We attended Oldtown’s company briefing yesterday, where the turnout
was extremely encouraging. We went away feeling optimistic as we gather that
management is still confident and steadfast in its effort to grow the company amidst the promising outlook for both the café and
beverage manufacturing businesses. We also note that foreign institutional
shareholding in the stock has also increased substantially in the past seven
months, which supports our conviction on the company’s bright prospects. Thus, our
earnings growth forecasts are maintained at 9-18% for FY12-13E respectively.
However, as the total return of the stock is slightly above 10% only, we are
maintaining only a MARKET PERFORM call
on Oldtown with a TP of RM2.26. Our valuation is based on an unchanged PER of
14.5x over its FY13 EPS of 15.6sen.
Strong foreign
shareholdings. Foreign fund shareholdings in the company have grown
substantially in the past seven months,
rising from only a 4.0% stake in February 2012 to 19.7% in September 2012. We believe
this is one of the major factors that has been driving the stock to rerate
itself from a Fwd PER of 9.5x to 14.0x, where
the share price has surged 65.0% since February 2012. Note that the
stock is still tightly held by the top 20 shareholders with an aggregate
holding of 81.3%. Moreover, we understand that the major shareholder (who owns
50.1% of the stock) will not sell his shares in order to maintain his
controlling stake.
Huge untapped market.
Currently, about 85% of the clients of Oldtown café are generally non-Muslim.
This is because the company has only 86 certified
Halal outlets in Malaysia to cater to the Malay population, which constitutes
67.4% of the 28.3m population. Thus, the company is accelerating the process
now to get all its outlets certified by the end of this year, and this will
allow the company to advertise and
promote its Halal status to the untapped market, which we believe this strategy
will have a positive impact to the company’s future earnings growth.
Expecting dividend in
3Q12. The company has not declared any dividend for FY12. We believe the
company will at least distribute a 2.5 sen interim dividend per share during
its third quarter results, and a final dividend thereafter for the year of 4.1
sen (likely to be announced after the 4Q results). Based on a 50% payout, we
estimate the total net DPS of 6.6 sen for FY12, representing a 3.2% dividend
yield for the year.
Forecasts maintain.
Fundamentally, we remain positive on the company given its two key drivers; 1)
the strong growth of its FMCG which is expected
to be boosted by growing regional market shares, including untapped markets in
China, South Korea and Vietnam and 2)
its vision of opening more outlets in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and China.
As such, we are maintaining our earnings forecasts growth of 9%-18% for
FY12-13E.
Reiterate MARKET PERFORM with a TP of RM2.26. Our valuation
is based on an unchanged PER of 14.5x over its FY13 EPS of 15.6 sen. Our applied
PER is slightly below the +2 SD to its average PER since listing.
Given a string of merger and acquisition activities within
the consumer sector and rising interest in the stock, we reckon the stock is still likely to continue being
rerated higher going forward.
Source: Kenanga
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