Ramunia Heart MISC
The Edge: MISC Bhd launched a reverse takeover (RTO) for Ramunia Bhd in a proposed deal valued at RM3.2 billion, where MISC would inject its heavy engineering business in exchange for new Ramunia shares. Ramunia told Bursa on Jan 21 that it had received an offer letter dated Jan 18 from MISC’s unit MSE Holdings Sdn Bhd offering to dispose of its entire stake in Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering Sdn Bhd to Ramunia. The total consideration of RM3.2 billion would be satisfied by the issuance of new shares of 50 sen each and new irredeemable convertible preference shares of Ramunia. Ramunia said MISC’s offer would lapse by Jan 21 or at such other time which might be extended by MISC.
Comment: Smart move. Saves on listing cost with Malaysia Marine & Heavy Engineering. MMH was supposed to be a hidden gem to be unlocked by MISC via a listing. In one fell swoop, MISC ends up with the facilities under Ramunia, major controlling stake in Ramunia, savings on listing cost for MMH, and a huge kicker in Ramunia's post-deal share price.
The main beneficiary will still be Ramunia shares and not MISC (too big, too heavy). MMH is expected to rake a net profit of RM213m in FY2008. That's 15x 2008 earnings, good for MISC rather than Ramunia. In terms of fabrication yard space, MMH has 80 acres, Ramunia 180 acres and Sime Engineering 45 acres. Sime Darby had thought Ramunia's asking price to be too high last year. I think MISC's got better brains at the top because absolute price will always be expensive for a good asset. However, if you are willing to think outside the box, its a great win-win situation. With the deal, Ramunia will have an unassailable 260 acres of fabrication space. This will put Ramunia in the driver's seat to get a huge slice of the RM10bn fabrication jobs to be doled out in 2008. The government strategy is to build 65 new platforms over the next 5 years. This deal will also help Ramunia in terms of meeting demand for offshore fabrication equipment.
Ramunia will also get MMH's outstanding orderbook of more than RM3.3bn. Though we do not know the details (we can still do a guesstimate), but assuming MISC gets the new shares @RM1.00 = 3.2bn new shares. Add that to Ramunia's existing 557m shares = 3.757bn shares. Ramunia is expected to make RM53m net profit in 2008, add MMH's RM213m = RM266m.
Owing to the synergy and enhanced business model with the RTO, I would be comfortable to ascribe an 20x PER for 2008 valuation = 5320 / 3757 = Target price RM1.42.
The merged entity is basically a Petronas controlled company, and there will be positive management changes. Naturally the company will be able to "compete" better in tenders. Its like a moth into a butterfly, hopefully with a longer life.
The merged entity is basically a Petronas controlled company, and there will be positive management changes. Naturally the company will be able to "compete" better in tenders. Its like a moth into a butterfly, hopefully with a longer life.
p/s please note that there had been a revision in target px, got the prior Ramunia's net profit figure wrongly
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It seems that Ramunia is in serious trouble. it has not submitted the bank guarantee within a month of securing contract nor secured insurance cover for the project. These two things are required before any payment is reimbursed to ramunia by ongc.
Following article appeared in IndianPetro.com
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The consortium of Ramunia Fabricators Sdn Bhd and Ramunia International Services Ltd has emerged as the L-1 bidder under ONGC`s tender for construction of facilities under its B-193 field development project. Notably, the Malaysian consortium`s quotation of $683.827 million (Rs 2,710.01 crore) is around 1.54% lower than ONGC`s revised cost estimate of $694.5 million for this project.
However, there appears to be a wide variation with regard to the rates quoted by the L-2 and L-3 bidders under this tender as compared to Ramunia`s bid. The second-ranked bidder, Larsen & Toubro Ltd, had quoted a rate of $982.046 million (Rs 3,891.85 crore) for this project, while L-3 bidder Punj Lloyd Ltd had demanded a fee of a whopping $1.33 billion (Rs 5,281.25 crore) to take up the project. This indicates that the L-1 bid was 43.61% lower than the L-2 bid and almost a 100% lower than the L-3 bid."
I do not understand how ramunia dared for this job. its past largest job is $75m. that too only fabrication. EPCIC jobs need much higher calibre and strong financials as significant working capital requirement is there.
If it is not able to raise the finance for almost 70 days from the order, it just cannot execute the order within time and will have to face LDs on such fast paced project. I think risk management systems have gone for a toss.
ramunia has extended the bid bond guarantee further till 15.05.2008 as it could not submit bank guarantee for 69 M$. it is learnt that two of the three foreign banks approached by ramunia have refused financing the project.
Possibly RTO has been pulled off by MISC. and hence no bank is ready to finance the working capital requirement of Ramunia. Also due to poor balance sheet and credit rating, the vendors are not ready to supply the goods and services without letter of credit / advance payment by ramunia.
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