Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Borneo Lumbung Energy (BORN.IJ, UNDER REVIEW): To acquire stake

􀂃 Yesterday the company announced a deal to acquire 23.8% stake in Bumi PlC from Bakrie & Brothers and Long Haul Holdings Limited (both are parts of Bakrie Group) at US$1b or approximately £10.91 a share, paid in cash. The company has signed Sales and Purchase Agreement on 31 October.

Analyst comment:
􀂃 We understand with the acquisition Borneo will gain access to the growing thermal coal industry and some metal resources. We believe the acquisition will increase Borneo profile as a leading coal producer, which in turn will help it to market its relatively new coking coal products. Bumi Plc is a holding company which oversees coal production of c. 85m tons in FY11 or approximately 25% of Indonesia’s thermal coal output. Bumi Plc has subsidiaries under Bumi Resources Mineral which has reserves of iron ore in Mauritania as well as copper and goal in Sulawesi.
􀂃 At the acquisition price, Borneo purchased Bumi Plc at 48% premium to closing price at 31 October 2011 of and 6% premium to the average of £10.33 in the last six month.
􀂃 The acquisition will be financed through US$1b five‐year amortizing term loan facility provided by Standard Chartered Bank. As of end of September, Borneo has roughly US$200m cash with low gearing less than 0.08x. Adding US$1b loan will increase its gearing to 1.2x, still
reasonable in our view.
􀂃 The transaction is subject to approval from at least 75% of shareholders present at EGM on 15 December 2011. We believe the acquisition plan is likely to pass trough shareholders’ approval. Currently Republik Energi & Metal, which essentially controlled by the President Director of Borneo Mr Samin Tan, owns 73% stake in Borneo.
􀂃 We had TP of Rp1350 at Borneo Lumbung, pegging the stock at 11x FY12 P/E, before the deal announcement. We view the 47% premium to the average of the last 20 trading days to be expensive. Yesterday the stock price fell by 15%, suggesting investors view is not in favor to
the deal. We are reviewing our forecast and recommendation. Today the company will hold an analyst conference at 3pm Jakarta time.

Source: KIM ENG equity daily dated 2 November 2011

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