Genting Singapore

From TA point of view, the current price of $1.28 has managed to reclaimed it's 20 days moving average which is being viewed as quite positive/bullish!

1.28 is also staying well above it's 50,100 & 200 days moving average that may likely see it's price continue to head higher.

Short term wise, it may move up to test the recent high of 1.33,breaking out of 1.33 with ease + good volume that may propel to drive the price higher towards 1.40 then 1.45 with extension to 1.50.

Not a call to buy or sell.

Please do your own due diligence.

Genting Sing - these are my thoughts and findings on Genting Singapore.  Genting Singapore derive it's revenue mainly from the operation of Resorts World Sentosa, a large integrated lesiure and hospitality resort located on Sentosa island of Singapore. It features six uniquely themed hotels, a casino, one of the world's largest aquarium S.E.A. Aquarium, Southeast Asia’s only aquatic park integrated with marine life - Adventure Cove Waterpark, Southeast Asia’s first and only Universal Studios theme park – Universal Studios Singapore, Singapore’s largest destination spa – ESPA, a wide selection of indoor and outdoor MICE venues, and a variety of dining, retail and entertainment options. Genting Singapore has went through a series of capital raising through debts and equity to fund the building of Resorts World Sentosa. This was a very large project undertaken by Genting Singapore years back which ran into billions of Singapore dollars in order to achieve what we see now as the completed Resorts World Sentosa. It is with this backdrop that I will discuss the performance of Genting Singapore after having spent so much capital into this huge project. Resorts World Sentosa had it's grand opening in 2012. Thus, it has been officially opened for the past about 6 years. I shall look at Genting Singapore's performance from 2012 to 2017 over the span of 5 years after the grand opening of Resorts World Sentosa, where it's derives almost all it's revenues from this huge project.quote :

( jeremyowtaip)  First, we look at the compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) in revenues for Genting Sing. Over the past 5 years, it's revenues have not grown but instead decreased by about 18.8%. I was surprised why it's revenues did not grow but instead decreased. I took a look at the breakdown of it's revenues of which the majority of revenues came from it's gaming revenue (casino operations) while the other second major revenue stream came from it's non-gaming revenue (other non-casino operations). It's gaming revenue is around close to three times it's non-gaming revenue. We can see that the total revenue of Genting Sing really depends on their revenue derived from casino operations. Over the past 5 years, the gaming revenue has decreased while non-gaming revenue has increased to offset some of the decrease in gaming revenue. But due to the majority of revenue are derived from gaming revenue, the total revenue thus decreased over the past 5 years. We see that the revenue of the casino has decreased over the past 5 years. It is worth investigating further why was there a fall in revenue of casino operations over the past 5 years? Next, we look at the CAGR in operating profits. Operating profits have grown at a CAGR of 0.83% over the past 5 years. Despite a fall in revenues over the past 5 years, Genting Sing has still managed to grow it's operating profits at a meager rate. I see that they have managed to reduce their administrative expenses and also selling and distribution expenses over the past 5 years despite a fall in revenues to protect their operating profits from suffering a similar drop. However, a CAGR of 0.83% is still like not much growth at all! There are so many much better investment ideas out there which definitely produces much higher CAGR in their operating profits even over a short period of 5 years! Next, we look at the CAGR of net profit attributable to shareholders of company. This has grown at a CAGR of 0.46% over the past 5 years. This again confirms that the growth in profitability over the past 5 years was not great. Next, we look at the CAGR of diluted earnings per share (EPS) attributable to shareholders of company over the past 5 years. The diluted EPS has grown at CAGR of 0.76% over the past 5 years. Again, this is another confirmation that the growth in profitability over the past 5 years was not great. I looked at the individual years from 2012 to 2017 to see how the individual year's profitability has changed. The profitability has decreased and then increased again in 2017. The drop in profitability reflected in it's operating profit and net profit attributable to shareholders of company can be quite significant for example in 2015. Therefore, I reach a conclusion that for a shareholder of this company, one has to be prepared to face wild swings in the profitability of this company as the swings can be quite significant in any year. Of course, if an investor can time his entry to buy the shares at lower prices when the profitability has dropped to a low point in preparation for any potential significant recovery in profitability in subsequent year, this investment could be a good candidate to speculate on it's swing in profitabilities. As such, due to the low growth in profitability over the past 5 years, the various returns on assets, returns on equity and returns on invested capital were consistently at low single digits suggesting Genting Sing is a low return investment.

Next, we look at how some of their balance sheet metrics have changed over the past 5 years. I tabulated the various metrics as follows for 2012 vs 2017: Current ratio = 4.29 (2012) vs 4.78 (2017) Quick ratio = 3.59 (2012) vs 4.58 (2017) Debt to equity ratio = 0.3 (2012) vs 0.16 (2017) Ordinary shareholder equity CAGR over 5 years = 2.34% Genting Sing's balance sheet has been very strong over the past 5 years. It did a series of capital raising through borrowings and equity over the past decade to fund the building of Resorts World Sentosa. However, the various balance sheet metrics reflected that Genting Sing did not have any problems with over-leveraging or liquidity issues over the past 5 years. Genting Sing grew ordinary shareholder equity at CAGR of 2.34% over the past 5 years thus making their shareholders wealthier in their investment in Genting Sing.

However, at a CAGR of 2.34%, it pales in comparison with many other companies out there which can grow their ordinary shareholder equity at much higher growth rates making their shareholders wealthier even faster. Next, we look at the growth in cashflows. Genting Sing grew their operating cashflows at a CAGR of 3.92% over the past 5 years. It grew it's free cashflows at a CAGR of 25.4%.

 I noticed that their capital expenditures have reduced significantly over the past 5 years in which the capital expenditures to purchase property and equipment has reduced sharply. Perhaps they have already completed most of their massive capital expenditures when they built the Resorts World Sentosa and for the first few years after it's grand opening in 2012, the ongoing capital expenditures requirement has continued to drop to a lower level. This reduction in capital expenditures have certainly helped to grow their free cashflows at high CAGR of double digits over the past 5 years.

Thus, Genting Sing is now reaping a good harvest from what it has previously sowed by getting free cashflows at a high CAGR on this huge investment in Resorts World Sentosa. As for current developments, Genting Sing has raised a Samurai bond of approximately $175 million to bid for casino license in Japan. It is still awaiting further legislation approval to allow the opening of casinos in Japan. Among the bidders are strong names like US's Las Vegas Sands and Macau's Galaxy Entertainment Group which have also expressed interest in vying for an entry into Japan market. I have attached a link to an article from Nikkei Asian Review which has details on the above development. Valuation wise, if we assume that Genting Sing will continue to grow their EPS at historical CAGR of 0.76% for next 7 years, using my method of estimation, the fair share price for it is $0.50.

 The market is trading Genting Sing at $1.28 which is assuming a higher CAGR of 7% to it's EPS. Can Genting Sing improve it's profitability significantly going forward at higher CAGR? If it can, then current share price is not over-valued. ( the tecent 1Q 2018 seems to see Net profit rises quite significantly) also did a discounted cashflows analysis using a discount rate of 15% and the estimated intrinsic value per share comes out to $1.95.

This is just an estimate and the intrinsic value per share could change significantly depending on the discount rate used. My conclusion is that if we focus on the forward profitability of Genting Sing, then it's share price could be over-valued now. However, if we focus on the forward growth in it's free cashflows, then Genting Sing is under-valued now. If we take both forward growth in profitability and free cashflows together with an average fair share price worked out from $0.50 and $1.95, it comes out to $1.225. Out of curiousity, I checked out SGX Stocks Facts to see what it reflected there for Genting Sing's current valuation based on an equal weighted combination of various ratios used in assessing Genting Sing's valuation score versus it's peers.

The ratios used include P/E, P/B, P/FCF, dividend yield, EV/EBITDA and EV/sales. Based on an equal weighted combination of these various ratios, Genting Sing is currently estimated to be slightly over-valued as compared to it's peers. I think my main consideration in choosing a great investment idea is that it must not have any flaws or the only one or two flaws it have can be easily overcome in a short period of time.

For Genting Sing, I see it's volatile profitability as a potential inherent weakness that is difficult to grasp even though it's reduction in capital expenditures and growth in free cashflows so far looks good. If there is another better investment idea which combines all growth in profitability, growth in free cashflows and strong balance sheet all looking good and the growths are visible into the next few years without the investor needing to guess on it, shouldn't he consider the investment idea that present all stars align together?

One plus factor is the dividend has been generally increasing from the initial 1 cents to 3.5 cents. An increase of 2.5 x .
Different individual may have different way of calculating the intrinsic value. I may roughly estimate the intrinsic value ( cashflows) as $1.95 x 0.8 = $1.56. The upside potential of 21.9% base on current price of $1.28

Thus, if I were to consider Genting Sing, it will only be a speculative value play when very visible value emerges rather than a long term investment.

Trade/invest base on your own decision.