Stock Commentary Date: 17/9/2019
Stock: Modern Dental Group Limited
Closing price: $1.45 (17/09/2019)
52 weeks range: $0.94 - $1.717
Shares outstanding: 981,646,000
Market Capitalization: HK$ 1.423 Billion
Target Price (12 months): No Target
Summary :
- The group is in the transition phase period, consolidating their business through various acquisitions.
- Focus on higher value products to improve profit margins.
- The incurred loss was from restructuring, re-financing and currency exchange. The group’s core business remained relatively stable.
- The group’s prospect came from local market penetration through their strategic geographical acquisitions.
- Greater China may be the company’s next sales engine as GDP per capita increased, so was the demand for high quality medical/dental care products.
- The group continued to showed prudent use of capital amid the current uncertain economic period.
- The group continued to repurchase stocks from market to support the stock value.
Group half yearly report (June 2019):
- Improvement in gross profit (and gross profit margin). However, the transition phase is still in progress and remained to be seen.
2 While Europe continued to be one of the major contributors of the group’s revenue, Greater China region had a faster growth comparing to other region while North America (including Canada) also had a moderate improvement in terms of revenue growth. As the group continued to consolidate with their acquisitions (especially with MicroDental), the company expected to capitalize on their investments in the future.
3. The group continued to show improvement with their operation, highlighted by their improvement in EBITDA.
4. The group’s cash level as well as liquidity remained to be solid and showed prudency with their financing strategy as well as capital planning
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