MALWATTE VALLEY PLANTATIONS PLC (MAL.N0000)

Malwatte Valley Plantations PLC is engaged in cultivation, manufacture and sale of black tea, rubber and other crops. The Company's segments include Tea, Rubber, Coconut and Others. The Company produces tea from its approximately 17 tea gardens located in over three agro climatic regions namely Badulla-Hali Ela, Bandarawela and Welimada. Its portfolio includes approximately six rubber estates in the Avissawella Region. The Company also cultivates fruits and spices. The Company ships its rubber to Malaysia, Pakistan, Czech Republic, Brazil, Germany, Netherlands, India and Bangladesh. It has a total of over four natural rubber processing plants, which cater to the various needs of the domestic and international market, having a total production capacity of approximately 1.5 million kilos of rubber made per year with a productive extent of over 2100 hectares. Its subsidiary, Prime Real Estate Australia Pty Ltd, is engaged in the business of real estate and construction in Australia.

friends look at malwatte performance,

profit for quater end 31.12.2010      101,130,000  eps 4
2010.1.1-2010.12.31 profit             469,917,000  eps 18.98

pe traling    market price/eps      125/18.98  = 6.59  y?

cant we assume   minimum 10 eps?
i think currently it heavely unde value

some time rally may end now...but it can start any time

share u r idears.....

Hi People.
I can see MAL performance are good. specially tea sector.
http://www.pureceylontea.com/index.php?option=com_teaprices&view=hello&layout=front&Itemid=202&lang=en
Please select "Sub District Price" on type drop-down-list. and then you can select month according to your interest.

Please check TEA price on this wen site. I can see average price is gradually going up. specially September also AVG price is going up by Rs 8.  that meaning is "Niyangaya" not much effect to the production and aslo MAL produce reasonable Tea quantity.

I think this time they produce good financial report for this quarter.
Please give me your valuable Ideas. without fighting each other.

Stockback. I already mentioned several times my view on MAL.

I am not sure about Tea sector output ( revenue) but higher tea prices , their Tea Export business and Rubber ( also increased) sure buffer any big shock. I ofcouse am not certain as this is a educated guess.


As someone also mentioned before MAL management has not been the greatest but I think they are trying to get their act together now. I saw them venturing into Fruits, Timber also ( nned to double check) .

PS; Please edit title to be not in ALL CAPS.

So the possibility of it going pass 6.5 is not just Talk only.

Kithsiri wrote:So the possibility of it going pass 6.5 is not just Talk only.

Ofcouse the possibility is there as fundamental support it. But it is the crowd buying pressure that pushes this up. As we need to be safe on this for the next 3 month it is best to watch the Spet quarter if you are in for short term. We expect decent results but we only guess with logic. If it goes wrong there will be many to blame here or panic to sell. So better to be watchful.

slstock wrote:

Kithsiri wrote:So the possibility of it going pass 6.5 is not just Talk only.

Ofcouse the possibility is there as fundamental support it. But it is the crowd buying pressure that pushes this up. As we need to be safe on this for the next 3 month it is best to watch the Spet quarter if you are in for short term. We expect decent results but we only guess with logic. If it goes wrong there will be many to blame here or panic to sell. So better to be watchful.

Thanks.
Vulture is a patience Bird ( So am I )
I have No Credit worries and a plenty of Time too.

Wage hike in march 2013 will be the death blow to most plantation companies.

illuminati wrote:Wage hike in march 2013 will be the death blow to most plantation companies.

Yes if Tea/ Rubber prices don't increase and the wages again go up a lot.

But the ones that can surive will be one swith diversified crops mainly Rubber which needs to less labor compared to Tea.

Mechanized plucking which is doing well in many other countries (even in Tea) was tried out in a few plantations but I do not think that it is being widely used in Sri Lanka.
Why, I am unable to comment.
(It was Unions and or Cost factor or both).
If it is not the Cost factor, then these plantation managers have to seriously think about it to nullify and or to circumvent the labour related issues plaguing profitability.

Not easy to push this share after subdivision in last year.(10 shares for every 1 share)
NAPS came to 9.13 including timber stock.negative cash flow 86M,regularly taking loans to repay loans.

public shares holdings 37.74%

(3)Pershing LLC S/A Avernach Grauson & Co. had 9,070,000 shares at 31/03/12
7,520,000 shares at 30/06/12

Pan Asia Banking Corporation PLC/B R Fernando had 900,000 shares at 31/03/12
399,950 shares at 30/06/12

I believe they cant do any miracle with sep q reports. ha ha you can see whether no 3 share holder has reduced the share holdings or not.Guess BR Fernando is the Executive director of CSF. I saw lot of people connected to ceylinco in top 20 list.

For me this share is not good for mid term/long term.But Trading opportunities may arise.

http://www.cse.lk/cmt/upload_report_file/722_1343993814.pdf
http://www.cse.lk/cmt/upload_report_file/722_1336993152.pdf
http://www.cse.lk/cmt/upload_report_file/722_1338984293.pdf

Okay duly noted. Let watch for sept report. If thign turn out wrong we do not have to stay married to shares for sure. Compnay needs to do things to improve share holder wealth and take care of them . Then only is is a mutual investment.

As plantation share have cycles , I don;t think it is wise to hold on to them for long term due to big fluctuations.

market bull wrote:Not easy to push this share after subdivision in last year.(10 shares for every 1 share)
NAPS came to 9.13 including timber stock.negative cash flow 86M,regularly taking loans to repay loans.

public shares holdings 37.74%

(3)Pershing LLC S/A Avernach Grauson & Co. had 9,070,000 shares at 31/03/12
7,520,000 shares at 30/06/12

Pan Asia Banking Corporation PLC/B R Fernando had 900,000 shares at 31/03/12
399,950 shares at 30/06/12

I believe they cant do any miracle with sep q reports. ha ha you can see whether no 3 share holder has reduced the share holdings or not.Guess BR Fernando is the Executive director of CSF. I saw lot of people connected to ceylinco in top 20 list.

For me this share is not good for mid term/long term.But Trading opportunities may arise.

http://www.cse.lk/cmt/upload_report_file/722_1343993814.pdf
http://www.cse.lk/cmt/upload_report_file/722_1336993152.pdf
http://www.cse.lk/cmt/upload_report_file/722_1338984293.pdf

Does a wage hike on the cards in 2013?? I thot its every 3 years

smallville wrote:Does a wage hike on the cards in 2013?? I thot its every 3 years

Every two years. Current collective agreement expires in March 2013.

illuminati wrote:

smallville wrote:Does a wage hike on the cards in 2013?? I thot its every 3 years

Every two years. Current collective agreement expires in March 2013.

Thanks..

This seems not good unless a tea/rubber prices are increased..

Results out

http://www.cse.lk/cmt/upload_report_file/722_1352458907.pdf
0 month eps 1.25
Eps 0.38
NAV 8,65


As expected no major drop in profits. Recall how much trouble some tried to create when MAL dropped below Rs 5 ;-) .

market bull wrote:Not easy to push this share after subdivision in last year.(10 shares for every 1 share)
NAPS came to 9.13 including timber stock.negative cash flow 86M,regularly taking loans to repay loans.

public shares holdings 37.74%

(3)Pershing LLC S/A Avernach Grauson & Co. had 9,070,000 shares at 31/03/12
7,520,000 shares at 30/06/12

Pan Asia Banking Corporation PLC/B R Fernando had 900,000 shares at 31/03/12
399,950 shares at 30/06/12

I believe they cant do any miracle with sep q reports. ha ha you can see whether no 3 share holder has reduced the share holdings or not.Guess BR Fernando is the Executive director of CSF. I saw lot of people connected to ceylinco in top 20 list.

For me this share is not good for mid term/long term.But Trading opportunities may arise.

http://www.cse.lk/cmt/upload_report_file/722_1343993814.pdf
http://www.cse.lk/cmt/upload_report_file/722_1336993152.pdf
http://www.cse.lk/cmt/upload_report_file/722_1338984293.pdf

Mistaken B.R.Fernando is Me Sure I shelved some shares due to cash issues, But I am in the process of transfering some of the shares to Newly registered PVT LTD company. I have not lost the faith with MAL. Sep 2012 may have proved my point.

When I checked last Financial report, I found the following based on Current Price Rs 4.80

Earning per share > 20% of current Market Price
Net Asset Value > 175% of the current Market Price
P-ratio < 4
Long Term Liability/Share Holder's equity < 0.75

Stil the stock is not movingwell, Also there is no other stock satisfying the above condition.

what are the comments on this stock

When I checked last Financial report, I found the following based on Current Price Rs 4.80

Earning per share > 20% of current Market Price
Net Asset Value > 175% of the current Market Price
P-ratio < 4
Long Term Liability/Share Holder's equity < 0.75

Stil the stock is not movingwell, Also there is no other stock satisfying the above condition.

what are the comments on this stock

There many plantation sector share trading at low PE and NAVs. TPL and MASK for example. Due to volatility in plantation sector they ussually trade low compared to other sectors.
So until a plantation run or some news , MAL also does not have special reason to move.

Mubaaracq Meerasahib wrote:When I checked last Financial report, I found the following based on Current Price Rs 4.80

Earning per share > 20% of current Market Price
Net Asset Value > 175% of the current Market Price
P-ratio < 4
Long Term Liability/Share Holder's equity < 0.75

Stil the stock is not movingwell, Also there is no other stock satisfying the above condition.

what are the comments on this stock

This is one of those share which got hit by share splitting and diversification strategy. Even though there is potential to go up, it gets pulled back by selling pressure. Cannot expect a miracle in short term.

Dear Friends,

How " Malwatte Valley Plantations Ltd... MAL.N0000" share will be Turn Around coming days ??? Their are lot of collection going On !!!

BLASTER

Mmm company had a good profit.. .it may be reach Rs 6

Wait for the bull market to see real price. Three to four month target price over Rs.8/-.

MARKETWATCH2 wrote:Wait for the bull market to see real price. Three to four month target price over Rs.8/-.

Last quarter Mal Did very well bcz of Tea productions.
I don't think we can expect good result for this quarter Tea sector
at the moment Rubber price also getting low. we cannot expect profit from rubber sector. and also they calculate all other cost for last quarter(Q4)(I think.
please analyzes Q4 Result of last few years) at that time tea and rubber price and productions.

Watch the stock very closely. It has been channeling in a strong upside channel since April. Strong chances are there to reach double digits by this December.