Excerpts from Maybank KE report

Analyst: Gene Lih Lai, CFA

Drivers intact; Beneficiaries of advanced packaging

Chance to accumulate on dips
We remain POSITIVE on the Singapore Tech sector, and believe the recent retracement is an attractive opportunity to accumulate as our theses are unchanged.

We note over a longer horizon, share prices correlate highly to consensus EPS revisions, and have little correlation to 10Y UST yields.

As we see upside drivers to UMS and Frencken, we now value them at 15x/14.5x FY21E P/E respectively, as our previous ROE-g/COE-g method does not capture these.

Hence our UMS/Frencken TP are up 17%/25% to SGD1.57/1.74 respectively.

Sector favourites are UMS, Frencken, Venture and AEM.

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Theses unchanged

Observations of our coverage universe and their customers support our theses.

We see UMS as the best candidate to ride out chip shortages, as it is a beneficiary of foundry spending.

Meanwhile, Venture’s and Frencken’s end-markets are improving, and they are expecting several customers to launch new products in FY21.

While we are concerned about HDMT TH (high density modular test test handlers) high-base effects for AEM in FY21E, we see upside drivers from:
i) accretive M&A; and
ii) stronger-than-expected cloud/ 5G spending in 2H21.

Higher TP for UMS and FRKN due to upside drivers

For UMS, we believe potential upside drivers include:

i) positive surprise of current business momentum in 2021 amid Applied Materials’ (AMAT) robust outlook;
ii) new business opportunities (e.g. Lam Research building supply chain in Penang/ UMS courting potential new customer).

For Frencken, we and consensus’ net margins are 7-8% for FY21-23E, but we believe Frencken has scope to outperform these from levers such as:

i) greater value-add with customers in coming years; and
ii) continual cost control.

AEM and UMS: beneficiaries of advanced packaging

Performance, power, area-cost and time to market demands from inflections like Big Data, IoT and AI are putting limits on traditional Moore’s law scaling.

As such, chipmakers expect to increasingly rely on advance packaging technologies to drive performance improvement.

Intel is a key advocate of this, and we see AEM as a beneficiary of current known-good-die issues surrounding heterogeneous packaging.

As deposition and etch technologies are also crucial in enabling advanced packaging, and this is a high growth area for AMAT, we believe UMS is a beneficiary of this trend too.


Key risks in our sector include: i) chip shortages/ slower-than-expected recoveries curtailing volumes; and ii) excessively weak USD.

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