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(Member of Alliance Bank group) PP7766/03/2013 (032116)

WCT
Construction

Sell
Bloomberg Ticker: WCT MK | Bursa Code: 9679

22 April 2013
Analyst Jeremy Goh, CFA jeremygoh@alliancefg.com +603 2604 3905

Loses arbitration proceeding

The Gamuda-WCT JV has lost the arbitration proceeding against BAE. This arbitration is related to the Dukhan Highway job in Qatar. The JV is required to pay BAE a total of RM52.4m. WCTs stake in the JV is 49% and the earnings impact is RM26.3m (-15% cut). Impact to our sum-of-parts valuation is RM0.02/ share (<1%). As such, there will be no changes to our RM2.05 TP and SELL rating which already imputes a 10% discount.

12-month upside potential Target price Current price (as at 19 Apr) Capital upside (%) Net dividends (%) Total return (%)

2.05 2.39 -14.2 2.6 -11.6

Whats in the news

Key stock information Syariah-compliant? Market Cap (RM m) Shares outstanding (m) Free float (%) 52-week high / low (RM) 3-mth avg volume ('000) 3-mth avg turnover (RM m) Share price performance 1M Absolute (%) 3.1 Relative (%) -1.4

Yes 2,586.7 1,082.3 52.7 2.47 / 1.87 2,914.6 6.6 3M 8.1 3.2 6M 3.2 0.5

The Gamuda-WCT JV has lost the arbitration proceedings against Bahrain Asphalt Establishment (BAE). The JV shall be required to pay QAR 45.7m (RM38.1m) as claims to BAE, QAR17.1m (RM14.3m) as legal costs and USD412k (RM1.3m) for arbitrator costs. WCT has a 49% stake in the JV and stated that the impact to its FY13 (Dec) earnings is RM26.3m.

Recap of past events

In Feb 2006, BAE was appointed as a subcontractor by the JV for a project in Qatar known as the Dukhan Highway which involves a 43km road from Shahaniya to Zekreet. In March 2010, BAE has served a request for arbitration against the JV, claiming a total sum of QAR109.3m (RM101.1m) which comprises of (i) prolongation, escalation, collateral and associated cost, (ii) overcharging of aggregates and (iii) wrongful deduction for supply of bitumen.

Our comments
Share price chart

This arbitration claim would reduce our FY13 earnings by 15.1% from RM174.3m to RM148m. However, we would regard this as an exceptional item. Impact on our sum-of-parts valuation is marginal at RM0.02 per share or less than 1%.

Valuation and recommendation

We make no changes to our RM2.05 TP as our valuation already inputs a 10% discount to SOP. This implies 11.7x and 11.5x FY13-14. We maintain our SELL rating on WCT.

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Figure 1 : Key financial data FYE 31 Dec Revenue (RM m) EBITDA (RM m) EBIT (RM m) Pretax profit (RM m) Reported net profit (RM m) Core net profit (RM m) EPS (sen) Core EPS (sen) Alliance / Consensus (%) Core EPS growth (%) P/E (x) EV/EBITDA (x) ROE (%) Net gearing (%) Net DPS (sen) Net dividend yield (%) BV/share (RM) P/B (x)
Source: Alliance Research, Bloomberg

FY10 1,708.5 316.5 300.1 266.8 150.3 150.3 15.1 15.1 2.2 15.9 10.1 12.0 37.4 5.9 2.5 1.26 1.9

FY11 1,538.6 266.6 257.4 207.5 166.0 166.0 16.6 16.6 10.4 14.4 12.0 11.2 39.3 9.5 4.0 1.48 1.6

FY12 1,560.4 262.0 255.5 202.7 364.6 153.6 36.5 15.4 (7.5) 15.5 12.2 8.5 41.1 7.0 2.9 1.82 1.3

FY13F 1,767.5 293.0 281.9 217.9 148.0 174.3 14.8 17.5 79.7 9.4 13.7 10.9 10.4 38.0 6.1 2.6 1.68 1.4

FY14F 1,827.6 301.8 289.9 222.8 178.3 178.3 17.9 17.9 71.1 2.3 13.4 10.6 9.9 39.1 6.2 2.6 1.80 1.3

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Adex = advertising expenditure bn = billion BV = book value CF = cash flow CAGR = compounded annual growth rate Capex = capital expenditure CY = calendar year Div yld = dividend yield DCF = discounted cash flow DDM = dividend discount model DPS = dividend per share EBIT = earnings before interest & tax EBITDA = EBIT before depreciation and amortisation EPS = earnings per share EV = enterprise value FCF = free cash flow FV = fair value FY = financial year m = million M-o-m = month-on-month NAV = net assets value NM = not meaningful NTA = net tangible assets NR = not rated p.a. = per annum PAT = profit after tax PBT = profit before tax P/B = price / book ratio P/E = price / earnings ratio PEG = P/E ratio to growth ratio q-o-q = quarter-on-quarter RM = Ringgit ROA = return on assets ROE = return on equity TP = target price trn = trillion WACC = weighted average cost of capital y-o-y = year-on-year YTD = year-to-date

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