PP16832/01/2013 (031128) Malaysia Company Update 6 March 2013 Buy (from Hold) Genting Plantations In Love with Iskandar Too Share price: MYR8.50 Target price: MYR10.30 (previously MYR13/sh RNAV; raise to BUY. GENP’s market cap of MYR6.4b has MYR8.00) merely priced in its growing palm oil assets. What investors over-looked is GENP’s ~6,600 acres of prime land bank worth MYR4b in Iskandar and Sepang. Investors of GENP today thus get its Iskandar landbank ONG Chee Ting, CA for free. We upgrade GENP to a BUY with a raised TP of MYR10.30 on
[email protected] a higher 18x PER target on mid-FY14 earnings (+1SD of 5-year mean (603) 2297 8678 PER). Our new TP is still 20% below our estimated RNAV of MYR13. What has changed? Slightly over a year ago (Nov 2011), GENP’s Johor Premium Outlet (JPO) opened for business and quickly became a new landmark. Of greater significance is a new inter-change connecting the North-South Highway to the JPO and GENP’s remaining Stock Information ~5,550 acres of undeveloped-cum-plantation land; this has improved Description: Upstream plantation player, with small accessibility and land value. An upcoming AEON mall in Kulaijaya (by exposure to property and biotechnology. end-2013) will add credence and value. On a bigger picture, 2013 is a (Planted land in 2011 = 93,498 ha) turning point for Iskandar M’sia as investments and property demand pick up. Land prices have risen steadily but not GENP’s share price.