Friday, June 29, 2012
United Tractors TP IDR24,500
United Tractors
A Blip from Lower Coal Prices
Management lowers guidance on FY12 heavy equipment sales.
Owing to lower coal prices, United Tractors (UNTR)’s management has lowered its FY12 Komatsu sales volume guidance to 8,500 units from 9,500 units. In addition to the adverse impact from the implementation
of mineral export taxes in the metal/mining sector, demand for heavy equipment from small miners with annual production of less than 3m tonnes was weak on the back of lower benchmark coal prices, resulting
in delayed capex on heavy equipment. Nevertheless, demand from larger coal producers is expected to remain stable. Following this new guidance, we lower our FY12 Komatsu sales volume estimates to 8,581
units. Note that the company expects market share to hover at its typical level of 44-45%. This means that if the 5M12 volume growth of 20% were to persist, UNTR’s annualised sales volume would reach 8,941 units, higher than our and management estimates.
Pama to shield UNTR’s operating performance. Good weather conditions, lower oil prices and a weakening IDR vs. USD should improve the performance of UNTR’s mining contracting business, which contributes 30% to consolidated gross profit, in subsequent quarters. Double-digit production growth continued in 5M12, with coal extraction volume of 37.4m tonnes (+15.8% YoY) and overburden removal of 342.8m bcm (+16.3% YoY). Thus, we expect Pama to shield UNTR’s operating performance in FY12 and partially offset the hiccup at the heavy equipment unit. Note that the negative impact of lower coal prices on this business unit should not be significant, as it is driven by volume rather than price.
Lowering TP, retain BUY on attractive PER. While we cut our FY12-14 earnings estimates by around 10%, we believe that UNTR’s current FY12 PER of 13.3x (vs. a historical average of 15x) is undemanding.
The risk, in our view, is more on the upside rather than downside. Thus, while we have lowered our TP to IDR24,500 (implying an FY12 PER of 15x), UNTR remains a BUY.
source: KIMENG dated 29 June 2012
A Blip from Lower Coal Prices
Management lowers guidance on FY12 heavy equipment sales.
Owing to lower coal prices, United Tractors (UNTR)’s management has lowered its FY12 Komatsu sales volume guidance to 8,500 units from 9,500 units. In addition to the adverse impact from the implementation
of mineral export taxes in the metal/mining sector, demand for heavy equipment from small miners with annual production of less than 3m tonnes was weak on the back of lower benchmark coal prices, resulting
in delayed capex on heavy equipment. Nevertheless, demand from larger coal producers is expected to remain stable. Following this new guidance, we lower our FY12 Komatsu sales volume estimates to 8,581
units. Note that the company expects market share to hover at its typical level of 44-45%. This means that if the 5M12 volume growth of 20% were to persist, UNTR’s annualised sales volume would reach 8,941 units, higher than our and management estimates.
Pama to shield UNTR’s operating performance. Good weather conditions, lower oil prices and a weakening IDR vs. USD should improve the performance of UNTR’s mining contracting business, which contributes 30% to consolidated gross profit, in subsequent quarters. Double-digit production growth continued in 5M12, with coal extraction volume of 37.4m tonnes (+15.8% YoY) and overburden removal of 342.8m bcm (+16.3% YoY). Thus, we expect Pama to shield UNTR’s operating performance in FY12 and partially offset the hiccup at the heavy equipment unit. Note that the negative impact of lower coal prices on this business unit should not be significant, as it is driven by volume rather than price.
Lowering TP, retain BUY on attractive PER. While we cut our FY12-14 earnings estimates by around 10%, we believe that UNTR’s current FY12 PER of 13.3x (vs. a historical average of 15x) is undemanding.
The risk, in our view, is more on the upside rather than downside. Thus, while we have lowered our TP to IDR24,500 (implying an FY12 PER of 15x), UNTR remains a BUY.
source: KIMENG dated 29 June 2012