Yesterday Design Studio announced their Q2 Result.
Q2 revenue decreased 31.2% y-o-y, but cost of sales only decreased 26%, therefore gross profit decreased 52.3%. The statement explained that this is a result of decrease in contribution from both Residential property and Hospitality and commercial segments. The gross profit margin decreased from 20% to 13.8% y-o-y.
The marketing expenses increased by 28.9%, mainly attributed to increase in staff costs relating to restructuring and showroom related expenses. Seems like the company is focusing on marketing, but I couldn't find much media coverage on their showroom.
Overall the result is quite disappointing, after deducting the dividend distributed earlier, Q2 cash inflow is around 1.6 million, which is less than 1 cent per share. Their NAV is only 37.12 cents compared with last year 41.73 cents, and Q2 EPS is only 0.21 cents compared with last year 1.68 cents. If I take FY17(1H) EPS and multiply by 2 to get the FY17 EPS, the estimated EPS is only 1.82 cents. The share is currently trading at around 60 cents, so estimated FY17 PE will be 32.97, and currently PB is around 1.62. I am also quite worried that their EPS is quite low yet their still declared that they are going to pay 1.25 cents dividend soon, which I found is not healthy for the company development.
I found that the share price already reflected the fundamental of the company, so I decided to sell them. Very sad that it drops more than 10% today, so my paper profit drops more than 800 dollars. I sold all my shares today, 600 at 62 cents, 800 at 60 cents, and 10,600 at 59.5 cents (average selling price is 59.7 cents). Anyway I still earned a good profit as I bought my shares at 57.5 cents, and received 5.25 cents of dividend earlier. My return is around 12.9% (dividend included) after I hold it for half a year.
I will still put design studio in my WL, and hope to buy back at a better price.
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Hi Allen,
ReplyDeleteWhat do you think of their results recently? Given the current price of 0.545, would you start accumulating? Thank you!
Hi,
DeleteAs previously I sold all my holdings at around 0.595, I am waiting to accumulate at a lower price. However, my major concern including their low order book value, and the new CEO. I noted that their order book value is actually very low and slightly dangerous. The new CEO seems like doesn't have much experience in this industry too so we must give him sometime to understand more about the industry and the group too. The recent result announced last month should somehow support my previous estimation as both revenue and net profit dropped. Cash flow also not very good. I would like to wait for the new CEO can prove that he is able to drive the company better and win more profitable projects before I start accumulating. I think that this company should do fine but the share price short to mid term might drop due to lower revenue and net profit. DYODD. Thanks for reading.