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LING Lee Keng +65 6398 7970
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STOCKS
Source: DBS Vickers
DBS Group Research . Equity 7 Jan 2013
Singapore Market Focus
Small Mid Caps Strategy
Small stocks, big growth
Stronger growth should spur small-mid cap
(SMCs) to outperform
Pick exposure to external markets; ride on
Chinas rebound
O&M interests continue to cascade and centre
around smaller caps
Top picks: Tat Hong, China Merchant, Sound
Global, Ezion, Jaya
SMC to grow 13% vs 9% for large caps (LC).
Singapore SMCs and the DBSV SMC universe have
both outperformed the FSSTIs 20% gain in 2012,
rising 31% and 39% respectively. But, as SMCs
earnings growth is projected to outpace LC at 13% to
9%, we see SMCs having more legs to run and would
continue to beat the STI, which consensus expects to
have a <10% return.
Bank on external growth. Singapore is expected to
lag behind the rest of Asean with little growth and
high inflation this year. We prefer companies with
external growth, particularly those leveraged on Asean.
Our picks are Petra Food, Super Group, Tiger Airways
and Tat Hong, which generate >50% of their sales
from non-Singapore markets, whereas Bumitama sells
globally. Although 70% of Cordlifes sales are
domestic, cord blood banking offers a stable pool of
recurring income. Although CDL Hospitality draws
80% of its income domestically, these are mainly
supported by overseas tourists to Singapore. We
expect the re-rating on Super to continue and have
raised its TP to $3.51.
Ride on Chinas recovery. With no sign of recovery in
exports to major economies like the US and Europe,
China looks set to accelerate other engines of growth
namely investment and consumption. Our
infrastructure picks Sound Global and United
Envirotech are poised to benefit from Chinas will to
improve environmental protection. We believe Midas
will continue to re-rate along with the revival of
Chinas high speed railway programme. Our proxies to
a rebound in Chinas consumption are PCRT (retail)
and China Merchant (traffic flow).
Small mid cap O&M to remain in favour. We
expect a continuation of robust exploration and
production activities for the oil & gas sector. Hence,
stay invested in OSVs players like Ezion, Jaya, Nam
Cheong and ASL Marine.
Price Mkt Cap
Target
Price
Performance (%)
S$ US$m S$
3 mth 12 mth
Rating
Top picks
Tat Hong 1.38 636 1.70 4.2 56.3 BUY
China Merchants Hldgs
(Pacific)
0.82 480 1.20
12.3 32.3
BUY
Sound Global Limited 0.62 647 0.90 18.3 15.0 BUY
Ezion Holdings 1.71 1,246 2.12 31.2 152.6 BUY
Jaya Holdings 0.67 418 0.85 15.7 40.0 BUY
Other stock picks
Asean growth exposure
Bumitama Agri 1.08 1,548 1.25 3.9 N.A BUY
CDL Hospitality Trusts 1.93 1,525 2.11 (7.2) 22.2 BUY
Far East Hospitality Trust 0.985 1,294 1.09 (6.6) N.A BUY
Cordlife Group Ltd 0.56 105 0.65 (3.5) N.A NOT
Petra Food 3.49 1,740 3.97 45.4 88.7 BUY
Super Group Ltd 3.23 1,469 3.51 38.0 136.6 BUY
Tiger Airways Holdings 0.74 492 0.95 (2.7) 13.1 BUY
China Come Back
Midas Holdings 0.46 452 0.50 5.8 30.0 BUY
Perennial China Retail Trust 0.59 544 0.84 17.0 21.9 BUY
United Envirotech 0.52 201 0.69 47.1 68.9 BUY
More Legs to O&M
ASL Marine 0.68 234 0.90 0.0 33.3 BUY
Nam Cheong Ltd 0.27 414 0.30 17.8 96.3 BUY
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Table of Contents
SMC outperformed in 2012 3
2013: Asia leads global, China leads Asia 4
Theme #1: Asean growth exposure 5
Theme #2: China comeback 8
Theme #3: More legs to O&M 9
Key data for stock pick 10
Stock Profiles
Tat Hong 12
China Merchants Hldgs (Pacific) 14
Sound Global Limited 16
Ezion Holdings 18
Jaya Holdings 20
Bumitama Agri 22
CDL Hospitality Trusts 24
Far East Hospitality Trust 26
Cordlife Group Ltd 28
Petra Food 30
Super Group Ltd 32
Tiger Airways Holdings 34
Midas Holdings 36
Perennial China Retail Trust 38
United Envirotech 40
ASL Marine 42
Nam Cheong Ltd 44
Analysts
TAN Ai Teng +65 6398 7967
AiTeng@dbsvickers.com
LING Lee Keng +65 6398 7970
leekeng@dbsvickers.com
foosuanyee@imci.sg FooSuan Yee 05/23/14 06:06:25 AM IMC INVESTMENTS PTE. LTD.
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SMC outperformed in 2012
2012 was plagued by a slew of negative events. Key issues
affecting the market were the European crisis and the
slowdown in the major global economies - US, China and
Europe. The ECBs second long-term refinancing operation
(LTRO) in February spurred the market higher but worries
about the Eurozone debt crisis and a slowdown in global
economies continued to haunt investors. By June, the market
was back to where it started. Valuations have fallen to
attractive levels and the market staged an oversold rebound
subsequently. Back home, the risk of our economy falling into
recession and the high inflation environment continue to affect
market sentiment.
Against this backdrop, the small-mid caps (SMC) indices FTSE
mid cap (FSTM) and FTSE Small Cap (FSTS) managed to
outperform the larger-cap STI, gained 31.7% and 30.7% for
2012 respectively, vs 19.7% for the STI. DBSV SMC index has
also done well, +38.7% for 2012.
In terms of stocks, a handful of the SMC stocks surged a few
fold YTD. At the top of the list were Myanmar plays like Interra
Resources, Yoma Strategic and Aussino Group. Other top
performers in our coverage list include O&M plays that we
highlighted in our previous SMC report like Ezion, Nam
Cheong and AusGroup. Our other picks like Wing Tai,
Silverlake Axis and Midas also did well, up about 20% since
their inclusion.
Index performance
Relative performance
SMC still trades at a discount to large caps despite
outperformance
SMC stocks are still trading at a 10% discount to large caps
despite their outperformance, albeit at a lower discount rate of
about 20% for the past two years. Current P/E for DBSV SMCs
is 14.3x, vs 15.1x for their large caps peers.
FY12F earnings for SMCs, however, are expected to register
slight negative growth of 0.5% vs 3.7% growth for the LC,
mainly due to weak earnings from the Basic Materials,
Consumer Services and Oil and Gas sectors. The Basic Materials
sector was mainly dragged down by Midas, due to lack of
contract wins but the stock should re-rate once contracts start
to flow in again for the group. We expect Midas to turn
around soon. Tiger Airways is another turnaround stock and is
expected to lead the Consumer Services sector to a strong
growth of 162% for FY13F. Meanwhile, the Oil and Gas sector
was affected by STX OSV, on lesser contract wins and margins
squeeze.
Valuation gap
Source: DBS Vickers
Earnings growth
-50
-40
-30
-20
-10
0
10
20
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
PE (%)
95
100
105
110
115
120
125
130
135
140
145
STI Index FSTM Index FSTS Index DBSV Small Mid Cap
-4
0
4
8
12
16
20
24
2009A 2010A 2011A 2012F 2013F 2014F
(%)
Small/Mid Cap Big Cap
Closed as at
31.12.12
1 mt h (%)
30.11.12
3 mt hs (%)
30.9.12 YTD (%)
Index
STI 3,167 3.2 3.6 19.7
FTSE Mid Cap 773 2.8 4.7 31.7
FTSE Small Cap 521 6.4 4.3 30.7
Source: Bloomberg
Source: DBS Vickers
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Growth and valuation: LCs vs SMCs
Source: DBS Vickers
2013: Asia leads global, China leads Asia
2013 in general is likely to present a more stable financial
environment than 2012, amid an easing Euro crisis, improving
visibility in China, and a modestly recovering US economy. Our
chief economist expects 2% growth in the US and a further
mild contraction in the Eurozone in 2013. Asia, thus, will
continue to lead growth, just like in the past four years where
growth is self-generated and not dependent on the US or the
Eurozone. As long as these other major economies do not
collapse, Asias acceleration will come from China. We are
looking at growth returning to 9% in China and 6% in Asia-
10.
The Chinese economy has probably bottomed in 3Q12 and
Chinas acceleration in fixed asset investment will certainly be
able to help lift global growth, and urbanisation is the new
strategy to spearhead investment
Growth coming from Asia
2012F 2013F 2014F 2012F 2013F 2014F
Basic Materials 182.2 17.3 11.0 -92% 955% 57%
Consumer Goods 14.1 13.0 11.5 -5% 8% 13%
Consumer Services 45.1 17.2 14.7 nm 162% 17%
Financials 15.0 15.3 15.0 12% -2% 2%
Health Care 15.9 13.4 13.8 26% 19% -3%
Industrials 13.3 11.1 9.8 -2% 20% 13%
Oil & Gas 10.0 9.0 7.6 -26% 11% 18%
Real Estate 11.0 11.2 9.4 -24% -2% 19%
REITS 17.6 15.6 15.5 21% 12% 1%
Technology 14.4 13.1 12.1 3% 10% 9%
Telecommunications 14.6 14.5 13.8 2% 1% 5%
Smal l /Mi d Cap Total 14. 7 13. 0 11. 9 -0. 5% 12. 9% 9. 7%
Consumer Goods 14.4 11.8 10.4 -29% 22% 14%
Consumer Services 22.6 19.5 17.3 -11% 16% 13%
Financials 24.5 21.7 20.2 -7% 13% 8%
Health Care 38.7 33.4 28.3 209% 16% 18%
Industrials 14.9 13.2 12.3 14% 13% 7%
Real Estate 20.7 19.1 16.1 1% 9% 18%
REITS 21.1 19.4 18.2 -1% 8% 7%
Telecommunications 14.7 14.1 13.8 1% 4% 2%
Banking 12.0 11.7 10.7 13% 3% 10%
Large Cap 15. 9 14. 6 13. 4 3. 7% 8. 6% 9. 5%
DBSV Coverage 15. 7 14. 4 13. 1 3. 1% 9. 3% 9. 5%
Earni ngs Growth PE ( x)
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Theme #1: Asean growth exposure
Notwithstanding robust expansion in Asia, growth in Singapore
is expected to remain below potential on account of structural
weaknesses. Singapores economic woes include the tightening
in foreign labour inflows, strong S$ leading to falling export
competitiveness, high COE premiums and high rentals; all of
which imply that Singapore will continue to underperform its
potential as well as against the regional peers. Overall, we
expect Singapore GDP growth to register 3.2% in 2013, from
1.6% in 2012. Inflation is likely to stay sticky at 4% next year,
still two times higher than historical average.
Therefore, companies here, in particular the smaller SMCs, are
faced with higher cost pressures and risks of lower margins. To
seek growth, we suggest picking companies with a diversified
earnings base, in particular one that is leveraged for growth in
other Asean countries. Except for Singapore, other Asean
economies are projected to grow in excess of 5%.
GDP growth and inflation growth projections