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Daily Brief Industrials: Reece Ltd, Asian Terminals, MMC Port Holdings Berhad and more

In today’s briefing:

  • Reece (REH AU): Positioning Increases as Global Index Deletion Nears
  • Asian Terminals (ATI PM)
  • MMC Ports Pre-IPO – The Positives – Port Tariff Hike Beneficiary


Reece (REH AU): Positioning Increases as Global Index Deletion Nears

By Brian Freitas

  • Reece Ltd (REH AU)‘s stock price has dropped a lot over the last year, and the significantly lower market cap could result in global index deletion in August. 
  • Short interest started to pick up early this year and has accelerated over the last couple of months. There are indications of positioning in the stock.
  • Reece Ltd (REH AU) has underperformed its peers but still trades at a higher EV/EBITDA and forward PE compared to most of its peer group.

Asian Terminals (ATI PM)

By Michael Fritzell

  • Asian Terminals (ATI PM — US$941 million) is a Philippines-based port operator.
  • It’s owned by Eusebio (“Yosi”) Tanco, recently famous for having hit a jackpot with online bingo operator DigiPlus and school operator STI Education.
  • Asian Terminals has also done exceptionally well. It was set up in the 1980s and managed to acquire the Manila South Harbor port in the early 1990s.

MMC Ports Pre-IPO – The Positives – Port Tariff Hike Beneficiary

By Nicholas Tan

  • MMC Port Holdings Berhad (2436494D MK) is looking to raise up to US$2bn in its upcoming Malaysian IPO.
  • It is principally involved in port operations in Malaysia. The firm operates five sea ports and a solid product jetty terminal, and conducts ship-to-ship (STS) services at an offshore port.
  • In this note, we talk about the positive aspects of the deal. 

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