74 billion) contract to build a 1,200 megawatt (MW) coal-fired power plant in Vietnam to China's CNTC-TEPC Consortium.

JAKS Resources managing director and chief executive officer Ang Lam Poah said construction of the first unit of 600MW is due to begin in the second quarter of next year. The second unit will be built in the second quarter of 2017.

"The first unit will start contributing to the group's revenue by the fourth quarter of 2016 when it begins commercial operation," he told Malaysian media here yesterday.

JAKS Resources, had in July, secured an investment licence from Vietnam to build a US$2 billion (RM6.3 billion) coal-fired power plant in the northern part of the country.

The project will be financed by a mix of debt and equity.

"We are in the process of finalising the funding. We are targeting to finalise it by middle of next year," he said.

The contract signing was witnessed by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, who had a roundtable dialogue with China's captains of industry. The dialogue was held in conjunction with the 8th China-Asean Business and Investment Summit.

The US$2 billion power plant, the biggest in 80 million-population Vietnam, will be located in Hai Duong province, about 80km east of Hanoi. It will be developed under a build-operate-transfer structure.

Ng said the plant will operate as an independent power plant with a 25-year power purchase agreement with Electricity of Vietnam.

China National Technical Import and Export Corp (CNTIC), the first state-owned foreign trade corporation specialising in technology trade, has completed plants for over 5,000 projects with total contract value of US$100 billion (RM316 billion).

Tianjin Electric Power Construction Co (TEPC), a subsidiary of China Energy Engineering Group Co Ltd, is a Class 1 electric power contractor.
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