China Sunsine Chemicals Holdings

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#11
China Sunsine Chemicals Holdings announced its half year report recently

http://info.sgx.com/webcorannc.nsf/Annou...endocument

Revenue increases by 16%, but gross profit reduces by -6% and net profit reduces by -70%

Gross profit margin reduces by -4.5 pt, due to higher raw material cost and lower selling price. COGS increases by 23% vs 16% increases in revenue. ASP reduces from RMB 19.9K per ton in 2Q2011 to RMB17.8K per ton in 2Q2012.

Net profit margin decline is due to higher R&D and setup cost of new facilities.

Does the company prospect look good in long term?

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#12
2Q profit would have been RMB 20.5m if not for the RMB 9.3m one-off charge relating to the trial production of 6PPD, which has high entry barriers

Even though the entry barriers of rubber accelerators are low, the company has been successful in adding new capacities and gaining market share at the expense of its rivals.

Full commercial production of 6PPD in the near future should result in a quantum leap in profit.
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(07-08-2012, 12:57 PM)portuser Wrote: 2Q profit would have been RMB 20.5m if not for the RMB 9.3m one-off charge relating to the trial production of 6PPD, which has high entry barriers

Even though the entry barriers of rubber accelerators are low, the company has been successful in adding new capacities and gaining market share at the expense of its rivals.

Full commercial production of 6PPD in the near future should result in a quantum leap in profit.

It is encouraging for the company continue to upgrade its capacity with new products and new production lines.

The ASP of anti-oxidant (including the 6PPD) is lower than rubber accelerators. ASP of anti-oxidant is approx 15k RMB/ton vs accelerator of approx 19k RMB/ton. Moreover the planned capacity of accelerator is 66.5 K tons vs 25 K tons for anti-oxidant.

IMO, rubber accelerator will still the key contributor to revenue.
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#14
how come for the recent few quarters, company kept reporting one-off adjustment to pare down profits?

Fishy?

(07-08-2012, 11:32 AM)CityFarmer Wrote: China Sunsine Chemicals Holdings announced its half year report recently

http://info.sgx.com/webcorannc.nsf/Annou...endocument

Revenue increases by 16%, but gross profit reduces by -6% and net profit reduces by -70%

Gross profit margin reduces by -4.5 pt, due to higher raw material cost and lower selling price. COGS increases by 23% vs 16% increases in revenue. ASP reduces from RMB 19.9K per ton in 2Q2011 to RMB17.8K per ton in 2Q2012.

Net profit margin decline is due to higher R&D and setup cost of new facilities.

Does the company prospect look good in long term?

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#15
CityFarmer
The first anti-oxidant that Sunsine produced is the lower-grade MTQ. The MTQ market is fragmented. The company's MTQ output has been very low and ASP was RMB 13,000 per tonne up to end of 2011.
6PPD is of higher grade. Its market price of RMB 30,000 enjoys a higher gross profit margin than accelerators. There is no over-supply of 6PPD in China.
Sunsine's current 6PPD capacity is 15,000 tonnes and the company plans to become a significant player. It is now capable of producing enough 4ADPA (an important intermediary) for an output of 30,000 tonnes of 6PPD.
It is not clear what caused the ASP of anti-oxidants to rise to RMB 15,000 in the first half of 2012. Was it the result of tyre manufacturers paying for the small amounts of 6PPD that they received for accreditation?
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(08-08-2012, 08:54 AM)portuser Wrote: CityFarmer
The first anti-oxidant that Sunsine produced is the lower-grade MTQ. The MTQ market is fragmented. The company's MTQ output has been very low and ASP was RMB 13,000 per tonne up to end of 2011.
6PPD is of higher grade. Its market price of RMB 30,000 enjoys a higher gross profit margin than accelerators. There is no over-supply of 6PPD in China.
Sunsine's current 6PPD capacity is 15,000 tonnes and the company plans to become a significant player. It is now capable of producing enough 4ADPA (an important intermediary) for an output of 30,000 tonnes of 6PPD.
It is not clear what caused the ASP of anti-oxidants to rise to RMB 15,000 in the first half of 2012. Was it the result of tyre manufacturers paying for the small amounts of 6PPD that they received for accreditation?

My pleasure to discuss Sunsine's biz with you. I am cautiously optimistic with Sunsine, otherwise it would not be the ONLY S-Chip in my watch list Big Grin

Sunsine biz strategy had been consistent and well executed in the last few years. I am sure 6PPD is the next milestone in their overall strategy

The ASP of accelerator is rather stable (base on last 3 years data)

2010 : 19.2 K / ton
2011 : 20.7 K / ton
2012 (up to date of half year data) : 19.1 K / ton

Anti-oxidant ASP is increasing even overall ASP is declining.

2010: 12.6 K / ton
2011: 13.1 K / ton
2012 (up to date of half year data) : 15.1 K / ton

I agreed with you that it is likely ASP of overall anti-oxidant product been push up by the 6PPD.

IMO, the 6PPD is promising, but it will take years to contribute significantly. To illustrate further, the sales in RMB of accelerator is 597 Mils while anti-oxidant overall is 19 Mils (base on half year result of 2012).
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#17
CityFarmer
According to the results announcement, major customers are now testing 6PPD samples. Accreditation takes between 3 and 6 months. Profit contribution by 6PPD may be significant by next year.
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(08-08-2012, 04:33 PM)portuser Wrote: CityFarmer
According to the results announcement, major customers are now testing 6PPD samples. Accreditation takes between 3 and 6 months. Profit contribution by 6PPD may be significant by next year.

Yes, i agreed with you up to certain extend. No verdict is required, time will tell us. I might be wrong. Big Grin

The management is confidence on 6PPD with substantial investment. It also "play-safe" to invest also on rubber accelerator production capacity to 66.5 K tons.
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#19
i think we might see a lot of S chips closing shops in the few months ahead if economic situation does not improve....

Part of the issue is that the Chinese government’s leaders have decided to put quality-of-life concerns ahead of maximizing economic growth when it comes to two of the country’s largest industries: housing and autos.

The Chinese auto industry has grown tenfold in the last decade to become the world’s largest, looking like a formidable challenger to Detroit. But now, the Chinese industry is starting to look more like Detroit in its dark days in the 1980s.

Very bad prognosis for auto industries...Any issue with China Sunssine's sales going forwards for the next few months?

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China Confronts Mounting Piles of Unsold Goods

GUANGZHOU, China — After three decades of torrid growth, China is encountering an unfamiliar problem with its newly struggling economy: a huge buildup of unsold goods that is cluttering shop floors, clogging car dealerships and filling factory warehouses.

The glut of everything from steel and household appliances to cars and apartments is hampering China’s efforts to emerge from a sharp economic slowdown. It has also produced a series of price wars and has led manufacturers to redouble efforts to export what they cannot sell at home.

The severity of China’s inventory overhang has been carefully masked by the blocking or adjusting of economic data by the Chinese government — all part of an effort to prop up confidence in the economy among business managers and investors.

But the main nongovernment survey of manufacturers in China showed on Thursday that inventories of finished goods rose much faster in August than in any month since the survey began in April 2004. The previous record for rising inventories, according to the HSBC/Markit survey, had been set in June. May and July also showed increases.

“Across the manufacturing industries we look at, people were expecting more sales over the summer, and it just didn’t happen,” said Anne Stevenson-Yang, the research director for J Capital Research, an economic analysis firm in Hong Kong. With inventories extremely high and factories now cutting production, she added, “Things are kind of crawling to a halt.”

Problems in China give some economists nightmares in which, in the worst case, the United States and much of the world slip back into recession as the Chinese economy sputters, the European currency zone collapses and political gridlock paralyzes the United States.

China is the world’s second-largest economy and has been the largest engine of economic growth since the global financial crisis began in 2008. Economic weakness means that China is likely to buy fewer goods and services from abroad when the sovereign debt crisis in Europe is already hurting demand, raising the prospect of a global glut of goods and falling prices and weak production around the world.

Corporate hiring has slowed, and jobs are becoming less plentiful. Chinese exports, a mainstay of the economy for the last three decades, have almost stopped growing. Imports have also stalled, particularly for raw materials like iron ore for steel making, as industrialists have lost confidence that they will be able to sell if they keep factories running. Real estate prices have slid, although there have been hints that they might have bottomed out in July, and money has been leaving the country through legal and illegal channels.

Interviews with business owners and managers across a wide range of Chinese industries presented a picture of mounting stockpiles of unsold goods.

Business owners who manufacture or distribute products as varied as dehumidifiers, plastic tubing for ventilation systems, solar panels, bedsheets and steel beams for false ceilings said that sales had fallen over the last year and showed little sign of recovering.

“Sales are down 50 percent from last year, and inventory is piled high,” said To Liangjian, the owner of a wholesale company distributing picture frames and cups, as he paused while playing online poker in his deserted storefront here in southeastern China.

Wu Weiqing, the manager of a faucet and sink wholesaler, said that his sales dropped 30 percent in the last year and he has piled up extra merchandise. Yet the factory supplying him is still cranking out shiny kitchen fixtures at a fast pace.

“My supplier’s inventory is huge because he cannot cut production — he doesn’t want to miss out on sales when the demand comes back,” he said.

Part of the issue is that the Chinese government’s leaders have decided to put quality-of-life concerns ahead of maximizing economic growth when it comes to two of the country’s largest industries: housing and autos.

Premier Wen Jiabao has imposed a strict ban on purchases of second and subsequent homes, in the hope that discouraging real estate speculation will improve the affordability of homes. The ban has resulted in a steep decline in residential real estate prices, a sharp fall in housing construction and widespread job losses among construction workers.

At the same time, the municipal government in Guangzhou, one of China’s largest cities, has sharply reduced this summer the number of new car registrations it allows so as to reduce traffic congestion and air pollution.

Municipal officials from all over China have been flocking to Guangzhou to ask for details. Xi’an, the metropolis of northwestern China, has already announced this month that it will limit car registrations, although it has not settled on the details.

The Chinese auto industry has grown tenfold in the last decade to become the world’s largest, looking like a formidable challenger to Detroit. But now, the Chinese industry is starting to look more like Detroit in its dark days in the 1980s.

Inventories of unsold cars are soaring at dealerships across the nation, and the Chinese industry’s problems show every sign of growing worse, not better. So many auto factories have opened in China in the last two years that the industry is operating at only about 65 percent of capacity — far below the 80 percent usually needed for profitability.


Yet so many new factories are being built that, according to the Chinese government’s National Development and Reform Commission, the country’s auto manufacturing capacity is on track to increase again in the next three years by an amount equal to all the auto factories in Japan, or nearly all the auto factories in the United States.

“I worry that we’re going down the same road the U.S. went down, and it takes quite some time to fix that,” said Geoff Broderick, the general manager of Asian operations at J. D. Power & Associates, the global consulting firm. [/b]

“Inventory levels for us now are very, very high,” said Huang Yi, the chairman of Zhongsheng Group, China’s fifth-largest dealership chain. “If I hadn’t done special offers in the first half of this year, my inventory would be even higher.”

Manufacturers have largely refused to cut production, and are putting heavy pressure on dealers to accept delivery of cars under their franchise agreements even though many dealers are struggling to find places to park them or ways to finance their swelling inventories. This prompted the government-controlled China Automobile Dealers Association to issue a rare appeal to automakers earlier this month.

“We call on manufacturers to be highly concerned about dealer inventories, and to take timely and effective measures to actively digest inventory, especially taking into account the financial strain on distributors, as manufacturers have to provide the necessary financing support to help dealers ride out the storm,” the association said.

Officially, though, most of the inventory problems are a nonissue for the government.

The Public Security Bureau, for example, has halted the release of data about slumping car registrations. Data on the steel sector has been repeatedly revised this year after a new method showed a steeper downturn than the government had acknowledged. And while rows of empty apartment buildings line highways outside major cities all over China, the government has not released information about the number of empty apartments since 2008.

Yet businesspeople in a wide range of industries have little doubt that the Chinese economy is in trouble.

“Inventory used to flow in and out,” said Mr. Wu, the faucet and sink sales manager. “Now, it just sits there, and there’s more of it.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/24/busine...h_20120824
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(25-08-2012, 08:32 PM)Underdogger Wrote: i think we might see a lot of S chips closing shops in the few months ahead if economic situation does not improve....

Part of the issue is that the Chinese government’s leaders have decided to put quality-of-life concerns ahead of maximizing economic growth when it comes to two of the country’s largest industries: housing and autos.

The Chinese auto industry has grown tenfold in the last decade to become the world’s largest, looking like a formidable challenger to Detroit. But now, the Chinese industry is starting to look more like Detroit in its dark days in the 1980s.

Very bad prognosis for auto industries...Any issue with China Sunssine's sales going forwards for the next few months?

It does raise a concern with economic condition in China, and the rest of the world.

China Sunsine will be affected, but it may not reach a level to cause a dive in the company profit, and the share price.

During a crisis, probably a good time to capture market share, if the company perform better than their competitors.

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