Let me post this while Popular Hldgs share price is at a recent Hi of $0.193....
I have said before that I'm not a very sophisticated investor as there're many things I don't know for eg. I must have made a fool of myself in an earlier post as I thought NCAV is CA - CL. Haha..
I think I learnt DCF during night school loooong ago and I vaguely remembered assisting my more experienced classmates during assignments to put in the 'right' discount rate (I was in charge of generating figures since I was hopelessly inexperienced in biz stuff) to justify our conclusion to 'buy' an aerospace-related biz for a case study. That was my one and only 'experience' using DCF.
I don't even know how to do SOTP but it's always an interesting read in those analyst's reports to see how they do it (sometimes like magician plucking from the air). Still, too lazy for this old dog to learn new tricks.
Back to Popular Hldgs, I repost
Pg 9 #88 ,
Q412 (Apr) is seasonally their worst Q? But, assuming they managed to maintain the same level of earnings as Q411, then EPS = 3.4ct (better than FY11 EPS = 2.83ct but worse than FY10 EPS = 4.53ct). That'd be good enough to increase DPS to 0.7ct?
What I don't quite like about Popular Hldgs is their low NPM of 3% - 6% when they're profitable. For now, I can live with that as long as they remain profitable.
What I like about Popular Hldgs is their huge cash of $129Mil ($0.1538/share or $0.1184 Net of all Debts). They also have unsold Properties @ $15.3Mil (1.82ct/share) & Development Properties @ $64.3Mil (7.64ct/share). BUT, I don't think it's likely they'll pay out the cash as a Special Dividend. Most likely, it'll be used for acquiring new land for their Property Biz + Development Expenses.
Yes, my initial analysis is as simple as that. I could identify with their biz as I'm a regular customer for my kids' school stuff (text books, stationery,... a one-stop shop for me). That's the KEY (which I'm still trying) to apply to my stocks selection - Focus on biz I can understand. What attracted me back to Popular (I was vested long ago but divested when they went into Property biz as I was fearful of companies that diworseify) was the huge cash plus low debts in their latest financials. If I were to search for a financial ratio to justify my action, it'd likely be a hybrid form of NCAV Hee...
As I posted and shared in this forum, what others posted triggered me to search further and understand more eg. why Old Man was selling his shares during the worst of GFC. I also went to check out Prologue, Epilogue, UrbanWrite and yes, I do agree those biz may close shop due to poor biz. But, this'll not be a very huge impact as Popular is not just a 1-2 shops biz but rather, a total of 60+ each in Singapore and Malaysia plus other smaller biz. With Old man switching from selling mode to buying mode, I also got more and more confident to 'follow'.
Having said that, there's a potential negative to their coming Q4 results. It's seasonally the weakest and they may slip into a loss (Q4 EPS) if they decide to do some 'Impairment' to their Properties like SC Global (but Popular Condo sells at a lower price range as compared to SC' super hi end, so, any write-down may not be as huge). Still, that's a non-cash item and will not impact their cash hoard.
Warning : My analysis is always overly simple and I'll usually react very fast (eg. suddenly sell everything and not post here) when new info becomes known to me either from SGX Annc or by some kind sharing from others here. So, don't follow me blindly, pls do your own research!
*Keep my fingers crossed*