ANALYSTS SAY: Buy, Sell, Hold (10 Nov '17)

SingTel

2QFY18: Largely in line but special DPS disappoints

■ 2QFY18 core net profit fell 4.1% yoy, mainly on lower Airtel and Singapore earnings.

■ Results in line, with 1HFY18 at 48% of our FY18F forecast. Special DPS of 3.0 Scts was lower than expected.

■ We maintain our Add call and target price of S$4.10. Yields are attractive at 4.6-5.0%.

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UOL Group Ltd (UOL SP) UIC Assets Marked Up

Maintain BUY with slightly higher TP

No surprises from its 3Q17 operating performance. Consolidating UIC as a subsidiary led to a large one-off gain booked in the quarter. Hotels held by Marina Centre Holdings are now marked to market and some development earnings have been front-loaded as part of the revaluation exercise. We continue to like UOL as a key beneficiary of the impending rebound in Singapore’s property market. We raise our RNAV estimates to SGD10.95 to incorporate MBKE’s latest TP for UOB. This lifts our TP to SGD9.85, based on an unchanged RNAV discount of 10%. Maintain BUY.

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Sembcorp Marine: Secures LOI for S$490m project

Sembcorp Marine announced this morning that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Sembcorp Marine Rigs & Floaters Pte. Ltd., has been selected by Statoil in the tender for the turnkey Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) of a newbuild FPSO Hull and Living Quarters (LQ) for the Johan Castberg field development, and has entered into a Letter of Intent with Statoil for the same. Should Statoil proceed to award a contract, the contract value is estimated at S$490m. As mentioned in our earlier reports, there are some initial signs of recovery in the industry as oil majors are adapting to the lower oil price environment and better positioned to proceed with final investment decisions. Maintain BUY with S$2.26 fair value estimate on SMM.

Sunningdale Tech (SUNN SP)

3Q17: Results In Line; Hit By Unfavourable Forex

Sunningdale’s 3Q17 results were in line with expectations. Core net profit to shareholders grew 37.8%, led by growth from all four of Sunningdale’s business segments. The group saw an unfavourable forex impact for 3Q17 as headline net profit fell 24.2% yoy. Sunningdale continues to win new projects from new and existing customers as they expand capacity in Chuzhou, China, and build a new plant in Penang, Malaysia. Maintain BUY with a PE-based target price of S$2.51.

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