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This article first appeared in The Edge Financial Daily on November 19, 2018

Unisem (M) Bhd (-ve)

TRADING of shares in Unisem (M) Bhd (fundamental: 2.5/3, valuation 1.4/3) triggered our proprietary momentum algorithm last Friday for the second time this year.

The stock closed 17 sen or 5.52% higher at RM3.25, with 13.98 million shares done versus the counter’s 200-day average volume of 2.36 million shares. On Sept 12, Unisem group managing director and chairman John Chia Sin Tet and Chinese firms launched a takeover bid of the company by offering RM3.30 per share.

The takeover offer is being undertaken by Huatian Electronics Group (HK) Ltd and Huatian Technology (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd (the Chinese offerors), Sin Tet, his son Alexander Chia Jhet-Wern, Jayvest Holdings Sdn Bhd and SCQ Industries Sdn Bhd (the Malaysian offerors) to acquire all the issued shares in Unisem not already held by the joint offerors.

The takeover offer will cost them RM1.82 billion in total. Unisem is now trading at 1.63 times its net book value.

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