This article first appeared in The Edge Financial Daily on May 4, 2017
LB Aluminium Bhd (-ve)
SHARES in LB Aluminium Bhd (fundamental: 1.4/3, valuation: 2.6/3), which also triggered our momentum algorithm yesterday for the second time this year, settled two sen or 2.6% higher at 79 sen.
It recorded transactions involving 15.78 million shares, far above its 200-day average of 1.74 million shares.
Its net profit for the third quarter ended January 2017 was 8.92% higher at RM5.68 million, compared with RM5.21 million netted in the same quarter last year.
Quarterly revenue, however, slid a marginal 0.89% to RM113.47 million from RM114.49 million a year ago.
LB Aluminium said despite the lower revenue due to lower business volume, the company still reported a higher profit after taxation due to over-provision of taxation for the previous financial year.
At the current share price, LB Aluminium is trading at 0.67 times its book value.