GCB (5102) - When Crude Oil crashed, Polymer company blossom on lower cost. Now Cocoa crashed, this company will benefit sharply
When the equity market takes a correction, that means things will start to cool off, and prices will start to come down and consolidate again. This is part and parcel of the life in the equity market. Share price goes up, share price goes down. In fact, you will need to get out of the market if the share price does not goes up or down.
I had to agree that the market had been over bullish since the start of the Year 2017. Anyone who took a bearish stance for the past 3 months had definitely miss out a good opportunity. Of course, all the opportunity comes with 2 sides of the risks - risk of gaining too much and don't know what to do with the money, and risk of losing too much and have no money then.
As you can see, one of the method in trading the stock market is to track the pricing of the commodities. For instance, when FCPO (Crude palm oil futures) goes up, then the local plantation player will generally be able to reap better profits because of the better margin they receive for selling their plantation fruits. Of course, when FCPO dived below certain level, plantation company will start to suffer from thin margin, while some will fall into the red due to lacking of economies of scale or inefficient operation process.
This can be applied to the recent major event in the global market - The crash of Crude Oil. When Crude Oil crash into the region below USD 40 per barrel, a lot of oil company went into financial and cash flow problem. This 2015 oil crash had resulted in Singapore based Ezra going into bankruptcy, which had also directly affect Perisai Petroleum listed in KLSE.
However, on the other hand of the world, businesses that used crude oil as input material are enjoying better margin due to a cheaper raw material supply. For example, Nylex manufactures polymer which uses oil as raw material. The cheaper price of oil resulted in better margin, hence better profit for Nylex.
Another example can be taken at SLP Resources Berhad. This plastic packaging company also manufacture its own plastic and plastic polymer. Ever since the crash of crude oil, SLP had been reporting humongous growth and profits, and is rewarding shareholder with hefty dividend as well.
You must know that every crash will be a crash on the surface, but behind the crash is a new opportunity.
Now, I am going to highlight to you a commodity which had crashed to it's 5 year low - Cocoa.
Above I am showing you the price chart of US Cocoa Futures. It is notable that Cocoa had crashed more than 40% from the peak of USD 3200 to the current USD 1900. I don't know if you would want to label a 40% drop as a crash or not, but I had to tell you crude oil also crash around 40 to 50%, and global analyst called it a crude oil crash.
Maybe you might not know what is Cocoa, but I believe everyone in the world would had tasted a piece of Chocolate before. And that ingredient to make chocolate came from cocoa.
For this reason, I am going to highlight to you that this company is that is standing to benefit from the crash of the cocoa prices. This company is - Guan Chong Berhad (GCB - 5102)
The business of GCB is very easy.
1.) GCB purchase raw cocoa
2.) GCB open up the grinding machine and grind the cocoa into cocoa powder
3.) GCB will sell the cocoa powder, or process them into cocoa butter and sell it to the global market.
As you can see, the major raw material input cost will be Cocoa. And now that the prices of Cocoa had fallen for 40%, that will effectively put the input cost lower by 40%
As you can see, GCB had not really participate in the bull run, however, they had been spending time in the consolidation stage.
According to the technical chart, the consolidation could be ripe, and GCB will be ready to take the ride up, back with low cocoa price that will help them save 40% of input cost in the coming days.
Today I am not going to tell you more, but just highlighting to you that
1.) International Cocoa prices had crashed to the lowest in 5 years.
2.) GCB will stand to benefit from a lower raw material price.
If you still do not understand, please do your own research and take sometime to understand this industry. Again, investment comes with risk, so please do your own due diligence before investing into any equities.
In the next article, I will put down some of my detail analysis and forward projection into GCB, and draw out the relationship between the prices of Cocoa with GCB dividend policy. If you believe the cocoa prices will stay at the range of 1800 to 2400 in the next 12 months, then GCB is definitely something you would like to hold on for at least 1 or 2 years.
GCB (5102) - When Crude Oil crashed, Polymer company blossom on lower cost. Now Cocoa crashed, this company will benefit sharply
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