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This article first appeared in The Edge Financial Daily, on September 2, 2016.

 

Global Ventures Holdings Bhd (+ve)

SHARES in Felda Global Ventures Holdings Bhd (FGV) (fundamental: 0.75/3, valuation: 0.8/3) closed down five sen or 2.2% at RM2.22 yesterday, after 22.52 million shares were done, far exceeding its 200-day average volume of 7.7 million shares.

The group’s net loss for the six-month period ended June 30, 2016 (1HFY16) stood at RM3.33 million versus a net profit of RM49.66 million a year earlier, on lower crude palm oil (CPO) production and higher raw sugar cost. Revenue for 1HFY16 rose to RM7.9 billion from RM6.9 billion in 1HFY15.

FGV said it is committed to oil palm replanting and cost rationalisation as the group contends with the impact of Malaysia’s minimum wage policy.

As for the palm industry, the group said that the direction of CPO prices, moving forward, will be determined by the predicted stronger fresh fruit bunch output in the coming months due to seasonal trends, the supply of global edible oil, especially soybean oil, crude oil prices, ringgit currency movement versus the US dollar and implementation of the biodiesel mandate.

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