February 17, 2011

IOICORP - OSK Research maintains Sell on IOI Corp, TP at RM4.41

Stock Name: IOICORP
Company Name: IOI CORPORATION BHD
Research House: OSK

KUALA LUMPUR: OSK Research'' said IOI Corp's annualised 1HFY11 core net profit of RM920.5 million was 11.3% below its recently raised forecast of RM2074.7 million and 16.5% below consensus expectation.

'If we knock off the RM61 million one-off gain from the disposal of investment property, the core number would have been worse,' it said on Thursday, Feb 17.

'We are maintaining our Sell call on IOI Corp with our target price remaining at the recently downgraded RM4.41. Based on our CPO price assumption of RM3,200 for CY11, IOI is trading in excess of 19x earnings. Its stretched valuation has resulted in sub-par stock price performance and we believe this will continue to be the case in the foreseeable future until the company gets more aggressive with its new planting,' it added.

OSK Research said among PLANTATION [] stocks in its coverage, IOI has the lowest ratio of young mature to total mature trees and the lowest percentage of trees not yet at peak maturity, which means it has the slowest production growth rate.

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