Monday, August 15, 2011

CSC Steel dips on lower 2Q earnings

KUALA LUMPUR: CSC Steel Holdings Bhd shares declined on Monday, Aug 15 after its net profit for the second quarter ended June 30, 2011 slumped to RM6.36 million from RM31.61 million a year earlier.

At 10.30am. CSC was down three sen to RM1.50 with 79,300 shares done.

RHB Research in a note Aug 15 said CSC Steel's 1HFY11 net profit came in below expectations.

'We believe the variance against our forecast largely came from worse-than-expected margin contraction in 2QFY11 as a result of weak demand and significantly higher raw material costs.

'We are cutting our FY11-13 net profit forecasts by 7-26% largely to reflect the higher raw material costs. Indicative fair value is reduced to RM1.13 based on 8x revised FY12 EPS of 14.1 sen,' it said.

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