Business
- Distributing and manufacturing wood product
- Owned 13 subsidiaries
- supplying plywood and other wood-based products to the local building industry and furniture manufacturers
Geography segment
- Malaysia (82%)
- Australia
- Asia (Vietnam,Singapore, Thailand)
- South Africa
- Philippines
Financial performance
- Revenue increased 6% (QoQ); 22% (YoY)
- Gross profit margin 7.2% - low profit margin
- Profit before tax margin 5.76%
- Net profit margin 4.9%
- Short term Bank borrowing:RM 154.571mn
- Long term bank borrowing: RM8.929mn
- Cash and bank equivalents: RM5.719mn
- Manufacturing of wood products contribute 20.13% to revenue
- Distributing of wood products contribute 79.22%
Manufacturing sector
- A better result from manufacturing division on both revenue and operating profit.
- It was due to market share expansion and enjoy a better margin achieved through concentrating on high margin products and cost management
Distribution division
- Increased of revenue was due to additional market share captured and penetration into new market
- Dominan benefit from strong USD exchange, Current quarter gain on foreign exchange was RM1.242mn
Annual report 2016
- Weaken RM will burden Dominan,as cost of imported raw material increase
- Borrowing mainly denominated in RM
Factors that will affect company performance
- Raw material
- Foreign currency exchange (Weaken RM increased imported cost, Strengthen USD increase profit)
- Wood panel product price
- Weal demand from local Construction business
News
- Malaysian Timber Industry Board targets for exports of the furniture products to be worth RM16.0 billion by 2020, from RM9.1 billion in 2015 ( Annual Report 2016)
Lumber future price
Comment
- Most of the revenue is come from Malaysia, according to annual report 2016: 82%
- Strengthen of USD dollar would benefit to Dominan but in small portion. It will offset by high imported cost of raw material.
- Would Doninan benefie from local construction project?
How fast market react to better result!!
However, personally think upside trend is limited
Share price
- Assume next quarter EPS is 4.5, sum up 4 quarter is RM0.1381
- Given PE:10
- Share price is RM1.38
- Current share price: RM1.22
- Resistance level: RM1.25
- Support level: RM1.17/RM1.18, Loss 4%
Reference:
https://www.investing.com/commodities/lumber
http://bblifediary.blogspot.my/2015/03/dominan.html (article about dominan)
http://klsecompany.blogspot.my/2015/06/7evergrnmiecoheveadominan.html (article about dominan)