to reply a fellow vb:
I must first say that I have not read GAR or KA for some time. Everything I write will be on "IIRC" basis. I calculated 41cents in 2013/14 and bought 1000 units of GAR to test my thesis in around 2015. GAR dropped to below 30cents and only recently back to >40 cents. Don't treat me as a palm insider please!
I think I was misleading. It should be "golden agri not affected -immediately & completely- by increasing of CPO prices. GAR calculates it's biological asset using 3 years average price of cpo.
Now think about how price momentum of CPO affects the biological asset of GAR.
My investment thesis in 2013/14, execute in 2015:
I calculated to find the price per hectare of palm plantation land. I used [(market price)*shares+total debt)-(biological asset)]/[planted area] to find "how much am I paying for a hectare of palm plantation land".
I also used {[(Total planted land)*(CPO produced/ha)]*USD 350}/(number of shares) to calculate a "what value an hectare of land produce when CPO drop to USD350".
1) At 41cents, GAR is selling at about MYR 26k per acre. FFB in the land and all other management/corp functions such as logistics, marketing/distribution channel comes free. This was cheaper than buying an acre of land in Malaysia, using data from internet search. (FLAW: Land of agricultural land in Malaysia is very different vs in Indonesia. Even in the same country, an acre of land differ by a lot).
However, when I think about it, MYR 26k per acre of palm plantation + management, it's quite cheap.
2) At 41 cents, if CPO is priced at USD 350, I could breakeven in 6 year. The Price/(earnings by selling CPO at USD 350) was about 6.
I also think that for commodities company the most dangerous thing to do is buy at low PE. PB about 0.5 and PE >30 (the higher the better) would be my buy signal for trading position.
Found the spread sheet and put in the 1st Mar figures. At SGD 43 cents per share:
Debt adjusted price per hectare of planted area:
~ SGD 8,900 or ~MYR 26,000 per hectare; or ~MYR 10,500 per acre.
Calculation: [share*(price/share)-(nonbiological asset)+(total debt)]/(planted area)
Debt adjusted price per hectare of planted area, disregard asset:
~SGD 27,000 or ~ MYR 79,000 per hectare; or ~MYR 32,000 per acre
Calculation: [share*(price/share)+(total debt)]/(planted area)
Assuming USD500/mt CPO, 5.4 MT/hectare: Total planted area would produce a sales of USD 0.1 per share.
At SGD 0.43 per share, the price/sales would 3.19.
The previous price/sales should be 4.8 instead of 6. The mistake was (SGD price/ USD sales).
Based on this, at current SGD 0.43, GAR is selling cheaper vs when I bought at 0.41
An Interested Person Transaction.
Transfer of Property Units in Sinarmas MSIG Tower, Jakarta, Indonesia
Golden Agri-Resources Ltd announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, PT Purimas Sasmita (“Transferor”), has entered into binding agreements with PT Duta Cakra Pesona (“Transferee”) where the Transferor has agreed to transfer all its rights and obligations in the property units of a total area of 36,874.49 square meters located on 23 floors of the office building at Jalan Jenderal Sudirman Kavling 21, Setiabudi Sub-district, South Jakarta, Indonesia known as Sinarmas MSIG Tower, to the Transferee, for a total net cash consideration of IDR1,408,965,000,000 (equivalent to USD107,500,000).
More details in
http://infopub.sgx.com/FileOpen/GAR%20-%...eID=470308