Jetcon Corporation coming on the heels of a successful issue of shares to the public that opened on Monday March 14, in respect of 44,500,000 ordinary shares is expected to start trading on Thursday, March 24 with the listing committee meeting on Tuesday to consider and approve the listing.
The offer closed shortly after opening on Monday after it was oversubscribed. A total of 256 applications covering $113 million were received. Applications of all reserved shares were fully satisfied while the general public got the first 5,000 Shares applied plus 83.11 percent of the balance. The shares were sold to the public at $2.25 each. the closure left some investors out in the cold as they missed the early closing time of the offer.
Listing on the junior market will result in no corporate taxes being paid for 5 years from the time of listing. Jetcon reported profit of $50.6 million for the 2015 year and enjoyed 45 percent increased revenues for the first two months of 2016 ahead of the similar period in 2015, accordingly, IC Insider rate the stock Buy Rated.
Jetcon listing slated for Thursday
ISP Finance – next junior listing
ISP Finance is an unsecure loan company that is seeking to list on the junior market of the Jamaica stock Exchange with the raising just over $97 million from directors staff and the general public.
The company is now offering 48,982,500 ordinary shares to the public of which 45,900,000 are reserved for directors and employees, at $2 per share. Only a small amount, 3 million units will be available for the general public unless the reserved shares are not fully taken up. Opening Date of the offer is March 21, 2016.
ISP started operating in 2007 and has a number of years of profitability but is yet to wipe out accumulated losses. Currently there are 56 million shares issued to the Chief executive Dennis Smith and his wife. In 2015 the company reported audited profit of $30.7 million before tax but benefited from a refund of captive insurance premium of $12.3 million, excluding this, the company made profit of just $6 million. Additionally, salaries cost fell to $62.5 million from $77.6 million. While 2014 showed a loss of $4.5 million before tax after booking insurance premium of $41.7 million, excluding this amount would result in profit of just over $36 million or earnings per share of 65 cents. The earnings based on 2015 results, adjusted for the one off income, would be 10.7 cents and 65 cents for 2014. The PE based on pretax profit would be 18.7 times 2015 earnings and just 3 times 2014 numbers.
In the first four years of operation the Company’s customers were primarily employees from the security services sector. The Company has since expanded its customer base to other private and public sector workers as well as to micro and small entrepreneurs in the manufacturing, services and distribution sectors.
ISP Finance intends to strategically expand its reach geographically to other areas where there is a concentration of employed individuals and business development, including Montego Bay, Ocho Rios, Mandeville, Spanish Town, Portmore and May Pen.
The Company utilizes cash generated by the business and loans from a variety of sources to fund loans to customers. Indebtedness to banks, financial institutions and other lenders amounts to $218 million as of February 11, 2016.
Since commencing business in February 2007, the Company’s Loan portfolio has grown from approximately $2.5 million to $304 million in 2015 before provision for loan losses. Loan loss provision stood at $62 million at the end of 2015 compared with $44.5 million at the end of 2014. Loan loss expense for 2015 amounted to $18.6 or 7.75 percent of net loans and is favorable compared with Access Financial at 8.9 percent. Interest rates on loans ranges from 50 to 65 percent.
Clifton Cameron is an Independent, Non-executive Director and Chairman of the Board. He was a major owner of Manufacturers Merchant Bank that was acquired by Sagicor Bank.
The results for 2015 looks disappointing with just a small profit but results for 2014 when adjusted for the high level of insurance cost looks very promising. The company is involved in high risk business with loan provisioning amounting to 20 percent of overall loan portfolio an increase from 15.7 percent at the end of 2014. Expansion if not managed well can be costly but they will face strong competition in the market with much bigger companies than themselves.
At the end of 2015 equity capital was negative $7 million with accumulated deficit of $12 million, down from a deficit of $39 million at the end of 2014.
ISP is not the last company slated fro the junior market as IC Insider gathers that Key Insurance Company is also set to offer shares to the public to try and make the junior listing before the end of March.
Jetcon revs up for junior market
Jetcon Corporation is heading to the junior market, if their invitation to sell 44.5 million shares up to $2.25 each to the public, is successful. The share offer opens on Monday March 14 and is slated to close a few days later, on the 17th.
Successful completion of the issue, would bring the total number of junior market ordinary share listings, to 27 and the total listings to 31 securities, with Iron Rock having successfully completed their public offering on March 1st.
Jetcon enjoyed strong 49.9 percent growth in revenues of $523 million in 2015 up from $349 million in 2014. Revenues since 2015 continued to grow, increasing by 45 percent. The company recorded profit before tax of $50.6 million in 2015 with a net profit of $40 million.
The offer expects to raise up to $95.66 million for use by the company to fund the cost of listing and for working capital purposes.
Jetcon started operation 1994 to import used cars from Japan for resale in Jamaica.
Major recovery at General Accident
General Accident
In the December quarter, the company reported a huge increase in its net profit of 189 percent to $185.9 million, an increase of $64.4 million.
Gross written premiums grew by 21 percent to $6.1 billion in 2015, from $5 billion in 2014 for the full year and for the last quarter, $664 million versus $555 million in 2014. Net premiums ended at $1.19 billion for the year compared with $1.07 billion in 2014 and for the December quarter, $288 million versus $258 million. Commission and other Income fell to $410 million from $424 million in 2014 and is up in the December quarter, to $137 million from $115 million. Investments income grew marginally to $178 million, from $160 million for the year and to $51.6 million from $43 million in the 2014 quarter.
In 2015, the Company’s claims expense, increased marginally by 3 percent to $699 million versus $679 million in 2014 and for the December 2015 quarter it fell to $108 million from $162 million in the 2014 quarter. Notwithstanding higher claims, underwriting profit grew to $107 million compared to $101 million in 2014 and $129 million in the December quarter versus a mere $12 million in 2014.
Commission expenses grew to $224 million for the year from $183 million and to $88 million for the quarter from $90 million. Management Expenses amounted to $451 million for the year while in 2014 it was $442 million, for the quarter $125 million was incurred and in the 2014 quarter $117 million.
Total shareholders’ equity stood at $1.77 billion up from $1.57 billion in 2014. The return on average equity based on the reported profit is 18 percent but including unrealised investments gains its 22 percent.
The stock traded on the junior market at $2.12 on Thursday at a PE ratio of 7.9 which is one of the lowest within the sector and therefore has room to record gains.
Q1 profit up at Jamaican Teas
Jamaican Teas quarterly results to December ended with profits after tax of $36.6 million or 22 cents per share, up 33 percent from $27.5 million in 2014. Profit before tax amounted to $42.5 million, is up from 54 percent from $27.5 million to $42.5 million.
The results came from revenues that grew by 22 percent to $387 million, with real estate sales accounting for $40 million and other income of $15 million which includes gain on sale of investments of $7.5 million.
Gross profit margin grew to 20.6 percent from 19.5 percent in 2014. Selling and marketing cost rose to $8.6 million from $7.3 million by 18.7 percent, administrative expenses was up $30 million from $25.5 million by 17.4 percent and finance cost grew by 76 percent to $10.9 million from $6.2 million.
Going forward interest cost should fall due to two factors. The company has a debenture that carries a variable rate tied to treasury bills, with the latter declining the company will see a reduction in the cost additionally the first phase of the real estate development will release cash to pay down bank borrowing.
There are signs that the economy is picking up and that should help in moving local sales at a faster pace than in 2015.
Based on the first quarter earnings, full year results could be in the region of 85 cents per share, but this could be affected by profit from sale of real estate units and depends on any added gains that may be realized from the sale of the $125 million investments portfolio.
At the end of the quarter borrowings were at $370 million with equity at $79s million. The stock which is quoted on the Jamaica Stock Exchange junior market last traded at $5.
Margaritaville Turks profit up 86%
The Turks and Caicos based Margaritaville Turks, a Jamaica Stock Exchange US dollar market listed company, reported a big 86 percent jump in profits of US$518,134 in the six months to November last year versus $278,508 in the prior year.
The improved profit came from revenues that climbed 11 percent to $3.376 million. For the quarter ending November, the company reported improved results with net profit of $247,253, a whopping increase of 728 percent over the profit of $33,611 for the same quarter in 2014. Sales revenue for the quarter rose a very strong 24.7 percent to $1.65 million, compared to $1.32 million in 2014. Gross profit grew by 25 percent, slightly faster than sales revenue and for the six months by 10.7 percent.
Administrative expenses rose by 5.3 percent to hit $1.68 million for the six months and for the quarter to November to $829,364 for an increase of 8.7 percent. Management fees fell from $212,614 in 204 for the six months to $125,000 and for the quarter from $92,628 to $62,500. Depreciation charge was essentially flat at $123,748 for the six months and $62,444 for the quarter.
The company generated earnings per share of 0.77 US cents to November and 0.37 US cents for the quarter. IC Insider expects earnings for the full year to May to be around 2 US cents per share. This puts the PE of the stock at a low 5 times current year’s earnings.
Cash flows from operating activities amounted to $642,173 for six months versus $399,202 in 2014 before increase in related party receivables of $1.24 million and $685,495 in 2014 and ended with cash of $24,977. The equity capital stood at of $4.3 million and the company had no borrowed funds.
Near 20% tTech shareholders
tTEch’s the technology company that offered shares to the public in December has released details of the successful offer of 25,652,000 ordinary shares at $2.50 each that closed on December 16, 2015.
The issue attracted 289 applications, valued at approximately $172.395 million.
Based on the level of oversubscription, applications for the general pool (57 percent of the shares offered) will receive 100 percent up to 10,000 shares applied for and the remaining shares will be allocated on a proportional basis equivalent to approximately 19.96 percent of the total application amount. Reserve share applicants (35 percent of the shares offered) will receive 100 percent of the number of shares they applied for.
The shares are expected to be listed on the junior market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange in January.
Cargo Handlers growth slows
Cargo Handlers profit for the year to September was barely higher than for that of 2014 at $136 million versus $132 million but the company had some one-off expenses amounting to $16 million. Revenues climbed to $252 million from $236 million in 2014.
The final quarter of the year saw lower revenues of $67 million, down from $79 million in the September 2014 quarter while profit fell 40 percent to $29 million from $48 million in 2014. Cargo Handlers recorded earnings per share of $3.63 versus $3.52 in 2014.
Going forward, the tax free holiday the company enjoyed from December 2010, ends in November this year and moves to 12.5 percent for the next 5 years. This will dent profits a bit, added to that, the company made $6 million in foreign exchange gains in 2015, that looks uncertain going forward with the adjustment in the value of the Jamaican dollar that now seems appropriately valued, but for likely moderate movements in 2016.
Unless there is a dramatic change in revenues, profit after tax for 2016 should grow marginally to around $145 million or $3.87 per share.
The company ended the year with $151 million in cash included in current assets of $203 million and only $15 million in current liabilities. Equity is $245 million with virtually no interest bearing debt. The stock which is listed on the junior market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange last traded at $37.50. Two dividends amounting to $2.35 per share were paid during the year.
tTech IPO JCSD fee breaches prospectus terms
NCB Capital Markets imposes cess on tTech investors in breach prospectus terms.
The imposition of JCSD processing fee is not only untidy, it is in breach of the terms of the prospectus and must be returned to those investors who paid it. There are no references to JCSD processing fee in the prospectus and under the heading of Statutory and General Information items 6 of the prospectus states, “All Applicants (including Reserved Share Applicants) will be required to pay in full the Subscription Price of $2.50 per Share, subject to discounts, where applicable. No further sum will be payable on allotment”. Most junior market IPOs, are highly anticipated, with several issues closing shortly after opening, leading most investors to apply for shares ahead of the opening day and so ensure that their application are on a timely basis. On Tuesday ahead of the opening of the tTech issue, a statement appeared on the website of the Jamaica Stock Exchange, to indicate that the “application form found in Appendix 1 of IPO Prospectus did not include any mention of the JCSD processing fee of J$134.00 (inclusive of GCT) that each application would be subject to. As such, the application form has been updated to include such commentary”.
Most persons would not have been aware of the charge and so put in their applications without it while some included it, having seen the change. This places some applicants at a disadvantage small though it may be. Some investors are shocked that, the company and the broker did not absorb the charge for the cess and that the Financial Services Commission and the Jamaica Stock Exchange have permitted the late imposition of it. The charging of the JCSD processing fee inclusive of GCT is an irritant for investors and there are few solid reasons why companies are not treating the cess as a part of the cost of listing rather than asking investors to pay for it directly.
tTech is BUY RATED for strong growth
tTech is going to the capital market this month to raise approximately $50 million by the issuing for subscription 25,652,000 shares to the general public and special interest group with the general public being asked to pay $2.50 each for 16.4 million being made available to them.
IC Insider assessed the company’s record and forecast increased earnings for 2016 and 2016 and accorded it the BUY RATED honour.
Edward Alexander, Chief Executive Officer, in an interview with IC Insider stated that the staff of the company indicates that they will all be taking up their full allotment, if so there will be few of these shares available for the public to acquire at the IPO stage.
The Company was incorporated in Jamaica on December 1st, 2006, and is a managed information technology (“IT”) service provider, or what industry insiders refer to as a “Managed Services Provider”. That is, for the most part, the Company’s main service offering is the management of other businesses’ IT infrastructure remotely and on a pre-paid basis.
The company is growing at an attractive rate with revenues that are up 28 percent for the half year to June to $81.4 million versus expenses increasing 18 percent and only 14 percent when technical fees, services and products that are part of direct expenses are excluded.
From Left: Mr. Hugh Allen, Resolution Manager and Executive Director; Mrs. Natalya Petrekin, Service Desk
Manager; Mr. Norman Chen, Technical Services Director; Mr. John Gibson, Senior IT Security Officer; Mr.
Edward Alexander, CEO; Mrs. Hortense Gregory-Nelson, Finance and Administrative Manager; Mr. G.
Christopher Reckord, Sales and Marketing Director. Mr. Omar Bell.
IC Insiders’ forecast, based on continuation of good revenue growth, is for profit before tax for 2015 to end at $36 million or 45 cents per share and $27 million or 35 cents per share after tax and $64 million or 60 cents per share for 2016. This gives it a PE based on 2015 earnings before tax of 5.5 and for 2016 of 4 and compares with junior market stocks with PE of 8, with half of the market selling above the average, suggesting that the stock should enjoy a nice bounce over the next twelve months or less. The company has $51 million in cash and no borrowed funds with current liability of just $27 million, so why do they need to raise the funds? “Expansion into security services will require added equipment, software working capital for continued expansion” Alexander stated, in addition listing allows the staff to be part owners and benefit from future growth.
There are a number of positives for the company it is in a good growth industry with potential for regional expansion, the Grace Kennedy contract and relationship could provide them the experience to take on other large regional conglomerates. They are a service-based business with high gross profit margin which is a big positive and if growth continues at current levels would contribute to a big increase in profit. A lot of the business is recurring, providing stability to the operation. The founders’ vested interest will remain strong as they will still hold relatively large percentage of the company after the IPO.Only about 15% shares being offered to the general public the stock almost guaranteeing that it will be in relatively short supply which could drive price up quickly after listing, this is especially so being the first tech company on the JSE.
Subscription opens at 9 am on December 16th, 2015 and closes at 4:30 p.m. on the December 18th, 2015, subject to the right of the Company to shorten or extend the time for closing. All completed Application Forms must be delivered to NCB Capital Markets.
