TUB Snippets: Beng Kuang Marine Ltd (BEZ)

Not Vested in Dyna-Mac and BEZ at time of writing.

Since April 25th, the share price of Dyna-Mac has increased by about 100%. According to the article, this is most likely a record high net book order of S$641.1 million for floating production, storage, and offloading vessel topsides modules (FPSO), with deliveries extending through 2024.

Share Price of Dyna-Mac

This is related to the oil supply scarcity > resulting to an increase in oil prices > increasing the demand for oil exploration/storage/transportation > leading to higher demand for FPSO.

This prompted me to conduct research on the FPSO industry, which led me to Beng Kuang Marine (BEZ), whose share price has been declining instead.

This made me wonder if this is an opportunity?

Share price of Beng Kuang Marine

BEZ Latest Press Release

As quoted from the latest press release, BEZ has four key business divisions as follows:

1. Infrastructure Engineering (“IE”) –Providing a spectrum of turnkey engineering services from

planning and project management to implementation involving procurement, fabrication,

corrosion prevention, testing, installation and pre-commissioning of steel work modules and

structures

2. Corrosion Prevention (“CP”) – Providing corrosion prevention services in several established

shipyards in Singapore and Batam, Indonesia

3. Supply and Distribution (“SD”) – Providing a variety of marine and industrial hardware, tools

and equipment as well as consumables under its house brands like MASTER, MULTI-FLEX,

WELL and SPLASH

4. Shipping (“SH”) – Operating two livestock vessels and two Indonesian-flagged assist tugs

BEZ Financials Updates

Revenue Breakdown

BEZ's IE business division, led by its 51 percent-owned subsidiary, Asian Sealand Offshore and Marine Pte Ltd, was the key revenue contributor in 1Q2022, while the Group's SH business division contributed no revenue because both livestock vessels were taken off charter during 1Q2022.

Furthermore, as of 31 March 2022, BKM's IE order book was at S$15.5 million, of which S$10.5 million was attributable to on-site vessel repair and maintenance solutions to operating floating assets such as FPSO and FSO vessels.

My Opinion

According to the financials, BEZ appears to be on a turnaround driven by its IE business division. Despite the absence of revenue from SH, it reported stronger revenue, as well as better gross profit and EBITDA.

Furthermore, its IE business is different from Dyna-Mac. BEZ focuses on repairs and maintenance, rather than building of FPSOs.

So this seems like an opportunity.

More FPSOs will be purchased for repair and maintenance in order to improve operational efficiency. Furthermore, with more FPSO being built around the world in the future, there will undoubtedly be more FPSO due for repairs as well.

We should also keep in mind that BEZ also has a CP segment that complements the IE business and offers consumers one-stop repair and maintenance services for their FPSO and FSO.

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